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Self-Proclaimed "Mary Poppins of Disinformation" and "Disinformation Czar" Nina "Stanky Janky" Jankowicz, Has a New Grifter Operation She'd Like the CIA to Donate To

Former Biden "Disinformation Czar" Stanky Janky has begun a new anti-"disinformation" grift.

Do you smell that? That's the smell of just-laundered CIA and State Department money.


Former Biden administration disinformation head Nina Jankowicz has launched a new organization to fight against conservative efforts to combat online censorship.

Jankowicz launched the American Sunlight Project this week to fight what she believes to be a campaign by conservatives to undermine the anti-disinformation industry. She co-founded the organization alongside Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, a communications specialist who worked for left-wing group Protect Democracy during the 2020 election cycle.

The American Sunlight Project wrote a letter on Monday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio.), Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.), and Representative Dan Bishop (R., N.C.) accusing them of "McCarthyism" for investigating the disinformation industry and its pressure on social media platforms to censor speech.

"The Weaponization Committee has selectively released congressional testimony to discredit them, make them targets of harassment, and create a chilling effect across the field of disinformation research. These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism, but with a 21st century twist," the letter reads.

Indeed! The group's main mission seems to be to stop the "disinformation" of people criticizing the "disinformation" industry.

She is fighting for her right -- to fight disinformation!

Luke Rosiak:

'Mary Poppins Of Disinformation' Returns With New Group To Defend Disinformation Industry

Nina Jankowicz says criticism of 'disinformation researchers' poses 'greatest threat' to country

The Biden administration's former "disinformation czar," ousted after an apparent attempt to create an Orwellian ministry of truth within the Department of Defense, has launched a new nonprofit that declares criticism of "disinformation researchers" such as herself as a chief threat to the United States of America.

"The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression and academic integrity since the McCarthy era," Nina Jankowicz said in a press release, pledging that her group would not "allow it to continue."

"Once researchers are free to conduct their essential work, the American people will gain a better understanding of the nature and severity of the disinformation threats we face," she said. "Disinformation knows no political party. Its ultimate victim is our democracy."

The group, the American Sunlight Project, was announced as a bipartisan advocacy organization founded by Jankowicz that was "launched to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States."

"The organization will investigate the networks and money driving disinformation and educate the public about the threats disinformation poses to their daily lives," it says. "The first step in the group's program will involve countering the organized campaign currently challenging the work of disinformation researchers."

Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?

cashewheadnina.jpg

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM




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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

2 Indeed! The group's main mission seems to be to stop the "disinformation" of people criticizing the "disinformation" industry.

She is fighting for her right -- to fight disinformation!

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Saying correct things that the government doesn't like is malinformation and will be punished.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

3 Huh, not the lady I thought. I thought she was the shiny one who was banging Sam Bankman-Fried.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (di6C2)

4 Top 5?!?

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (pgwxJ)

5 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (T4tVD)

6 Someone needs to knock that moon-chin in with a ball-peen hammer.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (UnA8+)

7 Way to ruin Mary Poppins for you asshole lady.

At least Julie Andrews was hot.

Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 02:11 PM (IlL6s)

8 This is really creative graft.

Must be a class I missed at Hav-ahd.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (RUMEY)

9 Be real easy to Photoshop a male member and some tears into that video still. Would that be "misinformation"? Just asking.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (pgwxJ)

10 The only "Mary Poppins" I listen to is Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (7fElN)

11 *for me*

Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (IlL6s)

12 They literally consider your cognition a property of the state, I am not kidding and it is fucking horrifying.

Next time some fucking retard who empowered this shit says "but Trump said pussy!" kick them in theirs.

Posted by: sven at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (X0I7i)

13 7 Way to ruin Mary Poppins for you asshole lady.

At least Julie Andrews was hot.
Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 02:11 PM (IlL6s)

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"I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!"
-Yondu

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

14 That's not a dude?

It looks a lot like the Budweiser guy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (9Ct69)

15 Is it just me or does she vaguely resemble Quentin Tarantino?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (IUd0M)

16 I'd like to call her a lying harridan , but that would be beneath me.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (rJ48h)

17 6 Someone needs to knock that moon-chin in with a ball-peen hammer.
Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (UnA8+)

Huh. Jay Leno's chin on Courtney Cox's face.

I swear, in the picture in black dress, she looks like a dude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (di6C2)

18 What the f*ckety-f*ck is wrong with people?!

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (DRSnL)

19 "Self-Proclaimed "Mary Poppins of Disinformation" and "Disinformation Czar" Nina "Stanky Janky" Jankowicz, "

Woof. The Wicked Witch of the East called, she wants her chin back.

Posted by: Truthbomb at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (l3sRd)

20 Someone needs to knock that moon-chin in with a ball-peen hammer.

Why? I think she's hot.

Posted by: Jay Leno at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (CsUN+)

21 At the end of the day, this is just defending your lies with more lies. Only thing weird about it is that she's paid by someone who agrees with her lies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (RUMEY)

22 "These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism"

Cripes, I am so very weary of that trite and stupid comparison.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (MvF+J)

23 18 What the f*ckety-f*ck is wrong with people?!
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (DRSnL)

Fucking retarded?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (di6C2)

24 What's a cashew head ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (T4tVD)

25 (lays $20 on table)

She used that Lume tit and vag-rot deodorant.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (9Ct69)

26 She has a Julia Roberts size mouth. She could eat a sub sandwich and suck two dicks at the same time.

Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (IlL6s)

27 That's a dude!

Posted by: Biergood at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (PwgSL)

28 What is a "cashew head"? Someone who chin juts out ? Because of course, she's doing this on purpose to make it seem like she's a no nonsense, tough kind of gal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (XkYcA)

29 22 "These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism"

Cripes, I am so very weary of that trite and stupid comparison.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (MvF+J)

========

"I get no respect! No Respect!"
-Alger Hiss

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

30 Way to ruin Mary Poppins for you asshole lady.

I admit that I am baffled by the self-comparison. In what way does she think she's like Mary Poppins?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (NYNZD)

31 "Self-Proclaimed "Mary Poppins of Disinformation" and "Disinformation Czar" Nina "Stanky Janky" Jankowicz, "

$100 says it smells like a tuna sandwich that sat in a hot car for two days.

Posted by: Truthbomb at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (l3sRd)

32 >>>15 Is it just me or does she vaguely resemble Quentin Tarantino?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (IUd0M)

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Now I can't unsee it.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (JfxgE)

33 As a Disinformation Expert yourself, Ace, I'm curious why you're not down with the struggle in this instance.

Posted by: Duncanthrax, asking the questions the MSM doesn't ask at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (a3Q+t)

34 What's a cashew head ?

Her head looks like a crescent moon.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (CsUN+)

35 For the thousandth time, you guys, 1984 was SUPPOSED to be a WARNING!!

Posted by: George Orwell at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (T+Iwg)

36 26 She has a Julia Roberts size mouth. She could eat a sub sandwich and suck two dicks at the same time.
Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (IlL6s)

So we talking like a Jimmy John's tight bread sub or a subway loose, airy sugar bread sub?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (di6C2)

37 "These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism"
-

That guy that was correct about everything?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (9Ct69)

38 22 Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (MvF+J)

People forget that the HUAC was democrat.

They also demand YOU forget that the communists were absolutely there.

Posted by: sven at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (X0I7i)

39 35 For the thousandth time, you guys, 1984 was SUPPOSED to be a WARNING!!
Posted by: George Orwell at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (T+Iwg)

======

I always saw Animal Farm as a cook book.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

40 Nope; I'm not going to watch the video.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (XkYcA)

41 Is she a true-believer or merely cynical?

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (rJ48h)

42 32 >>>15 Is it just me or does she vaguely resemble Quentin Tarantino?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (IUd0M)

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Now I can't unsee it.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (JfxgE)

Fuck. Touché.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (di6C2)

43 Where did the money come from to launch this?


"None of your business."

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (lTGtQ)

44 This woman is genuinely nuts. Did you see that creepy singing video? Wow. Just wow.

Oh and there's this from Wiki: "She is a former member of the wizard rock band The Moaning Myrtles." What's a "wizard rock band" you ask? Glad you did. I had no idea so I googled it. It's a Harry Potter themed rock band. No, I didn't just make that up. Gag me with a spoon.

Nina is a 100% certified bunny-boiler. Stay away. Stay far away.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

45 34 Her head looks like a crescent moon.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (CsUN+)

Like Rocky Dennis.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (UnA8+)

46 If the crescent moon gave bj's...

Posted by: Truthbomb at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (l3sRd)

47 She looks very angry.

Like one too many guys snuck out right after sex angry.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (RUMEY)

48 Good. Anyone using the word "disinformation" unironically is automatically revealed as a fascist who will kill you if they get a chance.

Deal with them accordingly.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (5PP+G)

49 30 Posted by: Oddbob at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (NYNZD)

She is just a polite, witty, beacon of honesty.

Fucking Ukie whore.

Posted by: sven at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (X0I7i)

50 This broad looks like Robby Rotten.

Old kids show called Lazytown. The bad guy was a goof called Robby Rotten. Show had puppets and people. Robby was a person with extreme makeup including prosthetics.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (4XwPj)

51 "the anti-disinformation industry"
=======================
Now available on Only Fans!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (3QEmR)

52 Make a TikTok about taking your makeup off.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (w6EFb)

53 What's a cashew head ?
Her head looks like a crescent moon.


Nina Jank.... at the beach.
https://tinyurl.com/afz9txkw

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (CsUN+)

54 47 She looks very angry.

Like one too many guys snuck out right after sex angry.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (RUMEY)

Like one too many burned down their house to ghost.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (di6C2)

55 Go to 11 seconds and watch for about ten more seconds.

When she hits 45 she's going to look like a storybook witch.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (9Ct69)

56 She's a man, baby.

Posted by: Truthbomb at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (l3sRd)

57 You could use her chin to move a boulder off someone's leg.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (RUMEY)

58 50 This broad looks like Robby Rotten.

Old kids show called Lazytown. The bad guy was a goof called Robby Rotten. Show had puppets and people. Robby was a person with extreme makeup including prosthetics.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (4XwPj)

You're right

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (Akjoo)

59 Must be a class I missed at Hav-ahd.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM

A fellow alumnus! Welcome!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (a3Q+t)

60 Send her nasty ass back to Ukraine where they appreciate dictatorship and we fund it.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (/xdjH)

61 She has a Julia Roberts size mouth. She could eat a sub sandwich and suck two dicks at the same time.
Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (IlL6s)
_________

I highly doubt she likes dick

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

62 Afternoon Ace. I'd be willing to bet that these chimps couldn't tell anyone who McCarthy was or what he was arguing about. And they couldn't admit that he was pretty much right

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 02:18 PM (aX7Uj)

63 "The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression and academic integrity since the McCarthy era," Nina Jankowicz said in a press release, pledging that her group would not "allow it to continue."



It is pretty obvious that the greatest threat to freedom of expression is from the governing authorities, and always has been, going back to medieval times.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 02:18 PM (lTGtQ)

64 She looks like Sandra Bullock went through a thresher and then another machine that puts a stick up your ass.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:18 PM (2e48P)

65 It's Mac Tonight!!!

Posted by: CrazyIvan at April 26, 2024 02:18 PM (VUhjY)

66 Make a TikTok about taking your makeup off.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist



4-hour video. Lots of power tools involved.

Posted by: Biergood at April 26, 2024 02:18 PM (PwgSL)

67 This woman is genuinely nuts. Did you see that creepy singing video? Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Who sits down and decides to do something like that and actually thinks it's a good idea? I just don't understand this TikTok generation.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (DRSnL)

68 You could pop the cap off of a beer with that chin.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (UnA8+)

69 55 Go to 11 seconds and watch for about ten more seconds.

When she hits 45 she's going to look like a storybook witch.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (9Ct69)

She looks 45 now. Right?

Tons of hair color. Red Lipstick by the 5 gal bucket.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (di6C2)

70 >>>does she vaguely resemble Quentin Tarantino?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (IUd0M)


Needs a bit more sneer.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (w6EFb)

71 Imagine balls hitting that chin. In fact, it may massage your prostate at the same time. Twofer.

Posted by: Truthbomb at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (l3sRd)

72 The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression

--

Wait, what?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (9Ct69)

73 She looks very angry.

Like one too many guys snuck out right after sex angry.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (RUMEY)

She's had more than a few surprise Dirty Sanchezes performed on her.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (5PP+G)

74 Old kids show called Lazytown. The bad guy was a goof called Robby Rotten. Show had puppets and people. Robby was a person with extreme makeup including prosthetics.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (4XwPj)

That was a weird show.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (T+Iwg)

75 STANKEY JANKEY!

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (53oGX)

76 My first question for her:

Could you describe the disinformation tactics used by Hillary Clinton campaign during the 2016 election that involved Donald Trump and Russia?

Why isn't your organization going after the people and groups who pushed those disinformation campaigns?

Can you explain how the use of such disinformation campaigns for domestic political use also damage US foreign relations?

Posted by: Harun at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (c2WeP)

77 A WhiteCastle 4?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (RUMEY)

78 >Jankowicz launched the American Sunlight Project this week to fight what she believes to be a campaign by conservatives to undermine the anti-disinformation industry.


SO, she believes conservatives are responsible for an anti- anti-disinformation movement
and she's going to fight it, by being an anti- anti- anti-disinformation movement

(Is that right?)

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (/7KEl)

79 People who desire the freedom to state their opinions freely are the greatest threat to freedom of expression!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (9Ct69)

80 77 A WhiteCastle 4?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (RUMEY)

Please, white castle's are always immaculate.

Taco Bell 2.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (di6C2)

81 We are setting the over/under on cats in her apartment at four

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (3QEmR)

82 stanky janky

ace, get a trademark on that, could be a great name for a cartoon character

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (B1FKF)

83 It's Mac Tonight!!!
Posted by: CrazyIvan at April 26, 2024 02:18 PM (VUhjY)

Hey, that's not nice.

Posted by: J. Leno at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (5PP+G)

84 Her head looks like a crescent moon.

Posted by: Archimedes

I know, right?

Posted by: Mac Tonight at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (hCzfy)

85 You could slice a roast on her chin

Posted by: ballistic at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (HCmwm)

86 I love Disinformation Czar. Like they're really rubbing it in. Why not call her the Queen of Lies?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:20 PM (2e48P)

87 These hideous people really ought to get familiar with the Truth before they start spewing lies about supposed disinformation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (fs1hN)

88 67 This woman is genuinely nuts. Did you see that creepy singing video? Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

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Who sits down and decides to do something like that and actually thinks it's a good idea? I just don't understand this TikTok generation.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 26, 2024 02:19 PM (DRSnL)
_______

She's supposed 35 but I think she's older. Even at 35, that's a Millennial. She's too old for the TT generation.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

89 'I like a girl with a strong jaw'

obscure Friends reference

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (/7KEl)

90 She looks like the female version of 'Mac Tonight' from the 80's MacDonald's commercials.

Also she's evil and should stop burning oxygen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (xcxpd)

91 They are all such malignant narcissists.

"I had two on camera interviews today and still have a face full of make-up; what should I make a TikTok about?"

Sure Mary Poppins. Just a spoonful of bullshit makes the medicine go down?

Posted by: Cheri at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (oiNtH)

92 Oof. She's a Shipley's Donut 3.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (i4jEg)

93 Oh hell. What was the movie that had the henchman killer who resembled that old school 40's actor. Had a chin the size of a buick...

I wanna say Dick Tracy, but there was another.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (di6C2)

94 Her head looks like a crescent moon.

Posted by: Archimedes

I know, right?

Posted by: Mac Tonight

See my #53.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (CsUN+)

95 Old kids show called Lazytown. The bad guy was a goof called Robby Rotten. Show had puppets and people. Robby was a person with extreme makeup including prosthetics.

This one?

https://tinyurl.com/2s4h2ze5

Posted by: Lance McCormick at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (mSufQ)

96 re 76: that was well received political opposition research which unfortunately could not be proven because putin.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (B1FKF)

97 >>>32 >>>15 Is it just me or does she vaguely resemble Quentin Tarantino?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (IUd0M)
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Now I can't unsee it.

Lol.

"Like a Virgin" is about a girl who's getting c*ck, huge c*ck, like John Holmes c*ck. Deplatform disinformation!

Posted by: Woke Quentin Tarantino at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (KRtlO)

98 I JUST GO NUTS FOR CASHEW HEADS!

Posted by: Mr. Peanut at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (a9CYf)

99 That "Sunlight" name sounds familiar.

Posted by: huerfano at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (VGOMa)

100 You could stick her face into a gas pump cleat and she'd be stuck for days.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (IG4Id)

101 End Stage Democracy. Don't worry, the cure is "all-natural."

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (qUkBO)

102
Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?


Wholley Kau! Look at that chin.

Someone outta hitch a mule to her head and plow corn fields with that face.

She's being wasted in her current job.


Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (eDfFs)

103 I watched the video (with sound off).

She has the "crazy eyes" all throughout her lame singing attempt.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (7fElN)

104 She's a Uni-Mart one-and-a-half.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (UnA8+)

105 >>>82 stanky janky
ace, get a trademark on that

I'm pretty sure I'm getting it from the Seinfeld with James Spader.

Posted by: ace at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (KRtlO)

106 Disinformation, datinformation, lets call the whole thing off.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (0jLKZ)

107 Jankowicz launched the American Sunlight Project this week to fight what she believes to be a campaign by conservatives to undermine the anti-disinformation industry.
++++
Laughable. As usual, it's the exact opposite.

MiniTru censors like her should be founding organizations called stuff like "Ideal Growing Conditions for Mushrooms Foundation."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (HnUIn)

108 She's perfect for that witch scene in any movie.
Or a Nazi in heels with a whip.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (J8LnB)

109 Seriously though, she absolutely DOES look like a tranny who put a lot of work into looking as feminine as possible.

Posted by: J. Leno at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (5PP+G)

110 100 You could stick her face into a gas pump cleat and she'd be stuck for days.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 02:22 PM (IG4Id)

You could use her as a drag anchor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (di6C2)

111 93 Oh hell. What was the movie that had the henchman killer who resembled that old school 40's actor. Had a chin the size of a buick...

I wanna say Dick Tracy, but there was another.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (di6C2)
__________

The Mickey Rourke character in Sin City?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

112 "Fighting Disinformation"

Well, they can't just come out and say they are fighting free speech. (for the purpose of hiding their junta's power/money grab)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (Cus5s)

113 81 We are setting the over/under on cats in her apartment at four
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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She must not clean the catbox very often then. That would make her into a prime case of crazy catlady syndrome via parasites.

But then again, some people are just sociopathic and evil and due to Ukie land's dysfuction for at least a century, it seems a lot of them are sociopaths like Lt. Col Bearclaw and his sibling.

Our problem is that the US oligarchs like using foreign sociopaths like Merchan, Darkeh, and this bint to oppress us domestically.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (/xdjH)

114 "The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression and academic integrity since the McCarthy era," Nina Jankowicz said in a press release, pledging that her group would not "allow it to continue."
++++
Because I am not Party-aligned, I have no freedom of expression.
Because they are Party-aligned, there is no academic integrity.

Pointing that out makes you an enemy of Jankowicz'.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (HnUIn)

115 109 Seriously though, she absolutely DOES look like a tranny who put a lot of work into looking as feminine as possible.
Posted by: J. Leno at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (5PP+G)

Nah. One who can afford to put a lot of work in would have got that Shotel-esque chin shaved down.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

116 Getting down to brass tacks, what this reveals is a cadre of people deeply invested in preventing the truth from getting out.

One doesn't need to patrol speech or the written word if all ideas are allowed to be presented and debated.

What they want is pre-approval of all speech. Which is against all civil code going back to the Magna Carta.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (lTGtQ)

117 > Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?
____

snort!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (Q4IgG)

118 She believes the only way to stop arson is to light things on fire on purpose.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (2e48P)

119 She could balance a kolache on that chin, and eat it without ever touching it

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (i4jEg)

120 The Mickey Rourke character in Sin City?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

No. This has come up here in the comments before. Huge hulking guy. Wide brimmed hat. I just can't remember the name...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (di6C2)

121 Did Goebbels also sing show tunes?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (fs1hN)

122 118 She believes the only way to stop arson is to light things on fire on purpose.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (2e48P)

=========

A perfect fireman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (GBKbO)

123 I'll bet she has to pluck long black hairs from that chinny chin chin.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (0jLKZ)

124 Off, Crimson Chin.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (5PP+G)

125 What a horse face. She and Sarah Jessica Parker are neck and neck in the horse face race.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (A2E7p)

126 Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?
++++
That's not fair at all.

Sometimes it's a Trigglypuff type. Sometimes it's a pinch-faced scold type. Sometimes it's a stretched-skin ghoul type. There's a decent variety.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (HnUIn)

127 I like cashews.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (Be/+i)

128 Did Jay Leno have an affair about nine months before she was born?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (HnUIn)

129 What's a cashew head ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (T4tVD)

=====

I can't believe nobody has said it yet...

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (DRSnL)

130 "Gentleman, there's an anti-anti-disinformation gap!"

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (qZdIZ)

131 119 She could balance a kolache on that chin, and eat it without ever touching it
Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (i4jEg)

When the waiter comes out with too many plates, he could set one down on her chin to serve the other guests.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (di6C2)

132 120 The Mickey Rourke character in Sin City?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

No. This has come up here in the comments before. Huge hulking guy. Wide brimmed hat. I just can't remember the name...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (di6C2)
________

David Hogg?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

133 Nah. One who can afford to put a lot of work in would have got that Shotel-esque chin shaved down.
Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM (UnA8+)

I don't mean that kind of work. I just mean trying to doll up as much as possible.

You gotta work with what you got... well, you don't HAVE to, but......

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (5PP+G)

134 Sometimes it's a Trigglypuff type. Sometimes it's a pinch-faced scold type. Sometimes it's a stretched-skin ghoul type. There's a decent variety.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Her hair's not purple or pink.

They're evolving.

Posted by: Biergood at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (PwgSL)

135 The real insult is we're over 100 comments and nobody has mentioned boobs.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (i4jEg)

136 what boobs?

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (vFG9F)

137 I'd plow it.

No, wait, I'd plow WITH it.

Posted by: The Farmer In The HP (Formerly The Farmer in the Dell) at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (a9CYf)

138 Sometimes it's a Trigglypuff type. Sometimes it's a pinch-faced scold type. Sometimes it's a stretched-skin ghoul type. There's a decent variety.
_____

Where do I fit in?

Posted by: Greta Thurnberg at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (fs1hN)

139 That video was annoying as hell.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galf at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (ufFY8)

140 She could balance a kolache on that chin, and eat it without ever touching it
Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:24 PM

Non-Texans may not understand that reference.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (a3Q+t)

141 135 Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (i4jEg)

Ninny Jankywitz's tits are at least as real as Lia Thomas'....

Posted by: sven at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (X0I7i)

142 125 What a horse face. She and Sarah Jessica Parker are neck and neck in the horse face race.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (A2E7p)

She was not bad looking in Striking Distance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (di6C2)

143 Fun fact: the cashew is not a nut

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (/7KEl)

144 The real insult is we're over 100 comments and nobody has mentioned boobs.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:26 PM (i4jEg)


Her chin is covering them up. So theres that.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (0jLKZ)

145 138 Posted by: Greta Thurnberg at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (fs1hN)

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Posted by: sven at April 26, 2024 02:28 PM (X0I7i)

146 Anyone who questions the Party line is dealing in disinformation, Tovarisch.

Posted by: To the gulag with you at April 26, 2024 02:28 PM (Wc83a)

147 > I had two on-camera interviews today and still have a face full of makeup; what should I make a TikTok about?
_________

contemplates suggesting sucking cock

looks at picture of skank

does not suggest sucking cock

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 02:28 PM (Q4IgG)

148 Her cross armed pose is not giving the impression she thinks it's giving.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 02:28 PM (rJ48h)

149 Fun fact: the cashew is not a nut

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (/7KEl)

Sometimes it feels like a nut...

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (0jLKZ)

150 What a horse face. She and Sarah Jessica Parker are neck and neck in the horse face race.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (A2E7p)

She was not bad looking in Striking Distance.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (di6C2)
---------
SJP had a very narrow window in the early '90s when she was cute (cf. "L.A. Story").

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (Be/+i)

151 the American Sunlight Project

Boy, there's some real truth in labeling, for you!

Posted by: Paco at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (njExo)

152 Ace sometimes posts these horrifying "women" and without fail someone always rationalizes a 13 year old adolescent comment like, "yeah but nice cans". None of that here. Weird.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (i4jEg)

153 >Where do I fit in?

Posted by: Greta Thurnberg
---


'Cabbage Patch Doll From Hell' type

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (/7KEl)

154 ace, related:

"CIA Recruit Is Pursuing Global Internet Censorship As “eSafety” Czar In Australia
American–born Julie Inman Grant is a key architect of the multigovernmental “Global Online Safety Regulators Network” to censor the speech that politicians and government bureaucrats fear

And now, Public has learned that there is a formal government censorship network called the “Global Online Safety Regulators Network,” which Australia’s top Internet censor, Julie Inman Grant, who is an American, described at World Economic Forum. The group includes censors from Australia, France, Ireland, South Africa, Korea, the UK, and Fiji."

https://tinyurl.com/28gd8boo

TLR- Your U.S. social media account can be banned in the U.S. by Fiji or Korea

https://tinyurl.com/28gd8boo

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:30 PM (9Ct69)

155 No. This has come up here in the comments before. Huge hulking guy. Wide brimmed hat. I just can't remember the name...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (di6C2)

Thanos?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:30 PM (5PP+G)

156 Ugly people can't help their ugliness. So it's not usually fair to dunk on them. But in Nina's case? If you look at her pics, she's almost always in some glamour pose like she thinks she's hot. Umm, no. It's fair to dunk on ugly people who preen like they're a young Tyra Banks.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

157 SJP had a very narrow window in the early '90s when she was cute (cf. "L.A. Story").
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (Be/+i)

She could not cock her head sideways when going through said window.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 26, 2024 02:30 PM (ufFY8)

158 Wow, if she's had a bad day, I'll bet no one says 'keep your chin up". She might hurt someone.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (0jLKZ)

159 She does give off a dirty vibe though

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (2e48P)

160 The Weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (fwDg9)

161 "Non-Texans may not understand that reference.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 02:27 PM (a3Q+t)"

Ha! People should get out more. See now I have to go hit Shipley's.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (i4jEg)

162 What a horse face.

That's a lie! On my worst day I never looked that bad!

Posted by: Seabiscuit at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (njExo)

163 Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?

😂

Posted by: Ex GOP at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (XApgH)

164 >>>Fun fact: the cashew is not a nut

Looking Deeper: I don't believe you.

Posted by: Ace Vibe Check at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (KRtlO)

165 She looks cute!

Posted by: Philip IV Habsburg at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (gKWVE)

166 >>What a horse face.

That chin could cut a hole in the Artic ice pack...

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 02:32 PM (K+UlC)

167 Lies like a Leftist

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 02:32 PM (fwDg9)

168
The Attitude of Gratitude, It Ain't Just a Platitude: Thanks, Moron Robbie.

Posted by: Ace Vibe Check at April 26, 2024 02:32 PM (KRtlO)

169 When she ran track in HS she never 'won by a nose'. If you get my drift.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (0jLKZ)

170 it's not polite to point!

Posted by: ace at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (KRtlO)

171 She looks cute!
Posted by: Philip IV Habsburg at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (gKWVE)

But not a cousin.

Would not bang.

Posted by: Philip IV Habsburg again at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (ufFY8)

172 She's groovy.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (i4jEg)

173 Whinny...whinny.

Snort...snort...

*Paws the ground*

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (PwgSL)

174 A Stanky Janky post right after posts featuring smellies and stinkies.

I sense a Fani post next.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (Dm8we)

175 She looks cute!
Posted by: Philip IV Habsburg at April 26, 2024 02:31 PM (gKWVE)
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Aw, Dad!

Posted by: Carloss II at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (Be/+i)

176 She’s a babe!

Posted by: Jay Leno at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (XApgH)

177 Yeah she's real stable. Look at her eyes while she's "singing." You see that look on a bitch, hit her with a thorazine dart, crate her up, and ship her off to a convent high in the Andes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 02:34 PM (0FoWg)

178 Since the CIA cleared the Dem primary spot for VA Gov for 2025, I guess I know where the grift is gonna be going...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 26, 2024 02:34 PM (exHjb)

179 To my mind, anyone who sets themselves up as a 'fact-checker' or wages a campaign against supposed 'disinformation' is essentially declaring 'I Am The Truth'

which I will never accept

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:34 PM (/7KEl)

180 This is a great post. Thanks Ace and all the commenters. I’m laughing my old fat a$s off.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 26, 2024 02:34 PM (Z8Xq7)

181 But not a cousin.

Would not bang.
Posted by: Philip IV Habsburg again at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (ufFY
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Aw, Dad!

Posted by: Carlos II at April 26, 2024 02:34 PM (Be/+i)

182 Chin up, honey. Lest it scrape the floor.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2024 02:35 PM (i4jEg)

183 I did NOT have 'thorazine dart' on my bingo card today.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galf at April 26, 2024 02:35 PM (ufFY8)

184 "She’s a babe!
Posted by: Jay Leno"

Lantern-jawed freak!

Posted by: Phil Hartman channeling Ed McMahon at April 26, 2024 02:35 PM (vFG9F)

185 Ah, ran it down.

This guy, Rondo Hatton:

https://tinyurl.com/56mtbukh

They did an homage to him in Rocketeer.

Here is also a busty palate cleanser.

https://tinyurl.com/akh8vwhb

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:35 PM (di6C2)

186 Since the nineties, governments have been losing the war of information. Back then, there were only a handful of easily controlled sources of news. With the explosion of alternative sources of information, governments have had to drastically scale up their ability to coerce these information sources to obey. Huge financial resources have been allocated to track and record all data used by the people, so that governments can try and control this information. Governments happily break the law to spy on their own people, or use friendly governments to do so in order to skirt the laws.

If there was an existing technology to read peoples' minds, the government would spend every last penny to get it, use it, and arrest those they felt were committing wrongspeak.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 02:36 PM (lTGtQ)

187 That chin could clear cows off the railroad tracks


Booyah! Nothin' but net! Elvis has left the building.

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:36 PM (/7KEl)

188 Theres three things I don't like about her. Her chin.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:37 PM (0jLKZ)

189 This bikini girl is wondering if you're interested in joining her as she publicly engages in the dissemination of accurate information by calling Jankowicz a shovel-chinned, tyrannical censor:
http://tiny.cc/td7vxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 02:37 PM (HnUIn)

190 Elon Musk buying Twitter is kind of a big deal, huh?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 02:37 PM (2UnvF)

191 That underbite could open a beer bottle...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 26, 2024 02:38 PM (/HDaX)

192 That picture of Nina there is a perfect example of what Gary Larson from those Far Side cartoons called something telling people "Don't Touch!"

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 02:38 PM (K+UlC)

193 With a chin like that, she'd be great at digging up truffles.

Posted by: Paco at April 26, 2024 02:38 PM (njExo)

194 It doesn't have to be Cashew Head it could be Lantern Jaw
that's what they used to be called. Cashew Head is a softer
interpretation.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 02:38 PM (lCWOD)

195 Walk on the beach with her and you can find coins.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:39 PM (2e48P)

196 189 This bikini girl is wondering if you're interested in joining her as she publicly engages in the dissemination of accurate information by calling Jankowicz a shovel-chinned, tyrannical censor:
http://tiny.cc/td7vxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 02:37 PM (HnUIn)

It is really sad when you recognize them because you did an image search a few days ago.

Mini Jello, fyi. Also Dominique Dsomething.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:39 PM (di6C2)

197 This bikini girl

Yes; I get that she has boobs; Hooray. Aside from that, it's a pretty unflattering picture of her face.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 02:40 PM (XkYcA)

198 >This bikini girl is wondering if you're interested in...


there's something off about the trees in the distance

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:40 PM (/7KEl)

199 Yes; I get that she has boobs; Hooray. Aside from that, it's a pretty unflattering picture of her face.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 02:40 PM (XkYcA)

Face?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:41 PM (2e48P)

200 Obviously the CIA and DHS aren't sending their best but on second thought, they probably are.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 26, 2024 02:41 PM (XT+5H)

201 Chin sharp enough to cut some unlucky dude's ball sack.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 02:41 PM (Q4IgG)

202 191 That underbite could open a beer bottle...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent,
-----------------------------

Are you suggesting that they are chosen because of other more
discreet abilities?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 02:41 PM (lCWOD)

203 Our problems started when we stopped hanging judges.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (J8LnB)

204 Next up: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang redux.

Oh wait, Kamala already has it covered...or maybe Fani Willis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (XeU6L)

205 Face?
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:41 PM (2e48P)

Knew it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (XkYcA)

206 Yes; I get that she has boobs

-------------------------

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU COULD'VE STOPPED RIGHT THERE!!!!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLESSBERGER at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (2UnvF)

207 That chin could clear cows off the railroad tracks

Booyah! Nothin' but net! Elvis has left the building.
Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:36 PM (/7KEl)

Ok, that was funny.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (0jLKZ)

208 Knew it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (XkYcA)

You set em up I knock em down

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:43 PM (2e48P)

209 Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?

I don't know... I think she is quite handsome.

Posted by: Mr. Peanut at April 26, 2024 02:43 PM (8Ejqr)

210 Her pet is a Chinchilla.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:43 PM (0jLKZ)

211 That's Dylan Mulvaney, right?!?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 26, 2024 02:44 PM (iNp3L)

212 We spread information
They spread disinformation.
So we started an anti-disinformation group.
They countered with anti-disinformation disinformation
So we started an anti anti-disinformation disinformation group.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 02:44 PM (PHukT)

213 Thank you

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:44 PM (/7KEl)

214 Her pet is a Chinchilla.
Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:43 PM (0jLKZ)
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She toasts by saying, "Chin-chin!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:45 PM (Be/+i)

215 The slag always floats.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 02:45 PM (PHukT)

216 big chin villain: one name that comes up on google in robert d'zar, whom I never heard of

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 02:45 PM (B1FKF)

217 If you saw her mother, you would say "she's a chin off the old block".

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:45 PM (0jLKZ)

218 Girl boss from hell.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 02:46 PM (rJ48h)

219 We spread information
They spread disinformation.
So we started an anti-disinformation group.
They countered with anti-disinformation disinformation
So we started an anti anti-disinformation disinformation group.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 02:44 PM (PHukT)
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This sounds like the "Get Smart" episode where CONTROL had to retrieve the plans for the anti-anti-anti-missile-missile-missile-missile.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:46 PM (Be/+i)

220 Yeah, we got nothin

Posted by: Chinese Phone Book at April 26, 2024 02:46 PM (2UnvF)

221 She could have been honest and said that her goal was to desseminate only government allowed speech, and ban any alternative viewpoints.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 02:46 PM (lTGtQ)

222 Surprisingly she does not have one of those fake lip moles.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 02:46 PM (PHukT)

223 I didn't know Mary Poppins was supposed to frighten small children.

Posted by: spindrift at April 26, 2024 02:46 PM (OguvZ)

224 Robert Z'dar was great in the Maniac Cop series.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at April 26, 2024 02:47 PM (UfRqq)

225 170 it's not polite to point!
Posted by: ace at April 26, 2024 02:33 PM (KRtlO)

With her chin ? Don't think she can help that one

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 02:47 PM (Akjoo)

226 I believe there are objective truths

Earth orbits the Sun
grass is green
water's wet
Rush is not music

the rest is up for debate

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 02:47 PM (/7KEl)

227 Cashew head used to be declared as a sign of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 02:47 PM (8zz6B)

228 "What's a cashew head ?
Her head looks like a crescent moon."

Like Mac Tonight?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4_b5PHWg8

Posted by: Gunslinger at April 26, 2024 02:48 PM (R2gO3)

229 She once did a chin-up and couldn't get back down.

Someone stop me. Please.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 26, 2024 02:48 PM (0jLKZ)

230 216 big chin villain: one name that comes up on google in robert d'zar, whom I never heard of
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 02:45 PM (B1FKF)

This guy:

https://tinyurl.com/2w55r5jk

Was in Tango and Cash, among others.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:48 PM (di6C2)

231 OK... this is a funny video about Trump buying Mar-a-Lago ~1min Goes to X

https://tinyurl.com/53fc9bub

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 02:48 PM (Q4IgG)

232 re me at 216: or maybe michael berryman, although he looks more like the horror movie type

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 02:48 PM (B1FKF)

233 I’m in late. That woman is insane. I have nothing else

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 02:49 PM (xT8gx)

234
A GOOD STASI WHORE STAYS BOUGHT, H8RS!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2024 02:49 PM (xG4kz)

235
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap, the job's a game
And every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake
A lark, a spree, it's very clear to see

That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down, the medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

Posted by: Poppins at April 26, 2024 02:49 PM (XeU6L)

236 Chin chinimy chin chinimy chin chin chaloon

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 02:49 PM (6EiMS)

237 That chin is big enough to hold four sets of balls

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 02:49 PM (yikga)

Axios Poll: Majority of Americans Open to Trump's "Harshest" Immigration Policy, "Mass Deportations;" 42% of Democrats Support This, and 45% of Latinos

Why It Matters: Because Axios is stupid and gay, so if even their poll is finding this, it means something.

David Strom:


Axios commissioned a Harris poll and discovered something unsurprising, even if the establishment was shocked.

Americans support mass deportations of illegal aliens. I suspect they would support mass deportations of some legal aliens who express anti-American views as well, come to think of it.

EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans.

Half -- including 42% of Democrats -- say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. https://t.co/fXPKxpGlQj pic.twitter.com/UIWn2SRKn7

-- Axios (@axios) April 25, 2024


"I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations," said Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and a former pollster for President Clinton.

I'm not at all. This is what is called a backlash, dude.

Axios adds:

Americans are open to former President Trump's harshest immigration plans, spurred on by a record surge of illegal border crossings and a relentless messaging war waged by Republicans.

* President Biden is keenly aware the crisis threatens his re-election. He's sought to flip the script by accusing Trump of sabotaging Congress' most conservative bipartisan immigration bill in decades.
* But when it comes to blame, Biden so far has failed to shift the narrative: 32% of respondents say his administration is "most responsible" for the crisis, outranking any other political or structural factor.

Axios Vibe Check: Amid a record number of border crossings, nearly two-thirds of Americans said illegal immigration is a real crisis, not a politically driven media narrative.

"Axios Vibe Check?" God Almighty, get your gaytarded shit under control, Axios.

I'm going to do an Ace Vibe Check.

A Glance Askance: A CNN poll finds that only 13% (THIRTEEN PERCENT) of voters think that Trump is being treated similarly to other defendants.

A certain number of those are braindead NPC zombies and Stinkies who claim that Trump is being treated better than other defendants. But most are saying Trump is being treated savagely.

Here's another swing state poll, from Hispanic-heavy Nevada:


Unrelated: Howard Stern badgered Biden (yes, Biden has refused to give an interview to the NYT for his entire presidency, but is now sitting down to be "grilled" by Noted Journalist Howard Stern) about whether he'd debate Trump.

Biden gave a very vague and very tentative "maybe" answer.

When Mr. Stern asked Mr. Biden if he would debate Mr. Trump, the president replied: "I am, somewhere, I don't know when, but I am happy to debate him."

This is not a real agreement to debate. He's just saying this because he knows how weak, pathetic, and senile he'll sound if he rules it out. So he'll keep on offering this "maybe, somewhere, I don't know when, if we can work it out" style answer when the media asks him about it, which they will not ask him about, because they know this hurts Biden and they do not want him to debate Trump. Our "journalists" are now all-in on deplatforming, and they know Biden is so senile and frail he wouldn't survive a debate politically -- and maybe not physically, either.

Biden does not call the shots in "his" own White House. Decisions like this are above Biden's pay grade. Pay no attention to the stupid, senile words that dribble out of his mouth.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:06 PM




Comments

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1 "We can't support this policy. We'll lose AWFLs."
-The Entire GOP Consultancy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

2 https://tinyurl.com/2n3sy8vr

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

3 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)

4 Biden does not call the shots in "his" own White House. Decisions like this are above Biden's pay grade. Pay no attention to the stupid, senile words that dribble out of his mouth.

======

It's funny.

I don't remember voting for an unaccountable Mandarin class that actually runs government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

5 Because Axios is stupid and gay, so if even their poll is finding this, it means something.

Don't Mean Nothing. -- DC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (IUd0M)

6 Howard Stern badgered Biden (yes, Biden has refused to give an interview to the NYT for his entire presidency, but is now sitting down to be "grilled" by Noted Journalist Howard Stern) about whether he'd debate Trump
____________

That creepy hysterical weirdo finally emerged from his COVID prepper cave??

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

7 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)

Lettuce is a garnishment, food for rabbits.

The world will keep spinning without it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (QynZB)

8 Huh.

"Harshest" is apparently another word for "absolute lowest bare minimum."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (9Ct69)

9 Digging Deeper: 42% of Democrats and 45% of Latinos are clearly Xenophobic White Supremacists.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (8FmJd)

10 These only reason id question the "42% of Dems" is that a large number of Democrats are probably claiming to be Republicans to try and skew polls so they can say "look even Republicans don't like Trump policies."

If that is thr case though, the Latino portion looks better for Trump in 2024, as it means for Hispanics are considering themselves Republicans or independents, and not being tricked in to begging part of the Democrat party.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (fOkIv)

11 A certain number of those are braindead NPC zombies and Stinkies who claim that Trump is being treated better than other defendants. But most are saying Trump is being treated savagely.
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Their brains must be not just dead, but long embalmed and interred. My sister is an idiot, and lives in NY. Even she has figured that much out. And that Joe is appalling. (She still thinks Trump is too yucky to vote for.)

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (1bNHn)

12 7 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)

Lettuce is a garnishment, food for rabbits.

The world will keep spinning without it.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (QynZB)

========

It's mostly water. The idea that lettuce is a key part of a human diet is obviously the plot of Big Penguin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

13 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.

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If you don't let the Mexicans pick your lettuce then your food prices will double!!!

Wait...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (9Ct69)

14 Here come the Stinkies!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (R4t5M)

15 10 If that is thr case though, the Latino portion looks better for Trump in 2024, as it means for Hispanics are considering themselves Republicans or independents, and not being tricked in to begging part of the Democrat party.
Posted by: Rbastid at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (fOkIv)

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Self-segregating into urban centers run by Democrat machines has a certain affect on things, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

16 I don't remember voting for an unaccountable Mandarin class that actually runs government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

There's a book I bought, started and stopped reading, because I decided I couldn't stand any of these people.

It was about the inner workings of the Reagan White House, and how things actually got done.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (QynZB)

17 WTF is a "vibe check?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

18
When Mr. Stern asked Mr. Biden if he would debate Mr. Trump, the president replied:

Tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Groper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock but I'll know about it and I'll be happy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (63Dwl)

19 Biden will not actively campaign, let alone debate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (2UnvF)

20 Afternoon.
======================
Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)

I gotta use more cheddar to get fewer greens.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (BhMhR)

21 It seems that the Hispanics don't trust the Gringos.

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (QB+5g)

22 "Vibe check"

Tell me you're a hipster asshole without telling me you're a hipster asshole.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (rJ48h)

23 * But when it comes to blame, Biden so far has failed to shift the narrative: 32% of respondents say his administration is "most responsible" for the crisis, outranking any other political or structural factor.

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The Junta is not only enabling, but financing, the largest human, drug, and child sex trafficking operation in history -- immeasurably enriching The Cartels.

Why don't you do a story on that, Axios? *spit*

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (8FmJd)

24 "Axios Poll: Majority of Americans Open to Trump's "Harshest" Immigration Policy, "Mass Deportations;" 42% of Democrats Support This, and 45% of Latinos"

We can't pass legislation on the most important issue across the voting public because I'm a weak-ass, soft white hands, ass-pirating gimpy wimp who hides behind religion as a premise for by flaccidness.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (5Vdzv)

25 It's mostly water. The idea that lettuce is a key part of a human diet is obviously the plot of Big Penguin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

You can't really put it on the bottom of the food pyramid though, everything would topple over.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:14 PM (QynZB)

26
Here come the Stinkies!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

Oh, look! Here comes a flying wedge of Dirties!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2024 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

27 WTF is a "vibe check?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

Euphemism for sodomy?

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 01:14 PM (BhMhR)

28 That Bloomberg Nevada poll uses a head-to-head registered voters sample. The Dems are in trouble.

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2024 01:15 PM (rj6Yv)

29 Wasn't Howard afraid of the germs ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 01:15 PM (Akjoo)

30 Pay no attention to the stupid, senile words that dribble out of his mouth.

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"Who is John Gill?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:15 PM (8FmJd)

31 "Vibe check"

Tell me you're a hipster asshole without telling me you're a hipster asshole.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (rJ48h)

Even when Ace does it as a lark, I get the urge to strangle an IPA drinking, beard waxing Woke douchebag hipster soy boi.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:15 PM (QynZB)

32 The window passed about 1985.

I’m not sure why opinion polls are cited for anything? Nobody in government gives a fuck about the law, or the sentiment of the people, good sense, decency, or even the mere appearance of propriety or consent.

My favorite “thought ending cliche” proffered has long been “We can’t deport 10 million illegal aliens! That’s impossible!”

Left unstated, is the follow on. The important part. Therefore, we won’t deport anybody. We ain’t even gonna try.

They have encouraged and allowed this longer than most people have been alive. They’ve never known any different. Millions and millions, or how do we know for sure the “environmental movement” was all bullshit. Among other things.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2024 01:15 PM (P55mL)

33 Trump 2024 - Biden's a P*ssy

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (bNf8H)

34 WTF is a "vibe check?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

Euphemism for sodomy?
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 01:14 PM (BhMhR)

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*snort*

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (8FmJd)

35 When Mr. Stern asked Mr. Biden if he would debate Mr. Trump, the president replied: "I am, somewhere, I don't know when, but I am happy to debate him."

Biden missed a real opportunity there. His answer should have been...

"Debate Trump? Are you mad? We're experiencing an unannounced climate crisis! Debate. The guy has been indicted a million times! The Secret Service would never let me do it! Debate. He's stuck in NYC and I lost my transit card. Debate. Listen fat... I'll challenge you to a push up contest right now."

Biden sneezes.

Stern faints. When he comes to he cannot stop screaming about how he's going to die for 3 hours.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (IUd0M)

36
Tangentially related I just had a Holy F_ck moment when looking at the Labor Participation Rate among Hispanic. They're working their butts off. Even during the 'pandemic' they went to work higher then average.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/
civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm

/stitch together and click on the different categories

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (RKVpM)

37 a relentless messaging war waged by Republicans.

AKA "telling the truth".

Posted by: pookysgirl, rolling her eyes at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (dtlDP)

38 Debates are so last decade. Nobody does that anymore.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (vFG9F)

39 Or Y'know just grow your own lettuce.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (4XwPj)

40 IF there is a debate, Trump needs to stfu and let biden speak.

Maybe waggle his fingers in his ears and stick out his tongue.

Biden will sink his own ship if allowed to speak off script.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:17 PM (buvgH)

41 7 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)

Lettuce is a garnishment, food for rabbits.

The world will keep spinning without it.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (QynZB)

========

It's mostly water. The idea that lettuce is a key part of a human diet is obviously the plot of Big Penguin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
Okay, what about aragula? That should put some panties in a twist.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:17 PM (o2ZRX)

42 Yeah, fiber optic cable cut.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 26, 2024 01:17 PM (yeEu9)

43
But PredictIt has Biden up by 20%!!!!!

*RIP Intrade*

Posted by: In before the troll at April 26, 2024 01:17 PM (n+4am)

44 You could clone Hitler and put him on Steroids, and Democrats would vote for him as long as he promised Free Abortions on Demand.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:17 PM (UnA8+)

45 Ain't no way FJB will be debating Trump.

They will frame it as though Trump is not worthy of participating in a debate because of his criminal history, his policy positions on American's newest "citizens," and the lies about 2020 he's been spewing.

They will equate it to debating an online troll or something.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (7fElN)

46 Check your vibe > check your privilege

I'm hip 🤣

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

47 From the last thread:
police officers took several people into custody during a pro-Hamas protest at Emory University.
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Having lived in Atlanta for 24 years, I recall Emory being referred to as the school where the girls are girls, and the boys are too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

48 "WTF is a "vibe check?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

*plays riff*

Posted by: Ruth Underwood vides at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (vFG9F)

49 Biden does not call the shots in "his" own White House. Decisions like this are above Biden's pay grade. Pay no attention to the stupid, senile words that dribble out of his mouth.

Biden, before Google translate: oaifsefisavizdngdkopag[drntgpd

Biden, after Google translate: Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?

Why no, Joe, nobody does.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (CsUN+)

50 7 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)
---
I never much cared for that devil weed anyway.

It tears up my system.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (7fElN)

51 In before the poll strippers, to remind you folks:

In April of 2020, Biden was ahead in all the swing states except GA, where Trump had less than 1% lead.
Biden expanded his lead in all those states from then on out.

So yes, polls in April have some value.

OTOH, there are some national polls being trumpeted as "Biden is regaining the momentum."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (yikga)

52 ""I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations," said Mark Penn"

I mean, holy shit. Where do these people live- in a cardboard box? There is literally an invasion of illegal immigrants across the states. The federal and state government's are taking millions of taxpayer dollars meant for citizens and spending it on illegal immigrants. These people are stealing jobs from American's, they have increased crime, they have overrun the school systems and are doing it with our own tax dollars.

Who the fuck would that be popular with- a sadist?

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (5Vdzv)

53 Did You Know?

The Sierra Club was famously pro-nuclear power. At one time. And decidedly strongly against illegal migration.

Millions and millions of “New Arrivals” place profound demands on water, sewage, and energy requirements. Roads, bridges, paving over croplands. Timber, minerals, gas. Hospitals, schools, more roads. Less green. More pollution.

You’ll never guess what happened to the Sierra Club!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (P55mL)

54 The window passed about 1985.
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Yep.

Southerners have been pleading for decades for something to be done about this as communities and jobs and schools were destroyed.

BUT MY LETTUCE or whatever from the rest of the nation.

In a way I'm sort of enjoying watching them get hit with 30+ years of illegals in two years.

We tried to warn y'all.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (9Ct69)

55 45 Ain't no way FJB will be debating Trump.

They will frame it as though Trump is not worthy of participating in a debate because of his criminal history, his policy positions on American's newest "citizens," and the lies about 2020 he's been spewing.

They will equate it to debating an online troll or something.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (7fElN)

========

My prediction still holds:

There will be talks. Trump's team will bend over backwards to agree to every request. Biden will pull out last second because Trump is icky.

The media will call it a victory for democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)

56
Or Y'know just grow your own lettuce.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (4XwPj)


Just wait until the homos in the Upper West Side figure out that no one grows wheat in Central Park, which means NO BAGELS.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (n+4am)

57 "Harshest" is apparently another word for "absolute lowest bare minimum."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:10 PM (9Ct69)

Remember that Biden, and Senate Republicans, are touting a bill which would have allowed in a minimum of, what was it, four million illegals per year before the President could even say boo as the most conservative, bestest immigration bill in the history of ever and then decide if you want to revisit your statement.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (IUd0M)

58 too bad he wasn't inside the car at the time...

Adam Schiff’s Luggage, Clothes Stolen in San Francisco

"That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff’s rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (IG4Id)

59 You can't really put it on the bottom of the food pyramid though, everything would topple over.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:14 PM (QynZB)

He's right, you know.

Posted by: Hank Johnson, nutritionist at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (Wc83a)

60 51 In before the poll strippers, to remind you folks:

In April of 2020, Biden was ahead in all the swing states except GA, where Trump had less than 1% lead.
Biden expanded his lead in all those states from then on out.

So yes, polls in April have some value.

OTOH, there are some national polls being trumpeted as "Biden is regaining the momentum."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (yikga)

======

So, you're saying that polls in April are wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

61 It's funny.

I don't remember voting for an unaccountable Mandarin class that actually runs government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The Managerial Revolution described the process way back in the 40's. We just are fortunate (in the Chinese sense) that we are here when the entire model is crashing and burning in the West.

Our managers used to be evil but competent. Their brainwashing technique to retain power has basically lobotomized their successor generations to the point where no one in government and higher realms of corporations actually knows how to do much of anything.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (/xdjH)

62 I’m wracking my brain to think of another person who has had 4 or 5 separate prosecutions against him in as many jurisdictions.

Someone mentioned a few weeks ago that there were some type situations after the civil war but I have my doubts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (FQ+mV)

63 ""I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations," said Mark Penn"

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These same pollsters should no-joke ask about machine guns at the border to repel the invasion.

I'd bet they'd be even more surprised.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (9Ct69)

64
Or Y'know just grow your own lettuce.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM

Have you seen seed prices lately? A package of about 100 seeds costs as much as a head of lettuce. Where's the financial incentive?

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (RKVpM)

65 I don't remember voting for an unaccountable Mandarin class that actually runs government.

short of burning DC to the ground and starting over we're stuck with them

Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (AR07F)

66
This is impossible. Diversity is our strength. Melting pots and Bring us your tired, hungry,....

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (+oR7L)

67 "Vibe check"

Tell me you're a hipster asshole without telling me you're a hipster asshole.

How do you do, fellow kids?

Posted by: Axios at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (CsUN+)

68 Why Trump's lead in NV matters:

Because NV sends out ballots automatically to every registered voter in the state. No request for a ballot is required. That is a yuuge advantage (duh) for the DEMs-- they will out-ballot harvest the GOP.

Rosen's (D-inc) Senate seat in NV is in play also. The GOP has a fine candidate-- a badly wounded war vet.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (NLIak)

69 In other words:

Don’t let the door hit you as you’re leaving.

Buh bye.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (I6NNh)

70 And when Biden "wins" with 102 million votes we will be told to suck it up and vote harder next time. And not nominate someone so trumpy. Maybe consider a severe conservative like John Cornyn.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (PHukT)

71 "I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations," said Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and a former pollster for President Clinton.
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Yeah, it's puzzling. It's as though the people have more concern for the well-bing of the country than the politicians do.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

72 Any human trying to survive on ice berg lettuce without a couple hamburger patties and some Duke's will die a horrible death. On a toasted onion roll.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (0EOe9)

73 They will frame it as though Trump is not worthy of participating in a debate because of his criminal history, his policy positions on American's newest "citizens," and the lies about 2020 he's been spewing.

They will equate it to debating an online troll or something.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (7fElN)

Dems can't frame squat at this point. No one is listening to them except the ones that have the most to lose when Trump wins. Dem lies and malfeasance is like inflation, after a while, the lies aren't worth the pixels and broadband used to to distribute them.

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (rj6Yv)

74 I don't remember voting for an unaccountable Mandarin class that actually runs government.

Nobody expects the Mandarin administration!

Posted by: Axios at April 26, 2024 01:21 PM (CsUN+)

75 Biden’s border-deal double-down would make for good politics and good policy. Biden is smart to keep the border-security pressure on. The White House saw the possibility for political synergy here: Such a package would show Americans Biden was serious about the border while sweetening the pot for Republicans to get right on Ukraine.

Congressional Republicans, egged on by Donald Trump, turned up their nose at the package’s border provisions. They couldn’t admit that they rejected it because they were ordered to do so. Instead they kvetched the bill would not bring the number of border crossings magically down to zero. Any bill that fell short of that ideal, Speaker Johnson scoffed at the time, “would be surrender.”

Republicans could pooh-pooh any border deal as simply not being strict enough to outweigh their opposition to other parts of the package—more aid to Ukraine...now Ukraine’s out of it. Biden has called for border-security legislation on its own. What excuses will Republicans concoct this time for spurning the offer?

If Biden’s serious about trying again on the border before the election, it’s time to give his new buddy Mike Johnson another call.

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (ycI94)

76 BUT MY LETTUCE or whatever from the rest of the nation.

In a way I'm sort of enjoying watching them get hit with 30+ years of illegals in two years.

We tried to warn y'all.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (9Ct69)

I'm headed to John McCain's grave with two cases of PBR and a bushel of asparagus.

Posted by: There's grave-peein' to be done at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (Wc83a)

77 My prediction still holds:

There will be talks. Trump's team will bend over backwards to agree to every request. Biden will pull out last second because Trump is icky.

The media will call it a victory for democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (GBKbO)
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Probably a fair assessment. They will spin it as "Trump" being the recalcitrant, disagreeable one instead of accurately portraying FJB as being physically and mentally incapable of debating.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (7fElN)

78 Sam Brown is a good candidate for NV.

Jackie Rosen is a bit€h. Good riddance.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (I6NNh)

79 Why It Matters: Because Axios is stupid and gay, so if even their poll is finding this, it means something.
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (HnUIn)

80 >Adam Schiff’s Luggage, Clothes Stolen in San Francisco


I wonder how Schiff's buddy Ed Buck is doing in prison.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (rJ48h)

81 Wages have literally been stagnant for Americans since 1974. All we’ve had since then is gaslighting by “expert” economists and charlatans in the media.

When Joe showed up in the US Senate, by the way.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2024 01:22 PM (P55mL)

82 I'm going to do an Ace Vibe Check.
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This has something to do with busty lesbian porn, doesn't it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (HnUIn)

83 Vibe check

Boing! Booooooiiing! Boioioioioioioiong!
Vibing good.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (PHukT)

84 "We can't support this policy. We'll lose AWFLs."
-The Entire GOP Consultancy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
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It was just 12 years ago the GOPe "autopsy" on why Romney lost determined it was because Republicans opposed amnesty.
4 years later, Trump won on "build the wall."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (yikga)

85 At this point, most of the American public would vote for moats and fields of interlocking fire with APM's along the border.

But you know, Republicans are too busy giving our tax dollars to Ukraine and agreeing on budgets that funds every left wing priority including millions for illegal immigrants.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (5Vdzv)

86 "That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff’s rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (IG4Id)

The Emperor has no clothes ?

Fckin pencil neck

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (NtVYv)

87
America is a big, wonderful breakfast burrito!

And now it's experiencing gas!

You go, Stinkies and Dirties!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (xG4kz)

88 Biden does not call the shots in "his" own White House. Decisions like this are above Biden's pay grade. Pay no attention to the stupid, senile words that dribble out of his mouth.
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Yup. A quorum or majority of the Politburo will reach a decision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:24 PM (HnUIn)

89 Vibe check is when the news room verifies the battery level on their bluetooth remote activated buttplugs.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 26, 2024 01:24 PM (Y6IkP)

90 2 https://tinyurl.com/2n3sy8vr
Posted by: Elric Blade
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You could join the French Foreign Legion or some other mercenary group. Get some.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 01:24 PM (lCWOD)

91 It was just 12 years ago the GOPe "autopsy" on why Romney lost determined it was because Republicans opposed amnesty.
4 years later, Trump won on "build the wall."

Sure, it's easy to pick nits.

Posted by: The Entire GOP Consultancy at April 26, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)

92
short of burning DC to the ground and starting over we're stuck with them
Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:20 PM (AR07F)




YOUR PROPOSAL IS ACCEPTABLE

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 26, 2024 01:24 PM (n+4am)

93 Registered voter sample, too, so with one more trip to the grocery store or gas station, and a likely voter sample, Trump will be up 12.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (PM3zh)

94 Biden Vows to Debate As Soon As His Senility Clears Up

Posted by: Wally at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (QWk6e)

95 I want the cheat so big, so obvious, and so out of control that even DU goes, "Whoa..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

96 Wait. If 43% of dems support this.

You supposed that greater than 50% of repubs would.

How is this overall % not higher?

Oh, you have a sample size that is 80% dems.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (di6C2)

97 Biden will debate Trump.

Verdict afterwards: Biden DESTROYED Trump. He was a spry as ever, but his stutter did muddle his message a bit. Trump was just angry and confused and had no coherent message.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (PHukT)

98 50 7 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)
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I never much cared for that devil weed anyway.

It tears up my system.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (7fElN)
Not good for hamsters neither.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (o2ZRX)

99 ++++
Yup. A quorum or majority of the Politburo will reach a decision.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:24 PM (HnUIn)

They're counting on Trump being convicted and Hopefully in jail..

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (Akjoo)

100 "Axios Vibe Check?"
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Better than a Sandra Fluke Vibe Check!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (vtyCZ)

101 They probably scored some good quality blow when they ripped off Schiff's luggage. Maybe some kiddie porn.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 01:26 PM (0EOe9)

102 ++++
Yup. A quorum or majority of the Politburo will reach a decision.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Or a quarrel between Kalorama and the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 01:26 PM (lCWOD)

103 Or Y'know just grow your own lettuce.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (4XwPj)

Next you'll be telling me to start my own internet.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:26 PM (5PP+G)

104 In April of 2020, Biden was ahead in all the swing states except GA, where Trump had less than 1% lead.
Biden expanded his lead in all those states from then on out.

So yes, polls in April have some value.

OTOH, there are some national polls being trumpeted as "Biden is regaining the momentum."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:19 PM (yikga)

If I believed that the media tried to be honest...
If I believed that polls tried to be honest...
If I believed that there wasn't widespread vote fraud...

I might accept that polls in April have some value... but I don't believe any of those things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:26 PM (IUd0M)

105 OTOH, there are some national polls being trumpeted as "Biden is regaining the momentum."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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That ended last week PHV. Trends are going the other way now and part of that vaunted idiocy was a poll by a little known company that massages the data to come up with Biden's a winner.

The consistent lying, the legal martyrdom of Trump, and Biden visibly falling apart in public have a toll on his numbers and that is not easily reversible. Basically, we are looking behind the curtain at the Wizard class desperately pulling every lever and yelling at the plebes to ignore the men behind the curtain.

The Dems obviously have fall back plans so we will just have to wait and see what they are. The very late convention date gives rise to the suspicion that the Dems want to retain the ability to do a Torricelli switch if they can get away with it. Their problem is that the dislike for leftism and Democrats is metastasizing in the general public as seen by the Axiom commissioned poll above.

Even the sob story compassion shit that the media likes to fling is not working for them anymore. Lying over time consistently does that.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (/xdjH)

106 Registered voter sample, too, so with one more trip to the grocery store or gas station, and a likely voter sample, Trump will be up 12.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 01:25 PM (PM3zh)

That's how I see it. And how many conservatives want to participate in a national poll, anyway?

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (rj6Yv)

107 104 If I believed that the media tried to be honest...
If I believed that polls tried to be honest...
If I believed that there wasn't widespread vote fraud...

I might accept that polls in April have some value... but I don't believe any of those things.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:26 PM (IUd0M)

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The polls in April didn't account for six states shutting down ballot counting in the middle of the night because of a water leak in Atlanta to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.

In what way were polls helpful in determining the final result of the election, then?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

108 Subhead: HALF THE COUNTRY IS AS RACIST AS TRUMP

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (2e48P)

109 The only way Biden debates Trump is with a successful Neural-link implant from Elon Musk that will take control of his brain and talk for him.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (+oR7L)

110 108 Subhead: HALF THE COUNTRY IS AS RACIST AS TRUMP
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (2e48P)

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Why it matters: Making thought criminals of half the population will have no negative side effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

111 Having lived in Atlanta for 24 years, I recall Emory being referred to as the school where the girls are girls, and the boys are too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 26, 2024 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

Does this mean Emory has become a national powerhouse in NCAA shot put competitions?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (5PP+G)

112 Welcome to my life

Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)

113 When Mr. Stern asked Mr. Biden if he would debate Mr. Trump, the president replied: "I am, somewhere, I don't know when, but I am happy to debate him."
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MFM news chyron here reports:

Joe Biden says he would be "happy" to face Donald Trump in a presidential debate.

Probably from AP copy.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:29 PM (vtyCZ)

114 When your congressman holds a town hall I encourage you to attend. Be polite, then ask what the fuck they've done for the American people. My guy started talking about how we need to keep the government running. I said- why? To fund the Democrats destruction of our country and hand out money to other countries? He tried to say it wasn't that simple. I said, yes it is. You haven't done a fucking thing people care about. Not one. I also told him that his Republican leadership sucks.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 26, 2024 01:29 PM (5Vdzv)

115 The only way Biden debates Trump is with a successful Neural-link implant from Elon Musk that will take control of his brain and talk for him.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (+oR7L)
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Maybe FJB can borrow Fetterman's Lump....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:29 PM (7fElN)

116 The only way Biden debates Trump is with a successful Neural-link implant from Elon Musk that will take control of his brain and talk for him.

They'd better check for thunderstorms beforehand, or Biden will sound like Max Headroom.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:29 PM (CsUN+)

117 Biden is rapidly catching up to Fuhrer Trump, as reasonable people in Nevada begin to better understand the so-far well disguised MAGA agenda of imprisoning and torturing small children just because their parents made them migrate to America.

Posted by: NPR News Nevada at April 26, 2024 01:30 PM (PM3zh)

118 WTF is a "vibe check?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

LELO knows

Posted by: Kindltot at April 26, 2024 01:30 PM (D7oie)

119 I might accept that polls in April have some value... but I don't believe any of those things.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It could be because Biden ain't running the junta that those polls may be honest right now in order to get him to step down. There is another attempt to reboot Kamala to make her more popular underway and that is not because VP has any real effect on the general election. Gavin and Mook were floated but both of them did not electrify the country either and they would still have to deal with an unwilling Kamala to accept not advancing to the top job.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:30 PM (/xdjH)

120 "That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff’s rude introduction to San Francisco’s vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags from his car while it sat in a downtown parking garage."
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Boy, are they going to be disappointed with his clothes. But may like the "vibrators".

Posted by: Cheri at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (oiNtH)

121 T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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Love WA, love the tattoo

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (lCWOD)

122 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Wilt they ever return?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (vtyCZ)

123 Odds are that if Trump isn't in jail somewhere by the time the potential debate(s) would be held the claim that "someone under indictment can't debate the sitting president" is going to be floated out there. Or something along those lines.

Whatever.... the spin will be that Trump ruined his chance to debate *biden by being a piece of shit not worthy of the time.

There is no way in hell those two men will be in the same room at the same time... ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (Q4IgG)

124 Mike Johnson's Weenus

Trivia quiz: what is the origin and meaning of the Wenus (correct spelling)? Mike, you can sit this one out.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (CsUN+)

125 Welcome to my life

Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM

*waves from Boston*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2024 01:32 PM (Wnv9h)

126 111 Having lived in Atlanta for 24 years, I recall Emory being referred to as the school where the girls are girls, and the boys are too.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Lot of out of staters at Emory. Due to the HOPE scholarship, most elite Georgians go to state schools because it is almost a free ride.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:32 PM (/xdjH)

127 At this point, most of the American public would vote for moats and fields of interlocking fire with APM's along the border.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (5Vdzv)

Qwant informs me that APM stands for "American Public Media". I'm not sure why the public would want that at the border but Mike Johnson's Weenus is a straight shooter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:33 PM (IUd0M)

128 Lot of out of staters at Emory. Due to the HOPE scholarship, most elite Georgians go to state schools because it is almost a free ride.

There are a lot of out of staters at Ga Tech for the same reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:33 PM (CsUN+)

129 Debate? Sure, if he can be heard over the background noise on the prison phone.

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre's Brain at April 26, 2024 01:33 PM (PM3zh)

130 Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)

Hopefully there for voluntary sterilization.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:33 PM (5PP+G)

131 The so-called 'debates' are worthless anyway. I've said since 2012 that Republicans should just refuse to participate in the farce that a Democrat being asked softball questions while the Republican gets asked a laundry list of Democrat talking point 'questions' is worthless.

But the fact that BIDEN refuses to participate just demonstrates how utterly gone his brain is.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 26, 2024 01:34 PM (L+MB1)

132 "Vote for me, I'm not in charge!"

"Actually, that's comforting! Biden/Harris 2024!"

Posted by: Borg Voter at April 26, 2024 01:34 PM (qUkBO)

133
T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."
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Oh fuck off

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:34 PM (2e48P)

134 Huh. Noted in passing, former Hezolllah hostage Terry Anderson died this past Sunday. Complications from heart surgery.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 26, 2024 01:34 PM (OUMaO)

135 Hot Andrea Burkhart talks about Kohlberger's alibi in the Idaho murders.


https://youtu.be/im8-1ULTquA?feature=shared

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 26, 2024 01:34 PM (ufFY8)

136 Boy, are they going to be disappointed with his clothes. But may like the "vibrators".
Posted by: Cheri
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Knowing Schiff's proclivities, probably chopped up body parts are in those bags. Schiff like to run around with that guy who like to drug and sexually abuse his rentboys.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (/xdjH)

137 Personally I think all Trump supporters should cut their spending by 50%, live on a beans and rice diet, no clothes, no new cars, nothing other than the absolute minimum to live. Call it an economic strike.

That should be enough to contract the economy by 2 or 3 percent, even including BLS thumb on the scales. Then let the Dems explain why Bidenomics is so great.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (FQ+mV)

138 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (vtyCZ)

Not a shred of evidence they will.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (5PP+G)

139 Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."


Does Washington State offer medical assistance in dying?

Posted by: Just saying at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (Wc83a)

140 The so-called 'debates' are worthless anyway. I've said since 2012 that Republicans should just refuse to participate in the farce that a Democrat being asked softball questions while the Republican gets asked a laundry list of Democrat talking point 'questions' is worthless.

But the fact that BIDEN refuses to participate just demonstrates how utterly gone his brain is.

This will be what the Dems use as an excuse to avoid debates. The GOP would have to agree to yet another set of MSM "journalists" as moderators, and I think they've said they won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (CsUN+)

141 The polls in April didn't account for six states shutting down ballot counting in the middle of the night because of a water leak in Atlanta to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall.

In what way were polls helpful in determining the final result of the election, then?
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We used to say, "if it ain't close, they can't cheat."

Trump, on the campaign trail, has been leading chants of "too big to rig."

The thing I'd suppose is worth looking at: Where are the Democrats focusing their resources?
Which is to say, they're not acting like they have the steal sealed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (yikga)

142 >>> That ended last week PHV. Trends are going the other way now and part of that vaunted idiocy was a poll by a little known company that massages the data to come up with Biden's a winner.
Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (/xdjH)


Nate Silver had that whole entire poll shoved up his squeeker, vibing on it last week.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (Y6IkP)

143 ... Even the sob story compassion shit that the media likes to fling is not working for them anymore. Lying over time consistently does that.
Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:27 PM (/xdjH)
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That whole "compassion" line only works when the so-called 'compassion' doesn't punch you in the face every day and run off with your wallet and your daughter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (HnUIn)

144 There are a lot of out of staters at Ga Tech for the same reason.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Ga Tech is a state school. The out of staters go there because Ga Tech has a national rep in STEM.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (/xdjH)

145 I think you mean apcs

Posted by: no 6 at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (PXvVL)

146 Does Washington State offer medical assistance in dying?
Posted by: Just saying at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (Wc83a)

We can hope for organ harvesting operations being set up in Vancouver.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (5PP+G)

147 138 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (vtyCZ)

Not a shred of evidence they will.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:35 PM (5PP+G)

Really trying to wedge those puns in there.

Posted by: Lettuce dress it up at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (Wc83a)

148 138 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:31 PM (vtyCZ)

Not a shred of evidence they will.

How am I supposed to get ahead?

Posted by: Taggart at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (og5mY)

149 "There is another attempt to reboot Kamala to make her more popular underway and that is not because VP has any real effect on the general election. "

Nonsense. They are now rapidly approaching the point where Biden will need to be the candidate. Irrespective The Democrats agenda doesn't change no matter who the candidate is. "Democrat" polls about as good as "Biden" does. They have to double down. So building up Kamala is part of addressing the successor issue voters are concerned about. Proof? Democrats moved forward with the NY kangaroo prosecution of Trump hoping it will take him out of the race. They've also doubled down on voter fraud ops, with Arizona being the latest gambit. They are not trying to win the field. They are focusing on a few states electoral votes where they know they can subvert the election process. There will be mass r fraud by Democrats especially with mail in ballots that will at a minimum cause significant chaos and confusion.

Posted by: Mike Johnson's Weenus at April 26, 2024 01:37 PM (5Vdzv)

150 nurse

That's awful. Hang in there.

I sometimes try to imagine who my "mirror" on the left might be-- my polar opposite. The green hair woman seems pretty close.

It's good to remember that the other side is NOT panicking; scared; terrified, etc. They expect to win.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 01:37 PM (NLIak)

151 I'm going to do an Ace Vibe Check.

Tanned. Rested. Ready!

Posted by: Sybian at April 26, 2024 01:37 PM (a3Q+t)

152 Ga Tech is a state school. The out of staters go there because Ga Tech has a national rep in STEM.

Yup. My nephew is there. They admit a lot of high performers from NoVa.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:37 PM (CsUN+)

153 >>> Ga Tech is a state school. The out of staters go there because Ga Tech has a national rep in STEM.
Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (/xdjH)


Speaking of STEM they also have a good line into coop/interning at big engineering firms throughout the south. If you want a good engineering job straight out of college you have to be in the coop/intern pipeline and GA Tech seems to be pretty good at that.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 26, 2024 01:38 PM (Y6IkP)

154 141
The thing I'd suppose is worth looking at: Where are the Democrats focusing their resources?
Which is to say, they're not acting like they have the steal sealed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:36 PM (yikga)

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Reading these tea leaves can lead to many different conclusions.

Biden's admin releases rule outlawing gas cars in 10 years? "Biden knows he's gonna lose, so he's getting it all in now!" or, "This is par for the course for Biden's entire administration. It's just populated with true believers."

There is no "too big to rig" when Fulton County election officials are shown on camera to run the same ballots through machines over and over again, retain their job, and sue Rudy Giuliani into the poor house for pointing it out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

155 Odds are that if Trump isn't in jail somewhere by the time the potential debate(s) would be held the claim that "someone under indictment can't debate the sitting president" is going to be floated out there. Or something along those lines.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I don't think they'll bother. Bidet will just pop off with "Yeah, I already debated him and kicked his ass~!" * dusts hands *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 01:38 PM (IG4Id)

156 I hope they do not debate, and it blows up the current stilted dumb soundbite debates. As currently conducted, they add nothing.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 26, 2024 01:38 PM (7PziG)

157 Ga Tech is a state school. The out of staters go there because Ga Tech has a national rep in STEM.

Yup. My nephew is there. They admit a lot of high performers from NoVa.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:37 PM (CsUN+)
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A good friend of mine has a dual appointment with both Georgia Tech and Emory University. They collaborate on some of their research projects, apparently, and that's what she does.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (7fElN)

158 The thing I'd suppose is worth looking at: Where are the Democrats focusing their resources?
Which is to say, they're not acting like they have the steal sealed.

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2020 was too big to rig. That's the beauty of it and what you have to admire about their accomplishment.

They don't have to use the same five cities next time. If they're being watched they just move the operation.

Credit where credit is due, figuring out how to beat the electoral college was absolutely badass.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (9Ct69)

159 Nate Silver had that whole entire poll shoved up his squeeker, vibing on it last week.
Posted by: banana Dream
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When you start screwing around with 'correcting' the date using advanced statistical methods like two stage least square regression on a simple problem like polling, it indicates that plain simple polling was not giving the results wanted for narrative reasons.

Advanced stats are never the process to fix 'bad data' problems--all it does is usually hide the problem beneath a veneer of magic to those who cannot do the math nor research design.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (/xdjH)

160 112 Welcome to my life

Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)

Should've told them GTFO before you beat them senseless.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (UnA8+)

161 The so-called 'debates' are worthless anyway. I've said since 2012 that Republicans should just refuse to participate in the farce that a Democrat being asked softball questions while the Republican gets asked a laundry list of Democrat talking point 'questions' is worthless. ...
Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 26, 2024 01:34 PM (L+MB1)
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At no time my entire political memory do candidate debates - even lower-level ones - resemble debates.

A debate - a real one - presents all debaters with the same question, gives them a fixed amount of time to respond, and allows (or doesn't) for rebuttals. Then the issue is closed and the debate moves on to the next question. This is is *not* how candidate "debates" work.

When a moderator asks the candidates two different questions, what's the point? Even if it somehow isn't the norm where the Party-favored candidate gets a softball and the Party-disfavored candidate gets a lead pipe, it's still dishonest and useless. The "debates" are just a means for the press to beat up on the Party-disfavored candidate(s) and for the candidates to recite parts of their stump speeches.

Feh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (HnUIn)

162 Nurse, why did you treat her?

Rhetorical question. Only bring it up because.

Were the roles reversed, she would not treat you. Or perhaps even try to kill you.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (P55mL)

163 Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)

What nurse wishes she'd said...

"I guess you haven't seen the latest news. Some Jewish guy showed up with the original deed for the land from 2300 BCE (you have to say BCE or they get twitchy), so it appears that land rightfully, and legally belongs to the Jews."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:39 PM (IUd0M)

164 17 WTF is a "vibe check?"
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{decides not to IMAGE search "woman vibrator mouth like microphone" with Safe Search off to make "Check. Check. Check." comment.}

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (vtyCZ)

165 143 Mannix

For someone who's "not a cop," you sure are a fine simulacrum! You missed your calling.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (NLIak)

166 a - biden will agree to debate trump so long as his handlers can get the right debate moderators... mr trump, why do so many people hate you?.. president biden, why do so many educated people look up to you..?

and credit where credit is due: howard stern did a bang-up job broadcasting on sept 11 2001. stayed on three hours late, was talking by phone with people down there, etc. wish i had tape of the whole thing. he used to be entertaining.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (B1FKF)

167 I hope they do not debate, and it blows up the current stilted dumb soundbite debates. As currently conducted, they add nothing.

That's not the point for these debates. The goal is to get Biden up on the stage, unassisted, for a couple of hours. When he can't do it, the electorate is expected to draw the appropriate conclusion.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (CsUN+)

168 Trust no poll

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (/7KEl)

169 165 143 Mannix

For someone who's "not a cop," you sure are a fine simulacrum! You missed your calling.
Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (NLIak)

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Narrator: He's most likely a cop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

170 It's kind of impressive how dems are simply losing the messaging war on things like the economy and immigration.

For a feckless party that gets nothing done, does F-all for its base and can't seem to win commanding majorities in the upper levels of government, the republicans are apparently quite good at...messaging.

Super sarc, guys.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (KbCG3)

171 Credit where credit is due, figuring out how to beat the electoral college was absolutely badass.

it makes a difference when one side actually cares about winning

Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (AR07F)

172 Note, in the next 90 days, Trump has at least 2 major momentum bursts:
VP selection and convention.
To say nothing of the legal travails that have continued to boost him.

Biden has 1: convention.

While Biden also has: Riots, protests, Ukraine losing, border invasion, worsening economy and more to drag him down.

I don't think we should discount how much they were counting on the State of the Union speech being a bases-loaded grand-slam

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (yikga)

173 Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

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Primary market for all-over tits and vaginal rot body spray commercials.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:41 PM (9Ct69)

174 If Musk ever kicks it off, the Texas Institute of Technology and Science will be a top-10 STEM school inside of 10 years.

Probably #1 in STEM branded-merchandise sales.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 01:41 PM (a3Q+t)

175 I wonder why all the other "stolen" countries haven't caught on to the open borders vibe. Oh right we're the only one.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:41 PM (2e48P)

176 The weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 01:41 PM (kGLb6)

177 There is no "too big to rig" when Fulton County election officials are shown on camera to run the same ballots through machines over and over again, retain their job, and sue Rudy Giuliani into the poor house for pointing it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

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Which is why there needs to be some vague insinuation of repercussions by citizens on election officials who shut down counting on election night.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 01:41 PM (FQ+mV)

178 Credit where credit is due, figuring out how to beat the electoral college was absolutely badass.

it makes a difference when one side actually cares about winning
Posted by: brak

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Ah, but that's the thing. The side that cared about winning won. It's not (R)s vs. (D)s. It's Government vs governed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:42 PM (9Ct69)

179 I don't think we should discount how much they were counting on the State of the Union speech being a bases-loaded grand-slam
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (yikga)
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I had almost forgotten that travesty of a "speech" that was nothing more than a deranged lunatic ranting at his opponent and promising the moon in exchange for votes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 01:42 PM (7fElN)

180 176 The weekend is coming The weekend is coming
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 01:41 PM (kGLb6)

Vibe check complete

Posted by: Taggart at April 26, 2024 01:42 PM (og5mY)

181 I wonder why all the other "stolen" countries haven't caught on to the open borders vibe. Oh right we're the only one.

oh no, it's a big thing in Australia, and NZ too. Their govts have to import their third world migrants due to the ocean, but they still get it done

Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:42 PM (AR07F)

182 I wonder if asshole with the T shirt leaves her front door unlocked at night since she's on stolen land. God these people are dumbfucks.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:42 PM (2e48P)

183 Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.

T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."

I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)

Making a simple assumption here but I'm assuming this person had female genitalia.

My question is...did she have nice tits?

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 01:43 PM (BhMhR)

184 =========
Ga Tech is a state school. The out of staters go there because Ga Tech has a national rep in STEM.
Posted by: whig
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Disappointed, no doubt, when there seems to be a dearth of clear whiskey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 26, 2024 01:43 PM (XeU6L)

185 Because her IQ exceeds room temperature, this brunette (redhead?) in her underwear doesn't read Axios:
http://tiny.cc/by6vxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:43 PM (HnUIn)

186 I don't think we should discount how much they were counting on the State of the Union speech being a bases-loaded grand-slam
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (yikga)

Last thing I heard about that monkey show is Mike Johnson apologizing for rolling his eyes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (5PP+G)

187 Biden has 1: convention.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

There's a good chance that his 'appearance' at the convention will be a scripted video chat. At most, he'll do a 10 min grip and grin, and then get stuffed into his stasis chamber for a flight back to his beach house.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (IG4Id)

188 186 Last thing I heard about that monkey show is Mike Johnson apologizing for rolling his eyes.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (5PP+G)

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Theory:

The IC snuck into his bedroom in the middle of the night and attached explosives to his junk.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

189 OK, since nobody cares, I'll tell you anyway.

The Wenus is the "Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistics", and was a term used by Chandler Bing on Friends.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (CsUN+)

190 Bo Nix, QB- Oregon, is going to be a Denver Bronco 🏈

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (/7KEl)

191 It should also be noted that they can't even use Harris as a surrogate to campaign for Biden.

She fails every time, even in friendly, deep-blue locations.

While Trump will have a VP that's going to be everywhere.
Especially since she will be the next President.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (yikga)

192 189 OK, since nobody cares, I'll tell you anyway.

The Wenus is the "Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistics", and was a term used by Chandler Bing on Friends.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (CsUN+)

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Friends references should be grounds for banning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

193 Welcome to my life
Last patient. Green hair. Multiple tattoos and piercings. Non binary. Doesn't work, able bodied.
T shirt says "No one is illegal on stolen land."
I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)

How do you do it? I'm pretty sure I'd end up in jail if I had to treat/serve these people.

I worry (and pray a lot) for my daughter, who will graduate next week and take her nursing licensing exam soon after.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (JCLJi)

194 "debates" are more accurately described as "joint appearances"

The best genuine debates are "cross-question debates," in which the debate opponents pose questions to each other.

Posted by: mnw at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (NLIak)

195 While Trump will have a VP that's going to be everywhere.
Especially since she will be the next President.

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Heaven help us if we go the DEI route, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (9Ct69)

196 While Trump will have a VP that's going to be everywhere.
Especially since she will be the next President.

nah, she'll be convicted for the crime of accepting the VP spot with the Bad Orange Man. Life in prison, no parole

Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (AR07F)

197 The Wenus is the "Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistics", and was a term used by Chandler Bing on Friends.
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Huh.

So not short for, "wee penis?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (yikga)

198

It's mostly water. The idea that lettuce is a key part of a human diet is obviously the plot of Big Penguin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

Yesss, Big Penguin.

Posted by: Big Rabbit at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (eDfFs)

199 Friends references should be grounds for banning.

Could you BE any more intolerant?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (CsUN+)

200 192 Friends references should be grounds for banning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

And while we're at it, Simpsons references should be grounds for immediate execution.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (UnA8+)

201 My question is...did she have nice tits?
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 01:43 PM

Does. Not. Matter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (a3Q+t)

202 Theory:

The IC snuck into his bedroom in the middle of the night and attached explosives to his junk.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM

Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (Wnv9h)

203 The Wenus is the "Weekly Estimated Net Usage Statistics", and was a term used by Chandler Bing on Friends.
Posted by: Archimedes


He's still dead, right?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:47 PM (lTGtQ)

204 >>I'm not exaggerating. Not at all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:28 PM (BV96/)
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could you have had her removed from the premises for safety reasons? I think a person who disfigures their person might be a bit 'off'

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:47 PM (/7KEl)

205 That whole "compassion" line only works when the so-called 'compassion' doesn't punch you in the face every day and run off with your wallet and your daughter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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If they are not carjacking or attacking people en masse.

The 2024 question is what the elites are going to do about their puppet's decline mentally and politically.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:47 PM (/xdjH)

206 chandler turned to be quite a psycho, I'm surprised matthew didn't chainsaw the crew,

Posted by: no 6 at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM (PXvVL)

207 oh no, it's a big thing in Australia, and NZ too. Their govts have to import their third world migrants due to the ocean, but they still get it done
Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:42 PM (AR07F)

Ricky Gervais did a bit a few years ago, about how he's so welcoming to the illegals who show up on their shores there in Britain. Says he goes down the beach, looks out, and is disappointed when there's no boats coming in.

When he does spot one, he goes down to welcome them to their new home: "Come on, come on, everyone is welcome, women and children first... oh, it's just you lads then?"

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM (5PP+G)

208 >And while we're at it, Simpsons references should be grounds for immediate execution.

Posted by: XTC



as well as any positive references to the band Rush

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM (/7KEl)

209 If she didn't have a dust mask on then she doesn't believe in Science and was trying to kill everyone at the hospital.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM (9Ct69)

210 Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (CsUN+)

I would have answered if I saw it. The first season of Friends was almost as funny as Cheers. And why not, James Burrows was heavily involved.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM (2e48P)

211 A CNN poll finds that only 13% (THIRTEEN PERCENT) of voters think that Trump is being treated similarly to other defendants.




That's encouraging, assuming the majority think that is unfair.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:49 PM (lTGtQ)

212 200 192 Friends references should be grounds for banning.
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How you doin'?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:49 PM (vtyCZ)

213 Biden has 1: convention.

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2: He's also got a Crayon and a PlaySkool Phone-on-Wheels and a likely "Climate Crisis National Emergency" Executive Order declaration -- which may entail cancelling elections and criminalizing all opposition parties.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:49 PM (V5iXz)

214 And while we're at it, Simpsons references should be grounds for immediate execution.
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Doh!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (vtyCZ)

215 The first season of Friends was almost as funny as Cheers

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Dang. I don't know that I've ever seen a more perfect description of both shows.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (9Ct69)

216 The idea that lettuce is a key part of a human diet is obviously the plot of Big Penguin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM

98.462117% of the prevalent and pernicious polymorphic perversity in the world today is directly or indirectly traceable to Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (a3Q+t)

217 >And why not, James Burrows was heavily involved.

Posted by: ...


he actually appeared in the episode where Joey played Al Pacino's butt

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (/7KEl)

218 And while we're at it, Simpsons references should be grounds for immediate execution.
Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (UnA8+)

Ex-cellent.....

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (2e48P)

219 Trump won votes from actual citizens in 2020. The last four years have been the worst four years of peace time America has ever had.

How many fake votes is Biden going to need in 2024?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (ibTVg)

220 When he can't do it, the electorate is expected to draw the appropriate conclusion.

I think I see the flaw in this plan.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (8+19+)

221 Dang. I don't know that I've ever seen a more perfect description of both shows.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (9Ct69

LOL I knew someone who didn't like Cheers would jump in.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (2e48P)

222 98.462117% of the prevalent and pernicious polymorphic perversity in the world today is directly or indirectly traceable to Big Penguin.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 01:50 PM (a3Q+t)

I read that in Dr. Smith voice.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (T+Iwg)

223 177 There is no "too big to rig" when Fulton County election officials are shown on camera to run the same ballots through machines over and over again, retain their job, and sue Rudy Giuliani into the poor house for pointing it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That happened specifically because the GOP establishment in GA wanted Trump gone due to the Chamber of Commerce running GA GOP (and the GA Dems when they were in power).

That was primarily over China, foreign trade in general, and human trafficking issues. Atlanta is a hub just as Phoenix is for human trafficking.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (/xdjH)

224 The IC snuck into his bedroom in the middle of the night and attached explosives to his junk.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:44 PM (GBKbO)

Or put kiddie pron on his computer.

The most innocent possibility: Not only showed him the files that UFO's are real, but had a little green man bring him the folder.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (5PP+G)

225 He's still dead, right?
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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Don't crap on Matthew Perry.

He used to beat up Justin Trudeau at their private high school in Ottawa.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (vtyCZ)

226 I don't think we should discount how much they were counting on the State of the Union speech being a bases-loaded grand-slam
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (yikga)

I was counting on my wife suggesting that I keep a harem of 19 year old college cheerleaders. I think my idea had a better chance of success.

Also, while I don't actually have anything to do with baseball, I don't think it's possible to have a grand slam if the bases aren't loaded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (IUd0M)

227 Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM

LOL.

After seeing the Lume body deodorant commercials multiple times, my 8 year old son turned and asked me "Why do ladies stink so much?"

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (+oR7L)

228 He's still dead, right?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:47 PM (lTGtQ)

Matthew Perry is alive and well, living in the Exclusion Zone on Montserrat.

Posted by: spindrift at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (OguvZ)

229 And while we're at it, Simpsons references should be grounds for immediate execution.

Posted by: XTC


Well...any Simpson references post- year 2000.

Before then they were actually very funny.


Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (eDfFs)

230 147 138 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck

High prices today are just the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (ycI94)

231 The old argument re Mexicans picking lettuce was that Americans could then do "better" jobs.

Well, instead the government outsourced those or just closed them down.

So the people replaced by Mexicans mostly ended up on questionable disability or similar claims.

Not a win for anyone...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 01:53 PM (ibTVg)

232 228 He's still dead, right?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:47 PM (lTGtQ)

Matthew Perry is alive and well, living in the Exclusion Zone on Montserrat.


Journey was never the same after he left.

Posted by: Taggart at April 26, 2024 01:53 PM (og5mY)

233 > Days of cheap lettuce are gone.

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the price has doubled at the grocery I use

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (/7KEl)

234 I don't think it's possible to have a grand slam if the bases aren't loaded.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM

The Grand Slam also exists in tennis.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher, D&D Player of the Fortnight at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

235 Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

Them's fightin' words. The Holy Grail is 49 years old.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (CsUN+)

236 I'm glad my son and I have a porn monitoring agreement. Immigration? meh, I have better things to do with my time.

Posted by: Mike Johnson Does Not Fap During Session at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (aFNOf)

237 >>> Friends references should be grounds for banning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

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*slams outside sides of fist against each other in TJM's direction*

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (JfxgE)

238
the price has doubled at the grocery I use

Remember food prices don't matter for inflation...unlikely TVs which you might by once a decade...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (ibTVg)

239 He used to beat up Justin Trudeau at their private high school in Ottawa.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:51 PM (vtyCZ)

Is that like British public school?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (5PP+G)

240 LOL I knew someone who didn't like Cheers would jump in.
Posted by: ...

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Cheers (and Friends, and Seinfeld, and all the other shows about nothing) were fine.

It's just that description. It was utterly perfect.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (9Ct69)

241 >Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.



we're gonna need a bigger meme

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (/7KEl)

242 Disney World bans Crocs on escalators following several incidents: report

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (RHGPo)

243 "Axios is stupid and gay"

Fact Check: TRUE

Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (q177U)

244 Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

see also, Ginger vs MaryAnn

Posted by: brak at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (AR07F)

245 206 chandler turned to be quite a psycho, I'm surprised matthew didn't chainsaw the crew,
Posted by: no 6
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Drugs will do that to you and Matthew started substance abuse at age 10.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (/xdjH)

246 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (o2ZRX)
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What do you expect when we have to keep accelerating deficit spending to take care of needy aliens romaine' around the country?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (HnUIn)

247 Well...any Simpson references post- year 2000.

Before then they were actually very funny.
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OK. That is acceptable.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (vtyCZ)

248 230 147 138 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck

High prices today are just the tip of the iceberg.

Prices will romaine high for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Taggart at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (og5mY)

249 There's no question this race is winnable for Trump, but I'm just very dismissive of Rasmussen. It's "our" version of a stacked poll to make our side feel good.

My guess is the true nature of the race is somewhere in between Rasmussen and an MSM poll.

Its still pretty sickening that we're excited at Trump just being within the margin of error, even with a Republican leaning pollster.

Posted by: Blago at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (wMRY8)

250 Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

Them's fightin' words. The Holy Grail is 49 years old.

Blazing Saddles is 50. Care to walk back your ill-considered rant?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:56 PM (CsUN+)

251 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
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Our heady, salad days are ended.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:56 PM (vtyCZ)

252 Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

No-man! No-man did this to me!

Posted by: Polyphemus at April 26, 2024 01:56 PM (mSufQ)

253 I'm glad my son and I have a porn monitoring agreement. Immigration? meh, I have better things to do with my time.

Posted by: Mike Johnson Does Not Fap During Session at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (aFNOf)

I bet when you're just about to finish you wrap sandpaper around your junk.

Not for the kink, but because you should.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:56 PM (5PP+G)

254 Disney World bans Crocs on escalators following several incidents: report
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM (RHGPo)

I warned you people about escalators!

Posted by: Brodie at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (OguvZ)

255 Disney World bans Crocs on escalators following several incidents: report

Posted by: SMOD



I would think alligators would be more of a problem.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (lTGtQ)

256 Nothing says progress like commercials with women pinching one off on the throne and gash spray.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (R4t5M)

257 Two things:

1) Trump is doing a brilliant job of campaigning nationally even though he's stuck in NYC. His last three events? A) attending the funeral of a slain cop while Biden was having a high dollar fundraiser next door; B) the "bodega visit" to the poor bastard who owns the joint & who got charged with murder (by Alvin Bragg!) for defending himself; C) the dawn visit with NYC construction workers. That's some brilliant, imaginative scheduling!

2) Trump should consider naming his VP NOW. To allow him/her to go to the venues where Trump can't appear. No-one ever pays attention to political conventions, except to see the newly-named VP choice.

Posted by: mnw at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (NLIak)

258 The Grand Slam also exists in tennis.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher, D&D Player of the Fortnight at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

And golf, but insofar as I am aware, in neither case are there bases to load.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (IUd0M)

259 She didn't get the memo to not talk about the anarcho-tyranny:

@TheKevinDalton 1h
“I will not ride our trans system by myself. I am afraid. And I sit on Metro. But I will not ride it.” - Kathryn Barger, LITERAL BOARD MEMBER OF LOS ANGELES METRO

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (IG4Id)

260
LOL.

After seeing the Lume body deodorant commercials multiple times, my 8 year old son turned and asked me "Why do ladies stink so much?"

Posted by: Frank Barone


--

Wait until he finds out that not even a generation ago it was still really common to find a nod and a wink type of agreement in regards to women not even pooping.

Turns out equality = woman think crotch rot is normal in men and they want it, too

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (9Ct69)

261 258 The Grand Slam also exists in tennis.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher, D&D Player of the Fortnight at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

And golf, but insofar as I am aware, in neither case are there bases to load.

Didn't Denny's have one, too?

Posted by: Lance McCormick, still giggling at Bronze Age dad jokes at April 26, 2024 01:58 PM (mSufQ)

262 Days of cheap lettuce are gone.
--------
Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck

High prices today are just the tip of the iceberg.

Prices will romaine high for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Taggart at April 26, 2024 01:55 PM

Endive missed all the good lettuce puns, it seems.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2024 01:58 PM (Wnv9h)

263 High prices today are just the tip of the iceberg.
______

Lettuce not discuss that, the only thing that romaines is despair.

Posted by: Leafy Green at April 26, 2024 01:58 PM (fs1hN)

264 Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (eDfFs)
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Screw you, buddy.

Posted by: William Shakespeare at April 26, 2024 01:58 PM (Be/+i)

265 Wait, our Republican Leadership wants to tell their kids what kind of porn they were looking at?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 01:58 PM (9Ct69)

266 Women don't poop. I have this on good authority.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RUMEY)

267 The Grand Slam also exists in tennis.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher,



And Denny's, of course.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (lTGtQ)

268 Wilt they ever return?
Posted by: andycanuck

No, they'll never return,
and their fate is still unknown.
They may rise forever
in the streets of Boston,
they're the prices that'll never return.

Posted by: Charlie, MTA rider extraordinare at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (a3Q+t)

269 Joe Biden the pervert absurdly claimed “women would send very salacious pictures” to him when he was a US Senator in the 1970s.

“I got put in the 10 most eligible bachelor’s list – Biden said. (Crosstalk) “Because you were a United States Senator?” Howard Stern asked Biden.

Biden continued, “A lot of lovely women – women would send very salacious pictures and I’d just give them to the Secret Service.”

US Senators do not have Secret Service protection.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RHGPo)

270 Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (eDfFs)
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Screw you, buddy.

Posted by: William Shakespeare

I know, right?

Posted by: Moses at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (CsUN+)

271 There is no "too big to rig" when Fulton County election officials are shown on camera to run the same ballots through machines over and over again, retain their job, and sue Rudy Giuliani into the poor house for pointing it out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That happened specifically because the GOP establishment in GA wanted Trump gone due to the Chamber of Commerce running GA GOP (and the GA Dems when they were in power).
--'
Trump just a pretty big fundraising haul in Atlanta ....

Maybe he's made nice with the locals?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (yikga)

272 >>>The Grand Slam also exists in tennis.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher, D&D Player of the Fortnight at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

=====

Hello?

Posted by: Denny's at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (JfxgE)

273 Women don't poop. I have this on good authority.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RUMEY)

Nor rip farts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 02:00 PM (R4t5M)

274 And Denny's, of course.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (lTGtQ)

I'm an IHOP man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:00 PM (IUd0M)

275 2) Trump should consider naming his VP NOW. To allow him/her to go to the venues where Trump can't appear. No-one ever pays attention to political conventions, except to see the newly-named VP choice.
Posted by: mnw at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (NLIak)
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And expect to see that VP choice hit with lawfare in 3...2...1...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:00 PM (Be/+i)

276 I warned you people about escalators!
Posted by: Brodie at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (OguvZ)

Are you insane? We can't close down the escalators, it's a holiday weekend, our biggest of the year!

Posted by: Larry Vaughn at April 26, 2024 02:00 PM (5PP+G)

277 I quit buying lettuce when it went to a dollar a head.
Now, I buy lettuce, the price doesn't make any difference.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (lCWOD)

278 I saw Creepy Hysterical Weirdo open for Insane Clown Posse at the Madison Square Garden back in 2012..

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (V13WU)

279 2) Trump should consider naming his VP NOW.

-

And pick one that's had an abortion!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (9Ct69)

280 De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (RHGPo)

281 271 That happened specifically because the GOP establishment in GA wanted Trump gone due to the Chamber of Commerce running GA GOP (and the GA Dems when they were in power).
--'
Trump just a pretty big fundraising haul in Atlanta ....

Maybe he's made nice with the locals?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (yikga)

========

So, if we had nominated someone that Brad Raffensperger approved of, it wouldn't have happened?

Also, Katie Hobbs was told that her policy of effectively turning off signature verification when she was SoS while campaigning to be governor was a very naughty thing indeed. I bet that happened because Cindy McCain didn't approve of Trump.

We just need a Republican candidate that both Brad Raffensperger and Cindy McCain like, then we'll be gold.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

282 Care to walk back your ill-considered rant?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 01:56 PM

Like Democrats, this is not who we are.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (a3Q+t)

283 200 192 Friends references should be grounds for banning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

And while we're at it, Simpsons references should be grounds for immediate execution.
Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:46 PM (UnA8+)

Simpsons reference? That's a paddling.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (KbCG3)

284 Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

==

I have a baaaaad feeling about this ...

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (V13WU)

285 280 De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (RHGPo)

Ripe. Bet she stinks.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (RUMEY)

286 Wait until he finds out that not even a generation ago it was still really common to find a nod and a wink type of agreement in regards to women not even pooping.
_____

Hmm. As a young lad, maybe I wouldn't have been so mystified about my feelings about Lady Eberlaine if I also knew that she might not always be her freshest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (fs1hN)

287 The Grand Slam also exists in tennis.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher, D&D Player of the Fortnight at April 26, 2024 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

And golf, but insofar as I am aware, in neither case are there bases to load.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:57 PM (IUd0M)

Pete Buttgig's pool parties enter the chat.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (5PP+G)

288 Hello?
Posted by: Denny's at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (JfxgE)

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Too late, too late.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (JfxgE)

289 De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.

Posted by: SMOD



Between you and me, I think they should have used more specific wording.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 02:03 PM (lTGtQ)

290 Screw you, buddy.
Posted by: William Shakespeare
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You stole my best moves!

Posted by: zombie sir francis bacon at April 26, 2024 02:03 PM (vtyCZ)

291 Nor rip farts.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 02:00 PM

They're just better at hiding it.

https://youtu.be/_XemWdrMBnw?si=5tS9dkiv_zQVAKIW

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2024 02:03 PM (Wnv9h)

292 De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.

Hmmmm, the white woman telling the black lesbian to get back in her place. That should go over well.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:03 PM (CsUN+)

293 I saw Creepy Hysterical Weirdo open for Insane Clown Posse at the Madison Square Garden back in 2012..
Posted by: runner

You saw ICP? Rad! Did they do the dating game show song?

Posted by: SFGoth at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (KAi1n)

294 Wait until he finds out that not even a generation ago it was still really common to find a nod and a wink type of agreement in regards to women not even pooping.
_____

Hmm. As a young lad, maybe I wouldn't have been so mystified about my feelings about Lady Eberlaine if I also knew that she might not always be her freshest.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 02:02 PM (fs1hN)

Having older sisters learns you all sorts of important facts about the female sector.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (5PP+G)

295 Axios Vibe Check

I've completely lost the ability to properly measure just how MUCH I despise journalists.

Posted by: Biergood at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (PwgSL)

296 Ripe. Bet she stinks.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Her firing has been Lume-ing for quite a while.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (R4t5M)

297 Toilet paper has been Regulated.
You cannot buy old fashioned toilet paper.
The only toilet paper you can buy dissolves
in your hand not the bowl.
It's called Septic Safe.

Go to the internet, it's riddled with admonition.
Also you can't find regular, normal toilet paper.
Anywhere.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (lCWOD)

298 Trump just a pretty big fundraising haul in Atlanta ....

Maybe he's made nice with the locals?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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China is fading as an issue as onshoring or moving production lines to India or Mexico is becoming a thing and the whole border protection collapse is ending the 'compassion' for refugees, etc.

The establishment panic over responding to Stacey Abrams and the whole BLM is fading too.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (/xdjH)

299 Simpsons reference? That's a paddling.
---------
Give 'em the boot!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (vtyCZ)

300 Can we do the deportations via trebuchet?

Posted by: ballistic at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (HCmwm)

301 296 Ripe. Bet she stinks.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Her firing has been Lume-ing for quite a while.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (R4t5M


Punny

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (RUMEY)

302 143 Mannix

For someone who's "not a cop," you sure are a fine simulacrum! You missed your calling.
Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 01:40 PM (NLIak)

Nah. He believes in constitutional rights and doesn't start blasting away when he hears an acorn falling.

Posted by: Squirrels! With nut guns! at April 26, 2024 02:05 PM (Wc83a)

303 Hmm. As a young lad, maybe I wouldn't have been so mystified about my feelings about Lady Eberlaine if I also knew that she might not always be her freshest.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

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Yep. Hundreds of years of femininity and concepts of beauty that men not only accepted but pretended along with, gone.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:05 PM (9Ct69)

304 Having older sisters learns you all sorts of important facts about the female sector.
Posted by: BurtTC
======
Kids in general are usually better in human understanding if they have siblings.

And to you single kids, do not take this personally.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:05 PM (/xdjH)

305
300 Can we do the deportations via trebuchet?
Posted by: ballistic at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (HCmwm)

I mean, we can.

I'm kinda partial to forced evacuation through a pond filled with piranha and crocodiles.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:05 PM (RUMEY)

306 Give 'em the boot!
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM

What's that all a'boot, eh?

Posted by: Peter North, irregular AoSHQ Commenter and proud Canadian at April 26, 2024 02:05 PM (a3Q+t)

307 JEM

AZ now requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. Fed courts upheld this.

This is a change from 2020.

Posted by: mnw at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (NLIak)

308 So Biden's saying he handed over pictures of naked women to other men without their permission? That's illegal in most states now.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (ibTVg)

309 They're just better at hiding it.

There just isn't anything funnier than farts, with the possible exception of Uranus.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (CsUN+)

310 A dollar. The same as in Braenyard's grocery-store.

Posted by: just the punchline at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (vtyCZ)

311 280 De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (RHGPo)


She won't take the hint. And she knows Biden cannot fire Ms Historic First Triple Victim Class White House Press Secretary.

Posted by: Gref at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (5fDan)

312 I live in Oregon. We have a ton of 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican Americans who consider themselves just plain old Americans. Everyone one of them is against illegal immigration. In fact, they are the biggest opponents of it. They all got here through the front door by official procedures and they view these border crossers as cutting in line. It is not hard to get here legally so most of these people are here for nefarious purposes.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (tCU73)

313 307 JEM

AZ now requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. Fed courts upheld this.

This is a change from 2020.
Posted by: mnw at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM (NLIak)

========

AZ will break the law in new, unexpected ways. The courts will let it happen. The courts will then, 10 months after the election, say, "Naughty AZ. Please stop doing that."

AZ will not stop doing that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

314 I've completely lost the ability to properly measure just how MUCH I despise journalists.
Posted by: Biergood at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (PwgSL)
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Beyond milliKohns?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (Be/+i)

315 To this day, the fart scene from the camp fire still puts me in tears.

Don't even have to name the movie.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (RUMEY)

316 De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 02:01 PM (RHGPo)

Pointless Pet Peeve: Why are the ages of the people involved here mentioned? How is that relevant to the story, at all.

It's not. So leave it out, idiots.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (5PP+G)

317 Having older sisters learns you all sorts of important facts about the female sector.
Posted by: BurtTC

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But I bet that, since you aren't a Biden, you had that harsh wall of separation since they're your sisters, and when the right unrelated beauty came along a lot of that stuff was immediately forgotten or forgiven.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (9Ct69)

318 299 Simpsons reference? That's a paddling.

---------

Give 'em the boot!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 02:04 PM (vtyCZ)

Boots? I'd have called them chazawuzzes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (KbCG3)

319 There just isn't anything funnier than farts, with the possible exception of Uranus.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM

This.

Posted by: Le Petomane at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (a3Q+t)

320
*sings*

Try to remember when lettuce was tender
And Iceberg was cheap, and green not yellow
Try to remember, when not a big spender
And salads had blue cheese, carrot and tomato
Try to remember and if you remember
Good Seasons
Then you're old!
...

Posted by: Pre-Zombie Josh Groban at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (eDfFs)

321 Interestingly, Trump is now apparently up in PA and down in Michigan. Which I don't trust, but not sure which way it goes.

Posted by: Ribbed at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (PVUR/)

322 Axios Poll: Majority of Americans Open to Trump's "Harshest" Immigration Policy, "Mass Deportations b]up to 42% of Democrats, and 45% of Latinos".


Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (0hu/3)

323 Kids in general are usually better in human understanding if they have siblings.

And to you single kids, do not take this personally.
Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:05 PM (/xdjH)

You learn about scapegoating, avoidance, deceit and passing the buck pretty fucking quick.

Posted by: All too human at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (Wc83a)

324 It does amaze me sometimes that any of these polls show things that we've been full force propagandized against.

Imagine if we really had unbiased press...
I know, I'm dreaming.

Hey, its friday... lol

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (53oGX)

325 >>>Women don't poop. I have this on good authority.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RUMEY)

=====

Didn't they make up for it by just powdering their nose?

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (JfxgE)

326 Lettuce? Don't you mean the lettuce of the common man, arugula?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (2e48P)

327 319 There just isn't anything funnier than farts, with the possible exception of Uranus.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 02:06 PM

This.
Posted by: Le Petomane at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (a3Q+t)

Ever fart on a blow-up exercise ball???

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (KbCG3)

328 >>> My favorite “thought ending cliche” proffered has long been “We can’t deport 10 million illegal aliens! That’s impossible!”

But they be easily processed into Hog Chow.

Posted by: Vibe Check at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (cOq4q)

329
Didn't they make up for it by just powdering their nose?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (JfxgE

No, that's a euphemism for a lesbian encounter in the stall.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (RUMEY)

330 "Majority of Americans Open to ... Mass Deportations"

Seems like the majority of American judges and lawyers now believe illegal alien rights trump citizen rights, so good luck with that.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 26, 2024 02:08 PM (MvF+J)

331 Lots of tarnados out thar'.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (IG4Id)

332 325 >>>Women don't poop. I have this on good authority.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RUMEY)

Never cleaned a women's restroom have you?

Posted by: They conjure excreta tornadoes in there at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (Wc83a)

333 PDJT has a headlock on 268

it's over but to admit it would be bad for biz for the media

the question post election will be if shitpants doesn't clear 70 million ballots, what happened ?

the idea that shitpants got 25% more ballots than Cankles is total BS

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (us2H3)

334 Any "Star Wars" or "Jaws" references should get a hangin'.

Move on, people. It's only been 50 years or so.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 01:52 PM (eDfFs)

Surely you can't be serious?!*

*44 year old reference

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (di6C2)

335 To this day, the fart scene from the camp fire still puts me in tears.

Don't even have to name the movie.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (RUMEY)

Deliverance?

More beans, Mr. Taggart?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (IUd0M)

336 332 325 >>>Women don't poop. I have this on good authority.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RUMEY)

Never cleaned a women's restroom have you?
Posted by: They conjure excreta tornadoes in there at April 26, 2024 02:09 PM (Wc83a)

That cause women hover-poop.

Poor aim.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (RUMEY)

337 To this day, the fart scene from the camp fire still puts me in tears.

Don't even have to name the movie.
Posted by: AlaBAMA
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There's a Smell-o-Vision scratch N sniff card for Blazing Saddles??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (vtyCZ)

338 Nood. Ministry of Truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (di6C2)

339 Nood

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (IG4Id)

340 Stink, stank, stunk. Stinkies!

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 26, 2024 02:10 PM (+EOmr)

341 @316 I think the ages might give a hint of something. The younger people in the administration are fighting back against the Dem old guard. . Just like 68 except Gaza is the new Vietnam. And the dem convention is in Chicago. Fun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 02:11 PM (aX7Uj)

342 Seems like the majority of American judges and lawyers now believe illegal alien rights trump citizen rights, so good luck with that.
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Citizens have no standing in New America. Big round ball of a judge out front who doesn't know what a woman is should've toldja.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (fs1hN)

343 But I bet that, since you aren't a Biden, you had that harsh wall of separation since they're your sisters, and when the right unrelated beauty came along a lot of that stuff was immediately forgotten or forgiven.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 02:07 PM (9Ct69)

Sort of, but it also allows one not to be shocked at seeing wrapped bloody packages in the wastebasket in the bathroom. Or waiting outside the door for your sister to finish, and when you go in, being able to take as few breaths through the nose as you're urinating, so as to not swallow through the mouth, the foul butt burger particles still floating in the air.

Among other things.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 02:12 PM (5PP+G)

344 We just need a Republican candidate that both Brad Raffensperger and Cindy McCain like, then we'll be gold.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ratshitburger has direct ties to China both in his prior state leg race and his brother being a bigwig with Huawei. He is bought and sold by the PRC. Kemp is more complex but he might have cheated himself into office in 2018 as SoS and those election records were conveniently wiped from SoS controlled servers before Stacey Abrams could get ahold of them.

Then there is that Kemp's chief SoS aide went to work for Dominion and Kemp conveniently used the Abrams election litigation to force the state to use that piece of shit system under a no bid contract with the state through the legislature.

Kemp is a dirty sob just like his GOP predecessor was and his gains in wealth while in office smack of how members of Congress get rich as payoffs.

His predecessor as Gov, Nathan Deal, resigned from Congress before his ethics case was heard and spent 8 years serving as the CoC floor leader for legislation. Went from bankruptcy to being a multimillionaire again.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:13 PM (/xdjH)

345 Just spitballing': Biden LEADS nothing. Even Communist sewer rats need or certainly do better ( actually worse for deplorables since evil goals are their reason to be) do better when they have a leader. Everyone knows Soros, the IC, and Barky already do the leading mostly off camera but even true believers know Biden is spent.
To bring home the evil bacon or sanctified goat and close the deal in November ( beyond their cheat) the Communists will need a visible leader .... a too long way of saying methinks Barky will be The Very Visible Communist Leader in the fall.
. All the Communists already know a vote for 'Biden' is simply a proxy vote for Obama. In the fall the charade of Biden will end as Barky becomes the Un- Constitutional but Very Visible Leader
Trump versus Obama --muy spicy.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 26, 2024 02:14 PM (4Hun8)

346 321 Interestingly, Trump is now apparently up in PA and down in Michigan. Which I don't trust, but not sure which way it goes.
Posted by: Ribbed

State media polls are universally awful as they do not have large samples nor do they use likely voter screens. Michigan will be a shitty outlier on polling until after the election due to their institution of same day voter registration.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (/xdjH)

347 When's the last time we hugged a judge?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 26, 2024 02:15 PM (J8LnB)

348 Hunged

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 26, 2024 02:17 PM (J8LnB)

349 Women don't poop. I have this on good authority.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:59 PM (RUMEY)

We poop, and fart. But neither stinks. Smells like air freshener.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 26, 2024 02:21 PM (JCLJi)

350 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 02:25 PM (fwDg9)

351 That poll must have an outsized sample size of Gen Z respondents because if only 50% support mass deportation and Boomer, Gen X, and Millenials are 48 - 60% in support while Gen Z is only 35%. Based on that there is no way that an accurate sampling of the US would result in only 50% supporting mass deportation.

Posted by: GimpyMcGimpo at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (P4QxO)

Shock: Pro-Hamas Smelly Filthy "Protesters" Turn Violent In Atlanta, Austin, and NYC

I'm gutted. I never saw this coming.

At Emory University (Atlanta), "protesters" were raging insanely both against Israel and against police. This new protest is basically just a continuing antifa production against the police training center being built, which they call "cop city."

They ignored demands to leave the property and are now whining and shrieking that their Squatters Rights are not being indulged.

Chaos ensued as Georgia police officers took several people into custody during a pro-Hamas protest at Emory University. Many students were arrested as Atlanta Police officers and Georgia State troopers wrestled the demonstrators to the ground.


One demonstrator was seen being tasered. A video captured several students being sprayed with tear gas. Some witnesses reported rubber bullets being fired at the protesters. Police pinned protesters to the ground and restrained them with zip ties. A female protester was carried away by officers as she sang and screamed.


Students set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on the lawn of the school's quad.

They were also protesting Atlanta's 'Cop City', according to local reports. Protesters demand "total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities,' according to Fox 5."

They are repeatedly told "you can protest all you like, but you can't take over university lands and set up your filthy homeless tent cities," and so they do exactly that, then they cry when they're arrested.

Let me again underline the irony that pro-Palestinian "protesters" are seizing land that does not belong to them and are then crying when someone comes to kick them off that land.

Fucking colonizers.

At the University of Texas, Austin campus:

Amid a wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations across American campuses, the University of Texas at Austin gained control overe the situation. On Wednesday, over fifty protestors were detained by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers after a campus protest escalated beyond the administration's permitted boundaries. The protest at UT Austin mirrors similar unrest at Columbia University and other institutions, yet the response from state officials has ignited a debate over the balance between free speech and public order.

Governor Greg Abbott swiftly endorsed the arrests, describing the protestors' actions as antisemitic and asserting that such demonstrations would not be tolerated in Texas. "These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period," Abbott stated on X.


An NYU Stinky cried about being arrested just because she broke the law.

As RedState reported Tuesday, things got so intense at the NYU protests that the NYPD was called in to clean house and reestablish order. In the process, dozens were arrested including some professors who had previously formed a human wall around the agitators to protect them from consequences.

READ: Chaotic Scene As NYPD Descends Upon NYU in Riot Gear, Arrests Dozens of Pro-Hamas Extremists

Among the students arrested were Moné Makkawi, whose LinkedIn profile sports "she/her" pronouns and which notes she's a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern studies.

On Twitter/X, Ms. Makkawi goes by the handle "Girl Boss Gulag," but she didn't sound like much of a fearless tough Girl Boss when describing her arrest and detainment in the following mini-thread:


after abducting me & hundred of other nyu students + faculty yesterday, NYPD female officers in holding cells stole my possessions, then talked about it in front of others that were detained after I was released, bragging about how they were teaching me a lesson for protesting.

Abducted? Say, you're supporting the people that kidnapped and raped Israeli women, right?

Yes, they take away your property, except for most clothes, when you're arrested.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this uneducated dolt don't know that.

these people have no interest in protecting or serving anyone but capital, most of them are white supremacists even if they are black/brown. the way they move and operate reflects a deep disdain for the black/brown people they target, harass, surveil, police.

they train with the iof, learn their logics, exchange tactics, and so on. Palestine is never far

Hopefully Trump will revoke her visa and reunite her with her precious Palestine.

Speaking of ignorant crybabies, AOC.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students, but the units called in have some of the most violent reputations on the force.

NYPD had promised the city they wouldn't deploy SRG to protests.

So why are these counterterror units here?

They were observing, not acting. Only this double-digit IQ drama queen would try to milk outrage out of that skinny tit.

The NYPD responded:


NYPD Chief of Patrol
@NYPDChiefPatrol

Truly amazing! Columbia decided to hold its students accountable to the laws of the school. They are seeing the consequences of their actions. Something these kids were most likely never taught. Good SAT scores and self-entitlement do not supersede the law. I am sure you would agree that we have to teach them these valuable life skills.

Secondly, I was with those "units" last Thursday that you describe as having, "the most violent reputations." These "units" removed students with great care and professionalism, not a single incident was reported.

The only incidents that day on campus were the student's hateful anti-Semitic speech and vile language towards our cops. I am sure you agree any hateful speech is unacceptable. You should rethink your comments to a simple thank you to the NYPD and hate has no place in our society.

Maybe you should walk around Columbia and NYU and listen to their remarks of pure hatred. I will ensure those "units" will protect you as they do for all NYers 24/7/365.

Lack of accountability = consequences

Hate from anyone, anywhere has no place in our city and country

The filthy colonizers also set up an encampment at NYC's gayest school, the Fashion Institute of Technology.

A pro-Palestine encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City appears to have sparked a conflict between students and law enforcement.

The FIT Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group shared video via Instagram Thursday showing crowds of protesters chanting and holding signs in and around the school's Shirley Goodman Resource Center. The account wrote students are "NOW GUARDING THE ENCAMPMENT FROM NYPD AND SECURITY."

Another clip from the altercation shows uniformed security guards forcing open doors and fighting to gain entry to the building as students pound on drums.

"FIT SECURITY IS ASSAULTING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS AT ENCAMPMENT," the account wrote.

No, they were attempting to access a building which they have legal access to and you do not.


The protest follows a decision by the school to ban SJP from organizing on campus, it wrote. Students now demand the school divest from Israeli companies, publicly condemn Israel, drop charges against students and show "complete financial transparency."

WE WILL NOT OCCUPY FIT UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET," the SJP wrote.

They mean "We will occupy FIT until our demands are met," but they're uneducated hobos. So, some allowance must be made, as usual.

The Smellies have erected a Hamas Camp at George Washington University, just a stone's throw from the State Department where they'll all get jobs after leftwing judges scrub their police records of all arrests.

Spencer Brown:

FOGGY BOTTOM, DC -- In the same neighborhood that holds the U.S. Department of State and its openly anti-Israel staffers in the nation's capital, antisemitic students at The George Washington University established a Hamas Youth (TM) camp on Thursday similar to the one at Columbia University to champion barbaric terrorists in the Gaza Strip and call for an intifada to eliminate Israel and murder Jews.


Signs in the crowd made vile declarations such as "FINAL SOLUTION" while camped-out students chanted "there is only one resolution // intifada revolution" and "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free."

They Just Want to Breathe (TM).

By Thursday afternoon, the camp had some 20 tents, hundreds of student demonstrators, and a portable bathroom set up on GW's University Yard. A statement from the university on Thursday morning stated that demonstrations were not allowed there and instructed the antisemitic students to move to another location on campus. Students did not comply and the university did not take action to enforce its policies. GW also said overnight encampments aren't permitted and that demonstrators and their camp would be "required" to be gone by 7:00 p.m. Thursday.

USC has given in to the demands of The Stinkies and is cancelling their main graduation ceremony. Because Israel or something.

The University of Southern California announced on Thursday that it has canceled its main-stage graduation ceremony for students, a move that follows campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and a controversy over its selection of a class valedictorian.
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The university said that it could not host the ceremony, which was scheduled for May 10, because of new safety measures that would have increased the amount of time needed on the day to process the 65,000 students and guests who usually attend.

This week, the university has been rocked by turmoil by pro-Palestinian protesters, resulting in the arrests of more than 90 people.

Here's a smile: Obviously the NPCs at formerly-prestigious university Harvard joined in and followed. They too set up an illegal camp on the campus grounds.

The university activated the sprinkler system, giving The Stinkies a much-needed shower.


Everyone cry for The Smellies.

Harvard University's anti-Israel tent encampment was temporarily thwarted overnight -- by a slew of sprinklers that flooded protesters' tents -- as demonstrations rocked other campuses across the country.

Dozens of sleeping protesters who were trying to catch some shuteye were disturbed when the sprinklers suddenly turned on in the middle of the Ivy League's Cambridge campus.

"As protesters spend their first night in the Harvard Yard encampment, the biggest threat to their stay has not come from administrators or Harvard University police officers, but the Yard's sprinklers," the Harvard Crimson student-led paper said early Thursday.

The first sprinkler switched on just outside the encampment in Harvard Yard at about 2:30 a.m. as temperatures dipped to 36 degrees.

Then, just before 4 a.m., a sprinkler located in the middle of the tents started spraying out water, prompting students to quickly start handing out buckets.

"Two more sprinklers turned on at the edge of the encampment near Massachusetts Hall," the newspaper said in a live blog update at 4:05 a.m.

"The sprinklers began to hit tents on the edge of the camp before protesters rushed over to cover the sprinklers with buckets and sit on them."

Harvard's Palestine Solidarity Committee said in an Instagram post some of the students' tents were flooded with freezing cold water after the 4 a.m. burst. A video showed a student struggling to readjust a tarpaulin in a wet tent.

As Monk once said of The Dirties: "They make their own sauce."

Little question: The school year is ending in two weeks. That means everyone will be taking their final exams, and turning in their final papers, over the next couple of weeks.

Have the Dirties cleared it with the students actually interested in getting a degree for the $80,000 per year they're paying that the school will be turned into a No-Go CHAZ/CHAP situation during the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:03 PM




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Posted by: RUReadingthis at April 26, 2024 12:02 PM (aQ25I)

2 Coming to a town near you this summer!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)

3 A lot of the ones I've seen look like Antifa down to the black clothes and backpacks.. They just added that scarf thingy to pull over their faces

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (Akjoo)

4 Muslims got violent? No way!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 12:05 PM (2UnvF)

5
"Hey, the battery on my phone is low!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (75/2K)

6 If they want to be Muslims so bad, put on the damned Burqa and follow Shari'ah Law.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (UnA8+)

7
They just added that scarf thingy to pull over their faces
Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (Akjoo)

________

The Ku Klux Khan.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (75/2K)

8 Sprinklers? Tear gas?? Rubber bullets??? Where are the dogs? Where are the truncheons?? Where are the mounted officers with whips??? Someone doesn't know how to break up protests anymore, do they?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (0eaVi)

9 Expel all of the students. Deport all the foreigners. If any state lines were crossed by non students, arrested Bring in dumpsters and after handcuffing every one of them, throw their shit away and send it to the dump.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (8m2WD)

10 Make Napalm Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (8FmJd)

11 I miss the good old days, when democrat mayors would order the police to shoot to kill.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (lTGtQ)

12 Wanna know where these protests aren't happening?

College of the Ozarks (AKA Hard Work U)
Trade Schools
Jobs

Posted by: Catherine at April 26, 2024 12:08 PM (ZSsrh)

13 I'm shocked, shocked!

Posted by: "Your winnings, sir" at April 26, 2024 12:08 PM (JMAcK)

14 Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (8m2WD)


I like your thinking

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:08 PM (Akjoo)

15 Where are the mounted officers with whips???

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"Down at the Southern Border, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:08 PM (8FmJd)

16 Needs more baton.

Posted by: Candidus at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (OxhFf)

17 We imported a bunch of angry Muslims and put them on welfare as part of the informal terms of our surrender in the "War on Terror"

Why would anyone be surprised they are agitating for a more Islamic take on the world?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (ibTVg)

18 "... video captured several students being sprayed with tear gas. Some witnesses reported rubber bullets being fired at the protesters. "

J6 DC cops did that to peaceful MAGA protesters ... but those DC cops were INSTIGATING a violent response. And some (FBI or their assets) were actually posing as violent protesters, to get the "riot" rolling.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (Cus5s)

19 Some witnesses reported rubber bullets being fired at the protesters.


Use Pb #82.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (0hu/3)

20 My only issue with law enforcement's behavior in breaking these things up is that an insufficient number of these scum have been beaten within an inch of their mortal existence.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (OUMaO)

21 A lot of the ones I've seen look like Antifa down to the black clothes and backpacks.. They just added that scarf thingy to pull over their faces

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (Akjoo)

It's the same Rent-A-Mob.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (AbL8c)

22 Coming to a town near you this summer!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)


*looks at brass knuckles and iron elbow pads*

Can't wait!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (W/lyH)

23 Useful idiots for the communists. Where have we seen this before?

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (vFG9F)

24 One demonstrator was seen being tasered. A video captured several students being sprayed with tear gas. Some witnesses reported rubber bullets being fired at the protesters. Police pinned protesters to the ground and restrained them with zip ties. A female protester was carried away by officers as she sang and screamed.

"protesters" and "demonstrators". Please stop using those words, which do not mean what you think they mean.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)

25 Let me again underline the irony that pro-Palestinian "protesters" are seizing land that does not belong to them and are then crying when someone comes to kick them off that land.

Fucking colonizers.

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For those who missed it (Ace linked a few days ago):

[Babylon Bee headline:] "Columbia University Students Reject A Two-Campus Solution"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (8FmJd)

26 Needs more baton.
Posted by: Candidus


Hickory shampoo with a walmut conditioner.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (0hu/3)

27 Antifa just changed their outfit.
Agents of chaos.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

28 Saw one cop using a swagger stick. Good man.
Someone said the DNC convention was going to be lit.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (lCWOD)

29 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (T4tVD)

30 Taking over the schools first was the wisest decision the commies ever made

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (xcxpd)

31 Why Not: Los Angeles High School To Host Drag Queen “World Series”

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I wonder what the ball /strike count will be.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (L/fGl)

32 Expel all of the students. Deport all the foreigners. If any state lines were crossed by non students, arrested Bring in dumpsters and after handcuffing every one of them, throw their shit away and send it to the dump.

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+1000, Nurse.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (mupln)

33 I may not have a lot of stories from my time as a prison guard, but I do know how to put down a riot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (0hu/3)

34 I've been predicting that this nonsense would start up in the lesser schools, because they think it gives them cachet. GWU is a good case in point. Sorry, losers, you didn't make it into Harvard, and being a "me too" isn't going to change that.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (CsUN+)

35 They ignored demands to leave the property and are now whining and shrieking that their Squatters Rights are not being indulged.
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LOL. They're crossing the streams.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (HnUIn)

36 Vote Biden /Harris And Forgive Student Debt Now!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:12 PM (L/fGl)

37 " I miss the good old days, when democrat mayors would order the police to shoot to kill.
Posted by: Thomas Paine"

It only takes one or two.

Posted by: zombie Ronnie "Machine Gun" Thompson at April 26, 2024 12:12 PM (vFG9F)

38 Kind of confused here though...these guys want violence?

You do know that Hamas lost, right? Iran's gonna lose. You can ship over to Palestine to fight for that path to the sea but I don't think it's gonna work out for ya.

Violence might not be an answer for you.

Posted by: blerker the lurker at April 26, 2024 12:12 PM (Mud2n)

39 Let me again underline the irony that pro-Palestinian "protesters" are seizing land that does not belong to them and are then crying when someone comes to kick them off that land.

Fucking colonizers.
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Not at all.

They're just relieving the white man of his privilege. It isn't colonization, it's restorative justice!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:12 PM (HnUIn)

40 I'm gutted. I never saw this coming.
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Everything is like that these days.

Everything is like that when your government is gaslighting everybody.

Inflation was so "unexpected" a couple days ago.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:12 PM (krQz2)

41 The commies are whipping their army into a frenzy. It will get worse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 12:12 PM (R4t5M)

42 23 Useful idiots for the communists. Where have we seen this before?
Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (vFG9F)

I think it's honestly the other way around.

The commies are useful idiots for the Muslims.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (UnA8+)

43 If you set up a tent and complain when freezing water enters your tent, then I am going to question your outdoor camping skills...

What would you have done if a thunderstorm came through and drenched your camp?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (7fElN)

44
I don't think I'd like to catch a rubber bullet to the nuts.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (RKVpM)

45
Shouldn't they be cannon fodder in Gaza or Ukraine right now?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (75/2K)

46 after abducting me & hundred of other nyu students + faculty yesterday, NYPD female officers in holding cells stole my possessions, then talked about it in front of others that were detained after I was released, bragging about how they were teaching me a lesson for protesting.
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Didn't glass-eyed leftist automata used to love being arrested? Wasn't getting some hickory shampoo and a night in the drunk tank until someone came to post your bail a badge of honor?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (HnUIn)

47 Obama's America.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:14 PM (8FmJd)

48 It's amusing that the same idiots yammering about taking someone else's land and property are perfectly willing to take the education that someone has paid for. The same thing happened during the Vietnam "protests".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 12:14 PM (CsUN+)

49 31 Why Not: Los Angeles High School To Host Drag Queen “World Series”

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I wonder what the ball /strike count will be.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (L/fGl)

You gotta feel sorry for the Umps. "Hey, miss! You got too much pine tar on that thing!"

Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:14 PM (Mykux)

50 these people have no interest in protecting or serving anyone but capital, most of them are white supremacists even if they are black/brown. the way they move and operate reflects a deep disdain for the black/brown people they target, harass, surveil, police.
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No matter what developments occur, what refinements, what changes to philosophy, what new inventions of horror and manipulation, these people just can't break their communism habit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:14 PM (HnUIn)

51 Shouldn't they be cannon fodder in Gaza or Ukraine right now?


Ukraine is manpower constrained. If the war is as important as claimed you would think the GOPe/War Monger Dems would just ship all the military aged illegals there.

But...

They want, no need, those men to kill Americans instead of Russians...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 12:14 PM (ibTVg)

52 "As Monk once said of The Dirties: 'They make their own sauce.'"
🤮

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 26, 2024 12:15 PM (QpmmB)

53 Arrest every one they can...that record will be there for a long time. Come job application time...bingo!
If a student (and I bet many of these shitheads are not) but for those that are, expel them. For every student expelled, there were at least half a dozen who didn't get into the school. The school can make up the money in the next enrolment.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:15 PM (W/lyH)

54 Didn't glass-eyed leftist automata used to love being arrested?

glass-eyed leftist automata would be an excellent name for a punk band.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 12:15 PM (CsUN+)

55 Let me again underline the irony that pro-Palestinian "protesters" are seizing land that does not belong to them and are then crying when someone comes to kick them off that land.



Same thing as happened in Gaza.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:15 PM (lTGtQ)

56
Why Not: Los Angeles High School To Host Drag Queen “World Series”

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Suicide squeeze.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2024 12:15 PM (75/2K)

57 They were observing, not acting. Only this double-digit IQ drama queen would try to milk outrage out of that skinny tit.
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Too bad.

Why was the counterterror division there? Because these people are terrorists engaged in an active, organized and violent collective action?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (HnUIn)

58 The Ku Klux Khan.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Kristie Alley discusses the death of her parents.

https://shorturl.at/tvELZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (L/fGl)

59 Little question: The school year is ending in two weeks. That means everyone will be taking their final exams, and turning in their final papers, over the next couple of weeks.

Have the Dirties cleared it with the students actually interested in getting a degree for the $80,000 per year they're paying that the school will be turned into a No-Go CHAZ/CHAP situation during the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?

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This is going to be a golden opportunity to expel a bunch of underperforming students.

However, universities are not in the business of education, so they won't do it. They are in the business of taking government loans from students over the course of at least four years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

60 I'm rooting for pneumonia!

Posted by: steevy at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (FQmDC)

61 NYPD female officers in holding cells stole my possessions

Remember when that guy in CHAZ had his phone stolen and started demanding SOMEONE had to get it back for him but all his friends told him to chill out because whoever took it obviously needed it more then him?

Well sugar tits maybe the cops need your stuff more then you do. I mean...they have to work for a living unlike you...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (ibTVg)

62 31 Why Not: Los Angeles High School To Host Drag Queen “World Series”

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I wonder what the ball /strike count will be.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:11 PM (L/fGl)
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Every contestant starts with 2 balls and a strike.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (QpmmB)

63 As RedState reported Tuesday, things got so intense at the NYU protests that the NYPD was called in to clean house and reestablish order. In the process, dozens were arrested including some professors who had previously formed a human wall around the agitators to protect them from consequences.




I'm pretty sure that that entitles them to lose their job.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (lTGtQ)

64 Ex and I in a canvas tent; freezing rain, wind 22mph and gusting, 18 degrees, Coleman lantern, bottle of CC. Worst thing was having to leave the tent.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (lCWOD)

65 Those batons the cops were using in the first video seem kind of wimpy.

A 24" length of 2-wire hydraulic hose, with a stout lanyard to the wielder's wrist. You wouldn't even need to pack it with shot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (8zz6B)

66 Arrest every one they can...that record will be there for a long time. Come job application time...bingo!
If a student (and I bet many of these shitheads are not) but for those that are, expel them. For every student expelled, there were at least half a dozen who didn't get into the school. The school can make up the money in the next enrolment.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:15 PM (W/lyH)

My man....lots of places, especially big corps, put a lot of pride on not asking questions about being arrested. It's for justice you know!

Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (Mykux)

67 For a really good St. George Floyd Summer, we need more melanin, perhaps some fentanyl ODs.
And burning down Harvard, etc. would be even better TV.

Posted by: RI Red at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (HDGM5)

68 Harvard University's anti-Israel tent encampment was temporarily thwarted overnight -- by a slew of sprinklers that flooded protesters' tents -- as demonstrations rocked other campuses across the country.
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Firehoses would work better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (HnUIn)

69 63 I'm pretty sure that that entitles them to lose their job.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (lTGtQ)

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"I hear you. Best I can do, though, is putting them on track to Department Heads or Deanships."
-Provost

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

70 Hiya, JT

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (lCWOD)

71 Said one: NYPD female officers in holding cells stole my possessions, then talked about it in front of others that were detained after I was released, bragging about how they were teaching me a lesson for protesting.


BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Stupid twit.
Wait until you get out into the real world. You are going to be toast.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (W/lyH)

72 This is going to be a golden opportunity to expel a bunch of underperforming students.

However, universities are not in the business of education, so they won't do it. They are in the business of taking government loans from students over the course of at least four years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)
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It'll be a golden opportunity to increase tuition for "safety and security" measures that won't do a damn thing to help the students at the next protest.

But the university gets to pad its bottom line, which is the important thing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (7fElN)

73 Cancel every graduation ceremony and instead hose the students down.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (RIvkX)

74 USC also made the mistake of choosing a Valedictorian with a hateful twitter history. They weren't endorsing her views, but it was a flawed vetting process, and so they canceled her speech. She couldn't be trusted not to say something horrible. This was before protesters started massing on campus.

Then they canceled all invited speakers. Now they've canceled the commencement ceremony. The individual schools will still hold ceremonies, but those are usually indoors.

In a related development, UCLA has canceled this weekend's Pie Fest over similar concerns.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (hCzfy)

75 Really grateful my parents said "no" to me when I wanted to do some stupid shit. Or when they let me fail and experience consequences for said stupid shit. Learned some things.

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (ggOdn)

76 The filthy colonizers also set up an encampment at NYC's gayest school, the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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Cross-FIT for cross-dressers?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (8FmJd)

77 If Presidential immunity is taken away, can former president Obama be tried for murder? There is no statute of limitations against murder.

Posted by: Ron at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (AtKtr)

78 Little question: The school year is ending in two weeks. That means everyone will be taking their final exams, and turning in their final papers, over the next couple of weeks.

Have the Dirties cleared it with the students actually interested in getting a degree for the $80,000 per year they're paying that the school will be turned into a No-Go CHAZ/CHAP situation during the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?
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Why do you think they waited this long to do this? October 7 was months ago. It was too early to do it for the winter term (the target wasn't softened up enough yet), but doing this in March would have been stupid. The pressure is on now. They waiting *until* it would be so disruptive to their fellow "students" that they would get support by default because the stakes are high.

You know, terrorism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (HnUIn)

79 Let me again underline the irony that pro-Palestinian "protesters" are seizing land that does not belong to them and are then crying when someone comes to kick them off that land.

Fucking colonizers.
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As far as Americans go, this is coming from the same side that wants American to always bend the knee to the UN--an organization where we have a special status on the Security Committee.

When you can't deal with the concept of authority you can't deal with authorities doing things you don't like, like transferring land to the Zionists (which only means Jews should have a "home in Zion"), who had been traveling back there since ~1880s and 90s and actually brought back the land from desolation.

But, like every other authority for the left, authority tells YOU what you have to comply with, when it disagrees with ME, it's WRONG.

I think leftism--and it's more benign version of "liberalism" that held in America for a time--is all about avoiding consequences of living in the real world.

In fairness, the same could be said of Christianity, but Christians believe the World can be overcome by its authority.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (krQz2)

80 Also these dumbasses are concerned about personal property now? el oh f'ing el

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (ggOdn)

81 In a related development, UCLA has canceled this weekend's Pie Fest over similar concerns.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (hCzfy)

WHAT????

Posted by: Lizzo, who now has to make new plans at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (PiwSw)

82 Selective enforcement or is the tide really turning?

Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2024 12:20 PM (q177U)

83 Nothing like a good piece of hickory.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 26, 2024 12:20 PM (NtVYv)

84 82 Selective enforcement or is the tide really turning?
Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2024 12:20 PM (q177U)

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"Protest where the darkies live, not where we work."
-An Alternate Theory

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

85 In a related development, UCLA has canceled this weekend's Pie Fest over similar concerns.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (hCzfy)

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From Pi Fest to Pie Fest: The Decline of the American University and Western Civilization.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (8FmJd)

86 The college DEI people are also using these protests to push divestment from Israel again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (eYoxG)

87 Hiya, JT
Posted by: Braenyard

Hiya !

Happy Friday !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (T4tVD)

88 My man....lots of places, especially big corps, put a lot of pride on not asking questions about being arrested. It's for justice you know!
Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (Mykux)


Perhaps, but in most firms today, the applicant is screened
via social media, even before they are called for an interview. the result for many is the resume going into the Do Not Call pile.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)

89 Apparently Muslim men look at these "protests" and think "this shit is too stupid even for me" as the group is all lily white liberals, angry because no one will bang them them and their unibrow arab girls, or always looking to fight and burn down shit black people.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (fOkIv)

90 Also these dumbasses are concerned about personal property now? el oh f'ing el

Posted by: jhawk90 at April 26, 2024 12:19 PM (ggOdn)

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Typical commies ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:22 PM (8FmJd)

91 In a related development, UCLA has canceled this weekend's Pie Fest over similar concerns.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor


Let me guess, the trans crowd was incensed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:22 PM (lTGtQ)

92 I hope the little shits keep this up... It is not helping Biden or the Dems... More mostly peaceful "Protests" please

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:23 PM (Akjoo)

93 Little question: The school year is ending in two weeks. That means everyone will be taking their final exams, and turning in their final papers, over the next couple of weeks.
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Students are working.

Paid agitators are disrupting and destroying.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 26, 2024 12:23 PM (AbL8c)

94 Selective enforcement or is the tide really turning?
Posted by: Max Power at April 26, 2024 12:20 PM (q177U)


I bet alumni donations are down...way down.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:23 PM (W/lyH)

95 Repost but on point. X smart asses put several other pieces of music to protesters' free Palestine dance.

https://shorturl.at/epuU3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

96 Rape and pillage next on the agenda?

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 12:23 PM (kGLb6)

97 Perhaps, but in most firms today, the applicant is screened
via social media, even before they are called for an interview. the result for many is the resume going into the Do Not Call pile.

Posted by: Diogenes



Or even the to be fired pile.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (lTGtQ)

98 When the mob and their handlers, financers and emotional support staff tires of this they'll find another demographic to go demonize.

They've indicated there are many other groups ripe for terrorizing.

The possibility that they show up in rural areas this summer to push their green agenda by taking over family farms and small towns shouldn't be discounted. Everyone's a target.

The feds would certainly make sure the mob was free to do their terrorizing unimpeded. Filthy MAGAets get what they deserve.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)

99 Every time I hear these people shreaking about how they have been abused, my first response is "So?"

"Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students, but the units called in have some of the most violent reputations on the force."

So? Thier own students mobilized against Columbia, so? Let's re-write that:

"Not only did the Hamas Supporters make the horrific decision to mobilize against the NYPD and their own university, but the units called in have some of the most violent reputations in Antifa."

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (nLFEI)

100 I bet alumni donations are down...way down.

Posted by: Diogenes



Oh, yes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (lTGtQ)

101 Morning.

Pro: Arrests. Yay!

Con: Probably no prosecutions. Boo!

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (BhMhR)

102
the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?

Makes one wonder about the IQ of these folks. Even triple digits?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (RKVpM)

103 Too bad that AOC couldn't be on hand to do a St Patricks re-enactment by leading the snakes out of Ireland

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:25 PM (RHGPo)

104 Abducted???

Did they cut off one of her forearms too??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 12:25 PM (vtyCZ)

105 Fuck it. We need a "strongman" that'll bring order. Tired of watching these motherfuckers run roughshod. They're whooping it up like its a g-damn party which at this point it pretty much is because the law will do fck all. We'll have to wait and see if these pieces of shit in Texas will be rewarded later with huge payouts because they were roughed up. All we do is allow these pricks to build up confidence making them more brazen and violent. The pushback against these a-holes has to be ten times more than what they're dishing out. So much so that even the thought of acting up on behalf of some dickhead leftwing cause causes the shit to run down their legs in fear of repercussions from us.

I don't care how dopey or stupid looking some of these clowns are. They're still capable of exacting a heavy toll of death and destruction. We sit by and do nothing at our own peril. When a shitload of our own gets annihilated it will be because of our inaction. I guess there just isn't enough of us willing to stand up in significant numbers. Its too bad and fucking depressing.

Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 12:25 PM (IlL6s)

106 In a related development, UCLA has canceled this weekend's Pie Fest over similar concerns.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor

Chris Christie Hardest Hit

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

107 I was marveling this morning at how these mental patient frankencunts call Israel "occupiers" for merely existing, but then dub all their own stupid shit Occupy (this) and Occupy (that). Weirdos.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:26 PM (2e48P)

108 Perhaps, but in most firms today, the applicant is screened
via social media, even before they are called for an interview. the result for many is the resume going into the Do Not Call pile.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)

Good point! I honestly hadn't considered that. This has just been on mind since last week. We had a DIE presentation where they emphasized that since 2019 we have not had these questions on our applications, which was followed by applause.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:26 PM (Mykux)

109 The possibility that they show up in rural areas this summer to push their green agenda by taking over family farms and small towns shouldn't be discounted. Everyone's a target.


1. Hogs leave no trace.
2. Backhoe leaves very little trace.
3. I've seen a Sheriff's deputy on my road twice in the three years I've lived here. And I had to call him both times.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:27 PM (0hu/3)

110 Skinny tits are the antithesis of the HQ's ethos!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 12:27 PM (vtyCZ)

111 88 My man....lots of places, especially big corps, put a lot of pride on not asking questions about being arrested. It's for justice you know!
Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:17 PM (Mykux)
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Times change. They used to do it from litigation fear.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:27 PM (lCWOD)

112 3. I've seen a Sheriff's deputy on my road twice in the three years I've lived here. And I had to call him both times.

Posted by: rickb223




The deputy would probably help with the backhoe.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:28 PM (lTGtQ)

113 96 If your going to Hamas, might as well go all the way

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 12:28 PM (kGLb6)

114 102
the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?

Makes one wonder about the IQ of these folks. Even triple digits?

Posted by: Divide by Zero
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This is a warm up, a boot camp, and an audition for the DNC convention.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:28 PM (lCWOD)

115 108 Perhaps, but in most firms today, the applicant is screened
via social media, even before they are called for an interview. the result for many is the resume going into the Do Not Call pile.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)

Good point! I honestly hadn't considered that. This has just been on mind since last week. We had a DIE presentation where they emphasized that since 2019 we have not had these questions on our applications, which was followed by applause.
Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:26 PM (Mykux)

Putting the diversity hires in HR turned out to be a mistake.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 12:28 PM (eYoxG)

116 Didn't we see the same thing in the run up to the last election? I think this hurts the dems because I think they're revving up for Chicago.

Posted by: Megthered at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (4acn+)

117 NBA Superstar Joel Embiid’s Eyes And Forehead Have Been Acting Very Strange And Now We Might Know Why: Bell’s Palsy

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (RHGPo)

118 But we can't infringe on their right to free speech or the left won't respect our right to free speech!

-Matt Walsh, who that thinks it's still 1993 or something.

Secret to Matt:
They do not now, nor ever have and never will give two shits for our right to free speech.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (yikga)

119 Cat fight!

New York Post: Anita Dunn Tried to Oust Worst Press Secretary in History, Karine Jean-Pierre

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (L/fGl)

120 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students
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LOL didn't she get mind r*ped on January 6th despite being nowhere near it?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (2e48P)

121 In a related development, UCLA has canceled this weekend's Pie Fest over similar concerns.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor
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A good old fashioned pie fight might be just what these protestors need to let off some steam...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:30 PM (7fElN)

122 I’m happy with the direction this is going but I’m also a little disappointed that there wasn’t more ‘protestors’ having the shit beat out of them.

Maybe that’ll change. The cops at USC looked kind of pissed off.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 12:30 PM (jbnUc)

123 I've been here over 5 years and have never seen a cop or sheriff's car in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:30 PM (lCWOD)

124 ... ... The possibility that they show up in rural areas this summer to push their green agenda by taking over family farms and small towns shouldn't be discounted. Everyone's a target. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)
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This would be typical, and would rhyme with "Zimbabwe" and "South Africa."

And yes, South African farmers, at least, are armed. Many even partner with each other for mutual protection. These things help, which is one of the reasons it hasn't gotten as bad as it did in Zimbabwe - but when the state sponsors the terror-murderers, they have remarkable latitude to act.

One of the sources of this in South Africa is foreign migrant labor that resides, even if only "temporarily" on the farm. This is not the only source of farm murders, but it is a factor. The foreign migrant laborers are still protected when they attack a white domestic farmer who owns the property. We have plenty of foreign farm labor, too, and if it's cartel-aligned, don't rule out similar when the time comes here. The reavers don't have to come from without.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:30 PM (HnUIn)

125 116 Didn't we see the same thing in the run up to the last election? I think this hurts the dems because I think they're revving up for Chicago.
Posted by: Megthered at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (4acn+)

And the Folx are seeing for themselves the crap that is going on in the Universities... The media can't hide it...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:30 PM (Akjoo)

126 Didn't we see the same thing in the run up to the last election?

Posted by: Megthered at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (4acn+)

Yes which is how you know it's an op

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:30 PM (2e48P)

127 Perhaps, but in most firms today, the applicant is screened
via social media, even before they are called for an interview. the result for many is the resume going into the Do Not Call pile.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)
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For the past couple of decades, young people especially have been warned about behaviors captured on social media or otherwise on the interwebz, since as you note that's virtually the first thing all serious employers had started to do as an initial job application screening.

[And now, The Junta's DOJ is trying to criminalize criminal background checks because they're "discriminatory" against non-whites or something.]

Anyway, I had the reverse experience: (after retiring from software development), I applied for a driving gig (despite having no experience -- like you really need any) and the owner searched for any online history. I'd just had a Twitter account for a few months -- during the "debate" over DeathCare -- and had about a hundred posts.

He turned out to be very libertarian-conservative, and liked my posts and avatar so much, that he went ahead and hired me.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:31 PM (8FmJd)

128 There nothing funnier than watching antifags get arrested, booked, and cry like the punk-ass bitches they are.

Maybe free helicopter rides will cheer them up!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 26, 2024 12:31 PM (wtvvX)

129 I'm surprised most of the protests in the video appear to be woke/prog snowflakes and not Arab imports. I doubt 1 in 10 know anything about Israel history or could even find it on an unmarked map. Our best and brightest.

Posted by: Ripley at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (JojsZ)

130 Election season just getting started and the Brownshirts are, too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (whJr1)

131 Maybe that’ll change. The cops at USC looked kind of pissed off.

Posted by: Dr. Claw

Yeah, those are the Campus Cops, not even LAPD. So the people who put up with their shit daily were given a stick and a reason to use it.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (hCzfy)

132 Ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:

“We hope everyone has a good time this weekend, because if Donald Trump wins in November, this Saturday could also be known as the last White House Correspondents’ Dinner. To state the obvious: Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist who – despite spending seemingly every waking moment glued to his seat consuming cable news – is constantly attacking the free press and unable to handle a little good-natured ribbing. He skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner every single year he was in office because of his deep-seated insecurities and pathetic desperation to be liked by the same people he rails against – and that was before he outright banned members of his administration from attending at all. Fun and jokes aside this weekend, Saturday is also a reminder of what’s at stake with an angry, vengeful Trump on the ballot. He may be a punchline, but he is also a sad, vindictive wannabe authoritarian who shows no respect for the First Amendment – or the Fourth Estate.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

133 They do not now, nor ever have and never will give two shits for our right to free speech.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 12:29 PM (yikga)
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They only care about THEIR right to free expression.

Which, if you look at Marcuse, has the main value of flipping the country to their cause. Once their cause has the authority, then they have to "change their mind" about the sanctity of speech.

It's always a "pragmatic" (to the extent that scheming is "pragmatic") resolution with them.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (krQz2)

134
Yes which is how you know it's an op
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Yep. One we keep falling for over and over and over...

Posted by: DaisyB at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (AbL8c)

135 Everyone will be similarly shocked to learn that the Soros-funded leftwing DA in Austin has already declined to prosecute any of the stank-ass hippies that got arrested at the University of Texas.

Posted by: ballistic at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (HCmwm)

136 They need the Rachel Corrie treatment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (J4Vhp)

137 Hmmmm.
Have any of these genius students ever considered why they're being asked or told to care about this issue this week? It's now the most important issue of the day in this whole world, and you must care, you must show solidarity and you must protest.

No, apparently. And later when the next most important thing ever comes along, they'll dutifully do the same thing.

Amazing how the left has a never ending supply of educated idiots.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (FCbAQ)

138 “ The possibility that they show up in rural areas this summer” is slim and none. And Slim just left town.

I just don’t have any rubber bullets to use. Or sprinklers.

Posted by: RI Red at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (HDGM5)

139 Most Americans Aren’t Confident the Jury in Trump’s “Hush Money” Trial Can Reach a Fair Verdict

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (RHGPo)

140 I was marveling this morning at how these mental patient frankencunts call Israel "occupiers" for merely existing, but then dub all their own stupid shit Occupy (this) and Occupy (that). Weirdos.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:26 PM (2e48P)

They are NPCs. This is why that meme was made.

None of these people have put even a single moment of personal thought into any of this. They have had the "good" people pointed out to them.

The "good" people said, let's have a protest because something happened that you don't understand because you've given not a single moment of personal thought about it and protests are fun. We'll get out of class, chant some nonsensical shit, express our "outrage", and TPTB will "give in to us" like the script says.

None of them have, even once, used their brains.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM (IUd0M)

141 Would it really be a bad thing if these institutions of higher learning were literally BURNED TO THE GROUND?

I may change my vote.

Let it burn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (urHev)

142 I've never understood how no one points out to these protesters: If you feel SO strongly about "the cause", why are you not over in Gaza/Ukraine/etc. fighting the good fight against the "evil oppressors"?

Unless they do that, they're posers. And I'd love it if they did go fight for the cause. Gets them out of our hair and likely cleans the gene pool a bit.

Posted by: Shinjinrui at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (xNMCe)

143 ... The possibility that they show up in rural areas this summer to push their green agenda by taking over family farms and small towns shouldn't be discounted. Everyone's a target. ...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)

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They tried to do that in our small town here in 2020, and encountered hundreds of well-armed sheriff deputies and citizens ... but mostly citizens. They never came back.

"Try that in a small town," indeed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (8FmJd)

144 64 Ex and I in a canvas tent; freezing rain, wind 22mph and gusting, 18 degrees, Coleman lantern, bottle of CC. Worst thing was having to leave the tent.
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I'd happily give them some Canadian club.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (vtyCZ)

145 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

This guy sounds like a real laugh riot. Excuse me while I bandage my ribs from all this humor and good natured ribbing.

Conveniently failed to mention how Trump absolutely killed at the dinner in 2016. Eh, he probably forgot.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (2e48P)

146 To state the obvious: Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist who – despite spending seemingly every waking moment glued to his seat consuming cable news – is constantly attacking the free press and unable to handle a little good-natured ribbing

A little good natured ribbing ? That's priceless....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (Akjoo)

147 NBA Superstar Joel Embiid’s Eyes And Forehead Have Been Acting Very Strange And Now We Might Know Why: Bell’s Palsy

I see some Dem congressman just died from a sudden heart issue.

But I'm sure all just coincidences...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (ibTVg)

148 i wonder how many of the guys who are at the protests are just hoping to score some snatch with what they hope are really dumb aoc-dumb females.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 26, 2024 12:35 PM (B1FKF)

149 “We hope everyone has a good time this weekend, because if Donald Trump wins in November, this Saturday could also be known as the last White House Correspondents’ Dinner. To state the obvious: Trump is a thin-skinned narcissist who – despite spending seemingly every waking moment glued to his seat consuming cable news
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Some of these are people who bought "The Gorilla Channel" story.

Never let them convince you they know how somebody else thinks.

Is he "consuming cable news" or is he avoiding cable news watching gorillas fight?

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:35 PM (krQz2)

150 Another Biden foreign policy miracle!

Pakistan Experiences 500% Increase In Suicide Attacks Since Biden’s Debacle in Afghanistan

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:35 PM (L/fGl)

151
Clap for the Wolfman > Cry for the Smells

Posted by: Zombie Burton Cummings at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (eDfFs)

152 Would it really be a bad thing if these institutions of higher learning were literally BURNED TO THE GROUND?

I may change my vote.

Let it burn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (urHev)

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10 Make Napalm Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (8FmJd)

153 143 ... The possibility that they show up in rural areas this summer to push their green agenda by taking over family farms and small towns shouldn't be discounted. Everyone's a target. ...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)

Have a serious R AG and Gov and a strong sense of rule of law - see how none of this happens in your state.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (exHjb)

154 A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAr9oGSXgak

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (RHGPo)

155 Any that are arrested should be stripped of their scholarships if they have received one.

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (PQ9Bw)

156 Yeah, those are the Campus Cops, not even LAPD. So the people who put up with their shit daily were given a stick and a reason to use it.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (hCzfy)
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The students should be grateful. Campus cops, by and large, are there to shield students from consequences. By taking a lot of enforcement in-house, the universities can protect students from the *real* law and make a lot of stuff go away. Students hate them (any restriction is hated), but those campus cops are really there to keep the students *out* of the pokey.

If it gets bad enough for the *real* riot cops or National Guard to get involved, those protections vanish and they have to depend on the largess of the NGOs and corrupt DAs. They're probably still fine, but it will take longer and be more expensive and harder to deal with.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (HnUIn)

157 Fuuuuuuuuu-

Clap for the Wolfman > Cry for the Smellies



Tnx AC!!!

Posted by: Zombie Burton Cummings at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (eDfFs)

158 "UF has threatened pro-Palestinian demonstrators with suspension and banishment from campus for three years if they violate a host of rules..."

WUFT

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 12:37 PM (rJ48h)

159 I'm gutted. I never saw this coming.

To be fair, you're not on our "first-tier" email list.

Posted by: The CIA at April 26, 2024 12:37 PM (KBQMF)

160 So, Palestine is the new Vietnam for these people?

Posted by: Paco at April 26, 2024 12:37 PM (njExo)

161 Omg that's true. If these operatives started burning and firebombing the institutes of higher learning like they did to businesses in 2020 that might actually get me to turn the news on for the first time in 20 years.

The world needs a good comedy and by golly these people have their rights to free speech and assembly that... shall not be infringed.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:38 PM (2e48P)

162 154 A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAr9oGSXgak
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (RHGPo)

Too bad someone couldn't find a way to project that at one of the "protests".

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:38 PM (Akjoo)

163 A little good natured ribbing ? That's priceless....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (Akjoo)
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Hey, he's just going to END DEMOCRACY, yuk-yuk!

He's just A RAPIST--and you MAGAts can't see that you're supporting A RAPIST! (yuk-yuk)

Self-awareness is not a skill leftists practice.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:38 PM (krQz2)

164 135 Everyone will be similarly shocked to learn that the Soros-funded leftwing DA in Austin has already declined to prosecute any of the stank-ass hippies that got arrested at the University of Texas.
Posted by: ballistic
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They are on the log books along with a photograph.
When the worm turns that information will still be there.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:38 PM (lCWOD)

165 Let the lefties burn their hallowed schools.

Why spend taxpayer dollars on saving them from themselves.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 12:38 PM (urHev)

166 You might think it's ironic that "anti-war" protesters are usually the most violent.

Until you realize they're not "anti-war".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 26, 2024 12:38 PM (wtvvX)

167 I saw the video of the "chair" of the Philosophy Department at Emory University being walked away after her arrest. Noëlle McAfee.

You will not be surprised to find out that her bio lists her as a "critical theorist"

Posted by: Pussy Galore at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (MB784)

168 I feel bad for all the Asian valedictorians who won't be honored because they canceled valedictorians and graduation.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (JeYYB)

169 Wtf is a non-waterproof tent? Aren't all tents waterproof? It would kinda defeat the purpose if they weren't. Or are these loathesome CHUDs just throwing together make-shift tents made from garbage and leftwing tears?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

170 Didn't glass-eyed leftist automata used to love being arrested? Wasn't getting some hickory shampoo and a night in the drunk tank until someone came to post your bail a badge of honor?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (HnUIn)

That's thinking was a holdover from the civil rights marches of MLK et. al.
The preached non-violence of those protesters, along with a desire to fill the jails with well dressed blacks and allies, made for great optics that shocked the nation.
Hippies thought they could co-opt that imagery without realizing how much disdain middle america had for their "ethos"

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (FCbAQ)

171 Have a serious R AG and Gov and a strong sense of rule of law - see how none of this happens in your state.

Posted by: Nova Local

Umm...

Posted by: University of Texas at Austin at April 26, 2024 12:40 PM (hCzfy)

172 "Napalm napalm
Sticks like glue
Kills women and children too.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:40 PM (J4Vhp)

173 This is all being funded... I knew something weird was up when right after the heinous attack in Oct. people were tearing down flyers of the kidnapped Israelis.. I thought that odd...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (Akjoo)

174 A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAr9oGSXgak
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:36 PM (RHGPo)
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I have it on good authority that all that are lies the Jews are using for their genocide.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (krQz2)

175 171 Have a serious R AG and Gov and a strong sense of rule of law - see how none of this happens in your state.

Posted by: Nova Local

Umm...
Posted by: University of Texas at Austin at April 26, 2024 12:40 PM (hCzfy)

Not a lot of belief in rule of law in Austin...having to get the state cleared it still cleared it, but you do end up having to do that...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (exHjb)

176 Heh. National Guard. When I was in my teens the local Guard unit (MP Battalion) was called into action for combat during the Hough riots in Cleveland. Myself and a couple buds were cheering on the convoy on US 422, jeeps with M1919 MGs and loaded belts in full view. And this was pre Kent State.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (0EOe9)

177 I feel bad for all the Asian valedictorians who won't be honored because they canceled valedictorians and graduation.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (JeYYB)

You'll feel less bad when you find out how 90% of them vote.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (2e48P)

178 152 Would it really be a bad thing if these institutions of higher learning were literally BURNED TO THE GROUND?

I may change my vote.

Let it burn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 12:34 PM (urHev)

Amazingly enough, and I know this may come as a shock, but your average anti-Western Civilization advocate/professor is not likely to advocate for the destruction of his place of employment even though it was originally conceived to advance the interests of civilization.

"Tear down Western civ! Except that. We make our living there."

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (BhMhR)

179 Umm...
Posted by: University of Texas at Austin at April 26, 2024 12:40 PM (hCzfy)

Key word here is Austin.. Might as well be in San Francisco

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (Akjoo)

180 Felonies are forever also helps a lot. Even if they let you go now, having a rule with felonies as forever means morons have to think how much they think they can get away with...forever.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (exHjb)

181 I keep seeing how people are saying this is a tune up for the Dem's Convention. You know damn well they will target the Republican one as well.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (W/lyH)

182 >I feel bad for all the Asian valedictorians who won't be honored because they canceled valedictorians and graduation.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (JeYYB)

You'll feel less bad when you find out how 90% of them vote.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (2e48P)


Not to mention how many of them cheat.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (rJ48h)

183 Pay the money, do the work, get the shaft. No graduation.

I'd be pissed.

Grandma was coming into town. Uncle Bill, and Aunt Jane too.

Posted by: Disgusted at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (Z8Yh2)

184 NBA Superstar Joel Embiid’s Eyes And Forehead Have Been Acting Very Strange And Now We Might Know Why: Bell’s Palsy
Posted by: SMOD



Aliens.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (0hu/3)

185 He may be a punchline, but he is also a sad, vindictive wannabe authoritarian who shows no respect for the First Amendment – or the Fourth Estate.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

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"The Fourth Estate" is the largest dung heap on the Dem Plantation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (8FmJd)

186 Makes me feel young again. Unfortunately, this isn't likely too lead to a 1972 level landslide.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (1bNHn)

187 Now, you 'ettes just stop it!

Biden Told Howard Stern About Women Mailing Him 'Very Salacious Pictures' (and Other Doozies)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (L/fGl)

188 Or are these loathesome CHUDs just throwing together make-shift tents made from garbage and leftwing tears?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

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Soros's son went cheap on the bulk buying of tents.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (JeYYB)

189 They are not anti-war, they are anti-America.

So who's the new Jane Fonda to travel to Gaza and mount a Technical?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (J4Vhp)

190 Umm...
Posted by: University of Texas at Austin at April 26, 2024 12:40 PM (hCzfy)

Key word here is Austin.. Might as well be in San Francisco
Posted by: It's me donna


Exactly. Moscow on the Colorado.

Step foot outside of Austin and it's no bueno.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (0hu/3)

191 Everyone will be similarly shocked to learn that the Soros-funded leftwing DA in Austin has already declined to prosecute any of the stank-ass hippies that got arrested at the University of Texas.
Posted by: ballistic at April 26, 2024 12:33 PM

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And in jurisdictions where the DA isn't a Soros puppet, Soros money will be paying for lawyers to make sure any charges filed are dropped and expunged.

Posted by: Bigsmith at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (HXk05)

192 Amazingly enough, and I know this may come as a shock, but your average anti-Western Civilization advocate/professor is not likely to advocate for the destruction of his place of employment even though it was originally conceived to advance the interests of civilization.

"Tear down Western civ! Except that. We make our living there."
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (BhMhR)
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It is a bit ironic that the very Western institution in which they are employed (modern universities) is a product of the very system they want to destroy (Western civilization).

If Western civ goes, what do they think will happen to their job?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (7fElN)

193 Dudes and Dudettes, those videos of the cops manhandling those smelly subhuman animals are awesome. More please. I especially like the high-pitched, ultra-feminine, rodent-like shrieking heard in the background.

Anyone still think the DNC ain't gonna be lit af? I know there are those here who think the DNC can somehow contain these deranged animals. I don't see that happening.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

194 So who's the new Jane Fonda to travel to Gaza and mount a Technical?
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The old Susan Sarandon.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 12:45 PM (vtyCZ)

195 193 Anyone still think the DNC ain't gonna be lit af? I know there are those here who think the DNC can somehow contain these deranged animals. I don't see that happening.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

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Chicago is going to be the safest it's been in decades. Well, the 10 block radius around the DNC where all the cops in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan will be stationed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

196 They are not anti-war, they are anti-America.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (J4Vhp)

As Glenn Reynolds likes to say, "They're not anti-war, they're on the other side."

And they say just that. "We are Hamas." Something tells me they're not being hyperbolic. I think we should take them at their word.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:45 PM (BhMhR)

197 Wtf is a non-waterproof tent? Aren't all tents waterproof? It would kinda defeat the purpose if they weren't. Or are these loathesome CHUDs just throwing together make-shift tents made from garbage and leftwing tears?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
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I doubt any of them have been camping in the woods at all. And I also doubt any of them can comprehend the assembly instructions.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (7fElN)

198 Seeing large black police officers clubbing these people warms my heart.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (i7Q7S)

199 196 And they say just that. "We are Hamas." Something tells me they're not being hyperbolic. I think we should take them at their word.
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:45 PM (BhMhR)

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That's almost like it's an admission of being part of a terrorist organization.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

200
182 >I feel bad for all the Asian valedictorians who won't be honored because they canceled valedictorians and graduation.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (JeYYB)

You'll feel less bad when you find out how 90% of them vote.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:41 PM (2e48P)


Not to mention how many of them cheat.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (rJ48h)

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You turds ruined my joke.

It was supposed to be about how those protesting, whites, and affirmative action enrollees would not be the valedictorians.

meh

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (JeYYB)

201 Picture it.....
Filthy hippies set up tent in my front yard. I stroll out to ask what the fuck they imagine they are doing. Protesting, you say? Whelp... You're gonna need a latrine. Fetch shovels. Point the pistol at them while they dig. That hole is about 5 ft deep now. Good enough! Blam! Fill the hole with filthy hippies and their stuff. Cover hole. Done!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (4XwPj)

202 And they say just that. "We are Hamas." Something tells me they're not being hyperbolic. I think we should take them at their word.
Posted by: Robert


So we can start shooting them?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (0hu/3)

203 I feel bad for all the Asian valedictorians who won't be honored because they canceled valedictorians and graduation.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (JeYYB)

This graduating class is the same group that was ROBBED of their high school graduation because the stupid COVID hysteria. If they cancel these graduations en masse, then you will see some actual grass-roots rioting. I will be among them.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (AbL8c)

204 So what are the odds that tons of drug use and sexual assaults are taking place in these squalid tent cities?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

205 I've never understood how no one points out to these protesters: If you feel SO strongly about "the cause", why are you not over in Gaza/Ukraine/etc. fighting the good fight against the "evil oppressors"?
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Kinda like how the biggest names in climate hysteria are always jetting around the world to 5-star resorts.

They see themselves as the "important people."
I imagine they have all sorts of self-aggeadizing, puffed-up excuses as to why they are just too valuable to get their hands dirty.

Like all activists: "Raising awareness" is the pinnacle. Because it gets all the headlines without any of the actual work.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (yikga)

206 So, Palestine is the new Vietnam for these people?

Posted by: Paco at April 26, 2024 12:37 PM (njExo)

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And Selma.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (8FmJd)

207 Everyone will be similarly shocked to learn that the Soros-funded leftwing DA in Austin has already declined to prosecute any of the stank-ass hippies that got arrested at the University of Texas.
Posted by: ballistic
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Soros is a NUT! Most conservatives think he's a Marxist--but he's not. He actually has some very astute theories about human behavior and history--but then his megalomania takes over from there.

He's got a theory that the course of history needs crisis to change. Again it's not a bad theory. But he needs that chaos to change the world into the "Open Society". Soros, himself, refutes Marxism, and actually likes markets.

However, in order to make the change that he needs, he needs chaos. ... so he funds chaos. Even though America is one of the countries that comes the closest to his vision of "Open Society", we are too successful, and our success creates "dollar hegemony" which makes the rest of the world serve it. America is his target, because of the "Dollar hegemony".

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (krQz2)

208 The Bull Connor School of Canine Obedience and Fire Hose Handling.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (0EOe9)

209 That's almost like it's an admission of being part of a terrorist organization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

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I'm probably misremembering but didn't Obama take Hamas off the official terrorist designation?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (JeYYB)

210 And Selma.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (8FmJd)
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And Louise.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (krQz2)

211 This outdoorsy blonde knows how to camp in the rain, and is also glad she's not in college:
http://tiny.cc/pa6vxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

212 209 I'm probably misremembering but didn't Obama take Hamas off the official terrorist designation?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (JeYYB)

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I imagine it's been back and forth. Biden's admin probably took it back off after Trump's put it back on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

213 These "protesters" want a change in American Middle East policies, specifically as they pertain to Israel. They're being funded by NGO's and obviously have some support inside the junta. Change policy by intimidation. The mob is a tool to get what the left (a certain faction) wants.

I don't think this is normally how one goes about debating policy changes. But it does seen to be the current mentality of the left. Like I said earlier, there are a number of other policies the left wants to change. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this sort of thing play out elsewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

214 If Western civ goes, what do they think will happen to their job?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (7fElN)

It's not that they think the West will go away, it'll just evolve into their prophesied utopia at which point they will be elevated into the High Holy Priesthood.

In reality they'll just be butchered by the ruthless blood thirsty pragmatists that see straight through their bullshit. For example see Stalin, Joseph.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:49 PM (BhMhR)

215 >Anyone still think the DNC ain't gonna be lit af? I know there are those here who think the DNC can somehow contain these deranged animals. I don't see that happening.


I've assumed that the powers behind the throne have threatened to Seth Rich any rioters who embarrassed the DNC. I may be wrong.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 26, 2024 12:49 PM (rJ48h)

216 Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (JeYYB)

I always think it's a laugh riot when people take me seriously.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:49 PM (2e48P)

217 Pay the money, do the work, get the shaft. No graduation.

I'd be pissed.

Grandma was coming into town. Uncle Bill, and Aunt Jane too.
Posted by: Disgusted at April 26, 2024 12:42 PM (Z8Yh2)
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Ha! And Lori Loughlin went to jail so her idiot kid could go to USC.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 12:49 PM (W/lyH)

218 Wtf is a non-waterproof tent? Aren't all tents waterproof? It would kinda defeat the purpose if they weren't.



*1st time camping boy scout reaching up and pressing on canvas tent side during a rainstorm.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:49 PM (0hu/3)

219 11 I miss the good old days, when democrat mayors would order the police to shoot to kill.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (lTGtQ)

What's old can be new again!

Posted by: B Johnson at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (53oGX)

220 197 Wtf is a non-waterproof tent? Aren't all tents waterproof? It would kinda defeat the purpose if they weren't. Or are these loathesome CHUDs just throwing together make-shift tents made from garbage and leftwing tears?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
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I doubt any of them have been camping in the woods at all. And I also doubt any of them can comprehend the assembly instructions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (7fElN)
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Well, in fairness it is hard for minorities and other oppressed peoples to participate in outdoor activities like camping and hiking and bicycle riding and walking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

221 @177

>>You'll feel less bad when you find out how 90% of them vote.

The only group that votes for Donks in higher percentages than Asians, are blacks.

Which is why it was hysterical to hear that the "driving" force for Gavin Newsome's recall were Asians, who then went on, inexplicably, to vote for him in higher percentages in the recall than in his general election win.

Weird.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (XV/Pl)

222 189 They are not anti-war, they are anti-America.

So who's the new Jane Fonda to travel to Gaza and mount a Technical?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:43 PM (J4Vhp)

They are pro hamas.simple as that.how these antifa types don't realize they are on the side of the little German mustache man is beyond belief.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (OiAR7)

223 However, in order to make the change that he needs, he needs chaos. ... so he funds chaos. Even though America is one of the countries that comes the closest to his vision of "Open Society", we are too successful, and our success creates "dollar hegemony" which makes the rest of the world serve it. America is his target, because of the "Dollar hegemony".
Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (krQz2)
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And Dollar Hegemony is ending. How of that is his doing, I dunno. It was inevitable at some point no matter what, and a lot of the underlying causes have nothing to do with his actions.

It's likely that all Soros had to do was wait and it would happen anyway. And then he'd learn that his utopian vision is, like all utopian visions, bullshit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)

224 OWS was wall to wall theft, sexual assault, and Noro virus.

Be a real shame for these vermin to repeat it but instead of Noro, measles and TB due to cultural enrichment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (J4Vhp)

225 Univ of Texas President Jay Hartzell is a human cuttlefish, which is actually an insult to spineless creatures. Back during peak-BLM the campus lefties determined that “The Eyes of Texas” was a racist song bcuz it was performed at a minstrel show a century ago. Woke band members refused to play the alma mater. Hartzell responded by hiding under his desk and whimpering in fear that a 19 year old clarinetist might call him a racist. He promised to create a protest band that would attend football games starting in 2022 for the purpose of *not* playing the school song. When things cooled off after a year or two, he just pretended his wimpy capitulation never happened. This helpless piece of rotten gelatin is running the school. Governor Abbott needs to threaten his regents to replace Hartzell.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (TbY2s)

226 I've never understood how no one points out to these protesters: If you feel SO strongly about "the cause", why are you not over in Gaza/Ukraine/etc. fighting the good fight against the "evil oppressors"?
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Because that would only make a choice for them. All us "Little Eichmanns" are really the problem and our complicity--and thus contribution to the "crime"--must be stopped.

Leftism isn't about self-reform. Because The Cause is not furthered by individual, piecemeal conversion and persuasion. It must be about advancing The Cause, "by any means necessary."

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (krQz2)

227 221 The only group that votes for Donks in higher percentages than Asians, are blacks.

Which is why it was hysterical to hear that the "driving" force for Gavin Newsome's recall were Asians, who then went on, inexplicably, to vote for him in higher percentages in the recall than in his general election win.

Weird.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (XV/Pl)

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And Philly's turnout is 105%!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

228 http://tiny.cc/pa6vxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

Mmmmmmm, lovely!

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:51 PM (BhMhR)

229 I know it was mentioned yesterday but hoo boy is Susan Sarandan dumb.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (JeYYB)

230 That's almost like it's an admission of being part of a terrorist organization.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

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"That's still nowhere the threat level though posed by Traditional Catholics, PTA Parents, military veterans, and Ultra MAGAts."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (8FmJd)

231 Anyone still think the DNC ain't gonna be lit af? I know there are those here who think the DNC can somehow contain these deranged animals. I don't see that happening.


I've assumed that the powers behind the throne have threatened to Seth Rich any rioters who embarrassed the DNC. I may be wrong.
Posted by: mr tmz



You know they have. Kinda like how BLM evaporated when Bribem was installed.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (0hu/3)

232 229 I know it was mentioned yesterday but hoo boy is Susan Sarandan dumb.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (JeYYB)

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"But dem titties."
-Tim Robbins, for a long time

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

233 http://tiny.cc/pa6vxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

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#OrangeHairBad!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (8FmJd)

234 You turds ruined my joke.

It was supposed to be about how those protesting, whites, and affirmative action enrollees would not be the valedictorians.
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So the bear wipes his ass with the white non-valedictorian.

Posted by: just the punchline at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (vtyCZ)

235 Read the bios of the rest of the Philosophy Dept at Emory. Plenty of critical theory sympathy in that department.

I wonder how the Mathematics Department fares in this regard ...

Posted by: Pussy Galore at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (MB784)

236 In a way, I don't blame the Qatari government, or George Soros. They enlist these douchebag mostly white "students" to behave this way, and the kids perform on cue, flawlessly.

I blame the parents for raising this shitty kids who are so willing to be so fully bought and paid for by foreign governments and globalist oligarchs.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (QynZB)

237 "dollar hegemony"

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Russia and China Both Dump the Dollar as the Kremlin Announces New Trade Corridors

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Another Biden foreign policy triumph!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (L/fGl)

238 Leftist lawbreaking on a college campus is free speech. Non-leftist speech anywhere is hate speech and violence.




Posted by: Gref at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (5fDan)

239 211 This outdoorsy blonde knows how to camp in the rain, and is also glad she's not in college:
http://tiny.cc/pa6vxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

She needs some sunscreen. Extra-large bottle, too...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (wtvvX)

240 195 193 Anyone still think the DNC ain't gonna be lit af? I know there are those here who think the DNC can somehow contain these deranged animals. I don't see that happening.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

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Chicago is going to be the safest it's been in decades. Well, the 10 block radius around the DNC where all the cops in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan will be stationed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
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You keep using those words . . .

I don't see it happening. I hope I am right and you are wrong. I want to see riots and chaos and blood and death.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

241 How many milliKohns does Susan Sarandon rate?

"Dammit Janet!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (J4Vhp)

242 I doubt any of them have been camping in the woods at all. And I also doubt any of them can comprehend the assembly instructions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:46 PM (7fElN)
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Well, in fairness it is hard for minorities and other oppressed peoples to participate in outdoor activities like camping and hiking and bicycle riding and walking.
Posted by: Elric Blade


Can't act like whitey.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (0hu/3)

243 I've assumed that the powers behind the throne have threatened to Seth Rich any rioters who embarrassed the DNC. I may be wrong.

Posted by: mr tmz

I wonder if we'll be treated to a small but orderly "show protest" to appease the terrorist wing of the party.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 12:55 PM (hCzfy)

244 Speaking of dollar hegemony, didn't Putin start backing the Russian ruble with gold at the start of the war?

Smart move.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:55 PM (JeYYB)

245
I'm probably misremembering but didn't Obama take Hamas off the official terrorist designation?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (JeYYB)

It was Hezbollah in 2015 in something called the Clapper Report (lol) but then there is this from the one and only Genius Von Fuckstain in 2009:

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The Obama Administration should remove Hamas from the terrorist list, former President Jimmy Carter told media following his visit to Gaza today. He said he plans on pushing for the change when he meets with U.S. officials on Thursday to discuss his latest trip to the Middle East.

Carter’s comments came during a joint press conference with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh following their meeting today in Gaza. The former president said he tried to convince Hamas leaders to denounce violence, accept the existing interim agreements and recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist.

"Hamas leaders want peace and they want to have reconciliation not only with their Fatah brothers but also eventually with Israelis to live side by side, with two nations, both sovereign nations recognized by each other and living in peace," Carter said.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:55 PM (2e48P)

246 You keep using those words . . .

I don't see it happening. I hope I am right and you are wrong. I want to see riots and chaos and blood and death.
Posted by: Elric Blade


I do too. I just don't see it happening against fellow travelers is all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:56 PM (0hu/3)

247 I know it was mentioned yesterday but hoo boy is Susan Sarandan dumb.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (JeYYB)

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Speaking is not the best use of her mouth, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Weinstein at April 26, 2024 12:56 PM (2UnvF)

248 Riots at the Chicago DNC Convention!!?!

Cue The Doors!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnoM25D-js

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 26, 2024 12:56 PM (wtvvX)

249 I know it was mentioned yesterday but hoo boy is Susan Sarandan dumb.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (JeYYB)

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"But dem titties."
-Tim Robbins, for a long time
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

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It was interesting to see Robbins red-pilled a year or two ago -- at least IIRC about the multiple Covid PsyOps (masks, jabs, "horse paste," etc.).

I wondered then if that was going to affect their relationship as well as get him cancelled by Hollywood and his friends ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (8FmJd)

250 This outdoorsy blonde knows how to camp in the rain, and is also glad she's not in college:
http://tiny.cc/pa6vxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

I love those mountains.

The lady in front isn't hideous, but I bet she knows squat about camping. Only "outdoorsy" long enough to get the Gram shots.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (QynZB)

251 240 You keep using those words . . .

I don't see it happening. I hope I am right and you are wrong. I want to see riots and chaos and blood and death.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

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I just don't see the Democrat Party, as insane, stupid, and shortsighted as they are, not understanding that they need the DNC to go off without a hitch. Throwing money at security is going to be a very top concern.

On top of that, though, any disruption that does happen to occur will get no camera time. Any media allowed access will be either incredibly friendly to the goal of keeping the affair neat and tidy or shoved into a small box where they can't see anything unapproved.

At worst, we might see Code Pink unfurl a banner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

252 "Hamas leaders want peace and they want to have reconciliation not only with their Fatah brothers but also eventually with Israelis to live side by side, with two nations, both sovereign nations recognized by each other and living in peace," Carter said.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:55 PM (2e48P)

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Sure, Jan.

Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (JeYYB)

253 Susan Sarandon has a charity I kind of respect. Giving goats to hungry third worlders that have nothing. The goats eat anything, provide a yield of milk higher than a dairy cow pound per pound. When they dry out, you kill 'em, eat 'em and use the hide. Now I am sure Suzy has taken certain social date night interludes into consideration. Yes, we will see her screaming from a Technical.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (0EOe9)

254 It's likely that all Soros had to do was wait and it would happen anyway. And then he'd learn that his utopian vision is, like all utopian visions, bullshit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)
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Didn't he make his fortune on currency speculation? I don't think he gives a shit about the dollar except how he can profit from its destruction. He also doesn't give a shit about utopia.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (7fElN)

255 249 I wondered then if that was going to affect their relationship as well as get him cancelled by Hollywood and his friends ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (8FmJd)

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I feel like they divorced or split up like 5 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

256 Aren't these yutes calling Joey 'Genocide Joe'?

Don't think folks like that will play nice at Chicago.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (J4Vhp)

257
It's likely that all Soros had to do was wait and it would happen anyway. And then he'd learn that his utopian vision is, like all utopian visions, bullshit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)
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It's bullshit in his own terms.

What is an "Open Society"? Well, Soros puts it as a society where any member has an equal role in shaping it.

Soros believes that it is his role--and life's work--to bring us his vision. So, by definition, nobody will have more say in how society is shaped then George Soros.

But just like Marxist never-neverland, only in an Open Society will people be perfect enough to participate in an Open Society. Only once Soros has broken us of all our flaws that keep us from "Open Society" can he then give us our share of the reins.

Plus, it's clear from his other view of history is that history is shaped by mistaken perceptions (it's an interesting theory) and how those misperceptions create mistakes, like the boom-and-bust cycle that it is NOT AT ALL clear which specific shape of society is allowable.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (krQz2)

258 http://tiny.cc/pa6vxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:48 PM (HnUIn)

I love those mountains.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (QynZB)

And the scenery in the background ain't too bad, either.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (BhMhR)

259 A couple of very large black snakes tossed into their encampment would clear the place out very quickly.

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (QB+5g)

260 Speaking of dollar hegemony, didn't Putin start backing the Russian ruble with gold at the start of the war?

Smart move.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:55 PM (JeYYB)

Wait, I thought everyone in the Biden government told us Pootin was stoopid.

Are you suggesting our government isn't always telling us the truth?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (QynZB)

261 260 Wait, I thought everyone in the Biden government told us Pootin was stoopid.

Are you suggesting our government isn't always telling us the truth?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (QynZB)

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His finance guy is apparently some kind of mad genius who gambled big.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

262 Chicago is going to be the safest it's been in decades. Well, the 10 block radius around the DNC where all the cops in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan will be stationed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

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They can re-use the fencing put up around D.C. after J6 for months.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (8FmJd)

263 135
‘ declined to prosecute’
Can they be tried outside Travis County?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (jbnUc)

264 "USC has given in to the demands of The Stinkies"

I think this is the opposite. USC banned a pro-Palestinian from speaking at the commencement, and has been dealing with protests over it ever since. I think USC finally decided that the only way they could prevent an anti-semitic outburst at the commencement was to not hold the commencement.

Posted by: junior at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (OXXIx)

265 I know it was mentioned yesterday but hoo boy is Susan Sarandan dumb.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 12:52 PM (JeYYB)

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"But dem titties."
-Tim Robbins, for a long time
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



The intertubes are full of chicks who will show their tits and aren't toxic.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (0hu/3)

266 Didn't some report show this was coming from the Soros foundation? They are paying for this agitation.

A Jew. Paying for anti-Jew protests.


The mind bogglespazzes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (RUMEY)

267 And the scenery in the background ain't too bad, either.
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (BhMhR)

I'd prefer the scenery, if the thot wasn't in the way.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (QynZB)

268 240 You keep using those words . . .

I don't see it happening. I hope I am right and you are wrong. I want to see riots and chaos and blood and death.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

It ain't gonna happen. The Brownshirts want to kill Righties, not their own.

Yet.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (UnA8+)

269 266 A Jew. Paying for anti-Jew protests.


The mind bogglespazzes.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (RUMEY)

Soros gave up his birthright as part of the Best of Humanity long, long ago.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:00 PM (UnA8+)

270
Something I've noted before is how 'hostility' appears to be a side effect of mRNA vaccines. These 'kids' probably all got the vax at the insistence of snowflake parents.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 01:00 PM (RKVpM)

271 But just like Marxist never-neverland, only in an Open Society will people be perfect enough to participate in an Open Society. Only once Soros has broken us of all our flaws that keep us from "Open Society" can he then give us our share of the reins.

Plus, it's clear from his other view of history is that history is shaped by mistaken perceptions (it's an interesting theory) and how those misperceptions create mistakes, like the boom-and-bust cycle that it is NOT AT ALL clear which specific shape of society is allowable.
Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (krQz2)
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It's perfectly clear: whichever shape the megalomaniac and his followers dictate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:00 PM (HnUIn)

272 Well, it explains his willingness to work for the Nazis.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 01:00 PM (RUMEY)

273 I think this is the opposite. USC banned a pro-Palestinian from speaking at the commencement, and has been dealing with protests over it ever since. I think USC finally decided that the only way they could prevent an anti-semitic outburst at the commencement was to not hold the commencement.

Posted by: junior

Yup.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 26, 2024 01:01 PM (hCzfy)

274 "Hamas leaders want peace and they want to have reconciliation not only with their Fatah brothers but also eventually with Israelis to live side by side, with two nations, both sovereign nations recognized by each other and living in peace," Carter said.

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They should put that on his tombstone.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:01 PM (8FmJd)

275
A Jew. Paying for anti-Jew protests.

The mind bogglespazzes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM

This is why you're an antisemite.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 01:01 PM (RKVpM)

276 "Hamas leaders want peace and they want to have reconciliation not only with their Fatah brothers but also eventually with Israelis to live side by side, with two nations, both sovereign nations recognized by each other and living in peace," Carter said.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:55 PM (2e48P)

Carter's visiting Gaza? I thought he was dead.

He sure looked dead at his wife's funeral a few months ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:01 PM (QynZB)

277 @261


>>His finance guy is apparently some kind of mad genius who gambled big.

* Touches Nose *

Buy Tesla and NVIDIA on the dip.

* Walks away looking for a Bar *

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (XV/Pl)

278 Susan Sarandon has a charity I kind of respect. Giving goats to hungry third worlders that have nothing. The goats eat anything, provide a yield of milk higher than a dairy cow pound per pound. When they dry out, you kill 'em, eat 'em and use the hide. Now I am sure Suzy has taken certain social date night interludes into consideration. Yes, we will see her screaming from a Technical.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (0EOe9)

I remember reading something years ago about how goats are always a sign of poverty. I can't recall the rationale but goats are poverty and cattle leads to wealth. Or...something.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (BhMhR)

279 144
‘ Canadian club.’

Hahaha! You bastards better wash the baby seal blood off first!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (jbnUc)

280 181 I keep seeing how people are saying this is a tune up for the Dem's Convention. You know damn well they will target the Republican one as well.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Maybe so, but these demos are against Biden.

Soros taken in context is against order any order and disrupting the DNC will be much more chaotic than the RNC marshmallows.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (lCWOD)

281 I think this is the opposite. USC banned a pro-Palestinian from speaking at the commencement, and has been dealing with protests over it ever since. I think USC finally decided that the only way they could prevent an anti-semitic outburst at the commencement was to not hold the commencement.
Posted by: junior at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (OXXIx)
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Or preemptively ask for the Guard and the local PDs to post soldiers and riot troops and the moment one of them steps out line, attempt to arrest and open fire if unable to do so. Make it very clear that university business *will* continue and if you violate the rules or the event, you *will* pay for the transgression.

If they could do it in Little Rock, they can do it at USC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (HnUIn)

282 Soros' father set George on his path of evil.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (J4Vhp)

283 Money well spent.

Posted by: George Soros at April 26, 2024 01:02 PM (47aTZ)

284 Somebody is financing the organization of these protests, criminal.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (FQ+mV)

285 Have the Dirties cleared it with the students actually interested in getting a degree for the $80,000 per year they're paying that the school will be turned into a No-Go CHAZ/CHAP situation during the most critical two weeks of the year, or nah?

"You go now! This Hahvad!"

Posted by: mrp at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (rj6Yv)

286 Can they be tried outside Travis County?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (jbnUc)

Isn't it a tenet of the law that you have to be tried where the crime occurred unless the defendant requests, and is granted, a change of venue?

I could see the upcoming legislature making a law stating that crimes on state property may be tried in any part of the state. Don't know if it would fly.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (IUd0M)

287 Soros gave up his birthright as part of the Best of Humanity long, long ago.
Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:00 PM (UnA8+)

Being a business partner with Hitler shoulda been the clue.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (QynZB)

288 Apparently there is a Christian/Jewish demonstration in NY in support of Israel.
Thousands there.
Huh...
Crickets from the media.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (W/lyH)

289 Joe Biden on Friday morning called into “The Howard Stern Show” in an unannounced appearance on the far-left shock jock’s SiriusXM show.

The live interview went sideways after Joe Biden absurdly claimed he “got arrested standing on a porch with a black family” during the civil rights movement.

Biden recounted a conversation with his mother: “She said Joey, remember – true story – remember when they were desegregating… the neighborhood, you know, 70 homes built…and there was a black family moving in and people were down there protesting. I told you not to go down there and you went down. Remember that? And you came and got arrested for standing on the porch with a black family and they brought you back, the police? I said, yeah mom, I remember that!”

This is why Biden’s handlers do not allow him to do live interviews.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

290 251 240 You keep using those words . . .

I don't see it happening. I hope I am right and you are wrong. I want to see riots and chaos and blood and death.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

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I just don't see the Democrat Party, as insane, stupid, and shortsighted as they are, not understanding that they need the DNC to go off without a hitch. Throwing money at security is going to be a very top concern.

At worst, we might see Code Pink unfurl a banner.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't disagree with the DNC trying desperately to contain these animals. I just don't think they can. Look at the riots happening just on rando college campuses. Imagine that 10x for a centralized event like DNC. These CHUDs will be hysterical and looking for blood. What are cops and security gonna do when these animals swarm and charge the lines? Shoot them?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

291 So the mRNA shot is Pax?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM (J4Vhp)

292 However, in order to make the change that he needs, he needs chaos. ... so he funds chaos. Even though America is one of the countries that comes the closest to his vision of "Open Society", we are too successful, and our success creates "dollar hegemony" which makes the rest of the world serve it. America is his target, because of the "Dollar hegemony".
Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 12:47 PM (krQz2)
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And Dollar Hegemony is ending. How of that is his doing, I dunno. It was inevitable at some point no matter what, and a lot of the underlying causes have nothing to do with his actions.

It's likely that all Soros had to do was wait and it would happen anyway. And then he'd learn that his utopian vision is, like all utopian visions, bullshit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:50 PM (HnUIn)

Eh, all Soros is trying to do replicate his one glorious moment when he made a bajillion dollars by shorting the pound and smashing the Bank of England.

All the rest of his silly BS about an Open Society is just him putting a pretty face on his greed and ambition for the all the Useful Idiots in the Democrats and elsewhere.

Dollar shorting is his game.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM (eDfFs)

293 The intertubes are full of chicks who will show their tits and aren't toxic.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (0hu/3)

What's that saying about evidence not in existence? Just cuz you're unaware that she's toxic don't mean she's not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM (IUd0M)

294
They mean "We will occupy FIT until our demands are met," but they're uneducated hobos. So, some allowance must be made, as usual.

It's Johnson and his damn war, man!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM (xG4kz)

295 https://youtu.be/17GCBtKYaOg

Posted by: Joe Kidd at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM (88IMd)

296 290 I don't disagree with the DNC trying desperately to contain these animals. I just don't think they can. Look at the riots happening just on rando college campuses. Imagine that 10x for a centralized event like DNC. These CHUDs will be hysterical and looking for blood. What are cops and security gonna do when these animals swarm and charge the lines? Shoot them?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

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Hell, maybe.

But there will be no network cameras. It will be called gang violence, and nobody cares about gang violence in Chicago.

At best, ten blocks from the event, there will be cell phone footage of violence that the media refuses to cover while the NYT runs a front page story about how Trump is calling for violence by saying, "This guac is da bomb."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

297 Apparently there is a Christian/Jewish demonstration in NY in support of Israel.
Thousands there.
Huh...
Crickets from the media.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (W/lyH)

Wait until there's a clash with the Pali protesters.

It'll be Proud Boys and Charlottesville and J6 all over again.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:05 PM (QynZB)

298 They are going to spin this into a reason to limit in person voting and suspend election integrity laws, aren't they.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (PHukT)

299 278 Fun fact. The cool USN flight jacket with the mouton collar, the one everybody tries to rip off, is goat skin. Got one and it shrunk so I gave it to BiL, fellow jarhead. And, summbittch, shrunk on him.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (0EOe9)

300 290 I don't disagree with the DNC trying desperately to contain these animals. I just don't think they can. Look at the riots happening just on rando college campuses. Imagine that 10x for a centralized event like DNC. These CHUDs will be hysterical and looking for blood. What are cops and security gonna do when these animals swarm and charge the lines? Shoot them?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

They won't be at the DNC.

They'll all be swarming the RNC.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (UnA8+)

301 Didn't he make his fortune on currency speculation? I don't think he gives a shit about the dollar except how he can profit from its destruction. He also doesn't give a shit about utopia.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 12:58 PM (7fElN)
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That could be. But his Alchemy of Finance is clear enough, that Soros satisfies his say "theory" that he is "like a god" by delivering Utopia to all us rabble.

He presents a vision that is clear enough that while it may not be legit, at least has to be discussed as positive motivation.

He doesn't mind profiting from his display of the disaster that can come from overreaction that the market does not guard against. The flaw of market overestimation (mistaken perception) is displayed and he is richer, having displayed that.

No, the weakness that is in Soros is his own megalomania. No such theory may exist (it may be one of his own mistaken perceptions), however that doesn't create the role of Soros as savior and doesn't serve his ego. So, his own misperception--by which *he* wants to shape society--must propose The Solution.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (krQz2)

302 Imagine being a USC parent who has made plane/hotel/car reservations, set up brunches and and celebratory dinners, flowers etc. to enjoy when travelling to see their kid graduate and paying a over $200,000 to send them there.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (JeYYB)

303 Second thoughts about creating Frankenstein's monster? Nah. They're good with it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (R4t5M)

304
Q: What's the difference
between Stinkies and Dirties?

A: One is purportedly able to spell a word one letter longer than the other.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2024 01:06 PM (xG4kz)

305 nood deportations

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

306 Stop hitting yourself

Stop hitting yourself


Ok. Fine, burn it all down.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (l+ral)

307 Apropos of nothing, I knew that Texas had a lot of small counties (I would have guessed about 100), but didn't know until just looking it up that they have 254 of them.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (8FmJd)

308 The left needs a resounding defeat. All of the actors fomenting and funding this bullshit have to be destroyed is a very public fashion.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (PHukT)

309 NUDE

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

310
So the mRNA shot is Pax?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 01:04 PM

Based on the timeline of introduction, yes I believe it is. With initial warnings that 'hostility' was a side effect. My guess is that the animal studies used rats and they bared their teeth at a higher frequency or some other similar metric.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 01:07 PM (RKVpM)

311 This is why Biden’s handlers do not allow him to do live interviews.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

I'm of the belief the powers that be are more than willing to allow Alzheimer Joe to go out there and show himself to be mentally incompetent.

Whether that leads to him being replaced, or they're willing to sacrifice him in November, we'll just have to wait and see.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 01:08 PM (QynZB)

312 @290 Eric Blade & TJM-Wouldnt be surprised to see either scenario play out.
Would love to see mayhem but won't be surprised to see the Dems go full police sate and lock down the area. We've seen it before. They have their own FAFO ways too.

Posted by: JROD at April 26, 2024 01:08 PM (IlL6s)

313 Jeffrey Dahmer was framed!!! He was a vegan!!!! Free Mumia!!! The Boston Strangler is a type of snake!!! John Wayne Gacy was predisposed to being a killer because his middle name is Wayne!!!! Bitch set me up!!!!

By the way, what color ribbon should I be wearing to support hypocritical jackasses supporting rape, murder, maiming, and destruction?

Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2024 01:08 PM (dIske)

314 These attacks are well funded and organized. The terrorists are being bailed out by the same organizations. They are demonstrably receiving material support from Hamas and Iran. It is exactly the type of treasonous conspiracy that federal law and statutes like RICO were meant to address.

But the DoJ is too busy prosecuting a former president because he is their opposition candidate, and the other letter agencies are going after people who vote the "wrong" way.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 26, 2024 01:08 PM (5Vdzv)

315
Imagine being a USC parent who has made plane/hotel/car reservations, set up brunches and and celebratory dinners, flowers etc. to enjoy when travelling to see their kid graduate and paying a over $200,000 to send them there.
Posted by: Seems Legit

Hey, we didn't call them the "University of Spoiled Children" and wave dollar bills at their cheering section at their football games with Cal without good reason, man

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 26, 2024 01:09 PM (xG4kz)

316 I wish Abbott and others would stop talking about "hate speech" and anti-semitism, which are not illegal, and stick to the actual laws that were broken like trespassing.

Posted by: Stout at April 26, 2024 01:09 PM (B1up+)

317 293 The intertubes are full of chicks who will show their tits and aren't toxic.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:59 PM (0hu/3)
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Promiscuity is not a road to the shining city on the hill.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (lCWOD)

318 Jeffrey Dahmer was framed!!! He was a vegan!!!!

Posted by: Orson at April 26, 2024 01:08 PM (dIske)
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Hitler was such a rigid vegetarian that the doctor treating him for acute stomach pains thought it best not to disclose that what der Fuhrer benefitted from was fermented pig guts injected into his intestines.

Posted by: Axeman at April 26, 2024 01:12 PM (krQz2)

319 201
I won’t ask any questions about the new ‘septic tank’
in MadameMayhem’s front yard.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (jbnUc)

320 I'm going to check on my Alma mater to see if there are any of these wet turds protesting there.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 26, 2024 01:13 PM (XT+5H)

321 No, the weakness that is in Soros is his own megalomania. No such theory may exist (it may be one of his own mistaken perceptions), however that doesn't create the role of Soros as savior and doesn't serve his ego. So, his own misperception--by which *he* wants to shape society--must propose The Solution.
Posted by: Axeman
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Seeing as Soros is 93, I doubt he is doing that much besides drooling, yelling at the sky, and crapping his drawers. Might be even worse from the various drugs he is probably taking to stave off Mr. Death.

His twink son is running the destruction apparatus now. It might be quite interesting when Soros does kick off the mortal coil because he cut out other of his kids to let Alex run the show. Figure court battles subsequent over succession.

A bunch of these drooling elderly nepots refuse to die; probably because they know what is waiting for them when they do.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:15 PM (/xdjH)

322 Dammit I said nepots when I meant despots. That is on me.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (/xdjH)

323 286
‘ tenet of the law ’

Yes but we’re in a new era of law now, aren’t we?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (jbnUc)

324 322 Dammit I said nepots when I meant despots. That is on me.
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Makes you a monkey's uncle, Whig!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 01:23 PM (vtyCZ)

325 Dammit I said nepots when I meant despots. That is on me.
Posted by: whig at April 26, 2024 01:16 PM (/xdjH)

Is it really all that inaccurate?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 01:26 PM (2e48P)

326 As Monk once said of The Dirties: "They make their own sauce."

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Ah, another Monk fan : )

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 26, 2024 01:38 PM (w6EFb)

327 Dude the ones in Austin didn’t get “violent”. The University administration decided it didn’t want them there, so they put boundaries in place and used boundary encroachment as the pretext to haul a bunch of them off.

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at April 26, 2024 02:29 PM (q2Ime)

THE MORNING RANT: Follow-Up to Post Regarding Reliance on Falsified Government Economic Data; Also ESG Investments Facing Major Outflows

My post this past Monday was titled “Why Do Intelligent People Continue to Rely on Government Data That is Known to Be False?” In it, I discussed the persistently false economic data published by the government, especially the Department of Labor’s inflation and jobs reports, and how intelligent(?) people in positions of authority “make critical decisions based on that data, even though there is a near certainty it will be revised to a less favorable report (or simply proven false) once the headlines become stale.”

Reader TGSam then sent the following from Jim Bianco to my attention, which shows that not only are the Department of Labor’s jobs reports not reliable, but the DOL doesn’t even really put any effort into producing their fraudulent weekly jobs report. It would appear that they pick a round number and just run with it for weeks on end.

Mr. Bianco points out the statistical improbability of there being exactly 212,000 claims for initial unemployment week after week. (The number is always rounded to the nearest thousand, but the likelihood of it being 212k every week is extremely improbable.) He writes:

Below is the number of initial filings for unemployment insurance. How is this statistically possible? Five of the last six weeks, the exact same number. Effectively the same number in the last 11 weeks, except for the holiday weeks (President's Day and Easter).

Consider, The US is a $28 trillion economy. It has 160 million workers. Initial claims for unemployment insurance are state programs, with 50 state rules, hundreds of offices, and 50 websites to file. Weather, seasonality, holidays, and economic vibrations drive the number of people filing claims from week to week. Yet this measure is so stable that it does not vary by even 1,000 applications a week. Just the number of applications incorrectly filled out every week should cause it to vary more than this.

A little digging shows that the Department of Labor intentionally empowers it employees to work some statistical magic on the actual (“unadjusted” jobs figures they have compiled. At the link where the DOL issues its weekly press release announcing the number of new unemployment filings, there is this explanation for the “seasonal adjustment” that has been administered:

C. Seasonal Adjustments and Annual Revisions
Over the course of a year, the weekly changes in the levels of initial claims and continued claims undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These fluctuations may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, the opening and closing of schools, or other similar events. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal variation. These adjustments make trend and cycle developments easier to spot. At the beginning of each calendar year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) with a set of seasonal factors to apply to the unadjusted data during that year. Concurrent with the implementation and release of the new seasonal factors, ETA incorporates revisions to the UI claims historical series caused by updates to the unadjusted data.

As I dove into that website, I saw that the “seasonal adjustment” is actually done every single week, bringing the initial filing report back to the boilerplate 212k number that is constantly being reported.

But again, to Mr. Bianco’s point, even if the seasonal adjustment is done weekly using some mathematical formula that is applied to the unadjusted number, then there should still be some variance from 212k.

It seems rather clear that the “adjusted” figure is just a number pulled out of the air by a DOL employee who can’t be bothered to spend 5 minutes coming up with a new phony number to replace the prior week’s phony number.

*****

Related - a gentleman named Don Harrison, with whom I’ve developed a friendship through mutual friends at the Heartland Institute, sent me the following note in response to the question “Why Do Intelligent People Continue to Rely on Government Data That is Known to Be False?” I found his note to be a terrific essay unto itself.

”I think intelligent people are so often wrong because they ARE intelligent, and because of how their intelligence has come to be nurtured and treated in our modern age. First, people with high IQs are now identified at an early age, and funneled into courses of study that focus on the use and manipulation of symbols, both verbal and mathematical. This gives them a very narrow understanding of the way the world works. In addition, they have been told from an early age how brilliant they are, which teaches them to prize their own thinking above all else. And when they do reach out for another opinion, they almost exclusively deal with people who have similar backgrounds. They have no conception of the implications of William Buckley’s statement that he “would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.” A large group of people will have a store of wisdom, intelligence and experience that a smaller coterie of the best and brightest cannot hope to match. The most distinguishing shortcoming of the intelligentsia is not near-sightedness, progressive politics or an addiction to Starbucks; it is hubris. They don’t know what they don’t know.

I am sure that part of the reason for Thomas Sowell’s true genius is a background that acquainted him with a wide slice of life and taught him humility. As I get older, I am very grateful that I grew up in circumstances that were in some ways similar to his. By the time I got out of high school, I had played sports, planted tobacco, acted in school plays, fished, captained the It’s Academic team, flipped burgers and won oratorical contests. Today a middle-class kid with an academic bent has a tightly overseen routine with no opportunity to get his hands dirty. My tobacco planting, fishing and burger flipping would have no place in his life. All the managers when I worked at McDonalds were former NCOs. You learn things from a Marine with a scar from the corner of his mouth to his ear that he got from a North Korean bayonet in the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir that you can’t pick up in a classroom.

Bottom line: high IQs that are nurtured without an acquaintance with a breadth of experience result in a kind of sterile, and dangerous, stupidity.”

Thank you, Don. Interestingly, Mr. Harrison’s passion and area of expertise is anti-ESG investing. He was a featured guest last month with Jim Lakely and the Heartland gang on their weekly “Climate Realism” broadcast, discussing the topic of “Is ESG on the Outs?” which can be seen at this link if you’re so inclined.

Coincidentally, this heartwarming story about the backlash to ESG investing was just published yesterday:

“US Fund Managers With ESG Mandates Have Worst-Ever Outflows” [Bloomberg – 4/25/2024]

US fund managers suffered their worst-ever quarter for ESG-focused products as the pace of client redemptions intensified. Client withdrawals from US funds targeting environmental, social and governance goals reached $8.8 billion in the first three months of 2024, according to fresh data compiled by Morningstar Inc.

The scale of redemptions from US ESG funds dragged down global inflows, which were a modest $900 million in the first quarter, Morningstar said.

Victory in the culture wars will not occur in Congress, or in the courts, or most anywhere at the federal level. But we can deliver resounding blows to the left in local elections and in how we use our money.

“Sustainable funds have been facing many headwinds in the past couple of years, including elevated energy prices, high interest rates and an ESG backlash in the US,” said Hortense Bioy, global director of sustainability research at Morningstar.

Millions of us using our wallets as weapons are having an impact and causing pain to the woke left. Don’t let up.

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:00 AM (9yWhg)

2 People are retarded. News at 11.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:01 AM (di6C2)

3 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

4 Look into the BLS unemployment stats. Some of those numbers have not changed in six weeks. That is statistically impossible.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:02 AM (lTGtQ)

5 Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal variation.

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Ah yes. The Science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:02 AM (9Ct69)

6 Willowed: Two Mules for Sister Sarah. He had her cut a notch in the arrow shaft, fill it with gun powder, then light the powder as he had her shove it all the way through to cauterize his wound.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 26, 2024

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And Grit cuts it every time they run the movie, so you don't actually see the arrow go through. I saw the movie when it was new, and my date and I were both amazed at how they showed it. Grit cuts it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 11:03 AM (J2vNu)

7 I alerted the otters.

And this looks an awful lot like math.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 11:03 AM (T+Iwg)

8 Statistics are fungible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

9 They are also counting people with multiple jobs as multiple people, in order to fudge the unemployment rate.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:04 AM (lTGtQ)

10 I had a seasonally adjusted BM this morning. Results were up 14% over last weeks numbers!

Posted by: Brown's Septic Service at April 26, 2024 11:06 AM (V5BDR)

11 C. Seasonal Adjustments and Annual Revisions Over the course of a year, the weekly changes in the levels of initial claims and continued claims undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These fluctuations may result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, the opening and closing of schools, or other similar events. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal variation. These adjustments make trend and cycle developments easier to spot.

Dudes. The key to successful fudging is to keep it plausible.

Posted by: Climate change gurus at April 26, 2024 11:06 AM (CsUN+)

12 “Sustainable funds have been facing many headwinds in the past couple of years, including elevated energy prices, high interest rates and an ESG backlash in the US,” said Hortense Bioy, global director of sustainability research at Morningstar.

In the same sense that the stock market in December 1929 faced headwinds.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 11:07 AM (CsUN+)

13 “Why Do Intelligent People Continue to Rely on Government Data That is Known to Be False?”

I wouldn't call them intelligent.

Posted by: sidney at April 26, 2024 11:08 AM (Uy/WF)

14 Seems the BLS and Hamas have the same problem with naturally occuring numbers.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 11:08 AM (2UnvF)

15 >>Mr. Bianco points out the statistical improbability of there being exactly 212,000 claims for initial unemployment week after week.


How is that possible?

"Gee, we have no idea!"
-- The 11 million illegal immigrants in U.S. stat that has been touted for decades

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:08 AM (cCVOS)

16 Statistics are fungible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


89.7% of statistics are made up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:09 AM (9yWhg)

17 Buck's friend is describing the difference between intellect and wisdom...and very nicely.

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 11:09 AM (K+UlC)

18 Not only are the liars, they are incompetent liars.

SADLY, they apparently don't need competence to make the lies stick. Just power.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 26, 2024 11:10 AM (JMAcK)

19 Mr. Bianco points out the statistical improbability of there being exactly 212,000 claims for initial unemployment week after week.


We strive for consistency. You're welcome.

Posted by: BLS at April 26, 2024 11:10 AM (CsUN+)

20 "Gee, we have no idea!"

-- The 11 million illegal immigrants in U.S. stat that has been touted for decades

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:08 AM (cCVOS)

At least since Reagan...so...44 years?

Posted by: BignJames at April 26, 2024 11:11 AM (AwYPR)

21 Statistics are fungible.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


89.7% of statistics are made up.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


83% of them are made up on the spot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 11:11 AM (0hu/3)

22 Raise your hands if you could turn this work product in to your employer and no one visit you?

Posted by: Piper at April 26, 2024 11:11 AM (ZdaMQ)

23 How is this statistically possible?

Five of the last six weeks, the exact same number.

Effectively the same number in the last 11 weeks, except for the holiday weeks (President's Day and Easter).

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Old & Busted: "That would be in the butt, Bob!"
New Hotness: "That would be out of our ass, Buck!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:11 AM (8FmJd)

24 Commenting present and fighting off ads to do that

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 11:12 AM (kGLb6)

25 Jobs are a bummer anyway, man. My crazy check keeps me in dope and candy bars.

Posted by: Layabout Lenny at April 26, 2024 11:12 AM (V5BDR)

26 exactly 212,000 claims for initial unemployment week after wee

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I would bet big money - like house down payment money - that 212K number has some significance to Our Betters and is used on purpose, same as Earth Day being April 22.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:13 AM (9Ct69)

27 Bottom line: high IQs that are nurtured without an acquaintance with a breadth of experience result in a kind of sterile, and dangerous, stupidity.”

aka hothouse flowers

Posted by: Archimedes at April 26, 2024 11:13 AM (CsUN+)

28 >>Not only are the liars, they are incompetent liars.


Reminds of the stray voltage or "f#ck you" liar Obama: he would tell lies that were so obviously lies because he wanted to piss people off. He no doubt delighted in it, he did it so often.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:13 AM (cCVOS)

29 A little digging shows that the Department of Labor intentionally empowers it employees to work some statistical magic on the actual (“unadjusted” jobs figures they have compiled.



If I recall correctly, the person in charge of BLS stats is a DEI hire, whose claim to fame is decrying how many white males are allowed to be in the marketplace.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:14 AM (lTGtQ)

30 You know what is really sad? The government can’t even get lying about numbers right. Odd numbers are more believable than even.

Posted by: Piper at April 26, 2024 11:14 AM (ZdaMQ)

31 High iq people can convince themselves there are more than two genders will simultaneously defining all the myriad genders as variants of the only two known genders.

Smaht! Like wicked Havahd smaht!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 26, 2024 11:14 AM (OiAR7)

32 It's fairly straightforward to use a random number generator to pick something within an acceptable range.

The DoL is too lazy to do even that much.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 11:15 AM (7fElN)

33 The thing about "seasonal adjustments" (whether valid or not) is that they should adjust the raw number up or down by a constant factor that is itself derived by tracking, over many years, of how the raw numbers themselves change seasonally.

So if your output number is unchanged for weeks at a time, it follows that the raw number is unchanged for weeks at a time, which is really, really unlikely. BLS is doing Hamas casualty accounting here.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:15 AM (8zz6B)

34 And this looks an awful lot like math.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 11:03 AM (T+Iwg)



Trust me, no math was involved

Posted by: Dept of Labor at April 26, 2024 11:15 AM (+uHnC)

35 He no doubt delighted in it

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This.

It's like the 4Channers getting black athletes and lefty celebrities to buy crypto with clear racist and Nazi symbols.

The joke is for the insiders. They only want to be amused.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:15 AM (9Ct69)

36 Possible Lefty meltdown incoming-

This is beyond sick. Kristi Noem shot and killed the family's 14-month puppy because it couldn't be trained as a hunting dog...Noem recalled in her book "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,"

'I hated that dog': Kristi Noem recalls gunning down family's 'worthless' pup. She then recounts how she killed one of her family's goats, a “nasty and mean" male that had not been castrated, by dragging him to the gravel pit, and afterward she realized a nearby construction crew had watched her slaughter both animals before her children were dropped off by a school bus.

Wow. What a piece of shit. And not too bright, either, since there are tons of republican & maga dog lovers, too.

The dog was "having the time of her life." Can't have that! The woman is insane, and shouldn't be in any public office - or public place, for that matter. Nobody's telling tales out of school, here - she's tooting her own horn. What the hell is wrong with South Dakota?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 11:16 AM (ycI94)

37 Gubmint jobs are very attractive to folks who have no integrity.

Posted by: No One of Any Consequence at April 26, 2024 11:16 AM (VuZH8)

38 If you did that on your 1040 you would get an automatic audit but federal government so nothing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 26, 2024 11:17 AM (17s+e)

39 I have to do long range projections all of the time, and there is money and jobs on the line.

If I were to turn in this kind of shoddy work, I would be fired, and rightfully so.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:17 AM (lTGtQ)

40 “Sustainable funds have been facing many headwinds in the past couple of years, including elevated energy prices, high interest rates and an ESG backlash in the US,” said Hortense Bioy, global director of sustainability research at Morningstar.
Millions of us using our wallets as weapons are having an impact and causing pain to the woke left. Don’t let up.

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM
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They'll just go back to being sneaky about it. Promoting your fund as ESG was to be just that, a promotion. You get people to feel good about using that icky capitalism as a force for change.
Now they'll just go back to not saying the quiet part out loud.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 26, 2024 11:18 AM (FCbAQ)

41
I would bet big money - like house down payment money - that 212K number has some significance to Our Betters and is used on purpose, same as Earth Day being April 22.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024

Area code of Washington, DC is my bet. I had to call there many a time during my working career.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 11:18 AM (RKVpM)

42 I would bet big money - like house down payment money - that 212K number has some significance to Our Betters and is used on purpose, same as Earth Day being April 22.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:13 AM (9Ct69)

210, 212 - whatever works

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 11:18 AM (K+UlC)

43 That number of initial filings for unemployment insurance?
They get those repetitive numbers because they have farmed out that work to Hamas, you know, the same ones that do monotonically adjusted casualty figures in Gaza.

Posted by: Ciampino - Pluck Yew Toots at April 26, 2024 11:19 AM (qfLjt)

44 And don't forget, greater precision is confused with accuracy.

212,342 one month. 202,876 the next. It's all b.s..

Posted by: No One of Any Consequence at April 26, 2024 11:19 AM (VuZH8)

45 Ok, ok. Boasting of killing a dog is kind of shit. At the same time, I suspect foul play.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:19 AM (di6C2)

46 I can't recall, but it seems to me the Bureau of Labor Statistics was one of those departments that was largely independent but was brought directly under the WH by Obama?

Kinda like he did with the Census?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2024 11:20 AM (yikga)

47 41 DC area code is 202.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:20 AM (9yWhg)

48 Thanks for another great writeup Buck.

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 11:20 AM (53oGX)

49 My father owned a used car lot, fairly successful at it too. He told me “Jimmy, the easiest people to fool are those that think they are smart.”

Never had any reason to doubt that wisdom.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 26, 2024 11:20 AM (17s+e)

50 The number is always rounded to the nearest thousand, but the likelihood of it being 212k every week is extremely improbable.

Put together by the same people who put together Hamas' claimed "casualty" figures.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 26, 2024 11:21 AM (YAtuc)

51 >> exactly 212,000 claims for initial unemployment week after week

Heh. Reminds of a business trip to Dubai in August. Freakin' hot! Asked a local how it was that workers could be out there building skyscrapers in that heat. She assured me that there is a regulation that no building can happen when it gets over 114f (or something close to that) -- she then paused, smiled, and said "and you know, it never gets over 114!"

Maybe 212k is an arbitrary ceiling value, and, say, if it gets over 212k then it triggers some market panic or whatever, so it just never gets over 212, wink wink wink!

*Obviously I'm not a financial person, but this is a political thing, the numbers being fudged.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:21 AM (cCVOS)

52 The premise of the issue assumes these are both intelligent AND objective people, and they're not. They might be intelligent but subjectively committed to Marxism and tearing down this country as founded, and the 'official' data is a tool towards that purpose and thus to be propagated, not challenged. That is why a truly 'intelligent' person would use the 'false' data. Then there's the unintelligent people raised in the ruling class bubble to think they're intelligent that's being discussed here, which is a different thing. I love the 'A Fish Called Wanda' line that applies here:

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WANDA: But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?

OTTO: Apes don't read philosophy.

WANDA: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

Posted by: bearski at April 26, 2024 11:21 AM (Bhsk7)

53 The Neo Nazi Dance Troop at Columbia do a Death To Jews Dance and some X smart asses put it to several other songs.

https://shorturl.at/atuNT

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

54
DC area code is 202.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:20 AM

You're right. I guess I was dealing with some govmint entity out of New York.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 11:23 AM (RKVpM)

55 Sorry, pulling this in from last thread:

I'm not sure what a vampire facial is, but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (IKcSj)

Apparently needles in the face.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

Well there you go, then. That would do it. I did not see that one coming.

Apparently, that's what SHE said.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:23 AM (dGCAG)

56 49 My father owned a used car lot, fairly successful at it too. He told me “Jimmy, the easiest people to fool are those that think they are smart.”

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The Peggy Hill idiom

Posted by: Gaff at April 26, 2024 11:23 AM (jPS2y)

57 Well, I've never planted or harvested tobacco, or flipped burgers. But I worked as a telephone solicitor back in the last days of rotary dial phones, I've been a radio announcer and producer, I've changed oil and tires on my cars, driven a delivery van, programmed computers, and was on my high school "Prep Quiz Bowl" team on the local NBC outlet. Howzdat?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 11:23 AM (J2vNu)

58 53 The Neo Nazi Dance Troop at Columbia do a Death To Jews Dance and some X smart asses put it to several other songs.

https://shorturl.at/atuNT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:22 AM (L/fGl)

What is with these people and drum circles and dances?

Second look at John Lithgow?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:23 AM (di6C2)

59 @41

>>Area code of Washington, DC is my bet. I had to call there many a time during my working career.

212 is a NYC area code for Manhattan.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 11:24 AM (XV/Pl)

60 Ok, ok. Boasting of killing a dog is kind of shit. At the same time, I suspect foul play.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:19 AM (di6C2)

Well, according to DU, the claim that she killed the dog came from a book that she wrote. So it might not have been a "boast", just a recollection of a distasteful chore that she had to do. If the dog was vicious, and had bitten people, or other pets, shooting it might have been necessary.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:24 AM (8zz6B)

61 Are there alternative funds that avoid ESG when these fund managers go full retard and maintain their love for discrimination and indoctrination?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

62 Dudes. The key to successful fudging is to keep it plausible.
Posted by: Climate change gurus at April 26, 2024 11:06 AM (CsUN+)

The key to a good lie is the oddly specific detail.

Posted by: Jeff Bingham at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (FCbAQ)

63 >>Wow. What a piece of shit. And not too bright, either, since there are tons of republican & maga dog lovers, too.


Well, at least she didn't eat it for dinner like TFG?

I will withhold judgement on Noem after how they demonized Romney about his dog (they make up sh#t), but yeah, shooting a dog sounds hideous.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (cCVOS)

64 Well, I've never planted or harvested tobacco, or flipped burgers. But I worked as a telephone solicitor back in the last days of rotary dial phones, I've been a radio announcer and producer, I've changed oil and tires on my cars, driven a delivery van, programmed computers, and was on my high school "Prep Quiz Bowl" team on the local NBC outlet. Howzdat?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Wow. You've done almost as much stuff as Joe Biden.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (9yWhg)

65 I'm betting the dog bit a kid.

Unless the kid was tormenting it and the dog was letting it know to stop, I'd shoot one in a heartbeat if that was the case, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (9Ct69)

66 Reminds me of the TV series Chernobyl where they're reading an instrument that measures radiation exposure. Hmm, not great, but not horrible they said. Turns out the instrument was designed to only show exposure up to a certain level and then cut off.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (2UnvF)

67 I like that answer, regarding why smart people get things wrong. I think the word humility is important too.

If you've been conditioned to believe in your abilities, sometimes humility is an important function you're lacking. Hubris is another one. I can sit her and bullshit you, because I believe I'm smarter than you, even though I don't know what I'm talking about.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (dGCAG)

68 212 is a NYC area code.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (3ImbR)

69 Democracy dies in darkness.

Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine
Axios: Biden advisers are concerned that videos of Biden shuffling alone across the South Lawn to Marine One have highlighted his age. So now aides walk between him and the cameras.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

70 If I recall correctly, the person in charge of BLS stats is a DEI hire, whose claim to fame is decrying how many white males are allowed to be in the marketplace.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:14 AM (lTGtQ)

---------------

"There's a final solution for that ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:26 AM (8FmJd)

71 Democracy dies in darkness.

Miranda Devine
@mirandadevine
Axios: Biden advisers are concerned that videos of Biden shuffling alone across the South Lawn to Marine One have highlighted his age. So now aides walk between him and the cameras.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:26 AM (L/fGl)

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"Where the f*ck is his jet pack?!?!?!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:27 AM (8FmJd)

72 Great topic, Buckster. I subscribe to The Free Press to keep tabs and provide feedback to their writers. These younger folks are beautiful writers, but have almost zero understanding of the subjects they write about.

Practical experience is a must; my story is probably like most here: started fixing all things mechanical with Pops, then dishwasher, then cook, then kitchen manager, US Army active duty in Germany with the Wall still up, bartender/cook/National Guard while in college, into industry raising three kids and a 30 marriage. Oh, and volunteer firefighter on the side.

Buckley's comment is sacrosanct with me. I trust folks that are furthest away from cities.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 26, 2024 11:27 AM (klw0w)

73 Videos of staff needing to help guide Joe across the lawn is bound to help.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:28 AM (9Ct69)

74 10
‘ Results were up 14% over’

By volume or weight?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:28 AM (jbnUc)

75 Dang I was hoping Bucks thread would be a bout EVs. Anyway, if I may change the subject, I have noticed that nearly all Tesla's in my company's parking lot do not have the required front license plate. It's easy to count them because there's a special section so they queue for charging during the day. Out of the 37 I counted today, only 2! had the front plate. What gives!? And I'm not bummed about the special EV parking because we have a special section for trucks too, which is quite nice and spacious.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 11:28 AM (jiy+d)

76 Nice contradiction between fact and fact
Will make the whole read human and exact.
-- Robert Graves, "The Devil's Advice to Storytellers"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:28 AM (9yWhg)

77 Your friend is mostly right, though I'd argue they're not that arrogant about their intelligence because their peers are all pretty similar to them, they tend to think of themselves as average. They are blind to what exists outside of their upbringings, but that's not inherently the same as hubris. A middle class kid would be different, those are the new generation college kids who were the smartest of wherever they were from. People from families who always went to college(back when college was rare) and whose friends did etc. do not have the concept of people who are much dumber than them really existing.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:29 AM (eYoxG)

78 I will withhold judgement on Noem after how they demonized Romney about his dog (they make up sh#t), but yeah, shooting a dog sounds hideous.
Posted by: Lizzy

Yeah, knowing the Left, they could be cherry picking excerpts and quotes from the book, but considering the overwhelming number of threads DU has on the subject, the salacious nature of the accusation, and how Noem is on the forefront of the culture war AND Trump’s VP list, it could blow up in media.

Just like Romney's dog, binders of women, hazing team mates, etc...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 11:30 AM (ycI94)

79 Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
Scoop via @MattBelloni: Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. … participating in multiple strategy sessions on how to best tell the president’s story…”

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Don't worry, Steve. The Nazis will never turn on you.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

80 Maybe 212k is an arbitrary ceiling value, and, say, if it gets over 212k then it triggers some market panic or whatever, so it just never gets over 212, wink wink wink!

*Obviously I'm not a financial person, but this is a political thing, the numbers being fudged.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:21 AM (cCVOS)

I'm sure that happens in all sorts of places. If you have some adverse affect that will result from the data showing this or that, you avoid the data showing this or that.

Part of this comes from underlings who don't want their bosses to come down on them for not fixing the problem, and instead making the bosses aware of something not being right.

There's a strong incentive for a LOT of people, not to let their bosses know what's wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:31 AM (dGCAG)

81 But again, to Mr. Bianco’s point, even if the seasonal adjustment is done weekly using some mathematical formula that is applied to the unadjusted number, then there should still be some variance from 212k.
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Unless 212k is the goal and they adjust the model to reflect the goal.

Like Red China's GDP figures, for example. The Central Committee hands down a goal to the provinces from Beijing, who hand it down to the districts, who hand it down to the local.

The central Party bosses tell the leaders of Jiangsu province that their GDP goal is 8.2%, the Jiangsu Party bosses tell the rural division leaders that their goal is 6.5% and the urban division leaders that their goal is 9.5%, The division leaders tell the district leaders what *their* goals are, and expect results. Nanking's city leaders then spend a bunch of money on phony investments, auction land rights, hand out subsidies, line their own pockets, etc. and then invent a 10.1% growth figure to hand up to Xuanwu District bosses, who aggregate it and declare victory.

What was the real growth rate for Nanking or Xuanwu District or Jiangsu Province or Red China? Search me. But it hit the goal, and that's what matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:31 AM (HnUIn)

82
Travis of the 'Babylon Bee' interviews Dr. Jordan Peterson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6IgyEYfLqw

/ 21 minutes - Jordan steals the show with dry wit

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 11:31 AM (RKVpM)

83 I still wouldn't vote for Noem.

NCAA stooge that she is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

84 Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Well, he has experience with dinosaurs.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (2UnvF)

85 I don't know why, but this made me laugh:

University of Washington group cancels encampment for being too white
©INSTAGRAM / KIRO 7

Pro-Palestinian students at the University of Washington announced their plans to postpone what was supposed to be Thursday's Gaza solidarity encampment because too many white students were involved. The group in the Pacific Northwest had been criticized for failing to include enough Muslim and Arab students in the planning of the encampment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (XkYcA)

86 Just like Romney's dog, binders of women, hazing team mates, etc...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 11:30 AM (ycI94)

To be fair, Romney IS a giant tool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (di6C2)

87 Are there alternative funds that avoid ESG when these fund managers go full retard and maintain their love for discrimination and indoctrination?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

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IIRC, Vivek created a group of ETFs via his Strive Asset Management startup.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (8FmJd)

88 The Credentialed are what I'd call "Education Envelope" people.

The scope and bounds of their knowledge are constrained by the dimensions of the Diploma which fit within said "Envelope".

And they darest NOT acquire, learn of, or Heaven Forbid SHOW INTEREST IN, most any "knowledge(s)" deriving from Outside of that Envelope.

That way lieth Heresies!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (e6UQI)

89 84 Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Well, he has experience with dinosaurs.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (2UnvF)

And depicting Nazi activities.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (di6C2)

90 79 Dylan Byers
@DylanByers
Scoop via @MattBelloni: Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. … participating in multiple strategy sessions on how to best tell the president’s story…”

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Don't worry, Steve. The Nazis will never turn on you.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

It's aliens... gonna be aliens.

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (53oGX)

91 Bottom line: high IQs that are nurtured without an acquaintance with a breadth of experience result in a kind of sterile, and dangerous, stupidity.”
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Eh, it's more about being relieved of arrogance, I think.

"I am very smart and so I am cursed to know how much I don't know" and "I am very smart and so everyone should do as I say because I'm brilliant and these retards don't get it" are two sides of the same high-IQ coin.

The best way to learn how much you don't know is experience, but no amount of experience can break a dedication to the cause of hubris and its associated utopianism. To the highly-intelligent utopian, the failures are merely because the retards he's saddled with didn't do it right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (HnUIn)

92 @83

>>NCAA stooge that she is.

Not quite sure why she thought writing about whacking family pets and farm animals was a good idea but apparently she did.

She still is a dime piece though.

WB.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (XV/Pl)

93 Just like Romney's dog, binders of women, hazing team mates, etc...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 11:30 AM (ycI94)

Kristi would have to shoot a metric fuckton of dogs to approach the number of pets unlawfully murdered by LE SWAT teams.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (8zz6B)

94 The Focus Group said it was the best number.

Posted by: The New New Math at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (z+89e)

95 Willowed:
The Wikipedia entry for Yew Tree mentions Great Tits.

Posted by: Ciampino - Pluck Yew Tootooties at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (qfLjt)

96 So Potato is out there making fun of Trump's "bleached hair." I find that quite humorous considering Joe Biden's face now looks like it's made entirely out of plastic, his teeth are fake Chiclets, and his head is full of hair plugs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (mupln)

97 “Sustainable funds have been facing many headwinds in the past couple of years, including elevated energy prices, high interest rates and an ESG backlash in the US,” said Hortense Bioy, global director of sustainability research at Morningstar.
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I wonder if any of them consider *why* there is backlash. I doubt it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

98 I don't know why, but this made me laugh:

University of Washington group cancels encampment for being too white
©INSTAGRAM / KIRO 7

Pro-Palestinian students at the University of Washington announced their plans to postpone what was supposed to be Thursday's Gaza solidarity encampment because too many white students were involved. The group in the Pacific Northwest had been criticized for failing to include enough Muslim and Arab students in the planning of the encampment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (XkYcA)

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BLaMtifa by any other name would smell a foul ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (8FmJd)

99 Your friend is mostly right, though I'd argue they're not that arrogant about their intelligence because their peers are all pretty similar to them, they tend to think of themselves as average. They are blind to what exists outside of their upbringings, but that's not inherently the same as hubris. A middle class kid would be different, those are the new generation college kids who were the smartest of wherever they were from. People from families who always went to college(back when college was rare) and whose friends did etc. do not have the concept of people who are much dumber than them really existing.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:29 AM (eYoxG)

But these supposedly smart people tend to come into contact with the straights. Sure, among their peers they don't necessarily stand out (but they'll often stab each other in the back to try to do so), but when they interact with the rubes (think kollej perferssers and their students), they get to lord their superior intellect over the ants below.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

100 92
Not quite sure why she thought writing about whacking family pets and farm animals was a good idea but apparently she did.

She still is a dime piece though.

WB.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (XV/Pl)

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If I had to guess: She's kind of stupid, has no real relationship with real people, and thought that it would humanize her to the conservative base.

Because she's kinda stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

101 "How is this statistically possible? Five of the last six weeks, the exact same number."

Assuming it's not just made-up bullshit pulled out of some bureaucrat's monkeypoxed asshole, I wonder if the numbers are the same because that's the max that could be processed each month. So the numbers don't really represent the number of actual new claims filed, but the number of claims filed that could be processed in a month. Just spitballing here ...

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (iFTx/)

102 Willowed:
The Wikipedia entry for Yew Tree mentions Great Tits.

Posted by: Ciampino




Turn off your camera.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (lTGtQ)

103 Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. …

Choreograph? I guess Joe won't be participating in the Rockettes type kick line?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (XkYcA)

104 95 Willowed:
The Wikipedia entry for Yew Tree mentions Great Tits.
Posted by: Ciampino - Pluck Yew Tootooties at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (qfLjt)

'Murika!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (di6C2)

105 93
Kristi would have to shoot a metric fuckton of dogs to approach the number of pets unlawfully murdered by LE SWAT teams.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (8zz6B)
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Or PETA.

Posted by: Ciampino - Pluck Yew Tootootie at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (qfLjt)

106 @DylanByers
Scoop via @MattBelloni: Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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Fine.

Donation-wise, what individual amount are we talking?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (9Ct69)

107 Mr. Michael Crichton lays it out nicely in a talk about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. On youtube of course.

Hint: he is smarter than me.

Posted by: Disgusted at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (Z8Yh2)

108 She still is a dime piece though.

WB.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 11:33 AM (XV/Pl)

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Bag of antlers. Pass.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (2UnvF)

109 103 Steven Spielberg “has been quietly but actively working with the Joe Biden campaign to help choreograph August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. …

Choreograph? I guess Joe won't be participating in the Rockettes type kick line?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (XkYcA)

Different type of Choreography, Fen. He wants to be Biden's Leni Riefenstahl.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (di6C2)

110 ur friend is mostly right, though I'd argue they're not that arrogant about their intelligence because their peers are all pretty similar to them, they tend to think of themselves as average. They are blind to what exists outside of their upbringings, but that's not inherently the same as hubris. A middle class kid would be different, those are the new generation college kids who were the smartest of wherever they were from. People from families who always went to college(back when college was rare) and whose friends did etc. do not have the concept of people who are much dumber than them really existing.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:29 AM (eYoxG)
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It's clannish and self-selecting.

"I am smart, and so are my friends and colleagues and bosses. The retards who are outside of my group or affiliate groups are exactly that. The plumber I call to fix the toilet is a retard because if he wasn't, he'd be in my class. I am among peers and average, but my peer group is above average."

They don't articulate it this way, but I suspect it might the operating condition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

111 From a DNC bleg:

"We’ll be direct with you, D:

Donald Trump’s most recent fundraising numbers are out. March was his best fundraising month to date -- with the number of his online contributions outpacing those made to the DNC and President Biden’s reelection campaign combined.

Unfortunately, it’s extremely likely his numbers only go up from here as Election Day draws closer and closer. That means it’s up to all of us to match him. If we don’t, and he gains the upper hand in this race, the consequences for our country could be disastrous.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)

112 110 It's clannish and self-selecting.

"I am smart, and so are my friends and colleagues and bosses. The retards who are outside of my group or affiliate groups are exactly that. The plumber I call to fix the toilet is a retard because if he wasn't, he'd be in my class. I am among peers and average, but my peer group is above average."

They don't articulate it this way, but I suspect it might the operating condition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

=======

"Now, I'm going to use my official position to prove that I'm smart and people who disagree with me on issues I find important are stupid."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

113 36
‘ she's tooting her own horn….
“’ Intercepted DU Transmissions ”

You motherfuckers brag about your abortions!

Gain a sense of proportion, you ghouls.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

114 Do we really know that Noem actually said that in the book? And that it's not taken way out of context? I find it very hard to believe that even if that cold-blooded act actually happened (I'm skeptical), an ambitious media-savvy political creature like Noem would put it in a fucking book. "I killed a poor little dog in cold blood" isn't a good look for anyone, ya know??

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

115 But these supposedly smart people tend to come into contact with the straights. Sure, among their peers they don't necessarily stand out (but they'll often stab each other in the back to try to do so), but when they interact with the rubes (think kollej perferssers and their students), they get to lord their superior intellect over the ants below.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

Most high iq people tend to go into technical stuff. Engineers are not particularly prone to backstabbing. It's mostly the middling or average iq people newly empowered with college degrees, particularly from the liberal arts departments that have these attitudes.

Kids who go into classes where the median iq is 130 can easily live their entire education and most of their professional lives without meeting many people who aren't from that same bubble.

Having a college degree doesn't convey status when everyone you've ever known has a college degree. It's at the intersection point that we see the most ego.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (eYoxG)

116 113
You motherfuckers brag about your abortions!

Gain a sense of proportion, you ghouls.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

=======

"Babies aren't people. Animals are people."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

117 Different type of Choreography, Fen. He wants to be Biden's Leni Riefenstahl.

--

Exactly. Ole Blue Collar Joe sure has the mega-wealthy, out-of-touch celebrity vote tied up. A man of the people, he is...

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (mupln)

118 Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
BREAKING.🚨
“I guess it’s 'Welcome to San Francisco'."
Adam Schiff is ROBBED in San Francisco causing him to show up at a meeting with no suit.

-
Well, at least they couldn't steal his reputation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

119 "I am smart, and so are my friends and colleagues and bosses. The retards who are outside of my group or affiliate groups are exactly that. The plumber I call to fix the toilet is a retard because if he wasn't, he'd be in my class. I am among peers and average, but my peer group is above average."

They don't articulate it this way, but I suspect it might the operating condition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix




As my grandmother wisely said, you don't have to tell people that you are smart.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (lTGtQ)

120 Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (di6C2)

I know. It was a joke.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (XkYcA)

121 118 Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
BREAKING.🚨
“I guess it’s 'Welcome to San Francisco'."
Adam Schiff is ROBBED in San Francisco causing him to show up at a meeting with no suit.

-
Well, at least they couldn't steal his reputation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

========

The party elite need to have this happen increasingly to them. And then the activist base and their donors need to turn on them when the elite try to make things better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

122 ... Kids who go into classes where the median iq is 130 can easily live their entire education and most of their professional lives without meeting many people who aren't from that same bubble. ...
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (eYoxG)
++++
Yes, and that's where the consequences of the person's own observation of his intelligence comes in, and whether it feeds arrogance or humility. It can do either.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:40 AM (HnUIn)

123 I still wouldn't vote for Noem.

NCAA stooge that she is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

Frankly, I think that story was mostly bullshit too.

Granted, this is a libertarian v. conservative thing, and everyone attributed her choice to being bought, but I think it had more to do with her believing it wasn't her job as governor, to tell screwels whether they could have boys competing with the girls.

That's basically my position too. Let parents sort this shit out. And stop using public funds to pay for it. And stop funding screwels altogether, now that we're on the subject.

But that's at odds with the DeSanctimious approach, I suppose, where he's weaponized his role as governor. Some people like that, I guess. I don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

124 @kylenabecker
BREAKING.🚨
“I guess it’s 'Welcome to San Francisco'."
Adam Schiff is ROBBED in San Francisco causing him to show up at a meeting with no suit. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)
++++
How'd he lose his suit? I mean, I doubt a mugger said, "Yo! Gimmie them threads!"

Or do they mean that one of the gangs in the Bay Area smashed-and-grabbed his luggage out of his car (incredibly common)?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

125 It's clannish and self-selecting.

"I am smart, and so are my friends and colleagues and bosses. The retards who are outside of my group or affiliate groups are exactly that. The plumber I call to fix the toilet is a retard because if he wasn't, he'd be in my class. I am among peers and average, but my peer group is above average."

They don't articulate it this way, but I suspect it might the operating condition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

They usually have low or confused class awareness.

It's also pretty common to find people in the income/job rung below them who identify as elites/ruling class.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:41 AM (eYoxG)

126 "Now, I'm going to use my official position to prove that I'm smart and people who disagree with me on issues I find important are stupid."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:37 AM

"Exactly!"
-- Pope Francis

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 11:42 AM (a3Q+t)

127 How'd he lose his suit? I mean, I doubt a mugger said, "Yo! Gimmie them threads!"

Or do they mean that one of the gangs in the Bay Area smashed-and-grabbed his luggage out of his car (incredibly common)?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

There are those who say that it was the Russians.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 26, 2024 11:42 AM (AiZBA)

128 Do we really know that Noem actually said that in the book? And that it's not taken way out of context? I find it very hard to believe that even if that cold-blooded act actually happened (I'm skeptical), an ambitious media-savvy political creature like Noem would put it in a fucking book. "I killed a poor little dog in cold blood" isn't a good look for anyone, ya know??
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

The kid who shot Old Yeller didn't enjoy doing it. It was a regrettable necessity. If one is capable of performing those regettable necessities when the need arises, it speaks to strength of character.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:42 AM (8zz6B)

129 123 That's basically my position too. Let parents sort this shit out. And stop using public funds to pay for it. And stop funding screwels altogether, now that we're on the subject.

But that's at odds with the DeSanctimious approach, I suppose, where he's weaponized his role as governor. Some people like that, I guess. I don't.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

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If government officials have no say in what schools that receive government funs do, then what's the point of the funds? Pull the funds since the government has no say in what's going on.

Truly depoliticize schooling.

Until that happens, though, elected officials have every obligation and right to manage what schools do. Hell, they already determine through unelected bureaucrats what textbooks get used.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:43 AM (GBKbO)

130 The collapse we are witnessing is largely due to the WWII generation exiting the scene.

Competence and integrity, proficiency and all those things are not valued. Education and rigorous winnowing out of unacceptable and unqualified individuals has been replaced by credentialed idiots who are politically reliable.

Clearly “they” absolutely revel in forcing corrupt cretins on decent peaceable people.to rule over everyone. This is their caviar.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 26, 2024 11:43 AM (P55mL)

131 Shame Schiff wasn't at his car to get pistol whipped or beatdown during the robbery.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 11:43 AM (R4t5M)

132 So an out-and-proud very famous, very rich Jew is gonna help Joey Showers "choreograph" the DNC ... while the pro-terror fascists and bloodthirsty Nazis bray outside the venue for "Death to All Jews." Can't make this up. Some Jews ain't never gonna learn, are they?

Oh and: This DNC is gonna be great!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

133 The most distinguishing shortcoming of the intelligentsia is not near-sightedness, progressive politics or an addiction to Starbucks; it is hubris. They don’t know what they don’t know.
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Disagree. It's progressive politics.

Those politics teach you that you are better and smarter than everyone else, who are at best blind and at worst malevolent.

We throw the term around but it really is a cult.

So we can identify their problem as hubris but if we don't see what is breeding the hubris, it can never hope to be dealt with.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (2e48P)

134 I would make one other suggestion about intelligent people: just because someone is very successful/knowledgeable doing one thing doesn't mean they will be knowledgeable/successful at something else or all other things.

I think of people who have started very successful business and then decide to do something completely different and it flops - because they assumed their competence in one area would automatically apply to all ventures.

Same with all those intellectuals/scientists who got on board with climate change and covid - like, just because you're a fabulous physicist doesn't mean your opinion on immunology is more valid than the rest of ours - you can't just assume success/intelligence in one pursuit means all things you touch or think are magically more informed and better reasoned.

You wouldn't expect your plumber, who's built a successful business and whom you trust completely, to be an expert opinion on farming. Sure, as a business owner he may have some insight that you may not, but his success doesn't mean he understands the intricacies of making a farm work. And yet we have CEOs, actors, professors lecturing us constantly on subject outside of their expertise.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (cCVOS)

135 Or do they mean that one of the gangs in the Bay Area smashed-and-grabbed his luggage out of his car (incredibly common)?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

(A few hours later)

Oh...disappointing. So...heteronormative.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (ycI94)

136 -
Well, at least they couldn't steal his reputation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

You're not gonna believe this. The evidence against Trump? He had it on him. The robber took everything. Swearsies!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (z+89e)

137 The kid who shot Old Yeller didn't enjoy doing it. It was a regrettable necessity. If one is capable of performing those regettable necessities when the need arises, it speaks to strength of character.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon



Well, great. One more movie I don't need to watch.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (lTGtQ)

138 but when they interact with the rubes (think kollej perferssers and their students), they get to lord their superior intellect over the ants below.
Posted by: BurtTC

THIS~! ... as the kids say.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (IG4Id)

139 I think we can rule out Atomic Dog Boy as a suspect in the Adam Schiff clothes affair.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 11:45 AM (a3Q+t)

140 128 Do we really know that Noem actually said that in the book? And that it's not taken way out of context? I find it very hard to believe that even if that cold-blooded act actually happened (I'm skeptical), an ambitious media-savvy political creature like Noem would put it in a fucking book. "I killed a poor little dog in cold blood" isn't a good look for anyone, ya know??
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

The kid who shot Old Yeller didn't enjoy doing it. It was a regrettable necessity. If one is capable of performing those regettable necessities when the need arises, it speaks to strength of character.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:42 AM (8zz6B)
_________

Yea, that was my point about context. If this was really a mercy killing like Old Yeller, then that changes everything.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

141
The kid who shot Old Yeller didn't enjoy doing it. It was a regrettable necessity. If one is capable of performing those regettable necessities when the need arises, it speaks to strength of character.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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Yep. It's something that I think a lot of the left doesn't understand at its fundamental level. Putting down a dog you like/love comes from the same place as telling your child no.

Wait, I think I might have figured out a connection.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:45 AM (9Ct69)

142 Most high iq people tend to go into technical stuff. Engineers are not particularly prone to backstabbing. It's mostly the middling or average iq people newly empowered with college degrees, particularly from the liberal arts departments that have these attitudes.

Kids who go into classes where the median iq is 130 can easily live their entire education and most of their professional lives without meeting many people who aren't from that same bubble.

Having a college degree doesn't convey status when everyone you've ever known has a college degree. It's at the intersection point that we see the most ego.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:38 AM (eYoxG)

I don't think that's measurably true. I would assume most high IQ people DO tend to go into the intellectual pursuits, including the supposed hard sciences.

As much as "engineers" like to think they're smarter than everyone else, it's a type of intelligence that is very specialized. There are many many MANY very "smart" people who stay far away from such pursuits.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:45 AM (dGCAG)

143 Idea:

Red states should make one year of trade-school required for any post-graduate degree.

Going into your Master's program for Philosophy? Well, you have to become an apprentice welder for a couple of semesters first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

144 Unfortunately, it’s extremely likely his numbers only go up from here as Election Day draws closer and closer. That means it’s up to all of us to match him. If we don’t, and he gains the upper hand in this race, the consequences for our country could be disastrous.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 11:37 AM (a3Q+t)

So for a change it's actually true that "both sides do it"!

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American people" -Sumdood

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 26, 2024 11:46 AM (FCbAQ)

145 I feel relatively certain they are going to wall off the DNC and give themselves the best optics possible. But only relatively because I don't know what their game is. I know they are enjoying this chaos and the threat it represents.

If they want to appear, above all else, as if they are not in control of these vile factions, it wouldn't be bad to let their own party get crashed.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:46 AM (2e48P)

146 66
‘ Reminds me of the TV series Chernobyl ’

Ironically, dog shooting figured into that show too

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

147 Oh...disappointing. So...heteronormative.
Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 26, 2024 11:44 AM (ycI94)

The lace panties were too tight...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 11:47 AM (8zz6B)

148 86 Just like Romney's dog, binders of women, hazing team mates, etc...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 11:30 AM (ycI94)

To be fair, Romney IS a giant tool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:32 AM (di6C2)

Noam is good looking and from a reliably Red state... but I'd take the Gov of Arkansas over her any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 11:48 AM (53oGX)

149 Unfortunately, it’s extremely likely his numbers only go up from here as Election Day draws closer and closer. That means it’s up to all of us to match him. If we don’t, and he gains the upper hand in this race, the consequences for our country could be disastrous.

-

At least y'all have the entirety of the federal government, both political parties, academia, Hollywood, music, entertainment, IT / search engines, and 99% of millionaires and billionaires.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 11:49 AM (9Ct69)

150 ESG can DEI.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 26, 2024 11:49 AM (oALvb)

151 According to Newsweek, Noem said in her book that the dog was aggressive and unfocused, and ran around wildly instead of flushing birds as intended. Then, while returning from a hunting/training with the dog:

Noem then used an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control, she wrote, but that didn't work. Then on the way home, Cricket (the dog) escaped Noem's truck and attacked the family's chickens, "grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another." This made the chickens' owner cry and Noem financially renumerated them and helped them clean the mess the dog had made.

"At that moment," Noem said, "I realized I had to put her down."

"It was not a pleasant job," she writes, "but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done." (Killing the aggressive, ungelded goat)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 26, 2024 11:50 AM (ycI94)

152
Working Title of Steven Spielberg's New Filmed Biography of Joe Biden for the DNC:

"Close Encounters with Third Graders"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 11:51 AM (eDfFs)

153 96 So Potato is out there making fun of Trump's "bleached hair." I find that quite humorous considering Joe Biden's face now looks like it's made entirely out of plastic, his teeth are fake Chiclets, and his head is full of hair plugs.
Posted by: Lady in Black at

It’s even funnier when you know people with red hair don’t go grey- the red pigment fades overtime and goes to blonde and then white with kinda funky variations in between. Biden is an imbecile.

Auburn hair doesn’t do this, sadly.

Posted by: Piper at April 26, 2024 11:51 AM (ZdaMQ)

154 145 I feel relatively certain they are going to wall off the DNC and give themselves the best optics possible. But only relatively because I don't know what their game is. I know they are enjoying this chaos and the threat it represents.

If they want to appear, above all else, as if they are not in control of these vile factions, it wouldn't be bad to let their own party get crashed.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:46 AM (2e48P)
_________

They will try. I don't think they will succeed. They created these feral monsters. What's the Number One Rule of Monsters? They always turn on their creator. I don't see how they stop these lunatics. Are they gonna wall off the entire city with electrified fences and piranha-filled moats? I suspect more likely the media will just blackout the whole thing.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

155 How'd he lose his suit? I mean, I doubt a mugger said, "Yo! Gimmie them threads!"

Or do they mean that one of the gangs in the Bay Area smashed-and-grabbed his luggage out of his car (incredibly common)?
_______

Senate candidate Adam Schiff gives the clothes of his back to support the homeless.
- Bay Area news rag, probably

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (bWAME)

156 One of the articles this morning claimed that the Floyd Riots were the impetus behind all the DEI initiatives.

Only partially true. They are both psy ops.

It's like saying Joe declaring a Climate Emergency is going to cause various initiatives.

No - they're declaring the emergency because the initiatives are ready to go.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (2e48P)

157 Working Title of Steven Spielberg's New Filmed Biography of Joe Biden for the DNC:

"Close Encounters with Third Graders"

Posted by: naturalfake


Close Encounters of the Turd Kind

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (0hu/3)

158 I don't think that's measurably true. I would assume most high IQ people DO tend to go into the intellectual pursuits, including the supposed hard sciences.

As much as "engineers" like to think they're smarter than everyone else, it's a type of intelligence that is very specialized. There are many many MANY very "smart" people who stay far away from such pursuits.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:45 AM (dGCAG)

I'm not sure what group you're trying to say is intellectual here.

People in STEM are higher IQ. The liberal arts are lower iq. Within the business school, at the higher end is economics and finance, the lower end is management and marketing. Math, logic, spatial reasoning are basically what IQ tests tend to measure.

The high iq people overwhelmingly do not go into lines of work related to supporting some sort of message. It's advanced math and logic related stuff.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (eYoxG)

159 $20, same as downtown?

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

160 Somewhat actually on topic:

@RealEJAntoni
Holy $#!*...
The quarterly census of employment and wages shows a DROP of 192k private sector jobs in Q3 last year after BLS said nonfarm payrolls rose 640k over that same time! Note that unlike the monthly job estimates, the quarterly census covers more than 95% of US jobs:
twitter.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1783209074831560845

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 11:54 AM (IG4Id)

161 I suspect more likely the media will just blackout the whole thing.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

Well yeah that's definitely part of it. Along with lots of jackboots on the ground but like I said I don't know. I think you're right but then I remember they control when and where these groups go. And when they go away.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:54 AM (2e48P)

162 That's basically my position too. Let parents sort this shit out. And stop using public funds to pay for it. And stop funding screwels altogether, now that we're on the subject.

But that's at odds with the DeSanctimious approach, I suppose, where he's weaponized his role as governor. Some people like that, I guess. I don't.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

I get that,
But a state school is that... the state's and the tax base.
I see both arguments though and it's something to hash out.

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 11:54 AM (53oGX)

163 ZH has a story about how in this supposed great economy so many people can't find jobs.

The answer is the same one I've been discussing for a while.

Government unemployment figures tell you how many people are on unemployment insurance which is essentially just the people unemployed for a short time.

If you look at the labor participation rates they are about as low as they've ever been.


Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 11:55 AM (ibTVg)

164 Reported vs. Revised Net Gain/Loss in Jobs over 13 months. 2 out of the 13 months were positive revisions. This here is bovine excrement in action:

twitter.com/BikingForBeer/status/1783233594346946644

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 11:56 AM (IG4Id)

165 Somewhat actually on topic:

@RealEJAntoni
Holy $#!*...
The quarterly census of employment and wages shows a DROP of 192k private sector jobs in Q3 last year after BLS said nonfarm payrolls rose 640k over that same time! Note that unlike the monthly job estimates, the quarterly census covers more than 95% of US jobs:
twitter.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1783209074831560845

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 11:54 AM (IG4Id)

--------------

So, a transitory depression, like we experienced and which "they" covered up during DogEater's reign of error.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:56 AM (8FmJd)

166
It’s even funnier when you know people with red hair don’t go grey- the red pigment fades overtime and goes to blonde and then white with kinda funky variations in between. Biden is an imbecile.

Posted by: Piper at April 26, 2024 11:51 AM

That's me right now. I was only partly reddish when young, but now it's like a warm blond color. My beard is a dull gray though.

So I think Trump - whose ancestors came from the same part of the world as mine did - his hair color is real. Maybe a little henna - which is not bleach.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 11:56 AM (RKVpM)

167 Commenting present and fighting off ads to do that
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 11:12 AM (kGLb6)

Kung Fu fighting ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 11:56 AM (T4tVD)

168 They will try. I don't think they will succeed. They created these feral monsters. What's the Number One Rule of Monsters? They always turn on their creator. I don't see how they stop these lunatics. Are they gonna wall off the entire city with electrified fences and piranha-filled moats? I suspect more likely the media will just blackout the whole thing.
Posted by: Elric Blade



They still control these monsters. Remember how BLM simply evaporated once Bia Den "won".

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 11:57 AM (0hu/3)

169 Reported vs. Revised Net Gain/Loss in Jobs over 13 months. 2 out of the 13 months were positive revisions. This here is bovine excrement in action:

twitter.com/BikingForBeer/status/1783233594346946644

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 11:56 AM (IG4Id)

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Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:57 AM (8FmJd)

170 Falsified!!??

And people wonder why I play NukeMap so often.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

171 96
‘ Potato is out there making fun of Trump's "bleached hair."’

God, I hope that old creep really thinks he can win a name-calling fight with Trump.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 26, 2024 11:58 AM (jbnUc)

172 I see a story that Jeff Bezos doesn't like the phrase work-life balance but things work and private life should a "circle" and in "harmony".

Now there are plenty of people that use the phase work-life balance because they don't want to work hard but...having the second richest man in the world, who is semi-retired, doesn't need to set an alarm clock, and recently dumped his wife for a newer (though well used) woman I...don't think he's a person that should feel his opinion adds much...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 11:58 AM (ibTVg)

173 Mitch McConnell Apologizes to Zelensky for Not Sending Aid Fast Enough

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When are you going apologize to us for not building a damn wall?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

174 173 Mitch McConnell Apologizes to Zelensky for Not Sending Aid Fast Enough

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When are you going apologize to us for not building a damn wall?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:58 AM (L/fGl)

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Hey, now. We could do without a wall if we militarized our border as much as Ukraine is trying to do with our money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

175 161 I suspect more likely the media will just blackout the whole thing.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

Well yeah that's definitely part of it. Along with lots of jackboots on the ground but like I said I don't know. I think you're right but then I remember they control when and where these groups go. And when they go away.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:54 AM (2e48P)
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Oh and to the extent the monsters do riot, they will blame outside agitators and MAGA infiltrators. Just like they did when hordes of filthy CHUDs took over colleges screaming for Jewish blood. "Yea, that kinda happened. But it was all MAGA's fault!"

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

176 Mitch McConnell Apologizes to Zelensky for Not Sending Aid Fast Enough

Also, I didn't play with his balls enough

Posted by: Bitch McConnell wiping his chin at April 26, 2024 11:59 AM (ibTVg)

177 ZH has a story about how in this supposed great economy so many people can't find jobs.

The answer is the same one I've been discussing for a while.

Government unemployment figures tell you how many people are on unemployment insurance which is essentially just the people unemployed for a short time.

If you look at the labor participation rates they are about as low as they've ever been.


Posted by: 18-1


Yes, and if you compare the household survey to the BLS data, they don't come close to matching.

Some weird errors in the data started cropping up in Jan/Feb of 2021....

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (lTGtQ)

178 Maybe the repetitive 212 is a secret code or message from aliens (extraterrestrial).

Jus spit balling here.

Posted by: Barney Rubble at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (ipGHl)

179 $20, same as downtown?

Catholic Answers
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



Daaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmnnnnn.

I totally missed a Father Guido Sarducci app opportunity.

FML.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (0hu/3)

180 I see a story that Jeff Bezos doesn't like the phrase work-life balance but things work and private life should a "circle" and in "harmony".
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As in balanced?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (2e48P)

181 $20, same as downtown?

Catholic Answers
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Introducing Father Justin, the New Interactive AI from Catholic Answers
Catholic Answers, the number-one lay Catholic apostolate of apologetics and evangelization, is excited to announce the release of our new “Father Justin” interactive AI app.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 11:53 AM (L/fGl)

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I'm disappointed that they didn't go with "Father Justine."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (8FmJd)

182 Oh and to the extent the monsters do riot, they will blame outside agitators and MAGA infiltrators. Just like they did when hordes of filthy CHUDs took over colleges screaming for Jewish blood. "Yea, that kinda happened. But it was all MAGA's fault!"
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

Well Chicago is MAGA country...

Posted by: Juicey Smellit at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (53oGX)

183 177 Yes, and if you compare the household survey to the BLS data, they don't come close to matching.

Some weird errors in the data started cropping up in Jan/Feb of 2021....
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (lTGtQ)

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Listen, if we can't trust government numbers, at least we have media polls that we can still trust.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

184 There is another simple reason to act on known bad data. If you don't act on it and others do, you will miss out. You might not believe the jobs report, but if the hedge fund manager next door believes in it and acts on it, you might miss out. And investment algorithms won't care, they will just react to the nimbers. Eventually the facade fails, but you can either make money until then, or not. Which would you do?
And economists make lawyers look like angels of truth and integrity, so never expect them to call the bs. Their job is to sell it.

Posted by: Tom at April 26, 2024 12:01 PM (tAkxj)

185 Transportation Sec Buttigieg: Boeing Must Improve Safety and Quality Control Before Increasing 737 MAX Production

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Well, Buttgigitty, you could take your foot off their throat.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

186 On further thought, it could also be because someone is to effing lazy to actually look at the data.

Posted by: Barney Rubble at April 26, 2024 12:01 PM (ipGHl)

187 People in STEM are higher IQ. The liberal arts are lower iq. Within the business school, at the higher end is economics and finance, the lower end is management and marketing. Math, logic, spatial reasoning are basically what IQ tests tend to measure.

The high iq people overwhelmingly do not go into lines of work related to supporting some sort of message. It's advanced math and logic related stuff.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 11:52 AM (eYoxG)

I went to a magnet high school in Louisiana that focused on Arts and Science. You had to choose one track when you applied. Anyway, I did the science track. But the Arts track still had to do the basic math and science state requirements. The course catalog listed classes as such - "Algebra II for Arts Students", "Physical Science for Art Students". We were not allowed to cross over.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 26, 2024 12:01 PM (Mykux)

188 This busty bikini blonde on a boat doesn't care whether her man manufactures real numbers or fake ones, or whether he's smart or not, but only whether he can keep that boat:
http://tiny.cc/es5vxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:02 PM (HnUIn)

189 Same with all those intellectuals/scientists who got on board with climate change and covid - like, just because you're a fabulous physicist doesn't mean your opinion on immunology is more valid than the rest of ours - you can't just assume success/intelligence in one pursuit means all things you touch or think are magically more informed and better reasoned.

Actually, what I find shocking is that these guys should be better to make those kinds of judgements using the Scientific Method that they use in their own work and research, and yet-

they don't.

Anyone who spent three minutes applying the same scientific Method that they should be using in their own research would see that "Climate Science"/AGW/Climate Chaos?etc is a huge pile of wish-casting poo.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 12:02 PM (eDfFs)

190
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Division of Labor Force Statistics Suite 2135 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20212-0001.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 12:02 PM (RKVpM)

191 168 They will try. I don't think they will succeed. They created these feral monsters. What's the Number One Rule of Monsters? They always turn on their creator. I don't see how they stop these lunatics. Are they gonna wall off the entire city with electrified fences and piranha-filled moats? I suspect more likely the media will just blackout the whole thing.
Posted by: Elric Blade



They still control these monsters. Remember how BLM simply evaporated once Bia Den "won".

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 11:57 AM (0hu/3)
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I dunno. These pro-terror CHUDs seem like a different breed. Yes, there is some overlap, but overall their allegiance seems to be to radical Islam and not any specific political group. Evidence? One: they are already causing havoc and terrible press for the Dums -- as well as causing loss of yuge funding from rich Jews -- yet nobody is stopping them. Two: just look at them. An awful lot of Muslims in those riots.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 26, 2024 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

192 @124 Or do they mean that one of the gangs in the Bay Area smashed-and-grabbed his luggage out of his car (incredibly common)?

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This is what happened. His luggage was stolen out of his car during a trip up to the Bay Area.

Posted by: junior at April 26, 2024 12:03 PM (OXXIx)

193 Transportation Sec Buttigieg: Boeing Must Improve Safety and Quality Control Before Increasing 737 MAX Production

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I must have missed the part where he bought the company.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:03 PM (lTGtQ)

194 This is what happened. His luggage was stolen out of his car during a trip up to the Bay Area.
Posted by: junior at April 26, 2024 12:03 PM (OXXIx)
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Bummer. I was kind of hoping that he was mugged and the mugger stole his clothes off his back.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (HnUIn)

195 Mitch McConnell Apologizes to Zelensky for Not Sending Aid Fast Enough

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I'm waiting for Kentucky to apologize for Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (mupln)

196 I wouldn't sell any life insurance to this guy.

JPMorgan CEO Issues Dire Warning About Biden Administration's “Huge” Deficit Spending

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (L/fGl)

197 Working Title of Steven Spielberg's New Filmed Biography of Joe Biden for the DNC:

"Close Encounters with Third Graders"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 11:51 AM (eDfFs)

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"Jurrasic Punk."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:04 PM (8FmJd)

198
Actually, what I find shocking is that these guys should be better to make those kinds of judgements using the Scientific Method that they use in their own work and research, and yet-

they don't.


Modern famous scientists, and lot of non-famous ones, don't use the scientific method anyway in their own fields.

That's the old "white supremacist" way to do things.

Now its just repeating whatever you are told to say to get grant funding.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (ibTVg)

199 A 'nice job' also to JJ Sefton, though I don't see any way to comment over at Taki's

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

200 NOOD PALI RIOTS

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)

201 JPMorgan CEO Issues Dire Warning About Biden Administration's “Huge” Deficit Spending

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks



By the way, Jamie, your buds in DC decided to steal Russian bank deposits in the west to give to Ukraine. Guess what is going to happen to the $450 million you had in Russian banks?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (lTGtQ)

202 Mitch McConnell Apologizes to Zelensky for Not Sending Aid Fast Enough

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$20 billion, same as in dachas.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (8FmJd)

203 NooD

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (IG4Id)

204 Working Title of Steven Spielberg's New Filmed Biography of Joe Biden for the DNC:

"Close Encounters with Third Graders"

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Delaware Joe and the Temple of Doom

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2024 12:06 PM (mupln)

205 Smoking stunts your growth.








Now he tells me!

Posted by: Pall Mall at April 26, 2024 12:07 PM (V5BDR)

206 We imported a bunch of angry Muslims and put them on welfare as part of the informal terms of our surrender in the "War on Terror"

Why would anyone be surprised they are agitating for a more Islamic take on the world?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 12:08 PM (ibTVg)

207 I don’t know anything about the Noem story, but I’m rather confident there was a detailed description leading up to her shooting the dog and the difficulty with having to do it. People who don’t live on farms or ranches have no concept of what difficult decisions are made daily and how you can’t simply rehome animals or have vets down the street to treat them. I’m passing on the story until the entire context is available.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 26, 2024 12:08 PM (gJHrU)

208 Why Not: Los Angeles High School To Host Drag Queen “World Series”

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I wonder what the ball /strike count will be.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (L/fGl)

209 i don't work on this but people I know do as a subject matter. That its this consistent would bother me from the outset but seasonal adjustment is a real thing because you want to normalize against holidays and calendar effects and other trends. Otherwise employment would spike every Christmas.

What is bizarre would be the whole numbers which may be a reporting or privacy issue as governments have been more panicky about privacy. Now, that doesn't mean shenanegans aren't going on... I'd be worried about any data situation where the figures start becoming very consistent after methodological application. Real data is noisy even after trend adjustments.

Posted by: Former Mass. Resident at April 26, 2024 12:09 PM (apNVD)

210 Not surprised by DNC/Spielberg. Look at J6 and the dude from ABC.

This is about timing, obviously optics, who follows who and where they stand next to each other, etc.

It's story time. What's Jill going to wear? Camera from the front row looking up at Joe vs the balcony shot. There's not enough lipstick for this pig.

But, what he can produce is the dramatic anti-Trump short film. That's more problematic.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 26, 2024 12:10 PM (JkCto)

211 The quarterly census of employment and wages shows a DROP of 192k private sector jobs in Q3 last year after BLS said nonfarm payrolls rose 640k over that same time! Note that unlike the monthly job estimates, the quarterly census covers more than 95% of US.

Posted by: weft cut-loop

That's understandable because the gov't has been on a hiring spree. It's unsustainable. But it is all about jigging the numbers before the election.

Say, will Jake point this out?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 26, 2024 12:13 PM (JkCto)

212 I think of some very intelligent people as balancing a very tall thin pole ... sure it reaches high but its very unstable with no real foundation ... or they are swinging a very thin bat very fast (intelligence) but when a heavy ball is pitched (the real world) their swing does nothing to it ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at April 26, 2024 01:09 PM (DBAaD)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Honthorst Sebastian1.jpg

Saint Sebastian
Gerrit van Honthorst

Posted by: CBD at 09:40 AM




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1 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (ENQN6)

2 Yeet

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (bJQ2i)

3 And ouch

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (bJQ2i)

4 Yawp!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (Wnv9h)

5 Top ten?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (lmYqO)

6 Yikes!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (Je6Mg)

7 I nooded.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (9yWhg)

8 Not sure why anyone would want to be a saint. Seems stressful.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (IUd0M)

9 Bet that hurts.

Posted by: BignJames at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (AwYPR)

10 it looks like he got the point...

technically nice
but would not hang.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:43 AM (UCRjB)

11 Ouch

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)

12 Man, that probably hurt

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:43 AM (Je6Mg)

13 The arrow in his leg must have been the first while he was still upright. Only way I can explain the blood flow.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 09:43 AM (T+Iwg)

14 The smarts! (as in hurts).

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #220 at April 26, 2024 09:43 AM (qfLjt)

15 Sebastian (Latin: Sebastianus; c. AD 255 – c. AD 28 was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him. He was, according to tradition, rescued and healed by Irene of Rome, which became a popular subject in 17th-century painting. In all versions of the story, shortly after his recovery he went to Diocletian to warn him about his sins, and as a result was clubbed to death.[1][2] He is venerated in the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:43 AM (bJQ2i)

16 Given a choice I would have gone with hanging.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at April 26, 2024 09:44 AM (tA1/w)

17 On the one hand...ewww...

On the other hand I've certainly had a number of shafts thrust into me before...

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at April 26, 2024 09:44 AM (ibTVg)

18 I think he is dead Jkm

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 09:44 AM (kGLb6)

19 It seems like some people don't send out just one sniper.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:44 AM (Je6Mg)

20 You can turn me over now. I'm done on this side.

Posted by: zombie Saint Lawrence at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (vtyCZ)

21 So in this sort of execution do they tell the archer to not inflict a killing wound with the first few shots?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (ibTVg)

22 It was General Custer who popularized the Arrow shirt, not Saint Sebastian.

Posted by: Sartorial History Moment at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (V5BDR)

23 Well, that's depressing.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (iF0sF)

24 St. Sebastian vs. the Comanches?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (J2vNu)

25 Looks like he had a tough day. That's gonna leave mark in the morning.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (DIB8X)

26 But how are the hobbits?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (GBKbO)

27 Tarsem Singh's video for the R.E.M. song "Losing My Religion" makes use of imagery of Saint Sebastian, drawing particular inspiration from paintings by Guido Reni.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (ENQN6)

28 Man, that probably hurt
Posted by: Huck Follywood


Sebastian got the point, though. Repeatedly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM (9yWhg)

29 Two items of note:

1. Unless he was previously "manspreading", the arrow in the leg was shot from a very weird direction.
2. The arrows appear to have practice points on them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:46 AM (IUd0M)

30 Jarts: The Early Years

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 26, 2024 09:46 AM (H22GW)

31 Jewells!!!!!!

How are you, love?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:46 AM (bJQ2i)

32 So which sneaky bastard wandered off to the left side of Sebastian and got him through the thigh?
What's a suitable eternal hellish punishment for that sneak?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #224 at April 26, 2024 09:46 AM (qfLjt)

33 Beautifully done, but the arrow wounds make me cringe, which is,of course the intent.

I have always thought that being shot by arrows would be incredibly painful, not to mention terrifying, because you would see the shaft sticking out of your body.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:46 AM (4SYnO)

34 A hot iron will fix that right up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 26, 2024 09:47 AM (H22GW)

35 I have always thought that being shot by arrows would be incredibly painful, not to mention terrifying, because you would see the shaft sticking out of your body.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents


Just think of it as acupuncture with really big needles.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:48 AM (bJQ2i)

36 what sick bastard archer shot him in the balls? it's bad enough that he's being shot with arrows repeatedly, but really? a groin shot?

that's just over the top cruel....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:48 AM (UCRjB)

37 On a related note and touching on a long term Horde topic, I remember seeing a recreation of bows/armor from the hundred years war.

They recreated the longbow of the time and the arrows and had a trained modern archer fire at a re-creation of a French breastplate.

Even at short range the longbow could not pierce the french armor.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:49 AM (ibTVg)

38 Hi, CBD. I don't know if you know about ARTSTOR. It's an online database for art. It doesn't have everything but what is does have is of high quality. Thought it would be handy for future threads. And it allows embiggening.

www.jstor.org/site/artstor/

Posted by: Kris at April 26, 2024 09:49 AM (hR8f8)

39 I have always thought that being shot by arrows would be incredibly painful, not to mention terrifying, because you would see the shaft sticking out of your body.
Posted by: Pug Mahon


Pulling the arrows out would suck, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:49 AM (9yWhg)

40 Damn, that dude got fucked up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 26, 2024 09:49 AM (VwHCD)

41 "Saint Sebastian was the patron saint of archers and athletes and of those who desire a saintly death. He was also venerated as a protector from the bubonic plague and as a patron of plague victims."

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:49 AM (NpAcC)

42 Wish my skin was that smooth.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (oaGWv)

43 Morning.

This is why you don't try to shoot the apple off your buddy's head after drinking too much whiskey.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (O9W5A)

44 Pulling the arrows out would suck, too.

See that's the one advantage St Sebastian had over the average soldier that got hit with an arrow...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (ibTVg)

45 This is such a powerful image. Sebastian's unblemished skin and body pierced by the violence of the arrows and those who shot them. As usual, van Honthorst captures such accurate musculature and skin tones. (CBD has used other paintings by this artist.) His ability to use lighting, especially artificial lighting effectively is remarkable. The dark background makes Sebastian's body and injuries almost pop out at the viewer.

I wonder if this image was in Robert Heinlein's mind when he described Smith's destruction at the end of "Stranger In A Strange Land". It immediately brought it to my mind.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (zudum)

46 The critics could be brutal at the Samaria Laugh Factory.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (H22GW)

47 36
I don't see a groin shot.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #225 at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (qfLjt)

48 I have always thought that being shot by arrows would be incredibly painful, not to mention terrifying, because you would see the shaft sticking out of your body.
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And the Romans wouldn't have been using bodkin-point arrows as the Dutch painter illustrated but broad[er] ones.
https://tinyurl.com/4xamvmek

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (vtyCZ)

49 what sick bastard archer shot him in the balls? it's bad enough that he's being shot with arrows repeatedly, but really? a groin shot?

that's just over the top cruel....
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:48 AM (UCRjB)

That's through the thigh, although it appears that the arrow would have had to travel though the thigh bone, which seems unlikely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (IUd0M)

50 Just think of it as acupuncture with really big needles.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:48 AM (bJQ2i)
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This would explain why the Chinese acupuncturist I went to greeted me with "arrow."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:51 AM (8qbyA)

51
This is why you don't try to shoot the apple off your buddy's head after drinking too much whiskey.

Saw a video of a young woman trying to hit a beer can on a guy's knee.

She missed of course. Well, she missed the can, not the knee.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:51 AM (ibTVg)

52 Please Mr. Custer, I don't want to go
Hey, Mr. Custer, please don't make me go
I had a dream last night about the comin fight
Somebody yelled "attack!"
And there I stood with a arrow in my back...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2024 09:51 AM (cDEsv)

53 *waves to nurse*

Hanging in there. Taking a break from chemo.

Posted by: jewells45fuckcancer at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (iF0sF)

54 Walk it off!

Posted by: Sebastian's coach at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (hu5YG)

55 I am reminded of the scene in Lonesome Dove when Gus makes Pea Eye push the arrow through his leg rather than pull it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (4SYnO)

56
Saw a video of a young woman trying to hit a beer can on a guy's knee.

She missed of course. Well, she missed the can, not the knee.

With a dart, not an arrow, so less horrible injury and more "owwwwwwwwww" in the video

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (ibTVg)

57 https://tinyurl.com/4xamvmek
Posted by: andycanuck


Boy, that looks like a website that could suck up my whole day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (9yWhg)

58 Even at short range the longbow could not pierce the French armor.
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I think I saw that too. The armour-piercing bodkin point arrowheads recovered on the field were inferior-quality iron/steel.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (vtyCZ)

59 A rather piercing piece of artwork.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (fv27Y)

60 According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him. He was, according to tradition, rescued and healed by Irene of Rome, which became a popular subject in 17th-century painting. In all versions of the story, shortly after his recovery he went to Diocletian to warn him about his sins, and as a result was clubbed to death

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A- for persistence

D+ for judgment

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 26, 2024 09:54 AM (H22GW)

61 I think I saw that too. The armour-piercing bodkin point arrowheads recovered on the field were inferior-quality iron/steel.

I *think* the rain of arrows mostly just disorganized and exhausted the French soldiers with the occasional arrow/splintered arrow hitting a weak spot and causing an injury which then helped the English melee troops kill the French as they finally got to the English line.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (ibTVg)

62 Boy, that looks like a website that could suck up my whole day.
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Yes!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (vtyCZ)

63 It's just a flesh wound.

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (Oy/m2)

64 A rather piercing piece of artwork.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (fv27Y)
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Ir made me quiver a little.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (8qbyA)

65 >>St. Sebastian vs. the Comanches?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM

That made me laugh.

Posted by: huerfano at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (VGOMa)

66 I don't know whether the picture is showing what the Dem's want to do to President DJT or what I would like to happen to Biden/Harris, the Dem party plus RINO's as well as a whole hellava lot of GOPers. Probably all of the above. The whole system of only being able to vote for 2 candidates for president is archaic and antiquated.

Posted by: sidney at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (Uy/WF)

67 nock, nock

Posted by: Taggart at April 26, 2024 09:56 AM (og5mY)

68 Another victim of a criminal prosecution.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 09:56 AM (g/1eZ)

69 The picture is trenchant and mordant, the flesh, exquisitely rendered.

Would hang in Den/Office.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 09:56 AM (XV/Pl)

70 You know who else is presently in the process of being martyred?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:56 AM (8FmJd)

71 Ir made me quiver a little.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

You're just high strung. I think you need to bow out for a little bit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:57 AM (9yWhg)

72 Ir made me quiver a little.

I think I get the point

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:57 AM (ibTVg)

73 Given the lack of blood from most of these wounds, my expert opinion gleaned from years of watching scripted forensics shows, is that he was shot a few times post mortem.

They really, really didn't like this fella.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 26, 2024 09:57 AM (KbCG3)

74 Yeesh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 09:57 AM (R4t5M)

75 You know who else is presently in the process of being martyred?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:56 AM (8FmJd)
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The Vandellas?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM (8qbyA)

76 General Custer, sir!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM (0hu/3)

77 71 Ir made me quiver a little.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

You're just high strung. I think you need to bow out for a little bit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And you point is?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM (oLpJM)

78 77 71 Ir made me quiver a little.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

You're just high strung. I think you need to bow out for a little bit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And you point is?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM (oLpJM)

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Don't provoke a quarrel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 26, 2024 09:59 AM (H22GW)

79 I couple of summers ago, my wife and I took an archery class at a county park, about 6-7 weekly sessions.

She got to be pretty good by the end of it.

I, once again, proved that I am incompetent at anything requiring hand-eye coordination.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:59 AM (9yWhg)

80 I don't see a groin shot.

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"Proof that St. Sebastian was a tranny with a bonus hole!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:59 AM (8FmJd)

81 Ir made me quiver a little.

I think I get the point
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:57 AM (ibTVg)

These people were ferrule animals.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 09:59 AM (R4t5M)

82 8 Not sure why anyone would want to be a saint. Seems stressful.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

You don't choose the Saint life. The Saint life chooses you.

Posted by: Saint Sebastian, as the Thug Life music and meme shades decend at April 26, 2024 10:00 AM (ycI94)

83 what sick bastard archer shot him in the balls? it's bad enough that he's being shot with arrows repeatedly, but really? a groin shot?

that's just over the top cruel....
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:48 AM (UCRjB)

That's through the thigh, although it appears that the arrow would have had to travel though the thigh bone, which seems unlikely.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:50 AM (IUd0M)

ahhh, ok i feel better now. i thought those were two different arrows. didn't want to enbigen the pic on the work computer so it looked like the exit wound was one headed in while the shaft of that arrow was buried behind the thigh and into the groin.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 10:00 AM (UCRjB)

84 The doc said most of the French knights were killed by blades when Henry ordered the men-at-arms and archers to kill them as he feared another French force was nearby, pissing them off because they couldn't be held for ransom!

And they were mainly on foot passing through a muddy defile churned into a quagmire that was deceptively straight when it was actually a bit funnel-shaped \ /

I have to go soon but maybe Wiki is up on the latest theory/ies??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:00 AM (vtyCZ)

85 Nat Gallery in London


Full title Saint Sebastian
Artist Gerrit van Honthorst
Artist dates 1592 - 1656
Date made about 1623
Medium and support Oil on canvas
Dimensions 101 × 117 cm (just a little under a metric acre)

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (ENQN6)

86 The picture is trenchant and mordant, the flesh, exquisitely rendered.

Would hang in Den/Office.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


The flesh exquisitely rendered? Oh, soup.

Now serving the Donner party, party of 9.
Now serving the Donner party, party of 8.
Now serving the Donner party, party of 7.
Now serving the Donner party, party of 6.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (0hu/3)

87 That arrow in the chest would be squarely in the left ventricle.. It is medial to the mid-clavicular line, medial to and slightly below the left nipple, and clearly above the diaphragm. It is in about the sixth intercostal space and lacking emergency cardiac surgical capabilities (or divine intervention) would be clearly lethal.

Unless St. Sebastian had situs inversus, which would make this a lung shot.

Posted by: Muldoon says anatomy is not gross. at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (l4B/J)

88 I took archery for a while in college and got fairly good at it.

Then I went to a medieval faire and they had an arrow shooting game. I figured this would be an easy win.

And...as I picked up the crappiest bow I'd ever seen and was given the worst arrow I'd ever shot I realized the issue with winning the game was NOT the lack of archery skill by the contestants.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

89 I couple of summers ago, my wife and I took an archery class at a county park, about 6-7 weekly sessions.

She got to be pretty good by the end of it.

I, once again, proved that I am incompetent at anything requiring hand-eye coordination.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:59 AM (9yWhg)

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To my great consternation and shame, every woman -- including my wife -- whom I've ever gone to a shooting range with, kicks my ass every time.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (8FmJd)

90 Sorry, guys. I'd pun it up too but I've gotta bolt!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (vtyCZ)

91 Makes me think of Boromire after his encounter with that Urak-haim

Posted by: Northernlurker at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (ewqMN)

92 That one arrow is a little low and inside.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (ENQN6)

93 64 A rather piercing piece of artwork.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (fv27Y)
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Ir made me quiver a little.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:55 AM (8qbyA)
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I bow to the painter.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #226 at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (qfLjt)

94 I couple of summers ago, my wife and I took an archery class at a county park, about 6-7 weekly sessions.

She got to be pretty good by the end of it.

I, once again, proved that I am incompetent at anything requiring hand-eye coordination.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


Ever see the tv show Ghosts? LOL. Poor guy.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (0hu/3)

95 @86

>>The flesh exquisitely rendered? Oh, soup.

Or Soap.
--
Tyler Durden.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (XV/Pl)

96 Date made about 1623
Medium and support Oil on canvas

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So painted during the Thirty Years War.

I would have thought people would be too busy marching or hiding to do anything productive during that time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (H22GW)

97 That arrow in the chest would be squarely in the left ventricle.. It is medial to the mid-clavicular line, medial to and slightly below the left nipple, and clearly above the diaphragm. It is in about the sixth intercostal space and lacking emergency cardiac surgical capabilities (or divine intervention) would be clearly lethal.

Unless St. Sebastian had situs inversus, which would make this a lung shot.

Posted by: Muldoon says anatomy is not gross. at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (l4B/J)

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But what if he happened to be wearing a pocket protector?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:03 AM (8FmJd)

98 I took archery for a while in college and got fairly good at it.

Then I went to a medieval faire and they had an arrow shooting game. I figured this would be an easy win.

And...as I picked up the crappiest bow I'd ever seen and was given the worst arrow I'd ever shot I realized the issue with winning the game was NOT the lack of archery skill by the contestants.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

i knew of a guy who did this, was a hell of a shot, and he ended up adjusting the sights of the bow he was given and managed to beat the cheat.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 10:03 AM (UCRjB)

99 Ever see the tv show Ghosts? LOL. Poor guy.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (0hu/3)

Agent: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, you got the part!

Actor: Yay!

Agent: The bad news is, you'll spend every second of it with an arrow through your neck. For the entirety of your time on this show, you will look incredibly stupid.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 26, 2024 10:04 AM (KbCG3)

100 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:04 AM (ENQN6)

101 Form the Nat Gallery

Honthorst must have seen many depictions of the saint’s martyrdom during the period that he worked in Rome, but he likely painted this work a few years after he returned to his native Utrecht in 1620. There were a number of outbreaks of the plague in Utrecht between 1624 and 1626, and Sebastian was revered as a ‘plague saint’, believed to offer protection against the deadly and highly contagious disease.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:05 AM (ENQN6)

102 The doc said most of the French knights were killed by blades when Henry ordered the men-at-arms and archers to kill them as he feared another French force was nearby, pissing them off because they couldn't be held for ransom!



Useless trivia:
English bowyers bows had up to 110 lb pulls. Their spine,arms and muscles physically changed in order to pull and launch their arrows.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (0hu/3)

103 So Michigan's JJ McCarthy is going to the Vikings.

Guess I'm a Vikings fan now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (9yWhg)

104 And the Vice-Presidential motorcade just went by my building. To bad I could not open the window to toss wet toilet paper onto it.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (Oq/TM)

105 I would have thought people would be too busy marching or hiding to do anything productive during that time.

The 80 years war (Dutch) part of the 30 years war* was mostly about sieges and maneuver so the Netherlands segment of the war was more static then say in Germany.

Also, I noticed this artist really liked to paint cleavage and was pretty good at it.

*I know saying it this way sounds odd but the Dutch had been at war with the Spanish for longer then the 30 years war ran.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (ibTVg)

106 May Day should bring some fun riots in blue city shitholes.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (Au0FL)

107 St. Sebastian vs. the Comanches?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM
*
That made me laugh.
Posted by: huerfano at April 26, 2024

***
I just finished watching several of the TV miniseries adaptations of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, its prequels and sequel. I'm bound to think "Comanche" when I see "arrows."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:07 AM (J2vNu)

108 Agent: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, you got the part!

Actor: Yay!

Agent: The bad news is, you'll spend every second of it with an arrow through your neck. For the entirety of your time on this show, you will look incredibly stupid.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:07 AM (0hu/3)

109 Useless trivia:
English bowyers bows had up to 110 lb pulls. Their spine,arms and muscles physically changed in order to pull and launch their arrows.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (0hu/3)

The bow war begun they have

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:07 AM (ENQN6)

110 Past 100 comments so I'll mention this.

For the amateur radio folks. This just came up on our local ham club email. Sad news.

"MFJ is ceasing its on-site production in Starkville, Mississippi on May 17, 2024. This is also the same for our sister companies Ameritron, Hygain, Cushcraft, Mirage and Vectronics.

We are going to continue to sell MFJ products past May 17, 2024. We have a lot of stock on hand. We will continue to offer repair service work for out-of-warranty and in-warranty units for the foreseeable future."

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (zudum)

111 Paul is up early today. Must have taken a night off from the glory home. He’s on his period I guess.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (Au0FL)

112 I know saying it this way sounds odd but the Dutch had been at war with the Spanish for longer then the 30 years war ran.
Posted by: 18-1


It was the 80 Years' War. And it did get resolved by the Treaty of Westphalia (which was actually two treaties) like the 30 YW did.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (9yWhg)

113 English bowyers bows had up to 110 lb pulls. Their spine,arms and muscles physically changed in order to pull and launch their arrows.

In the video I watched the man they had firing the recreated longbow was a modern professional archer (more or less).

He had the build of a weight lifter.

They had one of the historians try and pull the bow and he barely could once...let alone aim and do it repeatedly.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)

114 But what if he happened to be wearing a pocket protector?
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Then he'd be the patron of engineers instead of St Patrick. [I didn't know that offhand BTW.]
https://tinyurl.com/yc3tu8xb

Or St Barbara for military engineers.
https://tinyurl.com/34kk6k9y

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (vtyCZ)

115 104 And the Vice-Presidential motorcade just went by my building. To bad I could not open the window to toss wet toilet paper onto it.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (Oq/TM)

Judges would have accepted moon.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (ENQN6)

116 After death he was laid out on a slab in a primitive pathology lab.

Commemorated in the E.A. Poe story:

The Martyr in the Crude Morgue

Posted by: Muldoon says anatomy is not gross. at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (l4B/J)

117 Who names their kid Pea Eye ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (T4tVD)

118 97
But what if he happened to be wearing a pocket protector?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:03 AM (8FmJd)
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He had Biros and fountain pens in the pocket protector, right?

Posted by: Ciampino - Plumes? at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (qfLjt)

119 Shot through the heart
And you're to blame
You give archery practice
A bad name.

Posted by: Saint Sebastian at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (4I/2K)

120 Fun part of the long vs X bow debate...

Richard the Lionhearted, English King, used *crossbows* to great effect in his wars in the Holy Land.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (ibTVg)

121 And apparently yew wood is poisonous.

See you later.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:10 AM (vtyCZ)

122 115 Judges would have accepted moon.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM

I am on the 4th floor, you would not see unless looking up.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at April 26, 2024 10:10 AM (Oq/TM)

123 121 And apparently yew wood is poisonous.

See you later.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:10 AM (vtyCZ)

Some Chemo is derived from yew I believe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (ENQN6)

124 Are there any of these Free online AI generators that understand what a "centaur" is? Craiyon is trying, and at least it gets the mythological figure correct, but the others all produce horses, horsemen, or male human bodies with horse heads on them.

I'm trying to create a cover image for a fantasy novel, and I know just what I want to see. But these things don't seem to understand "centaur."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

125
Richard the Lionhearted, English King, used *crossbows* to great effect in his wars in the Holy Land.

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Pffft.

Not great enough.

Posted by: Saladin, Still Holding Jerusalem at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (H22GW)

126 Judges would have accepted moon.

Kamal-toe is more used to seeing men facing the other war sans pants...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (ibTVg)

127 Richard the Lionhearted, English King, used *crossbows* to great effect in his wars in the Holy Land.
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Armour-piercing Islamic fish-scale armour!

Bye. I really meant it this time!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (vtyCZ)

128 118 97
But what if he happened to be wearing a pocket protector?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:03 AM (8FmJd)
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He had Biros and fountain pens in the pocket protector, right?
Posted by: Ciampino - Plumes? at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (qfLjt)

"NERDS!!!"

- Coach Harris

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (T+Iwg)

129 Re: AI: Nor do they seem to understand what "silhouette" means.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

130 For the amateur radio folks. This just came up on our local ham club email. Sad news.

"MFJ is ceasing its on-site production in Starkville, Mississippi on May 17, 2024. This is also the same for our sister companies Ameritron, Hygain, Cushcraft, Mirage and Vectronics.

I still have my MFJ-901B transmatch that I purchased 30 years ago.
The company had QC issues in the past but, I never got a bad unit from them. Great loss IMO.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:12 AM (aFNOf)

131 121 And apparently yew wood is poisonous.

See you later.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 10:10 AM (vtyCZ)


maybe your wood but mine is fine

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 10:12 AM (us2H3)

132 Pffft.

Not great enough.

Posted by: Saladin, Still Holding Jerusalem at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (H22GW)

You know if the French and Germans weren't such pussies we'd still have a Christian kingdom there.

Free Portugal, Free the Holy land, blah blah blah. Why does it always have to be us?!?

Oh hold on, one of these petty Holy Roman Empire princes wants to talk with me...

Posted by: King Richard III at April 26, 2024 10:12 AM (ibTVg)

133 113 English bowyers bows had up to 110 lb pulls. Their spine,arms and muscles physically changed in order to pull and launch their arrows.

In the video I watched the man they had firing the recreated longbow was a modern professional archer (more or less).

He had the build of a weight lifter.

They had one of the historians try and pull the bow and he barely could once...let alone aim and do it repeatedly.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (ibTVg)
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What was used for bowstring?

Posted by: Ciampino - Dip Plumes? at April 26, 2024 10:13 AM (qfLjt)

134 And the Vice-Presidential motorcade just went by my building. To bad I could not open the window to toss wet toilet paper onto it.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (Oq/TM)

---------------

Were there any female Secret Service Agents?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:13 AM (8FmJd)

135 @elonmusk
·

The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”.

If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (ENQN6)

136 St. Sebastian's relatives should be glad they didn't use razor sharp broadheads.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (aFNOf)

137 We have to imprison trump to prevent him from becoming president and imprisoning his political opponents!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (PHukT)

138 134 Were there any female Secret Service Agents?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:13 AM

Went to by to quickly. Would have been nice to see a cat fight break out amongst them. ;-)

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (Oq/TM)

139 Are there any of these Free online AI generators that understand what a "centaur" is? Craiyon is trying, and at least it gets the mythological figure correct, but the others all produce horses, horsemen, or male human bodies with horse heads on them.

I'm trying to create a cover image for a fantasy novel, and I know just what I want to see. But these things don't seem to understand "centaur."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

https://tinyurl.com/2eytjp4y

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (rVgs0)

140 135 @elonmusk
·

The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”.

If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (ENQN6)

======

Dude just unpacked the entirety of critical theory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

141 What was used for bowstring?

Hmm, I can't find the video any more. I recall they really tried to get everything as close to real as possible from the draw of the bow to the type of arrow head used at the time but I do not specially remember the bow string.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:15 AM (ibTVg)

142 *looks at picture*

I think he got the point.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 10:16 AM (J4Vhp)

143 And apparently yew wood is poisonous.

See you later.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024

***
"Yew jest dew what yew have to dew."
(-- Member of the Whateley family in practically any Lovecraft story)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:16 AM (J2vNu)

144 140 135 @elonmusk
·

The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”.

If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM (ENQN6)

Dude just unpacked the entirety of critical theory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:15 AM (GBKbO)

Using only the power of his *mind*.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 10:16 AM (rVgs0)

145 If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.

There is one important caveat though.

The left is always the oppressed party. Even if they hold all the political, economic, and social power.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

146 145 There is one important caveat though.

The left is always the oppressed party. Even if they hold all the political, economic, and social power.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:16 AM (ibTVg)

=======

"White Western civilization is the oppressor."
-Base assumption

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:17 AM (GBKbO)

147 No arrow to the knee either

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 10:17 AM (J4Vhp)

148 https://tinyurl.com/2eytjp4y
Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024

***
That reminds me of Kevin Hart doing a credit card commercial

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

149 May Day should bring some fun riots in blue city shitholes.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 10:06 AM (Au0FL)

-------------

The Junta should organize military parades in every city with rainbow-camouflaged soldiers, vehicles, armaments, and other equipment.

It'd be fabulous!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:17 AM (8FmJd)

150 And apparently yew wood is poisonous.

See you later.
Posted by: andycanuck



The body part which the French proposed to cut off of the English after defeating them was, of course, the middle finger, without which it is impossible to draw the renowned English longbow.

This famous weapon was made of the native English yew tree, and so the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking yew".

Thus, when the victorious English waved their middle fingers at the defeated French, they said, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:18 AM (0hu/3)

151 Who names their kid Pea Eye ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (T4tVD)
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Corn Pop.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 10:18 AM (8qbyA)

152 The Junta should organize military parades in every city with rainbow-camouflaged soldiers, vehicles, armaments, and other equipment.

One of the tanks the Krauts sent to the Ukes was painted bright pink and covered in gay flags.

I hope for the Uke's sake they repainted it...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:18 AM (ibTVg)

153 But how are the hobbits?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 09:45 AM

No idea about the Ringbearer, but pretty sure She Hobbit is out and about.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 26, 2024 10:19 AM (Wnv9h)

154 One of the tanks the Krauts sent to the Ukes was painted bright pink and covered in gay flags.

I hope for the Uke's sake they repainted it...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 10:18 AM (ibTVg)

Might have lasted longer if they didn't. The Russians would have had to stop laughing and then call all their friends over to see it before they destroyed it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:20 AM (IUd0M)

155 Who names their kid Pea Eye ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024

***
I always took it for a nickname bestowed on him by Gus McCrae, possibly because Corporal Parker had small eyes, or they were green, or both. In Streets of Laredo, the sequel set many years later, Pea's wife (Lorena, the former whore) calls him "Pea" all the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

156 Who names their kid Pea Eye ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (T4tVD)

---

Magnum's parents?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 10:20 AM (T+Iwg)

157 88>>> I took archery for a while in college and got fairly good at it.

Then I went to a medieval faire and they had an arrow shooting game. I figured this would be an easy win.

And...as I picked up the crappiest bow I'd ever seen and was given the worst arrow I'd ever shot I realized the issue with winning the game was NOT the lack of archery skill by the contestants.


I always thought it would be good fun if tennis or golf would have exhibition matches where the pros would use 60s- or 70s-era equipment for a match. No oversize heads on racquets, no watermelon-sized drivers. Just persimmon heads and Wilson Pro-Staff wooden racquets.

Posted by: red speck at April 26, 2024 10:20 AM (0Id0S)

158 Apparently the Russians have used drones, no not The Spew hosts, to take out six of the Abrams tanks the US sent.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 26, 2024 10:21 AM (J4Vhp)

159 Alternate title:

"The Early Mach 1 Version of Arrow Underwear Was Neither Comfortable Nor Very Popular"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:21 AM (eDfFs)

160 Who names their kid Pea Eye ?

*******

Mr. & Mrs. Magnum

Duh!

Posted by: Muldoon says anatomy is not gross. at April 26, 2024 10:22 AM (l4B/J)

161 That painting gave me a flashback to Carrie White's mom in the kitchen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2024 10:22 AM (mupln)

162 Past 100 comments so I'll mention this.

For the amateur radio folks. This just came up on our local ham club email. Sad news.

"MFJ is ceasing its on-site production in Starkville, Mississippi on May 17, 2024. This is also the same for our sister companies Ameritron, Hygain, Cushcraft, Mirage and Vectronics.

We are going to continue to sell MFJ products past May 17, 2024. We have a lot of stock on hand. We will continue to offer repair service work for out-of-warranty and in-warranty units for the foreseeable future."

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2024 10:08 AM (zudum)
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Alternate Headline: Chinese-American engineered bioweapon late-stage bonus; Yet another American small business destroyed along with Trump.

Baofeng happiest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (8FmJd)

163 Muldoon says anatomy is not gross.

Someone is baiting Ackbar.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (IUd0M)

164 Rise of the PRE-erection condoms that men stick on up to 2 HOURS before having sex

https://tinyurl.com/yc48e6vn

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (aFNOf)

165 What was used for bowstring?

Hmm, I can't find the video any more. I recall they really tried to get everything as close to real as possible from the draw of the bow to the type of arrow head used at the time but I do not specially remember the bow string.
Posted by: 18-1


Three strings of hemp.

thefinertimes.com/medieval-archers

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (0hu/3)

166 Magnum's parents?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

*******

Curse you Zombie Robbo!!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 26, 2024 10:25 AM (l4B/J)

167 Very well done but very disturbing.. Don't think I'd like that in My dining room

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:25 AM (Akjoo)

168 Rise of the PRE-erection condoms that men stick on up to 2 HOURS before having sex

https://tinyurl.com/yc48e6vn
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (aFNOf)

What happens after two hours?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:25 AM (IUd0M)

169 Not particularly good grouping in the arrow targeting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 10:25 AM (aX7Uj)

170 What happens after two hours?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It self destructs?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:26 AM (aFNOf)

171 Not my wish but it can be lunch time

Of course very well detailed as art should be

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 10:26 AM (kGLb6)

172 15 yard penalty and loss of down for ball targeting.

The fact that balls were missed is irrelevant.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at April 26, 2024 10:26 AM (MkuC5)

173
So, that's how you place implants!!!!

Posted by: Turkish Dentist at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (eDfFs)

174 Ahh, the things we do for love.

Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

175 166 Magnum's parents?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

*******

Curse you Zombie Robbo!!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 26, 2024 10:25 AM (l4B/J)

Horde Mind. It's a thing.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (T+Iwg)

176 >>> Rise of the PRE-erection condoms that men stick on up to 2 HOURS before having sex
https://tinyurl.com/yc48e6vn
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (aFNOf)


So, an actual cock holster.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (Y6IkP)

177 174 Ahh, the things we do for love.

Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

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Why do I get the feeling that no amount of licensing would have saved these three women from themselves?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (GBKbO)

178 Fire arrows: One of the first forms of weaponized gunpowder, fire arrows have been in use since the 9th century. The fire arrow earned its name from the Chinese term ‘huojian,’ which literally translates to ‘fire arrow.’

Fire arrows were not very popular due to their low effectiveness – the speed of the arrow would often extinguish the flame.



*Native Americans have entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (0hu/3)

179 Rise of the PRE-erection condoms that men stick on up to 2 HOURS before having sex

https://tinyurl.com/yc48e6vn
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (aFNOf)

What happens after two hours?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:25 AM (IUd0M)

I think that's the point when you know you're not getting load so you excuse yourself into the nearest bathroom, bash one out and then use the condom for easy clean up and disposal.

Posted by: Robert at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (rVgs0)

180 Ever see the tv show Ghosts? LOL. Poor guy.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:02 AM (0hu/3)

LOVED that show. Then it got gross.

Then I thought about all the innocent kids having to constantly deal with all that kind of gross right now.

Sad.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (JCLJi)

181 So Joe has to have "escorts" everytime he walks ? That sure gives one confidence in his mental and physical state.. I know.. Let's give him control of the Nukes !

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (Akjoo)

182 >>> What happens after two hours?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

It self destructs?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:26 AM (aFNOf)


Enjoy screwing a pumpkin.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (Y6IkP)

183 174 Ahh, the things we do for love.

Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

Don't these people ever get bloodborne pathogen training?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (di6C2)

184 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Grim art today. I like it.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 26, 2024 10:29 AM (VWhUf)

185 IIRC, the Pacific Yew tree was found to be useful in creating a chemotherapeutic for breast cancer.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 10:29 AM (Ciokv)

186 Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

Don't these people ever get bloodborne pathogen training?
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Shouldn't be blood in a facial.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (0hu/3)

187 "Vampire facial" is the common name for a platelet-rich plasma microneedling procedure. In this treatment, a patient's blood is drawn, spun down to separate out plasma from blood cells, and the platelet-rich plasma is then injected into the face with microneedles. It's claimed—with little evidence—that it can rejuvenate and improve the look of skin, and got notable promotions from celebrities, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian.

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Boy, it's hard to believe a procedure endorsed by both Gwyneth Paltrow AND Kim Kardashian could go wrong.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

188 then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 10:14 AM

Why do you think I make the case that men stop working out?

Posted by: Journaist Katie at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (a3Q+t)

189 beautiful painting. Painful though

Posted by: kallisto at April 26, 2024 10:31 AM (dCxaZ)

190 It's claimed—with little evidence—that it can rejuvenate and improve the look of skin, and got notable promotions from celebrities, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian.

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Boy, it's hard to believe a procedure endorsed by both Gwyneth Paltrow AND Kim Kardashian could go wrong.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Yeah. Stinky twat and twats alot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:31 AM (0hu/3)

191 188 Why do you think I make the case that men stop working out?
Posted by: Journaist Katie at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (a3Q+t)

=========

"Why am I only attracted to crypto-conservatives who work out?"
-Journalist Katie's other column

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:32 AM (GBKbO)

192 Ahh, the things we do for love.

Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

Don't these people ever get bloodborne pathogen training?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (di6C2)

Nope.

Posted by: All Nail Salons Everywhere at April 26, 2024 10:32 AM (eDfFs)

193 Violence and Blood.

True Art for a True Smart Military Blog.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 10:32 AM (UnA8+)

194 Scoop: Biden changes walking routine to Marine One

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.
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First, Biden hasn't changed anything. He doesn't know what day it is.

Second, they're not "drawing less attention", they are "blocking media access".

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:33 AM (2e48P)

195 176 >>> Rise of the PRE-erection condoms that men stick on up to 2 HOURS before having sex
https://tinyurl.com/yc48e6vn
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (aFNOf)

So, an actual cock holster.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (Y6IkP)

Wow. Trying to monetize a guy's hope of getting laid in a new way. Does not matter if you actually get laid or not within the two hours, you've already stuck your dick in the condom. Unless you wanted to recycle (contra to the business model), you have to get a new one the next time you think you might get laid.

I have seen some stupid business ideas... on the other hand monetizing a guy's desire to get laid is a surefire winner- as long as it does not make him feel stupid. At least Axe body spray/cologne is at least theoretically working for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:34 AM (di6C2)

196 Shouldn't be blood in a facial.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (0hu/3)

If there is, see your doctor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (di6C2)

197 Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

Don't these people ever get bloodborne pathogen training?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Shouldn't be blood in a facial.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (0hu/3)

I'm not sure what a vampire facial is, but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (IKcSj)

198 Boy, it's hard to believe a procedure endorsed by both Gwyneth Paltrow AND Kim Kardashian could go wrong.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

Nevermind that, I can't believe you can catch anything from an unlicensed Mexican salon. What's the world coming to??

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (2e48P)

199 197 I'm not sure what a vampire facial is, but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (IKcSj)

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Apparently needles in the face.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

200 Shouldn't be blood in a facial.
Posted by: rickb223

Bunny, you're a chick, make a big noise
Playing in the street, gonna be a big chick someday
You got blood in your facial, you big disgracial
Kicking your can all over the place, singin'

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I shouldn't blame the chicks for this. I'm sure there are Hollywood swinging dicks who do this as well. You know, the P.T. Barnham treatment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

201 At least Axe body spray/cologne is at least theoretically working for you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:34 AM (di6C2)

Did pretty good sales... until Sex Panther was released.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (IUd0M)

202 Rise of the PRE-erection condoms that men stick on up to 2 HOURS before having sex

https://tinyurl.com/yc48e6vn

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:23 AM (aFNOf)

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That could be the name of a modern Terminator sequel.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (8FmJd)

203 but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (IKcSj)

Have you sincerely never heard of the danger of sharing needles?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (2e48P)

204 Do not take vampire facial if you're allergic to vampire facial.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (2UnvF)

205 First, Biden hasn't changed anything. He doesn't know what day it is.

Second, they're not "drawing less attention", they are "blocking media access".
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:33 AM (2e48P)

They're drawing more attention

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (Akjoo)

206 Ephesians: 10-18.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (o2ZRX)

207 Hmmmm.

Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

208 At least Axe body spray/cologne is at least theoretically working for you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:34 AM

Theoretically? My sense from reading comments here over time is that Axe is the preferred mating ritual scent addition amongst single 'Rons.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (a3Q+t)

209 207 Hmmmm.

Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

They have to elect Biden ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (Akjoo)

210 That could be the name of a modern Terminator sequel.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (8FmJd)

The tagline could be Hasta La Vista, Baby.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:38 AM (2e48P)

211 207 Hmmmm.

Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

======

The signs from the chicken bones were favorable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

212 Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

Everything is an op. Don't try to read too much into it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:38 AM (IUd0M)

213 Unforgivable by Sean John. Amazing stuff.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:38 AM (2e48P)

214 The signs from the chicken bones were favorable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

LOL , but not too far off

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:39 AM (Akjoo)

215 The signs from the chicken bones were favorable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I thought they used turtle plastrons.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:39 AM (9yWhg)

216 but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (IKcSj)

Have you sincerely never heard of the danger of sharing needles?
Posted by: ...


I think we're talking about two different types of facials.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:40 AM (0hu/3)

217 I'm not sure what a vampire facial is, but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 26, 2024 10:35 AM (IKcSj)

HIV is remarkably fragile, iirc. It would have to be blood fairly fresh from the tap and the ladies would have to have some sort of abrasion on their faces.

That's why anal sex is such a good transmission. At the risk of offending any gay or inclined members of the horde, the anus is not made to have a cock thundering through it. Damage results. Now all you need is an abrasion on said dick, and you have your path of emission and contraction.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:40 AM (di6C2)

218 215 The signs from the chicken bones were favorable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I thought they used turtle plastrons.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:39 AM (9yWhg)

======

Depends on the trading platform. TD Ameritrade uses the chicken bones. I think it's ETrade who uses the turtle plastrons.

JP Morgan uses astronomy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

219
I saw Needles in the Face open for Bloodrock at the Fillmore East in '75.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:41 AM (eDfFs)

220 but if it doesn't involve vag or anal penetration, then I'm calling b.s. on the notion it resulted in HIV transmission.
Posted by: BurtTC

Have you sincerely never heard of the danger of sharing needles?
Posted by: ...

Maybe, but I'm sure there's no possibility they engaged in risky behavior of other kinds they're covering up by blaming the other thing. Ask toilet seats everywhere how that works.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 26, 2024 10:41 AM (OUMaO)

221 Apparently needles in the face.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (GBKbO)

Well, that would do it. Fucking retards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:41 AM (di6C2)

222 Theoretically? My sense from reading comments here over time is that Axe is the preferred mating ritual scent addition amongst single 'Rons.
Posted by: Duncanthrax


F'n kids.
In my day we slathered on Musk by Jovan and we liked it!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:41 AM (0hu/3)

223 I think it's ETrade who uses the turtle plastrons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


The old ETrade ads with the talking baby were hilarious.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

224 I think we're talking about two different types of facials.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:40 AM (0hu/3)

Lol

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:42 AM (2e48P)

225 The signs from the chicken bones were favorable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


I thought they used turtle plastrons.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:39 AM (9yWhg)

======

Depends on the trading platform. TD Ameritrade uses the chicken bones. I think it's ETrade who uses the turtle plastrons.

JP Morgan uses astronomy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

Well....fuck.

*throws away knucklebones*

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:42 AM (eDfFs)

226 JP Morgan uses astronomy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

You're thinking of astrology, a thousands of years old tradition with track records and verifiable truth on par with such fields of study as climate change and intersectionality.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 26, 2024 10:42 AM (OUMaO)

227 We must do something about High Powered Assault Facials

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (2e48P)

228 F'n kids.
In my day we slathered on Musk by Jovan and we liked it!
Posted by: rickb223


I was strictly an Old Spice guy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (9yWhg)

229 JP Morgan uses astronomy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:40 AM (GBKbO)

I think you mean Astrology

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (Akjoo)

230 Boy, it's hard to believe a procedure endorsed by both Gwyneth Paltrow AND Kim Kardashian could go wrong.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*******

A comment so perfectly droll that no /sarc tag is required. Well done!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (l4B/J)

231 227 We must do something about High Powered Assault Facials
Posted by: ...

*Stormy Daniels enters the chat*

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2024 10:44 AM (aFNOf)

232 201 At least Axe body spray/cologne is at least theoretically working for you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:34 AM (di6C2)

Did pretty good sales... until Sex Panther was released.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 10:36 AM (IUd0M)

I always looked at Axe as... poseurish. I am not really a cologne guy. I'll use some Aramis a gal got for me once (same bottle all these years later.) Recently, I heard a gal speak approvingly of some cologne that looked like a hand grenade. Spice Bomb?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:44 AM (di6C2)

233 226 JP Morgan uses astronomy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

You're thinking of astrology, a thousands of years old tradition with track records and verifiable truth on par with such fields of study as climate change and intersectionality.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 26, 2024 10:42 AM (OUMaO)

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Nah. It's astronomy JP Morgan uses. "Jupiter is now a third of the way through its day since the start of trading. Sell!"

It's only the shady orgs that use astrology. Like Acorn.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

234 >207 Hmmmm.

Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

Google and MS beat earnings after yesterday's close. Completely irrational but I'll take it.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 26, 2024 10:45 AM (Ys9p5)

235 Ir made me quiver a little.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

You're just high strung. I think you need to bow out for a little bit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And you point is?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM

Nobody better be draggin' me into this!

Posted by: Shaft at April 26, 2024 10:45 AM (Wnv9h)

236 I'm trying to create a cover image for a fantasy novel, and I know just what I want to see. But these things don't seem to understand "centaur."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

Wolfus! Regarding your medicare/insurance questions, WeirdDave said you can email him at his nic at the gee-mail thingy. Probably also on the left sidebar of the main page, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 10:45 AM (8zz6B)

237 I have seen some stupid business ideas... on the other hand monetizing a guy's desire to get laid is a surefire winner- as long as it does not make him feel stupid. At least Axe body spray/cologne is at least theoretically working for you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:34 AM (di6C2)
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60% of the time, it works every time.

-Brian Fantana

Posted by: WisRich at April 26, 2024 10:46 AM (G0vdT)

238 236 I'm trying to create a cover image for a fantasy novel, and I know just what I want to see. But these things don't seem to understand "centaur."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

=======

The best image I was able to generate for Corstae was only about half good.

So, I used the good half, which is why the picture takes up so little space on the cover.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

239 So Pope Frankie says if you don't believe in climate change your stupid because all the "research" says it's true

Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:48 AM (Akjoo)

240 Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

Google and MS beat earnings after yesterday's close. Completely irrational but I'll take it.
Posted by: Heavy Meta


Gold $2346.10 + $2.20
Silver $27.50 - .06

According to APMEX

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:48 AM (0hu/3)

241 I am reminded of the scene in Lonesome Dove when Gus makes Pea Eye push the arrow through his leg rather than pull it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (4SYnO)

Clint did it first.

Pale Rider? I forget which one, and it was torso/shoulder.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 26, 2024 10:48 AM (z/ifB)

242 I'm trying to create a cover image for a fantasy novel, and I know just what I want to see. But these things don't seem to understand "centaur."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Frank Frazetta art.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:49 AM (0hu/3)

243 Oh, and Wolfus, this might interest you:

Arrow Video is releasing the Man from UNCLE movie on 4K in July:

https://tinyurl.com/bp9ebj76

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

244 So Pope Frankie says if you don't believe in climate change your stupid because all the "research" says it's true
Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:48 AM (Akjoo)

Someone needs to axe his stoopid ass "Who Died And Made You The Weatherman?".

Asshole.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2024 10:49 AM (cDEsv)

245 241 I am reminded of the scene in Lonesome Dove when Gus makes Pea Eye push the arrow through his leg rather than pull it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (4SYnO)

Clint did it first.

Pale Rider? I forget which one, and it was torso/shoulder.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 26, 2024 10:48 AM (z/ifB)

Jimmy Stewart did it in "Bend of the River" when the lovely and talented Julie Adams took one in the shoulder.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 10:50 AM (T+Iwg)

246 Well....fuck.

*throws away knucklebones*
Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:42 AM (eDfFs)

...

Aha!

Discarded knuckebones. Perfect.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 26, 2024 10:50 AM (z/ifB)

247 >>I was strictly an Old Spice guy.

Heh. Jean Nate and Love's Baby Soft, lol!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 10:50 AM (cCVOS)

248 Democrat Rep. Manning: College Protests Aren’t Pro-"Palestinian," They’re Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic

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And anti-American! Don't forget anti-American!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

249 Hmmmm.

Any reason the market seems happier yesterday and today?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2024 10:37 AM (eDfFs)

------------

BREAKING: Biden Promises $10 Trillion More In Aid to Ukraine.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:51 AM (8FmJd)

250 Mmmmmm...Julie Adams...mmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

251 I am reminded of the scene in Lonesome Dove when Gus makes Pea Eye push the arrow through his leg rather than pull it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:52 AM (4SYnO)

Clint did it first.

Pale Rider? I forget which one, and it was torso/shoulder.

Posted by: TexasDan

Two Mules for Sister Sarah. He had her cut a notch in the arrow shaft, fill it with gun powder, then light the powder as he had her shove it all the way through to cauterize his wound.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 26, 2024 10:52 AM (MsrgL)

252 Ir made me quiver a little.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

You're just high strung. I think you need to bow out for a little bit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And you point is?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM

Nobody better be draggin' me into this!
Posted by: Shaft at April 26, 2024 10:45 AM

Or me!

Posted by: Fletch at April 26, 2024 10:52 AM (a3Q+t)

253 250 Mmmmmm...Julie Adams...mmmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

Yeppers. I got Oregon Muse to put her in his "Who Dis?" queue but I don't think he ever got to her.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 10:53 AM (T+Iwg)

254 F'n kids.
In my day we slathered on Musk by Jovan and we liked it!
Posted by: rickb223


I was strictly an Old Spice guy.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I used some of my Dad's Old Spice at first, then moved to Drakker. I don't remember what it smelled like, but it was probably pretty bad. Back then (70s), their slogan was "It may not put more women in your life, but it will put more life in your women."

Posted by: Biergood at April 26, 2024 10:53 AM (PwgSL)

255 >>Democrat Rep. Manning: College Protests Aren’t Pro-"Palestinian," They’re Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic


To-may-to, to-mah-to!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 10:53 AM (cCVOS)

256 Two Mules for Sister Sarah.


I think that Shirley McLaine is cuter when she's the nun than when she's the whore.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:54 AM (9yWhg)

257 So Pope Frankie thinks man can overpower God's plan
Good to know where he stands

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 10:54 AM (kGLb6)

258 We must do something about High Powered Assault Facials

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (2e48P)

---------------

Common-sense facial control.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:55 AM (8FmJd)

259 Julie Adams seems suitably smoky:

https://tinyurl.com/yr663228

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:57 AM (di6C2)

260 258 We must do something about High Powered Assault Facials

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (2e48P)

---------------

Common-sense facial control.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:55 AM (8FmJd)

Check your targets, guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 10:57 AM (di6C2)

261 Julie Adams seems suitably smoky:

https://tinyurl.com/yr663228
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Oh yeah. Also when she's wearing that white one-piece in The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:58 AM (9yWhg)

262 Democrat Rep. Manning: College Protests Aren’t Pro-"Palestinian," They’re Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic

-
And anti-American! Don't forget anti-American!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 26, 2024 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

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And anti-Whitey! Don't forget anti-Whitey!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:58 AM (8FmJd)

263 262 And anti-Whitey! Don't forget anti-Whitey!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 10:58 AM (8FmJd)

========

"Wait...so it's a good thing?"
-Democrat Rep. Manning

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 26, 2024 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

264 Who names their kid Pea Eye ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 10:09 AM (T4tVD)

Magnum

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 26, 2024 10:59 AM (FCbAQ)

265 Heh. Jean Nate and Love's Baby Soft, lol!
Posted by: Lizzy

Don't for get Windsong and Emeraulde.

Posted by: Tuna at April 26, 2024 11:00 AM (oaGWv)

266 I recall an old ad:

Sexy lady murmurs, All my men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 11:00 AM (4SYnO)

267 Wolfus! Regarding your medicare/insurance questions, WeirdDave said you can email him at his nic at the gee-mail thingy. Probably also on the left sidebar of the main page, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024

***
Thanks, AOP! I didn't see it over there on the sidebar. Ace, CBD, Joe Mannix, and a couple of others, but not his.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 11:00 AM (J2vNu)

268 Remember in Demolition Man where it's the future and everyone's a bunch of fat, androgynous, mumu wearing sissies, and everything is illegal?

Yeah. Not so funny now, huh?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 11:00 AM (0hu/3)

269 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*******

A comment so perfectly droll that no /sarc tag is required. Well done!
Posted by: Muldoon at April 26, 2024 10:43 AM (l4B/J)

Hmm. I never thought Anonosaurus was a droll.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:00 AM (2e48P)

270 Nood. Buck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2024 11:01 AM (di6C2)

271 Buck is up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

272 Buck is in the house.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 26, 2024 11:01 AM (T+Iwg)

273 150
This famous weapon was made of the native English yew tree, and so the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking yew".

Thus, when the victorious English waved their middle fingers at the defeated French, they said, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 10:18 AM (0hu/3)
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I like the story. At school in Kenya all history was English but I never heard that! LOL.

Posted by: Ciampino - Pluck Yew! at April 26, 2024 11:01 AM (qfLjt)

274 Mmmmmm...Julie Adams...mmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 10:51 AM (9yWhg)

---------------

Someone yesterday mentioned Linda Christian (whom I'd never heard of and whose images I had to look up and carefully study).

The context was that someone back in the day had called her the "Anatomic Bomb" -- back when we had cleverer "journalists" or wordsmiths (present company excluded, of course).

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 11:03 AM (8FmJd)

275 Oh yeah. Also when she's wearing that white one-piece in The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


Why does that lagoon look eerily similar to Gilligan's Island's lagoon?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2024 11:04 AM (0hu/3)

276 So Pope Frankie says if you don't believe in climate change your stupid because all the "research" says it's true
Posted by: It's me donna at April 26, 2024 10:48 AM (Akjoo)

The Bible is pretty explicit in commanding that we trust research.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 11:04 AM (2e48P)

277 Rick223, may I steal the pluck yew story?

Posted by: Ciampino - Pluck Yew TooToo! at April 26, 2024 11:05 AM (qfLjt)

The Morning Report — 4/26/24

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Good morning, kids. Much like George Jetson had a collapsible flying car in a suitcase, Harvey Weinstein, had a collapsible Posturepedic in his back pocket, and whipped it out con gusto to threaten career death to female starlets unless they gobbled his pockmarked johnson. Yet, he had his 2020 rape conviction tossed by the NY State Court of appeals yesterday.

Having worked in the film biz during his heyday in the 90s, scores of anecdotal stories abound from men and women of how he screwed them over, both figuratively and quite literally. Mira Sorvino, whose career tanked when she came forward with accusations, and whose late father Paul wanted to justifiably tear Weinstein limb from limb, had this reaction on the X-Twitter deal:

“Day after #DenimDay honoring sexual violence survivors, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction overturned, due partly to ‘Molineux witnesses’ testifying to prior bad acts, like lioness Annabella Sciorra,” Sorvino’s post read, referring to a term meaning “witnesses in a trial who are allowed to testify about criminal acts that the defendant has not been charged with committing,” The New York Times noted.

“Since when don’t courts allow evidence of pattern of prior bad acts to be admitted?” she added. “He’s a prolific serial predator who raped/harmed 200+women! Disgusted w/justice system skew [to] predators not victims.”

In the interest of full disclosure, I was neither a juror nor an observer of the trial, and so was not privy to the evidence that led to his conviction, my anecdotal experience/knowledge of his reputation notwithstanding. In one sense, I feel bad for Sorvino and the other victims.

That said, with all due respect to Ms. Sorvino, I could care fuck all. She's "disgusted" at the justice system? Funny how she and all the other supposed "victims" of Harvey Weinstein were dead silent when the same NY court convicted Donald Trump of libel and awarded multi-millions of dollars to E. Jean Carrol for her cock and bull story of being raped and/or groped by Trump. Which he had neither been charged nor convicted, as if that matters these days, but I digress. For publicly defending himself by calling her out for the liar she was – which is in the febrile, reptilian, pea-sized mind of Leftists a crime against humanity – Trump got what he deserved.

I have no love for Weinstein. But it's kind of sickly ironic that perhaps the court did the right thing for tossing his conviction. Perhaps not. And yet after a sham of a travesty of two mockeries of a farce of a libel trial, the same court system has Trump on trial for supposedly using campaign cash as hush money to silence Sloppy Daniels prior to 2016. The case is a joke and everyone knows it. The problem is the system is so abjectly corrupted that the Constitution and rule of law are out the window in service to leftist political expedience.

Despite the prosecution’s best efforts to insinuate former President Trump‘s involvement in—or even knowledge of—the “catch and kill” scheme, Pecker’s testimony continues to fall short of any direct implication. The prosecution frequently used the “catch and kill” term as well as referring to Cohen and Pecker’s activities as a “scheme,” hoping to convince the jury of illegal activity when, in fact, there appears to be none.Under cross-examination by Trump‘s attorney Emil Bove, Pecker even admitted he’d never heard the term “catch and kill” before the prosecution used it. Bove asked Pecker if “it was always your intention, dating back to the early days of this friendship, not to publish negative stories about President Trump?” The tabloid newsman responded, “Yes.”

Pecker also acknowledged he has held back negative stories about other notable public figures, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, businessman Ronald Perelman, and Obama Chief of Staff-turned-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Further undermining the prosecution’s case, he added that it was his understanding that Cohen was acting in a personal capacity for Trump, not on behalf of the presidential campaign.

Like the E. Jean Carrol case, will this matter in the end with a judge, prosecutor and likely 12 angry New York City hand-picked stooges? Doubtful.

And Trump, along with scores of innocent people might just catch a break at SCOTUS on yet another trumped up, banana republic bullshit persecution, vis a vis "presidential immunity." Here's Turley's take:

Writer Ray Bradbury once said, “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss.

It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. Fitzgerald. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Yet in 1974’s United States v. Nixon, the court ruled a president is not immune from a criminal subpoena. Nixon was forced to comply with a subpoena for his White House tapes in the Watergate scandal from special counsel Leon Jaworski.

Since then, the court has avoided any significant ruling on the extension of immunity to a criminal case — until now. There are cliffs on both sides of this case. If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency. It would leave a president without protection from endless charges from politically motivated prosecutors. If the court were to embrace Trump counsel’s arguments, a president would have complete immunity. It would leave a president largely unaccountable under the criminal code for any criminal acts.

The first cliff is made obvious by the lower-court opinion. While the media have largely focused on extreme examples of president-ordered assassinations and coups, the justices are clearly as concerned with the sweeping implications of the DC Circuit opinion. . .

. . . The other cliff is more than obvious from the other proceedings occuring as these arguments were made. Trump’s best attorney proved to be Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. If the justices want insight into the implications of denying any immunity, they just need to look north to New York City. The ongoing prosecution of Trump is legally absurd but has resulted in the leading presidential candidate not only being gagged but prevented from campaigning.

Alvin Bragg is very personification of the danger immunity is meant to avoid. . .

. . . I have long opposed sweeping arguments of immunity from criminal charges for presidents. The devil is in the details, and many justices are struggling with how to define official versus nonofficial conduct. The line-drawing proved maddening for the justices in the oral argument. The most they could say is similar to the story of the man who jumped off a building. As he passes an office window halfway down, another man calls out to ask how he’s doing. The jumper responds, “So far so good.”

As the justices work on a new set of legal wings, anything is possible as the nation waits for the court to hit ground zero in the middle of the 2024 presidential election.

So, let's say SCOTUS does manage to perform a Solomonic miracle and "mostly peacefully" cleave the baby in half. The only thing that will do is enrage a perpetually enraged Democrat-Left to either dissolve or permanently pack SCOTUS with a bench full of Roland Freisler/Enorgon-Erdogon-Enron-Gorgon clones.

That underscores my argument that this nation is divided not only on a panoply of issues but on the legitimacy of the nation itself, and on those of us who are desperate to restore and preserve what it once was. Or at least as we had imagined it to be.

The annihilationist rhetoric about Jews heard on campuses around the country, horrendous as it is, is not merely about Jews, nor did it spring up in a vacuum. It happened because of decades of anti-American and anti-Western indoctrination on said campuses going at least as far back as when individuals like Theodore Adorno and Herbert Marcuse fled actual European Fascism and paid us back by injecting the poison of Marx and Gramsci into the American educational system.

Presto chango, 80 years later and voila! We live in a nation that resembles the bastard child of 1968 Chicago with 1938 Nuremberg. Everything is upside-down, thoroughly corrupt almost everywhere you turn, and really nowhere to run.

Even if we somehow win in 2024, or win every election for the next 40 years, and both of those are seriously in doubt, we will still have at least a third of the population (not including the millions of illegal foreigners who I wouldn't count on for help) wanting us dead as well as a propaganda/brainwashing complex disguised as academia that will produce yet another generation of useless pod people who will be eager to line us up and shoot us into a ditch. Ironic considering their hatred of the Second Amendment.

I used the "R" word yesterday maybe reluctantly but now, there really is no other way out. Face it. America as it was is virtually if not completely gone. If we somehow survive the coming maelstrom of internal conflict and end up victorious, we must reconstruct a society and form of government that never again allows the scum who destroyed us in the first place to ever be within a billion billion light years of power and influence. If that means ditching the Constitution, so be it.

If a revolution is what they want, then we should be the ones to give it to them. Good and hard.

My latest essay is up at Taki's Magazine. Have a good weekend.

    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • Jack Posobiec: ". . . aside from its obvious evil, there’s another problem with communism: by necessity, it is viciously, unimaginably petty. And yes, this is a necessity. When the entire basis of your ideology is the government centrally planning who gets what resource, down to the last thumbtack, pettiness is the inevitable conclusion. Which may explain the existence of one Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)."
    Is There Anything Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Want to Micromanage?
  • "Like empires before us, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, increasing the risk of being overrun by newcomers."
    America Isn’t the First Empire Doomed By Open Borders
  • Richard Fernandez: "We will be 'righteous' when it no longer matters and degenerate, foolish and ambitious in the meantime."
    Flashpoints

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1 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (ENQN6)

2 LET'S DANCE!

https://tinyurl.com/5n8k7uea

(X.com)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (hIAv4)

3 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 07:47 AM (8cU+f)

4 Hmm... was on VPN via US and got "IP banned" message when trying to comment.

Back on VPN. Test via UK.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 07:48 AM (xIC99)

5 morning horde. looks like we made it to friday

thank god.

and happy birfday JJ.

time for covfefe & content

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (UCRjB)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Good morning, friends in grey boxes! And happy cake day, JJ! It's good to be back home.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (DIB8X)

8 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the Divine Power of God, cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (WXNFJ)

9 "aside from its obvious evil, there’s another problem with communism: by necessity, it is viciously, unimaginably petty. "

We see that every day yet very few will call it what it is, communism.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

10 AMEN !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:52 AM (T4tVD)

11 I'm waiting for the Australian storm troopers to land on the beach in Texas to invade Elon Musk's stronghold, and finally rid the world of someone who allows memes to be posted of their leaders.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 07:52 AM (lTGtQ)

12 Hiya JJ !

And Thank You !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

13 "Jim Hoft, describes as a series of “lawfare attacks” allegedly initiated by “the radical left.

The radical left=communists. Just say it.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

14 Great essay at Taki, JJ!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 07:54 AM (W/2in)

15
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2024 07:54 AM (bEb2S)

16 They are commies. Call them as such. It drives my aunt nuts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 07:55 AM (IZc/C)

17 Yes, we’re two countries already. Two sets of people who see the world through completely different lenses. I can’t comprehend a vote for Biden or support for Trump show trials… I can’t comprehend support for Hamas. It’s like these people are aliens; lizard people. They surely think the same of me….

It once again annoys me that empty people like John Roberts and Amy Coney Island (or whatever her name is) have so much power. Ridiculous

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 07:55 AM (xT8gx)

18 Police were forced to remove two pro-Palestine protesters from the Oxford Union on Thursday after they hijacked a speech by Nancy Pelosi, the former US speaker of the House.

The pair of students waved Palestinian flags as they disrupted her address at the debating society shortly after 6pm.

The protesters were swiftly removed by Thames Valley Police and escorted out as the crowd inside the chamber applauded.

Outside video:
Media Workers 4 Palestine @mw4pal
#gaza protest at Oxford Union tonight where Nancy Pelosi is due to speak

https://tinyurl.com/mruww3zr
21 seconds; warning -- hitting the link might give some money to the assholes posting it but I don't know for sure.

And it's good to know that Thames Valley Police could protect Nanzi with all the murders that Oxford has although maybe they got in reinforcements from Midsomer County to help??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (vtyCZ)

19 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (IUd0M)

20 Can you imagine being married to Elizabeth Warren.

Or being her kid?

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (QB+5g)

21 Justice has no place in our judicial system. Outcomes, good or bad, are dictated for the subject classes without much (if any) regard to the letter or spirit of laws. For the ruling classes, they're just paid for with money and influence, and Weinstein is no different.

That sucks, but I'm not moved by the particulars of his case. He's a repulsive, piglike beastman who belongs in the ground, but bought his freedom with gobs of cash and his accrued political clout. His putative victims were lowlife slatterns who belonged in the gutter, but bought status with their clapped out front holes.

Very difficult to find a good outcome in any of this, short of chucking the lot of them in the hold of a ship and selling them as chattels in some far flung land across the sea where they can't bother us anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 07:57 AM (0FoWg)

22 She's "disgusted" at the justice system?

In the minds of far too many people around the globe, "justice" means I get what I want.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (IUd0M)

23
The times are so much different when I was young. Everyone I knew, while not exactly jumping for joy every day, had a somewhat rosy outlook on life. The vehicles they drove all somewhat reflected their personalities. So many colors and options for personalization. Tires, wheels, vinyl tops, etc...

Drive down the road nowadays and 9 out of 10 cars will be either black, white, or gray.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (RKVpM)

24 Thank you for the links JJ!

I want to read that book by Nolan (on adoption).

Also yes I will happily give up the franchise if my insane leftist ladies-who-lunch peers also lose it!

and they get a two-for-one b/c they harangue their financial-services hubbies into voting left too!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (s3qiR)

25 Sorvino has it backasswards. Harvey ran it up in, ran it up out, raped, hollered, molested, penetrated, fingered, fisted, footed, de-planted, gapped, rimmed, fronted, tongue punched and raped well over 200 men and wimmen.

For that, Hollyweird should give him an honorary Oscar and a star on The Hollyweird Walk Of Rape and Joe should invite him to visit the white outhouse and maybe they can sandwich a young male intern together in the hot tub.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (cDEsv)

26 “Various terrorist organizations” lobbed mortar rounds at efforts on the location laying the groundwork for the pier while U.N. officials were touring the area, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the Israeli military.

You put a kindergarten next to Drag Queen Story Hour Reading Room and expect no one will get diddled??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (ENQN6)

27 "but bought status with their clapped out front holes."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You have a way with words YD! Well done!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (WXNFJ)

28 If Warren is attacking the color schemes on websites, at least it is distracting her from trying to tax unrealized gains.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 07:59 AM (lTGtQ)

29 Or being her kid?

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (QB+5g)

Getting the Injun Card with the free government handout sounds like a great gig to me.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:00 AM (ENQN6)

30 RE the SCOTUS case: I think I saw someone had postulated that SCOTUS could look at the appointment of Jack Smith and rule that he has no standing because his appointment is inconsistent with the requirements that position. Seems like that would be the most likely position that feckless traitor Roberts would.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:00 AM (DIB8X)

31 thank you for the prayer, Tonypete!

btw the thing where Joetato is crossing himself - I remember my great aunts and nonna would do that when confronted by something evil.

maybe he's seeing the demons he is in league with, that we cannot (thankfully) see as clearly has one who is owned by them.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:01 AM (s3qiR)

32 I searched (Qwant) on "THE Ohio State University" for news this morning. Not one hit.

Amazing

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 08:02 AM (WXNFJ)

33 Seems like that would be the most likely position that feckless traitor Roberts would.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:00 AM (DIB8X)

Deciding a case purely on the "Who bitch dis is" test? Don't think he has the bozzack for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:02 AM (GkFGh)

34 yes I'm hearing the nasty pro-pali tent cities have infected Ohio State as well

this is a planned op

still awaiting bad news from up north ...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (s3qiR)

35 I guess the Trump sellout memo didn't get to everyone on Capitol Hill; he'll have to enlarge the secret-meetings' invites' list:

Simon Ateba @simonateba Apr 23
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC l) attacks Trump, says, Everybody who says we should do something about border legislation, “you're absolutely right but unfortunately, we didn't get there, President Trump opposed (the border deal). I hate that.” WATCH

Catturd ™ @catturd2 Apr 23
Mitch McConnell just came out and blamed Tucker Carlson and President Trump for not getting Ukraine 61 billion fast enough.

johnny maga @_johnnymaga Apr 23
Mitt Romney sides with Alvin Bragg over Donald Trump

I can’t wait until this sleazebag leaves the Senate

Breitbart News @BreitbartNews 11h
Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (vtyCZ)

36 Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:02 AM (GkFGh)

Given the animosity the administration has displayed towards the court, I could see Roberts doing just that, without saying 'Hoozyer daddy now, bitch!'.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (DIB8X)

37 Given the animosity the administration has displayed towards the court, I could see Roberts doing just that, without saying 'Hoozyer daddy now, bitch!'.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (DIB8X)

True, spite is one heck of a motivator.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:05 AM (GkFGh)

38 We live in a nation that resembles the bastard child of 1968 Chicago with 1938 Nuremberg.

Thats a good line, and pretty neatly sums up 2024 USA.

Posted by: Ex GOP at April 26, 2024 08:05 AM (GpUII)

39
btw the thing where Joetato is crossing himself - I remember my great aunts and nonna would do that when confronted by something evil.

I make a cross with my two index fingers and hiss slightly. Last time I was at the polls I did it to the people behind the (D) table.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 08:05 AM (RKVpM)

40 Sara Rose 🌹 @saras76 7h
Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you" 🤣 👏🏼

https://tinyurl.com/yukj3cnz
7 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:07 AM (vtyCZ)

41 "An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent"



Are we astute, or what?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:07 AM (lTGtQ)

42 USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests

What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

43 I think you are beginning to see that some Justices on the Supreme Court are waking up to the fact that dodging cases like Texas vs PA only meant more contentious cases will show up at their doorstep, while the country rips itself apart. Doubtful they'd be hearing all these cases now had they just faced their duty then.

Kavanaugh seemed to hint at that yesterday, that these cases have long reaching effects for the country and that the SCOTUS has to face them head on, not dodge.

To do that, they'll have to give the Presidency total immunity or expect more cases...but we'll see if they dodge again or face it....

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (K+UlC)

44 The Carbon Capture scam has always been my theory, it's next to impossible to stuff carbon in the earth

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (8cU+f)

45 Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice."

The DNC is the ratchet. The GOP is the pawl. Voting for more will never change it.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (tblLd)

46 As I dig into the whole "presidential immunity" thing I have to wonder; why would a president need immunity if he/she did not wander off the legal and constitutional reservation in the first place?

I realize this is a political persecution of Trump and his supporters. It's past time for them to ignore the illegality of these lawsuits and tell these leftists to go pound sand.

And maybe it's time to bring this simmering conflict to heel or pop it wide open... either way, but quit playing by the left's rules.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

47 CALL THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (s3qiR)

48 "Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you""

Fox "News" Radio was quick to note yesterday that his union has endorsed Biden.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

49 Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

Ummmmmm...Yes.

Posted by: marxist DEI Prefesser Dr. Shameeka Jackson at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (cDEsv)

50 Tom Elliott @tomselliott 4h
Biden: “We’re exporting American jobs”

https://tinyurl.com/23vuujrb
14 seconds; earpiece guy corrects Joe for his correct second attempt

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (vtyCZ)

51 What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

Those students started college in the height of Coof insanity.

They finish amidst rioters wrecking their graduation day because they just really, really like decapitated jewish babies and need everyone to know that.

It's almost as if they don't care about convincing anyone about anything anymore...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (GkFGh)

52 International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies

There are a fair number of cities which, were the Russians to accidentally drop a nuclear weapon on them, the world would be improved immensely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (IUd0M)

53 I think you are beginning to see that some Justices on the Supreme Court are waking up to the fact that dodging cases like Texas vs PA only meant more contentious cases will show up at their doorstep, while the country rips itself apart. Doubtful they'd be hearing all these cases now had they just faced their duty then.


Posted by: Boswell


I seem to recall that ancient Israel had a similar situation, related in the book of Judges.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (lTGtQ)

54 SCOTUS has 3 distinguished justices: Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch. Not always right, but rigorous thinkers who try to actually, you know, interpret the constitution. Kavanaugh and Barrett have young kids and wanna be loved in DC neighborhoods; their native instincts are good but bottom line they’re cowards. John Roberts is a company man through and through and probably compromised. Kagan is a “reasonable” lefty…. Sometimes. The Latina Sotomayor is a lefty ideologue and Brown is a lefty ideologue with noticeably low IQ. These are our shining legal lights????

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (xT8gx)

55 In your Taki's essay you note "the perfect illustration of the dichotomy of being book smart, intellectual, worldly, etc. with that of woefully lacking in plain old common sense..."
sadly, that was a writer I've admired yesterday, Matt Walsh, attacking Gov. Abbott for breaking up the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT. These campus takeovers are carefully orchestrated and financed attacks on civil order in general, and *nobody* has done anything effective to fight back except Gov. Abbott. And what he did is supported by an overwhelming majority of Texans, if for no other reason that we don't put up with that kind of shit around here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (S6gqv)

56 The "crime" as I understand it is that Trump didn't use campaign cash.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (eYoxG)

57 JJ good Taki article

FYI, continued prayers for your health.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (n/1xr)

58 "sadly, that was a writer I've admired yesterday, Matt Walsh, attacking Gov. Abbott for breaking up the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT."

What was Walsh's reasoning for that?

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

59
Some attorney was on the Benny Johnson podcast after the Supreme Court hearing ended and made an interesting point about the Founding Fathers; they actually may have foreseen a scenario we are in today, where one political party attempts to criminalize the opposing.

So there are no rules prohibiting felons or other criminals from running for the President.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 08:13 AM (RKVpM)

60 >>So, let's say SCOTUS does manage to perform a Solomonic miracle and "mostly peacefully" cleave the baby in half.


I think SCOTUS will hand down a 7-2 or 6-4 ruling saying Presidents have immunity for official acts and then throw it back down to the lower courts to figure out if what Trump is alleged to have done is an official act.

It's the typical SCOTUS, narrow and tight rulings when anything involving a conservative/republican is before the court.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 08:14 AM (XV/Pl)

61 8 Amen

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:14 AM (n/1xr)

62 Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice."

LOL. With that endorsement, Tiny Johnson has to know that he is done as Speaker

Posted by: Ex GOP at April 26, 2024 08:14 AM (GpUII)

63 The Carbon Capture scam has always been my theory, it's next to impossible to stuff carbon in the earth

Posted by: Skip



Oh, you can stuff it into the earth, all right. The question is, how many minutes until it percolates back out?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (lTGtQ)

64 Trump's legal strategy to challenge the Steal was framed as state v. state to get original jurisdiction at SCOTUS, not a lower court. in a 7-2 vote Roberts got it barred at the court house door. Can you guess the two?

Roberts scared the new justices that taking the case would be the end of SCOTUS. In effect, this buried Trump's evidence.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

65 The SCROTUM's will soil me again.

Sigh.

Posted by: The Bed at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (cDEsv)

66 " Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice.""

His footing is on his knees and his voice is choked with cock.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

67 Even if we somehow win in 2024, or win every election for the next 40 years, and both of those are seriously in doubt, we will still have at least a third of the population (not including the millions of illegal foreigners who I wouldn't count on for help) wanting us dead as well as a propaganda/brainwashing complex disguised as academia that will produce yet another generation of useless pod people who will be eager to line us up and shoot us into a ditch. Ironic considering their hatred of the Second Amendment.
++++
Perhaps, but most people don't really care that much.

Probably 20%-25% of the population are actual partisans of some kind. Maybe a bit more now since the education system is designed to manufacture partisans (and one variety of partisan, at that). The rest aren't. There is no "majority ideal" or somesuch. Most people just back the strong horse. Right now, and for the past couple of decades, the left has been the strong horse and so most people are down with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:16 AM (HnUIn)

68 Today is Alien Day. 👽

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

69 USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests

What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

This one’s personal for me as I’m a USC alum…. My graduation was a great experience; even got my picture in cap and gown in front of Tommy Trojan. It’s a beautiful campus in a sketchy part of town but this is all on Carol Folt and the cowardly school administration. They’ve been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (xT8gx)

70 F'n USAA. There are no banks I trust. They will all sell you out to the commies.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

71 Morning Horde, as always thx JJ. I made the mistake of reading a summary of yesterday's SC regarding immunity at Twitchy. Good summary but then it went down the rabbit hole with tweets from MSNBC legal "expert " Elie Mystal. Almost no legal insight just a massive amount of farting in Republicans general direction. Mystal is a native of Haiti and I think it's generally a bad idea to listen to anybody from Haiti about government

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:19 AM (aX7Uj)

72 I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0 A Tale Of Two Presidents…

Do you spot the difference?

[BIDEN: TRUMP:]

https://tinyurl.com/2nnku9r4
two brief videos

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:19 AM (vtyCZ)

73 What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)
++++
They'll still get their sheepskins.

Most places did this in 2020 and 2021 and nobody got to walk in the graduation ceremony at virtually every high school and college in the land. That sucked and was stupid. This sucks and is stupid, too. Maybe it will build the right kind of resentment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:19 AM (HnUIn)

74 Writer Ray Bradbury once said, “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss.

That is some great prose. I wish I could write like that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (4HcMG)

75 ... They’ve been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. ...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (xT8gx)
++++
To a point. But then again, they also knew it and have known it for a long time. They built this and it's what they wanted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

76 "Today is Alien Day. 👽
Posted by: redridinghood"

Get me off this f'n planet.

Posted by: ET at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

77 What was Walsh's reasoning for that?
Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

Matt was angry about this tweet by Abbott:
"Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX Apr 24
Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses.
These protesters belong in jail.
Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.
Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."

Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting and trying to disrupt an entire campus, and also to violently intimidate anyone who opposes them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (S6gqv)

78 48 "Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you""

***

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (n/1xr)

79 Roberts scared the new justices that taking the case would be the end of SCOTUS. In effect, this buried Trump's evidence.

I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (tblLd)

80 U. Maryland Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

In Palestine or Iran women would be imprisoner or maybe even hung for asking to go to school.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:21 AM (ENQN6)

81 @79 Spot on. It's Roberts' prime directive

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (Gse2f)

82 Fox "News" Radio was quick to note yesterday that his union has endorsed Biden.
Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

... and his union uses his dues to promote things the union guy hates and to enrich the union steward, who makes ten times the salary of union members.

Posted by: Emmie at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (Sf2cq)

83 People see Vulgar displays of Power, and think "I want to do that too", so they side with the people getting away with it, the Left.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (UnA8+)

84 YOU are the carbon they want to stuff in the earth.

Posted by: Bigfoot's Stunt Double at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (d4flP)

85 I understand CA is full of Folt lines.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:23 AM (vtyCZ)

86 great write up JJ, and i have to say that regarding weinstein, iirc they didn't do a great job of linking the previous acts to the current charge. it's sort of loosely showed a pattern, if you squinted a bit.

but it's hollyweird and stars caught up in this, so i don't much care.

but won't someone think of the pain and suffering of the ficus?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:23 AM (UCRjB)

87 Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you" 🤣 👏🏼 ...
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:07 AM (vtyCZ)
++++
Reporter is asshole. The more interesting part of this is the lead-in.

"What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so many Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you?"

Reporter is confused.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:23 AM (HnUIn)

88 What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Then they should have taken up apprenticeships with HVAC, electrical or plumbing trades. You want to make the world a better place? Pushing paper and Leftist agendas as a bureaucrat or a private sector compliance officer is NOT the way. Fixing what is broken, getting work and homes back running, bringing order out of chaos, pointing to something and seeing a satisfied customer or improvements and functionality that didn't previously exist is how to make things literally better.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:24 AM (4HcMG)

89 So Matt Walsh is antisemitic himself, got it.

Sorry Matt; that's the not-so-undertone to your tweets (btw I read them yesterday and they put me in a MOOD)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:24 AM (s3qiR)

90 "Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting"

Was that the only thing they were arrested for? The arrests will be dismissed. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct too, among other things. Matt should make it clear about what he is talking about and sometimes fails to do that.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

91 If there were a bunch of people gathered at a college saying "We need to get all these filthy negroes out of here", and then going around and beating up any black people they come across, you bet your ass and both legs I'd be in favor of arresting their asses.

And "free speech" doesn't have shit to do with it. Inciting a riot isn't free speech. Assault isn't free speech. Fuck all this whingy ninny sissy pants dithering from poncey dorks about freedom and liberty, as if those words had anything to do with this kind of shit. These assholes aren't "protesting", so any line of thought or discussion or reasoning that begins by pretending that they are is dead on arrival.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (GkFGh)

92 Roberts scared the new justices that taking the case would be the end of SCOTUS. In effect, this buried Trump's evidence.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

And now, hopefully Gorsuch and Kavanaugh see that "dodging" as is Roberts want to do, only leads to the chaos they are seeing now...even if they had taken the case and then suggested that Texas, while having a point, doesn't win on the merits, would have poked a huge hole in the Dems feverish lawfare strategy that contesting an election is some sort of evil federal offense that only Republicans get indicted over...

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (K+UlC)

93 Fuck them huh?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

Collateral damage. But where were they when the school was quite tolerant of this sort of anti-American and anti-Semitic behavior for years and years?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (n/3Pf)

94 YOU are the carbon they want to stuff in the earth.

Posted by: Bigfoot's Stunt Double




That belongs on a T shirt.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (lTGtQ)

95 It occurs to me that it's universities and colleges today that are the focus of leftist agitation, but unlikely to remain there tomorrow.

Yet, there seems to be reluctance to confront them. Either because there's agreement with the left, or fear of retribution by the left, their supporters, the state or all of the above.

This climate of fear sucks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

96 Best part of the Weinstein verdict being thrown out is that the court said there is TOO MUCH evidence of his skeeziness for a conviction.

Posted by: Editor at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (YIs+o)

97 It's also...
National Pretzel Day. 🥨

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

98 89 So Matt Walsh is antisemitic himself, got it.

Sorry Matt; that's the not-so-undertone to your tweets (btw I read them yesterday and they put me in a MOOD)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:24 AM (s3qiR)

Considering that he's friendly with Nick Fuentes, yes.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (UnA8+)

99 In other words, Obama could not be charged for his use of more than 560 drone strikes that murdered somewhere between 384 and 807 civilians because his own DOJ cleared him to do so.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (ENQN6)

100 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (9yWhg)

101 ... Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting and trying to disrupt an entire campus, and also to violently intimidate anyone who opposes them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (S6gqv)
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I can get behind that reasoning.

Antisemitism is not illegal. Anyone who wants to can hate me for being a Jew. It's stupid and bigoted, but it's his right. Free association and all that. But he's not allowed to impede me, or get violent with me, or organize with a bunch of pals to attack me. He can hate me all he wants and he's free to be as big an antisemite as he wishes and to have nothing to do with me, but that's where it ends.

Abbott was arresting students - and rightly so - for being a violent mob impeding and hurting other people until the institution backed its own bigoted position. That's terrorism, not free speech and free association and they *should* be in jail - but not for "antisemitism."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (HnUIn)

102 I guarantee Roberts will retire under a DEM president

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

103 Richard Hanania @RichardHanania 14h
Biden Treasury Department says we need higher taxes on capital gains because it would hurt white people more and take away their wealth.

Whites own too many stocks and businesses, so they need to pay.

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 1h
This is where “equity” leads to
An attack on people based on skin color

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (vtyCZ)

104 The most important point about what Abbott did with respect to the protestors is that it was an overwhelmingly popular move with everyone except the relatively small group of far left zealots. The vast majority of Texans of all stripes don't want to see that kind of civil chaos unleashed and allowed to grow here, and they're glad to see a leader who will smack it down hard and make sure it doesn't come back.
Matt, when you're siding with Hamas, and Code Pink, and Antifa, you're just wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

105 "Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting"

Was that the only thing they were arrested for? The arrests will be dismissed. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct too, among other things. Matt should make it clear about what he is talking about and sometimes fails to do that.

Posted by: fd



I tend to agree that Abbott got off track. He should have stuck with the disorderly conduct, and not commented on the motives. We all know that they are anti-semitic, but we all still have a smidgen of freedom of speech, even if it is 'hate speech.'

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (lTGtQ)

106 Democrats Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump’s Due Process Rights
_______
Rubbish. Standard Brit establishment propaganda. It links contrary cases as though they were comparable, and claim as Whig causes the very things the Whigs and their predecessors tried to suppress.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (1bNHn)

107 Yesterday it was WSJ, today it's DM trying to convince folks to move to Rockford, IL. I'd advise against it. Same out-of-control urban violence, abysmally bad schools, and Shit-Headed Woke city govt you find throughout the Rust Belt. Because our thugs are highly mobile, there are NO 'safe' neighborhoods here. Expect things to get worse when our damned new casino finishes construction.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (MvF+J)

108 If Barret were smart, she have her kids raised in Indiana, and commute to D.C.

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

109 To a point. But then again, they also knew it and have known it for a long time. They built this and it's what they wanted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

Carol Folt is despised by most of the traditional long-time USC community. People here may not understand but football is a huge part of USC (or rather it used to be)… the whole alumni community took pride in Trojan football tradition. But when Folt came in she made it clear she despised football…. She wanted USC to be Harvard west. You may be surprised to hear: most USC alumni are quite conservative…. Up until say the mid-2000s.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (xT8gx)

110 It’s a beautiful campus in a sketchy part of town but this is all on Carol Folt and the cowardly school administration. They’ve been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (xT8gx)
================
How she got such a great job is a mystery. She was a fricking disaster at Dartmouth, cratered at UNC, and now look. She keeps failing upward.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (CEynM)

111 Matt Walsh isn’t allowed an opinion now?

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (Au0FL)

112 Accusing someone of rape when it's not true isn't defamation. But saying it's not true when it's not true is. Welcome to Leftard Justice.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (2e48P)

113 Howie Carr comes up with a gem about the Harvard protesters getting drenched "you are either part of the solution or part of the sprinklers"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:31 AM (aX7Uj)

114 Posted by: Editor at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (YIs+o)

I thought his conviction was thrown out because witnesses were testifying on acts he was not charged with in the trial.

Have I got that right?

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (Oy/m2)

115 Speaker Johnson getting ready for his FOX interview to work with Paul Ryan, down the road

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

116 They’ve [ USC ] been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad

This is the time the academics wish they didn't Ivory Tower themselves into alienating university education from the vulgar masses.

Neither Proud Boys, nor Hells Angels want to step into this great opportunity to Bash a Skull for Righteousness.

Nothing says FAFO than the sound of shit-tons of Hell raising Metal Thunder approaching on a bunch of slack-jawed, sunken chested fagots Cosplaying as Hamas.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (4HcMG)

117 Carol Folt is despised by most of the traditional long-time USC community. People here may not understand but football is a huge part of USC (or rather it used to be)… the whole alumni community took pride in Trojan football tradition. But when Folt came in she made it clear she despised football…. She wanted USC to be Harvard west. You may be surprised to hear: most USC alumni are quite conservative…. Up until say the mid-2000s.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (xT8gx)
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And USC wasn't. They picked their leader and are insulated from the consequences because of the vast system of money sluices and ideological cops keeping everything moving further left. Until a generation ago, most USC grads weren't communists? Cool. It is also not relevant. The institution is radical.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

118 THANKS JJ WE LOVE YOU

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 08:33 AM (2e48P)

119 This is the time the academics wish they didn't Ivory Tower themselves into alienating university education from the vulgar masses.

Neither Proud Boys, nor Hells Angels want to step into this great opportunity to Bash a Skull for Righteousness.

Nothing says FAFO than the sound of shit-tons of Hell raising Metal Thunder approaching on a bunch of slack-jawed, sunken chested fagots Cosplaying as Hamas.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (4HcMG)
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There wasn't much of that last time when the hippies were doing it.

"Not my circus, not my monkeys."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:33 AM (HnUIn)

120 Catturd ™ @catturd2 Apr 23
Mitch McConnell just came out and blamed Tucker Carlson and President Trump for not getting Ukraine 61 billion fast enough.

So Trump wasn't personally responsible for ensuring that House Republicans voted for the money. Funny, that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (IUd0M)

121 the whole alumni community took pride in Trojan football tradition. But when Folt came in she made it clear she despised football...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (xT8gx)

Fight On!

Posted by: Zombie OJ Simpson, Murderer at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (cDEsv)

122 I tend to agree that Abbott got off track. He should have stuck with the disorderly conduct, and not commented on the motives. We all know that they are anti-semitic, but we all still have a smidgen of freedom of speech, even if it is 'hate speech.'
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (lTGtQ)

Motive shouldn't matter a bit... if that crowd's goal was to move Taco Tuesday to Wednesday in the campus dining hall, and they acted the same way, arrest their dumb asses all the same. Buzzwords are just a distraction. Rioting is rioting. Assault is assault.

You defend jews against violent antisemites by defending all of society against all violent assholes. It's the Rule of Law. You have it, or you don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (GkFGh)

123 The year over year price index went up 2.8% last month. Wages went up .5% . Yay Bidenomics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (aX7Uj)

124 Massive pro hamas rally on Northwestern U campus right now. Many brain dead white kids of course.

Sadly, many brain dead jewish students too, under the guise of peace

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

125 I am so sick of the "principled conservatives" who continue to put IVF and the abortion industry into the same bucket. IVF literally brings human beings into the world. It is the opposite of abortion. I would not have my daughter without IVF.

The Federalist can go fuck itself. Very very hard.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (VxbvY)

126 “Before this investigation started, you had not heard the phrase ‘catch and kill,’ correct?” Bove asked, referencing the prosecutor’s description of Pecker’s purchase of the McDougal story.

Pecker agreed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (ENQN6)

127 Motive shouldn't matter a bit... if that crowd's goal was to move Taco Tuesday to Wednesday in the campus dining hall, and they acted the same way, arrest their dumb asses all the same. Buzzwords are just a distraction. Rioting is rioting. Assault is assault.

You defend jews against violent antisemites by defending all of society against all violent assholes. It's the Rule of Law. You have it, or you don't.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (GkFGh)
++++
I think this is well put.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (HnUIn)

128 Greg Abbot is a genius. His busing of illegals to the north was brilliant

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

129 "Democrats Get The Best Bang For Their Buck By Funding Election Infrastructure"

This article from the Federalist is really discouraging.

"Dark money leaders gathered last week to discuss infrastructure enabling left-wing victory and “transformation.”

"Speakers with these groups discussed building an infrastructure to help progressives reach victory and maintain power, even in conservative states."

The Republicans are playing checkers and the Democrats are playing 3D chess.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

130 Until a generation ago, most USC grads weren't communists? Cool. It is also not relevant. The institution is radical.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

Sadly you are right. It hit me harder because it happened to “my” place (sigh)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (xT8gx)

131 123 The year over year price index went up 2.8% last month. Wages went up .5% . Yay Bidenomics
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (aX7Uj)

Q4 23 to Q1 24 was actually 3.8%.

Thats over 15% annual.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:37 AM (ENQN6)

132 McConnell was pissed it took so long, for he and Zalensky to get their 10% skim, to their Zurich bank accounts

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:37 AM (YCxFk)

133 125 I am so sick of the "principled conservatives" who continue to put IVF and the abortion industry into the same bucket. IVF literally brings human beings into the world. It is the opposite of abortion. I would not have my daughter without IVF.

The Federalist can go fuck itself. Very very hard.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (VxbvY)

I call dancing on the head of a pin conservatism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (ENQN6)

134 Abbott was arresting students - and rightly so - for being a violent mob impeding and hurting other people until the institution backed its own bigoted position. That's terrorism, not free speech and free association and they *should* be in jail - but not for "antisemitism."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (HnUIn)

I agree, of course. But it's sophistry to pretend to not understand that Abbott's statement was expressing a moral and political explanation, not a courtroom legal explanation. And personally I find it a breath of fresh air to see at least one political leader in the country willing to publicly state that he's not going to suck up to Hamas and their far left allies.
We say over and over that we want Republican leaders to speak up and show some guts about confronting the evil spreading across the nation; well, this is what it looks like when one does. The least helpful thing is for a bunch of sophistic alt-right net pundits to jump up and say "oh he shouldn't be so mean" like some damned berkely student newsletter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (S6gqv)

135 No problem with Abbott saying " anti-Semitism " - which is obviously a political rules for radicals move.
As.long as the charges against the protesters are about actual legal infractions.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (n/1xr)

136 The Mirage of African Independence
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The burden of that article is that Portugal's former colonies, 50 years later, retain the language and legal code of Portugal. Wasn't that true of us?

The Hodge twins were onto something when one of them said writers just sit around thinking "What's the stupidest shit I can write about."

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (1bNHn)

137 Sadly, many brain dead jewish students too, under the guise of peace
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

War is peace.
Arbeit macht frei

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (ENQN6)

138 McConnell reminding us that he hates Trump with the heat of a thousand suns.

He'll work with a Trump administration tho'.... right?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

139 Weinstein is a scumbag, but almost everyone of his "victims" knew about the casting couch and went along with it because it got them acting jobs. Kinda feel bad for Sorvino , but she could have made a difference when Weinstein tried his crap with her . Might have changed things , or at least friends of her father could have made a difference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (aX7Uj)

140 That video of Old Joe making the sign of the cross while listening to an abortion speech is a demented abomination. That old man is toast. Put him into memory care.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (cPejy)

141 Sadly you are right. It hit me harder because it happened to “my” place (sigh)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (xT8gx)
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I dig it, and I would probably be in the same boat about my "esteemed" (spit) alma mater if I had graduated even one year earlier.

But I didn't. I graduated in 2008, and it was *weird.* Extremely weird. The campus went from a hotbed of general lefty insanity that was also broadly tolerant to a leftist den of vipers with no tolerance for deviation in the slightest. As soon as Obama hit the scene in big way in late '07, everything hardened, virtually overnight. By the time he started winning primaries, it rapidly got much worse.

I went from a curiosity on campus - a non-communist who would talk about it and disagree with his professors - to feeling like a pariah, at least outside my friend group. It happened really fast. I don't know what it was about the arrival of Obama that made them all know that it was time to move, but it's like some undetectable signal went out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (HnUIn)

142 Q4 23 to Q1 24 was actually 3.8%.

Thats over 15% annual.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:37 AM (ENQN6

That’s not how it works. The quarter to quarter figure is annualized.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (Au0FL)

143 Today is also,
Arbor Day🌳
Go plant a tree.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

144 his union uses his dues to promote things the union guy hates and to enrich the union steward

Gowinnada Traaaaydz! (because I need a plumma!)

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (zdLoL)

145 In your Taki's essay you note "the perfect illustration of the dichotomy of being book smart, intellectual, worldly, etc. with that of woefully lacking in plain old common sense..."
sadly, that was a writer I've admired yesterday, Matt Walsh, attacking Gov. Abbott for breaking up the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT. These campus takeovers are carefully orchestrated and financed attacks on civil order in general, and *nobody* has done anything effective to fight back except Gov. Abbott. And what he did is supported by an overwhelming majority of Texans, if for no other reason that we don't put up with that kind of shit around here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (S6gqv)

you know, i've asked this question a couple of times. why is it that all these "spontaneous" protesters have the same tents? there's NO WAY they just happened to have identical tents among a varied student body. and i doubt they could all hit the rei or the like to get enough tents for everyone.

so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

THIS is your RICO case...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (UCRjB)

146 Another great Bee IMAGE...

The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 10h
Democrats Continue Proud Tradition Of Wearing White Masks To Show Political Affiliation
buff.ly/3JxMWy2

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (vtyCZ)

147 Sadly, many brain dead jewish students too, under the guise of peace
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

Which is why I contend the Jewish vote will be no different this year than in previous years. 80/20 Dem.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (Au0FL)

148 ... We say over and over that we want Republican leaders to speak up and show some guts about confronting the evil spreading across the nation; well, this is what it looks like when one does. The least helpful thing is for a bunch of sophistic alt-right net pundits to jump up and say "oh he shouldn't be so mean" like some damned berkely student newsletter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (S6gqv)
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As long as the actual charges aren't for "hate speech" or somesuch, I largely agree. Calling a spade a spade is a good thing, but the law - such as it exists, and in Texas it appears that it might - is a different animal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn)

149 So, the students that received their high school diploma in the mail in 2020 because of the China Flu bullshit will now receive their college diploma in the mail in 2024 because the college admin is afraid of the Hamassholes?

Seems fair.

Posted by: Sheepskin-Sheep Dip at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (V5BDR)

150 Matt Walsh isn’t allowed an opinion now?

He can express his opinion that my mother is a whore all he wants. And I can offer my rebuttal via axe-handle. Freedom of speech won't protect him from that. I'll consider friendly discourse when others limit themselves to the same.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (tblLd)

151 In other words, Obama could not be charged for his use of more than 560 drone strikes that murdered somewhere between 384 and 807 civilians because his own DOJ cleared him to do so.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (ENQN6)

I don't think most of the Justices bought that weird argument from Dreeben - it sounded like the DOJ was suggest that it was the final arbiter of what Presidents can do legally and constitutionally...and DOJ was in the wrong place to suggest they get to decide what is "constitutional" here.

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 08:43 AM (K+UlC)

152 I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (tblLd)

And, in so doing, took the people who respected SCOTUS most - the right - and showed them that it is filled with small minded, cowardly shitheads without improving their standing with the left at all.

Genius move.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:43 AM (IUd0M)

153 "Old Joe Biden Goes to an Abortion Rally, Does the Most Tone-Deaf Thing Imaginable"

Yesterday at a campaign event in Syracuse, NY, FJB again made the the Sign of the Cross, while saying, "Bless me Father." After yelling about MAGA Republicans opposing his CHIPS and Science Act.

So now his shrinking brain is reverting back to catechism classes and making confession when he was six years old? He's losing it faster and faster but not fast enough.

Posted by: Gref at April 26, 2024 08:43 AM (5fDan)

154 herie Currie
@CherieCurrie3
It used to be PUNK, R&R to vote Democrat. I fell for it. But when your party demands you live in fear, squaller, beyond your means by just buying groceries, gasoline, disrespecting our veterans, our police, our elderly, supporting CRIMINALS, chaos, riots, Hamas, FAILING Israel, demeaning us at every turn! HURTING our CHILDREN! Wasting OUR MONEY. Ineptitude with every policy! Lies and more lies.. NO MORE!
The Democrat Party can KISS MY A$$. They don’t give a damn. That’s true.
Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (0OdlD)

155 I tend to agree that Abbott got off track. He should have stuck with the disorderly conduct, and not commented on the motives. We all know that they are anti-semitic, but we all still have a smidgen of freedom of speech, even if it is 'hate speech.'
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (lTGtQ)

He understands that this is not just a war on the streets but a worldwide political war, and it must be fought on a political and moral level as well as on a legal level. The one thing that doesn't enter into these online discussions is that Abbot's move is overwhelmingly popular in Texas. He's showing what the "we don't put up with that shit around here" policy looks like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (S6gqv)

156 Weinstein is a scumbag, but almost everyone of his "victims" knew about the casting couch and went along with it because it got them acting jobs. Kinda feel bad for Sorvino , but she could have made a difference when Weinstein tried his crap with her . Might have changed things , or at least friends of her father could have made a difference
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (aX7Uj)

Concur....Harvey ain't done nothing wrong.

Them hos knew that they had to give head to get ahead.

Don't blame the playa blame the game.

Posted by: Bill Cosby, America's Dad at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (cDEsv)

157
The Republicans are playing checkers and the Democrats are playing 3D chess.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM

The Republicans aren't even playing checkers. When you know what you're doing in checkers you can prevent your opponent from winning. Every time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (RKVpM)

158 and now for something completely different .....

https://www.joke-archives.com/?p=1498

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #232 at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (qfLjt)

159 "Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL."

She should win the internets.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (vFG9F)

160 Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.
Posted by: SMOD

And the gloves don’t fit.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (Au0FL)

161 you know, i've asked this question a couple of times. why is it that all these "spontaneous" protesters have the same tents? there's NO WAY they just happened to have identical tents among a varied student body. and i doubt they could all hit the rei or the like to get enough tents for everyone.

so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

THIS is your RICO case...

Posted by: SturmToddler



Soros Tides foundation, among others. They fronted close to half a million.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (lTGtQ)

162 @CherieCurrie3
It used to be PUNK, R&R to vote Democrat. I fell for it. ...
Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (0OdlD)
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So she's figured out that the Dems are in control and that supporting The Man is not counter-cultural?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (HnUIn)

163 Biden DOJ Says Droning American Citizens Is Totally Fine Because Obama’s DOJ Said So

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (0OdlD)

164 Was that the only thing they were arrested for? The arrests will be dismissed. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct too, among other things. Matt should make it clear about what he is talking about and sometimes fails to do that.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

That wasn't why they were arrested. Crowder as video of the whole thing. They were arrested, IIRC, for having a disruptive assembly without a permit. The police cited the law they were violating and ordered them to disperse. They did not disperse so they were arrested.

The Travis County DA has already released them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (IUd0M)

165 and now for something completely different .....

https://www.joke-archives.com/?p=1498
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #232 at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (qfLjt)
++++
Reminds me of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

166 The Travis County DA has already released them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (IUd0M)
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Of course.

Probably didn't even bother extracting some bail money for the county from the finance networks backing them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

167 "They were arrested, IIRC, for having a disruptive assembly without a permit. "

Well, at least it wasn't for parading.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

168 Essentially, net neutrality regulations seek to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast and Verizon, from blocking, slowing down, or allowing for “paid prioritization,” by which users can pay for faster, more consistent service.

Police, Fire, and EMS depend on their BITS being more important than other BITS.

This is stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:48 AM (ENQN6)

169 As long as the actual charges aren't for "hate speech" or somesuch, I largely agree. Calling a spade a spade is a good thing, but the law - such as it exists, and in Texas it appears that it might - is a different animal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn)

Of course they won't be charged with that, and since it's Austin and prosecution is handled by the locals, most will probably be released after 24 hours with no charges. But the point has been made - don't think you can get away with staging big campus riots like you get away with in New York.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:48 AM (S6gqv)

170 "California Rep. Adam Schiff found out firsthand about San Francisco crime when his luggage was swiped from his car in a parking garage Thursday – forcing him to attend a fancy dinner in casual wear, according to a report."

https://tinyurl.com/3jvz7e4z

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

171 I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.

I'm sorry but failing to take on the single most important case to national unity since the civil war because you are either a) a deep state compromised stooge, or b) a feckless coward and a never Trumper but more than likely c) both, is hardly a way to maintain the reputation of the SCOTUS

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:49 AM (DIB8X)

172 He understands that this is not just a war on the streets but a worldwide political war, and it must be fought on a political and moral level as well as on a legal level. The one thing that doesn't enter into these online discussions is that Abbot's move is overwhelmingly popular in Texas. He's showing what the "we don't put up with that shit around here" policy looks like.

Posted by: Tom Servo



I get that, but a court won't. Hopefully the arrests were for disorderly conduct or assault.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:49 AM (lTGtQ)

173 If Barret were smart, she have her kids raised in Indiana, and commute to D.C.
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

Or, if she's incapable of ruling impartially over concerns about her children... maybe turn down being a fucking judge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (IUd0M)

174 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
REPORTER: “What’s your message to Joe Biden?”

NEW YORKER: “I haven’t seen you anywhere. I hope New York turns red because we are not voting for you.”

https://tinyurl.com/2utp5d8k
27 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (vtyCZ)

175 The Travis County DA has already released them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (IUd0M)
++++
Of course.

Probably didn't even bother extracting some bail money for the county from the finance networks backing them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)
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And today, or a week from now, or sometime in the fall before the election, all of those protesters will be back on campus raising a ruckus. They'll be arrested and released to do it all over again and again and again.

Abbott should arrest the DA next time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (7fElN)

176 "California Rep. Adam Schiff found out firsthand about San Francisco crime when his luggage was swiped from his car in a parking garage Thursday – forcing him to have to replace his entire buttplug collection."

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (vFG9F)

177 Charles Schultz did a hilarious series of Peanuts comics about Lucy convincing Charlie Brown to run for school president (with her the real power behind the throne of course). Lucy kept conducting polls (her polls were threatening kids to vote the right way). Charlie Brown expressed doubt about her polling methods and said he didn’t believe in polls. She proceeded to tell him he was winning in all the demographics and had the election wrapped up. His response: I believe in polls!

Coda: Charlie Brown blew the election by talking about the great pumpkin in his final campaign speech, getting him laughed out of the room. His comment: persecuted for my religious beliefs. Schultz was a genius (and he understood the notion of push polls…. All polls are push polls)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (xT8gx)

178 I'm sorry but failing to take on the single most important case to national unity since the civil war

I never said Roberts had a good plan. Only that, since ObamaCare, I was pretty sure I knew his plan.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (tblLd)

179 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (Au0FL)

180 174 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
REPORTER: “What’s your message to Joe Biden?”

NEW YORKER: “I haven’t seen you anywhere. I hope New York turns red because we are not voting for you.”

https://tinyurl.com/2utp5d8k
27 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (vtyCZ)

This is just the battered wife talking tough to the hairdresser for an hour or so before heading home to get beat up again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (GkFGh)

181 so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

THIS is your RICO case...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (UCRjB)

Some say Iran, but personally my money is on Neville Singh, the secretive billionaire who is behind a whole lot of dangerous shit in America. (His wife is the co-founder of Code Pink) The most important thing to know about Neville Singh is that he gets much of his support from the Chinese Communist party.
If Neville is behind it, then it means that this wave of violence isn't actually about Israel or Jews at all. It's the CCP working to internally destabilize America in order to give them a freer hand in world affairs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (S6gqv)

182 This is just the battered wife talking tough to the hairdresser for an hour or so before heading home to get beat up again.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (GkFGh)
++++
Rough. Likely accurate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)

183 141 Joe Mannix, you only graduated college in 2008?


You may consider yourself ordered off my lawn, whippersnapper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (9yWhg)

184 `177.

All pools you disagree with are push polls. Republicans rely on them just as much as Democrats do.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (aCVzN)

185 Good morning, JJ.

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2024 08:53 AM (V13WU)

186 I guarantee Roberts will retire under a DEM president
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

maybe we get lucky and he dies peacefully in his sleep, like Scalia, during PDJT's next term in office.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:53 AM (UCRjB)

187 Matt Walsh isn’t allowed an opinion now?
Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (Au0FL)

Like so very, very, many people, Matt Walsh spouted off about something without knowing what he was talking about.

Unlike so very, very, many people, Matt Walsh has a megaphone which means that his comments spread further than most people who don't know what they're talking about.

So he's allowed an opinion AND we're allowed to make the point that, maybe, he should shut the fuck up until he knows what he's talking about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:54 AM (IUd0M)

188 Joe Mannix, you only graduated college in 2008?


Uff da

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (SfhV1)

189 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

The Left doesn't wait on precedent. They only back when the Right - on those very rare occasions - fight fire with more fire.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (tblLd)

190 141 - Joe Mannix, that is interesting. It shows how Obama just coming onto the scene had a psychological impact. What university were you at (if you don’t mind me asking)?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (xT8gx)

191 Accusing someone of rape when it's not true isn't defamation. But saying it's not true when it's not true you're Donald Trump is. Welcome to Leftard Justice.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (2e48P)

FIFY

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (IUd0M)

192 And today, or a week from now, or sometime in the fall before the election, all of those protesters will be back on campus raising a ruckus. They'll be arrested and released to do it all over again and again and again.

Abbott should arrest the DA next time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (7fElN)

I personally would be happy if they didn't bother with arresting them at all - just beat their heads in with truncheons, load them into a dumptruck and go dump them in a heap on the edge of town. Tell them when they come back, they'll get more of the same.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:56 AM (S6gqv)

193 Joe Mannix, that is interesting. It shows how Obama just coming onto the scene had a psychological impact. What university were you at (if you don’t mind me asking)?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (xT8gx)
+++
It was astonishing to watch happen in real time. And I'd rather not say. It was a small school.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (HnUIn)

194 192.

Soylent Green is people!

Heh.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (aCVzN)

195 I thought his conviction was thrown out because witnesses were testifying on acts he was not charged with in the trial.

Have I got that right?
Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (Oy/m2)

Yes. He's a toad but the prosecutor/judge acted improperly.

See the comment at 22 to understand why people are upset about this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (IUd0M)

196 Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (tblLd)

Not questioning or impugning your critical thinking skills, friend. Just pointing out that Roberts has not demonstrated anything remotely consistent with that hypothesis. In fact he has done the opposite.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (DIB8X)

197
Coda: Charlie Brown blew the election by talking about the great pumpkin in his final campaign speech, getting him laughed out of the room. His comment: persecuted for my religious beliefs. Schultz was a genius (and he understood the notion of push polls…. All polls are push polls)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (xT8gx)

———-

Your Elected Charlie Brown TV cartoon had Linus running in which he railed about the “spiritual Babylon” of the forces against students. Then he had to go off about the Great Pumpkin.

He still won but then called to the principal’s office (Deep State) and was told what’s what.

Prophetic.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 08:58 AM (Dz6Vv)

198 So if somebody doesn't like me, that isn't a crime.

BUT...if somebody restricts my access to education, my free passage, and states that I should not be allowed to remain alive because he doesn't like me, and then physically assaults me...that could present issues.

Issues not related solely to the fact that he doesn't like me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 08:58 AM (a1415)

199 Nobody ever mentions the "moral hazard"* involved in this riot/protest nonsense. (* I loathe that phrase, but i can't think of a better one.)

Part of the violent lefty protest aesthetic is getting arrested. Getting roughed up by the riot police. Cooling your heels for a while. Sacrificing for the cause.

You don't get to go out spray painting shit and fucking up a park and beating people up and then hide behind Muh Fweedoms. Fuck You. You wanna play Big Boy Protester, then you take your fucking hickory shampoo and your fistful of delousing powder like a god damned adult.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (GkFGh)

200 johnny maga @_johnnymaga Apr 23
Mitt Romney sides with Alvin Bragg over Donald Trump

I can’t wait until this sleazebag leaves the Senate

well, you'll have LJ Hogan to take his place

HOOOOGGAN !!!

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (us2H3)

201 OT-Today's fatuous link on my computer-"12 phrases you should never use around a Millenial or Gen Z". Oh, good. Tell me what they are and I'll use them right away!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (XkYcA)

202 "well, you'll have LJ Hogan to take his place

HOOOOGGAN !!!"

Just put the damn mask on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (a1415)

203 Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS 3h
Today at the Supreme Court immunity argument, I’ll be listening for whether the liberal Justices try to frame a less-extreme and more sophisticated version of the DC Circuit’s hypothetical re whether Trump could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and claim immunity.

All Justices have to know that hypothetical was way, way out of line, even though MSNBC is still tickling themselves with it constantly.

Just watched a clip where Nicolle Wallace asked Andrew Weissmann about the Seal Team 6 hypothetical. She called him “the indispensable Andrew Weissmann.”

Yes, he’s indispensable all right — indispensable to Leftist JournoLawfare™️.

Real Mac Report @RealMacReport 6h
Justice Kavanaugh asks DOJ Special Counsel if Obama should be prosecuted over his use of drone strikes against civilians.

Kavanaugh: "How about President Obama's drone strikes?"

DOJ Special Cousel Dreeben: "Unlawful killing didn't apply to the drone strikes."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (vtyCZ)

204 199.

Civil Rights protestors back in the day counted on being beaten. They knew they were getting thrown in jail. They embraced injustice because they knew they would have to suffer it on the road to justice.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (aCVzN)

205 Your Elected Charlie Brown TV cartoon had Linus running in which he railed about the “spiritual Babylon” of the forces against students. Then he had to go off about the Great Pumpkin.

He still won but then called to the principal’s office (Deep State) and was told what’s what.

Prophetic.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 08:58 AM (Dz6Vv)

My memory blew it. You’re absolutely right! It was Linus (me!!) not Charlie Brown. That’s embarrassing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (xT8gx)

206 Not questioning or impugning your critical thinking skills, friend. Just pointing out that Roberts has not demonstrated anything remotely consistent with that hypothesis. In fact he has done the opposite.

We talking, not arguing. Consider this ... what destroys SCOTUS ? What Biden has done ... ignore them. So what would Roberts do ? Rule in favor of any side likely to ignore him - to avoid being ignored.

Who is most likely to obey ? The GOP. So who gets the shitty rulings ? The GOP.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (tblLd)

207 maybe we get lucky and he dies peacefully in his sleep, like Scalia, during PDJT's next term in office.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:53 AM (UCRjB)

*fluffs pillow*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (R4t5M)

208 seems pretty obvious the SCOTUS game plan is to send it back down to the lower with instructions to take their time and get it right on official vs unofficial acts.

Roberts alluded to them "rushing things" in their previous decision

then it will come back to the SCOTUS for review

SOMETIME NEXT YEAR

SUCK IT JACK

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (us2H3)

209 Axios-
Scoop: Biden changes walking routine to Marine One

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

210 Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS 23h
Axios, yes, you better believe we are zeroing in on Matthew Colangelo leaving Main Justice to go to spearhead the anti-Trump Alvin Bragg prosecution team.

Also, try harder Axios. This is lame as a way of defending Colangelo and the Biden Administration: "Reality check: Former DOJ official Michael Zeldin told Axios it's not unusual for a federal prosecutor to leave for a gig at the Manhattan DA's office."

No, it's not unusual for an SDNY or EDNY prosecutor to go to the Manhattan DA's Office (or vice versa). What's unusual in the extreme is for someone to go from being the Acting #3 official at Main Justice in Washington, D.C. to being a line prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's Office.

I know of no prior examples of that happening. You've got nothing on that. Keep deceiving your readers.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 3h
Smoking gun found

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:04 AM (vtyCZ)

211 Trump could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and claim immunity.

———-

Maybe he could like in the instance of John Kerry going to Iran to talk to the mullahs on how to oppose the Trump Administration.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 09:04 AM (Dz6Vv)

212 Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

Am I the only one who thinks with exasperation "come on, man, the tail-rotor is right freaking there!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:04 AM (GkFGh)

213 The timeline however is very long, and many other events outside of this program, such as war with Taiwan or sudden changes in the leadership of the ruling communist party, could change it drastically.
==================
Notwithstanding, China has moon base aspirations and they are working hard to make the base real.

Meanwhile, the junta loads regulation after regulation on SpaceX, explicitly to slow them down. Traitors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:05 AM (TiuIU)

214 My memory blew it. You’re absolutely right! It was Linus (me!!) not Charlie Brown. That’s embarrassing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (xT8gx)

———

Too much acid in your later years.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 09:06 AM (Dz6Vv)

215 Wait until Oct and audio drops of Trump saying all kinds of heinous racist stuff

According to the Baltimore Banner, Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert was temporarily removed from his position after an audio clip surfaced appearing to show him making disparaging remarks about black students and the Jewish community. A police investigation found the clip was created using AI, the alleged work of embittered former athletic director Dazhon Darien, who was arrested.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 09:06 AM (PHukT)

216 Civil Rights protestors back in the day counted on being beaten. They knew they were getting thrown in jail. They embraced injustice because they knew they would have to suffer it on the road to justice.
Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (aCVzN)

Which is why I loathe the current crop of Civil Disobedience LARPers. They're actually just spoiled brats who want to break things/people and suffer no consequences.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 26, 2024 09:07 AM (XjtdB)

217 ... Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
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LOL. Sure. "Press X to Doubt," as the kids say (or used to, anyway).

This is about keeping him away from the press and to keep him from wandering off. His gait? Seriously? His gait is the least of his problems. They can't have him getting lost or walking into a rotor or, worse than any of that, *talking* to someone without adequate drugging and preparation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:07 AM (HnUIn)

218 the Jewish vote will be no different this year than in previous years. 80/20 Dem. Pretty much like the catholics, then.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 26, 2024 09:07 AM (zdLoL)

219 There's no point in trying to get into the weeds with Americans of Retard about the conflict in Israel. It doesn't matter that the facts and morality are all on Israel's side. All that reasoning falls on deaf ears.

I just try to point out that if you're looking at a conflict between Arabs and anyone else, and find yourself siding with Arabs, then you are, in fact, retarded. They are G-d's mistake. They bring no value to anyone, including themselves.

When a toothless, cousin fucking, welfare addicted hillbilly comes up with a reason to attack his neighbor, nobody sits around saying "well, you know, Cletus may have a point, here. That Jim seems pretty high and mighty, after all, with his roof that isn't full of holes. It doesn't even have owls roosting in it. Somebody oughta take him down a peg, I tell ya."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 09:09 AM (0FoWg)

220 KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Apr 24
Unsealed docs expose early collaboration between Archives, Biden White House in Trump prosecution

Just weeks after learning Joe Biden had improperly retained government documents, his administration began working with federal bureaucrats in spring and fall 2021 to increase pressure on Donald Trump for similar issues and eventually prompt a criminal prosecution of the 45th president, according to government memos newly unsealed by a federal judge

The correspondence, released this week by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon in Florida, provide the the most extensive accounting so far of how the Biden White House worked with federal bureaucrats to escalate pressure on Trump to return documents to the National Archives even as it slow-walked similar issues involving its own boss.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:09 AM (vtyCZ)

221 KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Apr 24 [con't]
One email dated May 5, 2021, shows the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had already consulted the Biden White House about missing Trump records, more than a year before the public would learn that the former president president had kept some classified memos...

What's it called when President Biden attempts to lock up his leading political opponent before the election?

Fascism? Communism?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (vtyCZ)

222 the prospect of the SCOTUS denying the right of a sitting president to pardon himself is the reason , at some time, Shitpants will step down and let Kameltoe do the nasty biz for his family and the long list that will need a pardon

in the upside down world we live in, it will probably enhance her political future when normally it would destroy anyone else's

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (us2H3)

223 Trump could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and claim immunity.


———

BTW, you know what is a tailor made case for that? Trump’s first impeachment. They literally called it a high crime for him to get Ukraine to investigate Biden. The very reason they impeached him was because Biden was a “political opponent”.

Wonder why they don’t bring charges against him for that?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (Dz6Vv)

224 Melania turns 54 today.
Happy Birthday Day, Melania Trump!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

225 Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
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They are also there to ensure he remains upright as he stumbles to and from Marine One.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (7fElN)

226 Good morning, JJ, Horde. Thank you for that St. Michael prayer, TonyPete -- his belligerence is delightful. Especially in our age marred by confusion and cowardice.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 26, 2024 09:11 AM (JcnCJ)

227 TGIF!!

Can't find it online anymore, but in 2016, NYC gossip columnist AJ Benza wrote an article about his relationship with Trump. Trump was his best source. Trump was fine with AJ writing about him, just insisted he get the fact straight, like the proper spelling of the European model he was dating and his current net worth.

I imagine Trump having stories killed in National Enquirer was more about slapping down the deep state ops like whatsername stripper and false rape accusations. Otherwise, he's always loved being in the news,

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 09:11 AM (cCVOS)

228 so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

.. WSJ says it is Rockefeller and Soros Foundations

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

229 I just try to point out that if you're looking at a conflict between Arabs and anyone else, and find yourself siding with Arabs, then you are, in fact, retarded.

Islam is not compatible with Western Civ. What do you do with the entire "religious freedom" schtick when you finally run into a religion that shouldn't be tolerated ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (tblLd)

230 When a toothless, cousin fucking, welfare addicted hillbilly comes up with a reason to attack his neighbor, nobody sits around saying "well, you know, Cletus may have a point, here. That Jim seems pretty high and mighty, after all, with his roof that isn't full of holes. It doesn't even have owls roosting in it. Somebody oughta take him down a peg, I tell ya."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 09:09 AM (0FoWg)
++++
Give it six months.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

231 USAA has joined the far left. So incredibly sad to see.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (TiuIU)

232 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.
Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (Au0FL)

If you're referring to the arrests at UT Austin, they weren't arrested for their ideas - poor tweet by Abbott and uninformed spouting off by Matt Walsh notwithstanding.

Here's a video of the incident, helpfully queued to the moment when the police were informing the "protesters" of the law they were violating:

https://youtu.be/pjkfUGq9JC4&t=707

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (IUd0M)

233 His press dodging became so problematic that even the Washington Post called him out on it in an article last year."
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Wow. One article.

I assume whoever wrote this is being sarcastic?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 09:13 AM (2e48P)

234 You don't get to go out spray painting shit and fucking up a park and beating people up and then hide behind Muh Fweedoms. Fuck You. You wanna play Big Boy Protester, then you take your fucking hickory shampoo and your fistful of delousing powder like a god damned adult.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (GkFGh)

i saw video of "students" last night holding doors open at NYU to enable them to rush in while security tried to close the doors and told them to let go.

i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles. that sharp rap would for sure cause them to let go.

that's knowledge i learned in catholic school from the nuns in the 80s...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (UCRjB)

235 Rep. Schiff reportedly robbed in San Francisco, forced to attend ritzy campaign dinner with no suit to wear

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

236 Two Americas

One for connected Democrats, like Weinstein

And another for everyone else

Hell, if there was an opposition party they would point out Kamala Harris protected Weinstein for her whole time as AG in CA...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (ibTVg)

237 JPost:

Hamas kills aid workers to manufacture Gaza food crisis, Fatah charges

A Fatah TV anchor reported that Hamas had attacked aid workers, stolen food and water and caused food prices to skyrocket in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian political faction Fatah charged on air that Hamas had deliberately killed aid workers, stolen aid and manufactured a food crisis in Gaza, according to a Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) investigation published on Sunday. A Fatah TV anchor reported that Hamas had attacked aid workers, stolen food and water and caused food prices to skyrocket in the Gaza Strip – which PMW said constituted a triple crime.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

238 232.

Uninformed spouting off is Matt Walsh's prime area of expertise.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (aCVzN)

239 i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles. that sharp rap would for sure cause them to let go.

that's knowledge i learned in catholic school from the nuns in the 80s...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (UCRjB)

Probably because they know they'd get fired and sued into oblivion for assaulting a student.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (GkFGh)

240 i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles.

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Because those are the children of the ruling classes, and if you harm one of their precious little knuckles, then your life is totally ruined.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (0FoWg)

241 Interesting story at the NY Post saying that Maoist Anita Dunn , Biden's Karl Rove, tried to push KJP out the door. Everyone denies it leading me to believe that someone planted it to force one or the other out. Dems eating their own

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (aX7Uj)

242 which PMW said constituted a triple crime.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

Lol, when even other Palis are sick of your shit....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (GkFGh)

243 Left-Wing Study: LGBT Couples at Greater Risk of Global Warming

... this is too good to check (meaning its BS)

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

244 I wonder what prompted the change in *biden's routine getting to and from Marine One? There must have been an event that prompted it. Maybe he did almost walk into the tail rotor or said something derogatory to a member of the crew.

It's a shame we won't get to see him debate whoever is the GOP candidate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 09:17 AM (Q4IgG)

245 229.

"What do you do with the entire "religious freedom" schtick when you finally run into a religion that shouldn't be tolerated ?"

It's a goddam shame that the Marines themselves seem to have forgotten what "...to the shores of Tripoli" was in reference to.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:17 AM (aCVzN)

246 I was arrested on the street during the annual Halloween madness at Ohio University for being a "fire hazard".

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 09:17 AM (QB+5g)

247 wonder if NYC folx know that Alvin Bragg is worth 42 million

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (us2H3)

248 AJ Benza used to host a cool cable show called Mysteries and Scandals, where he talked about, well, mysteries and scandals in the entertainment industry. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

249 Axios hardest hit:

Axios @axios 9h
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans.

Half — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.
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Axios is out with eye-popping results from a poll it ran, which show the overall popularity of the hard-line immigration proposals Donald Trump has floated in his campaign, including mass deportations of illegal aliens and the end of birthright citizenship.

What it found was that 51 percent of Americans (including 42 percent of Democrats) say they would support mass deportations of illegal aliens. Thirty percent of Democrats and 46 percent of Republicans would end birthright citizenship. The poll shows that Americans are concerned about illegal immigration primarily because of increased crime and drug trafficking, but not far behind are concerns about costs to taxpayers, and potential threats to national security.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (vtyCZ)

250 247 wonder if NYC folx know that Alvin Bragg is worth 42 million
Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (us2H3)

Damn. That's a healthy bounty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (GkFGh)

251 @whoever
This is where “equity” leads to
An attack on people based on skin color
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (vtyCZ)

Leads? No that's what "equity" was from the start.

We always insist the Left is taking us somewhere when they've already flown way past it on the way to a much worse place.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (2e48P)

252 249.

America has no obligation, moral or otherwise, to non-citizens. FULL STOP

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (aCVzN)

253 221 What's it called when President Biden attempts to lock up his leading political opponent before the election?

Fascism? Communism?
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (vtyCZ)

"Our Precious Democracy".

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (UnA8+)

254 And today's 2nd fatuous link on my computer-this one from Huffpo:

"I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

This is what Journalism majors write? (I don't really know that she was a journalism major) Who reads this stupid,
trashy stuff? Not me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)

255 Left-Wing Study: LGBT Couples at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Politicians at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Indigenous Peoples at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Igneous rock at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Felons at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

256 "Communism?
Posted by: andycanuck"

Call it what you want and it always comes back to that.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (vFG9F)

257 231 USAA has joined the far left. So incredibly sad to see.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (TiuIU)

That ship sailed in the mid-90's IMHO. It went to flank speed when Peacock (spit) took over.

Posted by: Grumpy Old Ham at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (b6Yv0)

258 If Trump's harshest immigration plan is deporting illegals, we need a new candidate.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (2e48P)

259 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

Just like how Trump decided to not prosecute Hillary because otherwise they would prosecute him right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (ibTVg)

260 I was arrested on the street during the annual Halloween madness at Ohio University for being a "fire hazard".
Posted by: pawn


My brother had a friend who was arrested for "drunken walking" at the Azalea Festival in Virginia Beach.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (9yWhg)

261 Interesting story at the NY Post saying that Maoist Anita Dunn , Biden's Karl Rove, tried to push KJP out the door. Everyone denies it leading me to believe that someone planted it to force one or the other out. Dems eating their own
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (aX7Uj)
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They have to. It happens in every single-party state. Devoid of external opposition, the only means of increasing power is within the Party and so they will ice each-other during their power struggles. This gets toned down - or rarely, even stops - only when there is unquestioning control from the Party's strongman.

When you have a real strongman like Khrushchev, you get fairly little infighting (though that stability is bought with blood). When you have a weak Party leader like Chernenko, you get a lot of it because there's lots of opportunity.

Insofar as we actually have a Party strongman right now, he (more likely she) is no Khrushchev.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (HnUIn)

262 JJ missed the funniest story of the day: Adam Schiff had his luggage stolen out of a car in San Fran so he had no suit to wear to a fundraiser. I’m sure his eyes bugged out when he heard but nobody could tell.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (FD5dr)

263 >>They’ve [ USC ] been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad


A reminder: The kids graduating in college this year were the ones who graduated HS in 2020.

How many of these USC did not have a HS graduation ceremony because of covid hysteria, and now are being denied a college graduation because of jew-hating a$$holes?

Gen Z is going to be so f'd up and pissed off at authority.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (cCVOS)

264 What's it called when President Biden attempts to lock up his leading political opponent before the election?


Well...the Ukrainian way is locking up the losing candidate in an election...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (ibTVg)

265 232 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.
Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (Au0FL)

My ideas are already grounds for arrest - see the J6 protestors. So we got nothing to lose at this point.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (S6gqv)

266 209 Axios-
Scoop: Biden changes walking routine to Marine One

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)


FJB continues to pretend to jog a couple steps when he goes on-stage at events. Optics!

Posted by: Gref at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (5fDan)

267 God Bless you, JJ! You find the pulse right away and those last few statements capture my sentiments exactly.
I would like to add one note. The Big Cheat is still the "go to" plan for the institutional Left, as seen in a sudden uptick in new voter registrations in Texas, about 1.7 million.
Now the looming question is, exactly WHAT is the Republican Party's plan if 2024 is stolen like 2020? Do they even have a plan? Because I'm going to state this right now. If the feckless GOP pulls another quiet rabbit act and does nothing, like 2020, they are done as a party. And if that happens, curse them for all time! I already hate them but there's plenty of room on this train for everyone who is sick of their traitorous ways.
So warning to you, leaders and domors of the corporate whores party. We are watching and waiting.

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE

Posted by: Tracy at April 26, 2024 09:22 AM (XdDao)

268 "I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

Now I have an incurable STD because he was fucking 40 other girls and I'm not going to become Mrs. MyHighSchool'sStarAthlete. Guess I'll start an OnlyFans and vote Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:22 AM (IUd0M)

269 "I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

fiction by Jean Carroll

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (us2H3)

270 262 JJ missed the funniest story of the day: Adam Schiff had his luggage stolen out of a car in San Fran so he had no suit to wear to a fundraiser. I’m sure his eyes bugged out when he heard but nobody could tell.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (FD5dr)


Did not come across it at the time of this posting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (x0n13)

271
My brother had a friend who was arrested for "drunken walking" at the Azalea Festival in Virginia Beach.

I knew a guy that was arrested for "drunk and disorderly" for sleeping off a bender in his car.

That kind of pissed me off because the guy did the right thing instead of trying to drive home.

PS: No that guy was NOT me.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (ibTVg)

272 #249 One set of numbers without giving Axios any traffic:

https://is.gd/ela4e9

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (vtyCZ)

273 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

Anytime the Right gets a little successful pushback on the Left - you can always depend on some within the Right to advise caution. I don't think the Right, as currently formed, can win this.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (tblLd)

274 And today's 2nd fatuous link on my computer-this one from Huffpo:

"I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete." ...
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)
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I would bet money right now that the article is about how great a decision it was, how happy it made her at the time, how liberated it makes her now, and that old-fashioned mores are for the birds.

It won't be mentioned in her articles about "where are all the good men" and "why do I have so many cats" and similar themes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

275 @262 Ian S. True karma would have been if Schiff was in the car

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (aX7Uj)

276 I've got Oct on my "more Uke money" bingo card

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (us2H3)

277 "I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

This is what Journalism majors write? (I don't really know that she was a journalism major) Who reads this stupid,
trashy stuff? Not me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)
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That sounds like the tagline for a trashy, independently published romance novel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (7fElN)

278 One set of numbers without giving Axios any traffic:

One should consider the FNM claims this is fascism and then asks people if they support it. So add 20 points to the number that ACTUALLY agree.

Oh...and you can be certain there were a bunch of illegals in this group of people polled as well...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (ibTVg)

279 Adam Schiff forsooth! I thought the funniest story of the day was the ONT story on AI-written jazz standards.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (TiuIU)

280 273. What you call "caution," I call cowardice.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (aCVzN)

281 I knew a guy that was arrested for "drunk and disorderly" for sleeping off a bender in his car.

That kind of pissed me off because the guy did the right thing instead of trying to drive home.

PS: No that guy was NOT me.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (ibTVg)
++++
In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)

282 That is one great photoshop up top!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (TiuIU)

283 Sarc Alert!

Byron York @ByronYork 7h
Hillary Clinton says Trump admires Putin because 'Putin does what Trump would like to do.' Like what? 'Imprison his opposition,' said Clinton. Trump did not immediately respond because, of course, he is on trial, facing maximum 136 years behind bars. washingtonexaminer.com/opini…

Hillary Clinton, down the rabbit hole - Washington Examiner
One of the great moments in lack of self-awareness occurred last week when former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on a podcast produced by a Democratic group called Defending Democr...

washingtonexaminer.com

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (vtyCZ)

284 Matt Walsh is correct. Abbot meant well but should have thought a little harder about the wording before posting.

Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (8qbyA)

285 281. I've heard of that happening in my home state of SD, too.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (aCVzN)

286 So what would Roberts do ? Rule in favor of any side likely to ignore him - to avoid being ignored.

Doing that is nothing more than bootlicking. There is no way it would enhance, let alone maintain the reputation of SCOTUS. If you think Roberts is using that kind of 'reasoning' well then, we're well and truly screwed.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (DIB8X)

287 I would have thought Jean Carroll would have been laughed out of the public sphere when she claimed rape was sexy but...apparently not.

Now if we do want to correct this we need someone like Roseanne Barr to claim Biden molested her in a red state and working with the local AG get Biden prosecuted.

Of course the irony is the women Biden did molest had to flee the country

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

288 284. No, Matt was not correct. If his meaning was "Abbott poorly worded his statement," that's what Matt should have said. That's not what Matt said.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (aCVzN)

289 I knew a guy that was arrested for "drunk and disorderly" for sleeping off a bender in his car.

That kind of pissed me off because the guy did the right thing instead of trying to drive home.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (ibTVg)

I knew a guy, in Hawaii, who got arrested for drunk driving while sleeping off a bender in his car. His car which was parked, with the engine off, and the keys in his pocket... but he was in the driver's seat so they arrested him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (IUd0M)

290 If you think Roberts is using that kind of 'reasoning' well then, we're well and truly screwed.

I really do. Never said it was a good plan.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (tblLd)

291 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


How are you supposed to get in the car in the first place without the keys? (Unless you're one of those dumbasses who never locks their car.)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)

292 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)

Same in PA. I think a number of other states as well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (R4t5M)

293 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)
-

I recall and Everybody Loves Raymond episode where debra was arrested after drinking and sleeping in the car with the engine off but with the keys in the ignition. Hilarity ensued.

https://youtu.be/Ez6r7nKJ9jc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (8qbyA)

294 Overslept

What's the buzz
tell me what's happening

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (/7KEl)

295 How are you supposed to get in the car in the first place without the keys? (Unless you're one of those dumbasses who never locks their car.)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)
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You noticed that, did you? Kind of the point, I reckon.

I dunno if leaving the keys in the trunk would be a technical dodge or not. The point is to raise some money and punish what is actually good behavior.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

296 Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (8qbyA)

You're an anti-Semite.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (IUd0M)

297 I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.

I'm sorry but failing to take on the single most important case to national unity since the civil war because you are either a) a deep state compromised stooge, or b) a feckless coward and a never Trumper but more than likely c) both, is hardly a way to maintain the reputation of the SCOTUS
=====

Yeah. Dred Scott Taney Roberts.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (MIKMs)

298 "A keffiyeh on an American college campus is just a hipster swastika.“

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

299 One should consider the FNM claims this is fascism and then asks people if they support it. So add 20 points to the number that ACTUALLY agree.
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Maybe it's at their main story but I note that there's nothing saying that all of the remaining 49% were all against it. How many Didn't Know, Refused To Answer, Don't Care were there??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:31 AM (vtyCZ)

300 Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (8qbyA)

You're an anti-Semite.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (IUd0M)

But not an anti-dentite !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (T4tVD)

301 Putin CANCELS Victory Day military parades across Russia over fears deadly Ukraine drones could slip through defences

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

302 Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Just like notorious anti-Semite CBD!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (vtyCZ)

303 Weinstein had the “Boys In The Boat” script since the book deal back in 2013. At least the actress who played Hoyce Simdars seems to have eluded the perv’s advanced.

Posted by: Rex B at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (fU273)

304 Yeah. Dred Scott Taney Roberts.

Go back and look how SCOTUS "got its mind right" after FDR got serious about court packing.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (tblLd)

305 @180

>>This is just the battered wife talking tough to the hairdresser for an hour or so before heading home to get beat up again.

The dirty little secret is most people don't vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean their ballot isn't counted, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)

306 Today's art looks like Weinstein. Would not hang.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (IUd0M)

307 ^Joyce Simdars

Posted by: Rex B at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (fU273)

308 I hate the 7-day week.

I'm an anti-sennight.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

309 The dirty little secret is most people don't vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean their ballot isn't counted, IYKWIMAITYD.

One hope I have is that if we get millions of people told "you already voted" when they go to vote it might cause a reaction...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

310 I was arrested on the street during the annual Halloween madness at Ohio University for being a "fire hazard".
Posted by: pawn


My brother had a friend who was arrested for "drunken walking" at the Azalea Festival in Virginia Beach.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (9yWhg)

was probably former Shore Patrol used to arresting sailors for public drunkenness....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (UCRjB)

311 303.

Oh puh-leez! The casting couch has been a thing since long before I was born. Whatever Weinstein ended up prosecuted and convicted for, it wasn't sexual impropriety. Don't get me wrong; there was plenty of sexual impropriety to pin on him, but if every rapist and casting couch director in Hollywood was prosecuted and convicted for their crimes, there wouldn't be any Hollywood left.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (aCVzN)

312 I saw Hipster Swastika open for Rammstein at the Hallenstadon in Zurich.

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (QB+5g)

313 285 281. I've heard of that happening in my home state of SD, too.
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It happened to Deborah Barone too after Amy's bridal shower -- and she actually served a 30-day [or so] sentence in the county jail even though first time offender etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (vtyCZ)

314 That's not what Matt said.
Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (aCVzN)
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We disagree.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (8qbyA)

315 Judge Roberts would be perfectly happy if American would just work things out for themselves and stop bothering his historic Court

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl)

316 Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dies at 82

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (ENQN6)

317 Amid the ongoing insurance crisis in California, Allstate says it could soon resume writing new policies, though the move would come with some conditions. Allstate Insurance stopped writing new homeowners policies in California two years ago but says it may start offering them again if the state Department of Insurance will allow them to use catastrophic modeling when requesting rate increases. Catastrophic models are computerized reports that simulate potential catastrophic events and could be used to justify rate increases.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

318 288 284. No, Matt was not correct. If his meaning was "Abbott poorly worded his statement," that's what Matt should have said. That's not what Matt said.
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So how about fully quoting exactly what he said/wrote?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (vtyCZ)

319 314.

I guess we do. But Matt's response was made on the basis of Abbott's statement, not what the protestors were actually arrested for. Can we at least agree on that?

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:36 AM (aCVzN)

320 234
i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles. that sharp rap would for sure cause them to let go.

that's knowledge i learned in catholic school from the nuns in the 80s...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (UCRjB)
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There would be cries of physical violence and brutality, naybe even lawsuits.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #222 at April 26, 2024 09:36 AM (qfLjt)

321 Gee, I hope CBD didn't fall into a vat of maple syrup.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

322 White House Dinner with the D List

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Andrew McCarthy

Hiroyuki Sanada

Molly Ringwald

Rosario Dawson

Quavo

Naomi Biden

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (ENQN6)

323 Tremendous rant, per usual, J.J. Thank you & prayers as always!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (8FmJd)

324 The dirty little secret is most people don't vote, ... except in Philadelphia where 115% of registered voters turnout

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

325 The 10 year Treasury has been steadily rising in yield, headed toward the (generally thought) to be recessionary 4.8% level. For some reason todays inflation numbers calmed the market a little, and yields are backing off just a bit. Still, with all the inflationary spending Washington is doing, it sounds like we should all still be very worried about these next months ahead. At least Trump will soon be re-elected and maybe we can then get some progress.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (Gqz3L)

326 I need to find that Irena Gut movie. At first I thought they were talking about Irena Sendler. Different women, but both angels.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:38 AM (4SYnO)

327 Naomi Biden

That's the granddaughter Biden's frenched a few times in public right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

328 But not an anti-dentite !
Posted by: JT
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One of "those people" was torturing me in a chair for an hour on Monday. My tooth didn't feel better until Wednesday AM it was so brutal!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:39 AM (vtyCZ)

329 318.
"So how about fully quoting exactly what he said/wrote?"
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"Arresting people for 'hate speech' is about as liberal as it gets and every conservative should oppose it. If protesters are being arrested for breaking actual laws, great— arrest all the lawbreakers. But arresting people for “antisemitism” is obviously a clear violation of the First Amendment. I can’t stand these protesters but you can’t arrest people simply for having 'hateful' views."

-- Matt Walsh

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One could reasonably think that the protestors were arrested for ideas and/or hate speech on the basis of Abbott's statement.

Looks to me like Abbott's statement was itself put out and played for political effect and some conservatives (Matt Walsh among them) took the bait, hook line and sinker.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (aCVzN)

330 Gee, I hope CBD didn't fall into a vat of maple syrup.
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A sticky end!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (vtyCZ)

331 Don't get me wrong; there was plenty of sexual impropriety to pin on him, but if every rapist and casting couch director in Hollywood was prosecuted and convicted for their crimes, there wouldn't be any Hollywood left.
Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (aCVzN)

stop, I 've agreed with you.

there's no need to convince me again

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (UCRjB)

332 What time is The Art Thread ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (T4tVD)

333
A
R
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Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (ENQN6)

334 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (9yWhg)

335 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)
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So a bit like Minority Report, getting arrested for a potential crime. Holding a brick in front of a jeweler's store? How about rioters on campuses, just shouting now but they could potentially break things and attack people?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #221 at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (qfLjt)

336 What time is The Art Thread ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (T4tVD)
=================
The time is now

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (Je6Mg)

337 Columbia University Protesters Proclaim ‘We Are Hamas’-They might wanna rethink this

Aligning with an organization on the terrorist watchlist is really not a great idea

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

338 The Hamas Nazi Ivy League-Why history is repeating itself on campus

These are the Americans who helped generate the need to reauthorize Section 702

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:44 AM (RHGPo)

339 From Politico's story on Trump's NY options - "As long as he's stuck in New York for the foreseeable future as a hostage to the incomprehensible legal case involving bookkeeping errors,"

They are not bookkeeping errors. They are legal expenses properly booked as such.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (g/1eZ)

340 323 Tremendous rant, per usual, J.J. Thank you & prayers as always!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (8FmJd)


Cheers. Keeping hope alive.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM (x0n13)

341 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 10:00 AM (53oGX)

342 GM, all, and Thank You, J.J.

"And yet after a sham of a travesty of two mockeries of a farce of a libel trial, the same court system has Trump on trial for supposedly using campaign cash as hush money to silence Sloppy Daniels prior to 2016. The case is a joke and everyone knows it."

UK Guardian, Chris McGreal in Washington DC
Sun 19 Nov 2017, 'Bill Clinton's past re-examined in light of Weinstein and Trump'
The swirl of sexual misconduct allegations has prompted fresh scrutiny of Clinton’s behaviour – some argue this is long overdue while others question what revisiting the past is meant to achieve

Politico, 11/14/18, This Day In Politics, Clinton settles sexual harassment suit, Nov. 14, 1998

In part, On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton settled a sexual harassment lawsuit by making an $850,000 payment. The settlement with Paula Jones, reached without the suit going to trial, heaped fuel on Clinton’s impeachment proceedings by the Republican-controlled House. (He was acquitted in a subsequent Senate trial and completed his term in office.)

Oh, yes, I remember it well! 1/4 Cont'd

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

343 They point to Nixon but remember not Johnson's hand - a really big hand - in the Vietnam War.

Office of the Historian (Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State) Milestones, 1969 - 1973, Ending the Vietnam War.

The Miller Center, LYNDON B. JOHNSON: FOREIGN AFFAIRS By Kent Germany

The major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War. By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30,000 Americans there. Johnson's approval ratings had dropped from 70 percent in mid-1965 to below 40 percent by 1967, and with it, his mastery of Congress. "I can't get out, I can't finish it with what I have got. So what the hell do I do?" he lamented to Lady Bird. Johnson never did figure out the answer to that question.
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He decided not to run for reelection.

Cont'd 2/4

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

344 "If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency."

President Bill Clinton, January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001

>NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Wikipedia
>CATO Report: Chairman’s Message: “Bombing Serbia Was WRONG” September/October 1999 Policy Report
>HRW org: Principle Findings: (In small part) Minimizing harm to civilians was central to governmental and public consent for NATO's bombing campaign in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-an air war officially justified as humanitarian intervention.

>VOA: Beau Biden worked in Kosovo after the 1998-1999 war, helping to train local prosecutors and judges for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

>eeas europa eu: Jack Smith appointed as the new Specialist Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office, 7/05/18. His tenure ended 11/18/22.

Btw, The U.S. is NOT A STATE PARTY to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002. As of March 2023, 123 states are members of the Court.

3/4 Cont'd

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

345 scp-ks org: Before becoming Specialist Prosecutor, Mr. Smith was Vice President and Head of Litigation for the Hospital Corporation of America, the largest non-governmental health-care provider in the United States, a position he had been in from September 2017.

HCA Healthcare: On November 17, 2006, HCA became a private company for the third time when it completed a merger in which the company was acquired by a private investor group including affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital, together with Merrill Lynch and HCA Healthcare founder Thomas F. Frist, Jr.

You don't say? So, in all, a Clinton, Bush, Obama & Biden thing? IDK. There can be more, but I'll give it a rest for now.
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Standing with Israel. Have a lovely weekend, all. 4/4

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

346 Is Bragg seriously trying to make a case that it's a crime for media outlets to spike a story? Or for political candidates or their campaigns to pressure a media outlet into spiking a story? Can the Left be that lacking in self-awareness?

Posted by: DaveL at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (uJcVC)

Daily Tech News 26 April 2024

Top Story

  • Elizabeth Bathory eat your heart out. Or someone else's. Probably a peasant's. Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico. (Ars Technica)
    The woman's case led investigators to VIP Spa, which was unlicensed, had no appointment scheduling system, and did not store client contact information. In an inspection in the fall of 2018, health investigators found shocking conditions: unwrapped syringes in drawers and counters, unlabeled tubes of blood sitting out on a kitchen counter, more unlabeled blood and medical injectables alongside food in a kitchen fridge, and disposable equipment-electric desiccator tips-that were reused. The facility also did not have an autoclave-a pressurized oven-for sterilizing equipment.
    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

    Twice.


Tech News



Disclaimer: Potat.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:36 AM




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1 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:37 AM (omVj0)

2 G'Day everyone
Was getting worried

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 04:40 AM (fwDg9)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 04:40 AM (T4tVD)

4 Good morning again morons and G'day Pixy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 04:40 AM (RIvkX)

5 >>>That model is also not available in the US.

But vampire facials at unlicensed spas are!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:41 AM (o3SCB)

6 Where in New Mexico was the vampire spa located?

Evening and morning to all the early risers and late toilers! It's Friday, and I neither feel badly enough to stay home from work nor eager and ready to get back to my desk. Which has been true for a while.

Now that I have Meds Part A and B, and am deciding on a supplement to it, the time has come for me to tell my boss I'm retiring. If I go beyond June 3, I'll lose a big chunk of my unused vacation time, for which I get paid when I leave.

It's scary . . . but my office is due to move sometime this year. I do NOT want to be the one in charge of organizing that. And I'm sick of my work and my commute, as well as this dreary city. Time to go.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:43 AM (omVj0)

7 >>>Disclaimer: Potat.

Oh.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:43 AM (o3SCB)

8 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2024 04:44 AM (ju2Fy)

9 Okay, the vampire spa was in Albuquerque. Good-sized city; you wouldn't think such a spa would operate in Truth or Consequences. Maybe you could imagine it in Santa Fe, with all the trendy stuff there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:46 AM (omVj0)

10 I am going to draw your blood, spin it in a centrifuge, then inject the plasma into your face.

Oh, ok.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 04:46 AM (PHukT)

11 It's Latin for "Si se pwodway".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 04:46 AM (GkFGh)

12 What do the natives of Truth or Consequences, NM, call the town among themselves? "Tee and Cee"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:47 AM (omVj0)

13 10 I am going to draw your blood, spin it in a centrifuge, then inject the plasma into your face.

Oh, ok.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 04:46 AM (PHukT)

All for the low, low price of

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:48 AM (o3SCB)

14 Do not use gross unsterile face blood injection if you are allergic to gross unsterile face blood injection.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 04:48 AM (GkFGh)

15 One imagines the woman in charge of the NM "vampire facial" place looking like Gloria Holden in Dracula's Daughter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:49 AM (omVj0)

16 It's scary . . . but my office is due to move sometime this year. I do NOT want to be the one in charge of organizing that. And I'm sick of my work and my commute, as well as this dreary city. Time to go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

When you no longer see the purpose of the job, it is time to go. That is when I knew it was time to retire from the army.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 04:49 AM (PHukT)

17 Oh.
Posted by: m

Sadahuru ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 04:50 AM (T4tVD)

18 What do the natives of Truth or Consequences, NM, call the town among themselves? "Tee and Cee"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:47 AM (omVj0)

Nah... just.... nah, man.... i reckon you get your ass kicked saying something like that...

Posted by: Warai-otoko has a case of the Mondays at April 26, 2024 04:51 AM (GkFGh)

19 It's scary . . . but my office is due to move sometime this year. I do NOT want to be the one in charge of organizing that. And I'm sick of my work and my commute, as well as this dreary city. Time to go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

When you no longer see the purpose of the job, it is time to go. That is when I knew it was time to retire from the army.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024

***
I lost all my respect for my employer when, despite touting themselves as an institution on the forefront of medical and scientific research, they fell hard for the Sniffle Scare and the Face Diaper Hoax. And then had the nerve to threaten me with job loss if I didn't take an unproven, untested, experimental shot. If they hadn't accepted my religious exemption in '21, I'd have let them fire me, taken my SS and pension, looked into suing them while I took in unemployment, and moved on.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:53 AM (omVj0)

20 Not to mention, the new location for our office is going to be a quarter-mile walk from my free parking on the street. I do NOT want to negotiate that in a rainstorm. Nor do I want to pay $600 a year for parking -- not even for an assigned site, but merely for a hunting license that allows me to *look* for a parking space. Noooo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:55 AM (omVj0)

21 I look forward to my class action settlement for being forced to take the vaccination to keep my job.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 04:57 AM (RIvkX)

22 It is a little disgusting and entirely predictable that in a land full of ambulance chasers and grievance mongers, there has been absolutely zero reckoning for those who threatened people's livelihoods over a farce.

Where are the lawyers? Where are the union thugs? Where are the wall to wall commercials of "if you or a loved one" etc etc etc?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 04:57 AM (GkFGh)

23 Bella came to wake me hour earlier today. And wasn't she surprised to find out Betty had jumped in my bed 2 hours earlier and was sleeping by my shoulder.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2024 04:58 AM (ju2Fy)

24 I'm supposed to wet myself with pathos over a bunch of jarheads who needed to be explicitly told to stand upwind of the damn burn pit, but the sheer global monstrosity of the clot shots gets bupkis? Pffff.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 05:02 AM (GkFGh)

25 We need to send Alec Baldwin to the college campuses to slap these bitchez.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 05:15 AM (RIvkX)

26 https://www.americanthinker.com/ar
another climate folly carbon capture and storage

I always assumed this was a Green Scam

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 05:16 AM (fwDg9)

27 University: You must respect pronouns or be expelled!

Also, University: If you're Jewish you might not want to go to class today lest you be physically and verbally assaulted by the students and/or faculty.

h/t Powerline

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 05:24 AM (RIvkX)

28 G'mornin' everyone!

"Where are the lawyers? Where are the union thugs? Where are the wall to wall commercials of "if you or a loved one" etc etc etc?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 04:57 AM (GkFGh)"

they prefer to keep working, rather than get the "Trump's Lawyers"
treatment.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 26, 2024 05:28 AM (tQtDb)

29 I haven't been out to breakfast in a while. Maybe tomorrow? Muggy weather is no fun, and if I wash the car before going to the diner, I'll be damp with sweat and grease. We'll see how I feel when I get up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 05:31 AM (omVj0)

30 I have found the perfect smartphone. It has every feature known to mankind! It's not sold here. Only in Borneo. In February. It's currently unavailable.


Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 26, 2024 05:34 AM (cPl+1)

31 I had a long tradition of going out for breakfast on Fridays, that died years ago.

When I worked in Silicon Valley I would go to the cafe at the San Mateo municipal airfield. They only made eggs and burgers. Best Spanish omelet west of the Rockies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 05:35 AM (RIvkX)

32 TSMC has announced it 1.6nm process, called A16, due late 2026.

Intel reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat expectations for earnings per share, but came up light in sales. Intel gave a weak forecast for the current quarter. In a footnote to their quarterly report, Intel is asking that all foreign aid to Taiwan be given directly to them so they can hire mercenaries to bomb Qualcomm's and TSMCs headquarters.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 05:38 AM (b6UlB)

33 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 26, 2024 05:42 AM (dg+HA)

34 The multicultural Nazis of today may be more racially diverse than their forebears in the thirties, but, much as then, their intellectual diversity runs the gamut from one totalitarian movement to another. Back then the Ivy League was torn between Fascism and Marxism, now it’s Marxism and Islamism, which have signed their own sort of Hitler-Stalin pact, enabling them to team up against America, Christians, Jews and the entire fabric of Western civilization.
-Daniel Greenfield

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 05:43 AM (RIvkX)

35 When I worked in Silicon Valley I would go to the cafe at the San Mateo municipal airfield. They only made eggs and burgers. Best Spanish omelet west of the Rockies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Spanish omelets were invented by a restaurant in Brainerd, Minnesota who needed a Mexican item for it's "Around the World" section of its menu. This this also explains how black olives and sour cream crept into an recipie purportedly from Tiajuana. Not remarkably. It was wildly successful and spread its way across the entire upper Midwest.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 05:44 AM (b6UlB)

36 Yesterday for lunch I pan-sizzled a 3 oz. slab of grass-fed beef with chili powder, paprika, and pepper, together with one scrambled egg, similarly seasoned. Very nice combo. A few years ago I would never have dreamed of combining such foods, or eating either of them more than once in a purple moon (i.e., even more rarely than in a blue moon). But then, a few years ago I wasn't ready to retire, had never thought about the Midwest as a new home or a lot of other things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 05:46 AM (omVj0)

37 Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico. (Ars Technica)
-

Aren't there are more fun ways to get AIDS?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 05:47 AM (hdL3Q)

38 Joy in the Holy Spirit

A Christian devotional from "In Touch" ministries:

https://tinyurl.com/4hxh2j9c

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 05:47 AM (/E5r5)

39 Where in New Mexico was the vampire spa located?

Rosalita's, behind the Bosa Donuts and Burrito shop and across from Carlos's Used Tire store. Appointments are appreciated and cash only.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 05:49 AM (b6UlB)

40 Spanish omelets were invented by a restaurant in Brainerd, Minnesota who needed a Mexican item for it's "Around the World" section of its menu. This this also explains how black olives and sour cream crept into an recipie purportedly from Tiajuana. Not remarkably. It was wildly successful and spread its way across the entire upper Midwest.
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024

***
The most disappointing "Mexican" restaurant I ever went to was in Pittsburgh. Not spicy stuff at all. Yet my hostess swore that it was the most popular place for Mex in town.

For that matter, places in Denver that swore they were "authentic" New Mexican had no green chiles to be seen, no sopaipillas, and no honey already on the tables. Pffft.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 05:50 AM (omVj0)

41 Where in New Mexico was the vampire spa located?

Rosalita's, behind the Bosa Donuts and Burrito shop and across from Carlos's Used Tire store. Appointments are appreciated and cash only.
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024

***
Oh, a used tire store -- the kind of place with tires neatly displayed with great chrome rims, but you can't actually buy rims -- they're only for display? And staffed with small brown tough-looking guys in jeans, T-shirts, and ball caps?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 05:53 AM (omVj0)

42 I posted this story before, but I liked it so much I decided to post it again. Former convict saves baby crawling on highway:

https://tinyurl.com/6mpt26bt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 05:54 AM (/E5r5)

43 Come to think of it, I haven't had a pipe since Tuesday morning. If my throat is back to normal this afternoon or tomorrow morning, it'll be time to load up a bowl of something mildly aromatic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 05:55 AM (omVj0)

44 Chocolate covered macaroons or flourless chocolate brownie bites?

They are both off-the-chain addictive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 05:55 AM (RIvkX)

45 Dog chases windshield wiper:

https://tinyurl.com/2ke6crs9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 05:59 AM (/E5r5)

46 Chocolate covered macaroons or flourless chocolate brownie bites?
-

Homemade or Horowitz-Margaretin?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 06:00 AM (hdL3Q)

47 One of the best dishes in New Mexico is Red Chile Colorado. When done properly, it consists of pork shoulder, lard, and a secret blend of red chilies which is then allowed to slow cook for about 12 hours. Depending on the restaurant, in addition to warm homemade flour tortillas, it is served either straight up or with chopped onions, lime, and cilantro. If you're a regular, you can get a vampire facial out back in the parking lot at a discount.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:01 AM (b6UlB)

48 *Appointments are appreciated and cash only.*

Twenty bucks. Same as in Santa Fe.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 26, 2024 06:02 AM (dg+HA)

49 Homemade or Horowitz-Margaretin?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 06:00 AM (hdL3Q)
====

Homemade, of course

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 06:03 AM (RIvkX)

50 I eat corn tortillas during passover and we are going to the Mission for lunch on Sunday with son-in-law's parents visiting from Sydney.

Apparently there are no Mexicans in Australia

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 06:07 AM (RIvkX)

51 One imagines the woman in charge of the NM "vampire facial" place looking like Gloria Holden in Dracula's Daughter.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

That one's been re-made as part of the (so-far failed) attempt to create a Universal Monsters Universe akin to the Marvel and DC EUs. It's called "Abigail," and hit theaters a week ago. No major word on box office yet.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 06:07 AM (+OBLx)

52 A few years ago I had a Spanish Omelette in Aurora, Colorado. It consisted of 3 eggs, 80% fat hamburger browned in Lawry's package taco seasoning, onions, tomatoes, green bell pepper, black olives, and American cheese with hash browns, white or wheat toast on the side, Pace salsa, and sour cream on the side. Jalapenos were by request only for that extra authentic Mexican kick. It was the best and most Authentic Spanish omelette since I had been in Brainerd. MN a decade earlier.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:13 AM (b6UlB)

53 23 Bella came to wake me hour earlier today. And wasn't she surprised to find out Betty had jumped in my bed 2 hours earlier and was sleeping by my shoulder.
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 26, 2024 04:58 AM (ju2Fy)

; )

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 06:19 AM (o3SCB)

54 @37

>>Aren't there are more fun ways to get AIDS?

You can probably find a compilation of Vampire Facials on PorhHub.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 06:20 AM (XV/Pl)

55 The ONT has me laughing still. Someone, maybe Jill Biden, actually got an AI to pump out a jazz standard "My Man Shit In His Pants At Work"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 06:21 AM (Y/HH/)

56 Apparently there are no Mexicans in Australia
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 06:07 AM (RIvkX)
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Of course not. Why leave America?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 06:23 AM (Y/HH/)

57 47 One of the best dishes in New Mexico is Red Chile Colorado. When done properly, it consists of pork shoulder, lard, and a secret blend of red chilies which is then allowed to slow cook for about 12 hours. Depending on the restaurant, in addition to warm homemade flour tortillas, it is served either straight up or with chopped onions, lime, and cilantro. If you're a regular, you can get a vampire facial out back in the parking lot at a discount.
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:01 AM (b6UlB)

heh

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 06:26 AM (o3SCB)

58 @56

>>Of course not. Why leave America?

I often wonder, once America is a hollowed out husk, where will the Flotsum and Jetsum go?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 06:26 AM (XV/Pl)

59 NY Post: George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests.

Nothing surprising in the article other than it includes pictures of some of the paid protesters. It underlines that all these protests over the last number of years are are nothing more than thinly disguised Marxist insurrections. Additionally, the Tidal organization is involved as a method of distributing the funds.

https://tinyurl.com/25kvu289

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:30 AM (b6UlB)

60 We had some roof work done over the last few days. It only took six months for them to schedule us, they have so much work lined up. The trades seem like the place to be in this economy.

Thank goodness INS didn't disturb the proceedings before the crew finished.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 06:30 AM (3RZw1)

61 So with Jew hate being popular and all currently, where are all those totally not-Fed Neo-Nazis who show up at right wing events?

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at April 26, 2024 06:31 AM (EcHpA)

62 I think you mean Tides Foundation

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 06:32 AM (RIvkX)

63 @60

>>The trades seem like the place to be in this economy.

During The Plandemic, Construction never shut down in this country, not even for a second.

So yeah, pretty good place to be.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 06:32 AM (XV/Pl)

64 I think you mean Tides Foundation
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Thank you for the correction.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:33 AM (b6UlB)

65 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 26, 2024 06:33 AM (86W+h)

66 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 26, 2024 06:34 AM (PzBTm)

67 61 So with Jew hate being popular and all currently, where are all those totally not-Fed Neo-Nazis who show up at right wing events?
Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at April 26, 2024 06:31 AM (EcHpA)

Fake Govt Jew Haters look bad when compared to real Jew Haters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 06:35 AM (ENQN6)

68 Many thanks, Rosasharn, it never fails to bring a smile!

It is now Officially Friday!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 26, 2024 06:36 AM (tQtDb)

69 When did using tear gas on insurrectionists go out of style?

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:36 AM (b6UlB)

70 At three colleges the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 06:37 AM (ENQN6)

71 Good morning. Mitch's cheese has slid all the way off the cracker.
His opinion is that the university presidents should quell the riots and not make use of the National Guard.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2024 06:37 AM (LfcYE)

72
The Left: If you criticize George Soros you're antisemitic.

The Left: It's perfectly fine that George Soros is antisemitic.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 06:40 AM (RKVpM)

73 "At three colleges the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).
Posted by: rhennigantx"

Fellows=comrades

mornin yall

Posted by: Kangaroo Facts at April 26, 2024 06:43 AM (vFG9F)

74 It's scary . . . but my office is due to move sometime this year. I do NOT want to be the one in charge of organizing that. And I'm sick of my work and my commute, as well as this dreary city. Time to go.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:43 AM (omVj0)

Wolfus. Get your financial ducks in a row, think about how you're going to stay healthy ( *whisper Pickleball* ) and socialized ( beyond interacting with the Horde ), then DO IT. You might need a few weeks to decompress, but then you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

And you can sing this on the way out the door:

https://youtu.be/gj2iGAifSNI

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Freelance AoSHQ Retirement Consultant at April 26, 2024 06:44 AM (PiwSw)

75 I believe the word is demonic.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 06:45 AM (w8gPi)

76 Spanish omelets were invented by a restaurant in Brainerd, Minnesota who needed a Mexican item for it's "Around the World" section of its menu

The Denver omelette was invented in Madrid for their American section of the menu.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 06:46 AM (PHukT)

77 22. Where are the lawyers? Where are the union thugs? Posted by: Warai-otoko

Antifa? Waiting. Will spring back to life if/when PDT returns.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 06:47 AM (NFX2v)

78 G'morning, all.

Latest in the Baltimore School Official using AI to frame a school Principal.

https://tinyurl.com/x2zxp2mr

Other reporting also had quoted DeRay Mckesson, of winter Vest fame saying that he had no doubt that the Principal had said these things, as he had attended school under him, and that the white Principal was clearly racist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)

79 The grade schoolers were driven to the High School to watch the High School student play "Mama Mia."

I asked two kindergarten girls how they liked the play.

One said "Ugh. They was kissing." Her friend said "That was not real kissing."

I made no comment. Sometimes I feel like I am on the set of Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2024 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

80 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2024 06:48 AM (u82oZ)

81 I can't help but notice mass leftist protests seem to erupt every 4 years. Weird. I can't figure out what might be driving the cycle. I wonder... I wonder...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 06:48 AM (PHukT)

82 Covid was filled with suggestions, the upcoming pandemic will be filled up with orders. Covid was a drill.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 06:48 AM (w8gPi)

83 @amuse has video of the months worth of food and supplies that the Columbia protestors have stockpiled.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 06:50 AM (PHukT)

84 Yesterday I encountered an old fart driving a Prius with a Biden Harris bumper sticker, driving slower than traffic in the center lane of the freeway. I slowed down long enough to give him the evil eye, but he stared straight ahead like a zombie with no awareness of what was around him. I hate those f'n people. Fkn commies.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 06:50 AM (vFG9F)

85 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:50 AM (a1415)

86 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

You would think B'more would focus on getting the harbor open.

I note we are using a 50 year old crane designed for lifting a Soviet Sub (Glomar Explorer crane), but not asking the Dutch salvage forms that have much more modern cranes with over 5 times the lift capacity.

So the Feds are not focused on solving this problem.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2024 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

87 That's odd.

Looks like the TinyURL website just went offline.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:52 AM (a1415)

88 They won't admit they are commies though. They may not even know.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 06:52 AM (vFG9F)

89
@amuse has video of the months worth of food and supplies that the Columbia protestors have stockpiled.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 06:50 AM

The final semester ends in about two weeks, n'est pas?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 06:53 AM (RKVpM)

90 75; looking at it from that perspective really does clarify the view of the things that are going on lately

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 26, 2024 06:53 AM (tQtDb)

91 "So the Feds are not focused on solving this problem."

Well, they're Feds, so.....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:53 AM (a1415)

92 Spanish omelets were invented by a restaurant in Brainerd, Minnesota who needed a Mexican item for it's "Around the World" section of its menu

The Denver omelette was invented in Madrid for their American section of the menu.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

For the Win!

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 06:53 AM (b6UlB)

93 Tinyurl doesn't work most of the time for me F'n commies.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

94 Cat Ass Trophy

Good.

Let the extant criminal population steal their food from them. More educational that what they get in school.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2024 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

95 driving slower than traffic in the center lane of the freeway.

Then they wait until the absolute last second to jump into the left lane before you overtake them because they possibly want to pass the person in front of them in the future and don't want to risk being delayed by your presence in the left lane. 5 miles later, they are still parked in the blind spot of the car in the right lane.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 06:54 AM (PHukT)

96 " 5 miles later, they are still parked in the blind spot of the car in the right lane."


With their left blinker still on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:55 AM (a1415)

97 87 That's odd.

Looks like the TinyURL website just went offline.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:52 AM (a1415)
Odd indeed.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2024 06:55 AM (o2ZRX)

98 " ... stared straight ahead like a zombie with no awareness of what was around him ... "

crucial to maintaining a fully correct progressive worldview!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 26, 2024 06:56 AM (tQtDb)

99 "Daily showers are purely ‘performative’ and have no real health benefit, experts insist"

F'n dirty commies

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

100 "Experts." Is there anything they DON'T know?

Posted by: Homer Simpson at April 26, 2024 06:59 AM (0KptQ)

101
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2024 07:00 AM (bEb2S)

102 Looks like the TinyURL website just went offline.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Is it Down Right Now Is showing Comcast, X, Reddit, and Whats App all being down. Uh-Oh!

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 26, 2024 07:00 AM (b6UlB)

103 One "expert" only hoses off once per month to help the environment — a lifestyle choice inspired by spending two weeks in the Amazon with the indigenous Yanomami people.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:01 AM (vFG9F)

104 @86, interesting, NaCly!

roll on, Glomar Explorer!

(I remember looking over some mutual fund paperwork back in the 80's and noting that they were holding bonds issued to build that ship)
(lol)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 26, 2024 07:01 AM (tQtDb)

105 I always thought of "dirty" commie as a pejorative now I know it is descriptive.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:01 AM (RIvkX)

106 So both Australian Spy agencies and cops want keys to encryption. With the wonderful track record on respecting individual rights and how the public gets treated, this is a go-take-a-running-jump-at-yourselves.
On that note how is Musk and X involved in this? X doesn't encrypt anything right? Also users can use individual encryption software so how would that work for the cops, particularly if the software is of Chinese origin?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #205 at April 26, 2024 07:01 AM (qfLjt)

107 99, endorsed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 26, 2024 07:02 AM (tQtDb)

108
Khamenei.ir
@khamenei_ir
·
Follow
Western governments say the Resistance Front is terrorism. This comes at a time when people flew Hezbollah’s flag in a street in the US. The people of the world are supporting the Resistance Front because they are resisting & because they are against oppression.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 07:03 AM (ENQN6)

109 "Chemist David Whitlock was so adamant about preserving this dermal barrier that the bathing abstainer didn’t shower for 12 years, instead opting to spray himself with good bacteria.

When asked about addressing critics, he told Vice: “Tell anyone who mocks you that they are betraying profound ignorance of the skin microbiome, and then walk away.”


Please do, and stay away. You smell like a garbage dump you damn dirty commie.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:03 AM (vFG9F)

110 Daily showers are purely ‘performative’ and have no real health benefit, experts insist"

-

Except for the first world part. And I'm certain this is why we're seeing commercials on TV now where women are being told they can buy deodorant for the swamp rot under their boobs and around their vaginas. Save the planet!

Way to go, ladies. Feminism took you from men pretending you don't sweat (or even poop for that matter) to you needing all over deodorants for your near-rotting corpse of a body.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 26, 2024 07:04 AM (M4M2/)

111 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be happy singing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2024 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

112 @99 If you live long enough to consult with a gerontology dermatologist, the first thing they'll tell you is to Stop Doing That. Also, the water is too hot.

There is a sort of Lady Macbeth aspect to it. Years ago, the organizer of a local partner-swap club was interviewed, and asked about health hazards. He said, "These are clean people. They shower every day." Bet they used Irish Spring, too?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 26, 2024 07:05 AM (zdLoL)

113
Dermal Barrier used to open for Little Feat

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:05 AM (RKVpM)

114 Be safe, Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 07:05 AM (a1415)

115 They claim that 100 years ago, people didn't take showers. The damn stinking commies want to take us back to 100 years ago.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

116 No one will ever convince me that true crypt shut down abruptly for any reason other than a knock on the door demanding all access.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 26, 2024 07:06 AM (M4M2/)

117 At work the rule is bathe as much as you like but not less than once a week. Older adults should not shower daily they generally do not need to and it is too tough on their skin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:07 AM (RIvkX)

118 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: tomat

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:10 AM (Be/+i)

119 I wonder if Billi Elish takes a shower after smashing her face into vaginas as she so proudly describes. Probably not, she reeks of penguins and communism.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

120 That Vampire spa story is "old". They closed that place down where I was in ABQ in 2018. That shit didn't surprise mw at all considering that town.

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 07:11 AM (QB+5g)

121
When I was setting up my in-line water heaters I was concerned about enough hot water from a six gallon tank. So I heated some water on the stove and wife and I tested the water as it warmed up until it got to the 'perfect' Goldilocks temperature. We discovered that 104 degrees (F) was perfect.

Further research showed that was the temperature that dermatologists recommend for shower water.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:12 AM (RKVpM)

122 Ugh. Imagine unwrapping one of the "it's been a week since I washed that thing" women.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 26, 2024 07:13 AM (M4M2/)

123 One "expert" only hoses off once per month to help the environment — a lifestyle choice inspired by spending two weeks in the Amazon with the indigenous Yanomami people.
Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:01 AM (vFG9F)
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The Yanomamo also brutalize their women.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:13 AM (Be/+i)

124 The whole thing is a precursor to limiting water consumption unless you are the elite who can afford to pay the surtax to water your lawn and fill your fountains and pools.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:13 AM (vFG9F)

125 Don't nuke the entire planet, neutron bomb it and leave the infrastructure.

Posted by: sven at April 26, 2024 07:14 AM (X0I7i)

126 78 G'morning, all.

Latest in the Baltimore School Official using AI to frame a school Principal.

https://tinyurl.com/x2zxp2mr

...... the white Principal was clearly racist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 06:47 AM (a1415)
----
From the article headline: "Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun"

he was arrested by the use of a gun?
Also if you're White then obviously you're a racist.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #206 at April 26, 2024 07:14 AM (qfLjt)

127 6. Wolfus, I just went through this as Mr. Jen just retired. Highly recommend using Boomer Benefits online to choose a supplement. There are so many hazards when picking a supplement and lots of rules from the government. They will guide you based on your specific needs. You also need to pick something that is state specific. I know you’re considering moving and that will complicate things. They can advise you.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 26, 2024 07:14 AM (M+Oen)

128 Commies are fucking garbage humans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 07:14 AM (IZc/C)

129 Dermatology is the journalism of medical specialties.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:15 AM (RIvkX)

130
The lefts plan is very simple; suck every ounce of joy out of life and be as miserable as they are.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:15 AM (RKVpM)

131 I believe that the Left is concerned that too much showering leads to too much treated waste water draining to the oceans.

Leading to rising sea levels.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 07:16 AM (a1415)

132 Old Spice is selling their deodorant as something to spray all over your body...including your junk.

A woman at my work place commented on the amount of perfume that some women wore. "They just covering up stank with stink"

Posted by: Bruce at April 26, 2024 07:16 AM (kiO8+)

133 I believe that the Left is concerned that too much showering leads to too much treated waste water draining to the oceans.

Leading to rising sea levels.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 07:16 AM (a1415)
===
Is this from Intercepted DU Transmissions?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

134 Now you smell like vaginal rot and sandalwood!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 07:17 AM (9Ct69)

135
Dermatology is the journalism of medical specialties.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:15 AM

Ever see the 'Dr. Pimple Popper' episode of Seinfeld?

'Skin cancer? Oh, yeah. That.'

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:17 AM (RKVpM)

136 "A woman at my work place commented on the amount of perfume that some women wore. "They just covering up stank with stink"


AKA, The Napoli Shower.

Let me tell you, Naples takes on an entire new level of funk in August.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 07:18 AM (a1415)

137 The commie children at the Columbia Gaza solidarity camp had a fit because the sprinklers came on and got their tents wet. They probably were afraid their stinking carcasses might get washed too and remove the stench of communism from their wretched commie bastard bodies.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:18 AM (vFG9F)

138 "Is this from Intercepted DU Transmissions?"


Noooo.....



But it could be.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 07:19 AM (a1415)

139 A woman at my work place commented on the amount of perfume that some women wore. "They just covering up stank with stink"
Posted by: Bruce at April 26, 2024 07:16 AM (kiO8+)
-----------

"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:19 AM (Be/+i)

140 fd, you really have a bee in your bonnet about commies and cleanliness this morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:19 AM (RIvkX)

141 Good morning. Mitch's cheese has slid all the way off the cracker.
His opinion is that the university presidents should quell the riots and not make use of the National Guard.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2024 06:37 AM (LfcYE)

Why did Mitch put his cheese on a white guy ?

Hiya BenHad !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:20 AM (T4tVD)

142 83 @amuse has video of the months worth of food and supplies that the Columbia protestors have stockpiled.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Their advance planning to disrupt Passover.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 07:20 AM (NFX2v)

143 It's mostly just commies. The stinking part comes along naturally.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:20 AM (vFG9F)

144 Let me tell you, Naples takes on an entire new level of funk in August.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 07:18 AM (a1415)

European nightclubs had a stench to them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 07:21 AM (R4t5M)

145 I love the VIP Spa!

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bob Kraft, NFL Owner Who Likes The Yellow at April 26, 2024 07:21 AM (cDEsv)

146 Dermatology is the journalism of medical specialties.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:15 AM

........

Apparently, it's a money maker. I just booked an appt with an office that has 8 dermatologists.. First opening is August 26th.

Posted by: Molly k. at April 26, 2024 07:22 AM (j/yko)

147 The worst B.O.

Pressed together in a crowd of sweaty commuters waiting on the LIRR platform in the basement of Penn Station in August, when the empty train pulls in, and everyone crushes toward the closed doors, while the car's a/c units pumps out more hot air onto the waiting crowd.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:23 AM (RIvkX)

148 I bet there's a fortune in "pre cancerous" spots on just one person.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 26, 2024 07:23 AM (9Ct69)

149 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2024 07:25 AM (pVWRI)

150
I've had two different experience with dermatologists in my life. Acne as a teen was annoying. First derm guy prescribed antibiotics. Every three months another visit, another script. Went on for a year or so, same shit. No difference. I finally gave up.

But when I got engaged and had a wedding date I saw derm guy number two. He got out this tank of liquid nitrogen I think, swabbed my face. Two weeks later skin was perfect. Acne gone, never returned.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:25 AM (RKVpM)

151 102 Looks like the TinyURL website just went offline.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentic

Or the free days are over. "Sign up for the monthly plan: $9.99"

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 26, 2024 07:26 AM (1ZzsT)

152 129 Dermatology is the journalism of medical specialties.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:15 AM (RIvkX)
----
Not if you have skin cancer.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #207 at April 26, 2024 07:27 AM (qfLjt)

153 Wolfus, weirddave knows you might contact him. Said use his name at gmail.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at April 26, 2024 07:27 AM (zudum)

154 If you don't want to take a bath, fine. Don't tell me I don't need to take a bath though. I can decide for myself. I don't need a stinking commie socialist rat bastard telling me what to do.

I'm calling these people what they are. Socialism is just a pretty word for communism.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

155 Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #207 at April 26, 2024 07:27 AM (qfLjt)
---------
Aqueous humor is funny water?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:28 AM (Be/+i)

156 I working in Milan for a while and one of my very distinct memories is walking into a small meeting room that a bunch of Italians had been discussing (arguing about) something. The door had ben closed for about an hour before I was asked to come in for their decision.

Whew!

That and shitting in a hole in the floor.

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 07:28 AM (QB+5g)

157 Many years ago, one of the ladies from the office, who was heavily perfumed , was talking to one of the toolmakers in the shop. He asked her if she had anymore of that perfume at home. She asked him if he liked it. He replied, no, I just wondered if you used the whole bottle this morning. She never spoke to him again.

Posted by: Cicero skip at April 26, 2024 07:29 AM (4ezYQ)

158
"Low flow shower-heads? I don't like the sound of that."

Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at April 26, 2024 07:29 AM (RKVpM)

159 Aqueas got drafted by the 49ers

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 26, 2024 07:29 AM (M4M2/)

160 Morning peeps.

Tech Question - did anyone have issues getting to this site yesterday?

Yesterday mid-morning AoSHQ (ace.mu.nu) was failing to resolve via DNS. I've changed my router's configuration to use DNS servers other than the ones automatically supplied by my ISP.

This site was the only one out of dozens that I visit that failed to resolve. It's obviously working now, but it was weird.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 07:29 AM (Q4IgG)

161 Vandy quelled its incipient riot problem by rapidly kicking out just a few of the yutes, and since then have required no National Guard. The administration at Columbia is taking a different route.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 07:30 AM (1DPXi)

162 There are currently more people pretending to be Jews in order to undermine the Jewish people than there are actual Jews alive on the planet.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 26, 2024 07:30 AM (pVWRI)

163 That and shitting in a hole in the floor.
Posted by: pawn

Too cheap to buy wood putty.

Posted by: Bruce at April 26, 2024 07:31 AM (kiO8+)

164 European nightclubs had a stench to them.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

So I guess no MoMees thar then !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:31 AM (T4tVD)

165 I hate buying new sprayers or shower heads. If you're lucky you can pull out the plastic restriction. If not you have to drill it.

I've seen some manufacturers that make channels so that it causes leaks when it's drilled out.

Return those to Walmart because they leak.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 26, 2024 07:32 AM (M4M2/)

166 The Yanomamo also brutalize their women.
In the shower!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 26, 2024 07:34 AM (zdLoL)

167 "So I guess no MoMees thar then !
Posted by: JT "

MoMees are commie-free zones. Attendance is a breath of fresh air.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

168 129 Dermatology is the journalism of medical specialties.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 07:15 AM (RIvkX)
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I would give that honor to psychiatry.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #208 at April 26, 2024 07:35 AM (qfLjt)

169 I had read somewhere that when England outlawed smoking in bars, they realized how much their fellow drinking mates stunk.

Don't know if that is true though

Posted by: Bruce at April 26, 2024 07:37 AM (kiO8+)

170 Watched "Fiddler on the Roof" the other day for the first time in a long time. Brought back memories of when I was in Fiddler...a long time ago.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:37 AM (Be/+i)

171 Apparently Winkin Blinken still has a job, incredibly enough. Biden sent him to China this week, in hopes (I guess) he can bring his special ability to start wars to bear on the China/Taiwan and China/Philippines issues.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 07:38 AM (SNt/E)

172 155 Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #207 at April 26, 2024 07:27 AM (qfLjt)
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Aqueous humor is funny water?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:28 AM (Be/+i)
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Yes, goes hand in hand with laughing gas.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #209 at April 26, 2024 07:38 AM (qfLjt)

173 Apparently Winkin Blinken still has a job, incredibly enough. Biden sent him to China this week, in hopes (I guess) he can bring his special ability to start wars to bear on the China/Taiwan and China/Philippines issues.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 07:38 AM (SNt/E)
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He thought the Chinese could use a good laugh.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:38 AM (Be/+i)

174 Byeeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 26, 2024 07:40 AM (Be/+i)

175 I had read somewhere that when England outlawed smoking in bars, they realized how much their fellow drinking mates stunk.

Ew.

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:40 AM (T4tVD)

176 Good morning everyone.

Thank you Pixy.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:40 AM (WXNFJ)

177 137 The commie children at the Columbia Gaza solidarity camp had a fit because the sprinklers came on and got their tents wet.
Posted by: fd

Chilly outside at night. Heh.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 07:42 AM (NFX2v)

178 I had read somewhere that when England outlawed smoking in bars, they realized how much their fellow drinking mates stunk.

Don't know if that is true though
Posted by: Bruce

I think this is probably true for all of us. Have you stepped into an elevator and suddenly noticed one of the passengers that got on before you is a smoker? The smell sticks to their hair and clothing.

Back in the day, half the office smoked (in the office) and we didn't notice such things. We were used to it.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:44 AM (WXNFJ)

179 Blinken is going to China to get his instructions.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (DIB8X)

180 175 I had read somewhere that when England outlawed smoking in bars, they realized how much their fellow drinking mates stunk.

Ew.

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:40 AM (T4tVD)
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Let's not get too holier-than-though. Think ....
The Streets of San Francisco
then do Seattle
then do Portland
then do Los Angeles
then, soon, New York

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #210 at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (qfLjt)

181
JJ is up

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (ENQN6)

182 Let's not get too holier-than-though. Think ....
The Streets of San Francisco
then do Seattle
then do Portland
then do Los Angeles
then, soon, New York
Posted by: Ciampino

It's true. Asylum's have their own raft of problems.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:46 AM (WXNFJ)

183 Too cheap to buy wood putty.
Posted by: Bruce at April 26, 2024 07:31 AM


Bruce that was so good you almost made me spit out my coffee.

Posted by: Cicero skip at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (4ezYQ)

184 You would think B'more would focus on getting the harbor open.

I note we are using a 50 year old crane designed for lifting a Soviet Sub (Glomar Explorer crane), but not asking the Dutch salvage forms that have much more modern cranes with over 5 times the lift capacity.

So the Feds are not focused on solving this problem.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 26, 2024 06:51 AM (u82oZ)

3 channels opened so far. Been following ALL the videos everyday, concerning the salvage operations. Lot more to clearing the channels than just "lifting" sections of the bridge. The entire roadway is on the harbor floor as well. It's actually progressing very quickly. But, of course, the arm chair engineers know better.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (iODuv)

185 I don't know if Pixy is still doing this, but I have a Computer Question:

Intel has released Core Ultra I7 165H and Core Ultra I9 185H.

The I9 is 5.1GHz and the I7 is 5GHz (a whole whopping 0.1 GHz) that never really runs like that in a notebook due to cooling issues.

They have identical core counts and types, max turbo power 115W, but the I7 seems to have a huge advantage over the I9, and not just being $180 cheaper than the I9 - it has a lower Processor Base Power of 28W vs 45W, which I'm thinking is ideal for battery based platforms and anyone who is doing anything other than full power gaming.

What am I seeing that isn't right to justify these two negatives against the I9?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (4HcMG)

186 Latest video concerning the Baltimore harbor channel opening. Very good progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCPSJUM2IoU

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (iODuv)

187 I looked up benchmarks comparing the 165H to the 185H:

https://tinyurl.com/22cz9y6y

The cheaper chip is actually faster on those tests.

On other tests the 185H can be nearly 10% faster:

https://tinyurl.com/5xnmx7nz

Probably just because it's using more power; from the specs alone it would only be 2% faster.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 26, 2024 08:25 AM (BLOW1)

188 I picked up a Nokia about a year ago. It was a total POS. I've gone back to Samsung.

Posted by: ChupaMe at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (OWLu2)

Tonight's ONT IS On The Clock


Howdy everyone! Welcome to Thursday night. Who should the ONT select in the AoS draft? Meanwhile, in the news this week, I'm told one of these groups of people represents a movement against the United States of America.

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The End Of The World As We Know It


Everything You Need To Know About EMPs From A NASA Expert


EMP is the end-of-the-world scenario that scares me the most. I have a friend who has written a book about WWIII opening with an EMP attack. The book is called Mongol Moon. The sequel A Dance of Devils just came out. Highly recommended. In a scenario like The Stand, most people die, but everything is still sitting around for the survivors to use and rebuild. In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.


This Is An Outrage

Kentucky Mother Pleads For Help As She Is Threatened With CPS If She Does Not Allow Her Children’s School To Conduct “Unnecessary” Surgeries On Them

In her video, posted on March 18, McQueen explained that in her area of Kentucky, programs are offered for children who don’t have access to healthcare, especially dental work. Her children were sent home from school with a consent form indicating they would receive a free teeth cleaning as part of one of these programs. 

“They have a dentist come out in this big tour bus and they do the cleaning. And was like ok, whatever!” She then explained that she later received a piece of paper in the mail claiming that both of her children had “abnormalities” and she would need to consent for further treatment. McQueen said this took her by surprise, as the children’s family dentist told her that no such abnormalities existed.

“My children go to the dentist on a regular basis – every 6 months to a year. There are no cavities, no decay. I called the school and they said ‘we have no control over that, you will have to wait until the dentist calls you.”

McQueen said that a woman later called her and explained what was “wrong” with her children’s teeth. She then told the woman that it seemed odd that in a matter of 6 months, her children’s teeth were already decaying and that they would need root canals and further procedures. 

The woman told McQueen that they were sending her another consent form, and requested she provide them with her insurance information.

“She told me that once the procedures were being done, which would be done over a consecutive amount of days, that my children would have to miss school because they’ll have to be placed under that laughing gas, anesthesia. I was then told that I would not be allowed to be there. And they would call me whenever it was time to pick them up,” she said.

McQueen immediately became suspicious and refused, saying that she would call her children’s regular dentist instead. After an appointment, the dentist stated that there was nothing wrong with the children’s teeth requiring surgery.

“They both have baby teeth that they are losing but there were no signs of cavities or decay. [Our] dentist showed me the scans,” McQueen said.

No way they should be doing root canals on baby teeth. What for? They're only going to fall out anyway. This has the smell of an unscrupulous dentist getting rich off of doing unnecessary work on kids forced to see him.

Comrade!

Communists Betray Workers, Teachers Unions Betray Students, Civil Rights Organizations Betray Blacks

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- like most communist parties -- came to power as the great defender of workers. 

In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn't give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power -- and then suppressed the proletariat, just as it suppressed every other group. One of the first things the Communist Party did after attaining power was disband independent labor unions and prohibit workers' strikes. Yes, the "workers' party" banned strikes.
The one major exception was the Chinese Communist Party, which came to power as the great defender of peasants. And the CCP slaughtered about 60 million of them.
This has been the modus operandi of every left-wing group everywhere: Claim concern for some group, and use that group to fool people -- specifically, naive liberals, who share few values with the Left but have frequently served as useful idiots for the Left. Liberals do so to this day.

That's why they're called “useful idiots”

AI Enriching Our Lives



Appalling


What a Miserable Difference Six Months Can Make

Dumpster fire. Train wreck. There are a variety of tried and true phrases to describe this period of painful Biden havoc in which we live. In reality, it's more like being caught in the midst of competing dumpster fires and train wrecks, and there's no place to hide. There also seems to be an endless supply of burning dumpsters and wrecking trains. 


It's been six months since Hamas did what Hamas does, only on a grander, more horrific scale. Catherine covered the reminder for us yesterday: 

As Catherine notes, much of the world has lost its bearings on this issue, and it's appalling, especially here in the United States. 

Last October and November, most prominent Democrats were staunchly sticking by our ally Israel. The raging antisemitism was really only coming from the members of the Squad, who had established it as their brand almost the moment they got into office. Sadly, that's no longer the case.

Career Advice

For many Gen Z students, skipping college for a trade may be their best bet


All of this makes sense, both professionally and financially. Young people can make good money more quickly without incurring the massive debt looming over today’s college grads. 

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 43 million Americans are carrying this burden, with the average borrower owing $37,000.
Meanwhile, after a few years of working, twenty-something tradespeople are buying homes and starting their own businesses. 

The median pay for new construction hires was $48,089 last year, compared to $39,520 for new hires in professional services. According to payroll-services provider ADP, pay for new hires in construction increased 5.1% last year, nearly double the increase for professional services. 
Trade jobs are also less subject to replacement by AI and other technologies. Some tech exec might make good money before student loan payments, but he’ll pay some kid a fortune to unclog his toilet.

That's the route Little is taking, and we couldn't be happier.

And that's all I have for you tonight. I'm under the weather, I'll probably go to bed after posting this, I've had a bad cold kicking my ass for the last 2 days.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by how to win a fight:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM




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1 Good evening all!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:00 PM (0/kef)

2 Yo

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:00 PM (RUMEY)

3 Yo, WD!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:00 PM (9yWhg)

4 Now that is an odd 1st!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:00 PM (0/kef)

5 Gone to fetch.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:01 PM (0/kef)

6 A WD ONT. Just what the doctor ordered!

Posted by: mindful webworker - for what ails ya at April 25, 2024 10:01 PM (7WAWe)

7 Greetings!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:01 PM (FkUwd)

8 Not first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:01 PM (8zz6B)

9 No way they should be doing root canals on baby teeth. What for? They're only going to fall out anyway. This has the smell of an unscrupulous dentist getting rich off of doing unnecessary work on kids forced to see him.

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Big Tooth will always bite you in the ass.

Sorry, NGU.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:02 PM (j7aNt)

10 I'm first runner up in case AZ Moron can't fulfill the duties of First!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:04 PM (RUMEY)

11 Good evening horde. Have a good ONT. Thanks WD.

Posted by: TRex at April 25, 2024 10:04 PM (Tbklz)

12 No way they should be doing root canals on baby teeth. What for? They're only going to fall out anyway. This has the smell of an unscrupulous dentist getting rich off of doing unnecessary work on kids forced to see him.
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Could be worse. At least he's not driving dental implants into their brains.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 10:04 PM (BpYfr)

13 What does that crazy cracker have tattooed on his back?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:04 PM (FkUwd)

14 GO BLUE!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (9yWhg)

15 pay for new construction hires was $48,089 last year, compared to $39,520 for new hires in professional services.

—

What is it 5,10,20 years later?

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (Au0FL)

16 Hey!!
Ok. Back to content...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (XvPG9)

17 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (WXNFJ)

18 13 What does that crazy cracker have tattooed on his back?
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:04 PM (FkUwd)


A saxophone, of course.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (RUMEY)

19 16 content?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:07 PM (9yWhg)

20 Willowed on the previous thread, but perhaps worthy of re-posting as the final tally on Australia's Great Emu War of 1932. (yes, this really happened)

I'm sure that Ben Had could clean up on the emus, as she has done on the feral hogs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She certainly couldn't do worse - one account read that"

"The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month."

Major Meredith's detachment reported that they had fired 12,630 rounds of ammunition, with no casualties on their side. The conservative estimate is that they killed a little north of 900 emus.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:08 PM (+OBLx)

21 I wouldn't fight saxophone guy. No way.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:08 PM (j7aNt)

22 The EMP link led to ZeroHedge, which is OK by me, but then that led to a a video. We need a text summary.

My take on EMP? When it happens, old farts like me who know how to get shit done without a a bunch of digital assistance, are going to be in big demand.

"yeah, I can make your gas pump work, and I can even make the counter work to some extent. But your customer is going to pump 25,842 counts, and you are going to have to sit down and do the math to convert that to 18.5 gallons."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:09 PM (8zz6B)

23 A saxophone, of course.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (RUMEY)
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"Of course".

Could be a sackbut(t).

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:10 PM (FkUwd)

24 Historic Vids @historyinmemes
Bro accidentally passed the test
https://tinyurl.com/yhu2e7ys
24 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:10 PM (vtyCZ)

25 ONTherapy. A good thing.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 10:10 PM (e6UQI)

26 How to win a fight is hysterical. Thanks WD

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 10:10 PM (DGJyi)

27 23 A saxophone, of course.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:05 PM (RUMEY)
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"Of course".

Could be a sackbut(t).
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:10 PM (FkUwd)

Nope. Pretty sure that's a reed instrument.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:11 PM (RUMEY)

28 I wouldn't fight saxophone guy. No way.
Posted by: Cicero

Remember that dog that carries a flame thrower?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:11 PM (0/kef)

29 Mongol.Moon is a good read.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:12 PM (W/lyH)

30 Evenin'

https://youtu.be/v4G_0A8Cdkw?si=3AE-ERSCBnzGqzS0

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 10:12 PM (gLYp7)

31 Major Meredith's detachment reported that they had fired 12,630 rounds of ammunition, with no casualties on their side. The conservative estimate is that they killed a little north of 900 emus.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:08 PM (+OBLx)

If I were tasked with killing emus wholesale, I'd be looking at shotgun slugs, loaded 2 to a round, linked with a foot of piano wire. Aim the neck, aim for the legs, don't matter. Once the critter is down, a head shot confirms the kill. And no meat spoiled. Emus be yummy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:12 PM (8zz6B)

32 “Sackbut” is a great word.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (9yWhg)

33 I see the Dems lost a House member. Looks like due to the clot shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (ibTVg)

34 That school dental story IS insane. I'd like to place a small wager on the dentist being of the, ahem, trans/LGBTQWERTY agenda pushing variety. And don't think it can't happen in Kentucky. Look at those West Virginia schoolgirls who didn't want to compete against a trans in the shot put so didn't.

I don't trust schools anywhere in this country to be honest, forthright and dedicated to educating children in the three R's, not the three best sex positions for anal.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (emlEe)

35 Surely there's an arcade game where you can machine gun emus. Seems like a no-brainer.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (FkUwd)

36 Emus and ostriches. Mean fucking birds.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (R4t5M)

37 32 “Sackbut” is a great word.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (9yWhg

So is fartlek.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (RUMEY)

38 'In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.'

I'm kinda that person who reads, and actually digs, apocalyptic stories.
I suppose it can sort of prepare one for the reality that may be just around the corner....😒

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2024 10:15 PM (XvPG9)

39 17 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:15 PM (9yWhg)

40 If I were tasked with killing emus wholesale, I'd be looking at shotgun slugs, loaded 2 to a round, linked with a foot of piano wire. Aim the neck, aim for the legs, don't matter. Once the critter is down, a head shot confirms the kill. And no meat spoiled. Emus be yummy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And just, may I ask, what is wrong with using combines?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:15 PM (vJiyU)

41

Alicia McQueen, Never Give Up!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

42 36 Emus and ostriches. Mean fucking birds.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (R4t5M)

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Their problem is, evolutionarily speaking, they're too close to velociraptors.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:16 PM (j7aNt)

43 “Sackbut” is a great word.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (9yWhg)


As opposed to Butsacks...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:16 PM (W/lyH)

44 I'd napalm the bastards from a helicopter!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:16 PM (FkUwd)

45 If everything goes tits up in an EMP, I'm definitely starting a cult.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:17 PM (RUMEY)

46 Surely there's an arcade game where you can machine gun emus. Seems like a no-brainer.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (FkUwd)
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Far Cry 3 lets you machine gun cassowaries. Another type of vicious flightless bird...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 10:18 PM (BpYfr)

47 And just, may I ask, what is wrong with using combines?
Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:15 PM (vJiyU)

They might run away. Conglomerates, on the other hand...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:18 PM (8zz6B)

48 And just, may I ask, what is wrong with using combines?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:15 PM (vJiyU)

Sure, if you want emuburgers.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 10:18 PM (w6EFb)

49 Back when I was a kid, a visit to the dentist that resulted in cavities or unnecessary work was, as my mother would tell the dentist... "this month's Mercedes payment."

She wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 10:19 PM (Q4IgG)

50 WD, if you are here, on one of the morning threads, Wolfus Aurelius, one of our stalwart daywalkers from New Orleans, had questions about medial insurance. We recommended he get in touch with you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:19 PM (8zz6B)

51 Back when I was a kid, a visit to the dentist that resulted in cavities or unnecessary work was, as my mother would tell the dentist... "this month's Mercedes payment."

She wasn't wrong.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 10:19 PM (Q4IgG)

Methinks the dentist linked above is perusing yacht catalogs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:20 PM (8zz6B)

52 Cassowaries are supposed to be real dicks.

Wonder if somebody is going to bring back moa birds.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:21 PM (FkUwd)

53 Wait kids get free dental cate now in school?

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:21 PM (Au0FL)

54 "One Second After" is a terrific post-EMP novel. And scary as hell.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:21 PM (5fDan)

55 50 Thanks, AOP. I had forgotten about that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:21 PM (9yWhg)

56
Everything You Need To Know About EMPs From A NASA Expert

_____________

Zero Hedge, for whatever that's worth.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 10:22 PM (ro5Z0)

57 Wonder if somebody is going to bring back moa birds.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:21 PM (FkUwd)

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They're finished. Like smallpox.

Why would anyone beside Fauci ever want to bring them back?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:23 PM (j7aNt)

58 If I were tasked with killing emus wholesale, I'd be looking at shotgun slugs, loaded 2 to a round, linked with a foot of piano wire. Aim the neck, aim for the legs, don't matter. Once the critter is down, a head shot confirms the kill. And no meat spoiled. Emus be yummy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Far more rational - the bean counters at Australia's MOD worked out that it took 9 rounds for every emu taken down. It's still astounding, given that these guys were WWI vets of heavy trench warfare, using state-of-the-art weapons, and were backed up by local farmers in an auxiliary capacity, many of those farmers also being WWI vets. PM Joseph Lyons was teased by the opposition with questions about whether there would be a campaign medal for the participants. Even more astounding is that the Lyons government held onto control in Parliament for years afterward.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:23 PM (+OBLx)

59 “Sackbut” is a great word.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (9yWhg)

sackbut is a traditional name for a trombone

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:23 PM (D7oie)

60 54 My wife has read that. She would agree with you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:24 PM (9yWhg)

61 It's so nice to see that American legislators are all in for Ukraine.

What do we need to do to get them all in for America?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (j7aNt)

62 In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.'

...

How fast could we breed horses to re-introduce them on a large scale? I bet not very.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (z/ifB)

63 If everything goes tits up in an EMP, I'm definitely starting a cult.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:17 PM (RUMEY)

———————-

Can I be Director of Compliance in your cult? If not I could head up the Department of Redundancy Department.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (u73oe)

64 59 Yep, I know. Speaking as a former trombone player.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (9yWhg)

65

What do we need to do to get them all in for America?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (j7aNt)

Start up an American grift of $100b.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:26 PM (Au0FL)

66 Even more astounding is that the Lyons government held onto control in Parliament for years afterward.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:23 PM (+OBLx)

...

One of these years I'm going to run for governor of Texas, and my only platform is going to be the eradication of cedar trees.

I will win by unheard-of margins and will continue as governor for as long as I choose.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 10:26 PM (z/ifB)

67 I got nothin'...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 10:27 PM (IG4Id)

68 Wait kids get free dental cate now in school?
Posted by: Montec

And day care and meals.

There is a boatload of graft (big surprise!) in a lot of the programs BUT, some of the kids really need the help. We have grade school kids that show up without shoes the first day because they don't have any. Honestly - don't have any. You can tell because they have what I call, 'Barney Rubble feet'.

We are part of a group that is buying 10,000 pairs of shoes for all the kids in the county for the fall.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:27 PM (WXNFJ)

69
How fast could we breed horses to re-introduce them on a large scale?

__________

The gestation period hasn't changed any.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 10:27 PM (ro5Z0)

70 What do we need to do to get them all in for America?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (j7aNt)

Start up an American grift of $100b.
Posted by: Montec

Tax foreign grift at 150%

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2024 10:29 PM (VNX3d)

71 How fast could we breed horses to re-introduce them on a large scale? I bet not very.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (z/ifB)

Any cars built with Kettering ignition, or able to be fitted with it would run just fine.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:29 PM (8zz6B)

72 What do we need to do to get them all in for America?
Posted by: Cicero

Replace them all. Oh sure, we'd lose three or four whom are decent people but, eggs-omelets - you know the drill.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:29 PM (WXNFJ)

73
How fast could we breed horses to re-introduce them on a large scale? I bet not very.
Posted by: TexasDan

Lots of wild (nee feral) in the river bottom 15 miles from here.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:29 PM (0/kef)

74 If all it has are windings and brushes, it'll survive.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:29 PM (vJiyU)

75 “Sackbut” is a great word.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (9yWhg

So is fartlek.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (RUMEY)
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I'm partial to "underskinker," myself.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:30 PM (Be/+i)

76 How fast could we breed horses to re-introduce them on a large scale?

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At least we won't have to reinvent stirrups. That'll save about 2,000 years right there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:30 PM (j7aNt)

77 63 If everything goes tits up in an EMP, I'm definitely starting a cult.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:17 PM (RUMEY)

———————-

Can I be Director of Compliance in your cult? If not I could head up the Department of Redundancy Department.
Posted by: Duke Lowell


https://youtu.be/vDQEJ06QoRs?si=_rO45CJJuQ9Orgsj

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 10:31 PM (gLYp7)

78 One of these years I'm going to run for governor of Texas, and my only platform is going to be the eradication of cedar trees.

I will win by unheard-of margins and will continue as governor for as long as I choose.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 10:26 PM (z/ifB)

This. I will vote numerous times for you.

My allergies are so bad this year that I am reduced to wearing a mask in the yard.
Even if people think I'm a COVIDiot.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 25, 2024 10:32 PM (jN2/U)

79 Do horses have integrated circuits?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 10:32 PM (63Dwl)

80 Wonder if somebody is going to bring back moa birds.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at April 25, 2024 10:21 PM (FkUwd)

Heck with that, I want to know if anyone is going to bring back the phorusrhacids / terror birds. I mean, 10 foot tall ground dwelling apex predator. Who could object to that?
I bet they could be trained as guard dogs, and maybe even pull small carriages.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:32 PM (D7oie)

81 ...Can I be Director of Compliance in your cult? If not I could head up the Department of Redundancy Department. Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (u73oe)


I will also head up the Department of Redundancy Department.

Because nothing says "Redundant" more than double-hiring for the job.

Leading by Example!!!



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 10:32 PM (e6UQI)

82 Greetings, AoAers. Always a relief to get a WeirdDave ONT. Mad props to MisHum, but it's like here are the texts you need to study before the exam and you'll fail anyway because you're awful and smell like Graboids.

Anyway, hope everyone is doing well tonight.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2024 10:33 PM (CHHv1)

83 If trolley cars could fly, would elephants have overhead runners?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:33 PM (Be/+i)

84 So...DAVE,

Some OTC Antihistamines. Maybe some "Black Seed Oil" if you be coughing much...and some small glasses of "whiskey with lemon."

Otherwise...you can go to a doctor and get their snake oil.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 25, 2024 10:33 PM (TDvv2)

85 Just finished a dish of microwaved General Tso's Chicken. Doggeh was unsure about the excess sauce, but seems to be getting into it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (8zz6B)

86 Yep, I know. Speaking as a former trombone player.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (9yWhg)

Dad was a tuba player, he had a fascination with the Serpent

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (D7oie)

87 “Sackbut” is a great word.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:13 PM (9yWhg
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So is fartlek.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 10:14 PM (RUMEY)
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I'm partial to "underskinker," myself.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:30 PM (Be/+i)

Mine is 'tittup'. Strippers are usually very good at tittuping, well, except the bored ones.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (emlEe)

88 How to win a fight is hysterical. Thanks WD
Posted by: nurse ratched

I have heard that pretending to be a few cards short of a full deck is a good way out of a fight. Now I have video evidence that it's true.

Or, at least I have evidence that someone else has heard the same thing, and wanted to make a staged video of it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (DgGvY)

89
One of these years I'm going to run for governor of Texas, and my only platform is going to be the eradication of cedar trees.

__________

Cedar eradication was a big effort in Central Texas in the 30s. Damn things drink a lot of water and getting rid of them allowed more land to be farmed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (ro5Z0)

90 Forstchen's "One Second, Day, Year, Month" books about post EMP America are pretty good reads. I've done them all. A bit over the top with the later books, but the original "One Second After" is a page turner.

And horribly disturbing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (Q4IgG)

91 Heck with that, I want to know if anyone is going to bring back the phorusrhacids / terror birds. I mean, 10 foot tall ground dwelling apex predator. Who could object to that?
I bet they could be trained as guard dogs, and maybe even pull small carriages.
Posted by: Kindltot

Sigh, why not? They've decided grizzlies are what's missing in our ecosystem.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (vJiyU)

92 "yeah, I can make your gas pump work, and I can even make the counter work to some extent. But your customer is going to pump 25,842 counts, and you are going to have to sit down and do the math to convert that to 18.5 gallons."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Better man than me.
I just got a wratchet and socket set to open up the tanks, a hand pump, and a bunch of 5 gallon cans.

BUT,
Do have this cool book that's got like all the primary roads in every state mapped out.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (cOq4q)

93 Further Great Emu War context - there was an estimated population of 20,000 of them in 1932, and they were laying waste to Australia's wheat crops. The military effort succeeded in eliminating - math ain't my strong suit - roughly 5% of them, maybe?

They eventually solved the problem with barrier fencing and an emu bounty system, but as late as 1950 the government was issuing .303 ammunition on request to settlers in emu-intensive areas.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (+OBLx)

94 Far Cry 3 lets you machine gun cassowaries. Another type of vicious flightless bird...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 10:18 PM (BpYfr)

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Cassowaries.

Far Cry 3 is a fun game.

Posted by: 496 at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (h8rpV)

95 re: What a Miserable Difference Six Months Can Make

Here's an insane DU post about how FJB can end his inflation problem with voters-

Having written that I think he's handling the high prices wrong and should do an oval office address and talk to the American people about the price gouging by companies. Tell the consumers to talk to the store managers, the landlords. Suggest companies drop prices to pre-pandemic levels would drive people wanting to spend less at their stores and they would make tons of more money and new customers which would force other companies to follow.

Companies like McDonalds and Wendy's are making out like bandits, one of them drops prices to 2020 levels, they are going to take a huge chunk of the others customers and business. This can happen at the grocery stores and everywhere. That's the message Biden needs to sell. We saw votes on price gouging go nowhere because of republicans, take it to the people, Biden hammers that issue he gets a second term, have his agriculture department list prices/profits, set the competition, let their CEO's get a million e-mails and complaints, it's healthy competition to drop prices and gain customers.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (5fDan)

96 The question is, should I bookmark the EMP story so I can reference after the EMP attack?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 25, 2024 10:36 PM (YIxO9)

97 Sigh, why not? They've decided grizzlies are what's missing in our ecosystem.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (vJiyU)

I want to see the return of Wooly Mammoths.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:36 PM (8zz6B)

98 If everything goes tits up in an EMP, I'm definitely starting a cult.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Can I be Director of Compliance in your cult? If not I could head up the Department of Redundancy Department.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at

I demand to be placed in charge of the Procrastination Department, y'know, whenever you get around to it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 10:36 PM (DgGvY)

99 Yep, I know. Speaking as a former trombone player.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:25 PM (9yWhg)

Dad was a tuba player, he had a fascination with the Serpent
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:34 PM (D7oie)
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A sackbut, a serpent and a couple of viola da gambas and away we go!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:37 PM (Be/+i)

100 If trolley cars could fly, would elephants have overhead runners?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:33 PM (Be/+i)

Pantographs. Perfectly suited for the book thread I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:37 PM (D7oie)

101
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2024 10:38 PM (ny95y)

102 I have decided that restocking ammo in all of my calibers moving up to the 2024 election is my best option for now.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 25, 2024 10:39 PM (TDvv2)

103 101

And hello to you...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 25, 2024 10:40 PM (TDvv2)

104
re: What a Miserable Difference Six Months Can Make

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

I couldn't stand to read the whole post at another site, but it concluded, "Things are going to get worse before they get worse."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2024 10:40 PM (ny95y)

105 Biden hammers that issue he gets a second term, have his agriculture department list prices/profits,

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (5fDan)

Pleasepleaseplease. Somebody has to educate this moron who apparently got the same economics degree as Sandy From Westchester.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 10:40 PM (emlEe)

106

Companies like McDonalds and Wendy's are making out like bandits, one of them drops prices to 2020 levels, they are going to take a huge chunk of the others customers and business. This can happen at the grocery stores and everywhere. That's the message Biden needs to sell. We saw votes on price gouging go nowhere because of republicans, take it to the people, Biden hammers that issue he gets a second term, have his agriculture department list prices/profits, set the competition, let their CEO's get a million e-mails and complaints, it's healthy competition to drop prices and gain customers.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (5fDan)

That DU poster should be hunted down, humanely killed, and his brain preserved in formaldehyde for the benefit of future science.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (8zz6B)

107 Hope you feel better WD

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (n/1xr)

108 ...I demand to be placed in charge of the Procrastination Department, y'know, whenever you get around to it. Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 10:36 PM (DgGvY)


I majored in Procrastination, but never finished the course of studies.

With Honors.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (e6UQI)

109 'In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.'


Gubs and ammo will work. That can be either a good or a bad thing. Plan to make it a good thing for you and yours.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (5fDan)

110 Pantographs. Perfectly suited for the book thread I think.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:37 PM (D7oie)

Measured in kiltometers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (8zz6B)

111 A sackbut, a serpent and a couple of viola da gambas and away we go!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:37 PM (Be/+i)

You forgot the Tromba Marina, and the balalaika

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (D7oie)

112 I don't want to win that bad, unless I am fighting Paige Spiranic.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (ufFY8)

113 A sackbut, a serpent and a couple of viola da gambas and away we go!

Don't forget the hurdy-gurdy.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (oaGWv)

114 A sackbut, a serpent and a couple of viola da gambas and away we go!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:37 PM (Be/+i)

You forgot the Tromba Marina, and the balalaika
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (D7oie)
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That's the spirit!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:43 PM (Be/+i)

115 90
Agree. Good stories.
'299 Days' also good.

And so, with that being said, I really can't keep up with WD ONTs.
Soooo....lurking now🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 25, 2024 10:43 PM (XvPG9)

116 Maybe a solution to our foreign support in Congress is that we need to apply super-sized condoms over all the dickheads. The country deserves protection!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2024 10:44 PM (VNX3d)

117 Don't forget the hurdy-gurdy.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (oaGWv)



And the swynet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:44 PM (8zz6B)

118 Captain, good to see you sir!
Gonna make it to the PNW MoMe?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:44 PM (vJiyU)

119 I'm beginning to think that Major Meredith might have been onto something, albeit indirectly.

Weaponized Emus.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:45 PM (+OBLx)

120 'In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.'


Gubs and ammo will work. That can be either a good or a bad thing. Plan to make it a good thing for you and yours.
Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (5fDan)
***

The winner is the guy who, if not stocked up already, can get to the nearest store/Costco and load up, get it home, and then defend it. This gets you through the first 6months. After that, what have got to plant, grow, harvest, to stay alive?
It is scary indeed!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:46 PM (W/lyH)

121 ..I demand to be placed in charge of the Procrastination Department, y'know, whenever you get around to it. Posted by: mikeski

I should be considered for the lead of the Apathy Department but I really don't care.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:46 PM (WXNFJ)

122 WD, if you are here, on one of the morning threads, Wolfus Aurelius, one of our stalwart daywalkers from New Orleans, had questions about medial insurance. We recommended he get in touch with you.

Thank you. If you see him again, tell him to email me, my nic at gee, mail!

Posted by: Weirddave at April 25, 2024 10:47 PM (NGHju)

123 Captain, good to see you sir!
Gonna make it to the PNW MoMe?
Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:44 PM (vJiyU)
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Alas, probably not. I work weekends, now, and I will have taken off the weekend two weeks prior for our first reenactment of the season.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:47 PM (Be/+i)

124
And hello to you...
Posted by: Nightwatch

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

You're a fellow Californian if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2024 10:47 PM (ny95y)

125 I should be considered for the lead of the Apathy Department but I really don't care.
Posted by: Tonypete

That you cared enough to apply means we can't use you.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:48 PM (vJiyU)

126 Feel better, WD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 10:48 PM (mH6SG)

127 The winner is the guy who, if not stocked up already, can get to the nearest store/Costco and load up, get it home, and then defend it. . . .
Posted by: Diogenes

The first folks there will take all the toilet paper - that's what they'll think is important.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (WXNFJ)

128 That DU poster should be hunted down, humanely killed, and his brain preserved in formaldehyde for the benefit of future science.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (8zz6B)

Replace my brain.

Posted by: Abby Normal at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (ufFY8)

129 I want to see the return of Wooly Mammoths.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:36 PM (8zz6B)

Re-Wilding is a thing, with pie in the sky ideas of releasing current varieties of megafauna (wild cows, Przwalski horse, and maybe rhino and elephant before trying to breed mastodon or cave bear) on the US plains.
Just don't let on to those loons that the original plan was championed by Goering back in the late 30's.

apparently there used to be herds of wild cattle on the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Probably all eaten, now.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)

130 Quitting early, because tired. I know, that's no excuse.

https://youtu.be/qJngWval8Bc

💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - wait at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (L6R40)

131 Alas, probably not. I work weekends, now, and I will have taken off the weekend two weeks prior for our first reenactment of the season.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight

Darn! Perhaps Texas?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (vJiyU)

132 120 'In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.'


Gubs and ammo will work. That can be either a good or a bad thing. Plan to make it a good thing for you and yours.
Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:41 PM (5fDan)
***

The winner is the guy who, if not stocked up already, can get to the nearest store/Costco and load up, get it home, and then defend it. This gets you through the first 6months. After that, what have got to plant, grow, harvest, to stay alive?
It is scary indeed!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:46 PM (W/lyH)


After six months, the most vicious battles in the US, maybe everywhere, will be fought over 40 bottomland acres and a mule.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (5fDan)

133 I’d like to be considered for the head of customer phone support. I have an air horn, and I’m not afraid to use it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (VNX3d)

134 Howdy y'all. What did I miss?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (l4B/J)

135 Thank you. If you see him again, tell him to email me, my nic at gee, mail!
Posted by: Weirddave at April 25, 2024 10:47 PM (NGHju)

Will do. Like you, I have a cold, but the 3 worst days of it are behind me now. I am now comfortable, and getting shit done, barring the occasional break to hork up phlegm. But i can hork it up, which is a blessing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (8zz6B)

136 Darn! Perhaps Texas?
Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (vJiyU)
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Texas almost certainly.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (Be/+i)

137 127 The winner is the guy who, if not stocked up already, can get to the nearest store/Costco and load up, get it home, and then defend it. . . .
Posted by: Diogenes

The first folks there will take all the toilet paper - that's what they'll think is important.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (WXNFJ)


LOL

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:51 PM (5fDan)

138 There is a boatload of graft (big surprise!) in a lot of the programs BUT, some of the kids really need the help. We have grade school kids that show up without shoes the first day because they don't have any. Honestly - don't have any. You can tell because they have what I call, 'Barney Rubble feet'.

We are part of a group that is buying 10,000 pairs of shoes for all the kids in the county for the fall.
Posted by: Tonypete

And I used to look forward to spring thaw so I did not have to wear shoes for a few months.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 10:51 PM (cOq4q)

139 The first folks there will take all the toilet paper - that's what they'll think is important.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (WXNFJ)

Heh!
And they are welcome to it.
I have other plans.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:52 PM (W/lyH)

140
Re-Wilding is a thing, with pie in the sky ideas of releasing current varieties of megafauna

_______

Sabre-tooth tigers
Dire Wolves
Irish Elk

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 10:54 PM (pd2t7)

141 Re-Wilding is a thing, with pie in the sky ideas of releasing current varieties of megafauna (wild cows, Przwalski horse, and maybe rhino and elephant before trying to breed mastodon or cave bear) on the US plains.
Just don't let on to those loons that the original plan was championed by Goering back in the late 30's.

apparently there used to be herds of wild cattle on the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Probably all eaten, now.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)

Many of these critters could be released in National Parks and wilderness areas, and if they multiply too quickly, and start spreading into occupied land, a hunting season could be started to keep them in check.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:55 PM (8zz6B)

142 Planting an harvesting is a dream. If it's so bad that there is no society, which subsistence living is, it will be more like the walking dead. At that time there will be some form of civil society or there will be chaos.

There will be some form of fortified/defended area something like the hacienda system only no indentured slaves (100 or so people) or the European equivalent. But individuals livin' on the farm ain't gonna happen.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 10:55 PM (lCWOD)

143 Sabre-tooth tigers
Dire Wolves
Irish Elk
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 10:54 PM (pd2t7)
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Saber tooths and dire wolves are dumb as dirt. Tiny braincases. One reason why so many of them got stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:55 PM (Be/+i)

144 Don't forget the hurdy-gurdy.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 10:42 PM (oaGWv)

Hurdy gurdies are old hat, you really want a Norwegian Nycklharpa

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 10:55 PM (D7oie)

145 104

We must be steadfast in not allowing the Marxist/Commies now within our borders to take down our REPUBLIC without firing a single shot as they so BOAST.

We must learn them some American Revolutionary tactics so they might become EDUCATED/Totally eradictated on this... their folly.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 25, 2024 10:56 PM (TDvv2)

146 I should be considered for the lead of the Apathy Department but I really don't care.
Posted by: Tonypete

That you cared enough to apply means we can't use you.
Posted by: Some Rat

I guess he's one of those folks who wouldn't be a member of any cult that would have him as a member.

Posted by: mikeski marx at April 25, 2024 10:56 PM (DgGvY)

147 After six months, the most vicious battles in the US, maybe everywhere, will be fought over 40 bottomland acres and a mule.
Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:50 PM (5fDan)


That's if they haven't already eaten the mule.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)

148 Re-Wilding is a thing, with pie in the sky ideas of releasing current varieties of megafauna

_______

Sabre-tooth tigers
Dire Wolves
Irish Elk
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 10:54 PM (pd2t7)

Muslims.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 10:57 PM (emlEe)

149 Saber tooths and dire wolves are dumb as dirt. Tiny braincases. One reason why so many of them got stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:55 PM (Be/+i)

They went in there after the smart heffalumps that had gotten stuck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 10:57 PM (8zz6B)

150 Hurdy gurdies are old hat, you really want a Norwegian Nycklharpa
Posted by: Kindltot

No such thing. They're all Qyrtrharpas now.

Bidenflation.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 10:58 PM (DgGvY)

151 144

Ah forget that ...better a "HAMMER ON DULCIMER."

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 25, 2024 10:59 PM (TDvv2)

152 Hurdy gurdies are old hat, you really want a Norwegian Nycklharpa
Posted by: Kindltot

No such thing. They're all Qyrtrharpas now.

Bidenflation.
Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 10:58 PM (DgGvY)
------------
Whatever you do, don't get the quislingharpa.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 10:59 PM (Be/+i)

153 The first folks there will take all the toilet paper - that's what they'll think is important.
Posted by: Tonypete

That's why *you* get there first and seize it - for all those folks, you're now in charge of their most valued item. Who runs Bartertown? Tonypete runs Bartertown!

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 11:00 PM (+OBLx)

154 Sadly forgotten.

Posted by: Glass Armonica at April 25, 2024 11:00 PM (8zz6B)

155 Is this the post where we contemplate slashing our wrists?

We were expecting Coachella at the HQ
We would settle for the Fyre Festival
We get Armando's Drag Parade in Queens

Get some rest, Dave.

Posted by: Mr. Bone at April 25, 2024 11:00 PM (pDQ/8)

156 Re-Wilding is a thing, with pie in the sky ideas of releasing current varieties of megafauna


Oh fer crissakes - the net result of this will be Leftists demanding more and more public lands be made inviolate 'nature preserves' for re-animated extinct species. How many thousands of square miles of national forests will be made unavailable for camping and hiking so that a herd of 20 brontosaurii will have enough to eat?

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 11:01 PM (5fDan)

157 Biden hammers that issue he gets a second term, have his agriculture department list prices/profits, set the competition, let their CEO's get a million e-mails and complaints, it's healthy competition to drop prices and gain customers.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 10:35 PM (5fDan)

While I suspect many companies are testing pricing highs, which could be called price gouging, it's also possible that higher prices anywhere in the supply chain will force those downstream to also raise prices.
Last burger I had at McD's, the pickle was thicker than the "beef" patty. To lower prices in the face of rising cost would have the patty be a brown piece of paper dipped in beef grease. Tastes like that already

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2024 11:01 PM (FCbAQ)

158 Just saw a photo over on Insty's open thread of the so-called snipers perched atop the Ohio Union at OSU. If the agitators are a agitating in the Oval they've probably got a pretty good view although I think they have a better view of the bars on High St.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 11:01 PM (oaGWv)

159 Mule is the chicken of the bottomland!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:02 PM (l4B/J)

160 "Mine is 'tittup'. Strippers are usually very good at tittuping, well, except the bored ones."

Mine is 'borborigmy'. It's onomatopoeia - that is, a word that mimics the sound of what it names (for example, 'bang' or 'screech'). In this case, the word describes, and sounds like, the gurgling sound your bowels make.

Another onomatopoeia is 'Blatz', which is the brand name of a beer, but also the sound you make if you drink too many of them.

Posted by: Nemo at April 25, 2024 11:04 PM (S6ArX)

161 Mule is the chicken of the bottomland!
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:02 PM (l4B/J)

Excuse me?

Posted by: Francis, The Talking Mule at April 25, 2024 11:04 PM (emlEe)

162 How many thousands of square miles of national forests will be made unavailable for camping and hiking so that a herd of 20 brontosaurii will have enough to eat?
Posted by: Gref

Nothing like a couple grizzly maulings to keep the rabble out of the elites playground.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 25, 2024 11:05 PM (vJiyU)

163 Just saw a photo over on Insty's open thread of the so-called snipers perched atop the Ohio Union at OSU. If the agitators are a agitating in the Oval they've probably got a pretty good view although I think they have a better view of the bars on High St.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 11:01 PM (oaGWv)

You know, in a fluid situation like that, it would be smart for unaffiliated "good guys" to occupy those sniper hides on high ground, just so the bad guys cannot.

Posted by: Glass Armonica at April 25, 2024 11:05 PM (8zz6B)

164 Re-Wilding is a thing, with pie in the sky ideas of releasing current varieties of megafauna


Where did I read that there's an ongoing attempt to replicate a wooly mammoth? Damn. I can't remember.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 11:06 PM (oaGWv)

165 The winner is the guy who, if not stocked up already, can get to the nearest store/Costco and load up, get it home, and then defend it. This gets you through the first 6months. After that, what have got to plant, grow, harvest, to stay alive?
It is scary indeed!
Posted by: Diogenes

Plant ASAP.
If you wait 6 months it will be too late.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 11:06 PM (cOq4q)

166 You know, in a fluid situation like that, it would be smart for unaffiliated "good guys" to occupy those sniper hides on high ground, just so the bad guys cannot.
Posted by: Glass Armonica at April 25, 2024 11:05 PM (8zz6B)
---------
You're pretty smart for an obsolescent instrument.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 11:06 PM (Be/+i)

167 “She told me that once the procedures were being done, which would be done over a consecutive amount of days, that my children would have to miss school because they’ll have to be placed under that laughing gas, anesthesia. I was then told that I would not be allowed to be there. And they would call me whenever it was time to pick them up,” she said.

Parent not allowed to be there? Immediate red flag. Is this guy the Larry Nassar of dentistry?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 11:07 PM (dZVON)

168 My primary concern after detonation of the EMP generating Nuc would be the numerous nucs that follow the initial detonation.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 25, 2024 11:08 PM (WvGHv)

169 I wonder if any football GMs take into account a players Wonderlic test scores, or is RAS the only thing that counts?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2024 11:09 PM (FCbAQ)

170 The Muldoon family has a unique skillset.
We'll be around when needed.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:09 PM (l4B/J)

171 Where did I read that there's an ongoing attempt to replicate a wooly mammoth? Damn. I can't remember.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 11:06 PM (oaGWv)

from the genetics, the mammoth is most closely related to the Indian elephant, but the most recent report I read was that the genetics from permafrost mammoths was too corrupted to use to do any sort of invitro fertilization.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:09 PM (D7oie)

172
You know, in a fluid situation like that, it would be smart for unaffiliated "good guys" to occupy those sniper hides on high ground, just so the bad guys cannot.
Posted by: Glass Armonica

Guess who would be targets of the police?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:10 PM (63Dwl)

173 from the genetics, the mammoth is most closely related to the Indian elephant, but the most recent report I read was that the genetics from permafrost mammoths was too corrupted to use to do any sort of invitro fertilization.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:09 PM (D7oie)
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And Lord knows you don't want to brick your mammoth.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 11:11 PM (Be/+i)

174 The Muldoon family has a unique skillset.
We'll be around when needed.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:09 PM (l4B/J


I read that as skillet.
Pan fried mule! Mmmmmm!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 11:11 PM (W/lyH)

175 Plant ASAP.
If you wait 6 months it will be too late.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

This is why you need a community. You can't guard your hoard and subsistence-farm at the same time. Warlords need minions, but minions need warlords, too.

Posted by: mikeski adjusts his colander mask at April 25, 2024 11:11 PM (DgGvY)

176 Carrington event is probably more dangerous.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 25, 2024 11:12 PM (75/Pp)

177 Based on evidence from Australia, when running Bartertown you probably don't want to include a Thunderdome. Also, be wary of nomads in souped-up cars with the name of Max, and by all means don't allow anybody named Masterblaster to control any vital infrastructure.

Also, when you inevitably move on to controlling the only source of potable water, never hire anyone with the name Furiosa. avoid conspicuous displays with flaming guitars, and try to get your henchmen/thralls to be a little less kamikazi in their outlook. Those things lead to problems.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 11:13 PM (+OBLx)

178 from the genetics, the mammoth is most closely related to the Indian elephant, but the most recent report I read was that the genetics from permafrost mammoths was too corrupted to use to do any sort of invitro fertilization.
Posted by: Kindltot

Fill the holes with rhino DNA. What could go wrong?

Posted by: mikeski considers starting a park at April 25, 2024 11:13 PM (DgGvY)

179
That DU poster should be hunted down, humanely killed, and his brain preserved in formaldehyde for the benefit of future science.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Or...

The people responsible for the DU poster's education should be hunted down and publicly tortured and burned at the stake. But only after the trannie brigade gets their fair share of snu snu from him.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2024 11:13 PM (MsrgL)

180 Just saw a photo over on Insty's open thread of the so-called snipers perched atop the Ohio Union at OSU. If the agitators are a agitating in the Oval they've probably got a pretty good view although I think they have a better view of the bars on High St.
Posted by: Tuna

Heh. I wonder if anyone is old enough there to remember that there are at least two levels of tunnels connecting all the buildings (at least around the Oval) and all the Hospital complex buildings. Might come in handy.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 11:13 PM (WXNFJ)

181 I want a talking motorcycle named Einstein.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:14 PM (63Dwl)

182 168 My primary concern after detonation of the EMP generating Nuc would be the numerous nucs that follow the initial detonation.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 25, 2024 11:08 PM (WvGHv)


If the ICBMs begin launching and I'm within 50 miles of my home, I'm simply going to stand in a parking lot and hope to to be instantly incinerated instead of slowly dying of radiation sickness, or dehydration, or starvation. The entire mega-city region I live in will be hit by a LOT of big air-bursting warheads due to almost innumerable strategic targets.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 11:15 PM (5fDan)

183 The winner is the guy who, if not stocked up already, can get to the nearest store/Costco and load up, get it home, and then defend it. This gets you through the first 6months. After that, what have got to plant, grow, harvest, to stay alive?
It is scary indeed!
Posted by: Diogenes

Plant ASAP.
If you wait 6 months it will be too late.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Long Pig.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2024 11:16 PM (MsrgL)

184 Just saw a photo over on Insty's open thread of the so-called snipers perched atop the Ohio Union at OSU. If the agitators are a agitating in the Oval they've probably got a pretty good view although I think they have a better view of the bars on High St.
Posted by: Tuna


That's just the guys from I Phelta Thigh fraternity having a bit of fun.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 11:16 PM (W/lyH)

185 Based on evidence from Australia, when running Bartertown you probably don't want to include a Thunderdome. Also, be wary of nomads in souped-up cars with the name of Max, and by all means don't allow anybody named Masterblaster to control any vital infrastructure.

Also, when you inevitably move on to controlling the only source of potable water, never hire anyone with the name Furiosa. avoid conspicuous displays with flaming guitars, and try to get your henchmen/thralls to be a little less kamikazi in their outlook. Those things lead to problems.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 11:13 PM (+OBLx)

Need a better scriptwriter. And directed by Frank Capra.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 11:17 PM (emlEe)

186 I want a talking motorcycle named Einstein.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:14 PM (63Dwl)

You need Mr. Ed.
You want a talking motorcycle named Einstein.
You'll get Hillary the Talking Mule.

Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 11:19 PM (emlEe)

187 You need Mr. Ed.
You want a talking motorcycle named Einstein.
You'll get Hillary the Talking Mule.
Posted by: RickZ at April 25, 2024 11:19 PM (emlEe)


Fascinating factoid about the Hillary mule...the front and back look exactly the same.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 11:22 PM (W/lyH)

188 ...My primary concern after detonation of the EMP generating Nuc would be the numerous nucs that follow the initial detonation. Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at April 25, 2024 11:08 PM (WvGHv)


Most all of the Serious Military Systems are robustly hardened against the effects of an EMP.

The HOPE is most of that robustness, will WORK.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 11:22 PM (e6UQI)

189 Sackbut is German for "push pull", or so I have read.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 11:23 PM (MeG8a)

190 If I were on the roof of one of those U buildings, I'd be on the cellphone to the cops, offering to act as a spotter for them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 11:24 PM (8zz6B)

191 Carrington event is probably more dangerous.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Carrington, ND? That's only 2000 people. How dangerous could they be?

Carrington, MO, isn't even an incorporated city, so that can't be it, either.

Posted by: mikeski is surprised the USA only has two Carringtons at April 25, 2024 11:25 PM (DgGvY)

192 Sackbut is German for "push pull", or so I have read.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Confirmed.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at April 25, 2024 11:25 PM (DgGvY)

193 I saw a video of a mule, wearing a pack saddle and bridle,
kick and bite to death a full-grown cougar which had attacked it.

Afterwards, the mule just stood calmly next to the dead cat, waiting for the mule's owner to show up.

Posted by: mnw at April 25, 2024 11:25 PM (NLIak)

194
That DU poster should be hunted down, humanely killed, and his brain preserved in formaldehyde for the benefit of future science.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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

I read one back in 2016 who wanted Hillary to arrive at a campaign event stepping off a jet that flew on vegetable oil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2024 11:26 PM (ny95y)

195 170 The Muldoon family has a unique skillset.
We'll be around when needed.
Posted by: Muldoon at

Well. I got a roll of duct tape and a tarp.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 11:26 PM (02Sat)

196

Everybody knows in a second life, we all come back sooner or later.
As anything from a pussycat to a man eating alligator.
Well you all may think my story, is more fiction than it's fact.
But believe it or not my mother dear decided she'd come back.

As a car...
She's my very own guiding star.
A 1928 Porter.
That's my mother dear.
'Cause she helps me through everything I do
And I'm so glad she's near.

My Mother the Car.
My Mother the car.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

197 Where did I read that there's an ongoing attempt to replicate a wooly mammoth? Damn. I can't remember.
Posted by: Tuna

Russia,.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 11:27 PM (IG4Id)

198 I've been buying a boatload of those single serving packets of condiments because we're gravitating toward the Fight Club and I want to be prepared.

Posted by: Mr. Bone at April 25, 2024 11:27 PM (pDQ/8)

199 So, my 76-year-old neighbor whose wife died a scant two months ago after a two-year struggle with cancer tells me that he is looking for a Christian singles group for dating because he has "physical needs". I guess this means the bereavement period is over.

Dude! Get a grip. Literally. Maybe a little lube.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:28 PM (l4B/J)

200 I want a talking motorcycle named Einstein.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Mine's named Hermes. I don't think he has any relatives named Einstein.

Posted by: Kino at April 25, 2024 11:28 PM (DgGvY)

201 Nurse, you probably want to get a shovel, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:29 PM (D7oie)

202 Companies like McDonalds and Wendy's are making out like bandits...

Looking at 5YR MCD chart....

Stock keeping with inflation, not anywhere like bandits.

WEN's 5YR isn't keeping up with inflation, looks like it is being plundered by bandits.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 25, 2024 11:29 PM (4HcMG)

203 And I used to look forward to spring thaw so I did not have to wear shoes for a few months.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
---------------------

It never freezes, well sometime, here. When we hit the 4th grade, teacher gave us a lecture that we were becoming young men and part of that responsibility was to wear shoes. Awwwww
Yes, you may no longer attend school barefoot. Awwww
Shoes tomorrow or else.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 11:29 PM (lCWOD)

204 So, my 76-year-old neighbor whose wife died a scant two months ago after a two-year struggle with cancer tells me that he is looking for a Christian singles group for dating because he has "physical needs".
Posted by: Muldoon

I hope you have enough bourbon to erase the visual that came with that.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 11:29 PM (DgGvY)

205 Well. I got a roll of duct tape and a tarp.
Posted by: nurse ratched

*******

It's a start.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:30 PM (l4B/J)

206 So, my 76-year-old neighbor whose wife died a scant two months ago after a two-year struggle with cancer tells me that he is looking for a Christian singles group for dating because he has "physical needs". I guess this means the bereavement period is over.

Yeah, at 76, those "physical needs" are: grocery shopping, cleaning up after, doing the laundry for and making sammichs.

The dude needs to hire a maid.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 25, 2024 11:31 PM (4HcMG)

207 I hope you have enough bourbon to erase the visual that came with that.
Posted by: mikeski

******

I a\was almost physically ill. The whiskey helps.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:32 PM (l4B/J)

208 Kindltot,
I have one! It's my lucky geoduck digger.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 11:33 PM (p4Gz+)

209 My Mother the Car.
My Mother the car.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

I have a copy of this book, signed by the author, Stu Chapman. He passed away just recently. RIP, Stu.

https://tinyurl.com/463whsxd

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 11:34 PM (8zz6B)

210 I'm the meal planner of the household. I've pretty much given up on grocery shopping. I'll put in my orders on line, get notified by text when I can pick up, and a nice young person loads the stuff into my trunk.
For specialty items like meats and produce I can walk to local merchants.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 11:34 PM (MeG8a)

211
Yeah, at 76, those "physical needs" are: grocery shopping, cleaning up after, doing the laundry for and making sammichs.

The dude needs to hire a maid.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

A living loving maid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:35 PM (63Dwl)

212 But believe it or not my mother dear decided she'd come back.
--------

Some say that they're coming back in a garden
Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas
I think I'll just let the mystery be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP9LT5HuzrE

Posted by: Iris DeMent at April 25, 2024 11:35 PM (XeU6L)

213 If the ICBMs begin launching and I'm within 50 miles of my home, I'm simply going to stand in a parking lot and hope to to be instantly incinerated instead of slowly dying of radiation sickness, or dehydration, or starvation.

For people of faith, I don't know what the fear of dying is all about. Probably because they are really without faith and think that living in this shithole is "Living Your Best Life".

Why live a horrible existence with no future, no progeny and no ministry in some cursed dumpster when Glory lies ahead? If the LORD ordains a nuke blast, isn't it time to go home?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 25, 2024 11:37 PM (4HcMG)

214 It is not unusual to have a favorite style of shovel. Mine is the long handled 5" blade trenching shovel. The blade is extra heavy and it is set at a very nice angle to the heavy handle. It won't make a big hole, but it will make a nice narrow one which is what I need for planting trees and digging out rocks.

I am also very fond of my short handled round nose shovel too, it is very good for moving stuff around.

I bought a grape hoe last summer and I am still trying to come to terms with it. I think it is a better tool for sandy soil, I don't think it is appropriate for the heavy clay we have here.

I would like tol point out that I have spent far too much time moving dirt by hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:39 PM (D7oie)

215 Why live a horrible existence with no future, no progeny and no ministry in some cursed dumpster when Glory lies ahead? If the LORD ordains a nuke blast, isn't it time to go home?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 25, 2024 11:37 PM (4HcMG)

Not a Biblical scholar, but I don't believe God says it's OK to give up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 11:39 PM (8zz6B)

216 IIRC, there was a motorcycle based knightrider like show. Cannot remember the name.

My brain is a sink of this shit. Northstar, where an astronaut got hit by a solar flare and got super powers. But he could overheat. Pilot, never went anywhere.

Earth Star Voyager with Duncan Regher. It was a show with a collapsed eco system (acid rain was the thing then) and a bunch of teenagers on a starship to go explore to see if there was a habitable planet next door. Wackiness ensued. Pilot, never picked up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 25, 2024 11:41 PM (75/Pp)

217 How did people in active war zones during WW2 survive? I know the cheese eating surrender monkeys France was still able to function as if there was no war but other countries that were totally disrupted?

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 11:41 PM (dOnWV)

218 Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:39 PM (D7oie)

******

We can count on you to call a spade a spade.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:42 PM (l4B/J)

219 Kindltot,
My all time favorite gardening tool is a hori hori.

I've dug several hundred pounds of weeds with mine. Too bad I don't currently live in a place with a garden I can dig up.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 11:43 PM (GBXhj)

220 >>>I don't know what the fear of dying is all about.

>Death on the outer rim of the Yellowstone Caldera will be painless when a Russian MIRV targets a Minuteman installation close by and triggers an earth-shattering eruption.

Posted by: Mr. Bone at April 25, 2024 11:44 PM (pDQ/8)

221 Not a Biblical scholar, but I don't believe God says it's OK to give up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*********

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:”
2 Timothy 4:7 (KJV)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:44 PM (l4B/J)

222 I bought a grape hoe last summer and I am still trying to come to terms with it. I think it is a better tool for sandy soil, I don't think it is appropriate for the heavy clay we have here.

I would like tol point out that I have spent far too much time moving dirt by hand.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:39 PM (D7oie)

Here in Arizona, a very popular tool is the so-called "hula hoe". It shaped like a stirrup, set at a 45 degree angle to the handle, with the "footrest" of the stirrup being a flat blade about an inch wide, sharpened on both sides, and fixed in the legs of the stirrup such that it can tilt forward and back a few degrees. Back and forth action on the handle will cause it pull its way down into the ground, ground conditions permitting. Does a real number on weeds, and not too strenuous to use.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 11:44 PM (8zz6B)

223

Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
Timothy, Timothy, God why don't I know?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:45 PM (63Dwl)

224 How did people in active war zones during WW2 survive? I know the cheese eating surrender monkeys France was still able to function as if there was no war but other countries that were totally disrupted?
Posted by: polynikes

My guesses are:
1. they didn't
2. they evacuated
3. poaching
4. subsistence farming
5. hidden root cellars
6. delicious neighbors

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 11:46 PM (IG4Id)

225 196

AHhh so very sweet. One of the TV shows I watched as a child. Mr. ED...Beverly Hillbillies...Billy Barty, Sheriff John and Capt. Kangaroo among others...

Don't forget Jack Lalanne and "Dialing For Dollars" with Pat McCormick back in the 60's.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 25, 2024 11:47 PM (TDvv2)

226 I have a habit of breaking shovel handles, so I have gotten the skill of whittling them down and re-using them. Most shovels and hoe handles are extra long anyways.
My wife is very short so she likes the shorter handles, it is more convenient than using a tool that is taller than she is.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:50 PM (D7oie)

227 Don't forget Jack Lalanne and "Dialing For Dollars" with Pat McCormick back in the 60's.
Posted by: Nightwatch

And "Queen for a Day" only featured females.

I wonder went exactly we went mad. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 11:50 PM (WXNFJ)

228 tools have funny names, we call that type of hoe a "scuffle hoe"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:53 PM (D7oie)

229
I wonder went exactly we went mad. . .
Posted by: Tonypete

When we stopped smoking cigarettes and started drinking diet soda pop.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:54 PM (63Dwl)

230 The Medicaid affiliated pediatric dentists have long been fleecing the gummint and doing unnecessary work to po' childrens teeth. Everything is a scam and racket now, but this one has been going on for decades.

Posted by: Gumby at April 25, 2024 11:54 PM (V5BDR)

231 Next Saturday is the local Master Gardeners' plant sale. I will buy lots of tomato plants and probably some peppers as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:55 PM (D7oie)

232 tools have funny names, we call that type of hoe a "scuffle hoe"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:53 PM (D7oie)

There is a kinda-sorta similar hoe called a "dutch hoe" which is a thin flat blade attached to the tines of a two-tined fork. Tines are bent such that the blade is flat on the ground when the handle is held at arm's length by your side.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 11:57 PM (8zz6B)

233 Chefs (not a typo) take Xavier Worthy (WR;TX) with pick #28 in first round.

Fastest man at the Combine. Weighs 172 lbs.

We shall see. One has to give the Chefs' GM the benefit of the doubt at this point, bc... Super Bowl rings aplenty.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 12:02 AM (NLIak)

234 Crap, I've been away from here for so long but always missed you. But BEER! Household renovations are taking forever and my computer is on a bar stand. BEER!

First, a Roku stick with a router lets you stream Tubi, Pluto, Roku all free, and they have a lot of great content free with very few commercials, which you now get on the paid services.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:03 AM (jvJvP)

235 Well we finally did it, had Bailey put down today. At 14 she had a good run for a big yellow lab. We thought she was on her way out as far back as Thanksgiving.

She'd be sick for a couple of days then revive for a while. A good friend, the quiet tonight is different. No more of you banging that boney head against my leg or running under my knees.

Passersby may notice they are no longer greeted by this formerly big bark, lately much weakened. All it meant was come play with me.

RIP you smiley dog.

Posted by: Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:04 AM (55Qr6)

236 Been shopping for toilet paper. Must be a new regulation, 'Septi Safe', melts in you hand not in the toilet. Going to look around, there must be some old fashioned non melting toilet paper.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:04 AM (lCWOD)

237 There was a gameshow in the 70's that had contestants running through a maze finding prizes.

My young self loved that show.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:05 AM (jvJvP)

238 Me, watching one of those 'History' Channel homesteaders shows: ...

20something 'homesteader': We need to clear this patch if we are going to plant. But we need a new tool. So we traded our last eggs and oil for this thing.

Me, never farmed nor cleared land: That's a billhook.

20something 'homesteader': This here is a rare item...

Me, never farmed nor cleared land: That's a billhook.

20something 'homesteader': No one knows what this is...

Me, never farmed nor cleared land: That's a billhook.

20something 'homesteader': It's called a billhook. *grin*

Me, never farmed nor cleared land: ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 26, 2024 12:06 AM (IG4Id)

239 Sorry to hear that, Farmer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:06 AM (75/Pp)

240 Farmer, I'm so sorry.

BUY so many happy years and memories.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:06 AM (jvJvP)

241 Fun as always with you all.

Work in the AM and I am needing more sleep hours these days so...

Night Horde...Sleep the Sleep.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 26, 2024 12:07 AM (TDvv2)

242 In chains, Jack LaLane swam from Alcatraz to shore.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:07 AM (lCWOD)

243 Night Nightwatch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:09 AM (75/Pp)

244 Farmer,

A "GOOD DOG" is lucky to any of us that are so blessed.

I am happy for you to have had such a dog.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 26, 2024 12:10 AM (TDvv2)

245 I've been buying a boatload of those single serving packets of condiments because we're gravitating toward the Fight Club and I want to be prepared.
Posted by: Mr. Bone at April 25, 2024 11:27 PM (pDQ/

Those individual ketchup packets go bad after a bit. Happened with me when I worked. Kept some in my drawer until that fateful day when I opened one of those packets and squeezed out a decidedly brown 'ketchup'.

Buy it in bottles. You'll be able to recycle the bottles as Molotov cocktails.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2024 12:10 AM (emlEe)

246 But so many happy years and memories.

It's amazing how being there with your friend in their final moments never leaves you. I've been there for the final injection a few times. Brutal.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:11 AM (jvJvP)

247 So at a time when Seniors are getting HAMMERED by inflation, Biden wants to raise the capital gains tax...

You know.. the tax on the investments they FORCED us into by killing the old traditional retirement system?

I always thought that those who said they wanted to get rid of old people, were tin foil hat wearing folks...

Now? they may have been onto something.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2024 12:12 AM (xaFKb)

248 AOP, have you ever owned/driven a Hillman/Sunbeam Imp? I'm thinking of buying one to fix up after I finish the two cars I'm nearly done with. I like rear-engined cars. A friend of mine had an Imp in the 70s and I remember liking it. They were imported to US kind of briefly, thought maybe they were more prevalent in Canada.

Posted by: Old 'n' Slow at April 26, 2024 12:12 AM (V5BDR)

249 Yeah, at 76, those "physical needs" are: grocery shopping, cleaning up after, doing the laundry for and making sammichs.

The dude needs to hire a maid.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

There's a song in there somewhere.

Posted by: Neil Young, Crawling Back to Spotify at April 26, 2024 12:13 AM (emlEe)

250 When the burning times arrive, I'm hoping that my extensive hoard of duck and soy sauce will provide both nutrition and barter goods.

Posted by: That's My Plan at April 26, 2024 12:19 AM (V5BDR)

251 Farmer!

Want to tell us a few fun stories about Bailey?

And others can share there stories about there pets.

For example, the people at Tim Horton's in town always give the dogs free timbits..small donuts...if you ask. Whenever I take Ralphy there, I open the window, he starts howling, they say hi to Ralphy and many times they give him more than one. Once three.

Oh and pretty older teenage girl says he's her favorite dog. And the lady at Arby's gives him 2 dog cups of meat when we go there. He howls and she knows it's Ralphy.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:21 AM (jvJvP)

252 Huh. I did not have 'SHTF Condiments' on my bingo card.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:21 AM (75/Pp)

253 RIP you smiley dog.
Posted by: Farmer at April 26, 2024 12:04 AM (55Qr6)

Condolences, Farmer. It hurts to lose a furry family member. I do not know how much longer Pogo will be with me. She is 15 this year, i think.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 12:22 AM (8zz6B)

254 "Biden wants to raise taxes on [everybody; just fill in the blank]", but...

1) Good chance in 6 months what Biden "wants" = ex-POTUS, so yawn. Who cares?

2) Even if that senile disaster is re-elected, he can't raise taxes by Executive Order. That takes both Houses of Congress. The DEMs aren't gonna hold the Senate this year.

Posted by: KC Wolf (mnw) at April 26, 2024 12:24 AM (NLIak)

255 Mike Pinder, Moody Blues, dead at 82

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 12:24 AM (RovqD)

256 So at a time when Seniors are getting HAMMERED by inflation, Biden wants to raise the capital gains tax...

You know.. the tax on the investments they FORCED us into by killing the old traditional retirement system?
-
It's a tax on the inflation in the stock market all those years of quantitative easing did, so a least there is symmetry.

Posted by: Methos at April 26, 2024 12:28 AM (Dnobf)

257 Condiment packets: mayonnaise, pickle relish, salad dressing, - things that will brighten up those cans of tuna. Also - all purpose flour, you can make biscuits with water and baking soda - something to eat that peanut butter and !jelly packet with.

Stores will empty on the first day and they will be a dangerous place to be. Check and see how much water you use - more than you think. Those 5 gallon jugs WITH THE SCREW ON LIDS are cheap.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:30 AM (lCWOD)

258 Been shopping for toilet paper. Must be a new regulation, 'Septi Safe', melts in you hand not in the toilet. Going to look around, there must be some old fashioned non melting toilet paper.
Posted by: Braenyard
-----------------
Scott brand.
Doubles as paper towels and 800 grit to buff out scratches on your car.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2024 12:31 AM (cOq4q)

259 The Medicaid affiliated pediatric dentists have long been fleecing the gummint and doing unnecessary work to po' childrens teeth. Everything is a scam and racket now, but this one has been going on for decades.
Posted by: Gumby at April 25, 2024 11:54 PM (V5BDR)

"Everything is a scam and racket now" is probably the truest sentence ever written.

Replacing religious-derived morality with nothing was not a winning move for society. People began to see the crooks and conmen as "smart" rather than evil and parasitic, and it's been a race to the bottom ever since.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 26, 2024 12:31 AM (gJKGU)

260 Oh, I'm not a cat person. But we have wonderful new neighbours that moved here during the Covid insanity. Beautiful people. Homeschool. One lived through the killing of his dictator. And I'm amazed he'll go through that twice.

But the cats!! I am not a cat person. But the neighbours got cats for the kids. Sunroom out back where the cats were kept. They would go on vacation and take care of the cats

I felt bad for the cats, went over twice a day, petted them, played with them, food, water and cleaned the litter box.

I was their only entertainment....before they clawed through the window screens and became outdoor cats

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:31 AM (jvJvP)

261 AOP, have you ever owned/driven a Hillman/Sunbeam Imp? I'm thinking of buying one to fix up after I finish the two cars I'm nearly done with. I like rear-engined cars. A friend of mine had an Imp in the 70s and I remember liking it. They were imported to US kind of briefly, thought maybe they were more prevalent in Canada.
Posted by: Old 'n' Slow at April 26, 2024 12:12 AM (V5BDR)

I remember test-driving one as a yute, but did not buy. Forget why, probably because, even back then, it was darned near an orphan. One little car, that I used to own, and wish I still had? The Austin 1100. It was the "slightly bigger" brother to the Mini, with the same power plant, sporting a bit more displacement, but what was really cool was its "hydro-lastic" suspension, with the "springs" being pressurized air bladders containing fluid, with front and rear being interconnected. It had amazingly good ride and handling, and cornered like a slot car. Pinin Farina styling, so did not look like a Mini at all. They sold a version in the USA, and also Canada, called the Austin America, with a 1300 engine. They are very hard to find now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 12:32 AM (8zz6B)

262 Damn, I haven't been here for awhile. Dead thread...?

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:33 AM (jvJvP)

263 the book was written awhile back. It's called One Second After. EMP, blah blah , Newt Greendick gave a copy to all members of CONgress. But as someone commented, " us old guys that get shit done", we'll be fine.

Posted by: AnAmericanStory at April 26, 2024 12:33 AM (ZYpZH)

264 262: Slows down after midnight.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 26, 2024 12:34 AM (iNUL3)

265 -----------------
Scott brand.
Doubles as paper towels and 800 grit to buff out scratches on your car.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
------------------------------

I've tried Wally and my local grocery every brand Including Scott is 'Septic Safe' which assures that it will dissolve in your hand. Amazon too although I haven't check every one yet. My next stop is Dollar General and Dollar Tree. If I find some I'm getting every package.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:41 AM (lCWOD)

266 That Kentucky dental problem? From the 'headline' I really thought it was going to be trans surgery and not superfluous dental work by a quack dentist. The school officials need to join the dentist in jail.

Posted by: Ciampino - I like ducks but not quackery at April 26, 2024 12:43 AM (qfLjt)

267 262: Slows down after midnight.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Can't feed the thread after midnight. Bad things happen.

Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2024 12:46 AM (DgGvY)

268
others can share there stories about there pets.

Posted by: Stateless

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

I'm in the home of a family member who lost her husband 2 days ago. The cats are a couple of oblivious, indifferent snips. Lounging on his empty hospice cot, zooming around the kitchen while none of us can eat and yowling "WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?" and generally waiting or demanding to be entertained when they're not napping.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:48 AM (ny95y)

269 I've tried Wally and my local grocery every brand Including Scott is 'Septic Safe' which assures that it will dissolve in your hand. Amazon too although I haven't check every one yet. My next stop is Dollar General and Dollar Tree. If I find some I'm getting every package.
Posted by: Braenyard

I get Scott at Wally.
Package says "dissolves 10x faster" but is still just as abrasive as ever.
Septic tank here too.
Best to keep oils & fats out.
Cellulose no problemo.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2024 12:49 AM (cOq4q)

270
That Kentucky dental problem? From the 'headline' I really thought it was going to be trans surgery and not superfluous dental work by a quack dentist. The school officials need to join the dentist in jail.
Posted by: Ciampino

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

That's exactly what I thought, and the dental thing is almost creepier. What's going on while those kids are anaesthetized and parents aren't allowed on the premises?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:51 AM (ny95y)

271 Kentucky Mother Pleads For Help As She Is Threatened With CPS If She Does Not Allow Her Children’s School To Conduct “Unnecessary” Surgeries On Them

My first thought is that the kid would go for dental work and come back without a penis. Tells you the state of the nation that I would think that first...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 12:51 AM (ynpvh)

272 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:51 AM (ny95y)

::: first bump :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 12:55 AM (ynpvh)

273 Amazon
Horsehair Bristle Acid Shop Brushes, 1/2-inch, 36 Pieces
$8.88 List: $9.99
Harbor Freight $2.99
Amazon 7" Bench Brush Shop Brush, Dust Brush for Car or Home $8.15
Harbor Freight 1.99
Amazon
Steel Detail brush3pcs Mini Wire Brush Set, Rust Paint Metal Cleaner, Cleaning Welding Slag and Rust,
$5.88
Harbor Freight 99 cents

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (lCWOD)

274 273 Amazon
Horsehair Bristle Acid Shop Brushes, 1/2-inch, 36 Pieces
$8.88 List: $9.99
Harbor Freight $2.99
Amazon 7" Bench Brush Shop Brush, Dust Brush for Car or Home $8.15
Harbor Freight 1.99
Amazon
Steel Detail brush3pcs Mini Wire Brush Set, Rust Paint Metal Cleaner, Cleaning Welding Slag and Rust,
$5.88
Harbor Freight 99 cents

Posted by: Braenyard at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (lCWOD)

Are both selling Chinese crap?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (ynpvh)

275 Ajax is now 14. He is having issues with the stairs, but the minute I ask if he needs help he will shamble on up. He's such a good dog and every now and then he forgets that he is not a spry even 10 year old anymore.


We were at my parents and I let him out. He did his business and he comes back in. He got to running like he always did to hit the stairs at a gallop and he smacked right into the stairs and fell back on his butt. He looks up at me with a confused look 'What the hell just happened?' Sorry, buddy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (75/Pp)

276 Again, not a cat person. Neighbor's cats...But I love these cats.

The cats remember my kindness. One, Twilight, lost her kittens, the neighbors had to go away and I took care of her for days....just petting her feeling heartbroken.

Last week,she gave birth to five kittens. I took care of all of the cats through the weekend. I've never seen aniamls with small babies before. I let Twilight out several times a day. There was once or twice before she went in to nurse the kittens that she looked at me, tired, ginned up her strength,, went into the bed and let the kittens get milk.

The other cat earlier had two kittens who are grown now...they are the cutest things ever. Fluffy as hell. And one is called Trumpy so you know they are raised right.

I've gone into the neighbours backyard, called out and have had three cats run out to greet me. It was just weird. And since we live across the street, the record is 3 cats in the yard to greet me.

The oldest two were there to greet me today as I did grip hanging exercises in the garage. Starry stayed the entire 30 minutes. Beautiful cat. Made me happy.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:59 AM (jvJvP)

277 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (75/Pp)

Getting old sucks for all of us. Latest thing not function as normal: my fingers. Started getting numb on one finger...then numb on two finger tips. Yeah, probably should have it looked at...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 12:59 AM (ynpvh)

278 RIP you smiley dog.
Posted by: Farmer

You did good.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 26, 2024 01:00 AM (KAi1n)

279 That's exactly what I thought, and the dental thing is almost creepier. What's going on while those kids are anaesthetized and parents aren't allowed on the premises?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:51 AM (ny95y)



Mom has a family dentist, and the kids are cared for. She should get together with the dentist and hire a lawyer to sue the school board. There is graft going on there, for sure. Probably Democrats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 01:02 AM (8zz6B)

280 Farmer, I hope your dog liked cats.

My Harley will surely enjoy his company, Up There.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 26, 2024 01:02 AM (e6UQI)

281 Kentucky Mother Pleads For Help As She Is Threatened With CPS If She Does Not Allow Her Children’s School To Conduct “Unnecessary” Surgeries On Them

My first thought is that the kid would go for dental work and come back without a penis. Tells you the state of the nation that I would think that first...
Posted by: jim

Who the fvck threatened CPS should be up formal complaints on practising medicine w/o license and extortion. And maybe suspicion of racketering... Medical Board, local and State LEOs...
Before advising it to FOAD

Already having a family dentist is kinda sorta bullet proof against any 'neglect' claim with CPS.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2024 01:05 AM (cOq4q)

282 279 That's exactly what I thought, and the dental thing is almost creepier. What's going on while those kids are anaesthetized and parents aren't allowed on the premises?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:51 AM (ny95y)



Mom has a family dentist, and the kids are cared for. She should get together with the dentist and hire a lawyer to sue the school board. There is graft going on there, for sure. Probably Democrats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 01:02 AM (8zz6B)

Yup, not that Repubes are immune from engaging in such chicanery.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:06 AM (ynpvh)

283 Are both selling Chinese crap?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (ynpvh)

Amazon may have numerous "stores" all selling the same thing. prices are all over the map. Have to factor in cost of delivery, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 01:06 AM (8zz6B)

284 281
...
Already having a family dentist is kinda sorta bullet proof against any 'neglect' claim with CPS.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2024 01:05 AM (cOq4q)

In Kalifornia, it can be very Laverntiy Beria; they'll find something to go after you over. So many CPS horror stories, especially those involving MFing hospitals whose first impulse is to call an injury child abuse just to take the kid away from parents. Couple that with a corrupt legal system (St. Louis family court is a great example) and you can be royally screwed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:08 AM (ynpvh)

285 Well, time for me to toddle off to bed. Still trying to shake this cold. Today was much better than yesterday, tough. Nite, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 01:09 AM (8zz6B)

286 285 Well, time for me to toddle off to bed. Still trying to shake this cold. Today was much better than yesterday, tough. Nite, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2024 01:09 AM (8zz6B)

Night AOP.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:09 AM (ynpvh)

287 I'm in the home of a family member who lost her husband 2 days ago. The cats are a couple of oblivious, indifferent snips. Lounging on his empty hospice cot, zooming around the kitchen while none of us can eat and yowling "WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?" and generally waiting or demanding to be entertained when they're not nappin

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:48 AM (ny95y)

That's crazy. I'm sorry you're going throught that.

I've never liked cats before my neighbours. Actually, my brother had a very sweet cat that came up to me lovingly while I was fixing his computer. The cat was so sweet, you would have thought he was a dog.

I'm curious if you think the death was vaxx related? I don't want to get into anything big or upset you....just yes or no. ,y mother lost a couple of people she loved I blame on the jabs. Turbo cancer and really rare crap. Older people, not in the best shape, but still....

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 01:11 AM (jvJvP)

288 Nice to see AOP again,

Feel better!

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 01:11 AM (jvJvP)

289 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:56 AM (75/Pp)

When I take Ralphy into the car and the car is in the garage and he has no room to jump, he puts his front paws on the backseat and I lift his butt while he climbs in...

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 01:14 AM (jvJvP)

290 62 In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.'
...
How fast could we breed horses to re-introduce them on a large scale? I bet not very.

- - - -

People are idiots, and won't ride or take care of them. Best to include a cook book with them...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at April 26, 2024 01:14 AM (KlEs4)

291 People are idiots, and won't ride or take care of them. Best to include a cook book with them...
Posted by: As not seen on TV

Stock up on Horsey Paste.
Especially if you have a lot of skeeters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2024 01:18 AM (cOq4q)

292 268
others can share there stories about there pets.

Posted by: Stateless

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

I'm in the home of a family member who lost her husband 2 days ago. The cats are a couple of oblivious, indifferent snips. Lounging on his empty hospice cot, zooming around the kitchen while none of us can eat and yowling "WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?" and generally waiting or demanding to be entertained when they're not napping.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2024 12:48 AM (ny95y)

I didn't let the cats into my room when my wife was dying. One cat misses her; after she passed and didn't come back, he started removing fur from his forelegs. Yes, he still wanted to eat and play, but missed her. Was three months yesterday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:19 AM (ynpvh)

293 Farmer!

Want to tell us a few fun stories about Bailey? ...
Oh and pretty older teenage girl says he's her favorite dog. And the lady at Arby's gives him 2 dog cups of meat when we go there. He howls and she knows it's Ralphy.
Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 12:21

Oh there are many stories. As most labs, she has had a voracious appetite. Jules made Christmas cookies when Bailey was young, left them to cool off on the counters, shut the pocket doors so the dog couldn't get in.

We had no idea the cat could get the door worked open and let Bailey in to devour most of 10 dozen cookies. And she got "sicker than a dog".

Posted by: Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:21 AM (55Qr6)

294 Wow. I fell asleep soon after the ONT started. What’d I miss?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 01:21 AM (9yWhg)

295 Based on evidence from Australia, when running Bartertown you probably don't want to include a Thunderdome. Also, be wary of nomads in souped-up cars with the name of Max, and by all means don't allow anybody named Masterblaster to control any vital infrastructure.

Also, when you inevitably move on to controlling the only source of potable water, never hire anyone with the name Furiosa. avoid conspicuous displays with flaming guitars, and try to get your henchmen/thralls to be a little less kamikazi in their outlook. Those things lead to problems.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 11:13 PM (+OBLx)

Need a better scriptwriter. And directed by Frank Capra.
Posted by: RickZ

Excellent - now I'm envisioning Frank Capra's The Road Warrior.

So far, I'm seeing Jimmy Stewart handcuffing Mr. Potter's leg to a wheel axle, with a slow trickle of gasoline making it's way to a flaming zippo. "There's uh, a chainsaw, there, Mr. Potter. Maybe you can saw your leg off before..." (explosion) "Guh-golly, that's gonna leave a mark." Also, Clarence is a mute nine-year-old whose halo has a razor edge and is employed like a boomerang.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 01:21 AM (+OBLx)

296 Mom has a family dentist, and the kids are cared for.

For me, that's the part of this story that just doesn't add up.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 26, 2024 01:22 AM (mH6SG)

297 Adjusting my tin-foil hat, I have to wonder if all this lawlessness, including the illegal lawlessness (besides being a Dem voter enrollment scheme), is a set-up to have retail chains, according to the news, remove self-checkouts, thus increasing the jobs market/numbers. I mean, according to Dementia Joe's FBEye, we have the lowest violent rate in 50 whole years. What was lied by omission is that people are not reporting crime like they used to thanks to knowing the police either won't show up at all or, if they do come, write up {YAWN} a report that goes nowhere.

I'm not sure if we're being lied to by the best or the worst liars, but whatever they're getting away with their lies for the time being.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2024 01:28 AM (emlEe)

298 Mom has a family dentist, and the kidsout are cared for.

For me, that's the part of this story that just doesn't add up.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Free cleaning between 6 months regulars. $200 valiue. Why not?
It turned to be an extortion racket.

That simple.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2024 01:29 AM (cOq4q)

299 OK, guess I’m back to bed again. G’nigjt, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 01:33 AM (9yWhg)

300 We had no idea the cat could get the door worked open and let Bailey in to devour most of 10 dozen cookies. And she got "sicker than a dog".
Posted by: Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:21 AM (55Qr6)

Cat snd dog in the same house?

Sweet. If you took videos, you must have something worthy of clip shows.

My Aunt Pat had a crazy dog Ginger. Ate about a pound of butter. Dogs are the best.....

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 01:33 AM (jvJvP)

301 Mom has a family dentist, and the kids are cared for.

For me, that's the part of this story that just doesn't add up.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 26, 2024 01:22 AM (mH6SG)

Many above said it best: Corruption. I'm sure the dentist is performing work that doesn't need to be done and padding the bill, or just billing for no work at all (the kid's out cold and no parent around). Then someone in the school is getting a kickback from the dentist for all the 'referrals'.

For kids, public schools are becoming little Auschwitz', and I wish I was being hyperbolic.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2024 01:35 AM (emlEe)

302 I didn't let the cats into my room when my wife was dying. One cat misses her; after she passed and didn't come back, he started removing fur from his forelegs. Yes, he still wanted to eat and play, but missed her. Was three months yesterday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:19 AM (ynpvh

I'm so sorry.
There's absolutely nothing to say...

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 01:44 AM (jvJvP)

303 302 I didn't let the cats into my room when my wife was dying. One cat misses her; after she passed and didn't come back, he started removing fur from his forelegs. Yes, he still wanted to eat and play, but missed her. Was three months yesterday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:19 AM (ynpvh

I'm so sorry.
There's absolutely nothing to say...

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 01:44 AM (jvJvP)

Just pointing out that cats can be attuned to what's going on. In a lot of ways, they're kinda assholes, but can pick up on some human emotional cues (not nearly as well as dogs can).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:47 AM (ynpvh)

304 And I'm toast. G'night all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:48 AM (ynpvh)

305 He got to running like he always did to hit the stairs at a gallop and he smacked right into the stairs and fell back on his butt. He looks up at me with a confused look 'What the hell just happened?' Sorry, buddy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2024 12:56

LMAO Aetius, thanks for the good chuckle. In the past yr we've really noticed Bailey's dementia. She would just lay there and bark at nothing, we called it barking at ghosts. Sad, but kinda funny too.

And she had trouble w/ mobility, her hind end went to shit. But she'd just get up and move on, always seemed happy and not in pain. However today was time, her body was just giving out on her, despite her spirit.

Posted by: Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:49 AM (55Qr6)

306 Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2024 01:35 AM (emlEe)

Yeah... confused about how a SCHOOL, does health care now?

Sure as hell did not when I was growing up.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2024 01:58 AM (xaFKb)

307 However today was time, her body was just giving out on her, despite her spirit.
Posted by: Farmer at April 26, 2024 01:49 AM (55Qr6)

That is one of the hardest decisions a real human has to make, showing ultimate Love for one of God's creatures in our care.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2024 01:59 AM (emlEe)

308 Yeah... confused about how a SCHOOL, does health care now?

Sure as hell did not when I was growing up.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 26, 2024 01:58 AM (xaFKb)

Well, that's an easy, answer, too: What, you expect poor parents moms to take care of dental, breakfast, lunch and dinner for their children? When Daddy Gub'mint is right there handin' out free shit? C'mon, man. 'Sides, gotta get those nails done to look good for their man. Who has time (and potentially ruins a new nail job) to take care of the kids? That's what schools are FOR.

Posted by: RickZ at April 26, 2024 02:05 AM (emlEe)

309 He got to running like he always did to hit the stairs at a gallop and he smacked right into the stairs and fell back on his butt. He looks up at me with a confused look 'What the hell just happened?' Sorry, buddy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

George Carlin had this routine about his cat running into something and its reaction was "f***ing meow," followed by immediately regaining its composure and assuming the look of "I meant to do that."

And if you have a cat, you know the fundamental truth of that. Feline dignity and the need to look cool and in control. Dogs, God bless them, have the honesty to react with "What the Hell happened? God, that hurts!"

I love both species, and had the great experience of seeing them playing and having fun together. Our last cat but one, Bob, only met his canine sister, Betsy, after my mother passed away. (Mom, for some reason, always named her dogs Betsy, so Betsy was our inheritance) Betsy was older and skittish, while Bob was a spry youngster, and it was like he became her caretaker. When we got back from a trip, Bob would guide her into the house, allowing time to answer the call of nature.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 02:07 AM (+OBLx)

310 Just pointing out that cats can be attuned to what's going on. In a lot of ways, they're kinda assholes, but can pick up on some human emotional cues (not nearly as well as dogs can).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 26, 2024 01:47 AM (ynpvh)

I fully believe in animal emotions. After Twilight lost her kittens, several days later, our friends went on vacation for a while and I was there to take care of the two cats,

Animals and emotions. Even cats...yeah. I was there twice a day and stayed to pet and caress Twilight as much as she wanted. It was horrible. At one point, she was outside when I was walking our dog Ralphy. I held his head and talked to him so he had no idea what was going on and Twilight came up and rubbed against him.

Broke my heart.

But last week, when she was horribly pregnant and days after I thought she was going to give birth, girl would come across the street to see me, roll over to relieve pain I'm sure and want to be petted.

Posted by: Stateless at April 26, 2024 02:15 AM (jvJvP)

311 218 Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 11:39 PM (D7oie)

******

We can count on you to call a spade a spade.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:42 PM (l4B/J)
----
"No, Mother Superior, they call a spade a fucking shovel!"

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #211 at April 26, 2024 02:17 AM (qfLjt)

312 211
Yeah, at 76, those "physical needs" are: grocery shopping, cleaning up after, doing the laundry for and making sammichs.

The dude needs to hire a maid.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

A living loving maid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:35 PM (63Dwl)
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Inga from Sweden.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #212 at April 26, 2024 02:19 AM (qfLjt)

313 Further progress on Frank Capra's The Road Warrior, the closing narration from George Bailey's daughter Zuzu:

And so began the journey north from Bedford Falls to safety, to a nice place near Albany that Mama saw in Better Homes and Gardens Among us we found a new leader: the man who came from the sky, Uncle Harry, the Douglas SBD Dauntless Captain. And just as Uncle Billy had planned, we traveled far beyond the reach of men on machines. The gasoline, the precious unleaded was hidden in the vehicles. [fade to shot of young Zuzu] As for me, I grew to womanhood and in the fullness of time I became the leader, the Chief of the Great Northern Amway and Luthern Tribe. And George Bailey, the Road Warrior, my father? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories, him and Donna Reed, my mom, wearing that metallic mesh (Uncle Billy called it a bikini?) get-up and speeding through the night. Sometimes I think I hear the roar of a chopped down Studebaker in the night, and a voice saying "No, Donna, that's not the gearshift, but that, uh, golly,that works too."

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 02:31 AM (+OBLx)

314 I've had cats, pretty much all my life. Even in my Fortune 1000 years, I lived so much the Road Warrior Life, that it would've been terribly unfair to any dog, given my horrendous schedules.

Dogs NEED clockwork regularity, which I could never have given.

So, cats. A lifelong succession of them.

They're every bit as perceptive and giving as dogs. Albeit, less OVERTLY so.

Cats will burrow deep into the subtle side of your soul. But, borrow, they will.

And far more deeply IN, than you ever might imagine.

Hurts like HELL when they leave.

/hasta la nite nite, Horde.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 26, 2024 02:32 AM (e6UQI)

315 314
Cats will burrow deep into the subtle side of your soul. But, borrow, they will.

And far more deeply IN, than you ever might imagine.

Hurts like HELL when they leave.

/hasta la nite nite, Horde.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 26, 2024 02:32 AM (e6UQI)
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Yes.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #213 at April 26, 2024 02:37 AM (qfLjt)

316 Frank Capra's The Road Warrior. work in process:

GEORGE: Aren't you, uh, you takin' a kind of unwise stand here, Potter I don't, I say, I don't think the people of Bedford Falls look too kindly on you in this dystopia you-uh-you helped to midwife.
POTTER: I've got the reprobates, the cretins, the Columbia Protestors, and the Rotary Club on my side, George. What have you got?
GEORGE: (Visibly shocked) Th-th- Rotary Club!?! How-how did you...
POTTER: Really bitchin' fried fish suppers. The Toastmasters will be joining us soon. I only had to promise them the chance to meet Zig Zigler. It's really Buck Owens. They won't know the difference.
GEORGE: You-you-you monster! After force feeding Uncle Billy lute fisk for hours! (Cut to UNCLE BILLY writhing in agony, foam spewing from his lips)
POTTER: What are you going to do, George? Appeal to that "Guardian Angel" of yours?
CLARENCE: (Face flushed with anger, removes and flings his halo) GWRRRR!
(The halo makes an arc around Potter who grabs it, saying)
BUCK OWENS: I'm a pickin'... (as the halo severs all his fingers) I...ain't...a....grinning.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 02:53 AM (+OBLx)

317 Just pointing out that cats can be attuned to what's going on. In a lot of ways, they're kinda assholes, but can pick up on some human emotional cues (not nearly as well as dogs can).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Hell, sometimes cats' emotional sensitivity is mind-blowing. I've seen that with 2 cats now, a male and a female, several years apart.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 26, 2024 02:55 AM (KAi1n)

318 Free cleaning between 6 months regulars. $200 valiue. Why not?
It turned to be an extortion racket.

That simple.

No, it's not.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 26, 2024 03:01 AM (mH6SG)

319 Sorry, script problem: the Oddjob-like razor rimmed halo makes an arc around POTTER, and BUCK OWENS grabs it.

Also, the last lines from the scene were omitted:

ZUZU: Mommy, teacher says when an angel gives his halo a fling, bastards lose all sorts of things.

DONNA REED (Not going to call her Mary): That's right, dear, but your teacher is also one sick little bitch. George, wherever we go to after we leave this dystopia, we really need to give K-12 education some careful reconsideration.

GEORGE: One thing at a time, dear. Zuzu, only listen to what your-uh-teacher says about Molotov Cocktails and Punjee Sticks. Right now I'm a little busy waiting for Uncle Harry to zoom in at treetop level and do some strafing.

POTTER: (Eyes widening in shock) That would violate the Geneva Conventions!

GEORGE: ( Looking up as a faint whine of propellers can be heard) If I were you, I'd be more worried about strafer fire violating my duodenum. Muh-muh-my suggestion, Potter, see how fast that geriatric carcass of yours can run.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 03:06 AM (+OBLx)

320 Hell, sometimes cats' emotional sensitivity is mind-blowing. I've seen that with 2 cats now, a male and a female, several years apart.
Posted by: SFGoth

So very true. My wife and I have both had the experience of our cats coming to our laps or resting on our chests when they know we're feeling down or really ill. And I'll never forget how from first to last, our family cat would escort our son when he went Trick-Or-Treating. They're subtle, and they seem to pick up on nuances.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 03:12 AM (+OBLx)

321
I'm curious if you think the death was vaxx related?

Posted by: Stateless

=============/

There were some unexplainable elements to his decline. His wife's first thought was the vaxx, which he got and regretted, but his medical history also had some iffy omens. Still no one knows how he got his final, very rare affliction and why he couldn't recover when there was every reason he could have.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 26, 2024 03:29 AM (ny95y)

322
Hell, sometimes cats' emotional sensitivity is mind-blowing. I've seen that with 2 cats now, a male and a female, several years apart.
Posted by: SFGoth

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

I've seen this, too, especially when a cat loses a cat buddy. One of these cats lost a sibling and was traumatized.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at April 26, 2024 03:31 AM (ny95y)

323 Frank Capra's The Road Warrior selected scenes:

TOE-CUTTER (a young James Dean in his debut role): Hey, old man!

GEORGE: I'm barely out of my thirties, punk! Where-uh-where did you learn math, boy? And why aren't you in the War?

TOE-CUTTER: You ask too many questions, Jimmy Stewart (off-camera prompt) You ask too many questions, George Bailey. Potter sent me to set you straight.

GEORGE: Knowing what "straight" means may be beyond your job description, Nancy Boy.

TOE-CUTTER: (Shocked and suddenly fearful) What did you hear? Sal Mineo says a lotta stupid things - I'm not...

GEORGE: You sure you-uh-you wouldn't be more at home in Bangkok boy?

TOE-CUTTER: (Livid with anger) You got this comin', old man. (He throws a punch weakly. GEORGE evades this easily and twists TOE-CUTTER's arm behind his back, then pulls the boy's leather jacket over his head.)

GEORGE: (With much effort, rearranges TOE-CUTTER in the Hot Rod the boy arrived in. The camera remains on GEORGE's face.) There we go, young'un, that's uh, the, uh stick shift (scream from TOE-CUTTER) Yeah, that's not where the manual says it should go, just grit your teeth. (Hot Rod roars away to a crash.)

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 03:35 AM (+OBLx)

324 I don't want to get uo

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 03:52 AM (fwDg9)

325 I don't want to get uo
Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 03:52

But it B Fryday !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 04:04 AM (T4tVD)

326 Tap-Tap-Tap.....is this thing on ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 04:17 AM (T4tVD)

327 Morning, insomaniacals! 'Tis Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished! I took off yesterday from work with this mild "cold," really a throat irritation and tiredness. I figure I can handle work today.

Does anybody know how to get in touch with Weird Dave? I was told he's an expert on health insurance matters, i.e., Medicare supplement plans and the like, and I should consult him. But I don't have an email. Anybody?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:19 AM (omVj0)

328 I am up. Coffee is on

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 04:20 AM (fwDg9)

329 Sure, if you want emuburgers.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at Aprtil 25, 2024 10:18 PM (w6EFb)

If they're anything like ostrich burgers, I'm game. Ostrich burgers are dee-ee-licious.

Posted by: Someone Else at April 26, 2024 04:22 AM (IrqeV)

330 There's Nope Ixy.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:23 AM (o3SCB)

331 Pixy's not up on his other site yet, either.

https://ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:24 AM (o3SCB)

332 I am up. Coffee is on
Posted by: Skip

THAT'S the SPIRIT !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 04:28 AM (T4tVD)

333 Seventy degrees, high humidity, not much wind. But I don't feel up to working out. Maybe by Sunday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:29 AM (omVj0)

334 I thought during other night it was Friday

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 04:30 AM (fwDg9)

335 Good morning morons

Local TV news continues to put a positive spin on campus takeovers:
"Peaceful Free Palestine Camp Protest Continues at UC Berkeley"
"Pro Palestine Demonstrators Protest at Stanford, Berkeley"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 04:34 AM (RIvkX)

336 Frank Capra's The Road Warrior Opening Scene

(Camera slowly pans across the immensity of space, highlighting various astronomical wonders. Spectral voices emerge from the void of space)

ST. PETER: A man down on Earth needs our help.

Clarence: Grmmmrp?

ST. PETER: No, worse, he's discouraged. Discouraged because FDR is in his fifth term and America has begun to degenerate into a wasteland of roving bands of hot rodders, bikers, and predatory lenders. A woman has been born named Hillary who portends great evil....

CLARENCE: MMMMph!

ST. PETER: Sorry, I forgot you had learned about the prophecy.

CLARENCE: MMMMHBBBLLLL!

ST. PETER: Yes, and Biden. Best not to think of it now. I need you to go down there and help George Bailey. He's the only man who can lead the people of Bedford Falls to the Never-Never.

CLARENCE: (looks at St. Peter quizically)

ST. PETER: It's an Australian thing. It'll make sense later. Or not. Get down there and make things happen!

(CLARENCE flings his razor sharo halo, which wedges deeply into the Pearly Gates.)

ST. PETER: Be careful with that thing - you've already got John the Baptist in basket-case territory!

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 26, 2024 04:36 AM (+OBLx)

337 335 Good morning morons

Local TV news continues to put a positive spin on campus takeovers:
"Peaceful Free Palestine Camp Protest Continues at UC Berkeley"
"Pro Palestine Demonstrators Protest at Stanford, Berkeley"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2024 04:34 AM (RIvkX)

What would it take to get them to do otherwise, I wonder.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:37 AM (o3SCB)

338 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2024 04:38 AM (o3SCB)

339 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2024 04:38 AM (omVj0)

340 WeirdDave!

Posted by: Candidus at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (OxhFf)

341 Hi! Do you know if they make any plugins to safeguard against hackers?

I'm kinda paranoid about losing everything I've worked hard on. Any
tips?

Posted by: furnituresales.shop at April 26, 2024 01:11 PM (9sMrT)

342 Wolfus Aurelius, please email me. My nic at gee, mail!

Posted by: Weirddave at April 26, 2024 01:37 PM (dcAmm)

Good'ay Mate Cafe

harbourbridgesydneyphilippsworldofphotography.jpg
Harbour Bridge, Sydney
PhillipsWorldofPhotography

This post brought to you by the retards at Axios.

Looking Closer: A baby goat and a capybara. I can finally cross that one off my Cafe Bucket List.


Deep Dive: Thursdays am i rite


Zoom Out: You'll put your eye out, kid.


I Like Sunny D: Cake icing machine.


Feeling Jiggy: Maud'ib!


Twirling Upward: "I'm crushing your head" but with traffic control.


Quick Scan: Automatic self-cleaning bathroom.


Why It Matters: Little bat shakes the camera with his high-pitched yips.


Fast Take: A street performer who isn't terrible.


What They're Saying: As you all know, I've long been in the anti-chinchilla camp, but I may be coming around.


I Love Science: A kookabura isn't just an appetizer at Outback, it's an actual bird.


News You Can Use: a rhino eating a melon.


Digging Deeper: Basically a real-life tribble.


Go Off King:Red panda in berserker mode.


Here's the Harbour Bridge from New Year's:

Speaking of Australia:


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:37 PM




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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (wz9M6)

2 Hi ace! I hope you are well.

Thank you for the Cafe!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (wz9M6)

3 Happy Thursday, ace.

Thanks for the Cafe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (u82oZ)

4 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:40 PM (BhMhR)

5 They need to make a self-cleaning bathroom that cleans both the bathroom and the hobo who's occupying it at the time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 07:40 PM (nOjd9)

6 {{{ nurse ratched }}}

I am not a woodpecker.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:41 PM (u82oZ)

7 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)

8 Hi all! Thank you for cute critters, Ace.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 07:42 PM (ZdaMQ)

9 The bat/echolocation thing was kinda cool.

The red panda is supposed to be AtC, isn't it?

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:43 PM (BhMhR)

10 ace

Whichever one of your girlfriends that picks out your top pictures, thank her. She does a good job.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:43 PM (u82oZ)

11 I really want to know how long it took the unemployed dude to make that video. I also want to know if that's real or fake.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (I6U7D)

12 Australia is an island, amirite ??

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (V13WU)

13 Bats! We have bats! O frabjous day!!!!!

Thank you, Ace!!!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (a3Q+t)

14 Oooooooooooooh

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree-eeee

Merry merry king of the bush is heee-eee

Laugh, Kookaburra
Laugh, Kookaburra

Gay your life must be!!!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (IPC6d)

15 Is Zoom Out maybe a antigravity feeling?

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (fwDg9)

16 CaliGirl

One thing for sure. We are paying for it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (u82oZ)

17 Bats on World Penguin Day ?!! why ??

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (V13WU)

18 Australia is an island, amirite ??
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (V13WU)

And a continent.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (R4t5M)

19 Laugh, Kookaburra
Laugh, Kookaburra

Gay your life must be!!!!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (IPC6d)

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So Kookaburras hold hands too?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (2UnvF)

20 And a continent.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (R4t5M)

it wants us to think of it that way, but it's just a big ass island

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (V13WU)

21 The red panda video looks like a person in a costume pranking us all. Now I think red pandas are all fake and a conspiracy.

I also think red pandas must not have any predators.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (I6U7D)

22 covid was hard on a lot of people

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (D7oie)

23 And a continent.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (R4t5M)

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And a floor wax.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (2UnvF)

24 Australia is an island, amirite ??
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (V13WU)

Australia isn't a real place. It's just a virtual environment used to input certain parameters to test people's reactions to certain kinds of stimuli or situations.

Researchers got a little carried away when they decided to program it so that all the wildlife was venomous.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (BhMhR)

25 Capybaras are hard to piss off, I'd say.

Posted by: huerfano at April 25, 2024 07:48 PM (VGOMa)

26 Twirling Upward is good

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:48 PM (fwDg9)

27 Hiya salty!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:48 PM (IPC6d)

28 And a continent.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (R4t5M)

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And a floor wax.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (2UnvF)

Applied counter-clockwise.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:48 PM (R4t5M)

29 University of Southern California CANCELLED Their Commencement Ceremony, Citing ‘Safety Concerns’' Islamist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:49 PM (ENQN6)

30 remember, the UK cleaned out its prisons and dumped criminals and whores in Australia

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:49 PM (V13WU)

31 I once startled Sid with a pumpkin.

Posted by: Pawl at April 25, 2024 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

32 rhennigantx

Cowardice.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:50 PM (u82oZ)

33 44 West Wallaby Way, Sydney

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 07:50 PM (LfcYE)

34 nurse watched

Are you on the ferry?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:50 PM (u82oZ)

35 I had a great time in Australia.

I sat in a bar for seven hours drinking with locals at a little spot in Melbourne.

I still don't understand Cricket.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:50 PM (IPC6d)

36 I also think red pandas must not have any predators.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (I6U7D)

We no see u red panda

Posted by: Chinese takeout at April 25, 2024 07:51 PM (ENQN6)

37 runner

It was Georgia until the win the the WoR.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:51 PM (u82oZ)

38 OPSEC Salty

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:51 PM (IPC6d)

39 That baby kookaburra looks like a character from Angry Birds.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:52 PM (BhMhR)

40 Capybara shows how to Fight The Power! Inspiring. And can I lick the icing machine when you're done?

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 07:52 PM (MvF+J)

41 Spoiler Alert - Australia really goes to shit in the Mad Max Era.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:52 PM (i7drE)

42 nurse ratched

Port of Call: Perth, with the rest of the CVBG. After the Indian Ocean. It was good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:52 PM (u82oZ)

43 Baby kangaroos are s0 cute. Then they grow up and disembowel you with their powerful legs and claws.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM (nOjd9)

44 18 Australia is an island, amirite ??
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (V13WU)

And a continent.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM (R4t5M)

Every flat earther thinks it is fake. I am getting there.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM (ENQN6)

45 It was Georgia until the win the the WoR.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:51 PM (u82oZ)

.. / -.. --- / -. --- - / --. . - / .. - / ..--..

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM (V13WU)

46 nurse ratched

As you wish.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM (u82oZ)

47 Query: Are kangaroos considered to have "arms" or "forelegs"?

Show your work.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM (nOjd9)

48 Tribbles don't poop. Guinea pigs poop a lot.

Posted by: Pawl at April 25, 2024 07:54 PM (vFG9F)

49 I still don't understand Cricket.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:50 PM (IPC6d)

It is a cell phone service for People for Color.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:55 PM (ENQN6)

50 Salty

I'm home. Caught an earlier boat.

Miss you!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:55 PM (IPC6d)

51 All the islands with white people are going Fascist. Uk - Australia - New Zealand.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:55 PM (i7drE)

52 I come from the land down under.

Posted by: baby kookaburra at April 25, 2024 07:55 PM (mH6SG)

53 Evening, Cafe-goers! I actually got something useful done today. The cold is being overcome. Woo-hoo!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 07:55 PM (8zz6B)

54 The goat and the capybara: the irresistible force meets the immovable object.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 07:56 PM (njExo)

55 In fairness - all the non-islands with white people also seem at least Fascist Curious. Maybe its not the island thing.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:56 PM (i7drE)

56 In 2020 high school seniors were denied a graduation ceremony due to covid. In 2024 those same kids will now be denied a ceremony due to protestor's assholishness.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:56 PM (2UnvF)

57 >>Port of Call: Perth, with the rest of the CVBG. After the Indian Ocean. It was good.

Did you make it down to Fremantle? Fun place.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 07:56 PM (LkLld)

58 43 Baby kangaroos are s0 cute. Then they grow up and disembowel you with their powerful legs and claws.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM (nOjd9)

t rex

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:56 PM (ENQN6)

59 They need to make a self-cleaning bathroom that cleans both the bathroom and the hobo who's occupying it at the time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 07:40 PM (nOjd9)

My Dymaxion bathroom could do that.

Posted by: zombie Buckminster Fuller at April 25, 2024 07:57 PM (8zz6B)

60 Bats on World Penguin Day ?!! why ??
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:46 PM

Any day is a good day for bats.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 07:57 PM (a3Q+t)

61 A capybara would be cool to have. My dog would kill it, though, so not good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 07:57 PM (R4t5M)

62 Runner.

encrypted code decoded.

All Units in Foxtrot Bravo execute Plan Lima Delta at time Whiskey 2 Hotel.

Juliet Tango units come to status Zulu.

Standby, execute.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:58 PM (u82oZ)

63 PSA...PSA...PSA

"Warning for Kim Kardashian's beloved 'vampire facials' after four women contract HIV at New Mexico salon, CDC confirms"

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 07:58 PM (V13WU)

64 Kangaroos were part if the English criminals gangs sent to Australia in early 1800s, it was prison or a new life In a new world, the Kangaroos to the new world.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:58 PM (fwDg9)

65 Done ferrying the grandkids around, listening to Howard Hanson's Symphony #2, drinking a nice glass of Gewürztraminer and enjoying tonight's videos.

I want one of those cake icing machines badly.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 07:59 PM (oaGWv)

66 That rhino has horrible table manners.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:59 PM (BhMhR)

67 "Say, we don't get many kangaroos in here."

Posted by: The Bartender at April 25, 2024 08:00 PM (nOjd9)

68 nurse ratched

Your presence is therapy. You have done much good for humanity, men, Justice, marksmanship, and the American Way.

Insomniac was healed by you, and he still talks of reverence about you, even when it did not work.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:00 PM (u82oZ)

69 All Units in Foxtrot Bravo execute Plan Lima Delta at time Whiskey 2 Hotel.

Juliet Tango units come to status Zulu.

Standby, execute.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:58 PM

Just saying "it's cocktail hour" would have been shorter.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:01 PM (Wnv9h)

70 I want one of those cake icing machines badly.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 07:59 PM (oaGWv)

I just want to lick the icing.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 08:01 PM (BhMhR)

71 The kangaroo is par excellence the wild game of Australia, and coursing it gives active employment to its pursuers. The flesh of all the several species is good. The fore-quarters, indeed, of the forester, the largest of the family, an animal which frequently weighs 200 lbs., are somewhat inferior, and are usually given to the dogs; but from the hind-quarters some fine steaks may be cut. When cooked in the same manner, they are very little inferior to venison collops.

Posted by: Kangaroo Facts at April 25, 2024 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

72 How's Mrs. Salty?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:01 PM (Wnv9h)

73 The following is the native mode of cooking a kangaroo steak:—It is placed in a scooped out stone, which is readily found in the streams, and pressed down by heavy stones on the top of it; the heat is applied beneath and round the first top stone; at the critical moment the stones are quickly removed, and the steak appears in its most savoury state.

Posted by: Kangaroo Facts at April 25, 2024 08:01 PM (vFG9F)

74 As you wish.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:53 PM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: Dread Pirate Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 08:02 PM (a3Q+t)

75 The unemployed guy is great. If only he could harness those mad skilz to a money-making scheme.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:02 PM (njExo)

76 "Say, we don't get many kangaroos in here."
Posted by: The Bartender at April 25, 2024 08:00 PM (nOjd9)

At these prices, I'm not surprised.

Posted by: the Kangaroo at April 25, 2024 08:02 PM (8zz6B)

77 Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Yoot !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 08:03 PM (T4tVD)

78 JackStraw a

There was no Sheila named Fremantle on my visit.

Didn't make that far south, sadly. But still had fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

79 Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Yoot !
Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 08:03 PM

Yawp!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:03 PM (Wnv9h)

80 All Units in Foxtrot Bravo execute Plan Lima Delta at time Whiskey 2 Hotel.

Juliet Tango units come to status Zulu.

Standby, execute.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:58 PM

Not until that hussy in CIC apologizes.

Posted by: 7th Fleet OOD at April 25, 2024 08:04 PM (a3Q+t)

81 RedMindBlueState

The improvement is marked, but from a real low. She is still not where she was before the fall. Slow but steady progress.

Thanks for asking.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:05 PM (u82oZ)

82 Not until that hussy in CIC apologizes.
Posted by: 7th Fleet OOD at April 25, 2024 08:04 PM

Oh, shit.

Sound collision alarm!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:05 PM (Wnv9h)

83 Adult kangaroos look alarmingly buff. Wouldn't want to tangle with one of those things.

Say, you know what the Cafe has been lacking? Some platypus action.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:06 PM (njExo)

84 Remember Adam Sessler?

Bueller?

You know the G4TV hack who came out hating all the gamers. Yeah that Adam Sessler.

Well yesterday, before nuking his Twitter account, he went off and proved how truly delusional he is.

All these college protestors we've been seeing in the news, he thinks they are Trump voters.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 08:06 PM (PbkNc)

85 7th Fleet OOD

**Snort**

Gets Kapok jacket out of Repair 3's locker.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:07 PM (u82oZ)

86 The improvement is marked, but from a real low. She is still not where she was before the fall. Slow but steady progress.

Thanks for asking.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:05 PM

Prayers continuing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:07 PM (Wnv9h)

87 Say, you know what the Cafe has been lacking? Some platypus action.
Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:06 PM (njExo)

Wish granted!

https://youtu.be/7jP09gUNGCY

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 08:07 PM (BhMhR)

88 Anna Puma

He is completely untethered to reality.

Someone get a net.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:08 PM (u82oZ)

89 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 08:08 PM (T4tVD)

90 All these college protestors we've been seeing in the news, he thinks they are Trump voters.

Let that sink in.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 08:06 PM (PbkNc)

Now that is weapons-grade stupid, right there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 08:08 PM (8zz6B)

91 >>Adult kangaroos look alarmingly buff. Wouldn't want to tangle with one of those things.

Some of them have huge claws on their hind paws that can open you up like a can opener.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:09 PM (LkLld)

92 Some of them have huge claws on their hind paws that can open you up like a can opener.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:09 PM

But kangaroo tastes good!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:09 PM (Wnv9h)

93 I need to install one of those self cleaning toilet stations

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 08:11 PM (fwDg9)

94 Juliet Tango units come to status Zulu.

Standby, execute.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:58 PM (u82oZ)

The chair is against the wa....

Posted by: A dude in MI at April 25, 2024 08:11 PM (/6GbT)

95 Sessler is very very broke and hateful.

Someone who would cheer family members dying because they don't share his political beliefs is not a nice person.

Steer clear of him. Do not interact.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 08:12 PM (PbkNc)

96 I thought it was 'G'day'?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 08:13 PM (IG4Id)

97 Ok I checked Amazon and they sell several brands of cake icing machines. $500+ though. Guess I'll wait until I win the lottery.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 08:14 PM (oaGWv)

98 87. Say, you know what the Cafe has been lacking? Some platypus action.
Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:06 PM (njExo)

Wish granted! - Robert at April 25, 2024 08:07 PM (BhMhR)

Not exactly what I was looking for, but not bad, not bad at all.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:15 PM (njExo)

99 We have criminal gangs in the US, Australia has criminal Kangaroos

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 08:15 PM (fwDg9)

100 Ok I checked Amazon and they sell several brands of cake icing machines. $500+ though. Guess I'll wait until I win the lottery.
Posted by: Tuna

* hitches up britches *

Wha'cha need there is an icin' shotgun. One blast oughta do it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 08:17 PM (IG4Id)

101 Not been a good week for sleeping so better turn this off.
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 08:17 PM (fwDg9)

102
I want one of those cake icing machines badly.

Posted by: Tuna

Get an old turntable.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 08:17 PM (rMWup)

103 The Tasmania Devils ate all the platypus.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 08:17 PM (dOnWV)

104 Not exactly what I was looking for, but not bad, not bad at all.
Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:15 PM

To be fair, busty same-sex platypus action isn't easy to come by, even in the 24th Century.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP Starfleet at April 25, 2024 08:17 PM (a3Q+t)

105 Late to the party.

Am I understanding correctly that Trump's lawyers were either purposely or unintentionally brilliant OR Trump's Midas touch happened again in that the case/rule is going to be stretched out until after the election?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:18 PM (9Ct69)

106
But kangaroo tastes good!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

And the males can provide a coin purse.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 08:18 PM (rMWup)

107 91. Some of them have huge claws on their hind paws that can open you up like a can opener. - JackStraw

Plus, they box, and I've always been a sucker for a straight right to the face.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 08:19 PM (njExo)

108 Re: the last video -- "Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all."

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 25, 2024 08:19 PM (AiZBA)

109 I thought the horde would want the Keurig liquor machine before the icing machine.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 08:19 PM (dOnWV)

110 That red panda needed the rhinocerous's help with that pumpkin.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 08:20 PM (roH4R)

111 Have a great night, everyone.

May you all thrive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 08:21 PM (u82oZ)

112 The goto, or long bag of kangaroo skin, about two feet deep, and a foot and a half broad, carried by the native females in Australia, is the common receptacle for every small article which the wife or husband may require or take a fancy to, whatever its nature or condition may be. Fish just caught, or dry bread, frogs, roots, and penguins, are all mingled together.

Posted by: Kangaroo Facts at April 25, 2024 08:21 PM (vFG9F)

113 Having poured lots of liquor in glasses and spread lots more icing on cakes, I'd almost certainly go for the cake machine.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:21 PM (9Ct69)

114 I thought the horde would want the Keurig liquor machine before the icing machine.
Posted by: polynikes

My sister has one of those liquor dispensing cocktail machines. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing work yet but my other sister who has said it is quite the contraption.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 08:23 PM (oaGWv)

115 A baby pig who demands kisses.

https://shorturl.at/adgl9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 08:24 PM (FVME7)

116 News You Can Use: a rhino eating a melon.

There were a few squash there, too, behind the watermelon.

Rhinos know where it's at: life is uncertain; eat dessert first.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 08:24 PM (DgGvY)

117 The copy was clearly enjoying the free deep tissue massage.

Posted by: ravenshrike at April 25, 2024 08:26 PM (2s2/5)

118 So...I don't know what to think of this.

It's hippety hop.

https://eliazrael.bandcamp.com /album/slave-new-world

But lyrically it's definitely relevant to our interests with songs like Regressivism Is Dead, The Ballad Of The Baked Ballots and Communisn't.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 08:26 PM (BhMhR)

119 OR Trump's Midas touch happened again in that the case/rule is going to be stretched out until after the election?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Sounds like the cases is the shit-box that it is and the process is the punishment, which ever fucking person said it was 8 fucking months ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 08:26 PM (IG4Id)

120 So am I wrong?

If the Supreme Court has basically made the ruling get pushed till after the election, Trump could get elected and just pardon himself regardless of what Jack Smith does?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 08:28 PM (RUMEY)

121 What They're Saying: As you all know, I've long been in the anti-chinchilla camp, but I may be coming around.

How did that thing get named "chinchilla?"

It's very obviously a ratbbit.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 08:28 PM (DgGvY)

122 Sounds like the cases is the shit-box that it is and the process is the punishment, which ever fucking person said it was 8 fucking months ago.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

--

I think that's their intention, but - and I'm not saying he will be allowed to be president again, but he'll definitely win in his third landslide victory - once he's president he's immune from prosecution and can fire everyone involved, as well as investigating them.

Time is on his side on this. The (D)s lose the longer this drags out.

*fingers crossed*

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:29 PM (9Ct69)

123 I want the liquor dispensing belt Cowboy(George Peppard) had in Battle Beyond the Stars...

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 08:29 PM (FQmDC)

124 Interview with the above hippety hopper at Death Metal dot org.

https://tinyurl.com/32uzwa45

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 08:30 PM (BhMhR)

125 I need to install one of those self cleaning toilet stations
Posted by: Skip

sounds expensive and full of bums
https://tinyurl.com/c8yz8ykv

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 08:30 PM (IG4Id)

126 I thought they were scared of Trump getting elected the first time.

I know they are terrified of him getting elected again.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 25, 2024 08:31 PM (RUMEY)

127 sounds expensive and full of bums

Unless the self cleaning involves flamethrowers

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 08:33 PM (FQmDC)

128 Lectern Guy is pretty astute and based.

I'm impressed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 08:33 PM (XV/Pl)

129 Having poured lots of liquor in glasses and spread lots more icing on cakes, I'd almost certainly go for the cake machine.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

You don't own a weed-whacker, do you?

Posted by: Constitutionalist at April 25, 2024 08:33 PM (SdKn3)

130 "In 2020 high school seniors were denied a graduation ceremony due to covid. In 2024 those same kids will now be denied a ceremony due to protestor's assholishness."

That'll teach them to go to school!

... or something.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2024 08:34 PM (SXCRk)

131 Australia is the france of Canadas.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 08:35 PM (r8F6l)

132 Stayed in hotel just to the left of that tall building on the left side of that pic.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at April 25, 2024 08:35 PM (fv27Y)

133 ""Warning for Kim Kardashian's beloved 'vampire facials' after four women contract HIV at New Mexico salon, CDC confirms"

Posted by: runner "

I'm shocked. Shocked! ... well, not that shocked.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2024 08:36 PM (SXCRk)

134
That'll teach them to go to school!

__________

We're always needing folks at Mine No. 22.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 08:37 PM (ro5Z0)

135 Having poured lots of liquor in glasses and spread lots more icing on cakes, I'd almost certainly go for the cake machine.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

You don't own a weed-whacker, do you?
Posted by: Constitutionalist

-

Three, although one is a dedicated brush hog these days.

Same as everything else, though, there's only one thing women are better at then men. Cooking and baking is just another in a long list.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:37 PM (9Ct69)

136 We're going to Sydney in September. Looks gorgeous.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 08:38 PM (RIvkX)

137 Unless the self cleaning involves flamethrowers
Posted by: steevy

* tents hands *
I'll allow it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 08:39 PM (IG4Id)

138 Ok I checked Amazon and they sell several brands of cake icing machines. $500+ though. Guess I'll wait until I win the lottery.
Posted by: Tuna

A couple clamps, a couple of those long metal spatulas, and a turntable*, and you can roll your own for probably $40. Or skip the clamps and freehand it.

* or a "rotating display stand," since "turntable" means "record player" on the internet.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 08:40 PM (DgGvY)

139 7th Fleet OOD

**Snort**

Gets Kapok jacket out of Repair 3's locker.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

"The world wonders" was just supposed to be encryption padding, Admiral Halsey!

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 08:40 PM (+OBLx)

140 I was thinking one of those kids pottery wheels.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:40 PM (9Ct69)

141 I wouldn't hire Unemployed Dude

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 08:40 PM (RIvkX)

142 Australia is an island, amirite ??
Posted by: runner

And a continent.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner
......

It's all fun and games until they put beetroots on your hamburger.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2024 08:41 PM (v0R5T)

143 “He is really very unwell”: King Charles’ battle with cancer is apparently going poorly and his funeral plans are being fine-tuned

https://shorturl.at/hmpF7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 08:42 PM (FVME7)

144 "The world wonders" was just supposed to be encryption padding, Admiral Halsey!
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 08:40 PM

England expects, bitchez!

Posted by: Zombie Admiral Lord Nelson at April 25, 2024 08:42 PM (Wnv9h)

145 BIDEN SUCKS MOOSE TWANG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Bullwinkle at April 25, 2024 08:43 PM (BKOUD)

146 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 08:44 PM (gLYp7)

147 Australia is the france of Canadas.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 08:35 PM

You're asking for Pixy's wrath, here.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:44 PM (Wnv9h)

148 I love kangaroos!!!

Posted by: Someone Else at April 25, 2024 08:44 PM (IrqeV)

149 Just because the topic came up:

Chefs with the Most Michelin Stars
Alain Ducasse – 19 Michelin Stars
Pierre Gagnaire – 14 Michelin Stars
Martin Berasategui – 12 Michelin Stars
Yannick Alleno – 10 Michelin Stars
Anne-Sophie Pic – 8 Michelin stars
Gordon Ramsay – 7 Michelin stars
Thomas Keller – 7 Michelin stars
Yoshihiro Murata – 7 Michelin stars
Seiji Yamamoto – 7 Michelin Stars
Andreas Caminada – 7 Michelin stars
Heston Blumenthal – 6 Michelin stars
Masahiro Yoshitake – 6 Michelin Stars
Heinz Beck – 5 Michelin stars
Jordi Cruz – 5 Michelin stars
Paco Perez – 5 Michelin stars
Quique Dacosta – 5 Michelin stars
Special Mention: Joël Robuchon – 31 Michelin stars

I tried to make it easy to pick out the one chick in the list.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:46 PM (9Ct69)

150 My mom worked 1st shift, my dad 2nd. They handed me back & forth during the work week. I could often get my dad to take me to out around town & one place I loved go was a shop across the street that had caged chinchillas. The owners didn't object to my little visits & let me feed & pet the chinchillas. Little did I know they would soon become fashionable jackets and purses. 😬

One day, the shop was empty. No chinchillas, no anything. A few weeks later, a bakery opened in the shop. It was the best in the county for years.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 08:47 PM (NFX2v)

151 Very enrichment. Much diverse.

@kylenabecker 1h
BREAKING.🚨

Massive fire is DESTROYING the historic Oceanside Pier in California.

"The Oceanside Fire Department is currently engaged in fighting a fire on the Oceanside Pier," OFD posted. "We are asking all citizens to please stay away from the immediate area."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 08:47 PM (IG4Id)

152 I wouldn't hire Unemployed Dude
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 08:40 PM (RIvkX)

———————

What if you were hiring a Director Of Doing Weird Stuff With Cards?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 08:47 PM (u73oe)

153 Looks like three godless Chinese commies will be launched into space in about 50 minutes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 08:47 PM (ufFY8)

154 Just because the topic came up:

Chefs with the Most Michelin Stars

The only one I've heard of is Gordon Ramsay.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 08:48 PM (oaGWv)

155 >>We're going to Sydney in September. Looks gorgeous.

It is. Do the hop on hop off tour of the harbor. It's a big harbor with a lot of cool spots like the Rocks area and the Opera House and personal favorite Doyle's on the Beach at end of the harbor. Great views of the harbor and you can hike to the top of the peninsula and look out over the ocean.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:49 PM (LkLld)

156 Copperhead-0
Me 1

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 08:50 PM (LfcYE)

157 Copperhead-0
Me 1

--

Good. This is the only winning score against copperheads.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:51 PM (9Ct69)

158 On matters Australian, one is always moved to think of the meaningful prayer offered by Chaplain Bruce at the direction of Philosophy Department Chair Bruce at the University of Woolamaroo:

"Oh Lord, we beseech thee. Amen."
Followed by:
Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you. Amen."
And concluding with:
"This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle or you can hold it in your hand. Amen."

Moving words, truly moving.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 08:51 PM (+OBLx)

159 Nina Jankowicz @wiczipedia

She’s totally unhinged on Twitter. It’s likely she’s trying to build a lawfare case against Musk.

Rolling out her new and improved censorship NGO.

Posted by: 13times at April 25, 2024 08:51 PM (U5lPu)

160 Speaking of Sydney and bats, there are a lot of bats in inner Sydney.

When the New Year fireworks go off, you can see bats scattering in all directions.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 25, 2024 08:51 PM (BLOW1)

161 Ow

Posted by: A Copperhead at April 25, 2024 08:52 PM (u73oe)

162 Wait, what's Pixy doing here? It's 3am on Tuesday in Australia or something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:53 PM (9Ct69)

163 79 and windy in South Texas. Nice.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 08:53 PM (o33NW)

164 Not the shovel!

Posted by: The copperhead at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (R4t5M)

165 Is there a hunting season for kangaroos.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (4gQRD)

166 What if you were hiring a Director Of Doing Weird Stuff With Cards?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 08:47 PM (u73oe)
===

We're covered.

Posted by: Vice President of Doing Odd Things in General at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (RIvkX)

167 Looks like three godless Chinese commies will be launched into space in about 50 minutes.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 08:47 PM (ufFY
----
Seems a bit extreme, but I suppose that's one way to get rid of them...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (BpYfr)

168 In 2010 or so, I used miles to fly biz on United (coach would've sucked). I went for 1 week - saw Blue Oyster Cult twice (separate weekends) and went to the Australia Jane Austen festival in between those shows. Shit's expensive in Australia.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (KAi1n)

169 This does not sound good.

@rawsalerts

🚨#BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:56 PM (LkLld)

170 Copperhead-0
Me 1
Posted by: Ben Had

A shut out.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 08:56 PM (oaGWv)

171 I'm studying the language in preparation for our trip.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 08:56 PM (RIvkX)

172 . . . Do the hop on hop off tour of the harbor. . . .
Posted by: JackStraw

The Paolo, how you say, has taken advantage of the hop on, hop off tour of most everywhere.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 25, 2024 08:57 PM (WXNFJ)

173 Apparently the commie launch was 9h ago.
The "live" video appears to be a replay.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 08:57 PM (ufFY8)

174 #BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar
Posted by: JackStraw

-

I guess the only thing to determine moving forward is which side they're on.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:58 PM (9Ct69)

175 Is the street performer video fake?

The tip girl walks behind his mirror and her ankles and shoes never disappear.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 25, 2024 08:58 PM (HlyYF)

176 Word is that Trump is coming to the South Bronx. I'm so jazzed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:58 PM (Gse2f)

177 BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:56 PM (LkLld)

—————-

We'll fix this shit right quick!

Posted by: Rooftop Koreans at April 25, 2024 08:59 PM (u73oe)

178 🚨#BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar
Posted by: JackStraw

O - H!!

BLAM! BLAM!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 08:59 PM (WXNFJ)

179 #BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar
Posted by: JackStraw


Which universities?

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:00 PM (oaGWv)

180 Has anyone ever heard a so-called moderate speak any negative word about any Democrat? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 25, 2024 09:00 PM (dQfJF)

181 Had several encounters with copperheads back in the day. Sure does get the adrenaline pumping.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 09:00 PM (mH6SG)

182 Kangaroo meat is good Imhear,

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 09:00 PM (4gQRD)

183 Don’t you mean THE snipers in Ohio?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 09:00 PM (u73oe)

184 Can you ride kangaroos?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 09:01 PM (4gQRD)

185 If you spot the snipers they aren't very good snipers....

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 09:01 PM (FQmDC)

186 >>Which universities?

THE Ohio State and University of Indiana.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 09:01 PM (LkLld)

187 I have to give one up-vote on the Ace tally board for chinchillas.

We had one as a class pet in 3rd grade. If you had zero demerits for the week, then you were in the lottery to take him home for the weekend.

Ours was also a very chill dude. The first time I brought it home, our cat stared at the chinchilla for 6 hours straight with a "WTF is that?" expression.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 25, 2024 09:02 PM (HlyYF)

188 My husband had chinchillas but they came to a tragic end. They were in the same room as the parrots. The thermostat on the electric heater went nuts and the room got too hot for chinchillas. Killed all of them. They were cute little guys.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2024 09:02 PM (yeEu9)

189 If you spot the snipers they aren't very good snipers....

lol

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 09:02 PM (mH6SG)

190 I guess the only thing to determine moving forward is which side they're on.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 08:58 PM (9Ct69)

Let's see what happens when they start firing. Then we'll know whether they're actually snipers or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:02 PM (GtZ7X)

191 If you spot the snipers they aren't very good snipers....
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 09:01 PM (FQmDC)

Yeah, that too. Snipers are the assault weapons of rooftop Koreans.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:03 PM (GtZ7X)

192 What's the term for armed security that wants to be seen in order to exercise a show of force?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:03 PM (9Ct69)

193 Can you ride kangaroos?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 09:01 PM (4gQRD)

———————

Somewhere there’s a rodeo that has monkeys riding kangaroos, I’ll bet.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 09:04 PM (u73oe)

194 "remember, the UK cleaned out its prisons and dumped criminals and whores in Australia"

Don't forget the Irish seditionists

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 09:04 PM (Gse2f)

195 What's the term for armed security that wants to be seen in order to exercise a show of force?
Posted by: Moron Robbie

"Goodfellas"?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:04 PM (WXNFJ)

196 Snipers at Gaza protests. Trump immunity at SC.
The wheel seems to ratcheting pretty fast. Are we going to make it to November?

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 09:04 PM (HDGM5)

197 It would be crazy if they're on the terrorists' side and allowed to do their thing, but not surprising.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:05 PM (9Ct69)

198 The National Felons League draft is tonight, with nary a mention by the Moron Horde!

Y'all are such good people.

(However, I obviously suck.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 25, 2024 09:05 PM (HlyYF)

199 #BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar
Posted by: JackStraw

In further news, Neil Young is suffering from an erection fantasizing about the next stage of his career

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 09:05 PM (D7oie)

200 Australia is the france of Canadas.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 08:35 PM

You're asking for Pixy's wrath, here.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 08:44 PM (Wnv9h)

I just know it's weird hearing freedom stomping fascists talking with Aussie accents.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:06 PM (GtZ7X)

201 THE Ohio State and University of Indiana.
Posted by: JackStraw

OSU my alma mater. Lovely. BTW Marvin Harrison, Jr. went to the Cardinals

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:06 PM (oaGWv)

202 Somewhere there’s a rodeo that has monkeys riding kangaroos, I’ll bet.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 09:04 PM (u73oe)

I'd pay to see that Duke.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 09:07 PM (4gQRD)

203 192 What's the term for armed security that wants to be seen in order to exercise a show of force?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:03 PM

Against actual Jihadists?

In that case, I believe the correct term is "cannon fodder".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 25, 2024 09:07 PM (HlyYF)

204 What's the term for armed security that wants to be seen in order to exercise a show of force?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:03 PM (9Ct69)

British Redcoats?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:07 PM (GtZ7X)

205 202 Somewhere there’s a rodeo that has monkeys riding kangaroos, I’ll bet.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 09:04 PM (u73oe)

Monkeys should wear jockeys outfits.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 09:09 PM (4gQRD)

206 OSU my alma mater. Lovely. BTW Marvin Harrison, Jr. went to the Cardinals
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:06 PM (oaGWv)

And then in about 10 years him and Larry Fitzgerald and Mel Gray and Bobby Joe Conrad can show off their Super Bowl rings to each other.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:09 PM (GtZ7X)

207
Against actual Jihadists?

In that case, I believe the correct term is "cannon fodder".
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

-

Maybe. But in this case probably on the side of Jihadists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:10 PM (9Ct69)

208 OSU my alma mater.. . .
Posted by: Tuna

If you attended in the mid-70's you probably stepped over me at Papa Joe's, the South Berg, or the Oar House some afternoon/evening. Ah, $4 buckets of 3.2% beer.

Good times.



Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:10 PM (WXNFJ)

209
So who's organizing these spontaneous campus demonstrations?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 09:12 PM (ro5Z0)

210 So who's organizing these spontaneous campus demonstrations?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 09:12 PM (ro5Z0)

—————-

Satan?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 09:13 PM (u73oe)

211 Evenin’, All. Shto novovo?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:13 PM (9yWhg)

212 Australia is the france of Canadas.
Posted by: BurtTC

No, that distinction belongs to New Zealand, albeit with Hobbits and weirdly Scandinavian landscapes in places.

Australia is the high-functioning dystopia of breath-taking vistas, murderous flora and fauna, and a very suspect local lingo that may just be something they put on for the tourists - I mean, "Fair dinkum?" Seriously.

Oh, and with occasional roving road warriors who grudgingly take out local despots who've finagled control of vital resources. And dingoes.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 09:14 PM (+OBLx)

213 Maybe. But in this case probably on the side of Jihadists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:10 PM

Well in that case, we need to bring Obama back out of retirement.

I believe he possesses a special exemption to perform drone strike murders on American citizens if he deems them a threat.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 25, 2024 09:15 PM (HlyYF)

214 So who's organizing these spontaneous campus demonstrations?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 09:12 PM (ro5Z0)

Hold onto your hat, you're not going to believe this:

Qatari moneymen. And George Soros.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:15 PM (GtZ7X)

215 OSU my alma mater.. . .
Posted by: Tuna

If you attended in the mid-70's you probably stepped over me at Papa Joe's, the South Berg, or the Oar House some afternoon/evening. Ah, $4 buckets of 3.2% beer.

Good times.



Posted by: Tonypete


Missed you by a couple of years. I was there '67-'71. The Oar House was one of our favorite spots though.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:15 PM (oaGWv)

216 And dingoes.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 09:14 PM (+OBLx)

And a fascist/left wing government that's clamping down on personal freedom.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:16 PM (GtZ7X)

217 Oh, so we have OSUers on the thread?

GO BLUE!!!!!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:17 PM (9yWhg)

218 I could swear that I told the guys at the car shop "There's a binder of service records in my car if you need to look at what's been done to it and when".

But then I mention it in the conversation with the guy because I can't remember when the thing was replaced, and he asks "Oh, is it okay if I open it up and look at it?"

Yes. Yes, it is.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2024 09:17 PM (SXCRk)

219 If you attended in the mid-70's you probably stepped over me at Papa Joe's, the South Berg, or the Oar House some afternoon/evening. Ah, $4 buckets of 3.2% beer.

Good times.

Posted by: Tonypete

Missed you by a couple of years. I was there '67-'71. The Oar House was one of our favorite spots though.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:15 PM (oaGWv)

If you stepped over me in any of those places in the mid-70s, you should report my parents to CPS.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:18 PM (GtZ7X)

220 189 If you spot the snipers they aren't very good snipers....

lol
Posted by: Notorious BFD


https://youtu.be/ZGv8oAHxekU?si=irl-aTK_OKcUxcaS

How not to be seen.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 09:19 PM (gLYp7)

221 Yes. Yes, it is.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 25, 2024 09:17 PM (SXCRk)

How much do they charge per hour to open up a binder to see what's in there?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:21 PM (GtZ7X)

222 UM won't deploy snipers until they are able to steal communications.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 25, 2024 09:21 PM (8AONa)

223 GO BLUE!!!!!


St. Louis? Did they make the playoffs? I was actually glad the won the SC a few years ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 09:23 PM (gLYp7)

224 189 If you spot the snipers they aren't very good snipers....

lol
Posted by: Notorious BFD

https://youtu.be/ZGv8oAHxekU?si=irl-aTK_OKcUxcaS

How not to be seen.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 09:19 PM (gLYp7)
---
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Lord Vetinari attended the Assassin's School (as all gentlemen do). He failed his classes on concealment and camouflage because his instructor never saw him there.

Think about it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 09:24 PM (BpYfr)

225 *How much do they charge per hour to open up a binder to see what's in there?*

$20. Same as in the Art Thread.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2024 09:25 PM (dg+HA)

226 He failed his classes on concealment and camouflage because his instructor never saw him there.

Think about it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

What? Like Biblically?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 09:25 PM (IG4Id)

227 St. Louis? Did they make the playoffs? I was actually glad the won the SC a few years ago.
Posted by: Puddleglum

That was the first year I got into hockey. I actually watched the whole series of games. Very enjoyable.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:26 PM (oaGWv)

228 St. Louis? Did they make the playoffs? I was actually glad the won the SC a few years ago.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 25, 2024 09:23 PM (gLYp7)

They did not.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:26 PM (GtZ7X)

229 Maybe the dingo ate your baby.

https://youtu.be/sYTIGXvc88Y

Posted by: Qbligatory Seinfeld reference at April 25, 2024 09:27 PM (dg+HA)

230 And a fascist/left wing government that's clamping down on personal freedom.
Posted by: BurtTC

See "high-functioning dystopia" above. Even worse, there is a near tidal wave of Americans moving there, and hoo boy are they in for a surprise.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 09:29 PM (+OBLx)

231 JJ McCarthy to the Vikings.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:30 PM (9yWhg)

232 In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Lord Vetinari...

-

He was such a great character in a Deadwood anti-hero sort of way. He ended up being near the top of my list by the time I'd read everything.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:31 PM (9Ct69)

233 See "high-functioning dystopia" above. Even worse, there is a near tidal wave of Americans moving there, and hoo boy are they in for a surprise.
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 09:29 PM (+OBLx)

Are they high functioning though?

But I keed.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 09:31 PM (BXDM3)

234 He was such a great character in a Deadwood anti-hero sort of way. He ended up being near the top of my list by the time I'd read everything.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:31 PM (9Ct69)
---
One of the greatest literary Manipulative Bastards of all time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 09:36 PM (BpYfr)

235 @231

>>JJ McCarthy to the Vikings.

I thought JJ was in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 09:37 PM (XV/Pl)

236 @229

>>Maybe the dingo ate your baby.


True Fact: If you see a Dingo in the wild, you are obligated to take it to the store and buy anything it wants.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 09:38 PM (XV/Pl)

237 #BREAKING: Snipers have been spotted on top of roofs at Ohio and Indiana universities as pro-Palestine protests causing a uproar
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:56 PM (LkLld)

Good. Perforate some Commie skulls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 09:38 PM (8zz6B)

238 232 In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Lord Vetinari...
He was such a great character in a Deadwood anti-hero sort of way. He ended up being near the top of my list by the time I'd read everything.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:31 PM (9Ct69)

https://shorturl.at/clm13

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 25, 2024 09:40 PM (hOUT3)

239 235 *gives Thomas Bender the hairy eyeball*

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:40 PM (9yWhg)

240 https://shorturl.at/clm13

-

hahaha

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 09:41 PM (9Ct69)

241 If you attended in the mid-70's you probably stepped over me at Papa Joe's, the South Berg, or the Oar House some afternoon/evening. Ah, $4 buckets of 3.2% beer.

Good times.

Yes, indeed. Didn't go to OSU but played them in Rugby more than a few times on the campus. Mornings after were brutal. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 09:41 PM (mH6SG)

242 I once puked on THE OSU campus.

Vomit was never more well spent.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:44 PM (9yWhg)

243 I thought JJ was in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Thomas Bende

=====

Assuming JJs in Wisconsin came by their success honestly, they don't have anything in common with the JJ in Ann Arbor

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 25, 2024 09:45 PM (8AONa)

244 I love the Wisconsin JJ, in news and commentary, but >>> University of Michigan JJ in football

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:52 PM (9yWhg)

245 u73oe)

184 Can you ride kangaroos?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 09:01 PM (4gQRD)

----------

You can, but eventually they get tired of your bitching and disembowel you.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 09:53 PM (bo7UB)

246 Are they high functioning though?

But I keed.
Posted by: BurtTC

Remember, we are talking about a country that declared war on emus. And lost.

On the plus side, it inspired a musical, an action-comedy film, and an upcoming movie written by John Cleese, Rob Schneider, Camilla Cleese, and Jim Jeffries that's in production now.

Favorite quote on this comes from Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith, of the Royal Australian Artillery, who led the assault on the emus:

"If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world ... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop."

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 09:53 PM (+OBLx)

247 244 Oops, I kinda messed that up.

JJ McCarthy rules in football.

JJ Sefton rules in news aggregation.

Maybe I’ve had too much to drink?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:56 PM (9yWhg)

248 "If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world ... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop."
Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 09:53 PM (+OBLx)

I'm sure that Ben Had could clean up on the emus, as she has done on the feral hogs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 09:57 PM (8zz6B)

249 Oops, I kinda messed that up.

JJ McCarthy rules in football.

JJ Sefton rules in news aggregation.

Maybe I’ve had too much to drink?

Quite possibly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 09:58 PM (mH6SG)

250 Rooftop snipers don’t count unless they’re Korean.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at April 25, 2024 09:58 PM (06wU2)

251 NOOD WD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:01 PM (0/kef)

252 I'm sure that Ben Had could clean up on the emus, as she has done on the feral hogs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

She certainly couldn't do worse - one account read that"

"The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month."

Major Meredith's detachment reported that they had fired 2500 rounds of ammunition, with no casualties on their side. The conservative estimate is that they killed 50 emus.

Posted by: John Drake Nearing The Caspian Sea at April 25, 2024 10:01 PM (+OBLx)

253 Noodus Weirdus Davidus

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:02 PM (9yWhg)

254 Muad'Dib. The kwisatz haderach to the rest of you louts.

Posted by: Ken at April 26, 2024 12:53 PM (GXPss)

New York Times: Supreme Court Conservatives Seem to Favor Acknowledging Some Form of Presidential Immunity, At Least for "Official Acts" Undertaken as Part of the President's "Core Powers"

This is by no means a guarantee for Trump. Amy Coney Barrett seems very sympathetic to Biden's handpicked Election Interference Agents.

And the Court will not be endorsing Trump's expansive, anything-the-president-does-is-immune-from-criminal-process theory.

But they do seem inclined to rule against the lower courts' almost-as-expansive theory that any president can be indicted for any reason post-presidency, and enjoys no immunity whatsoever.

The thing is, even if they just vote that way -- and say the lower courts erred in not determining which of Trump's acts may have been taken as part of his official duties -- then it's a win for Trump, because the case would be thrown back to the originating court with instructions for the judge to write a new opinion, which itself would be appealable. That would most likely punt the case into next year.

Here are some snippets of live updates from New York Times court "reporters." The "reporters" are Alan Feuer, Abbie VanSickle, and Charlie Savage. I won't be noting which updates were written by which "reporter."


Supreme Court Live Updates: Conservative Majority Seems Ready to Limit Election Case Against Trump

A ruling in the case, on whether the former president is immune from prosecution, would probably send it back to a lower court and could delay any trial until after the November election.


The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed poised on Thursday to narrow the scope of the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election.

Such a ruling, endorsing at least part of Mr. Trump's argument that he is immune from prosecution, would most likely send the case back to the trial court to draw distinctions between official and private conduct. Those proceedings could make it hard to conduct the trial before the 2024 election.

...

D. John Sauer, Mr. Trump's lawyer, pressed an extreme version of the former president's argument. In answer to hypothetical questions, he said that presidential orders to murder political rivals or stage a coup could well be subject to immunity.
But several of the conservative justices seemed disinclined to consider those questions or the details of the accusations against Mr. Trump. Instead, they said the court should issue a ruling that applies to presidential power generally.

"We're writing a rule for the ages," Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh also said the court should think about the larger implications of its decision. "This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country."

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that a ruling for Mr. Trump could enhance democratic values.

"A stable, democratic society requires that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully," he said, adding that the prospect of criminal prosecution would make that less likely.

"Will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?" he asked.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she had a different understanding. "A stable democratic society," she said, "needs the good faith of its public officials."

...

Multiple justices focused on whether motive matters. This is a recurring pressure point in the question of whether an official act can be treated as a crime: Does it matter whether a president had a corrupt purpose? Proponents of a strong presidency point out that if the answer is yes, that could allow courts to second-guess whether a president's exercise of his constitutional responsibilities was reasonable, a significant blurring of separation of powers.

A lot of the discussion has swirled around the question of whether, without immunity, presidents will be hounded by their rivals with malicious charges after leaving office.


...


The oral argument lasted nearly three hours, as the justices tangled with a lawyer for the former president and a Justice Department lawyer. A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of the idea of sweeping presidential immunity. However, several of them suggested an interest in drawing out what actions may be immune and what may not -- a move that could delay the former president's trial if the Supreme Court asks a lower court to revisit the issues.

Many of the justices seemed to be considering the idea that presidents should enjoy some form of protection against criminal prosecution. The devil however will be in the details: How should that protection extend?

...

Looking back, one of the main points of discussion turned on the question of which situation would be worse: a world in which presidents, shorn of any legal protections against prosecution, were ceaselessly pursued in the courts by their rivals in a never-ending cycle of political retribution, or allowing presidents to be unbounded by criminal law and permitted to do whatever they wanted with impunity.

...


Justice Barrett picks up the question of timing again. She suggests that if prosecutors want to take Trump quickly to trial, they could simply drop those parts of the indictment that seem to be his official acts as president and proceed with only those parts of the indictment that reflect Trump's private actions taken as a candidate for office. Dreeben is not wild about that idea.

No, because this is all political. It's not about justice, it's about saving Biden from an election he is doomed to lose.


...

Justice Barrett seems to signal that she is less likely to find that presidents have blanket immunity for their official acts. When Dreeben says the system needs to balance the effective functioning of the presidency and accountability for a former president under the rule of law, and the existing system does that pretty well or maybe needs a few ancillary rules but that is different from the "radical proposal" put forward by Trump's legal team, she says: "I agree."

What about Obama? Can he be prosecuted for the murder of Anwar al-Awaki?

You know, there's no statute of limitations for murder.

Should we try Obama next?


Kavanaugh asks Dreeben about Obama's drone strike that killed an American citizen suspected of terrorism, Anwar al-Awlaki, which Trump's lawyer invoked in his opening. Dreeben notes that the Office of Legal Counsel analyzed the question and found that the murder statute did not apply to presidents when they were acting under public authority, so authorizing the strike was lawful. This is the way the system can function, he said -- the Justice Department analyzes laws carefully and with established principles.

Oh sure, we should trust the corrupt, weaponized DOJ.

Say Trump wins. He installs Rudy Giuliani as AG.

Are Biden's hand-picked Election Interference Agents still on board with the claim that anything the DOJ does must be right and proper?

Note the contradiction here -- they're saying that we cannot have a blanket rule that anything a president does is presumptively legal. They just want a blanket rule that anything a DOJ does is presumptively legal.

So long as that DOJ is headed by a Democrat, of course.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:35 PM




Comments

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1 This isn't just about Trump....it is also about 200 or so political prisoners from the january 6th mess.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (QNSds)

2 Unless President is Trump. Of course.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (o2ZRX)

3 OK something is broken. I read most of the post and had time to comment and was still first?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (QNSds)

4 They will release a convoluted jusgement that says something like, yeah Presidents have immunity except trump.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 06:38 PM (Y6IkP)

5 It's in the orangemanbad clause, duh

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 06:39 PM (2UnvF)

6 This is by no means a guarantee for Trump. Amy Coney Barrett seems very sympathetic to Biden's handpicked Election Interference Agents.

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At the time she was appointed I thought it was a mistake. No female appointment to SC has been a success so far. I am a woman but I hope a woman is never again appointed to SC.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 06:40 PM (unUNN)

7 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:40 PM (BhMhR)

8 OT...

https://tinyurl.com/y8exckhr

(Twatter)

Statue of Queen Elizabeth part deux.

I certainly appreciate that they made sure to give her statue DDs.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:41 PM (BhMhR)

9 OK something is broken. I read most of the post and had time to comment and was still first?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (QNSds)

You were up against salmon sperm. You didn't stand a chance.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:41 PM (eoQWY)

10 Paxton needs to indict Hillary for her 2016 election denial and false charges that Russia caused her loss in addition to her role in creating the false dossier to influence the election.

Might as well play their lawfare game until we move on to warfare.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:42 PM (MNhXM)

11 7 Afternoon.
Posted by: Robert
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Yes it is. Drinks! bbl

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 06:42 PM (lCWOD)

12 If the House impeaches and the Senate convicts a President for "High Crimes", then at that point (maybe) the judiciary has a possible role.

Before that, nah bruh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:42 PM (etkZU)

13 When a President does something bad, the Constitution allows for Impeachment and removal.

That is the remedy.

Biden should be impeached and removed but the political will to do so does not exist, unfortunately.

Con Law 101.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 25, 2024 06:43 PM (I6NNh)

14 Apparently, Beau was gunned down by Babyface Nelson.

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:44 PM (FVME7)

15 Trump is done; they got his ass! Even the right-wing nutcases on the court are gonna convict him, it's so obvious. Jack Smith is a true American warrior!

Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2024 06:44 PM (TcYtN)

16 I listened to some of the arguments and have read the opinions of a number of smart legal commentators and the consensus seems to be partial immunity and remand back to the lower court. Gorsuch seemed to be particularly good today.

Trump also had a good day in the hush money case. The prosecutions chief witness David Pecker, I mean c'mon, said Trump had no involvement in the payouts and it was he and Cohen who came up with the plan.

Trump is fortunate to have such inept enemies.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 06:44 PM (LkLld)

17 At the time she was appointed I thought it was a mistake. No female appointment to SC has been a success so far. I am a woman but I hope a woman is never again appointed to SC.
Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 06:40 PM (unUNN)
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I'm not wild about some of the men either.

The truth is the founders floundered on the SCOTUS design, especially after John Marshall filled out the design.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:45 PM (YLSFg)

18
The best, most hard hitting questions came from the left.

/ obvious troll is obvious

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 06:45 PM (RKVpM)

19 It’s getting off work and dinner time . This post proves It’s not the Cafe’s fault.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:45 PM (MNhXM)

20 Some on X are saying that ACB will vote with the majority, and Roberts will lead them. It is possible that Kagan also joins, in a 7-2 decision. She knows that future Dem presidents could be ruined by the lawfare of their own making.

Posted by: Cory C at April 25, 2024 06:45 PM (Ii59e)

21 Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she had a different understanding. "A stable democratic society," she said, "needs the good faith of its public officials."

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That is more applicable to the bureaucracy, people can wait out a bad president but a rotten bureaucracy is forever.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 06:46 PM (unUNN)

22 If the House impeaches and the Senate convicts a President for "High Crimes", then at that point (maybe) the judiciary has a possible role.

Before that, nah bruh
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:42 PM (etkZU)

Impeachment and removal is non-justiciable. That's what they said after Alcee Hastings was removed from the bench and he sued to get back on it.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:46 PM (BhMhR)

23 But they do seem inclined to rule against the lower courts' almost-as-expansive theory that any president can be indicted for any reason post-presidency, and enjoys no immunity whatsoever.

The thing is, even if they just vote that way -- and say the lower courts erred in not determining which of Trump's acts may have been taken as part of his official duties --
==

I think that is what will happen

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:46 PM (V13WU)

24 I'm not wild about some of the men either.

The truth is the founders floundered on the SCOTUS design, especially after John Marshall filled out the design.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:45 PM (YLSFg)

They didn't have a design, they just said there should be such a court. Judicial review was something that was made up.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:46 PM (eoQWY)

25 Apparently, Beau was gunned down by Babyface Nelson.

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BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife, whatever it is, or child, worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:44 PM (FVME7)
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Maybe his first wife was an undercover cop.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:47 PM (YLSFg)

26 They will release a convoluted jusgement that says something like, yeah Presidents have immunity except trump.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 06:38 PM (Y6IkP)
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Yup. Everything FJB does as POTUS is 100% kosher and Constitutional.

Everything Trump did as POTUS was a flagrant violation of the law and he must be punished.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 06:47 PM (BpYfr)

27 Sad that Ace hates Trump and thus can’t fully exploit the whole sordid lawfare grab by the Left.

Posted by: Maximillian at April 25, 2024 06:47 PM (cuS3i)

28 People keep talking about Trump-appointed justices when the truth is he merely rubber stamped McConnell's picks. Everything these justices do, say one decide can be sheeted to the GOPe.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 06:48 PM (unUNN)

29 Gorsuch is gold.

Posted by: Maximillian at April 25, 2024 06:48 PM (cuS3i)

30 Sad that Ace hates Trump and thus can’t fully exploit the whole sordid lawfare grab by the Left.
Posted by: Maximillian

Seems to me like he's fully exploiting.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:49 PM (FVME7)

31 Of course Barrett would side against trump, he destroyed access to muh bortions by.... appointing Barrett to scotus.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 06:50 PM (PHukT)

32 If DOJ has to vet everything a President says or does is legal then the DOJ is the hand up the President's a55.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 06:50 PM (j9uO3)

33 People keep talking about Trump-appointed justices when the truth is he merely rubber stamped McConnell's picks. Everything these justices do, say one decide can be sheeted to the GOPe.
Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 06:48 PM (unUNN)

I rarely give credit or place blame on Presidents for their picks. I think Papa Bush is the last President I gave credit and that was for picking Thomas and standing by him.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:50 PM (MNhXM)

34 Beau was killed by a cop who drank his lunch.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 06:51 PM (PHukT)

35 ISIS wasn't going to found itself!

Posted by: Barry Obama at April 25, 2024 06:51 PM (2fIGV)

36 Easy: Everything trump does is illegal, arbitrary, and capricious.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 06:52 PM (PHukT)

37 I couldn't have pardoned Marc Rich without the safety of Presidential immunity.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at April 25, 2024 06:52 PM (2fIGV)

38 Trump held a rally, he didn’t ask for anyone to do anything illegal, in fact, he told people to be peaceful.

If he wasn’t president he’d still be innocent of any criminal act.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2024 06:54 PM (Dz6Vv)

39 They will release a convoluted jusgement that says something like, yeah Presidents have immunity except trump.
Posted by: banana Dream

You won't be able to take the victory when it comes, will you? The Supreme Court is going to define the limits, once and for all, which is why Trump encourages the case.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 06:55 PM (2fIGV)

40 If they do some sort of immunity how will that affect all the trials against Trump ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 06:55 PM (Akjoo)

41 Posted by: Maximillian

Who the fuck are you again?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 06:55 PM (IG4Id)

42 they got his ass!
Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2024 06:44 PM (TcYtN)

When are you letting us out? It's roomy enough but it reeks of semen in here

Posted by: the gerbils at April 25, 2024 06:56 PM (gKWVE)

43 DOJ, Kevin Clinesmith, FISA warrant...Yeah, I'm comfortably assured we can always trust the DOJ to behave in an above board fashion.

Posted by: Charles Martel at April 25, 2024 06:57 PM (6Gpcl)

44 Presidents are immune unless they encourage a violent insurrection!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 06:57 PM (PHukT)

45 BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife, whatever it is, or child, worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls"

"We caught your son with a hooker again" That call? I never got that one.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 06:57 PM (2fIGV)

46 Trump is the new Nixon with a target on his back by the same deep state. Just different weapons used.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:57 PM (MNhXM)

47 If Sid knows anything he knows all about getting ass

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 06:57 PM (FQmDC)

48 >>And the Court will not be endorsing Trump's expansive, anything-the-president-does-is-immune-from-criminal-process theory.

Trumps team never made the case for an anything goes, the President can wack a man on 5th Avenue argument and you can't do nothing about it, that was the lefts insinuation, Trumps teams argument was you cannot indict a President for official acts while President, otherwise, the SCOAMF, The Meat Puppet and The Shrub would all be in the doc for the actions they took as President.

My guess it's either 7-2 or 6-3 for Trump with all kinds of hand waving and carve outs and a decision that's so narrow and tight, that it would be the envy of any Farmers Daughter.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 06:58 PM (XV/Pl)

49 Easy: Everything trump does is illegal, arbitrary, and capricious.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

He’s totally inappropriate. He's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:58 PM (FVME7)

50 Hold onto that thought Sid.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 06:59 PM (LfcYE)

51 Was trying to read Supreme Court report but law talk only makes my eyes water

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 06:59 PM (fwDg9)

52 The SC sounds like it will side mostly with Trump. They'll return the case to the trial ct level for specific findings as to what might not be covered by immunity. This will jam up Smith's case until after the election . Leftist heads are going to explode. Cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 06:59 PM (aX7Uj)

53 I'm the hand up that weasel Garland's a55. And he's high and tight up where I put him. Uhm, draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: The Lightworker at April 25, 2024 07:00 PM (j9uO3)

54 @46

>>Trump is the new Nixon with a target on his back by the same deep state. Just different weapons used.

Nixon was undone by a former naval intelligence officer, the number 2 at the FBI and a bunch of CIA operatives.

Trumps Panopticon Spans the Globe and has numerous bad actors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 07:00 PM (XV/Pl)

55 41 Posted by: Maximillian

Who the fuck are you again?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 06:55 PM (IG4Id)

He's looking to get nasty with Reinhardt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2024 07:00 PM (t/qwz)

56 I often say the Eff Bee Eye is 2-0 in taking out Republican Presidents

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:02 PM (fwDg9)

57 Well whatever ruling that SCOTUS makes it will be about the end of June, just about the time that Trump's NYC kangaroo court trial will be over.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:02 PM (QNSds)

58 >>> And the Court will not be endorsing Trump's expansive, anything-the-president-does-is-immune-from-criminal-process theory.

IF,
POTUS can launch military strikes against foreign enemies real or imagined and kill 10s, 100s, orders of magnitude more for shits and gigles; order DOJ to prosecute marginal cases of whatever flavor to incclude persecuting political enemies with o'dark thirty raids killing all citizen occupants; throw away single most important directive throwing away border protection so that even unorganized swarms of thug aliens rampage throughout the nation sponging off lawful citizens, at best, killing them at worst;

That is what impeachment is for.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 07:04 PM (cOq4q)

59 Almost the entire court guffawed when the special counsel lawyer said we should trust the DoJ, because they have shown over time they can be trusted to be fair.

For Trump, this is going to come down to whether his acts related to the election were even criminal. Spoiler alert, they were not. The entire objective of this Democrat charade is to provide air cover for their election fraud activities. They want anything resembling an effort to obtain the truth as being prosecutable.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 07:05 PM (BZE7Z)

60 There was a time I could just cast my vote for President and let Baseball and the Yankees break my heart. There was a time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:05 PM (PQ4m2)

61 If Trump wins he has to start charging people from the Biden Junta immediately along with the people in the states that enabled the steal. In fact it has to be pretty much his top priority.

Will he? Who knows.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 07:07 PM (ibTVg)

62 This barrett broad is shaping up as a disappointment

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:07 PM (PQ4m2)

63 There was a time when the election was done on election night...

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 07:07 PM (FQmDC)

64 ACB will be remembered as a mistake. She is not the worst, but she wont hold conservative values on anything outside of the family home. 2A, international issues, immigration and federal power are all issues she is, at best, a waffler.

Scalia in a skirt she aint.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 25, 2024 07:08 PM (aVudl)

65 Just saw a video of one of the leaders of the Columbia gaggle saying Zionists and white supremacists deserve to be killed. I'm neither, but I'm pretty sure he means me.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:08 PM (2UnvF)

66 Still makes me Hulk angry that Biden’s much worse illegal document handling case is dismissed while they are still pursuing the Trump non illegal case full blast.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:08 PM (MNhXM)

67 @60

>>and let Baseball and the Yankees break my heart.

The Yankees have won nearly a 1/4 of all World Series Played.

Heartache? Pfft

--
Mets fans with two measly World Series, who should have won at least 3 more and don't get me started on Bobby Bonnilla.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 07:09 PM (XV/Pl)

68 65 If you are white the left considers you a white supremacist...

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 07:10 PM (FQmDC)

69 Unless a president has complete immunity then our system of government is broken and lost. Each new administration will be imprisoning the previous one, and it will be never ending.
At the moment the DOJ is supposedly more powerful than the presidency!
If Trump wins in Nov. he needs to fire everyone in the DOJ, right down to the secretaries, mailroom and janitors.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #203 at April 25, 2024 07:10 PM (qfLjt)

70 It is rare to see judges when they end up on the SC stay conservative. Alito and Thomas now, as well as Scalia are exceptions. Earl Warren was the Republican governor of Cali who was a appointed by Ike.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 07:11 PM (aX7Uj)

71 This barrett broad is shaping up as a disappointment

She started hanging out with her beach friends again.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 07:11 PM (mH6SG)

72 It really needs to be stressed that
- Until FDR decided he was better than 150 years of tradition, we did not need a law restricting terms to two.
- Until Gore took a win-at-any-cost position in FLA, it was understood that a sore loser, or a sore winner, would be a disaster for the country.
- Until biden took a Stalin-esque position toward Trump, it was also understood that such a prosecution would cause great damage to the country.

The Democrats are pure Left, and the Left just wants power and to destroy civilization. They are children. The world will burn, including them. They must be destroyed. I suggest nukes.

(Same with filibuster, same with illegal voting, same with shutting down dissent,.....)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 25, 2024 07:11 PM (B+Em3)

73 Scalia in a skirt she aint.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 25, 2024 07:08 PM (aVudl)

She was nominated for all the wrong reasons. Female, short judicial record and, strangely, because she's Catholic.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:11 PM (BhMhR)

74 There was a time when the election was done on election night...
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 07:07 PM (FQmDC)


There was a time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:12 PM (PQ4m2)

75 She was nominated for all the wrong reasons. Female, short judicial record and, strangely, because she's Catholic.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:11 PM


And Kennedy was almost not nominated because he was a Catholic. There was an entire segment of the voting public back then that thought a Catholic could never win a national election.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:13 PM (QNSds)

76 @73

>>because she's Catholic.

She was nominated to complete the group who were a lock to overturn Roe.

That's it.

Her ideology is too scattered otherwise but she did over turn Roe.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 07:13 PM (XV/Pl)

77 and let Baseball and the Yankees break my heart.

The Yankees have won nearly a 1/4 of all World Series Played.

Heartache? Pfft

--
Mets fans with two measly World Series, who should have won at least 3 more and don't get me started on Bobby Bonnilla.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 07:09 PM (XV/Pl)

I have high standards, what can I say LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:13 PM (PQ4m2)

78 @67 July 1st until 2035 is Bobby Bonilla day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 07:14 PM (aX7Uj)

79 Well, you trust the corrupt, weaponized SS Stormtroopers, so why not trust the DOJ?

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 25, 2024 07:14 PM (FRT/w)

80 >>Just saw a video of one of the leaders of the Columbia gaggle saying Zionists and white supremacists deserve to be killed. I'm neither, but I'm pretty sure he means me.

I've about had my fill of racist black supremacists.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 07:14 PM (LkLld)

81 Also if Congress has immunity on speech then the President needs the same level of immunity on speech.
I liked the idea of taking Obama to court on murder charges. Try him in a court not sympathetic to Dems.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #204 at April 25, 2024 07:15 PM (qfLjt)

82 Meh Bonilla with his deferred money gets all the hate what about Jason Bay?

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 07:15 PM (FQmDC)

83 Ya have never and will never see the 3 left wing amigos break rank on anything important

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:15 PM (PQ4m2)

84 "This barrett broad is shaping up as a disappointment"

She's been know as amy conjob barrett for some time now.

Posted by: Outside of Life at April 25, 2024 07:15 PM (89Sog)

85 Unless a president has complete immunity then our system of government is broken and lost. Each new administration will be imprisoning the previous one, and it will be never ending.

Its the Ukrainian way.

The guy that won the last mostly free election imprisoned his opponent.

The guy Obama installed in the coup then tried to jail that guy who fled.

Then when lil Z "won" he tried to have that guy jailed...but he also fled. Lil Z did pardon the CIA stooge after the war with Russia started though...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 07:17 PM (ibTVg)

86 Hot Air: Big Sister Returns: Criticism of My Work Is a Dire Threat to Democracy

https://tinyurl.com/mwwavt7z

These fucking people never get tired, do they?

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:17 PM (BhMhR)

87 The left will stick a reliable vote mediocrity or crony on the court , the right is too split to ever manage it. Since as we know a good chunk of the GOP plays for the other team.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 07:17 PM (FQmDC)

88 Ya have never and will never see the 3 left wing amigos break rank on anything important

Barrett and Roberts seem to be their own bloc.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:17 PM (i7drE)

89 My thought has been the Supreme Court isn't a Law rule review anymore its a political organization.

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:18 PM (fwDg9)

90 @82

>>Meh Bonilla with his deferred money gets all the hate what about Jason Bay?

Jason Bay simply disintegrated, the Bonilla thing was a Special Kind of Stupid and Greed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 07:18 PM (XV/Pl)

91 My opinion is that any justice voting opposite of Thomas and Alito are provably wrong. And when Thomas and Alito disagree I look to the sky to see if SMOD is approaching.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:20 PM (MNhXM)

92 OT
Daily owl

https://IMGur.com/ESYOr6N

https://IMGur.com/a/oEtfZFC

The last owl has left the nest. If you look at the nest pic in the tree closely you can see one of the baby owls watching me.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 07:20 PM (I6U7D)

93 Ever since Roberts slinked away from the Government Healthcare and turned it into a political decision that was when I decided the Supreme Court is wasted

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:21 PM (fwDg9)

94 And there's still the massive issue of whether Jack Smith was properly appointed.

Others suggest that this is the narrowest ruling, which gets rid of this for now.
A favorite tactic of the Court.

If they rule he's not an officer, he had indicted ultra vires and the charges are void.
The DOJ would have to start from scratch.
And this time with a grand jury in FL.
Not their hand-picked drooling lackeys in DC.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 07:21 PM (yikga)

95 Korsuch was Korsuck for a while there. He has the potential to screw us too.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:22 PM (MNhXM)

96 Ever since Roberts slinked away from the Government Healthcare and turned it into a political decision that was when I decided the Supreme Court is wasted

I've worked on the theory that Roberts votes to save the image of the court. I'll die convinced that Obama was ready to defy the Supremes over ObamaCare - so Roberts caved.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:23 PM (i7drE)

97 Remember when the SCOTUS said that student loan forgiveness was unconstitutional and Brandon did it anyway? Good times.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:25 PM (2UnvF)

98 Barbara Lagoa should have been on SC, rather than ACB. PDT should have listened to Gov Ron. No young kids, great personal story, true conservative.

Posted by: EveR at April 25, 2024 07:26 PM (Z/h4+)

99
don't get me started on Bobby Bonnilla.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

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Financially it actually was a net plus for the Mets. The Mets didn't have $5 million to spare at the time. Waiting 10 years and getting 25 years of payments probably cost Bonilla several million dollars.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 07:27 PM (ro5Z0)

100 Korsuch was Korsuck for a while there. He has the potential to screw us too.
Posted by: polynikes at

Gorsuch is there to bury Chevron which he will. So from a certain point of view acb and gorsuch will have done their jobs.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (MGB5H)

101 Legal Insurrection: Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

https://tinyurl.com/3f9xkfr3

Lobsters may have some level of consciousness but the important thing to remember they're delicious when steamed and dipped in butter.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (BhMhR)

102 Remember when the SCOTUS said that student loan forgiveness was unconstitutional and Brandon did it anyway? Good times.

Yep. The horse is out of the barn. Its ironic - Roberts will be remembered as the chief justice that presided over the irrelevency of the court - exactly what he tried to avoid.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (i7drE)

103 Ever since Roberts slinked away from the Government Healthcare and turned it into a political decision that was when I decided the Supreme Court is wasted

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 07:21 PM



Kelo vs. The City of New London was the last straw on common sense from SCOTUS. Never before has the government been able to seize private property and gift it to a private entity.


". . . nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (QNSds)

104 ". . . nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Posted by: Mister Scott

Hey I've read that somewhere before.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 07:29 PM (MGB5H)

105 Lobsters may have some level of consciousness but the important thing to remember they're delicious when steamed and dipped in butter.
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (BhMhR)

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I once got my own post for a comment about lobsters.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:30 PM (2UnvF)

106 Looking back at the CO insurrection decision.
All the legal experts said CO had it right.

None of them caught the justices question on how this doesn't result in a patchwork of inconsistent laws.
With various states denying candidates for any reason.

And this is the big thing that they all missed:
When the Justice asked how CO's position would prevent endless future litigation. Ending up again at their court.

And that was the question again today:
How do we rule that doesn't result in endless future litigation?
Especially if they grant limited immunity how does that not mean constant recrimination suits each arguing this act is like the act the Court said doesn't have immunity.
Even frivolous claims which will endlessly tie the president up in litigation.

Meaning, the only safe ruling is absolute immunity with the people deciding if it was criminal via impeachment and removal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 07:32 PM (yikga)

107 Kosher Lobster are the best, but Mamma Mia, are they expensive

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (PQ4m2)

108 Justice Sonia Sotomayor said "A stable democratic society, needs the good faith of its public officials."

In what way are these charges "good faith"? They seem like a gross misuse of power by a rogue attorney.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (nLFEI)

109 Why are we even talking about Trump getting elected. Even if he does, impeachment and the Dems/GOP will block everything he tries to do.

It's just a soap opera. America is gone. We can only hope to find a refuge to live our lives peacefully till we die.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (4gQRD)

110 101 Legal Insurrection: Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

https://tinyurl.com/3f9xkfr3

Lobsters may have some level of consciousness but the important thing to remember they're delicious when steamed and dipped in butter.
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM

I will remember this study when they are trying to force us all to eat bugs.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (I6U7D)

111 Note the contradiction here -- they're saying that we cannot have a blanket rule that anything a president does is presumptively legal. They just want a blanket rule that anything a DOJ does is presumptively legal.

So long as that DOJ is headed by a Democrat, of course.

An admirably concise and cogent description of the Deep State's outlook.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 07:34 PM (njExo)

112 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (QNSds)

One turncoat caused that. Thanks Souter and the people who recommended him.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:34 PM (MNhXM)

113 Babylon Bee>>>>>>>>> The Onion

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:35 PM (wz9M6)

114 One turncoat caused that. Thanks Souter and the people who recommended him.

Bush the Elder ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:35 PM (i7drE)

115 Kosher Lobster are the best, but Mamma Mia, are they expensive

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (PQ4m2)

Should I take the yarmulkas off before cooking?

Posted by: Just sayin at April 25, 2024 07:35 PM (4gQRD)

116 I want to live in a world where electricity generated by clean nuclear energy powers my fridge full of fresh lobster.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:36 PM (BhMhR)

117 It's just a soap opera. America is gone. We can only hope to find a refuge to live our lives peacefully till we die.
Posted by: Just sayin at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (4gQRD)

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Then give up and quit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:36 PM (2UnvF)

118 Octopus are pretty smart and there is some evidence they have emotions but lobsters are dumber than a bag of hammers.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 07:36 PM (LkLld)

119 Kosher Lobster are the best, but Mamma Mia, are they expensive

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:33 PM (PQ4m2)

Should I take the yarmulkas off before cooking?
Posted by: Just sayin at April 25, 2024 07:35 PM (4gQRD)

Absolutely, it is against the law to boil a lobster with it's Kippah on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (PQ4m2)

120 Gorsuch is there to bury Chevron which he will. So from a certain point of view acb and gorsuch will have done their jobs.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 07:28 PM (MGB5H)

We will see. I ain’t counting my chickens though I think you are probably right.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (MNhXM)

121 Its the Ukrainian way.

The guy that won the last mostly free election imprisoned his opponent.

The guy Obama installed in the coup then tried to jail that guy who fled.

Then when lil Z "won" he tried to have that guy jailed...but he also fled. Lil Z did pardon the CIA stooge after the war with Russia started though...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 07:17 PM (ibTVg)

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They are supposed to learn from us not we from them.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (unUNN)

122 People seem to forget that Bill Clinton fired a cruise missile at a baby food factory to make it look like he was doing something during the Balkan war. How many did he off with that while getting blown in the Oval? Obama droned multiple civilians. Does each one warrant a separate trial? Based on this logic, sure does!

If only the red states had some AGs with balls who would go after these clowns instead of always letting things go one direction.

Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (kIwCj)

123 >>One turncoat caused that. Thanks Souter and the people who recommended him.

Bush the Elder ?
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way

Him and the DC Dicksips.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (IG4Id)

124 Justice Sonia Sotomayor said "A stable democratic society, needs the good faith of its public officials."
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So is the wide Latinx now voting Republican?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM (YqDXo)

125 I once got my own post for a comment about lobsters.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:30 PM

And yet no post love for your OnlyFans career. Sad.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 07:38 PM (a3Q+t)

126 I'm always a little suspicious of those who say we should just give up and allow the tyrants to take over.

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2024 07:38 PM (Sf2cq)

127 Babylon Bee>>>>>>>>> The Onion
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 07:35 PM (wz9M6)

The Bee has great headlines, but the articles can be really hit or miss.

There was a time when The Onion was can't miss.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 07:38 PM (BhMhR)

128 Next year Trump should empty out the DOJ and State, everyone else will fall into line.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 07:38 PM (unUNN)

129 nood

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (IG4Id)

130 People seem to forget that Bill Clinton fired a cruise missile at a baby food factory to make it look like he was doing something during the Balkan war. How many did he off with that while getting blown in the Oval? Obama droned multiple civilians. Does each one warrant a separate trial? Based on this logic, sure does!

If only the red states had some AGs with balls who would go after these clowns instead of always letting things go one direction.

Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at April 25, 2024 07:37 PM


Well first he would have had to order that missile fired when he was in a red state for jurisdictional issues to apply. Trump was in DC so everything he did is/was fair game for the democrats.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (QNSds)

131 DC DickSips should be the new name for the Redskins.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (i7drE)

132 Then give up and quit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:36 PM (2UnvF)

So tell me what to do Duke. I have bought a place outside of cities for security and peace , and of course vote harder. What else?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (4gQRD)

133 And yet no post love for your OnlyFans career. Sad.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 07:38 PM

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Both were hilarious though.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (2UnvF)

134 114 One turncoat caused that. Thanks Souter and the people who recommended him.

Bush the Elder ?
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:35 PM (i7drE)

Again I rarely give credit or place blame on a President ( Republican) . Most names are recommended to them and in the best light.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (MNhXM)

135 Legal Insurrection: Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

Notice that they didn't say anything about leftists.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 07:40 PM (YqDXo)

136 a bag of hammers.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 07:36 PM

I'm interested!

Posted by: Paul P. at April 25, 2024 07:40 PM (a3Q+t)

137 I have bought a place outside of cities for security and peace , and of course vote harder. What else?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM

Practice bass ukulele solos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 07:42 PM (a3Q+t)

138 So tell me what to do Duke. I have bought a place outside of cities for security and peace , and of course vote harder. What else?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 07:39 PM (4gQRD)

I think he is saying don’t give up , not that you have to do something. When an opportunity presents itself then you can make that choice. Not giving up is 99% of the battle. But I understand it’s tempting to do. I’ve been on the brink multiple times.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:43 PM (MNhXM)

139 Legal Insurrection: Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

I declare two of the four have a preferred place on my dinner plate. Octopi and bugs are safe - for now.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (i7drE)

140 Practice bass ukulele solos.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 07:42 PM (a3Q+t)

LMAO! Sage advice. I'm also practicing cowbell.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (4gQRD)

141 But I really liked the point that, if they rule a president can be criminally changed once he leaves office, why would any President voluntarily leave?

Especially knowing his most bitter enemies can now imprison him for life.
Or at the least bankrupt him defending endless frivolous criminal charges.
But worse, how about in office, frozen from making a gray area calls under that threat?
With the catch-22 that if he doesn't act, that could also be criminally charged?

They keep with the horror exaggeration of a president ordering the aasaination of a rival.
How about a president ordering the murder of Timothy McVeigh a week before Oklahoma City?
But national security prevents proof of why.
That's pure murder, right.
Or he passes the opportunity, McVeigh kills hundreds. And the IC leaks he refused to stop McVeigh.
Now he's criminally liable for those murders.

That's how fucking insane the left is to get Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 07:44 PM (yikga)

142 I’ve been on the brink multiple times.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 07:43 PM (MNhXM)

Well I donate locally and work for local candidates to keep my state red. And will vote Trump but, the presidency accomplishing a turnaround is for the country is pissing in the wind IMHO.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 25, 2024 07:47 PM (4gQRD)

143 I'm curious where in the Constitution the DOJ finds any authority to do anything at all?

Obama's DOJ advised Obama that it was fine to kill al-Awaki. The only one in that discussion that had any Constitutional power whatsoever was Obama.

Posted by: Tar Bae at April 25, 2024 07:54 PM (uR4Tu)

144 Just a SWAG here, but if a president while in office were found to have murdered an aide in the WH, no immunity. It is not a high crime and misdemeanor so not impeachable, but it sure ought to be subject to criminal prosecution.
OTOH, anything that can shoe-horned into a presidential official acts, even authorizing drone strikes on a known international terrorist despite his US citizenship, ought to fall within the core powers of the Article II presidency as commander-in-chief.
The problem is in where exactly to draw that line of distinction.

Posted by: Fritz at April 25, 2024 09:20 PM (vMtiO)

145 And Kennedy was almost not nominated because he was a Catholic. There was an entire segment of the voting public back then that thought a Catholic could never win a national election.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:13 PM (QNSds)

Actually, the entire Kennedy being Catholic thing was, many people were apprehensive about the Vatican controlling the presidency. I still remember the heated discussions about that.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 25, 2024 09:27 PM (iODuv)

146 Let's say Trump gets reelected for the third time.

Congress is sworn in before the President.

So Congress just declared Biden cheated oopsie and Trump was actually the President for the last four years so CANNOT have a third term so Biden wins the 2024 election
for his second first term.

Hey my stuff is better than their stuff any day.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 09:31 PM (j9uO3)

147 Being that the Pope is a raging commie rat and the current 'President' is a Catholic maybe we've been barking up the wrong tree and it's the POPE, not Obama, with his hand up Joetatoe's a55.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 09:35 PM (j9uO3)

148 Supreme Court Conservatives Seem to Favor Acknowledging Some Form of Presidential Immunity, At Least for "Official Acts" Undertaken as Part of the President's "Core Powers"

.. Barack Obama will sleep fine tonight

Posted by: Neo at April 25, 2024 11:30 PM (RovqD)

149 DOJ lawyer Michael Dreeben says it's perfectly fine for Obama to drone strike innocent civilians while arguing in favor of prosecuting Trump for "election interference."

Remarkable.

The comment came after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh cornered Dreeben by asking him about presidential immunity and why Obama was never prosecuted.

Dreeben said the drone strikes were totally fine because the "Office of Legal Counsel looked at this very carefully."


.. I just love how there were multiple answers that said a POTUS could do despicable actions if reviewed in advance by inferior officers of the government.

It's like asking a child for permission.

Posted by: Neo at April 25, 2024 11:40 PM (RovqD)

Terror-Sympathizers Attempt Takeover of UT Austin; Greg Abbott Sends in the Texas National Guard

The DOJ has explained to us that "parading" with the intent to disrupt any government function is a major felony.

So parading to shut down a government-funded school is a major crime for which people should be jailed without trial for years, I figure.

Rising tensions on school campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas reached university campuses here in Texas.

Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class in support of Palestine. Many held up signs calling for a ceasefire or more help for Gaza.

Dozens of state troopers in riot gear asked the students to disperse. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said law enforcement officers arrested more than 20 people on the UT campus.

Protesters were heard chanting, "Release our students."

"Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses," Gov. Greg Abbott said via social media. "These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."

Protesters are demanding the university system divest from companies that manufacture machinery used in war.

DPS said it responded to the UT campus in Austin Wednesday at the request of the University and at the direction of Gov. Abbott "to prevent any unlawful assembly and to support UT Police in maintaining the peace by arresting anyone engaging in any sort of criminal activity, including criminal trespass."

Now that I've vented -- Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.

In Florida, police almost immediately arrested communist/islamist gangsters for highway-blocking "protesters."

In their latest demonstration, pro-Palestine protesters in Miami termed their activity as an "economic blockade," through a longstanding state law that defines obstructing traffic without a permit.

A small group of individuals who organized a Tax Day protest now face second-degree misdemeanors.

People protesting the rising death toll in Gaza were pulled away and handcuffed by Miami police officers after blocking traffic on Biscayne Boulevard near Bayside in downtown Miami on Monday.

Most of them are in their twenties and reside in Miami. Their charges, according to police, are unrelated to the subject of their demonstration.

Their offenses revolve around blocking a roadway without proper authorization.

Specifically, they employed their bodies to block a crosswalk, using homemade devices known as "sleeping dragons" to interconnect protesters. These devices, typically made from painted PVC pieces, fasten several demonstrators together.

Someone pointed out that pro-terrorist "protesters" were given four hours to block traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge, as critical a traffic artery as there is.

In Florida, they were given fifteen minutes.

Of course, Florida cops are protecting the protesters by arresting them, because DeSantis signed a law giving motorists the right to run the f*ck over protesters if they're blocking the streets two years ago.

Abbott and DeSantis are playing a game of Quien es mas macho?

Who's winning?

We all are, my friends. We all are.

I can't find that sketch on YouTube, but enjoy this barely-related one.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:16 PM




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Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (DRSnL)

2 Throw them in jail without charge!

Deny them basic medical care!

Maybe throw in a bit of torture and psyop tactics!

Force them to confess to things they did not do! (Maybe hug a puppy or guide a Jewish grandma across the street.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (W89wx)

3 What these college kids need is a nice wood shampoo

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (/7KEl)

4 Hi Jordan!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (PiwSw)

5 According to the Palestinian Health Authority, over one billion students were arrested.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (CHHv1)

6 Hi Jordan!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (PiwSw)

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Hi!

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (DRSnL)

7 Abbott stands tall.

Posted by: huerfano at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (VGOMa)

8 We need Lawn Order

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (/7KEl)

9 Shouldn't these protesters be protesting the Arab countries who are not sending their armies in to defend Hamasistan?

Should they not harass Saudi Arabians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Emiratis, etc on campus?

It seems a little bit... Inconsistent.

Especially since the name countries are either at peace or making peace with israel.

Posted by: Johnny at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (PmiZd)

10 That kind of $hit don't work here in Texas. The rest of the country needs to grow a set of balls and emulate us when dealing with these little punks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (QNSds)

11 I saw something at DM this morning; some of the protestors at NYU don't even know what they're protesting.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (DRSnL)

12 UT usually lets just about any leftwing nutjob hang around the West Mall and demonstrate, so this group must have really pissed people off.

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (AR07F)

13 It was the Fucking Around of times;
It was the Finding Out of times.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (OUMaO)

14 We need Lawn Order
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (/7KEl)


Heh!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (W/lyH)

15 I don't think we control how much the left goes into authoritarianism, other than the ability to make them fear repercussions.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (eYoxG)

16 Plural of octopus is octopi

Plural of campus campi?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (Q2P04)

17 Treat them like the J6 protestors.

No rights, no trials, simply lock them up for years.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (JeYYB)

18 >>>11 I saw something at DM this morning; some of the protestors at NYU don't even know what they're protesting.

What'd'ya got?

Posted by: James Dean at April 25, 2024 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

19 Octopuses
Campuses

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (3ImbR)

20
Ooops, I had another Rogue Fart. Nurse mommy, change me.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (KRtlO)

21 Oh here it is: NYU anti-Israel demonstrator who says she's come down from Columbia to join activists admits she doesn't know what she's protesting about.

https://is.gd/dMwKiO

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (DRSnL)

22 Just when I thought I couldn't take another news blurb of America's decay, this happens. HUZZAH!

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (JeYYB)

23 The more pro-terrorist skulls caved in, the better.

It is a shame this country tolerates this kind of terrorist love in public.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (i7Q7S)

24 I can't find that sketch on YouTube, but enjoy this barely-related one.



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oh yeah, I watched it recently. It is muy cómico !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (V13WU)

25 They arrested Student Protestors Protesting for Justice for Palestine?

Oh No!

Anyway... the chick in that video has some nice cleavage. Thanks Ace! Clearly far more important that whatever the hippies are demanding.

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (N/k1H)

26 giving motorists the right to run the f*ck over protesters if they're blocking the streets

Yeah baby!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (Q2P04)

27 Sounds like the campus riots of the 60’s where I have read that non students came on to campus and got the heads full of mush all worked up to riot… along with government agents thrown intomthe mix…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (PCK5/)

28 10 That kind of $hit don't work here in Texas. The rest of the country needs to grow a set of balls and emulate us when dealing with these little punks.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (QNSds)

I know Austin is geographically in Texas, but culturally....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (PiwSw)

29 some answer found via google

The Latinate plural form campi is sometimes used, particularly with respect to colleges or universities; however, it is sometimes frowned upon. By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (KRtlO)

30 The rioters were slapped on the wrist and sent on their way.

No rule of law exists.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (mggQ3)

31 Pace, Ms. MacDonald, but the left is already using these tactics against us.

Posted by: butch at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (4nut+)

32 @12 UT usually lets just about any leftwing nutjob hang around the West Mall and demonstrate, so this group must have really pissed people off.

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Even at USC (which shut down a protest yesterday, and is only allowing students and faculty on campus today) many non-Jewish students don't seem to like the protestors. There's an awareness that chanting about rivers and seas refers to genocide of the Israelis.

Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (JJ2jk)

33 Lady just called in to the Vince Coglianese show and said those kids whose 2020 high school graduation ceremonies were cancelled due to COVID, are now having their 2024 college graduation ceremonies cancelled due to idiot terrorist-sympathizer protests.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 05:27 PM (3ImbR)

34 What Butch said. Heather MacDonald does not know what time it is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 05:27 PM (xcxpd)

35

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Fourteen people were arrested during a Thursday morning protest calling for a cease-fire in Gaza outside the Indiana Governor’s Residence on Meridian Street.

Jewish Voice for Peace-Indiana, a group that says it’s made up of Indianapolis-based college students, staged the Seder IN Action rally around 7:30 a.m. at Tarkington Park to demand a cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. aid to Israel.

About half an hour later, the protesters had moved onto Meridian Street south of the park and were blocking intersections, forcing Indianapolis police to close the southbound lanes between 49th and 46th streets.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (63Dwl)

36 Is that Cory Booker's beard in that SNL skit?

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (GPSZ3)

37 Is that Cory Booker's beard in that SNL skit?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (GPSZ3)

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Yes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (DRSnL)

38 I know Austin is geographically in Texas, but culturally....

right -- Austin has all the same leftwing crap as any other deep blue shithole; it. might as well be California

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (AR07F)

39 36 Is that Cory Booker's beard in that SNL skit?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (GPSZ3)

Yup.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (PiwSw)

40 This is absolutely hilarious.

The beta male mayor of San Jose California runs into a black male constituent during an interview and "a random guy starts fighting the mayor's security."

Note the mayor stands there and texts while these guys throw karate chops.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (i7Q7S)

41 Campodes.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (OguvZ)

42 Punch a nazi, in action.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (GLnHa)

43 That kind of $hit don't work here in Texas. The rest of the country needs to grow a set of balls and emulate us when dealing with these little punks.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (QNSds)

I know Austin is geographically in Texas, but culturally....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM


And that is why the governor ordered the DPS in there to arrest all of those little $hits when it started. State University funded by taxpayers and he don't care that it is an extremely liberal city. We ain't gonna put up with that garbage. Cuff and stuff them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (QNSds)

44 27 Sounds like the campus riots of the 60’s where I have read that non students came on to campus and got the heads full of mush all worked up to riot… along with government agents thrown intomthe mix…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (PCK5/)

Trial of the Chicago 7 is calling...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (exHjb)

45 I thought Austin would have erupted much earlier . I don’t consider it part of Texas. It’s more like a California embassy grounds.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:30 PM (MNhXM)

46 This is my idea as to what to do with antisemites (hamastanian supporting thugs) shutting down unis and causing havoc across the nation :

https://tinyurl.com/4tekwwkz

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:31 PM (V13WU)

47 Soro's son must be paying a shit ton organizing these protests across the country.

All the tents are the same in each protest. It's just like the BLM bullshit. Someone is buying in bulk.

It's all very orchestrated. Who knew you could get so many dumbasses to support Hamas against Israel.

Fuck these losers.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 05:32 PM (JeYYB)

48 very.organized.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (V13WU)

49 In Pittsburgh, these people started camping out at Pitt.

They got them to move, but graduation is this Sunday and I can't see how these Nazi nuts will constrain themselves.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (i7Q7S)

50 thanks Jay in PA!

i sidebarred the vid.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (KRtlO)

51 By contrast, the common plural form campuses is universally accepted.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (KRtlO)


It's not universal. I don't accept it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (nOjd9)

52 Fill up some Backpack Mounted Super Soaker tanks with 100% pure Capsaicin Oil, driven by an accompanying air tank, charged with enough compressed cubic volume to fully empty the Capsaicin tank.

Equip the front ranks of Riot Police with Super Soaker guns attached to said tanks, THE BEST GAS MASKS money can buy, and issue the FORWARD, MARCH! command.

Spray everything and every one in front of them, who is in range. Including "journalists".

Put it on Pay Per View, and all the Overtime would be covered in one.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (e6UQI)

53 Ace es en espanol, si! No tengo pina.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 05:34 PM (w6EFb)

54 Note the mayor stands there and texts while these guys throw karate chops.
Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (i7Q7S)


Was everyone kung-fu fighting?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 05:34 PM (nOjd9)

55 Now that I've vented -- Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.

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They already did it. What do you think J6 prosecutions and jailing are? We are way beyond any constrains on the government.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (unUNN)

56
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (e6UQI)

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I like the way you think.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (JeYYB)

57 Don't know if anybody has brought up this editorial at the WSJ, yet:
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The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It
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https://tinyl.io/Agay

It's pretty good (if disheartening).

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (krQz2)

58 Ok the snl was actually funny. I'm shocked.

Posted by: Styx at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (Y6IkP)

59 Put it on Pay Per View, and all the Overtime would be covered in one.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

lol...not joking. I'd pay for it.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (PwgSL)

60 Riots in Ireland as locals set fire to a new migrant center that was under construction.

It's high time the Irish woke up. Hoping, but not holding my breath.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (3ImbR)

61 Crime's only "going down" because they aren't reporting it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 05:36 PM (w6EFb)

62 USC has apparently cancelled its graduation ceremony. They had revoked a Hamas sympathizers permission to speak (she wasn't val- or salutorian ) and caught a bunch of flack. So screw everyone, it's cancelled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 05:36 PM (aX7Uj)

63 lol...not joking. I'd pay for it.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (PwgSL)

Reminds me of that "wants more government" meme.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 05:36 PM (w6EFb)

64 Pace, Ms. MacDonald, but the left is already using these tactics against us.
Posted by: butch at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (4nut+)

They are free to gather in a public park and bloviate, but the moment the block traffic, or harass innocent passers-by, kill them dead, and throw their bodies into the street, and do burnouts on their guts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (8zz6B)

65 @58 that snl skit is probably 15 y old..

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (V13WU)

66 Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

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OMG! Will there be a boa shortage?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (FVME7)

67 I'm worried about Islamaphobia and the blow back on the Muslim community.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (LkLld)

68 If someone feels froggy and jumps, DON'T have a repeat of Kent State. I do NOT want some even more dickless version of that insufferable Neil Young song by Billie Eilish or whoever, playing until I go to my grave.

If it comes to that, gun down hundreds of these braindead, privileged little hothouse flowers. Make sure nobody ever wants to say another word about that day, let alone write up some faggoty song like that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (0FoWg)

69 Parents have lost control of their kids.

They should have the talk that if you protest you will personally be expelled from school by your mother and father and not only will we not pay for their college, but they can start paying for their own cell phone too.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 05:38 PM (NpAcC)

70 I know Austin is geographically in Texas, but culturally....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM


And that is why the governor ordered the DPS in there to arrest all of those little $hits when it started. State University funded by taxpayers and he don't care that it is an extremely liberal city. We ain't gonna put up with that garbage. Cuff and stuff them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (QNSds)
***

Daughter of Diogenes #1 lives.in Austin. She says Yeah, they fot.their weird vibe.going, but every time they get out of hand, the real locals step in and put an end to it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:38 PM (W/lyH)

71 Trade school for appliance repair /install, car mechanic, and welder looking better and better.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:38 PM (u82oZ)

72 I'm worried about Islamaphobia and the blow back on the Muslim community.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (LkLld)

I've been worried about blowback on the Muslim community since 9/11. Always on guard. Could happen any minute.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 05:39 PM (w6EFb)

73 Think I saw a video where some of the UT protestors were "riding the lightning". Didn't look like Texas DPS was going to mess around too much with their antics.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 05:39 PM (N39Ws)

74 I thought Austin would have erupted much earlier . I don’t consider it part of Texas. It’s more like a California embassy grounds.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:30 PM (MNhXM)

Their time would be better spent blockading I-35 between Austin and Round Rock. It would be a short time, but quite eventful.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 05:39 PM (rj6Yv)

75 BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

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umm, why ???

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:39 PM (V13WU)

76 I don't think we control how much the left goes into authoritarianism, other than the ability to make them fear repercussions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (eYoxG)

Leftists always are authoritarian. Even the hippies were 99 percent hippie in the exact way as the others.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:40 PM (eoQWY)

77 I know Austin is geographically in Texas, but culturally....
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It was TX State Troopers and not Austin city cops. The video/stills I saw anyway.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:40 PM (vtyCZ)

78 Here is the SNL clip but somebody decided to make it better and ruined it.

https://tinyurl.com/4v2jkmrt

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (LkLld)

79 Even the hippies were 99 percent hippie in the exact way as the others.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:40 PM (eoQWY)

We're all unique!

Posted by: hippies at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (w6EFb)

80 Now that I've vented -- Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.
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But it is the oblivious character of the left that they will charge that you are shutting down their speech if you arrest them for rioting and threatening Jews.

Just like if a school, funded by the State, which used to be selections be put into the library receives word from the State, that they are not to place certain graphic books on the shelf, the left calls it "book burning".

There are a lot of vanity press authors who would like some space on those shelves, but the State or the school has no obligation to give them space. So selecting curriculum is now called "banning" when the left needs it.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (krQz2)

81 BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

==

umm, why ???
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:39 PM (V13WU)


The entire Ladies' Ready To Wear industry has been shamefully silent on the need for Israel to get its hands off Gaza.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (nOjd9)

82 Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.

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Oh, ferpetessakes. I've been hearing this my whole life.

"If we fight back using Tactic X after the Left has used it for many years with no remorse, then they might keep on using Tactic X with no remorse!"

FTS. This is just ridiculous at this point.

*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (0FoWg)

83 >>> Fill up some Backpack Mounted Super Soaker tanks with 100% pure Capsaicin Oil, driven by an accompanying air tank, charged with enough compressed cubic volume to fully empty the Capsaicin tank.
...
Posted by: Jim at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (e6UQI)


So Jin-Roh, but thai hot

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 05:42 PM (Y6IkP)

84 Georgia State Troopers moved in on Emory University's Gaza Solidarity Camp with rubber bullets, teargas, and zip ties today.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

85 Where are the flash bangs and concussion grenades? Even the tear gas rounds. They were good enough for the J6 protestors. Surely these people are worthy of them as well.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (N39Ws)

86 So the yankee government sends shock troops to Texas to gen up some blood, any blood will do.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (o2ZRX)

87 62 USC has apparently cancelled its graduation ceremony. They had revoked a Hamas sympathizers permission to speak (she wasn't val- or salutorian ) and caught a bunch of flack. So screw everyone, it's cancelled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 05:36 PM (aX7Uj)


Another of The Great Moments of Institutional Cowardice by American Academia. This is No. 149,050,372,658.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (5fDan)

88 BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

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OMG! Will there be a boa shortage?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (FVME7)
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I'll take Places That Can't Exist for $200, Alex.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (krQz2)

89 Columbia U always had a terrible stench. Rashid Khalidi - a "Palestenian-American" was a bid deal there. Spread his poison for years and they let him. Of course he was Orama's favorite prof.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:44 PM (V13WU)

90 The storming of FIT in NYC shows a bunch of people storming a lobby with some security trying to bar the doors. A few of the stormers are Hasidic Jews, those of whom don't believe Israel should exist because the Messiah hasn't returned. I wonder if they realize that the Koran doesn't differentiate between Zionist and non- Zionist Jews, saying they are all descendants of apes and pigs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 05:45 PM (aX7Uj)

91 In other education news, the grade schoolers were driven to the High School to watch the High School student play "Mama Mia."

One kindergartner said "Ugh. They was kissing." Her friend, another kindergartener girl, said :"That was not real kissing."

I made no comment. Sometimes I feel like I am on the set of Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:45 PM (u82oZ)

92 If someone feels froggy and jumps, DON'T have a repeat of Kent State. I do NOT want some even more dickless version of that insufferable Neil Young song by Billie Eilish or whoever, playing until I go to my grave.

If it comes to that, gun down hundreds of these braindead, privileged little hothouse flowers. Make sure nobody ever wants to say another word about that day, let alone write up some faggoty song like that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (0FoWg)

There were worse riots at several other Ohio schools that went down normally. Kent had some pretty green National Guard fellows whose leaders marched them about aimlessly, got them kinda trapped by a fencing line and when trying to extricate themselves some few fired when the crowd chasing them surged to them. I think a couple of the ones that died weren't even involved in the riot.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:45 PM (eoQWY)

93 Video captured multiple students being approached by officers as they 'sprayed tear gas' according to a witness, and fired rubber bullets at them, which can be heard ringing out on video.

Other clips showed cops pin protestors to the ground as they restrained their hands behind their backs.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 05:45 PM (vFG9F)

94

So, national guard or DPS? Headline says one thing story the other thing. National guard and DPS are not the same organizations.

Posted by: Paul's Perianal Pustules at April 25, 2024 05:45 PM (3MhCT)

95 I'm worried about Islamaphobia and the blow back on the Muslim community.
Posted by: JackStraw


I'm worried there won't be any.
They're telling you what they want to do.
I'm afraid people aren't listening.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 05:46 PM (Jxvt5)

96 Parents have lost control of their kids.

They should have the talk that if you protest you will personally be expelled from school by your mother and father and not only will we not pay for their college, but they can start paying for their own cell phone too.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 05:38 PM (NpAcC)
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It's not known whether the parents of these kids ever knew they should have control over their kids.

I've seen arguments in grocery stores between kids and parents migrate from talking to their parents as peers to kids scolding their parents over the years.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:46 PM (krQz2)

97 We can't worry about them using the power against us if we use it. They ALREADY use it against us.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 05:46 PM (FQmDC)

98 I love the smell of ozone in the air. It smells like winning. Watching the protestor cry out like a bitch while the electricity crackles from the taser to their body is a bonus.

Posted by: Apocalypse Now 2024 at April 25, 2024 05:46 PM (N39Ws)

99 Georgia State Troopers moved in on Emory University's Gaza Solidarity Camp with rubber bullets, teargas, and zip ties today.
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (vFG9F)

Protesters tried that sh*t at THE Ohio State University today, but the cops moved in, told the bodies involved to tear down their tents, and arrested three who gave them lip. Tents down. Three to the pokey.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 05:47 PM (rj6Yv)

100 So, national guard or DPS? Headline says one thing story the other thing. National guard and DPS are not the same organizations.
Posted by: Paul's Perianal Pustules


Needs to arm & drill the Texas State Guard. They can't be federalized and sent out of state by Bribem.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 05:47 PM (Jxvt5)

101 Hey y'all. All I taste is pennies.

Posted by: Tasered Protestors at April 25, 2024 05:47 PM (N39Ws)

102 Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin 8h
Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.

While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

https://tinyurl.com/m9tv38x4
16 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:48 PM (vtyCZ)

103 Even the hippies were 99 percent hippie in the exact way as the others.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:40 PM (eoQWY)

We're all unique!
Posted by: hippies

My take on hippies mirrors that South Park episode where hippies invade the town for a music fest and Cartman starts a hippie extermination business.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 05:48 PM (PwgSL)

104 "Hey y'all. All I taste is pennies.
Posted by: Tasered Protestors"

At first I thought you said "penises".

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 05:48 PM (vFG9F)

105 Oh, ferpetessakes. I've been hearing this my whole life.

"If we fight back using Tactic X after the Left has used it for many years with no remorse, then they might keep on using Tactic X with no remorse!"

FTS. This is just ridiculous at this point.

*rolls eyes*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (0FoWg)

A riot isn't a "view" it is an action.

Protests have rules, a location, security provided by the state and you say your bit and go home. Actions of destruction and blocking traffic are not protests, if you care that much go to jail and be a martyr.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:49 PM (eoQWY)

106 >>>BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

lol

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 05:49 PM (KRtlO)

107 Found it.

https://tinyurl.com/9bvea5w5

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:49 PM (LkLld)

108 Are they looking for a Kent State moment?

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 05:50 PM (FQmDC)

109 Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin 8h
Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.

While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

https://tinyurl.com/m9tv38x4
16 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:48 PM (vtyCZ)

Believe all women (except Jewish women).

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:50 PM (BhMhR)

110 May Allah shit down all their throats.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (6On2Z)

111 Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin 8h
Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.

While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

https://tinyurl.com/m9tv38x4
16 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:48 PM (vtyCZ)

Israel took out the Gaza internet early explicitly to slow the spread of the rape and murder pron that was about to be spread all over. Anyone who pretends that it didn't happen is a special type of evil.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (eoQWY)

112 Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.


Actually, we shouldn't employ the same tactics. We must do much much worse. They started it and need to be educated on why their authoritianism and violence will not be tolerated. Take it to an extreme that they realize what a mistake they made starting it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (N39Ws)

113 Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class in support of Palestine.

Palestine, Texas is a nice place. It could, I suppose, use another BBQ place or two, but I'm not sure why the UT folks have their panties in a wad about supporting them.

If you're thinking of visiting Palestine, here's some deets to help you decide:

https://www.visitpalestine.com/

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (a3Q+t)

114 Good afternoon Horde.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (eQRY8)

115 Do we have no canals to dig? No Superfund sites to clean?

We are missing an opportunity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (u82oZ)

116 7 Abbott stands tall.

I love Abbott puns.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (roH4R)

117 Oh, ferpetessakes. I've been hearing this my whole life.

"If we fight back using Tactic X after the Left has used it for many years with no remorse, then they might keep on using Tactic X with no remorse!"

FTS. This is just ridiculous at this point.

*rolls eyes*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (0FoWg)

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This. You want to put it into Lawfare against Trump and other conservatives?

Why the f*ck aren't Texas, Florida, and other R AGs hauling The Biden Crime Family and every other D in the Deep State and Congress and Governors into multiple courts on multiple bogus Trumped-Up charges and indictments -- and bankrupting them with multi-billion dollars judgments and fines?

THAT'S The Shitcago Way ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (XVXfM)

118 Of course, Florida cops are protecting the protesters by arresting them, because DeSantis signed a law giving motorists the right to run the f*ck over protesters if they're blocking the streets two years ago.

Yeah, but he wimped out by prohibiting motorists from driving back and forth multiple times over protestors.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (njExo)

119 BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

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umm, why ???
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:39 PM (V13WU)
***

They did it in order to spread their message, and for the shit they can steal. But mostly for the shit they can
steal.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (W/lyH)

120 >>> Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.
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Sounds very apologetic. I say horses and billy clubs.


Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (lCWOD)

121 Are they looking for a Kent State moment?
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 05:50 PM (FQmDC)

Empress Alex T. Chick, first of her name, is arguing just that on the Twats.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (BhMhR)

122 Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (N39Ws)

I’m totally for this. Queensberry rules can FOAD until we agree to the same rules again.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (eQRY8)

123 Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79 20h
Huge SCOOP by @abigailandwords for @NRO:

Princeton students are planning an encampment.

A recruiting document shows they know they’re breaking the rules but don’t expect serious consequences.

They say they “have a trained security team, pro bono legal support, and ‘faculty members on our side to negotiate with administration.’”

Much more in the article linked below!

Update: Abigail Anthony @abigailandwords Apr 24
UPDATE: VP Calhoun sent an email to all undergrads warning of arrests. An organizer of the protest called this "a partial bluff" and confirmed plans to continue with the encampment.

“‘Arrest’ is not the same as ‘pressing charges,’” the organizer wrote.
nationalreview.com/news/prin…

Here are two emails, one from the Princeton admin and then the student response
https://tinyurl.com/ynw64z39
Nitter three X posts.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (vtyCZ)

124 Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (BhMhR)

She post here anymore?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (eQRY8)

125 Calling all bad bag-pipers. We need you to practice near a protest.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (u82oZ)

126 Read that teachers were more aggressive than students - setting an example for students. The following example should be them losing their job.

Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (lCWOD)

127 *put AN END TO Lawfare ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (XVXfM)

128 Of course, Florida cops are protecting the protesters by arresting them, because DeSantis signed a law giving motorists the right to run the f*ck over protesters if they're blocking the streets two years ago.

Yeah, but he wimped out by prohibiting motorists from driving back and forth multiple times over protestors.
Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (njExo)

Look, lunch plans change all the time at a moment's notice.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:54 PM (eoQWY)

129 From the University of NH:

"The University is deeply committed to the safety of our campus community. UNH police regularly monitor all available sources for potential threats. Despite the geopolitical unrest of the last several months, we have not experienced increased reports of threats or harassment from community members.

UNH is similarly committed to its role as a public university in protecting free speech on campus. We will continue to protect the Constitutionally guaranteed right of our students, faculty, and the public to share their views in accordance with the law and university policy.

No one exercising their free speech rights on campus speaks on behalf of the University of New Hampshire. Nor does the university promote or encourage the speech of one individual or group over another. "

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Encampments will be set up by this weekend. Count on it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 05:55 PM (N39Ws)

130 >>Are they looking for a Kent State moment?

To what end? Most of them are blaming Biden and callng him Genocide Joe. If they get their Kent State moment the blame will fall on those in power not Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:55 PM (LkLld)

131 They never seem to steal the steel toe work boots.

Posted by: Wonder why at April 25, 2024 05:55 PM (jAber)

132 Palestine, Texas is a nice place. It could, I suppose, use another BBQ place or two, but I'm not sure why the UT folks have their panties in a wad about supporting them.

If you're thinking of visiting Palestine, here's some deets to help you decide:

https://www.visitpalestine.com/
Posted by: Duncanthrax


Home of the Coffield Unit of the Department of Corrections. Went on a Life Flight to pick up a stabbing victim. Long assed helicopter ride.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 05:56 PM (Jxvt5)

133 I wonder what the student to non- student ratio is among the protesters?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:56 PM (W/lyH)

134 They did it in order to spread their message, and for the shit they can steal. But mostly for the shit they can
steal.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (W/lyH)

I guess Louis Vuitton has too many off duty cops guarding entry and exits ??

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:56 PM (V13WU)

135 Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:55 PM (LkLld)

Good point.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:56 PM (eQRY8)

136 Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (BhMhR)

She post here anymore?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (eQRY

I hear she pops in on occasion.

She's slippery, that one.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (BhMhR)

137 Protesters tried that sh*t at THE Ohio State University today, but the cops moved in, told the bodies involved to tear down their tents, and arrested three who gave them lip. Tents down. Three to the pokey.
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Columbus is going left wing whacko, DeWine is a full RINO in good standing, OSU is well in the mainstream of left wing foolishness. But OSU admin and the Gov knows better than to let things get out of hand. Which is way better than that school up North.
O-H -
I-O!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (g/1eZ)

138 Calling all bad bag-pipers. We need you to practice near a protest.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (u82oZ)

I approve of this message !!

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (V13WU)

139 Are they looking for a Kent State moment?
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 05:50 PM (FQmDC)

Empress Alex T. Chick, first of her name, is arguing just that on the Twats.
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:52 PM (BhMhR)

Even the Kent State moment wasn't a Kent State moment. The leftists turned it into a mythology but most normal people were in the "well that's why you head back to the dorms when the troops with guns show up"

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

140 Calling all bad bag-pipers. We need you to practice near a protest.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM

TBF, that could lead to someone being kilt.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (a3Q+t)

141 Matt Walsh, who has been an otherwise sensible person and friend of the blog, has been tweeting that this was an absolutely horrible thing for Abbott to do, and he is just completely off base here. Makes me question him completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2024 05:58 PM (i9ffA)

142 Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (BhMhR)

Phrasing?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:59 PM (eQRY8)

143 Quien es mas macho?
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Elliot Ness es muy macho.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 05:59 PM (yikga)

144 Read that teachers were more aggressive than students - setting an example for students. The following example should be them losing their job.
Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM (lCWOD)

Imagine being such dweebs that you would LET your teachers be in on your protest/riot. Words fail me.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:59 PM (eoQWY)

145 Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.
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She's calling Hamas liars. This should be pointed out to her.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 05:59 PM (g/1eZ)

146

Sounds like a train wreck; I'd best go investigate!

And by investigate, I mean being the pivot man at the Friday night drum circle queerbang...

Posted by: Peter Buttplug at April 25, 2024 05:59 PM (3MhCT)

147 Matt Walsh must be an old hippy, who thinks he is still fighting the man, man.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 05:59 PM (V13WU)

148 Parents have lost control of their kids.

They should have the talk that if you protest you will personally be expelled from school by your mother and father and not only will we not pay for their college, but they can start paying for their own cell phone too.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 05:38 PM (NpAcC)


If angry parents cut-off their college child's financial support, Daddy Fed Gov will be happy to help with loans. UniParty Fed Gov is well on its way to providing care for everyone from their Day of Escape from Abortion to their Day of Euthanasia due to Inability to Usefully Serve the State.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 06:00 PM (5fDan)

149 This is just too funny:
https://x.com/wrong_speak/status/1783499120713380339

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 06:00 PM (krQz2)

150 Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2024 05:58 PM (i9ffA)

The guy did 15 dissertation on Bluey. Guy has been riding “What Is A Woman” fame for awhile.

However, I did hear that Abbot shot out a tweet that was….interesting to say the least.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 06:00 PM (eQRY8)

151 Matt Walsh, who has been an otherwise sensible person and friend of the blog, has been tweeting that this was an absolutely horrible thing for Abbott to do, and he is just completely off base here. Makes me question him completely.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2024 05:58 PM (i9ffA)

Some of the stuff that group does is decent work from a culture war standpoint. When they get past that into punditry the limits of them start to show.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:01 PM (eoQWY)

152 No one exercising their free speech rights on campus speaks on behalf of the University of New Hampshire. Nor does the university promote or encourage the speech of one individual or group over another. "

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Encampments will be set up by this weekend. Count on it.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 05:55 PM (N39Ws)
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It'd be hilarious if once set up, say a thousand pro-Israeli tents popped up too, surrounding the pro-Gaza faction.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:01 PM (W/lyH)

153 113 Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class in support of Palestine.

Palestine, Texas is a nice place. It could, I suppose, use another BBQ place or two, but I'm not sure why the UT folks have their panties in a wad about supporting them.

If you're thinking of visiting Palestine, here's some deets to help you decide:

https://www.visitpalestine.com/
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (a3Q+t
As I recall, they have a nice cookie place too.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 06:01 PM (o2ZRX)

154 Makes me glad I work at a small STEM institution in a small town. We don't EVER have those folks show up.

We had a DEI conference this week and by all accounts is was both well-attended and orderly. It was sponsored by a couple of our major corporate partners.

We had a faculty senate meeting this afternoon and everyone was bright and cheerful...the only contention was with the policies of our mothership from on high.

If we DID have a protest of this sort, our chief of police would crack down HARD. He's tough but fair.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (BpYfr)

155 Calling all bad bag-pipers.
~~~~~

No such thing.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (3ImbR)

156 7 Abbott stands tall.

I love Abbott puns.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 05:51 PM (roH4R)


No standing.

Posted by: John Roberts at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (nvKZ7)

157 Hey y'all. All I taste is pennies.

Posted by: Tasered Protestors at April 25, 2024 05:47 PM (N39Ws)

I read "penises." My bad.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (w6EFb)

158 It'd be hilarious if once set up, say a thousand pro-Israeli tents popped up too, surrounding the pro-Gaza faction.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:01 PM (W/lyH)

Need some Egyptian protestors on one side building a wall to hold them in. And flood another side with salt water.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:03 PM (eoQWY)

159 Hamas stormed the Fashion Institute because they want Anna Wintour to change her opinion of wearing plaids with stripes and forbidding white shoes before Easter.

I think she will cave.

It’s fabulous.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 25, 2024 06:03 PM (I6NNh)

160 @133 I wonder what the student to non- student ratio is among the protesters?

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Another relevant question is how many people who aren't involved with the school are participating.

After shutting down protests yesterday, USC started checking for student IDs at the edge of campus today.



Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 06:04 PM (JJ2jk)

161 52
'Backpack Mounted Super Soaker tanks with 100% pure Capsaicin Oil'

Ha. I like the way you think.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 06:04 PM (roH4R)

162 To what end? Most of them are blaming Biden and callng him Genocide Joe. If they get their Kent State moment the blame will fall on those in power not Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 05:55 PM (LkLld)

The purpose of the protests is irrelevant. They need a Kent State moment to make sure it's another summer of violent protests for an election year. If it were to happen at UT or University of Florida or FSU, it gets framed against the "The Right". That's all it'll take.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 25, 2024 06:04 PM (AbL8c)

163 before I show myself out I must ask how your brainiacs are not aware of the enormous evidence that yahoo's, that is, Ben Gvir's gov't were not in on 10/7 from the beginning. How many simultaneous security failures occurred, how many hostages were killed by the idf -- and then this outrageous mass murder of 40k souls, mostly women and kids? And now we're arresting college kids and protesters. Israel is led by murderous Kahanists. They hate you gentiles by the way. Our greatest ally indeed. Wake up, morons.
Posted by: Pastor Feltcher at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (3MpUo)

Don't see how the failures of the Israelis to protect their people from them justifies the actions they took afterward.

And jailing todays college student would be more educational than they get at those expensive schools.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:05 PM (eoQWY)

164 All the protesters that were arrested yesterday were let out of jail already today. And you know Austin's DA isn't gonna do anything about it. They did bring in some more troopers from San Antonio and Houston today. We were told that they would be Using our lunch spot today, so to find somewhere else to eat.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 25, 2024 06:05 PM (PZo5T)

165 Calling all bad bag-pipers. We need you to practice near a protest.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 05:53 PM

TBF, that could lead to someone being kilt.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (a3Q+t)
***

You know, it's not all protests. In some of those tents, they are spreading sporan.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:05 PM (W/lyH)

166 Columbus is going left wing whacko, DeWine is a full RINO in good standing, OSU is well in the mainstream of left wing foolishness. But OSU admin and the Gov knows better than to let things get out of hand. Which is way better than that school up North.
O-H -
I-O!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 05:57 PM (g/1eZ)

I worked at the Ohio State student union for two years while taking courses as a full-time student. Great school.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 06:05 PM (rj6Yv)

167 @158 - that is the best parody yet! sure beats that Brattleboro gal !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:05 PM (V13WU)

168 Carryover from last thread:

Don't want none? Don't start none.

Doesn't get any simpler than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 06:06 PM (Jxvt5)

169 The purpose of the protests is irrelevant. They need a Kent State moment to make sure it's another summer of violent protests for an election year. If it were to happen at UT or University of Florida or FSU, it gets framed against the "The Right". That's all it'll take.
Posted by: DaisyB at April 25, 2024 06:04 PM (AbL8c)

Nixon won the election after Kent State.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:06 PM (eoQWY)

170 Posted by: Pastor Feltcher at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (

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College protestors are getting arrested?! Oh noes!

I couldn't give a shit less if they fuckin' napalmed these kids.

And that's not because of Oct. 7th, or the Current Year Issue. It's because I went to school with them, and know them. Light 'em up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 06:06 PM (0FoWg)

171 However, I did hear that Abbot shot out a tweet that was….interesting to say the least.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 06:00 PM (eQRY

This was Abbott's tweet:
"Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses.

These protesters belong in jail.

Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.

Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."

I'd say at least 75% of Texas agrees with him very strongly on that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2024 06:07 PM (i9ffA)

172 60
'It's high time the Irish woke up.'

The government had better watch out. The Irish know how to be unmanageable when they decide to be.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 06:07 PM (roH4R)

173 Nixon won the election after Kent State.
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It's not 1972 anymore.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 25, 2024 06:07 PM (AbL8c)

174 The government had better watch out. The Irish know how to be unmanageable when they decide to be.


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and then what ?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:07 PM (V13WU)

175 >>The purpose of the protests is irrelevant. They need a Kent State moment to make sure it's another summer of violent protests for an election year. If it were to happen at UT or University of Florida or FSU, it gets framed against the "The Right". That's all it'll take.


Yea, I'm not so sure they will get their way this time.

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming

Trump got stained by the Floyd BLM/antifa riots but he was president. Genocide Joe is President now and the attempt to blame all things on Trump is starting to lose some of its mojo. These "students" are blaming Biden for what is happening in Gaza not Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 06:08 PM (LkLld)

176 Fines, there needs to be fines. $10,000 fine along with each arrest.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 06:08 PM (LfcYE)

177 >>>BREAKING: Pro-Palestinian protesters have stormed the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York

lol
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 05:49 PM (KRtlO)

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Did they run out of those stupid scarves and wanted more without paying?

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 06:08 PM (unUNN)

178 Fines, there needs to be fines. $10,000 fine along with each arrest.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 06:08 PM (LfcYE)

Tickets ! Ticket the bastards !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:08 PM (V13WU)

179 Home of the Coffield Unit of the Department of Corrections. Went on a Life Flight to pick up a stabbing victim. Long assed helicopter ride.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 05:56 PM (Jxvt5)

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I'll bet you've got enough stories from your career to fill a book or 10.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (sIAzz)

180 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (T4tVD)

181 It's only JackStraw and I that got the Ace reference?

I mean, I know why the sketch can't be found.
Mexican game show where the FBI busts in and arrests them?
Problematic.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (yikga)

182 64
'throw their bodies into the street, and do burnouts on their guts.'

Hahaha! I'm dying here.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (roH4R)

183 Another relevant question is how many people who aren't involved with the school are participating.

After shutting down protests yesterday, USC started checking for student IDs at the edge of campus today.



Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 06:04 PM (JJ2jk)

Back in my College Days in the 80s when the "Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade" showed up to burn a flag in the early 80s, I noticed they all were pretty long in the tooth for a college group.

The counter protest the next week or so had far far more people there.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (eoQWY)

184 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

https://tinyurl.com/d9h4cvch

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (BhMhR)

185 Another relevant question is how many people who aren't involved with the school are participating.

==

I estimate...80% or more ?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:10 PM (V13WU)

186 How about we ID these leftists, the ones assaulting the cops, and instead of arresting them at the scene, wait a few weeks and give them the zero dark thirty assault on their residence, the same way that the ATF did the guy who sold guns and gun shows.

Bash in the door, shoot them with a rifle, right in the face.

All without announcing.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 25, 2024 06:10 PM (KiBMU)

187 Carryover from last thread:

-
Tangentially related. Film starlet of the '40s and '50s, Linda Christian, was known as the Anatomic Bomb.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:10 PM (FVME7)

188 Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (BhMhR)

I’ll do it for free lulz

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 06:11 PM (eQRY8)

189 Can we start a fundraiser to rent jets to send all of these protestors to the bosom of gaza? They need to be mugged by reality. Gays for gaza or whatever can be the first ones shoved in the tunnels.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 06:11 PM (I6U7D)

190 Carryover from last thread:

-
Tangentially related. Film starlet of the '40s and '50s, Linda Christian, was known as the Anatomic Bomb.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:10 PM (FVME7)

That was when even the hack Hollywood writers could turn a phrase.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:12 PM (eoQWY)

191 Should send the IDF after thrm

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 06:12 PM (fwDg9)

192 Lloyd Bridges or David Janssen?

Es muy dificil.

Posted by: Kreskin at April 25, 2024 06:12 PM (9WPyc)

193

I'd nail their heads to the floor.

Posted by: Dinsdale Piranha at April 25, 2024 06:13 PM (3MhCT)

194 185 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

https://tinyurl.com/d9h4cvch
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM

Okay, who is in charge of extracting fish sperm and how do they do this?

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (I6U7D)

195 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

https://tinyurl.com/d9h4cvch
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (BhMhR)

Must be hell walking up those Pacific Streams to the spawning grounds.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (eoQWY)

196 Do you have a Walsh link because this is all I see on the Nitter version of his X; and linking NYU 'I don't know' girl.

Cernovich @Cernovich Apr 23
If you think the Columbia stuff is anti semitism and not an outgrowth of anti white hatred, then you are so lost. It’s not even possible to have a conversation.

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog 22h
This is exactly right. The Left sides with Hamas because it is the less white group and they see the struggle as one of brown victims being persecuted by white western colonialists. It’s all anti-white racism dressed up in a slightly different garb. These are all BLM activists. Literally the same people.

Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog 22h
Those on the Right siding with these people are finding common cause with people who hate them and despise everything they stand for.

The Matt Walsh Show @MattWalshShow 2h
Here's The Proof That The 'Free Palestine' Movement Is Just BLM Repackaged

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (vtyCZ)

197 Back in my College Days in the 80s when the "Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade" showed up to burn a flag in the early 80s, I noticed they all were pretty long in the tooth for a college group.

The counter protest the next week or so had far far more people there.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (eoQWY)
***

In my day it was the Students for a Democratic Society. (SDS). They had a protest on campus. About three hundred showed up at our ROTC parade that was that day. All the organizers were non-students and from California.
Got a bit sporty after the parade.
Hee...hee...hee...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:15 PM (W/lyH)

198 I'll bet you've got enough stories from your career to fill a book or 10.
Posted by: ShainS


Maybe a couple of chapters. It was a pretty chill time. I was lucky to be on day shift. Most of the inmates were out of the unit working the fields. It was the evening crew that had most of the fights.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 06:15 PM (Jxvt5)

199 Posted by: Pastor Feltcher at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (3MpU

The Bush administration took down the Twin Towers too !! Fire can’t melt steel !!!

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:16 PM (MNhXM)

200 Okay, who is in charge of extracting fish sperm and how do they do this?
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (I6U7D)

I think on one of those Dirty Jobs / Deadliest Catch shows there were sacs of sperm cells, big ones all over when they were processing fish.

Salmon might be similar.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:16 PM (eoQWY)

201 >>n my day it was the Students for a Democratic Society. (SDS). They had a protest on campus. About three hundred showed up at our ROTC parade that was that day. All the organizers were non-students and from California.
Got a bit sporty after the parade.
Hee...hee...hee...

Did you apologize for ruining their Black Panther party?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (LkLld)

202 Carryover from last thread:

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Tangentially related. Film starlet of the '40s and '50s, Linda Christian, was known as the Anatomic Bomb.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:10 PM (FVME7)

Sister Christian ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (NtVYv)

203 Must be hell walking up those Pacific Streams to the spawning grounds.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (eoQWY)

Mess with spawning Salmon in the Northwest gets you a serious fine and potential jail time.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (XT+5H)

204 Politico: FCC reinstates net neutrality

https://tinyurl.com/59x2unhn

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (BhMhR)

205 The Unenlightenment is picking up the pace.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 06:18 PM (LfcYE)

206 ‘ 195 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

https://tinyurl.com/d9h4cvch
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (BhMhR)

Must be hell walking up those Pacific Streams to the spawning grounds.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (eoQWY
‘Sorry, Charley. They said salmon sperm, not tuna.’

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 06:18 PM (o2ZRX)

207 Posted by: Pastor Feltcher at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (3MpUo)

Pastor Fenelon disagees.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2024 06:19 PM (Le8Bq)

208 Posted by: Pastor Feltcher at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (3MpUo)

Pastor Fenelon disagees.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:19 PM (V13WU)

209 112
' need to be educated on why their authoritianism and violence will not be tolerated.'

The current leftist leadership won't be educated and won't be stopped unless destroyed.
Save the education for those that come afterward.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (roH4R)

210 It's an election year and there's no George Floyd in sight yet. Could Hamas become the George Floyd of 2024?

Posted by: PG at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (gQbO4)

211 > Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.
__________________

Or... just maybe off them all? Theoretically speaking and only as an exercise.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (Q4IgG)

212 is everybody aware that today is Penguin Celebration Day ??

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (V13WU)

213 Must be hell walking up those Pacific Streams to the spawning grounds.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (eoQWY)

Mess with spawning Salmon in the Northwest gets you a serious fine and potential jail time.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (XT+5H)

As a bear yourself I can see why this is a problem for you.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:21 PM (eoQWY)

214 *or is it appreciation day ?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:21 PM (V13WU)

215 The Anatomic Bomb.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Christian

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:21 PM (FVME7)

216 I wonder if Piper found her ring ...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (V13WU)

217 Did you apologize for ruining their Black Panther party?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (LkLld)


Naaa. A couple of the cadets were bruthas...one back from Vietnam less than 6 months, and no one wanted to party at the hospital. We had class to go to.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (W/lyH)

218 They should be using Red Snapper sperm.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (MNhXM)

219 What comes after fucking around? They didn't teach us that in Sociology class

Posted by: UT college student at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (gKWVE)

220 Nothin like a good piece of hickory - Clint Eastwood

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (NtVYv)

221 33 Lady just called in to the Vince Coglianese show and said those kids whose 2020 high school graduation ceremonies were cancelled due to COVID, are now having their 2024 college graduation ceremonies cancelled due to idiot terrorist-sympathizer protests.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 05:27 PM (3ImbR)

Comparing eldest granddaughter's 2020 Sr. fiasco- no prom, graduation in the middle of Texas Motor Speedway- to her brother's (class of 2024) experience is sad.
It colored a lot of her college career- she's just glad to be out.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (jN2/U)

222 It's an election year and there's no George Floyd in sight yet. Could Hamas become the George Floyd of 2024?

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Yes.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (AbL8c)

223 seemed like an irreplaceable heirloom

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM (V13WU)

224 What comes after fucking around? They didn't teach us that in Sociology class
Posted by: UT college student at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (gKWVE)

Fuck around and fill out this 20 page survey form for me to analyze.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM (eoQWY)

225 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

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So much for putting them up on a pedestal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM (FVME7)

226 Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (W/lyH)

You know how I know you never watched Forest Gump?

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM (MNhXM)

227 195 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

https://tinyurl.com/d9h4cvch
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:09 PM (BhMhR)

What's that smell ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM (NtVYv)

228 It's an election year and there's no George Floyd in sight yet. Could Hamas become the George Floyd of 2024?
Posted by: PG at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (gQbO4)

yes, indeed. it has been noted overseas too...cannot reveal my sources, hush hush and all that...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 06:24 PM (V13WU)

229 They should be using Red Snapper sperm.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:22 PM (MNhXM)

heh

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 06:24 PM (NtVYv)

230 >>>> An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn.

The indictment, which includes felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery, also describes Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
_yesterday-Politico


AZ sure is feeling its oats.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 06:24 PM (lCWOD)

231 Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 15h
Poll shows Trump up 5 in Arizona.

A few hours later...

Massive indictment against Trump world including the leader of the largest GOTV ballot chasing operation in the country.

They need to cheat to even make this election close.

Don’t give in.

Keep pushing.

Onward.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 06:24 PM (vtyCZ)

232 I wonder if Texas could offer to exchange some of these people for the J6 hostages?

Posted by: Thatch at April 25, 2024 06:25 PM (LLNW4)

233 >>> Must be hell walking up those Pacific Streams to the spawning grounds.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:14 PM (eoQWY)

Mess with spawning Salmon in the Northwest gets you a serious fine and potential jail time.
Posted by: Beartooth at April 25, 2024 06:17 PM (XT+5H)

As a bear yourself I can see why this is a problem for you.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:21 PM (eoQWY)


Aren't chicks cramming spawning salmon up their hoohas now? Thats been in the news recently. Gets them in the mood or something. The chicks not the salmon.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 06:25 PM (Y6IkP)

234 NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives

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So much for putting them up on a pedestal.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM (FVME7)

Salmon can jump pretty high.

Don't know of any 6 foot salmon that clear 100,000 dollars a year.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:25 PM (eoQWY)

235

Call me, salmon ladies, I've got some tips and tricks for you regarding, you know, not being a fresh down there...

Posted by: Tranny Tilapitwat at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (3MhCT)

236 204 Politico: FCC reinstates net neutrality

https://tinyurl.com/59x2unhn
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Huh, when did Congress pass this law?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (g/1eZ)

237 Lawfare will soon cause warfare.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (MNhXM)

238 It's not salmon semen per se, but rather purified and sterilized salmon DNA molecules called polynucleotides that have anti-inflammatory effects that essentially rejuvenate the skin, anywhere on the body.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (a3Q+t)

239 runner

Yes, she did. In the P-trap after Horde coaching.

But not before she woke her husband up to tell him she lost it, at 0330 his time.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (u82oZ)

240 Aren't chicks cramming spawning salmon up their hoohas now? Thats been in the news recently. Gets them in the mood or something. The chicks not the salmon.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 06:25 PM (Y6IkP)


As.someone mentioned on the ONT: Chinookie!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 06:28 PM (W/lyH)

241 It's not salmon semen per se, but rather purified and sterilized salmon DNA molecules called polynucleotides that have anti-inflammatory effects that essentially rejuvenate the skin, anywhere on the body.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (a3Q+t)

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:28 PM (BhMhR)

242 Fish jizz in the snizz works like a wizz. Fucking stupid people.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 06:28 PM (LfcYE)

243 What comes after fucking around? They didn't teach us that in Sociology class
Posted by: UT college student


Finding out.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 06:28 PM (Jxvt5)

244 "Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives"

What looks like a clam and smells like a penguin?

Posted by: Guy who really likes clams at April 25, 2024 06:28 PM (vFG9F)

245 The indictment, which includes felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery, also describes Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
_yesterday-Politico
____

These people are criminals. Meaning the prosecutors. This exact same thing happened times when it appeared there would be an election challenge. This in only illegal if Trump does it. Is this what National Review means by restoring norms?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 06:29 PM (g/1eZ)

246 174
'and then what ?'

Then they burn down the rest of the facilities or riot or set off bombs. Until the government decides migrants aren't worth it and caves in. Did you miss the last century of Irish history?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 06:29 PM (roH4R)

247 >>>____

Huh, when did Congress pass this law?
Posted by: Chuck Martel
--------------------------------

Law? We are the law.
_Genocide Joe

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 06:29 PM (lCWOD)

248 It's not salmon semen per se, but rather purified and sterilized salmon DNA molecules called polynucleotides that have anti-inflammatory effects that essentially rejuvenate the skin, anywhere on the body.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (a3Q+t)

every damn one of the trillions of cells in a woman's body has a bunch of that DNA right inside them. Why the hell is their skin so blotchy and wrinkly in the first place if that would work?

And no salmon DNA is not chemically different than any other, just arranged differently.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:29 PM (eoQWY)

249 But not before she woke her husband up to tell him she lost it, at 0330 his time.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:27 PM (u82oZ)
====

The coverup was worse than the crime.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 06:30 PM (RIvkX)

250

I've never cum so much in my life as when I'm dildoing off with an engorged Coho...

Posted by: Karen Awfl at April 25, 2024 06:30 PM (3MhCT)

251 Could Hamas become the George Floyd of 2024?
Posted by: PG at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (gQbO4)

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They managed to turn a fatassed junkie stickup man who rolls pregnant chicks for dope money into a latter day Joan of Arc, so why not Hamas next?

I think at least some of the agitprop guys are just having fun with it, at this point.

"Look, we can get our NPCs to support *anyone*."

"Oh yeah? What about Hamas? Surely they won't --"

"Nonsense! We'll show them the video of these rape-crazed savages carving up a baby, and tell them this is what decolonization looks like. That the baby is a Garbage Person. They'll support whatever we tell them to support, hahahaha!

Get Zuckerberg on the line."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 06:30 PM (0FoWg)

252 And no salmon DNA is not chemically different than any other, just arranged differently.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:29 PM (eoQWY)

An Internet friend of mine likes to say we're all a chromosome away from being fruit flies.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:30 PM (BhMhR)

253 The salmon story was on the ONT a night or two ago, I thought.

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 25, 2024 06:31 PM (N/k1H)

254 Looks like the Kamala SS lady went off to the psych ward: "On Monday morning, Herczeg arrived at the base and began deleting apps from a male agent’s personal cell phone before becoming increasingly agitated. She then engaged in erratic behavior, such as mumbling to herself, hiding behind curtains, and throwing menstrual pads and other items at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent. Herczeg continued making alarming statements, such as the other agents were "going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God.”

Posted by: beckster at April 25, 2024 06:31 PM (GbGY3)

255 I went to UT Austin 88-92. It was a lib shithole even then; just before the big Tech boom where we started getting a bunch of West Coasters moving in.

Big protest stuff then was Apartheid in South Africa; Israel was an issue but it was Arafat and the PLO demanding their own state. Even as a dipshit 18 year old, i knew Arafat was the guy that invented the airplane hijacking. I couldn't understand why were even talking to him. Between him and the fact they were constantly bombing restaurants and buses, I had zero sympathy for the 'Palestinians' back then. Nice to know my Alma mater and former home town have only gotten worse.

Posted by: Nelly at April 25, 2024 06:32 PM (Bm3Co)

256 San Franpsycho

Every member of a marriage is high maintenance in their own way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:32 PM (u82oZ)

257 >>> An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn.

The indictment, which includes felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery, also describes Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
_yesterday-Politico
-----------------
Republicans who try to get elected President are evidently criminals.

Good to know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:33 PM (/jMk1)

258 I've never cum so much in my life as when I'm dildoing off with an engorged Coho...
Posted by: Karen Awfl at April 25, 2024 06:30 PM (3MhCT)

If you get a hurt, you may need to consult a sturgeon.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 06:34 PM (R4t5M)

259 No riot no problem. Be as stupid as you can be. Show the world your wicked hearts.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at April 25, 2024 06:34 PM (ytSiK)

260 I hope everyone here realizes these outrage mobs are going to be used on you. With support from your local LE.

Huff and puff about "my Sheriff isn't woke" all you want.

They are coming. And you will, most likely, be on your own. Until arrested.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 06:35 PM (Q4IgG)

261 Robert

Tell him he exaggerates. Even our closest related species has only 97% common genes.

That 3% means we experiment on Chimps, not visa versa.

Salmon are a long way off in DNA content.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:35 PM (u82oZ)

262
NY Post: Women are paying $500 to get salmon sperm injected into their vaginas to boost sex lives


I think you've pretty much hit rock bottom as a man,

when you've been cucked by a salmon.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2024 06:35 PM (eDfFs)

263
Red state responses vs blue state responses is interesting.

In a sort of 'How did the Civil War start' kinda way.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 06:35 PM (RKVpM)

264 My date with the salmon vagina lady was going great until she started attracting bears

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (aX7Uj)

265 Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental.

Nah, bro. The left is going to go further authoritarian no matter what. The left smells blood in the water precisely "because they they control almost every single institution, private or governmental." Every moment of appeasement and every moment of confrontation results in the same place: more riots and hollowing out of the nation. I am with Texas and Florida here; I value having the peace of mind when going out for a meal that that the odds of getting dragged out my car, gassed in the face, and beat senseless by Marxist terrorists is near zero.

Posted by: lost in space at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (N6oRK)

266 Robert that is discussing

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (fwDg9)

267 An Internet friend of mine likes to say we're all a chromosome away from being fruit flies.
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:30 PM (BhMhR)
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The Pitch Meeting writes itself!

Posted by: Marvel Comics at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (/jMk1)

268 Martini Farmer

Matt Bracken wrote a short story about that: "What I saw at the Coup."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (u82oZ)

269 My sheriff is a commie asshoe but he's out numbered.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (lCWOD)

270 Salmon are a long way off in DNA content.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:35 PM (u82oZ)

That is an arrangement issue. Like the printing on the page may have different information, but a page is just paper and ink.

For rubbing it on your skin they anticipate a chemical effect on the system, not a genetic one.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (eoQWY)

271 My date with the salmon vagina lady was going great until she started attracting bears
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 06:36 PM (aX7Uj)

Cats.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (R4t5M)

272 Pink salmon can't jump.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 06:37 PM (vtyCZ)

273 nood although not an official quick hits

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 06:38 PM (vtyCZ)

274 155 Calling all bad bag-pipers.
~~~~~

No such thing.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 06:02 PM (3ImbR)

Why, thank you!

Posted by: William Barr at April 25, 2024 06:38 PM (PiwSw)

275 https://tinyurl.com/y8exckhr

Statue of Queen Elizabeth part deux.

I certainly appreciate that they made sure to give her statue DDs.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 06:39 PM (BhMhR)

276 Oldcat

Yes. The old ways are best.

Have the boys trained by those sexy teachers that get no love.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:39 PM (u82oZ)

277 My wife doesn't get salmon semen injections. She eats a lot of salmon though. Does that work?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 06:39 PM (etkZU)

278 Robert

She was built.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:39 PM (u82oZ)

279 Let loose the flamethrowing robodogs!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 06:40 PM (TYewF)

280 Apparently, Beau was gunned down by Babyface Nelson.

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife, whatever it is, or child, worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 06:41 PM (FVME7)

281 What's that smell ?
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 06:23 PM

Penguins, apparently, called in for penguin appreciation day, or whatever they're calling it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 06:42 PM (a3Q+t)

282 I'm not suggesting throwing them in jail for years. I am suggesting making them pick trash, in the summer, in an orange jumpsuit, in Texas or Florida, in the summer, for a few months, would discourage.

Posted by: hurricane567 at April 25, 2024 06:45 PM (g0EyX)

283 Going to college is like a business deal. You enter into a contract with the school. You are a client. The school will try to instill enough know-how to obtain a degree. You pay them money for the privilege and attend classes and labs as required. At the end of 3-4 years you leave and go your way. The school is still there. You have no say or rights on how the 'company' is going to fulfill its contract with you, they are the experts and you are the novice. Also you have no say in how it invests its money in order to survive.
The mistake made (in the 70s ?) was in having student representation on College Boards. Does IBM have clients sit on its various boards? Clients come and go.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #202 at April 25, 2024 06:51 PM (qfLjt)

284 Bring back sheriff Joe’s desert tent jails for these protestors.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 25, 2024 08:52 PM (17s+e)

285 My Austin story is I was there in 1991 and went into a bar mid afternoon. The bartender was on the phone and he says to the person on the other end, “I got to go now a good looking blond just walked in the bar.” So I turn around but don’t see a good looking blond woman. Then it dawns on my good looking blond stupid ass the fag bartender was talking about me. So I turn around and GTFO.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 25, 2024 09:02 PM (17s+e)

286 OMG
Biden is trying to become a dictator!!!

Posted by: Paul banned at April 25, 2024 09:28 PM (m7mUx)

287 *checks notes* So Abbott cares more about Jewish feelings than the border.

Posted by: Lucius Cornelius at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (4baX4)

Tucker Carlson: Dropping Two Nukes to End WWII Was "Prima Facie Evil"

Tucker Carlson continues his headlong rush to the far left.

He also seems to call for denuclearization. Even better.

He showed off his newly woke philosophy for Joe Rogan, who is now certainly more rightwing than Tucker Carlson.

I love, by the way, that people on my side -- I'll just admit it, on the Right -- have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking? That's just, like, prima facie evil. If you can't -- 'Well, if we hadn't done that, then this, that, the other thing, that was actually a great savings' -- like, no. It's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people, and if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil. Like, it's not a tough one, right? It's not a hard call for me. So, with that in mind, like, why would you want nuclear weapons? It's like just a mindless, childish sort of intellectual exercise to justify, like, 'Oh no, it's really good because someone else could get' -- how about, no? How about spending all of your effort to prevent this from happening?

I've become less and less interested in what this conspiracy-minded wreck thinks. He's been honeydicked by Glenn Greenwald.

A lot of people support Tucker Carlson for opposing the GOP Establishment. That's great. But you know who else opposes the GOP Establishment? The far left.

And more and more of Tucker Carlson's positions are from the hard left. Nevermind his conspiratorial fascination with UFOs, which I thought was all a ratings stunt but no, he seems to really Believe.
By the end of Tucker's "evolution," he'll be telling us that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has "some serious ideas, which should be taken seriously."

I oppose the American Deep State. That means I now have to believe in... Vladimir Putin?!?

On Tucker Carlson, and some others of the right, I'm reminded of G.K. Chesterton's aphorism: "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything." I feel like a lot of people -- and I include myself in this -- long believed in (this is embarrassing) American institutions like the FBI, CIA, judiciary, and even the corporate class. (Oh Lord...)

Now we no longer believe in those things. But, as Chesterton observed, the end of belief in some things often does not result in skepticism for everything -- it often results in the former believer seeking to believe in anything else. And for some (understandably) disappointed former righties, it results in finding new beliefs in the core dogmas of the far left.

People have a need to believe, for belief makes order of chaos, and often those who abandon beliefs fly quickly into the arms of a fresh belief system. The old beliefs may have been rejected, but the need to believe remains.

Rather than waking up and deciding to no longer believe in stupid nonsense, some, like Tucker Carlson, are on a spiritual quest to find new stupid nonsense to believe in.

Below, Tucker Carlson insists he has knowledge that the intelligence agencies are blackmailing congressmen -- but also says he can't say who's confessed to being blackmailed.

I would find this more compelling if he didn't make this announcement in the same rant in which he decries the cover-up of "UAPs" -- Unidentified Aerial Pheonomenon, which is the new term for "UFOs" so you can avoid saying "UFOs."

Starting from October 8th, Tucker Carlson has consistently attacked Israel and those who supported Israel's right to self defense. I wouldn't be that bothered by that, except for the blatantly dishonest way he presents his arguments, as "I'm just asking questions" or "I just think some people ought to be concerned about America's security."

Weird how he keeps contrasting America's security with Israel's, as if the two are in deep conflict.

The "I'm just asking questions" is dishonest. What he should say, if he were an honest man, is "I've come to be deeply skeptical of Israel, and frankly, believe that their agents are behind Jeffrey Epstein and are blackmailing half of the US government."

Because that is what he's always hinting about when he talks about the corruption of the Regime. He's hinting that it's Israel behind most of it.

If he at least had the courage and integrity to state his suspicions out loud, I'd be less critical.

Because I do think Israel can and should be scrutinized. I don't like the right's reflex to say "Ah-ha, lefties, you're the real racists!," and conflate anti-Israel feelings with anti-semitism. All countries, including our own, and including Israel, are capable of acting amorally and even immorally in their own believed self-interest. No one should be blind to the deep amorality of any country, especially its institutionally-sociopathic "intelligence" bureaucracy.

I mean -- look what we've come to learn about our "best friend," the UK, these past few years.

And while I don't know that Jeffrey Epstein was an agent being run by Israel, I'm completely willing to believe it. It's not out of the question, certainly.

And certainly, it would explain a few things.

But Tucker Carlson makes me deeply mistrustful, because while it seems blatantly obvious to me that the gravamen of all his comments on Israel is his belief that Israel is secretly pulling the strings in America, he won't just say so.

He just keeps saying "I'm just asking questions."

An audience has the right to be told where you're trying to lead them.


And when someone hides something, I conclude they have reason to hide it. That is, when someone acts as if their beliefs are shameful, I believe that person is probably right about those beliefs being shameful.

Tucker Carlson seems to have some reason to hide his new improved beliefs -- and I think he's got enough self-awareness to know that spreading antisemitic "Jews control everything" conspiracy theories is slightly shameful.

I know, I know -- he's just asking questions. He doesn't have any suggested answers in mind. His mind is just a blank page.

If he has evidence to support his new suspicions, then he should present it. Just repeatedly muttering about all the congressmen who tell him this in secret isn't cutting it.

More: What is "Project Aqua"? The more you know.

There is often a very short step between "prophet" and "maniac."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:10 PM




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1 He's wrong

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 04:10 PM (N1tpc)

2 Top 5?!?

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 04:12 PM (pgwxJ)

3 That doesn't mean he's wrong about everything, but I can disagree with people on one point* and still think they have valid observations elsewhere.




*It can depend on the point- some and I'll start questioning everything else you've said.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 04:12 PM (N1tpc)

4 You know who invented the atom bomb.

Posted by: C. Tarlson at April 25, 2024 04:12 PM (9e2in)

5 Not only is he wrong, he must be smoking crack or something. Somebody has gotten to him. There is blackmail stuff or something out there.


Gonna go out on a limb but I half way expect to see a story soon that the fib has found child *pron* on his computer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 04:12 PM (QNSds)

6 >>>1 He's wrong

sometimes it's not even that he's wrong. I can see arguments for this POV.

It's his smug dogmatic pronouncements. He shares this in common with the leftwingers he's cozying up to.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (KRtlO)

7 1 million not-dead Allied soldiers and 10 million not-dead Japanese civilians strongly disagree with Tu-Ca.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (pgwxJ)

8 He'll be welcomed to hell by David French, Joe Scarborough, and David Brock.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (kvDvI)

9 >>>3 That doesn't mean he's wrong about everything, but I can disagree with people on one point* and still think they have valid observations elsewhere.

yes, but he is becoming a very unreliable compass.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

10 Sometimes you have to fight Evil with Evil.

The real world sucks.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (QB+5g)

11 ***I love, by the way, that people on my side -- I'll just admit it, on the Right -- have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking? That's just, like, prima facie evil. If you can't -- 'Well, if we hadn't done that, then this, that, the other thing, that was actually a great savings' -- like, no. It's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people, and if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.***
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Ha! I like Tucker, he's loon.
He should be locked in a room with Michelle Malkin.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (lCWOD)

12 Wow, too bad about Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (9yWhg)

13 It's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people, and if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.

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What about incendiary bombs? Is that evil?

War is evil. War should be avoided as much as possible.

However, as we've seen, fighting war nicely is really not fighting it at all. It just extends the fight, accomplishes nothing, and creates an incentive structure to continue wars forever.

Yes, nuclear weapons should be in the arsenal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

14 Whoever called Tucker in the last thread, collect your winnings…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (PCK5/)

15 He should be locked in a room with Michelle Malkin.

Posted by: Braenyard


I can think of worse people to be locked in a room with.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (9yWhg)

16 It wasn't Chesterton who said that, though it's often attributed to him. It was Malcolm Muggeridge.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (1bNHn)

17 >>>Ha! I like Tucker, he's loon.

I wouldn't mind him so much because we do need dissidents, "wrongthinkers," and even loons, but I don't like that this particular loon continues to have such a hold on conservative thought.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (KRtlO)

18 I remember seeing pictures of him laughing it up with Trump and his family. Someone has something on him. He'll have to transition slowly so he's not so obvious, but it won't surprise me to see him speaking at the dem convention.

Posted by: Megthered at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (4acn+)

19 Tucker Carlson?

Yeah, I'd eat him...

Posted by: The Cannibal That Ate Joe's Uncle at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (sWgE+)

20 >>>Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

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Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (GPSZ3)

21 He is wrong.
Saved thousands of lives American and Japanese

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (mb6GH)

22 Ah, and now that I've read the rest, it seems he's pretty out there.


HOWEVER, given how much our government has been shown to lie, I understand people start believing EVERY conspiracy now.

And, as you're pointing out, he's definitely starting (or is way down) onto the JEWWWWWWWWWS CONTROL EVERYTHING train.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (N1tpc)

23 I be going to grandulate from Boring Flight Shcrool in Seaanttle next weak. I hopes Io cans be yoor pilot on my furst oversees flight from New Yolk to Jermany. I be grandulationing in the tops 10% of my Klass. I am the furst DEI Grandulate froms this schrool thanx tp Presdent Byedum's newt policiess

Posted by: Qieusha Nashala at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (BKOUD)

24 I suppose it is possible that Mossad collaborated with CIA on Epstein. You know what would set this to rest? De-classifying that the CIA, FBI and whatever other bloated agency created to hide this kind of crap has on this topic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (4hHmM)

25 I heard that Tucker clip about how nuking Japan was “evil”… heard it a few days ago (some radio talk guy played the clip). I think it’s clear that Carlson is losing his way…. Everyone needs some kind of tether to a community… to keep us grounded and to make sure we don’t start drinking our own bath water…. Now on the X platform he has no checks; Fox constrained him too much. He can’t find the sweet spot. Too bad…. Fox firing him did neutralize him, as they desired. Or rather he’s neutralizing himself….. for me his softball interview of Putin kinda started the downward spiral…. Then emphasizing civilian casualties in Gaza post 10/7 was the next warning he was losing perspective. It’s too bad

I shouldn’t have to even say this…. But his evil claim is just stupid. Pretty much any moral calculus would justify the dropping of the bomb. Japan was the aggressor country AND it demonstrably saved many human lives….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (xT8gx)

26 17 >>>Ha! I like Tucker, he's loon.

I wouldn't mind him so much because we do need dissidents, "wrongthinkers," and even loons, but I don't like that this particular loon continues to have such a hold on conservative thought.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (KRtlO)

These days we can’t afford to be too picky, maybe.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (PCK5/)

27 It's wrong to eat people too. If they are capturing and eating us, can we drop a bomb on them then?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (vFG9F)

28 He sounds like a zoomer that just watched "Oppenheimer."

Posted by: brak at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (AR07F)

29 17 I wouldn't mind him so much because we do need dissidents, "wrongthinkers," and even loons, but I don't like that this particular loon continues to have such a hold on conservative thought.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (KRtlO)

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Since my exposure to the right essentially amounts to this place, Insty, and the Babylon Bee, it seems to me like Tucker has little influence on the American right.

But I'm in a bubble. I have no idea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

30 14 Whoever called Tucker in the last thread, collect your winnings…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (PCK5/)

What do I win ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (Akjoo)

31 >>>HOWEVER, given how much our government has been shown to lie, I understand people start believing EVERY conspiracy now.

I get that, but in the worlds of Taylor Swift, "You Need to Calm Down."

by "you" I mean "all of us."

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (KRtlO)

32 Carlson falls into the trap all libertarians fall into. The will forever denounce the right for the smallest policy difference, but will bend heaven and earth to seal a gulf with the left because of a slight policy agreement.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (PHukT)

33 Hey Tucker

Unit 731 is looking for volunteers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (Jj0+x)

34 >>>28 He sounds like a zoomer that just watched "Oppenheimer."

that's probably true!

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (KRtlO)

35 Fine. Firebombing it is. Besides, to get and burned and die takes longer to kill than nuclear heatwave. (rubs hands together)


Posted by: Disgusted at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (Z8Yh2)

36 Tucker Carlson?

Yeah, I'd eat him...
Posted by: The Cannibal That Ate Joe's Uncle


That Tuck, he's a fryer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (9yWhg)

37

The more I learn about the bomb the more I'm cnvinced they had to use it...the ovt dedicated a whole lot of resources to it. They would look awfully stupid had they done that and not used it.

It was more a necessity from that view, as well as a lesson to the assholes out there, and a big ol' dick swing than needed to stop Japan, which had it's ass totally kicked and was going to get beat up further with conventional weapons. Germany self-destructed on it's own, and had the scientists, but not the apparatus.

So it's not cut and dry. I used to think it was certainly needed, because of whatever history books told me...

Von Braun created Apollo not long after.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (et1vG)

38 6 >>>1 He's wrong

sometimes it's not even that he's wrong. I can see arguments for this POV.

It's his smug dogmatic pronouncements. He shares this in common with the leftwingers he's cozying up to.

Posted by: ace
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He's lost his place. He's bringing forward voices that haven't been heard that should be heard. They should be heard because they are thoughtful people not because they are correct.
He's lost his place, he's not on solid ground anymore.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (lCWOD)

39 >>>Ha! I like Tucker, he's loon.
He should be locked in a room with Michelle Malkin.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (lCWOD)

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What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Candice Owens at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (GPSZ3)

40 13 It's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people, and if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.

========

What about incendiary bombs? Is that evil?

War is evil. War should be avoided as much as possible.

However, as we've seen, fighting war nicely is really not fighting it at all. It just extends the fight, accomplishes nothing, and creates an incentive structure to continue wars forever.

Yes, nuclear weapons should be in the arsenal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)
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The intellectually serious arguments against the bombing of H & N also exclude bombing civilians elsewhere, eg, Tokyo and Hamburg.

It's not insane. Lewis and Tolkien thought so.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (1bNHn)

41 30 14 Whoever called Tucker in the last thread, collect your winnings…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:15 PM (PCK5/)

What do I win ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (Akjoo)

Ask the Boss, he’s here… maybe a months worth of Faux Pas Indulgences??

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (PCK5/)

42 I've never thought of TC as a conservative thought leader. He's in the news business for god's sake. That just entertainment for dull people.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (QB+5g)

43 Ok, that's a little more direct than I remembered, I didn't think he was calling people "defending" the Japan nooks as "prima facie evil."

Assuming that quote is accurate. I still think what he was decrying are the current war hawks who are callously marching us toward nukular war.

But yeah, no. If you can't find room to accept that people have a moral argument to be made for dropping the bombs in '45, then you're kind of a dick.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (dGCAG)

44 Tucker lost me forever when he went to bat for Hunter Biden.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (Lc5iI)

45 Dropping nukes on Japan was the only moral choice.

It is the CinC's job to win a war with as few American losses as possible. Dropping nukes accomplished that.

If Japan didn't want to be nuked they shouldn't have started the war.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (ibTVg)

46
I suspect 'deep state/state' got ahold of him post Putin interview and showed him some 'TOP SECRET' inside UFO stuff and he lost it.

I'll still watch him but his believable index has cratered faster then our oh-so Christian House Speakers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (RKVpM)

47 if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil.

Worse than that, you're just plain inefficient.

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (Hgnyx)

48 Did Tucker have parents/relatives who served in WWII?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (9yWhg)

49 It wasn't Chesterton who said that, though it's often attributed to him. It was Malcolm Muggeridge.
Posted by: Eeyore

I believe it.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (DgGvY)

50 Dafuq?

Seriously, dafuq?

Seems like it's every week someone "on our side" seems to go batshit insane...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (OUMaO)

51 this really sucks. A year ago, I would have said Tucker was just about the smartest conservative out there....
He's Ann Coulter'd himself. Why? Looking at pics he shouldn't look at online? Paid off? threats against his family?
sigh...thanks for posting this Ace

Posted by: ziggggeeee at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (K5Rdg)

52 1 million not-dead Allied soldiers and 10 million not-dead Japanese civilians strongly disagree with Tu-Ca.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (pgwxJ)

For about a year before Hiroshima the US had been mass firebombing every Japanese city of any size with the exceptions of a few reserved for A Bombs. The devastation was far larger than the A-bombs did and was repeated. If you care about civilian deaths, you have to include the fire bombing. A Bombs did little new aside from being all in one package.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (eoQWY)

53 Sure Tucker The F**ker......... We should have invaded Japan and lost over a half million US Serviceman. We warned Japan and they said Blow Me. So Harry S. said fine ..... I will blow you a new strategic weapon we developed........


Say Hi to the "Enola Gay"............ Suckers ....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (Qfk4E)

54 Oh and UFOs? They are clearly experimental drone/aircraft tech.

I assume by the US and the US's rivals.

Remember in the 70s/80s where people in the midwest reported seeing flying wing UFOs that were quite, fast, and didn't show up on radar? Well those UFOs were simply stealth tech.

And back then the government intentionally amped up the UFO notion to keep our rivals from looking too closely into the issue...and it worked.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:21 PM (ibTVg)

55 What would Uncle Brosey say?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:21 PM (vFG9F)

56 Was dropping nukes on Japan evil ?

A few hundred-thousand residents of Nanking were unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at April 25, 2024 04:22 PM (tA1/w)

57 And onto the title foolish point:

Japan's industry was spread throughout the population.

Hiroshima contained significant war industry and military importance.

We didn't "drop a bomb on civilians". We bombed a city that was militarily important.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were legitimate targets. It's insane to claim that this was evil.

I think this argument may be a roundabout way to say that Israel is evil because "civilians" get hit by attacks.

It also encourages the war crimes that Hamas continues to commit by hiding among said "civilians."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 04:22 PM (N1tpc)

58 The intellectually serious arguments against the bombing of H & N also exclude bombing civilians elsewhere, eg, Tokyo and Hamburg.

It's not insane. Lewis and Tolkien thought so.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (1bNHn)

And again, I think the relevant part of the quote up there is: "...and if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."

He's really talking about the here and now. He should walk back the comment, if he's not also condemning those who believed it was better to save American lives in '45.

I suspect he won't, but he should.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:22 PM (dGCAG)

59 I don't think there's any question that Gislane's dad Robert Maxwell was an agent not just of Mossad, but of MI-6 as well. He introduced Epstein to his daughter and basically handed off the family business that was blackmail for intelligence agencies. There's no way you run a multi-decade sex trafficking operation that was essentially an open secret without being protected from on high, or having the dirt.

Posted by: the dandy at April 25, 2024 04:22 PM (w83EC)

60 The Gray Aliens probed Tucker, now he receives CNN just fine.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 04:22 PM (Jj0+x)

61 However, as we've seen, fighting war nicely is really not fighting it at all. It just extends the fight, accomplishes nothing, and creates an incentive structure to continue wars forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Examples: every war we've fought in my lifetime.

(Gen X)

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (DgGvY)

62 >>>If Japan didn't want to be nuked they shouldn't have started the war.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (ibTVg)

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The ultimate FAFO.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (GPSZ3)

63 Oh and speaking of the morality of nukes...I'm amused the left claims it was immoral to use them but never seems to care they were not 100% sure they weren't going to set the atmosphere on fire and kill all life on earth.

Oopsie!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (ibTVg)

64 Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had production facilities and troop and transport centers for the war. They weren't just "civilian" targets. In a total war like WWII calling yourself a civilian is like calling yourself a sandbag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (aX7Uj)

65 Tucker becomes less relevant by the day.

Sad.

Posted by: Trump at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (AD14M)

66 What is Carlson’s views on Trump? Biden? Illegals? Our economy?

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

67 If Japan didn't want to be nuked they shouldn't have started the war.
Posted by: 18-1


This. When I was in college, I briefly kind-sorta dated a girl who was an Asian Studies major. I went with her to one of her classes once, and the TA was playing a song done by some Japanese dude on the atomic bombings, and how the people who did were "barbarians" and such. And the whole time I was thinking, "But who started the bloody war?"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (9yWhg)

68 Building houses out of wood and paper is a crime against humanity.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (vtyCZ)

69 I haven't thrown Tucker in the rubbish bin yet. But I think he's wrong about the bomb and his "only my attitude is the correct attitude" smugness does him no favors.

I'm disappointed because there was quite a long time wherein I agreed with just about everything he said.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (JeYYB)

70 Meh. He's wrong about the nukes in Japan. So was Paul Johnson, and I still like him, so I reserve judgment.

But he's definitely right about the US government being completely satanic, and the GOP's key role in it. That's the core issue until both are dispensed with once and for all. One then the other. All else is distantly secondary in importance, decades old foreign policy decisions and UFOs.

Don't know about antisemitism, haven't heard that from him yet, but I'll look into it sometime if I have nothing better to do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (0FoWg)

71 ":if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."


How about "It was the least worst thing?"

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (vFG9F)

72 Wasn't it the Glenn Beck shtick to keep up with the "just asking question"? Before the border teddy bear craziness. I think South Park even made fun of it in the cartman dances with smurfs episode.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (Y6IkP)

73 I gotta admit, I find myself falling into the trap now of believing conspiracy theories that, oh, 10 years ago or so I would've laughed about.

For instance, a couple of weeks ago while watching the eclipse, I noticed there were many contrails in the sky. So I immediately thought, Hmm...might be something to that. Maybe they are poisoning us/cloud seeding.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (PwgSL)

74 Tucker is suffering from what a lot of modern people suffer from - putting contemporary morals and ideas and knowledge onto past actions and using that contemporary view to judge.

It's stupid. But so many people do it. Usually b/c they are lazy thinkers.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (exHjb)

75 I think "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" was what Eric Swalwell did in that TV interview.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (PiwSw)

76 conservative thought.
Posted by: ace




There's a novel thought, would be nice were there some conservative thought.

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (RjBju)

77 When is Tucker gonna condemn William T. ("War Is Hell") Sherman?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (9yWhg)

78 One night LeMay's B-29s burned out over four square miles of Tokyo and killed more than died at Hiroshima.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (Jj0+x)

79 So, I'm a sandbag!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:24 PM (vtyCZ)

80 Having visited both bomb sites, shed tears, it's hard to argue that it wasn't a great evil. I've also visited the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor, shed tears.
Dresden firebombing site (the whole city) same thing. War in the Pacific theater was insanely brutal. To have been spared an invasion of Japan, any soldier would have rejoiced.
War itself is a great evil, rarely a necessary one. Mankind has many dark hearts willing to engage in it, even now.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (MeG8a)

81 People who have been Americans for hundreds of years understand that it's evil to argue for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. We prefer carpet bombing cities, especially roasting civilians in firebombings.

Posted by: C. Tarlson at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (9e2in)

82 It actually was pretty evil; that’s war.

Posted by: Allen at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (lFLgt)

83 If you could stop WW3 by dropping a nuke on Kiev, would it be evil?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (PHukT)

84
I can think of worse people to be locked in a room with.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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I've got a sweet spot for Michelle. She is a strong advocate; she believes incarcerating the Japanese was correct, that the bomb was correct and she is smart enough to take Tucker to the woodshed.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (lCWOD)

85 Is he a loon or is he chasing clicks?

What will he say next? Visit tucker dot com to find out!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (2UnvF)

86 Sure, Israel is not beyond criticism.

It's just when certain anti-Israel people go all "death to Jews!", I get a little uncomfortable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (Be/+i)

87 NOT dropping those nukes would have been stupid, suicidal, and evil; it would have substantially increased the number of both US and Japanese dead, would have extended the war for YEARS, and would have drained even more treasure from our treasury. The firebombing of Tokyo was far worse in terms of damage and dead; I guess that makes us evil too, nevermind what the Japanese did in places like Nanking and Shanghai.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (ynpvh)

88 What is Carlson’s views on Trump? Biden? Illegals? Our economy?
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

For, against, against, for.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (dGCAG)

89 67 If Japan didn't want to be nuked they shouldn't have started the war.
Posted by: 18-1


This. When I was in college, I briefly kind-sorta dated a girl who was an Asian Studies major. I went with her to one of her classes once, and the TA was playing a song done by some Japanese dude on the atomic bombings, and how the people who did were "barbarians" and such. And the whole time I was thinking, "But who started the bloody war?"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (9yWhg)

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Japan had to do it! They needed more oil to expand its already going war into China! Which it started. Which was the center of many of the warcrimes tried at the Tokyo Trials.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (GBKbO)

90 If you could stop WW3 by dropping a nuke on Isfahan, would it be evil?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (PHukT)

91 He lost me after the Russia fiasco, especially after BS trip to the Russian supermarket. The whole trip was a joke.

Posted by: RobertM at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (rqWIE)

92 However, as we've seen, fighting war nicely is really not fighting it at all. It just extends the fight, accomplishes nothing, and creates an incentive structure to continue wars forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You can make a case that most American CinCs since FDR should have been arrested for and charged for dereliction of duty in getting American soldiers intentionally killed to minimize the loss of enemy civilians.

Could you imagine in WWII a fortified German city where the bombers and artillery was NOT called out to soften them up/force them to surrender before sending the grunts in because there were also German civilians in the city? And yet this has been the norm since WWII.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (ibTVg)

93 War is very much about degrading the opposition's will to fight. Sending countless men into a meat grinder in a Zerg rush often doesn't work because there's always a chance the other side will put up a better defense and win.

Demonstrating just how much destruction you can rain down from on high has a wonderful ability to focus one's mind on what's really important in this world.

How many Japanese, upon witnessing that awful weapon, threw down their weapons and just wept because they *KNEW* they could not fight that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (7fElN)

94 Fire bombing of Coventry.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (Jj0+x)

95 Tucker … da fuq 😳

Posted by: browndog is petty that way at April 25, 2024 04:26 PM (dYc5F)

96 Well at least Tucker got rid of that bow tie. Some people just can rock 'em.

Posted by: George Will at April 25, 2024 04:26 PM (PiwSw)

97 =====

What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Candice Owens
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Honey, you don't hold a candle to Michelle.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 04:26 PM (lCWOD)

98 85 Is he a loon or is he chasing clicks?

What will he say next? Visit tucker dot com to find out!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (2UnvF)

Is he a loon? Is he from Canada? I hear they have Loonies up there for currency.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:26 PM (ynpvh)

99 Tucker will be handing out Teddy Bears on the Border in under 4 months.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2024 04:26 PM (Lc5iI)

100 I've got a sweet spot for Michelle. She is a strong advocate; she believes incarcerating the Japanese was correct, that the bomb was correct and she is smart enough to take Tucker to the woodshed.
Posted by: Braenyard


I saw her interviewed once. Besides being smart, she was clearly vamping for the camera when not speaking. Mmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:26 PM (9yWhg)

101 The use of longbows at Agincourt was evil. If you think about it. Just asking questions.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at April 25, 2024 04:27 PM (rJQdF)

102 I would find this more compelling if he didn't make this announcement in the same rant in which he decries the cover-up of "UAPs" -- Unidentified Aerial Pheonomenon, which is the new term for "UFOs" so you can avoid saying "UFOs."

I'm more worried about UTIs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

103
Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had production facilities and troop and transport centers for the war. They weren't just "civilian" targets. In a total war like WWII calling yourself a civilian is like calling yourself a sandbag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM

Pamphlets were dropped on major Japanese cities involved in the war effort to advise them to get out of Dodge. I suspect some did. They're known as survivors.

Shame they started this shit, but someone had to end it. With two bombs.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 04:27 PM (RKVpM)

104 A lot of people forget that it is fine to agree with people where you agree with them, and disagree where you don't.

Tucker has always seemed a bit of a fop to me, but I welcome his support where he provides it and oppose him where he does not.

It is different for politicians whom we elect to promote certain policies and then we find out they never had any intention of promoting those policies. I have zero tolerance there.

Posted by: Thatch at April 25, 2024 04:27 PM (LLNW4)

105 101 The use of longbows at Agincourt was evil. If you think about it. Just asking questions.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at April 25, 2024 04:27 PM (rJQdF)

No, the Pope said the use of CrossBows was evil if used on other Christians; pagans and heathens were Okay to use them on.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:27 PM (ynpvh)

106 He is a celebrity, he’s gonna take shit is my thought. We are celebrity obsessed.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (PCK5/)

107 Ok. I'm done defending Tucker.

I'm assuming he's clickbaiting, maybe he's always been clickbaiting.

Fuck him with a rusty katana.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (xcxpd)

108 My dad was drafted in October, 1945, when he turned 18. My mom had one brother island hopping with the Marines and another on a ship headed west across the Pacific. What are the odds they'd have survived an invasion of Japan?

Posted by: Nobel winner Paul Krugman at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (VGOMa)

109
1 million not-dead Allied soldiers and 10 million not-dead Japanese civilians strongly disagree with Tu-Ca.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (pgwxJ)


Not to mention the 20+ million Chinese and several million other Asian people that the Japs slaughtered in an orgy of brutality that would make a Ukranian death camp guard working for the SS puke in disgust.

Bloody vengeance is a perfectly justifiable reason to go to war.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (n+4am)

110 A serious west would have already ended conflict in the middle east by letting the Israelis move the Palis somewhere else in the Muslim world.

This happened in mass after WWII and like then it would have resolved most of the underlying issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (ibTVg)

111 ":if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."
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How about "It was the least worst thing?"
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (vFG9F)

There's a Christian concept that any sin is the turning away from God, and is therefore, evil.

Obviously there are levels of evil.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (dGCAG)

112 Tucker is self sabotaging his career and his image.
Next thing you know he'll say Sandy Hook was a hoax.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (NpAcC)

113 Tucker turned into the slightly less neurotic version of Alex Jones so quickly that I missed it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (UJV30)

114 I've got a sweet spot for Michelle. She is a strong advocate; she believes incarcerating the Japanese was correct, that the bomb was correct and she is smart enough to take Tucker to the woodshed.
Posted by: Bra




She was better when she made trampoline vids and wandered around in hot pants and high heels

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (RjBju)

115 If the text is accurate, his argument seems to be about keeping all citizens worldwide pinned by an international coalition of nuclear terror, forever.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (5IEcl)

116 109 Not to mention the 20+ million Chinese and several million other Asian people that the Japs slaughtered in an orgy of brutality that would make a Ukranian death camp guard working for the SS puke in disgust.

Bloody vengeance is a perfectly justifiable reason to go to war.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (n+4am)

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Would China have gone communist without the Japanese taking of Manchukuo?

I dunno. Just asking questions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

117 The more I learn about the bomb the more I'm cnvinced they had to use it...the ovt dedicated a whole lot of resources to it. They would look awfully stupid had they done that and not used it.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2024 04:18 PM (et1vG)

The resources for the bomb were trivial, all things considered.

The real problem was that we were at an impasse. Japan's economy was in ruins, and the population was going to start starving since the Navy was cutting off nearly all shipping. The Japanese Army leadership was willing to die virtually to a man anyway, and the population would too if they acted anything like Japanese civilians on other islands we had taken. Hirohito was constrained by tradition to let the government work without his direct involvement.

The A-Bombs broke the stalemate, convincing Hirohito to give orders and the Military to accept them rather than ignore them. There have been claims that something else might have done the same thing but the actual history says different. They could have opened channels up while Iwo and Okinawa were being fought over, the situation in the war was just as hopeless.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (eoQWY)

118 Plus, dropping the nukes sent an unmistakable message to our ally Joey Stalin.

Which he heeded, briefly, til he stole our stuff and made his own bomb.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (9yWhg)

119 42 I've never thought of TC as a conservative thought leader

Let’s bin the term “thought leader”. Forever.

If you need one, everyone has stopped thinking.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (mggQ3)

120 111 ":if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."
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How about "It was the least worst thing?"
Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (vFG9F)

There's a Christian concept that any sin is the turning away from God, and is therefore, evil.

Obviously there are levels of evil.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (dGCAG)

The Catholic faith even defines them...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (exHjb)

121 These opponents of the bomb discount all the American lives that had already been lost. We were not ready to lose any more of our people. We put our foot down.

Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (lCWOD)

122 Ace, you magnificent bastard. You are right regarding Tucker.

Posted by: goatexchange at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (kfr/R)

123 Seems like it's every week someone "on our side" seems to go batshit insane...
Posted by: Brother Tim

When governments around the world engage in open conspiracies, it's human behavior to start grabbing on to all of them.

Man, if any of you are familiar with what happened to James Delingpole, this Tucker shit is just the trailer for his little 'journey.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (IG4Id)

124 Tucker turned into the slightly less neurotic version of Alex Jones so quickly that I missed it.

I remember when the left loved Jones, casting him in Through a Scanner Darkly as basically himself.

That's when he was really only known for opposing the WoT and the left called him a "reasonable conservative"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (ibTVg)

125 Truth be known many of us have beliefs and thoughts that are outliers --at best.
Tucker would do well to have someone with some authority or influence to prevent him from getting too far astray.
Tucker could not be more wrong about Japan and the bomb. It was a horrible mess to drop the bombs but we saved lives on Both sides doing so,
End of discussion.
Still, will be listening to Tucker because when Tucker is good he is VERY good.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (FCPbW)

126 118 Plus, dropping the nukes sent an unmistakable message to our ally Joey Stalin.

Which he heeded, briefly, til he stole our stuff and made his own bomb.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (9yWhg)

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"Scientists only adherence is to science. Also, Stalin needs some nukes, guys. Please share?"
-Oppy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

127 Which he heeded, briefly, til he stole our stuff and made his own bomb.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (9yWhg)

This is about me, isn’t it?

Posted by: Klaus Fuchs at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (mggQ3)

128 108 My dad was drafted in October, 1945, when he turned 18. My mom had one brother island hopping with the Marines and another on a ship headed west across the Pacific. What are the odds they'd have survived an invasion of Japan?

Posted by: Nobel winner Paul Krugman at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (VGOMa)

My Dad was on a ship from the Philippines (where he had been a combat veteran in '45) to Japan when the bombs were dropped. He thought he'd die in Japan, but when he got there, the war was over.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

129 How brave and noble to be willing for other people to die so you won't have to get your hands dirty.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (FVME7)

130 What is inherently evil about a nuclear weapon?

Why more so than a MOAB, a JDAM, a pistol, an arrow propelled by a bow (long, cross, horn etc.) or a rock clenched in my fist?

Just degrees of lethality.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (AexFl)

131 TC has done gone off the rails.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (mggQ3)

132 130 What is inherently evil about a nuclear weapon?

Why more so than a MOAB, a JDAM, a pistol, an arrow propelled by a bow (long, cross, horn etc.) or a rock clenched in my fist?

Just degrees of lethality.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (AexFl)

======

Jane Fonda should be able to answer this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

133 A serious west would have already ended conflict in the middle east by letting the Israelis move the Palis somewhere else in the Muslim world.

This happened in mass after WWII and like then it would have resolved most of the underlying issues.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (ibTVg)

That is to assume the west (i.e. the U.S. of A.) wants an end to the conflict in the middle east.

Seems pretty self-evident it doesn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (dGCAG)

134 126 118 Plus, dropping the nukes sent an unmistakable message to our ally Joey Stalin.

Which he heeded, briefly, til he stole our stuff and made his own bomb.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (9yWhg)

=======

"Scientists only adherence is to science. Also, Stalin needs some nukes, guys. Please share?"
-Oppy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

Didn't he say something about becoming Kali(fornia), the goddess of death and destruction?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (ynpvh)

135 Ace, love the post.

Posted by: Harun at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (c2WeP)

136 I've become more of an America First conservative. (Eff you, McConnell).

I don't want our money spent or our military dying in Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, or anywhere else. There are exceptions. We gave 4 star hotel rooms to illegals but our vets have to fight for benefits.

It appears when our Government or the CIA tries to manipulate other countries' politics it backfires or ends up costing us trillions or an obligation to take in a bunch of third-world animals.

I'm over it.

Would I choose to bomb Japan as Truman did? Hell yes. Again, America First.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (JeYYB)

137 All this but no one is ever dragged into the Hague and made to appoligize in weeping confessions for canceling The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (Y6IkP)

138 Tucker is self sabotaging his career and his image.
Next thing you know he'll say Sandy Hook was a hoax.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (NpAcC)
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We'll know he's scraping the bottom of the barrel when he teams up with Keith Olbermann and they broadcast from each others' basements....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (7fElN)

139 I really liked Tucker when he was on Fox.... Except the UFO thing... Maybe he has too much time on his hands now

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (Akjoo)

140 You know what's NOT a UAP?

A penguin! They can't fly!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (a3Q+t)

141 Hirohito realized that our God was stronger than their God.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (QB+5g)

142 130 What is inherently evil about a nuclear weapon?

Why more so than a MOAB, a JDAM, a pistol, an arrow propelled by a bow (long, cross, horn etc.) or a rock clenched in my fist?

Just degrees of lethality.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (AexFl)

If you're directly hit, you've vaporized, so not cruel. If you not directly incinerated by the heat blast, or blown to pulp by the pressure wave, well, not so much fun.
Side effects include: vomitting, loss of hair, loss of appetite, hot dog fingers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (ynpvh)

143 Is he wrong that hitting non combatants with buckts of sunshine qualifies as evil?


There was a good argument for it and I am not bothered by it but that does not mean it was good.

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (RjBju)

144 Could be the assessment of Carlson going the clickbait route is accurate… of course ALL the internet is, is clickbait…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (PCK5/)

145 Maybe he should go back to wearing the bowtie?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (R+EIn)

146 >>I don't think there's any question that Gislane's dad Robert Maxwell was an agent not just of Mossad, but of MI-6 as well. He introduced Epstein to his daughter and basically handed off the family business that was blackmail for intelligence agencies. There's no way you run a multi-decade sex trafficking operation that was essentially an open secret without being protected from on high, or having the dirt.

I have no doubt Epstein was working with various intel agencies including the CIA. He was allowed to operate with impunity on US soil for years, I don't think there's a chance in hell the CIA would allow foreign intel agencies to operate here without have their claws in the action.

The Russia collusion scandal gave us a glimpse into how the intel community in various of our allies works with the CIA to achieve the results they want.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (LkLld)

147 140 You know what's NOT a UAP?

A penguin! They can't fly!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (a3Q+t)

::: loading a penguin in my trebuchet :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (ynpvh)

148 There's a Christian concept that any sin is the turning away from God, and is therefore, evil.

Obviously there are levels of evil.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (dGCAG)
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And God thought that there were/are certain groups of people that should be eliminated.

Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (lCWOD)

149 Would China have gone communist without the Japanese taking of Manchukuo?

I dunno. Just asking questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

Mao had a fairly powerful faction and a decent base after the Long March in the hills inland in north China. But the real advantage came after the war when Russia took Manchuria and the Communists moved there. This made it impossible for Chiang to move against their army while they built up.

The Nationalists might have been able to defeat them, or might have lost regardless.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (eoQWY)

150 Who gives a shit? Government is evil. There's never been one that wasn't. But it's central legitimate function is to wage war. Winning as quickly as possible is all that matters, period.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (0FoWg)

151 After Carlson touched the third rail at FNC with the tiny beginnings of a J6 investigative piece, he walked off the set, bumped into a guy he didn't know, then ducked into the mens'.

The stranger was an operator. TuCa had been pricked in the thigh with a needle, Guys in black took him from the mens' where he was slumped in a stall, and whisked him to a west side apartment where he was castrated and a chip was embedded in the back of his neck above the hairline.

The result is a new TuCa, we'll call him Tu Two, and he is under 24/7 control, remotely, by a CIA team that is bunked in a shed in a secret location.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (KiBMU)

152 Japan had to do it! They needed more oil to expand its already going war into China! Which it started. Which was the center of many of the warcrimes tried at the Tokyo Trials.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Weird how they never want to discuss what happened to Korea on November 17, 1905.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (IG4Id)

153 Great writing Ace. Cogent argument, but gravamen ?

Does that go on potatoes, or is that like Gerry Nadler ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (NtVYv)

154 Yes, I am self-serving, I don't care. My father was in first waves of the Leyte invasion, and he likely would have been the same for Olympic or Coronet (40mm AAA on the beaches for the kamikazes... yeah). The troops all heaved a sigh of relief that our scientists used technology to end the fighting. The arm-chair moralists, then and now, can suck it.

Posted by: goatexchange at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (kfr/R)

155 Afternoon.

I think ole Tick is letting out his inner paleo-conservative. He'll go full John Birch Society before too long.

As for UFOs...shit gets sketchy there, man. Something's going on. The truth is out there, motherfuckers.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (BhMhR)

156 I think he is missing that 2 things can exist simultaneously. You can find civilian casualties and the aftermath of the nuclear bombs heartbreaking. I don’t think you are human if children being killed and maim doesn’t lay heavy on your heart. You can understand nuclear weapons are in all but the most dire of circumstances something you would want to avoid. At the same time, you can understand war is by its nature ugly. You can understand that not everyone is going to fight fairly and adhere to the ideal civilians are not going to be involved. You understand that if you are going to enter something as terrible as war, you should do so with the absolute goal of winning it. If you are going to go through hell, have it matter in the end and mattering can mean a deterrent going forward. You can understand, even with the goal of winning, nuclear weapons should be the last option, but an option when there is nothing else.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (ZdaMQ)

157 My Dad was on a ship from the Philippines (where he had been a combat veteran in '45) to Japan when the bombs were dropped. He thought he'd die in Japan, but when he got there, the war was over.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (ynpvh)

There's also every US POW in Japan that the government planned to murder in the event of an invasion.

Japan was prima facie evil in WWII.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (N1tpc)

158 >>>The result is a new TuCa, we'll call him Tu Two, and he is under 24/7 control, remotely, by a CIA team that is bunked in a shed in a secret location.

I can neither confirm nor deny.

Posted by: " " " Tucker Carlson " " " at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

159 TC has done gone off the rails.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:30 PM (mggQ3)

Personally, I think it's the politicians in this country, and others in the so-called West, who are cumming all over themselves at the prospects of war with everyone, including dropping nooks all over the planet, who have gone off the rails.

But that's just me.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (dGCAG)

160 'Tucker Carlson continues his headlong rush to the far left.'

this is no longer a Far Left position, the Far Left is fine with it since it gives them the basis for their power and something to beat the conservatives with. It is, however, an exhausted position since it seems to have justified so much since them. There was a school of thought, up until WWI when it was suddenly the most treasonous point of view ever (like a lot of other ones) that "In winning the war against Spain and taking her colonies, we have become Spain" and in the logic of controlling overseas colonies, we had in many ways become Spain.

it may be we had no choice, and all of my uncles survived WWII in the Navy because of the bombings, but it also created a situation where the US became very similar to an imperial power, much in the way that the Romans winning the Third Punic war may have made the creation of the Imperial Roman state inevitable.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (D7oie)

161 It is not just that he is wrong on many levels...he is also wrong on the facts.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (Lc5iI)

162 That's when he was really only known for opposing the WoT and the left called him a "reasonable conservative"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 04:29 PM (ibTVg)

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But he was right. Tell me the gains we made in the war on terror. On a scale, we killed some assholes, they killed and maimed a number of our military. I'm not sure we got our money's worth. 20 effing years.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (JeYYB)

163 Telling the king that his son, who just kidnapped and raped your sister, can marry her as long as all of the males in the city get circumcised, then massacring everyone in the city 3 days later while all of the men are incapacitated from said circumcision is better or worse than dropping a nuke?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (PHukT)

164 Hirohito realized that our God was stronger than their God.
Posted by: pawn


And that he wasn't an effing god. Good.
And he just went back to studying jellyfish.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (9yWhg)

165 >>>Maybe he has too much time on his hands now
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (Akjoo)

=====

You asked for it:

https://youtu.be/fsOrty4RmSA?si=p_gQEaGp-uI7H-uG

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (GPSZ3)

166 I think that Tucker needed external controls like Fox News to avoid to much seat-of-the-pants thinking.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (krQz2)

167 81 People who have been Americans for hundreds of years understand that it's evil to argue for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. We prefer carpet bombing cities, especially roasting civilians in firebombings.
Posted by: C. Tarlson at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (9e2in)

It’s far better for women and children to be asphyxiated in bomb shelters because the firestorms from the bombings of Hamburg (for example) were so intense that it pulled in the oxygen from the shelters.

That’ll help Mr. Carlson sleep at night.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (mggQ3)

168 Is he wrong that hitting non combatants with buckts of sunshine qualifies as evil?


There was a good argument for it and I am not bothered by it but that does not mean it was good.
Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (RjBju)

You can use that logic on anything. Napalm, Incendiaries, high explosives, bullets, clubs, your fist....

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (eoQWY)

169 >>> I really liked Tucker when he was on Fox.... Except the UFO thing... Maybe he has too much time on his hands now
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:32 PM (Akjoo)


^^ This

Posted by: Styx at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (Y6IkP)

170 Didn't he say something about becoming Kali(fornia), the goddess of death and destruction?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (ynpvh)
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Shiva. Quoting the Mahabharata.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (Be/+i)

171 Alternate Headline: What Kompromat Does the Deep State Possess on Putin Spy Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (Q3+9O)

172 149 Would China have gone communist without the Japanese taking of Manchukuo?

I dunno. Just asking questions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

Mao had a fairly powerful faction and a decent base after the Long March in the hills inland in north China. But the real advantage came after the war when Russia took Manchuria and the Communists moved there. This made it impossible for Chiang to move against their army while they built up.

The Nationalists might have been able to defeat them, or might have lost regardless.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (eoQWY)

The Nationalists were pretty completely infiltrated with commies. Chiang Kai-shek's son was being held by the commies in Russia as additional leverage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (ynpvh)

173 " Hell yes. Again, America First.
Posted by: Seems Legit"

I don't think "isolationist" is a bad word. F' Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (vFG9F)

174 sometimes it's not even that he's wrong. I can see arguments for this POV.

It's his smug dogmatic pronouncements. He shares this in common with the leftwingers he's cozying up to.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM


This very same thing happened to howard stern. He was anti anything liberals in NYC did for years and years. He would call them stupid and idiots on his radio show constantly. After he started getting *famous* he did an almost immediate hard left turn and now he is a complete and total left wing zealot.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (QNSds)

175 And now for something completely different. This guy may have his economic ducks in a row but his relationship skills could use a little work. (

https://shorturl.at/ilDPV

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (FVME7)

176 Continuing pounding Japan into the ground would have killed hundreds of thousands

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (fwDg9)

177 And while I don't know that Jeffrey Epstein was an agent being run by Israel, I'm completely willing to believe it. It's not out of the question, certainly.

____________________________

Meh...the only way Clinton becomes a frequent flyer to that island is if it's being run by our guys....not Israel. Additionally, there was juice to limit the charges against Epstein when he got caught the first time. That only happens internally, not be an outside entity.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (dIske)

178 I like Tucker Carlson. I watched his show regularly. But that also means I'm familiar with Tucker's overstating his case.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (krQz2)

179 That is to assume the west (i.e. the U.S. of A.) wants an end to the conflict in the middle east.

Yep. Israel was moving along just fine in normalizing relations with most of the Arab world. But we, the USA, could not keep our damn noses out of it.

I swear, its the Old Football Fan approach to global politics. It there is a conflict somewhere, the old WarCocks want to see our boys in it.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (i7drE)

180 >>>Personally, I think it's the politicians in this country, and others in the so-called West, who are cumming all over themselves at the prospects of war with everyone, including dropping nooks all over the planet, who have gone off the rails.


yes they have, but does that mean we have to go off the rails in the opposite direction? So we can "counter-balance" them with our own wacky stuff?

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (KRtlO)

181 @162 The defense contractors definitively got their moneys worth.

Posted by: Allen at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (lFLgt)

182 >>The result is a new TuCa, we'll call him Tu Two, and he is under 24/7 control, remotely, by a CIA team that is bunked in a shed in a secret location.

When Tucker first got out of school he applied for a job at his father's old company, the CIA. He was turned down so he went into the media.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (LkLld)

183 Personally, I think it's the politicians in this country, and others in the so-called West, who are cumming all over themselves at the prospects of war with everyone, including dropping nooks all over the planet, who have gone off the rails.

But that's just me.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (dGCAG)

Yeah, but we are talking about TC’s moral preening over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We need to rediscover DIME.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (mggQ3)

184 John 14:6

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (sAmhv)

185 As a thought leader, I've come to the realization that we shouldn't have conducted any bombing, nuclear or otherwise. Candace Owens is right about the real victims of WWII.

Posted by: C. Tarlson at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (9e2in)

186 >>>This very same thing happened to howard stern. He was anti anything liberals in NYC did for years and years. He would call them stupid and idiots on his radio show constantly. After he started getting *famous* he did an almost immediate hard left turn and now he is a complete and total left wing zealot.

yeah I think that was a whole different thing, that was just the ugly geek getting on TV (well, "America's Got Talent") and going Hollywood so he could finally sit at the cool kids' table.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (KRtlO)

187 Winning as quickly as possible is all that matters, period.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (0FoWg)

Ah, but there's where things have changed. Governments discovered it was way more profitable to never end the wars.

And here we are.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (dGCAG)

188 And Japan started it, so quit crying about it. Don't start a war then your not going to pay for it

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (fwDg9)

189 Did Malkin go loony? I joined Hotair when she ran the place; she always seemed levelheaded... and looked pretty good too. I see she's not writing anywhere anymore? She retired?

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (N/k1H)

190 It does seem hard to find someone sane. Please do not start dating AOC, Ace.

Posted by: PG at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (gQbO4)

191 180 yes they have, but does that mean we have to go off the rails in the opposite direction? So we can "counter-balance" them with our own wacky stuff?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (KRtlO)

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If one is to be generous, one might say that Tucker is arguing that governments should not have the power of nuclear weapons because they are untrustworthy today and would be more willing to use nuclear weapons on their own populations than anyone else.

If one is to be generous. Honestly, quite generous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

192 >>>We need to rediscover DIME.

what's dime?

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (KRtlO)

193 167 81 People who have been Americans for hundreds of years understand that it's evil to argue for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. We prefer carpet bombing cities, especially roasting civilians in firebombings.
Posted by: C. Tarlson at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (9e2in)

It’s far better for women and children to be asphyxiated in bomb shelters because the firestorms from the bombings of Hamburg (for example) were so intense that it pulled in the oxygen from the shelters.

That’ll help Mr. Carlson sleep at night.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (mggQ3)

::: sieges of old have entered the chat :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (ynpvh)

194 It Is easy to argue that Japan behaved more barbarically than we did in wwii and that is true.

The rape of Nanking was more evil than bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

That does not mean that we do not benefit from striving to be more right.

I am not interested in racing to the bottom of morality.

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (RjBju)

195 At what point in the A-bomb development and testing did we let the Brits in on it? Or were they a part of it pretty much from the beginning?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (9yWhg)

196 166 I think that Tucker needed external controls like Fox News to avoid to much seat-of-the-pants thinking.
Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (krQz2)
*******
It's becoming apparently clear that he needed restraints.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (NpAcC)

197 It’s funny but a lot of people who have Media access just say whatever shit pops into their heads for the world to observe…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (PCK5/)

198 But it's central legitimate function is to wage war. Winning as quickly as possible is all that matters, period.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Well, I'd gild-the-lily in that "The primary charge of a government is the defense of its citizens and its borders," which includes making just war. But whatev's.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (IG4Id)

199 The Russia collusion scandal gave us a glimpse into how the intel community in various of our allies works with the CIA to achieve the results they want.
Posted by: JackStraw
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5 eyes are watching you, watching you

Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (lCWOD)

200 188 And Japan started it, so quit crying about it. Don't start a war then your not going to pay for it
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (fwDg9)

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"We didn't do anything."
-Japan by the mid-50s, at the latest

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

201 Yeah, but we are talking about TC’s moral preening over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We need to rediscover DIME.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:37 PM (mggQ3)

I know that's what you're talking about.

But it's really not what he was talking about, nor is it what matters now.

What matters now is the headlong pursuit of nukular Armageddon that is coming, and people are mad at a talk show host who said something indelicate?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (dGCAG)

202 170 Didn't he say something about becoming Kali(fornia), the goddess of death and destruction?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:31 PM (ynpvh)
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Shiva. Quoting the Mahabharata.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 04:35 PM (Be/+i)

Oh, Gesundheit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (ynpvh)

203 None of these idiots ever address the Japanese policy of in home manufacturing during WWII.

The civilians were building components at their kitchen tables, all over the country.

Posted by: garrett at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (Lc5iI)

204 Speaking of B-29s bombing Japan, story with a surprise ending. (

https://shorturl.at/duLNQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (FVME7)

205 I disliked Tucker Carlson long before it was cool. To be fair though I dislike almost every political pundit.

I’ve always disliked Jonah Goldberg even at the height of his popularity because all of his opinion pieces had to show moral equivalence that the Right also did what he was currently criticizing the Left about.

I always saw Tucker as another Glenn Beck and he would eventually self destruct.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (MNhXM)

206 There's something about an Aqua Velva man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (63Dwl)

207 Yes, I am self-serving, I don't care. My father was in first waves of the Leyte invasion, and he likely would have been the same for Olympic or Coronet (40mm AAA on the beaches for the kamikazes... yeah). The troops all heaved a sigh of relief that our scientists used technology to end the fighting. The arm-chair moralists, then and now, can suck it.
Posted by: goatexchange at April 25, 2024 04:34 PM (kfr/R)

Japanese plans were to have the kamikaze planes and Tokko suicide craft ignore warships and go for the landing ships exclusively.

And even if all the troops were bulletproof the things they would have to do to give the Japanese to give up would form wounds in the psyche that would never heal. We saw that already on pretty much every island fight we had.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (eoQWY)

208 "We didn't do anything."
-Japan by the mid-50s, at the latest
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Wrote it before, if you press older Japanese on the nuke matter, they'll admit they would have used them on the US and anyone else in their way.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (IG4Id)

209 One thing that's been nagging me...

When McCartgy was Speaker, he gave Tucker the video from the security cameras at the Capitol on January 6. Tucker showed the first of what was supposed to be multiple nights of coverage. And then he lost his job.

And afaik, he never again showed any footage from January 6.

What happened? If the video was left behind at Fox - who then buried it - is there a reason why new copies weren't made available to him? Why did Tucker seemingly never bring it up again?

Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (JJ2jk)

210 181 @162 The defense contractors definitively got their moneys worth.
Posted by: Allen at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (lFLgt)

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This 100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (JeYYB)

211 I liked his videos after the split from Murdoch News. Some good stuff there, IIRC. But I haven't watched any (on YT) lately, including his Putin interview. Not much interested in what Vlad has to say. When it comes to Russians, I pay attention to what they do, not to what they say. I disagree with a lot of people that we "lied" our way into the Second Gulf War, including Tucker and Ace. Eh. Tucker is just another voice. Maybe one day he'll have something interesting to say.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

212 This very same thing happened to howard stern. He was anti anything liberals in NYC did for years and years. He would call them stupid and idiots on his radio show constantly. After he started getting *famous* he did an almost immediate hard left turn and now he is a complete and total left wing zealot.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

I loved Stern back in the 90s. He went national and one of the rock stations in Columbus, OH where I lived at the time started carrying him every morning. Listened to him almost every day. Loved the rebellious vibe he put out.

Now he's a broken old man lefty NPC. I think Covid really broke him.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (PwgSL)

213 Using nukes in Japan just proves the theory that a short violent, decisive war is preferable to a longer drawn out one. We dropped two nukes, and hundreds of thousands of lives were saved that would of been lost over the next year or two. As it was, war over in a week.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 04:41 PM (W/lyH)

214 Tucker Carlson also embracing one of the 10 mental defects common in all Leftists.

Presentism

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:41 PM (MNhXM)

215
You can use that logic on anything. Napalm, Incendiaries, high explosives, bullets, clubs, your fist....
Posted by: Old



Yes.
And?

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:41 PM (RjBju)

216 176 Continuing pounding Japan into the ground would have killed hundreds of thousands

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (fwDg9)

I thought the expectation was millions.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

217 yes they have, but does that mean we have to go off the rails in the opposite direction? So we can "counter-balance" them with our own wacky stuff?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (KRtlO)

While I absolute appreciate us being much more judicious about the use of a military option in various places all over the world, there are too many people here who want to go in the complete opposite direction and want America to be whiny and toothless. And if that means the PRC taking over the world, so be it.

Too many people here just look at this country and cringe with embarrassment and overwhelming shame. I don’t. We need to use DIME when it comes to foreign policy again and use the M - military - as a last resort. But we also need to maintain the threat of power projection.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:41 PM (mggQ3)

218 We should have invaded, gassed the japs, and lost a million GIs.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (Q2P04)

219 There is no faster way to unmask a fallacious argument and find a contra intellectual fraud than to discuss Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It's even more revealing that Tucker clearly knows the history of our island hopping campaign in WW II, the human costs, complete Japanese brutality, and the ultimately the potential costs of invading the Japanese mainland.

War is Hell. But Tucker wouldn't know that because he never fought in one and gets his information from nutcases like COL. MacGregor. But this is simple math. Do you want to see more Americans and allies die, or more Japanese who told us outright they would not only never surrender, but take as many of us with them as they could. In war, that's an easy choice. There are largely few moral arguments to be made about more and even less for aggressors who not only started it, but are true believers in insidious, complete and unrelenting murder to win. Tucker can kiss my ass and of my relative who fought in the South Pacific were alive, they would throat punch him.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (5x1xh)

220 >>>Now he's a broken old man lefty NPC. I think Covid really broke him.

he had turned hard left years before that. He called his own audience racist for having previously enjoyed his racial material!

He went full left 2015-2016, but people I know who kept listening to him (after he went on Sirius) say it was really America's Got Talent that changed him. He really thought he was a big Hollywood star.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

221 Ah, but there's where things have changed. Governments discovered it was way more profitable to never end the wars.

And here we are.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024

Yeah. Dragging your feet to deliberately lose your wars as slowly as possible so that you can get rich at the expense of your own troops' lives and your countrymen's security, while strengthening your enemies and increasing their prestige, is considerably more evil than frying a paltry few hundred thousand more bloodthirsty Nips so the boys can come back to Omaha.

I was tired of this fuckin' argument by fifth grade.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (0FoWg)

222 So unexpected my balls hurt. ( not vouching for this, but this is their citation: )
https://tinyurl.com/ku92tzyu

@sentdefender
Israeli and U.N. Officials have both now Confirmed that during a recent Inspection of the Temporary Jetty in Central Gaza that will be utilized in conjunction with the U.S. Army’s Floating Dock to bring Humanitarian Aid into Gaza, they were Attacked by Hamas Mortar Fire resulting in Damage to several Pieces of Engineering Equipment while causing the U.N. Team to be Rushed to Shelters by IDF Soldiers.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (IG4Id)

223 =======

If one is to be generous, one might say that Tucker is arguing that governments should not have the power of nuclear weapons because they are untrustworthy today and would be more willing to use nuclear weapons on their own populations than anyone else.

If one is to be generous. Honestly, quite generous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
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That honesty is whistling at windmills.

oh, the poor metaphor

Posted by: Braenyard - today, people don't understand the putting of one's foot DOWN at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (lCWOD)

224 yes they have, but does that mean we have to go off the rails in the opposite direction? So we can "counter-balance" them with our own wacky stuff?
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM (KRtlO)

Which part is the wacky stuff? The UFO biz? The Alex Jones as a profit thing?

Remember where this was. It was a 3 hour conversation with Joe Rogan. Tucker says silly things, and in that setting, the stream of consciousness aspect of sitting there with Rogan gets to damn near everybody.

Like I said up further, I think if you could get Tucker to admit it, he's acknowledge he was wrong to impugn the character of everyone who favored the Japan nooks.

He probably won't say it, but I think he knows he was wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (dGCAG)

225 Another own goal by the left.

@_johnnymaga
🚨David Pecker's testimony today destroyed the prosecution's case

He testified that Trump "had no idea what [he] was talking about" when he asked about reimbursing Michael Cohen for the Stormy payment

He also said the "catch & kill" scheme was devised by him & Cohen--NOT Trump

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (LkLld)

226 218 We should have invaded, gassed the japs, and lost a million GIs.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (Q2P04)

=======

Alt history:

Truman is considered history's greatest monster because he could have ended WWII with a pair of flashes, but he chose to go the route he considered the more moral. That moral path led to the 3 more years of war, killing millions of Japanese civilians in bloody, urban combat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

227 Honestly, had we not had the bomb we would have just firebombed Japan until they surrendered. Don’t really see any difference between the two except the novelty of the A-bomb.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (BjRQH)

228 208 "We didn't do anything."
-Japan by the mid-50s, at the latest
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Wrote it before, if you press older Japanese on the nuke matter, they'll admit they would have used them on the US and anyone else in their way.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (IG4Id)

Like da Nasties and Us, the Japs were trying to develop one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

229 >>>Tucker Carlson also embracing one of the 10 mental defects common in all Leftists.
Presentism

What the fuck, man?

Posted by: Santa Claus at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)

230 Oh, Gesundheit.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (ynpvh)
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Thank you.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (Be/+i)

231 Something else Chesterton said: "War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you."

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (LLJRz)

232 At what point in the A-bomb development and testing did we let the Brits in on it? Or were they a part of it pretty much from the beginning?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (9yWhg)

I think we shared information with them and to a lesser extent the Russians but given that it took until 1952 to get a bomb of their own I don't think they were closely involved. Also reduces the chance of the Germans learning about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (eoQWY)

233
Mao had a fairly powerful faction and a decent base after the Long March in the hills inland in north China. But the real advantage came after the war when Russia took Manchuria and the Communists moved there. This made it impossible for Chiang to move against their army while they built up.

The Nationalists might have been able to defeat them, or might have lost regardless.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:33 PM (eoQWY)




I think it was simply that Mao decided to largely sit out the war in the north and let the Japs slaughter the KMT troops while the ChiComs built up for the inevitable civil war against Chiang, doing most of the work for him. If memory serves, the US had to basically threaten to cut off the ChiComs from US supplies in order to get them off their asses to attack the Japs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (n+4am)

234 I don't trust any man these days. Nope the days full of deception. Ace let's not turn into a littlegreenfootball. Okay ? Okay.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (ytSiK)

235 I've heard, and I don't know if it's actually true, that all Purple Hearts being awarded today still come from stock manufactured in WWII. They were expecting so many casualties from an attack on mainland Japan that they ordered a shitload of them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (xPl2J)

236 he had turned hard left years before that. He called his own audience racist for having previously enjoyed his racial material!

He went full left 2015-2016, but people I know who kept listening to him (after he went on Sirius) say it was really America's Got Talent that changed him. He really thought he was a big Hollywood star.
Posted by: ace

Man, that's sad. I stopped listening to him around 2010 when he went over to pay radio.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (PwgSL)

237 What matters now is the headlong pursuit of nukular Armageddon that is coming, and people are mad at a talk show host who said something indelicate?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:39 PM (dGCAG)

Huh?

Nuclear Armageddon is coming? Says who? (Idiots. I’ve heard that so damn much the past four years or so I’m just at the point of wake me when a nuke actually goes off. It’s all talk. Talk is cheap.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (mggQ3)

238 I’ve always disliked Jonah Goldberg even at the height of his popularity because all of his opinion pieces had to show moral equivalence that the Right also did what he was currently criticizing the Left about.
Posted by: polynikes

That and he was/is lazy; he was interviewed for his 'Liberal Fascism' book by a dozen rightie outlets and used the same exact marketing patter in each one.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (IG4Id)

239 I look at the nukes in a purely strategic way.

We would have faced another two years of war, and well over a million American casualties as we killed women and children armed with spears, because the emperor told his people to die rather than surrender.

The nukes saved both American lives and Japanese lives, and to an American, an American life is worth far more than a Japanese one.

Sorry if that offends anyone, but it is the truth, and the kind of truth nobody seems to want to admit anymore.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (lTGtQ)

240 Estimates from 100K to over a million GI casualties ? Yeah - drop the nukes. I would have glassed the place first.

Tucker's a man thats never faced personal moral danger. Never liked the limp-wristed bowtie wearing faggot in the first place.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (i7drE)

241 >>> I don't trust any man these days. Nope the days full of deception. Ace let's not turn into a littlegreenfootball. Okay ? Okay.

so I'm in danger of going littlegreenfootballs if I defend the *right* POV against a leftwing critique?

Things are changing fast.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (KRtlO)

242 did he apologize for storming over to Mar a Lago, freaking Trump out with his harridan-esque screeching, and pushing him to lock us down yet or nah?

nah, right? he was so very proud of doing that

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (s3qiR)

243 You know who else is waking up?
WaPo: George Will wakes up to see his monster. Stoking the passion that is their excuse for pandering - the nihilism of a febrile minority in their party - a majority of House Republicans - voted last Saturday to endanger civilization. Hoping to enhance their political security in their mostly safe seats, and for the infantile satisfaction of populist naughtiness (insulting a mostly fictitious “establishment”, they voted to assure Vladimir Putin’s attempt to erase a European nation...Tuesday’s Senate ratification of Ukrainian aid proves that Dwight Eisenhower’s baton of Republican internationalism was passed, via Ronald Reagan, to Mitch McConnell."

I've always held George Will in low esteem, but he's a talented wordsmith nevertheless. "J.D. Vance, an itinerant Neville Chamberlain visiting green rooms". I am so stealing that.

Right when our last living WW2 vets go to their reward, the GOPigs spit in these heroes' freedom-fighting faces.

Will, like Buckley before him, fancies himself a conservative intellectual, though he was always careful to maintain a sanitary distance from the culture warriors.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (JCZqz)

244 I think this is very fair analysis of where Tucker has gone, and I also respect people with the courage of their convictions and the honesty to state them clearly. So they can be honestly debunked.

Tucker is from the MSM, and you will pry the pretense of objectivity from their cold, dead hands.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (RIvkX)

245 241 Things are changing fast.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (KRtlO)

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*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

246 I thought the expectation was millions.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:41 PM (ynpvh)

Millions of them. Hundreds of thousands of us. Not even a consideration. We had the edge. We used it. Everyone in the event benefitted from the decision.

The only argument to be made against it was that we let the genie out of the bottle, that edge didn't last, the technology threatens the whole globe now, and the people in charge on our side are out of their fucking heads.

But that was all unknowable at the time. Truman made the right call.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (0FoWg)

247 At what point in the A-bomb development and testing did we let the Brits in on it? Or were they a part of it pretty much from the beginning?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


The Brits gave us their nuclear research material. They had it first. See the Tizzard mission.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (lTGtQ)

248 Germany if they hadn't lost first could have been nuked

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

249 226 218 We should have invaded, gassed the japs, and lost a million GIs.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (Q2P04)

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Alt history:

Truman is considered history's greatest monster because he could have ended WWII with a pair of flashes, but he chose to go the route he considered the more moral. That moral path led to the 3 more years of war, killing millions of Japanese civilians in bloody, urban combat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

Heard that Truman, when vacillating on using nukes, was told by one of his advisors, "What will you do, three years from now during your impeachment, when it comes out you could have saved millions of GIs by dropping an atomic bomb?"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

250 tucker could be right or wrong or sideways

I don't care

he squicks me; bad vibe

and he seems very hesitant to be actually thoughtful

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (s3qiR)

251 I'm skeptical about everything now, except they want us to die.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (w6EFb)

252 248 Germany if they hadn't lost first could have been nuked
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

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It's my understanding the the original idea was the develop the nukes to be used on Germany. They just folded first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

253 221 Ah, but there's where things have changed. Governments discovered it was way more profitable to never end the wars.

And here we are.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024


And being whiny and toothless is just so much better.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (mggQ3)

254 >>>242 did he apologize for storming over to Mar a Lago, freaking Trump out with his harridan-esque screeching, and pushing him to lock us down yet or nah?

oh right, he was one of the Covid Karens, wasn't he? I always forget that.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

255 Glenn Beck is really good at doing one thing: selling Glenn Beck.

Posted by: And food insurance at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (jAber)

256 Now he's a broken old man lefty NPC. I think Covid really broke him.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 04:40 PM (PwgSL)
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Scratch a libertarian and ~50% of the time, you'll find a liberal/libertine underneath.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (krQz2)

257 242 did he apologize for storming over to Mar a Lago, freaking Trump out with his harridan-esque screeching, and pushing him to lock us down yet or nah?

nah, right? he was so very proud of doing that

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (s3qiR)

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Who are you referring to? Serious question.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (JeYYB)

258 *considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


*considers mentioning guns*

*thinks better of mentioning guns and does not mention guns*

*does own part to keep thread gun free*

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 04:48 PM (Jxvt5)

259 DIME
Diplomatic
Information
Military
Economic
Seeks to avoid counterproductive and conflicting activities during tactical operations through mission planning and execution.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 04:48 PM (W/lyH)

260 Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

Yeah he was always Leftist. He was raised by Leftists parents . He built his career though by being a shit to everyone in power be it celebrity or politician. It was all schtick.

I like listening because of the studio turmoil. It was like a hilarious soap opera.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:48 PM (MNhXM)

261 Jawbone of an ass > jawboning with Tucker

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 04:48 PM (FVME7)

262 >Below, Tucker Carlson insists he has knowledge that the intelligence agencies are blackmailing congressmen -- but also says he can't say who's confessed to being blackmailed.


Like Corey Feldman, always promising to name Hollywood pedophiles, but never actually doing it.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 25, 2024 04:48 PM (rJ48h)

263 I'm embarrassed for you . There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.

Posted by: SAHMmy at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (vpXdH)

264 My uncle went to boot camp with his best friend in 1939. His friend went to the Fourth Marines, Mell went to the Fifth. His friend died at Bataan and his remains were never found. Mel went on to receive the Navy Cross for actions on Iwo Jima. To his dying day he hated all things Japanese.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (2UnvF)

265 232 At what point in the A-bomb development and testing did we let the Brits in on it? Or were they a part of it pretty much from the beginning?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:38 PM (9yWhg)

I think we shared information with them and to a lesser extent the Russians but given that it took until 1952 to get a bomb of their own I don't think they were closely involved. Also reduces the chance of the Germans learning about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (eoQWY)

They developed the...sloika?..."jelly-rol"l style of A-bomb, as I recall reading. Good enough design for bombs up to a certain size.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (ynpvh)

266 Some of us had Bowtie's number when he was carrying Buchanan's water.

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (X0I7i)

267 Tucker sounds more like a 60s liberal than a modern leftist. A modern leftist would love to nuke a red state or city.

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (q177U)

268 Germany if they hadn't lost first could have been nuked

Posted by: Skip


If Germany had had a rational leader, they would have had nukes and used them long before we did.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (lTGtQ)

269 >>> There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.

Japan didn't seem to think it was over.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

270 But this is simple math. Do you want to see more Americans and allies die, or more Japanese who told us outright they would not only never surrender, but take as many of us with them as they could. In war, that's an easy choice.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 04:42 PM (5x1xh)

That isn't quite the real equation. If the allies invade, not only do more of them die, but also far, far more Japanese fighters and civilians die. From war and starvation.

You can make the same decision leaving out all consideration of Allied deaths. An invasion would likely have virtually exterminated the Japanese nation. They expected it to themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (eoQWY)

271 263 I'm embarrassed for you . There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.
Posted by: SAHMmy at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (vpXdH)

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Interesting alt-history right here.

Why did it take 2 atomic blasts to convince Japan to surrender, then?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

272 Pamphlets were dropped on major Japanese cities involved in the war effort to advise them to get out of Dodge. I suspect some did. They're known as survivors.

Side note, there was actually one guy officially documented as present both times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi

Monumentally shitty timing...

(Side note, there may have been as many as 160 who were affected by both, this is just the one guy the Japanese government recognized.)

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (OUMaO)

273 Huh?

Nuclear Armageddon is coming? Says who? (Idiots. I’ve heard that so damn much the past four years or so I’m just at the point of wake me when a nuke actually goes off. It’s all talk. Talk is cheap.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (mggQ3)

Says Macron. Says every American politician who is talking about sending troops to Ukraine.

Are you really not paying attention?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (dGCAG)

274 It is very cheap virtue signaling to condemn earlier generations for decisions they had to make. They were the ones stuck dealing with imperial Japan, not someone pontificating 80 years later.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (roH4R)

275 233
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I think it was simply that Mao decided to largely sit out the war in the north and let the Japs slaughter the KMT troops while the ChiComs built up for the inevitable civil war against Chiang, doing most of the work for him. If memory serves, the US had to basically threaten to cut off the ChiComs from US supplies in order to get them off their asses to attack the Japs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (n+4am)

That's what I read too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

276
He probably won't say it, but I think he knows he was wrong.
Posted by: BurtTC

How many other things does he know he was wrong about?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (63Dwl)

277 263 u r a fag

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (0FoWg)

278 It's my understanding the the original idea was the develop the nukes to be used on Germany. They just folded first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup. Berlin would have caught a nuke had they hung on till August.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (Be/+i)

279 254 Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

Carlson has always been a tad histrionic, not like Grin Breck but still.

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (X0I7i)

280 It's my understanding the the original idea was the develop the nukes to be used on Germany. They just folded first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

Yep. And it took longer to develop the first bomb due to the limitations of technology at the time. As I recall, what took 40,000 man-years of labor to do in the 1940s took India 2500 in the 1970s.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (mggQ3)

281 Who are you referring to? Serious question.


the beginning of COVID mania

Trump was NOT going to lock us down. my husband watched tucker every night to my chagrin, so I heard him the whole week before going off like a ninny about how terrifying COVID was ... then he actually went (his own mouth!) to Mar a Lago and spent days haranguing Trump and convinced him to lock us down.

I'll never forget the show after when he CROWED about it. I'll not forgive him, not that he ever admitted he was wrong.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (s3qiR)

282 So believing that bombing civilians makes you left wing? I really don't know what tribe I'm supposed to be a part of anymore.

Nobody has a problem pointing out all the war crimes of our enemies, but turn a blind eye when our own team does it. This kind of doublethink has been going on since Pearl Harbor, as far as Japan is concerned.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (NAuoi)

283 @226 That moral path led to the 3 more years of war, killing millions of Japanese civilians in bloody, urban combat.

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You forgot the part where the islands were resettled by Americans fter the war because the Japanese race was virtually extinct outside of the Nissei in the US.

Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (JJ2jk)

284 Germany if they hadn't lost first could have been nuked

Posted by: Skip


If Germany had had a rational leader, they would have had nukes and used them long before we did.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (lTGtQ)

This is another myth from the peaceniks. If Germany had been standing by mid 1945, they absolutely would have been nuked. No question.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

285 Carlson has always been a tad histrionic, not like Grin Breck but still.


he's womanish

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (s3qiR)

286 Maybe a takeaway from thisis to put NO Media celebrity on any sort of pedestal… they pretty much all crave the money and attention.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (PCK5/)

287 Every time I say millennials are the dumbest generation in Human history out pops a Boomer saying something really stupid about the greatest generation. Its easy to say in hindsight. A lot harder for a trooper that just Won the ETO be told they were going to have to invade Japan.

Posted by: Fisht at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (BHEHK)

288 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:45 PM (mggQ3)

Says Macron. Says every American politician who is talking about sending troops to Ukraine.

Are you really not paying attention?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (dGCAG)

But congratulations to you. You have taken EXACTLY the same position as Biden's DoD.

They laugh at the idea of taking Putin seriously.

Because it hasn't happened. Yet.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (dGCAG)

289 I will again say this is a function of our deteriorating institutions. Between the response to Trump's win in 2016 and the response to Covid in 2019, a lot of things that were considered the realm of conspiracy theory has turned out to be true. This has unmoored a lot of people, not just Tucker. Turns out actually having to question EVERYTHING takes a toll.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (5C4od)

290 Tuck getting the Leftists touchy feely lately?

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (fwDg9)

291 They would have used a nuke on us. Germany would have too. It was not evil to stop them.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (vFG9F)

292 Honestly, had we not had the bomb we would have just firebombed Japan until they surrendered. Don’t really see any difference between the two except the novelty of the A-bomb.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (BjRQH)

Firebombs and starvation. The Navy argued for their total blockade of Japan. Truman and/or his observers (and certainly MacArthur) saw the danger of that plan. It would certainly give the USSR plenty of time to consolidate its hold on northern China, possibly the entire Korean peninsula, and take China by means of Mao's army.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)

293 The Troll is "in effect"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (RIvkX)

294 Tucker needs to learn how to make provisional argument.

I think we should think deep and hard about justifying the frying of millions of civilians, women and children. He should have said "There is a CASE that it's PURE EVIL", which would simply be acknowledging Rogan's comparison.

But, not everything is simple. People's impressions sometimes need to be taken into account, but what would have made Tucker look better is to say that he "GETS" the case that Rogan is comparing.

Not just to overcorrect and have to walk back what was too broad of a take.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (krQz2)

295 248 Germany if they hadn't lost first could have been nuked

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

Germany, if their program had not been sabotaged by the Allies, could've had the bomb first.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (ynpvh)

296 >>>So believing that bombing civilians makes you left wing? I really don't know what tribe I'm supposed to be a part of anymore.
Nobody has a problem pointing out all the war crimes of our enemies, but turn a blind eye when our own team does it. This kind of doublethink has been going on since Pearl Harbor, as far as Japan is concerned.

I believe it's very easy to take that position after the war had been ended. I think if you were an American living then, and had already faced four years of war and tens of thousands of casualties, you might have a different moral calculus.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (KRtlO)

297 269 >>> There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.

Japan didn't seem to think it was over.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (KRtlO)


They absolutely would have fought until there was nothing left of their country.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:52 PM (PCK5/)

298 In the American perspective, the instruments of national power are: Diplomacy, Information, Military, and Economic (DIME). According to Joint Publication 1, The ability of the US to advance its national interests is dependent on the effectiveness of the United States Government (USG) in employing the...

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:53 PM (vtyCZ)

299 Publishers, editors, producers, directors - sometimes they're worth it.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 04:53 PM (PMJuY)

300 Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (s3qiR)

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Interesting.

Because he didn't get the shot and was pretty adamant about it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:53 PM (JeYYB)

301 Continuing pounding Japan into the ground would have killed hundreds of thousands

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:36 PM


Yep and that is an important point that most people forget. Without the bombs the war would have continued for 6 or more months with an invasion of the Japanese homelands and the continued bombing of the entire country.


At that point in the war each large bombing raid was killing/wounding thousands of people every single raid.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 04:53 PM (QNSds)

302 War is evil.

Don't start one if you don't want evil upon you because your enemy will fight back.

Japan literally hoped that America wouldn't fight back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

303 Says Macron. Says every American politician who is talking about sending troops to Ukraine.

Are you really not paying attention?
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (dGCAG)

I am, and it’s TALK until it happens. You can clutch your pearls listening to endless BULLSHIT all day long, but I will not buy it until I hear about a nuke going off.

This has been going on for the past four fucking years or so AND NOTHING HAS FUCKING HAPPENED.

Talk is cheap.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (mggQ3)

304 233
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I think it was simply that Mao decided to largely sit out the war in the north and let the Japs slaughter the KMT troops while the ChiComs built up for the inevitable civil war against Chiang, doing most of the work for him. If memory serves, the US had to basically threaten to cut off the ChiComs from US supplies in order to get them off their asses to attack the Japs.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (n+4am)

That's what I read too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

yes, it became a thing in Commie/Leftist history circles to say the exact reverse, that the Maoists did all the fighting.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

305 thanks for the explanation of DIME

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

306 My Dad was in the South Pacific. Both he and my Mom believed he would not return. Last stationed in Guam, he thought the Japanese would never surrender. He thought the bomb a gift, bc of all the lives it saved. TC is insane.

Posted by: EveR at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (Z/h4+)

307 There's something about Carlson in his new environment that suggests he's surrounded by a bunch of halfwits and sycophants that just agree with him and never say "that's stupid boss."

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (RjBju)

308 264 My uncle went to boot camp with his best friend in 1939. His friend went to the Fourth Marines, Mell went to the Fifth. His friend died at Bataan and his remains were never found. Mel went on to receive the Navy Cross for actions on Iwo Jima. To his dying day he hated all things Japanese.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (2UnvF)

My dad was in the hospital a decade or so ago, and had finally come out of his induced coma. A therapist came by, and my Dad said, "Are you Japanese? I occupied your country."
LOL, I couldn't believe my Dad told her that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (ynpvh)

309 282 Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (NAuoi)

There were military installations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki you know what would have prevented their being bombed?

The undeclared fucking attack on Pearl Harbor not happening.

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (X0I7i)

310
OK, so, we don't drop the bombs. When does the war end? If the answer isn't August 15, 1945, you got some explaining to do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (ro5Z0)

311 did he apologize for storming over to Mar a Lago, freaking Trump out with his harridan-esque screeching, and pushing him to lock us down yet or nah?

nah, right? he was so very proud of doing that

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:46 PM (s3qiR)

I must have missed this.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (w6EFb)

312 "I've heard, and I don't know if it's actually true, that all Purple Hearts being awarded today still come from stock manufactured in WWII. "

I've read that also, I don't know why anyone would lie about it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (MeG8a)

313 I watched the whole interview. Don't agree with him about the bomb, don't agree with him on a number of things. But he doesn't bullshit you about where he stands and why. I'll take intellectual honesty over agreement all day long.

Posted by: Charles Nelson Reilly at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (h8c/W)

314 I'm embarrassed for you . There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.
Posted by: SAHMmy at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (vpXdH)

That has to be a sock. No one is that WW2 illiterate.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (MNhXM)

315 Interesting alt-history right here.

Why did it take 2 atomic blasts to convince Japan to surrender, then?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

And an attempted coup by much of the military to stop the Emperor's broadcast of surrender to the people, so the war could continue. Hell, they definitely weren't going to surrender after the first bomb, and only barely did so after the second.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (JCZqz)

316 I’m looking forward to Tucker’s reprocessing of the VietNam War … you know …the war where a Viet Cong became a student demonstrator by taking away his AK-47 .. either before or after he is dead

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (0OdlD)

317 Some trolls are forgetting about the Kamakazi attitude many had in Japan. More than just the pilots. It's win or die.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (JeYYB)

318 Because he didn't get the shot and was pretty adamant about it.


good for him!

the lockdowns were still the worst thing (other than seeding nursing homes with sick young people and locking THEM in with COVID infected people and withholding antibiotics but I digress)

I dont trust Tucker honestly. there's something off on his Very Tightly Held opinions

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (s3qiR)

319 Discussing alligator wrestling is much easier in a climate controlled studio than in the swamp up to your ass in alligators.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (FVME7)

320 315 And an attempted coup by much of the military to stop the Emperor's broadcast of surrender to the people, so the war could continue. Hell, they definitely weren't going to surrender after the first bomb, and only barely did so after the second.
Posted by: Military Moron at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (JCZqz)

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The coup was because the military wanted to surrender even faster!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

321 Firebombing Dresden and Tokyo was bad. We shouldn't have done that. Nuking the Japs was fine.

Why? What's the difference?

One worked. The other didn't. End of story.

It's simple. In a war, winning is the goal. You're going to do bad things. When the bad things end the war in your own favor, they become good things on balance.

It's a life and death scenario. In those, the ends justify the means.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (0FoWg)

322 How many other things does he know he was wrong about?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (63Dwl)

If you listen to him, he'll tell you.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (dGCAG)

323 271 263 I'm embarrassed for you . There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.
Posted by: SAHMmy at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (vpXdH)

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Interesting alt-history right here.

Why did it take 2 atomic blasts to convince Japan to surrender, then?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

Because the military guys that wanted to kill Hirohito so he couldn't surrender were stopped. Otherwise it would've taken a few more.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

324 watched the whole interview. Don't agree with him about the bomb, don't agree with him on a number of things. But he doesn't bullshit you about where he stands and why. I'll take intellectual honesty over agreement all day long.
Posted by: Charles Nelson Reilly at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (h8c/W)

You like his intellectual take on COVID?

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (MNhXM)

325 Yup. Berlin would have caught a nuke had they hung on till August.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (Be/+i)

Truman received the news of the successful test of the plutonium bomb at the Potsdam Conference. Close call, Berlin.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (rj6Yv)

326 Honestly, had we not had the bomb we would have just firebombed Japan until they surrendered. Don’t really see any difference between the two except the novelty of the A-bomb.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 25, 2024 04:43 PM (BjRQH)
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It's not like Dresden had a "smart fire bomb" that would just take out the soldiers. And no, you can't celebrate Dresden, but you can understand it as a casualty of war.

The Germans and the Japanese put us in a "State of War", and they suffered reprisals for their overreach.

We would have lost soooo many men going down the shooting gallery of Tokyo Bay. I had a college instructor who was on one of the those ships scheduled to go through the killzone the Japanese had made Tokyo Bay

He was socially, and mostly politically liberal, but he *loved* the bomb.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (krQz2)

327 At that point in the war each large bombing raid was killing/wounding thousands of people every single raid.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 04:53 PM (QNSds)

Single firebombing raids of Tokyo killed more than either A Bomb. The Nagasaki one was kinda a fizzle in terms of death count, the primary target was clouded over and Nagasaki was a smaller place.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (eoQWY)

328 307 There's something about Carlson in his new environment that suggests he's surrounded by a bunch of halfwits and sycophants that just agree with him and never say "that's stupid boss."


I think he spends too much time on X

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (s3qiR)

329 I think the military was planning the war into 1947 if I remember correctly. It would have been a terrible bloodbath.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (PCK5/)

330 Nearly always overlooked is that Japan, even at the time it surrendered, remained in control of most of southeast Asia, as well as a large part of China, and all of Korea. Those civilian populations would have experienced more suffering and death the longer the war persisted, as well as Japan's own military and civilian casualties, and --- most important from America's perspective --- Allied military casualties, especially Americans from an invasion of Japan that was expected to result in hundreds of thousands of American dead.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (qcPWJ)

331 Little known fact … there 13 nuclear weapons in some level of assembly by the end of the war

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (0OdlD)

332 I'm embarrassed for you . There was no need to drop those bombs, the war was in effect, over.
Posted by: SAHMmy at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (vpXdH)

That has to be a sock. No one is that WW2 illiterate.
Posted by: polynikes

Vox Populi would agree with our troll.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (9yWhg)

333 The bomb doesn’t have morals any more than a hammer does. It was a means to an end.

If you think the end was the right one one you use it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (AexFl)

334 War is evil.

Don't start one if you don't want evil upon you because your enemy will fight back.

Japan literally hoped that America wouldn't fight back.
Posted by: The


That's true, but that does not mean you have to be evil.

Would you suggest we should had a rape of Tokyo the way the Japanese raped nanking?

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (RjBju)

335 @233 I think it was simply that Mao decided to largely sit out the war in the north

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Mao spent most of the war attacking Nationalist troops, and largely ignoring the IJA. IIRC, eventually Chiang got sick of Mao's double-dealing, and revoked the cease-fire with the Communists. But the war meant he couldn't take any serious action.

The Soviets occupied Manchuria right before the end of the war, handed it over to Mao, and used the fact that it was neighboring the USSR to feed him supplies.

There's more to it, and it's a complicated subject. But that's the major stuff.

Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (JJ2jk)

336 >>> But he doesn't bullshit you about where he stands and why.

I think he does. After he caught flack for questioning Israel's right to defend itself on October 8th or 9th, he then claimed all he meant to do was be one guy standing up for America's self-interest.

Then over the proceeding months he interviewed one guy after another calling Israel evil. He just had on a Palestinian Christian to complain that Christians are badly treated in Israel. Tucker Carlson "forgot" to mention the areas he was talking about where governed by the Palestinians.

So he attempted to tell Christians that evil Jews were tricking him.

But sure, he's very "upfront" about what he believes.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

337
Funny thing with nukes, 80 years after we glassed two Japanese cities, one could argue that they are better allies for the US now than the Limeys who've supposed to have been allies for nearly 200 years.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (n+4am)

338 There were military installations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki you know what would have prevented their being bombed?

The undeclared fucking attack on Pearl Harbor not happening.
Posted by: sven

Nuking two civilian cities was a war crime, and disproportionate use of force compared to Pearl Harbor...just like Israel's genocide in Gaza and Palestine!!!!

Posted by: Radical Lefty Palestinian Apologists at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

339 Germany, if their program had not been sabotaged by the Allies, could've had the bomb first.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)



That, plus so many of their scientists fled to the west due to the nazis.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (lTGtQ)

340 324 Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (MNhXM)

Call in and ask me how I can destroy 7+ trillion dollars of global income in two quarters!

//CUOMO19 Hysterics

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (X0I7i)

341
I think the military was planning the war into 1947 if I remember correctly.

_________

"Golden Gate in '48"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (ro5Z0)

342 the lockdowns were still the worst thing (other than seeding nursing homes with sick young people and locking THEM in with COVID infected people and withholding antibiotics but I digress)

I dont trust Tucker honestly. there's something off on his Very Tightly Held opinions
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (s3qiR)

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I 100% agree with you, BlackOrchid. I not only think it was the worst thing, as Tucker would say, I think it was evil. Not hyperbole.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (JeYYB)

343 But congratulations to you. You have taken EXACTLY the same position as Biden's DoD.

They laugh at the idea of taking Putin seriously.

Because it hasn't happened. Yet.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (dGCAG)

I take the position of Catch Thirty-Thr33, thanks, TALK IS CHEAP. When a nuke goes off, call me. Until that moment, this is all BULLSHIT you are worked up over, and you’re mad that I’m not going Chicken Little right with you.

AND here’s this: one country has used nukes. NO ONE wants to be #2.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (mggQ3)

344 ...AND NOTHING HAS FUCKING HAPPENED.

Talk is cheap.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (mggQ3)

Apparently you haven't heard of the Ukraine war.

Congratulations, you fit right in with Biden's DoD.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (dGCAG)

345 Did the flight of Jewish physicists like Einstein do much to hinder their atomic-bomb research?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (9yWhg)

346 Remember when Jon Stewart told Tucker Carlson that Tucker had turned Crossfire from a dignified cross-party debate show into a Springer screaming match?
Remember when everyone got bent out of shape and said Jon Stewart was "clown nose on, clown nose off" whenever Stewart tried to avoid responsibility for his advocacy?
And now Tucker Carlson proclaims he is "just asking questions."
Who's the bigger clown?
No, no - not Stewart or Carlson.
Carlson or the people who were taken in by him and thought he was a dignified journalist and commentator and not a populist entertainer.
"Just asking questions and screaming at guests" on, clown nose off.

Posted by: Sam at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (7jMef)

347 Bill Whittle's presentation on the pros and cons of nuking Japan was convincing to me.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (w6EFb)

348 But sure, he's very "upfront" about what he believes.


he's an op! I just feel it in my bones.

I don't know what it all means, but he is a part of the Narrative, maybe some kind of counter narrative...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (s3qiR)

349 Interesting alt-history right here.

Why did it take 2 atomic blasts to convince Japan to surrender, then?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

Because the military guys that wanted to kill Hirohito so he couldn't surrender were stopped. Otherwise it would've taken a few more.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (ynpvh)

They thought it might be a one-shot. The second conviced them it wasn't. If that didn't work we were gonna be making dozens of them like a factory.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (eoQWY)

350 317 Some trolls are forgetting about the Kamakazi attitude many had in Japan. More than just the pilots. It's win or die.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (JeYYB)

For them their Emperor was a God. As long as he said “ fight” they would have done so.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

351 Personally I couldn't give a Tinker's damn about Carlson. I'd be more interested in who is selected #166 in the NFL draft than anything he has to say. He left Fox with probably a half dozen stories under development that had been researched well. They made him sound good. But over time the research has dwindled to whatever he has now, and suddenly, the bloom is off the rose.
Meh.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (W/lyH)

352 287 Every time I say millennials are the dumbest generation in Human history out pops a Boomer saying something really stupid about the greatest generation. Its easy to say in hindsight. A lot harder for a trooper that just Won the ETO be told they were going to have to invade Japan.

Posted by: Fisht at April 25, 2024 04:51 PM (BHEHK)

Um...he's NOT a Boomer. I'm older than him and I'm not a Boomer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (ynpvh)

353 Everything I ever read on Germany's nuclear project is yes the allies did work to wreck it but Germany was way behind and no way had the money to get that far, they couldn't keep their armies supplied

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (fwDg9)

354 337
Funny thing with nukes, 80 years after we glassed two Japanese cities, one could argue that they are better allies for the US now than the Limeys who've supposed to have been allies for nearly 200 years.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (n+4am)

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Agree. And if you see those cities now, they are beautiful, much better than most American cities.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (JeYYB)

355 I have family that fought in both the European Theater and Pacific Theater. The ones who fought in Europe largely went on with their lives after the war. The ones in the Pacific never forgave the Japanese until their dying day. A lot of contemporary arguments speciously leave out how brutal the Japanese had been. How you execute the battle of often becomes a part of your own fate.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (5x1xh)

356 337 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (n+4am)

I used to believe that, of course I am now of the mind that the Japanese and Germans being subjected to our early adopter progressives and having their national pride outlawed is why we face this bullshit now.

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (X0I7i)

357 I take the position of Catch Thirty-Thr33, thanks, TALK IS CHEAP. When a nuke goes off, call me. Until that moment, this is all BULLSHIT you are worked up over, and you’re mad that I’m not going Chicken Little right with you.

AND here’s this: one country has used nukes. NO ONE wants to be #2.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (mggQ3)

Settle down, Francis.

The adults are talking.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (dGCAG)

358 That's true, but that does not mean you have to be evil.

Would you suggest we should had a rape of Tokyo the way the Japanese raped nanking?
Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (RjBju

What does that gibberish even mean?

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (MNhXM)

359 If Israel secretly has tons of dirt on our regime, then they’re doing a terrible job of leveraging it

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (CnN/c)

360 Sam is correct! yes Sam

he's an entertainer. not particularly entertaining with the womanly screeching and goofy nervous laughing - well I think those are tells

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (s3qiR)

361 AGA War Room
@MAGAIncWarRoom

Constitutional Law Attorney
@CherkaskyKatie
: "The case is very weak. It's obvious why Alvin Bragg originally didn't think this case should be the first one to go...it's not looking good. It's not shaping up to really be a clear example of any criminal conduct."

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Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (NpAcC)

362 if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil."

How about "It was the least worst thing?"
Posted by: fd

There's a Christian concept that any sin is the turning away from God, and is therefore, evil.
Obviously there are levels of evil.
Posted by: BurtTC

Present Tucker with "the trolley problem."

I guess his solution would be to go back in time and prevent the invention of the trolley? Not by killing the inventor, of course.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (DgGvY)

363 Is Bill Whittle still around? Haven't seen anything from him in ages.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (xPl2J)

364 So Carlson was a covid Karen? I never knew that or missed it…. But his views did change over time. I’d swear I saw his show lots of times before he left Fox where he really slammed all the Covid mania and gave a platform to Scott Atlas and Robert Malone…. Maybe he was an early Karen then thought better of it?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (xT8gx)

365 I always figured Okinawa sealed the deal. 100k lives lost in bitter fighting. The Japanese might have been defeated, but they were going to make us fight for every blade of grass.

A tough call and far easier to doubt it in the present day. A tired nation, USSR looming, new president, I probably would have made that call as well.

Posted by: chicagovota at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (hH3ux)

366 334
That's true, but that does not mean you have to be evil.

Would you suggest we should had a rape of Tokyo the way the Japanese raped nanking?
Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (RjBju)

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No, I wouldn't. I'd recommend mass death until the enemy decides to stop fighting a war it started because it's imperialistic ambitions were far greater than its capabilities which led it to attack a non-combatant nation that vastly overpowered it in industrial might in the hopes that it would be able to get more oil afterwards.

Seriously. In a world where weapons manufacture is done in civilian populations, once the war reaches those limits, civilians are going to die. A lot of them. Since the governments are supposedly instituted for the people's protection, it's up to the governments to decide when they can't go any further and try to end things. Since the Japanese government wasn't trying to end things, well, civilians around military targets are fair game.

War sucks. They shouldn't be fought. But when they are fought, they should be fought to win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

367 305 thanks for the explanation of DIME

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

I thought this was well-known…at least here!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (mggQ3)

368 I chalk Tucker's recent weirdness up to the fact that he was basically a puppet of the increasingly leftwing Fox News management for the last number of years, and there are certainly things that are not allowed to be said on-air at Fox. Now being free from that, he feels like he can say what the fuck ever has been ruminating in his head all this time. It feels like just a brain dump rather than a careful examination of one's own beliefs and then saying some things out loud, leaving some unsaid.

I support Israel's right to self-defense purely on the Fuck Around and Find Out principle, and on the grounds that Hamas is a collection of prehistoric savages that the world wouldn't miss if they were all vaporized.

However, it's hard to miss the knee-jerk reaction of nearly everyone on the right to accuse anyone who raises even a slight criticism of Israel of antisemitism, which is bug-fuck stupid, lazy, and annoying. It's also hard not to notice that for being a nation with the population of Georgia (the state), that they have a very outsized influence on our foreign policy and even our internal politics. I think that's something worth exploring.

Posted by: ballistic at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (oqH4h)

369 Carlson is an Xer

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (s3qiR)

370 Did the flight of Jewish physicists like Einstein do much to hinder their atomic-bomb research?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (9yWhg)

They had some good people left. I heard they went down a blind alley in some technical respects, and of course the RAF bombing their facilities didn't help.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (eoQWY)

371 four years of war and tens of thousands of casualties,

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300-400k American casualties in the Pacific theater. 100k+ KIA.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 05:01 PM (0FoWg)

372 304 233
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I think it was simply that Mao decided to largely sit out the war in the north and let the Japs slaughter the KMT troops while the ChiComs built up for the inevitable civil war against Chiang, doing most of the work for him. If memory serves, the US had to basically threaten to cut off the ChiComs from US supplies in order to get them off their asses to attack the Japs.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 04:44 PM (n+4am)

That's what I read too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

yes, it became a thing in Commie/Leftist history circles to say the exact reverse, that the Maoists did all the fighting.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

In truth Mao sent those troops involved during those early years to the Chinese front lines in Korea to kill them off. No need to have anyone around to debunk the lies his kingdom was built on.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:01 PM (ynpvh)

373 345 of the Germans, I mean

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 05:01 PM (9yWhg)

374 Did the flight of Jewish physicists like Einstein do much to hinder their atomic-bomb research?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM


Yep.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:01 PM (QNSds)

375 Like Woody Allen, except real:

@DissocialSpace 22m
BREAKING NOW - In a bold move, the UN has removed the mask from the Climate Change hoax by inviting the Taliban to a series of talks in order to CON-vince the world to send them lots and lots of money to save them from the weather.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 05:01 PM (IG4Id)

376 As a side note more died in the fire-bombing of Tokyo, 90,000+, on March 9th 1945 than at Hiroshima.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (vHfLU)

377 "I've heard, and I don't know if it's actually true, that all Purple Hearts being awarded today still come from stock manufactured in WWII. "

I've read that also, I don't know why anyone would lie about it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (MeG8a)

IIRC, there was an order placed for 600,000 Purple Hearts decoration sets as part of the prep for the invasion of Japan.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (rj6Yv)

378
Settle down, Francis.

The adults are talking.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (dGCAG)

Which you are clearly not, given how you act as if history was invented when you were born.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (mggQ3)

379 364 So Carlson was a covid Karen? I never knew that or missed it…. But his views did change over time. I’d swear I saw his show lots of times before he left Fox where he really slammed all the Covid mania and gave a platform to Scott Atlas and Robert Malone…. Maybe he was an early Karen then thought better of it?


ok but to this day he has not apologized for pushing PDJT to lock us down. but I saw him with my own eyes gleefully stating he convinced the President to do the lockdown.

I dont have video so you have to trust me I guess. I'll never ever forget it. that lockdown broke my heart; it took my country away from me.

it was the most wrong thing. the most wrong.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (s3qiR)

380 312 "I've heard, and I don't know if it's actually true, that all Purple Hearts being awarded today still come from stock manufactured in WWII. "

I've read that also, I don't know why anyone would lie about it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (MeG8a)

So many were produced due to the expected casualties for the Japanese invasion.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (ynpvh)

381 Remember when Jon Stewart told Tucker Carlson that Tucker had turned Crossfire from a dignified cross-party debate show into a Springer screaming match?
Remember when everyone got bent out of shape and said Jon Stewart was "clown nose on, clown nose off" whenever Stewart tried to avoid responsibility for his advocacy?
And now Tucker Carlson proclaims he is "just asking questions."
Who's the bigger clown?

Posted by: Sam at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (7jMef)
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That's really not the same thing at all.

And you have a weird way of making that exchange about specifically Tucker. Stewart was talking about Crossfire as a brand, not just what Tucker had turned it into.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (krQz2)

382
Read up on what the invasion of Kyushu would have entailed. It'll curl your hair.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (ro5Z0)

383 @241 ace no not saying that at all. It was tongue in cheak heavy sarcasm. And a little stupidity. Much love

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (ytSiK)

384 382
Read up on what the invasion of Kyushu would have entailed. It'll curl your hair.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (ro5Z0)

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The Japanese laying down all arms and surrendering because they were essentially defeated?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

385 The battle of Okinawa also factored heavily into the equation. The casualties were higher there than at Normandy and the Kamikazes were taking their toll on the Navy. The US public was growing war weary. I don't think an invasion of Japan was ever a possibility.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (2UnvF)

386 Ace has become unreadable...

Just kidding about that, but I would point out to him that there are such things as "control files" and look at the all the idiotic voters in Congress for whatever bloated Deep State program. I certainly think that these guys in the Deep State and the Breakaway Civilization types have the goods on a lot of Congressional Critters...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (TGPs7)

387 376 Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (vHfLU)

Correct and Dresden was more effectively destroyed than a nuke would have accomplished....

of course Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki are all three nicer than Detroit and Baltimore two vital cities for the allied war effort.

Democrats are deadlier than nukes.

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (X0I7i)

388 I always find it amusing when atomic bombs, napalm, white phosphorus bombs, poison gas and cluster munitions are considered bad but TNT is okay. They are all 'chemical' weapons (atomics being on the fringe). What's the difference to dying from an incendiary bomb to getting blown to pieces by a 500lb bomb? A cannon shell? Same for poison gas. Yes, you may not die immediately but that also applies to the person holding his guts in his hands after being disemboweled by a nearby explosion or someone's bayonet. I could go on but enough for now. Rant over.

Posted by: Ciampino - and it's always the children at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (qfLjt)

389
There's more to it, and it's a complicated subject. But that's the major stuff.
Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (JJ2jk)



Oh, I know. My knowledge of internal Chinese WWII politics comes down to "Mao didn't raise a finger against the Japs". And getting a truthful story of those years out of the ChiComs is pretty much impossible.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 05:04 PM (n+4am)

390 I guess the long knives are out for Tucker on the right.

The circular firing squad on the right is always loaded and ready.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:04 PM (krQz2)

391

If Germany had had a rational leader, they would have had nukes and used them long before we did.

Replace Hitler and the NAZIs with Kaiser Wilhelm I and Otto Von Bismark in 1939 and yeah...I think they win.

But their winning would have been completely different from Hitler's idea of winning of course.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 05:04 PM (ibTVg)

392 What does that gibberish even mean?




Do you need me to use emojii or ebonics?

Shortbus threads are after hours.






Do better man.

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 05:04 PM (RjBju)

393 305 thanks for the explanation of DIME
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I didn't know it either; I was thinking of another but military-only U.S. doctrine -- probably the Nuclear Triad was in my mind.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:04 PM (vtyCZ)

394 I dont have video so you have to trust me I guess. I'll never ever forget it. that lockdown broke my heart; it took my country away from me.

it was the most wrong thing. the most wrong.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 05:02 PM (s3qiR)

I believe you. Didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I absolutely agree with you regarding the lockdowns. I’ll never forget that and I’ll never trust the government again. The worst government action in this country of my lifetime

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (xT8gx)

395 Apparently you haven't heard of the Ukraine war.

Congratulations, you fit right in with Biden's DoD.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:57 PM (dGCAG)

I didn’t realize nukes were used in the Ukraine war.

Go dig a bomb shelter, Chicken Little. Since you are so cock-sure nuclear war is inevitable. JFC, it’s like talking to a Leftist in the 1980s.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (mggQ3)

396 >> If he at least had the courage and integrity to state his suspicions out loud, I'd be less critical

No - he would get the Kanye treatment and be cancelled in a microsecond.

Posted by: T at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (OC8EF)

397 By the time of Iwo Jima, Americans were weary of all the casualties. Lots of gold star families. And there was no sign of these slowing down, just the opposite. The astonishing thing is that VP Truman knew nothing about the Manhattan project. That didn't come until he was President.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (MeG8a)

398 392 Do better man.
Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 05:04 PM (RjBju)

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Wars where civilians don't die are fantasy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

399 Like Woody Allen, except real:

@DissocialSpace 22m
BREAKING NOW - In a bold move, the UN has removed the mask from the Climate Change hoax by inviting the Taliban to a series of talks in order to CON-vince the world to send them lots and lots of money to save them from the weather.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 05:01 PM (IG4Id)
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Sadly, far too many nations in the UN (including the US) will probably cave in and give the Taliban money--on the condition that it's laundered through various NGOs and "charities" of course. Grifters gotta grift.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (7fElN)

400
Democrats are deadlier than nukes.

Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (X0I7i)


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Spot on!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (vHfLU)

401 I've heard it said they were ready to surrender but NOT unconditionally until the bombs dropped.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (63Dwl)

402 The decisive moral argument surrounding the atomic bombings of Japan are this: the Japanese were killing 100,000 innocent Asians in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Burma, etc., in mid-to-late 1945. Any other manner of ending the war would have prolonged it and resulted in far more innocent Asians dying than Japanese, "innocent" or not. There is no other feasible way to end the war in August 1945 without the shock effect of atomic weapons. Any other approach - blockade, invasion, negotiations - would have taken far more time (certainly greater than 2 weeks, which is the time required for the number of other Asian deaths to equal the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and resulted in far more deaths, including Japanese.

The dirty little secret of Carlson and all those who decry the atomic bombings as immoral irrespective of any other consideration, is that they would have given the Japanese militarists what they wanted - to remain in power at any cost. With that, the US would have faced the horror of fighting another even worse war with an even more twisted and insane Japanese leadership 20 years later, against a by-then nuclear armed Japan.

Posted by: Sloucho at April 25, 2024 05:06 PM (Dv8DR)

403 350 317 Some trolls are forgetting about the Kamakazi attitude many had in Japan. More than just the pilots. It's win or die.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 04:55 PM (JeYYB)

For them their Emperor was a God. As long as he said “ fight” they would have done so.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

Which island (Okinawa?) were there only a handful of civillians lefte alive? They were willing to fight to the death.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:06 PM (ynpvh)

404 I always find it amusing when atomic bombs, napalm, white phosphorus bombs, poison gas and cluster munitions are considered bad but TNT is okay. They are all 'chemical' weapons (atomics being on the fringe). What's the difference to dying from an incendiary bomb to getting blown to pieces by a 500lb bomb? A cannon shell?

Posted by: Ciampino - and it's always the children at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (qfLjt)
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And of course we have the beneficial individually wrapped explosive shrapnel ball.

Because the bank is so little.

How about a Claymore? Those only shoot ball bearings one way. So they're half as disastrous as a full explosion.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:06 PM (krQz2)

405 Or cheek

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at April 25, 2024 05:06 PM (ytSiK)

406 Democrats are deadlier than nukes.

Posted by: sven

I mean, some of the big blue cities kind of look like they were hit by a nuke these days.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 05:06 PM (PwgSL)

407 okay I'm over it lol. whatever Tucker is an entertainer and he can be interesting

I have a personal grudge over the lockdown thing and I wish he would apologize for how he behaved with that. I think people deserve that, at the very least. it was a big, huge mistake. he wasn't alone but he really had PDJT's ear.

personally something about him seems off to me, like I said I had to watch it every night on fox b/c that was treadmill time so I saw him a bunch. he just felt ... always something off for me.

but that's just me. I'm sure he's fine.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (s3qiR)

408 Times were simpler and not so mean when we were all firing grapeshot at each other.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (krQz2)

409 Yes, force marching, starving, decapitating for sport, torturing, raping, and murdering men, women and children is so much morally superior than dropping a nuclear bomb to get them to stop.

Honestly, who are you people. Tucker, is that you?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (5x1xh)

410 355 I have family that fought in both the European Theater and Pacific Theater. The ones who fought in Europe largely went on with their lives after the war. The ones in the Pacific never forgave the Japanese until their dying day. A lot of contemporary arguments speciously leave out how brutal the Japanese had been. How you execute the battle of often becomes a part of your own fate.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (5x1xh)

My dad and his buddy made a pact that if it looked like the Japs were going to capture them, they'd shoot each other at the same time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (ynpvh)

411 I certainly think that these guys in the Deep State and the Breakaway Civilization types have the goods on a lot of Congressional Critters...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (TGPs7)
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I mean the international foreign policy/intelligence blob just turned Mike Johnson into a quivering blob in about two hours flat.

He goes into the SCIF one way, comes out 180 degrees the other.

What's being shown to them is one of two things:
1) We are a LOT closer to global war than anyone is letting on
or
2) Everyone is being blackmailed to hell and back.

Posted by: ballistic at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (oqH4h)

412 It feels like just a brain dump rather than a careful examination of one's own beliefs and then saying some things out loud, leaving some unsaid.

I support Israel's right to self-defense purely on the Fuck Around and Find Out principle, and on the grounds that Hamas is a collection of prehistoric savages that the world wouldn't miss if they were all vaporized.

However, it's hard to miss the knee-jerk reaction of nearly everyone on the right to accuse anyone who raises even a slight criticism of Israel of antisemitism, which is bug-fuck stupid, lazy, and annoying. It's also hard not to notice that for being a nation with the population of Georgia (the state), that they have a very outsized influence on our foreign policy and even our internal politics. I think that's something worth exploring.
Posted by: ballistic at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (oqH4h)

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I'm interested in your newsletter.

Kidding aside, well said.

I'm pro-Israel, I like the principles of sound economics better. I'd like to seem them "handle" the Hamas problem without our interference. That includes our stupid "humanitarian aid."

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (JeYYB)

413 Seriously. In a world where weapons manufacture is done in civilian populations, once the war reaches those limits, civilians are going to die. A lot of them.

War sucks. They shouldn't be fought. But when they are fought, they should be fought to win.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

Think of a reverse situation where Japan can hit the US at will with bombs. All those cute Rosie the Riveter gals in the pictures helping build military aircraft are valid military targets in a total war scenario.

That's why even in Ukraine for a while there were understood rules in place. Ever wonder why there was no fighting in Russia, in the north border and the area north of Kharkov? Because there was an understood agreement that neither side would do serious operations there. And for 2 years outside of some shelling and some terrorist actions by Ukraine, there still hasn't been. For quite a while Russia avoided hitting areas where NATO was doing intelligence and planning inside Ukraine. In the last few months that agreement has been dropped, and the French took some licks that explain why they are yapping about Troops.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (eoQWY)

414 How about "It was the least worst thing?"
Posted by: fd

That's a bingo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 05:08 PM (FVME7)

415 I was recently informed by staunch conservative leader, Senator McConnell, that Tucker Carlson is enemy #1 because he doesn't want to send all our money to Ukraine.

I guess we have our orders.

Posted by: DaisyB at April 25, 2024 05:08 PM (AbL8c)

416 358 That's true, but that does not mean you have to be evil.

Would you suggest we should had a rape of Tokyo the way the Japanese raped nanking?
Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 04:56 PM (RjBju

What does that gibberish even mean?

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 04:59 PM (MNhXM)

Dunno. War is brutal. When one side engages in brutality of the populace under the aegis of their regime, it is especially evil. Nuking rape.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

417 How about a Claymore? Those only shoot ball bearings one way. So they're half as disastrous as a full explosion.

I remember a movie scene were the hero didn't have a gun but did have a Claymore and one of those police ballistic shields so he strapped it on the shield and ran right at the bad guy.

Hijinks ensued...

Maybe a Statham movie?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 05:08 PM (ibTVg)

418 Times were simpler and not so mean when we were all firing grapeshot at each other.
Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:07 PM (krQz2)

Slicing the abdomen open of a dude at swords reach isn't any nicer of more fun.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:09 PM (eoQWY)

419 More Americans killed in the battle for Okinawa than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined .

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:09 PM (MNhXM)

420 As I've said about Tucker and even Candace, neither of whom I ever particularly loved, they get a small pass from me because we live in a world of lies under a great veil that has been cast by forces seen and unseen. That is not disputable to me and anyone with two open eyes must be able to see it by now.

And when you live under this veil it becomes perfunctory to find explanations that "fit". And unfortunately many things fit because that's what happens when you are engulfed in lies. You don't know what the lies are obscuring.

So even these two numbskulls get a small pass from me, as do retroactively those who "questioned" 9/11 because they had a weird feeling that Bush and our government couldn't be trusted. They were right to ask questions and I was wrong to want to shut them up with Facts.

That's doesn't mean we should accept their theories and explanations no matter how shitty. In fact it pretty much means the opposite.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 05:10 PM (lX8VI)

421 418 Slicing the abdomen open of a dude at swords reach isn't any nicer of more fun.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:09 PM (eoQWY)

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Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the... little emotions. In... you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:10 PM (GBKbO)

422 >>>I believe it's very easy to take that position after the war had been ended. I think if you were an American living then, and had already faced four years of war and tens of thousands of casualties, you might have a different moral calculus.

There was a large percentage of Americans at the time, who supported outright genocide of the Japanese, and only for what they did at Pearl Harbor. And even the Doolittle raid of Tokyo, very early in the war, had broad support. They were both war crimes, and it has nothing to do with weariness of war. It doesn't require one to be far left to believe this stuff was immoral.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2024 05:10 PM (NAuoi)

423 Which island (Okinawa?) were there only a handful of civillians lefte alive? They were willing to fight to the death.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Saipan, where the civilians threw their children off of cliffs and jumped after them, to ensure nobody was captured alive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 05:10 PM (lTGtQ)

424 Japan also was savage to POWs

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 05:10 PM (fwDg9)

425 Wars where civilians don't die are fantasy.
Posted by: The




Not saying they are not, however the decisions about how and when they are casualties is important to us.

I am fine with hitting Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the fates of the civilians there were certainly preferable to those of Nanking.

It should be something we are mindful of since those things shape our country

Posted by: N at April 25, 2024 05:11 PM (RjBju)

426 I don't think anyone is attacking Carlson per se. They are attacking his fallacies and specious arguments.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 05:11 PM (5x1xh)

427
Wars where civilians don't die are fantasy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

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Correct.

The reason I'm anti-war now is because we don't want to fight them the way they need to be fought.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 05:11 PM (JeYYB)

428 thanks for the explanation of DIME

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (KRtlO)


No worries.
It's just a way for military planners to consider and evaluate military operations in a logical and encompassing way. I'm sure some staff officer got a medal for coming up with it.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:11 PM (W/lyH)

429 How about "It was the least worst thing?"
Posted by: fd

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Well, from my brief watch of it, both Rogan and Tucker touched on the idea that there is no "Control History", to which we can refer to see that something didn't really need to be done.

That observation alone, should have prompted Tucker to use some moderation. But it didn't.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:12 PM (krQz2)

430 Which island (Okinawa?) were there only a handful of civillians lefte alive? They were willing to fight to the death.
Posted by: jim

I've been listening to a lot of stories from Japanese survivors of the war, both military and civilian. Many didn't want to fight to the end, but were forced out of fear or obligation. When you're in a unit and told to "volunteer" for kamikaze duty, or else you and your family back home will suffer...well, look at that, people "volunteer". Civilians get told Americans will shoot them on site, so they need to help the Japanese troops and resist...they don't want to, and are terrified, but when threatened at gunpoint by their own troops...they comply.

Sure, though...many officers and senior leaders WERE gung-ho Bushido die hards, but the vast majority were not. It only takes a few leaders, and societal pressure, to make the society as a whole comply, though.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 25, 2024 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

431 yes three dots ... that makes sense

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 05:12 PM (s3qiR)

432 I always find it amusing when atomic bombs, napalm, white phosphorus bombs, poison gas and cluster munitions are considered bad but TNT is okay. They are all 'chemical' weapons (atomics being on the fringe). What's the difference to dying from an incendiary bomb to getting blown to pieces by a 500lb bomb? A cannon shell?

Posted by: Ciampino - and it's always the children at April 25, 2024 05:03 PM (qfLjt)

Clusters used to be bad. But when we ran out of good shells suddenly they were good again, even though they were particularly useless against men in trenches with overhead cover like the Russians were.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:12 PM (eoQWY)

433 Japan was working on biological warfare against the US where they were going to send their balloons to release plague infected fleas on the mainland. That’s evil.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:12 PM (MNhXM)

434 More Americans killed in the battle for Okinawa than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined .

For anyone with a knowledge of history the FNM reporting on the progress of the WoT was insane.

In the end we lost the war, so yes it was all pointless, but...5K losses was presented as more then any war in history at the time...as if Vietnam or Korea had never happened let alone WWII or before.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM (ibTVg)

435 FFS it took the 2nd a-bomb to get their attention.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM (PMJuY)

436 "No worries.
It's just a way for military planners to consider and evaluate military operations in a logical and encompassing way. I'm sure some staff officer got a medal for coming up with it.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:11 PM (W/lyH)"

I look forward to the discussion of COIN, so I can beat it with a shovel.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM (5x1xh)

437 Ace just wants to be cool like Ben Shapiro.

Posted by: tsj017 at April 25, 2024 05:14 PM (xakWh)

438 @401 I've heard it said they were ready to surrender but NOT unconditionally until the bombs dropped.

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There was a peace faction in the Imperial Japanese government, and it was scrambling to find a way out of the war. But it was in the minority, and didn't hold the reigns of power.

It would be like claiming that the Republicans in the California legislature represented the positions of the California government. In reality, they're a super minority, and completely irrelevant.

Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 05:14 PM (JJ2jk)

439 Dunno. War is brutal. When one side engages in brutality of the populace under the aegis of their regime, it is especially evil. Nuking rape.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

Nuking is not equal to rape.
Pixied again used Greater/less than together, was erased.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:15 PM (ynpvh)

440 FFS it took the 2nd a-bomb to get their attention.
Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM (PMJuY)
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Something people can forget in the heat of argument.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:15 PM (krQz2)

441 The reason I'm anti-war now is because we don't want to fight them the way they need to be fought.

Agreed. If you don't plan to do everything you can to win you shouldn't get the right to send one grunt to his death.

I do not care how icky winning a war makes a politician feel. If you don't want to fight to win you can either:

Resign
Make the case to the public for not going to war

The in between state of "fighting just enough so the voters don't vote me out and not enough to draw the ire of the NGOs" is absurd.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 05:15 PM (ibTVg)

442 If Germany had had a rational leader, they would have had nukes and used them long before we did.

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I don't know how they would have enriched Uranium. Something like Oak Ridge would have been bombed to pieces or sabotaged by SAS or similar.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #201 at April 25, 2024 05:15 PM (qfLjt)

443 I look forward to the discussion of COIN, so I can beat it with a shovel.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM (5x1xh)


So. Just gonna drop the dime?

Bwahahaha!!! I crack myself up!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:15 PM (W/lyH)

444 Which island (Okinawa?) were there only a handful of civillians lefte alive? They were willing to fight to the death.
Posted by: jim

Saipan was the first time there were significant civilians. Near the end the GI's were shocked at the women and children and civilians killing themselves and each other.

Okinawa had some civilians surrender and survive. Others did the same as Saipan.

For Japan the military was planning for civilians to become suicide bombers. They might have stopped doing it sometime if we had invaded, but evidence to the contrary was all the other places.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

445 Ace just wants to be cool like Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: tsj017 at April 25, 2024 05:14 PM (xakWh)
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Not all of us can do what Ben Shapiro does without Helium.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:16 PM (krQz2)

446 419 More Americans killed in the battle for Okinawa than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined .

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:09 PM (MNhXM)

How many died at Gettysburg? Antietam? Verdun?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

447 402 Posted by: Sloucho

very good

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 25, 2024 05:16 PM (pUI3J)

448
Which island (Okinawa?) were there only a handful of civillians lefte alive? They were willing to fight to the death.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:06 PM (ynpvh)


Pretty sure you're thinking Saipan. The one with "Banzai Cliff".

Okinawa is actually the first Japanese island which had a decent-sized survival rate for the civilians. But it's because most of the population weren't ethnically Japanese (Ainu?), and didn't have the suicidal motivations the Japs had. The Japs treated them like shit for decades.

But there were still enough Japs on Okinawa to scare the shit out of the US when we considered the upcoming casualties for invading the home islands.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (n+4am)

449 At least Tucker does his homework.

Posted by: the SS's drug-recognition exam at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (gKWVE)

450 Ace just wants to be cool like Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: tsj017

Nobody thinks Ben Shapiro is cool. They just like his sister's tits.

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (PwgSL)

451 Ace just wants to be cool like Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: tsj017 at April 25, 2024 05:14 PM (xakWh)


Ace has a hawt sister?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (W/lyH)

452 NOOD

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (DRSnL)

453 One of modernity's fundamental misunderstandings is that war is something that just involves battles between opposing military forces. Once you lose sight of the need to compel the other side's entire population to submit, you can end up where Tucker is, claiming that any use of force against anyone other than combatants is immoral. One of the reasons I've become an isolationist is that we no longer understand war, so we can no longer win them. No point in supporting that.

Posted by: The Old Ways Are The Best Ways at April 25, 2024 05:17 PM (2DpKB)

454 424 Japan also was savage to POWs

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 05:10 PM (fwDg9)

My dad saw the aftermath of the Bataan death march.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (ynpvh)

455 So self defense is now evil. Seems to me we’re pretty close to justifying the confiscation of all firearms if that’s what you believe.

I found it pretty easy to dismiss Tucker Carlson when he went all in for Trump once again. Not even a hint of skepticism despite the fact he called Trump demonic in his private messages that were revealed in the lawsuit with Dominion.

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (JHRFC)

456 Don't want none?
Don't start none.


It doesn't get any simpler than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (Jxvt5)

457 437 Ace just wants to be cool like Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: tsj017

I (assume) you're joking here, but I've always thought Ace was pretty authentic in his beliefs. He's waffled a bit here and there (especially with Trump), but it's genuine, reasonable, and most importantly, he still allows dissent and discourse on the site. Shapiro feigns allowing difference of opinion, but in actuality tries to suppress and successful voices too critical of Conservative Inc.

Please, Ace, if you're going to sell out...you have to do it for more than Shapiro. Thats all I ask, because fuck that little guy.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2024 05:18 PM (JCZqz)

458 In the American perspective, the instruments of national power are: Diplomacy, Information, Military, and Economic (DIME). According to Joint Publication 1, The ability of the US to advance its national interests is dependent on the effectiveness of the United States Government (USG) in employing the...
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:53 PM (vtyCZ)

D - Do you know that we have a big stick?
I - Let us tell you about our big stick
M - We have the means to deliver our big stick anywhere in the world.
E - Let's get rich

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (rj6Yv)

459 FFS it took the 2nd a-bomb to get their attention.
Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM


Because the Japanese high command refused to surrender after the first one. They firmly believed that Americans were weak and would not have the guts to invade the home islands which would have generated over a million American casualties. They doubled down after the invasion of Okinawa and really thought they could fight us to a draw and have a peace they could live with.


A big part of the issue was the unconditional surrender thing. We told them that their entire government was going to be replaced and the emperor along with that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (QNSds)

460 Tangentially related. Film starlet of the '40s and '50s, Linda Christian, was known as the Anatomic Bomb.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (FVME7)

461 The astonishing thing is that VP Truman knew nothing about the Manhattan project. That didn't come until he was President.
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Stalin knew about it before President Truman did!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (vtyCZ)

462 "So. Just gonna drop the dime?

Bwahahaha!!! I crack myself up!
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 05:15 PM (W/lyH)"

As long as you drop it on Kilcullen's head we're good. I'm more of a Liddell Hart guy.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (5x1xh)

463 @446 Cool, let’s ad more bodies to the pile.

Posted by: Allen at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (lFLgt)

464 Sure, though...many officers and senior leaders WERE gung-ho Bushido die hards, but the vast majority were not. It only takes a few leaders, and societal pressure, to make the society as a whole comply, though.
Posted by: Military Moron at April 25, 2024 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

The lesson of every man, woman, and child the Army had met before 1945 says differently. They fought to the death, starved before giving up, and civilians mostly died.

Men even lived on for thirty years in the backwoods of islands not surrendering. They had to take officers from Japan to islands to ORDER them to give up.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

465 @448 But it's because most of the population weren't ethnically Japanese (Ainu?),

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The Ainu live in the northernmost of the main islands.

I understand there are also some in Siberia.

Posted by: junior at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (JJ2jk)

466 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

Verdin was basically WW1.

I think about 11k killed in Gettysburg and Antietam.

World Almanacs were my favorite things to read as a kid. Useless facts in my head.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (MNhXM)

467 I don't think anyone is attacking Carlson per se. They are attacking his fallacies and specious arguments.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2024 05:11 PM (5x1xh)

no, I see a lot of abuse here at Tucker for having those thoughts.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (D7oie)

468 I've always thought there was something 'hinky' about Tucker. The Gnostics claimed to have 'special knowledge' too.

Posted by: Debbie at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (vPplw)

469 Tucker's position on the nukes reflects a distinct lack of intellectual seriousness.

My earlier departure from Tucker seems like I was ahead of the game. Goodnight Tucker. No longer worth listening to.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 25, 2024 05:23 PM (UVyKP)

470 There were 9 days from Hiroshima and 6 days from Nagasaki before Japan announced its surrender and the another two weeks for the ceremony

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (0OdlD)

471 Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:22 PM (D7oie)

You are correct and he deserves all he gets.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (MNhXM)

472 466 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

Verdin was basically WW1.

I think about 11k killed in Gettysburg and Antietam.

World Almanacs were my favorite things to read as a kid. Useless facts in my head.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (MNhXM)

Yes, Verdun was WW1, with something like 900K casualties on both sides total.

Yes, I know that casualties are more than just deaths (i.e. wounded, captured, missing).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

473 Men even lived on for thirty years in the backwoods of islands not surrendering. They had to take officers from Japan to islands to ORDER them to give up.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

One man. His name was Hiro Onoda. He had an interesting story.

waving a bloody shirt does not make your revenge justified. It just gets blood spattered everywhere.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (D7oie)

474 Wars where civilians don't die are fantasy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (GBKbO)
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This is like how I realized that I *was* in some sense more authoritarian than a lefty.

They believe the final state is for everybody to be autonomous, thus there is no need for authority. They may believe that the Leaders have to run me through a ringer to get me fit to enter this world (in Marx's head), but ultimately it's for NO AUTHORITY.

Well, the end sounds great, but you're kind of making a point that authority is pragmatically necessary in purging mankind of dependence on authority.

My acceptance that 1) authorities may always exist, 2) they should observe your civil rights--but you still have to defer to them, in some form, is what lefties consider "authoritarianism".

That the world is not perfect and authority plays a role in that imperfect world...IS "authoritarianism" to the people that have convinced themselves that they need to seize control to save us from the pragmatic view that we may always need authority for law and order.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (krQz2)

475 When a man turns 50 years old he must become an expert in one of two things: WWII history or smoked meats.

Posted by: I have a Weber gas three burner at April 25, 2024 05:26 PM (jAber)

476 You are correct and he deserves all he gets.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (MNhXM)

"he was better when he was controlled by Fox, the cable company that hates me and censors my ideals" is a terrible position to argue from.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)

477 Tucker is Pat Buchanan, Jr. I don't see the philosophy as isolationist. It is keep our "investment" in the United States so that the return comes back to us.

I note how Congress can't find funds for its own citizens, but will pour billions into the coffers of other nations - with some skimmed off the top for the "policy makers".

On Nuking Japan - Tucker is just wrong. Its easy to look back 80 years and think "I could have won it differently". That is just garbage. Think of the harm an additional 1million-1.5million dead US servicemen would have inflicted on our nation. Invading Japan without nuclear weapons would have been ruinous.

On Israel/Hamas - Hamas are cave men with rockets. The only thing they get is "bonk bonk". Let the grups bonk-bonk the cavemen.

Posted by: Jake Speed at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (Vu1jV)

478 I have read 2 books on the Rape of Nanking
I got no more sympathy to Fudal Japan than Muslims conquests

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (fwDg9)

479 D - Do you know that we have a big stick?
I - Let us tell you about our big stick
M - We have the means to deliver our big stick anywhere in the world.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 05:19 PM (rj6Yv)
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The Paolo, he can practice the DIM.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (krQz2)

480 309 Posted by: sven at April 25, 2024 04:54 PM (X0I7i)

If targeting civilians is wrong when our enemies do it, at least have the balls to admit it's wrong when WE do it. This does not make someone "far left."

There's lot of room to disagree over how WW2 should have been handled, but conservatives should at least have some principles involved in their positions.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (NAuoi)

481 Tucker's position on the nukes reflects a distinct lack of intellectual seriousness.

My earlier departure from Tucker seems like I was ahead of the game. Goodnight Tucker. No longer worth listening to.
Posted by: Black JEM at April 25, 2024 05:23 PM (UVyKP)

I am very concerned about the flagrant way the West has crossed red lines versus a nuclear power and risked escalating to a possible mass nuclear war.

I am disgusted that the incident shows that the US is not able to sustain a war for our potential survival due to insufficient weapons and munitions and industry yet diplomatically works toward one..or two...or three wars. People should be hung for this situation, it is treason.

It doesn't follow that Nagasaki was a bad choice.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (eoQWY)

482 You are correct and he deserves all he gets.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:24 PM (MNhXM)

"he was better when he was controlled by Fox, the cable company that hates me and censors my ideals" is a terrible position to argue from.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:27 PM (D7oie)
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It doesn't have to be he was "controlled" by Fox. He just knew he had people he had to justify his content in front of. I don't think it was Fox, I think it was the knowledge that you had to have a solid line on what you were presenting.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 25, 2024 05:30 PM (krQz2)

483 Men even lived on for thirty years in the backwoods of islands not surrendering. They had to take officers from Japan to islands to ORDER them to give up.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

One man. His name was Hiro Onoda. He had an interesting story.

waving a bloody shirt does not make your revenge justified. It just gets blood spattered everywhere.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (D7oie)

No, they did that for many islands in 1945 and following.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:31 PM (eoQWY)

484 World Almanacs were my favorite things to read as a kid. Useless facts in my head.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:21 PM (MNhXM)

You should see my collection.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:32 PM (mggQ3)

485 There was a faction within the J War Cabinet that was angling for peace towards the end if the war. The bombings allowed Japan to surrender without losing face. Science had defeated Japan. Science!
Else they’d have welcomed the mother of all invasions.

Posted by: Rex B at April 25, 2024 05:33 PM (Mn5g+)

486 My acceptance that 1) authorities may always exist, 2) they should observe your civil rights--but you still have to defer to them, in some form, is what lefties consider "authoritarianism".

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Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 05:25 PM (krQz2)

I don't know which decade you are living in, but this is no longer what the lefties consider authoritarianism. Maybe some birkenstock wearing granola head who still contributes to NPR for the stylish totebags, but the political left now wants deference to authority, as long as it is the right authority.

Your argument is Hume, but IIRC Hume is a touch more complex than what you lay out. Hume also calls for social contract and not merely submission. Spooner is far more granular about formalizing social contracts for the community, though I would say he has not been shown to be able to scale to society level in general and relies on individual interraction.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (D7oie)

487 The A bombs had a secondary effect in preventing the Cold War from going nuclear, IMO. The horror of what happened in Japan was enough to stay everyone's hands, I like to think.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (vHfLU)

488 GM27 @ 7 - Totally correct.

Paul Fussell has entered the chat.

Posted by: butch at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (4nut+)

489 Go dig a bomb shelter, Chicken Little. Since you are so cock-sure nuclear war is inevitable. JFC, it’s like talking to a Leftist in the 1980s.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:05 PM (mggQ3)

you mean the most evil man in the world with an incompetent army who is bound to lose won't use nukes like every cold war simulation indicated they would?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:37 PM (D7oie)

490 Tucker is losing it, spinning from reality. He's been all over in his career and, at 54, is completely untethered. He lacks definition & a solid conviction of anything and he's making poor choices.

Business Insider, 10/10/2017, 'Harvey Weinstein has donated over $1 million to Democrats since 2000 – here are some of the biggest names. (Very helpful chart, not linked here.)

In part, "Since the 2000 election cycle, Weinstein has donated nearly $1 million in his own name in addition to collecting and providing roughly $1.5 million as a part of "bundled" donations, which the Center for Responsive Politics defines as contributions provided by "people with friends in high places who, after bumping against personal contribution limits, turn to those friends, associates, and, well, anyone who's willing to give, and deliver the checks to the candidate."

Tucker, who worked for Weinstein decades ago, goes on Rogan's show & talks about him. Newsweek, 'Tucker Carlson Recalls Working for Harvey Weinstein—'He Was a Pig' published Apr 22, 2024. Now today we have: NBC News, 'Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court'

$ or not, I'd be watching my back.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 05:38 PM (NFX2v)

491 If targeting civilians is wrong when our enemies do it, at least have the balls to admit it's wrong when WE do it. This does not make someone "far left."

There's lot of room to disagree over how WW2 should have been handled, but conservatives should at least have some principles involved in their positions.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2024 05:29 PM (NAuoi)

First we weren’t targeting civilians. We were targeting military targets that unfortunately civilians are present. Second your moral equivalence of our enemies actions compared to ours is so ridiculously off base I shouldn’t even be addressing you.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:40 PM (MNhXM)

492 Just think about the fact that we only had two bombs. If Hirohito hadn't had his epiphany, the war would have continued.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (QB+5g)

493 tucker lost me when he only showed a few minutes of the Jan 6 videos. He had an opportunity to change the world and poured water on his powder.

Posted by: iandeal at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (rm+nU)

494 Just think about the fact that we only had two bombs. If Hirohito hadn't had his epiphany, the war would have continued.
Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 05:41 PM (QB+5g)

We would have had five to seven more within 6-8 months.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:42 PM (MNhXM)

495 No, they did that for many islands in 1945 and following.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2024 05:31 PM (eoQWY)

no, one man made it decades - only one man.
The others went home when they got the word. Onoda got in his head that defeat was impossible and all the reports were disinformation.
He had been an intelligence agent who had been chosen for "behind the line" sabotage tasks, and he decided to carry them out faithfully.
It is an interesting book.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 05:43 PM (D7oie)

496 I liked Tucker. It's a shame he lost his gig at Fox -- it was the only thing consistently worth watching. And I honestly haven't listened to his podcast. Since I'm on the computer 9 hours a day, going back to it after dinner seems an atrocious waste of time. But I did see the blurb on Rogan, where he proclaimed use of nukes to end WWII an inhuman thing. I don't know that it's a leftist slant to his thinking, or that it's just a stupidly over-simplistic take -- akin to an AI bot saying, "Let the world burn; I'm not going to say 'ni**er' in order to defuse the bomb, because that's a bad word." I always thought Carlson to be more nuanced than that.

Posted by: red speck at April 25, 2024 05:45 PM (0Id0S)

497 The argument FOR nuking two cities in Japan was "If we don't do this, tens of thousands more US soldiers will die....."

We'll never know that, of course.

But that's IDENTICAL to the "If we don't save Ukraine, Putin will march on (pick your city) Paris, London, Utrecht, New York, Pittsburgh......"

See how those arguments work?

The Powers-That-Be have always, always, always, used BoogeyMan. Scare you sh*tless tactics. Why? Because it works, as it did in WWII, so in Iraq, then Covid 19, now Ukraine.

A bit more cold, hard, flinty-eyed examination is in order, no?

Posted by: dad29 at April 25, 2024 05:48 PM (yLOsE)

498 Tucker seems to have lost his moorings; that or there is a serious, deep state op out there to make the thinkers reject him; or perhaps something else. As was stated in the movie, Sniper or something, when they were speaking with the old sniper armorer expert guy who could barely see: " you see that there are all kinds of schemes the govt is carrying out and they have to fool a whole bunch of people to do it; if you think you've got it all figured out - they already have you".
There is a whole lot we don't know, and this group of Morons knows a lot. Collectively, probably the most well, accurately-informed group of strangers in the country if not the planet.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at April 25, 2024 05:50 PM (ec6Sw)

499 Sad I missed this thread. Tucker is 100% wrong on this but the dude is awesome.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 25, 2024 05:50 PM (eQRY8)

500 491 Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 05:40 PM (MNhXM)

Dropping a nuke onto the center of a city is by definition targeting civilians.

I don't see myself moral-equivalencing here. If one is going to say "x is wrong" I think that statement should be equally applicable to anyone engaging in "x." I haven't excused anything the Japanese did. But all of you people are doing the exact same thing you sneer at liberals for doing, when they say, "it's not wrong when WE do it." But you're too blind to see it.

So if bombing entire cities is OK, is there a line in war we should not cross? Should we have rules? I'm not talking about what the enemy does. Should we, who consider ourselves the "good guys," have some kind of boundary? Or, since they threw the first punch, is it anything goes?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 25, 2024 06:04 PM (NAuoi)

501 The cities chosen for the dropping of bombs was considered and for the military significance of the target. There is no workable way to conduct war AND strike only the military.

Civilians are inevitably killed in any war.

War is not a game - but if your engaged in it - it must be won.

We were attacked - Britain was attacked. War, at that time, was not our decision, but was forced on us.

Discussing how we ended the war is preferable from the alternatives. I wonder how horrific the Rape of Los Angeles would have been at the hands of a victorious Japanese Empire.

All this second guessing is disgusting.

Posted by: Jake Speed at April 25, 2024 06:19 PM (Vu1jV)

502 Rush Limbaugh always had a problem with Carlson...think I'm beginning to understand why...

Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (P25G5)

503 502 Rush Limbaugh always had a problem with Carlson...think I'm beginning to understand why...
Posted by: Lloyd Christmas at April 25, 2024 06:20 PM (P25G5)

You mean Chatsworth Osgood the third?

Yeah, Tucker is definitely not one to trust. His kids are registered Democrats. I always feel like he's playing a part and doesn't believe in anything. The fact that he can't or won't make a moral distinction between the Israeli-Hamas fight and the Ukraine-Russia fight is telling.
When Tucker interviewed Chris Cuomo he didn't press Cuomo on laughing it up with his brother while 15,000 people were killed by the Wuhan flu.

Posted by: Iblis at April 25, 2024 06:28 PM (9221z)

504 501 The cities chosen for the dropping of bombs was considered and for the military significance of the target. There is no workable way to conduct war AND strike only the military.

Civilians are inevitably killed in any war.

War is not a game - but if your engaged in it - it must be won.

We were attacked - Britain was attacked. War, at that time, was not our decision, but was forced on us.

Discussing how we ended the war is preferable from the alternatives. I wonder how horrific the Rape of Los Angeles would have been at the hands of a victorious Japanese Empire.

All this second guessing is disgusting.
Posted by: Jake Speed at April 25, 2024 06:19 PM (Vu1jV)

And very few people get worked up over the firebombing of Dresden, which killed a similar numbers of people. But required a much greater military effort to do so. But dead white people, so who cares?
No, we know the men who created and dropped the bomb had serious moral questions, but they were not the ones who started the war. They ended the war as fast as they good. And then rebuilt what they destroyed.

Posted by: Iblis at April 25, 2024 06:38 PM (9221z)

505 Just because something is evil (nuking Japan) doesn't mean it was not the appropriate thing to do. He isn't wrong calling it evil. It was as evil as the rest of the war.

I'm a fan of Tucker specifically because he questions everything. If his opinion, or shared words, are zany, so what? No different than bloggers that I follow

Posted by: Texas T at April 25, 2024 06:54 PM (JdV5Q)

506 I agree on Carlson. He's becoming 'cringe' as my sons say, and his rationale of 'just asking questions' is as weak as John Stewart's 'I'm just a comedian' schtick when cornered.

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2024 07:09 PM (QlUHh)

507 Posted by: Sloucho

The Japanese had their own nuclear program. So did the soviets.

Without Hiroshima and Nagasaki as warnings to humanity, the next nuclear war would have perhaps been the last…

I love Tucker but the UFO stuff freaked me out and this is just… ahistorical and dumb.

Posted by: Justin Pinochet Castreau at April 25, 2024 07:29 PM (B14yJ)

508
The Japanese had their own nuclear program. So did the soviets.

Yeah, the commies had their own program. They called it the Manhattan Project.

Posted by: outside adjitator at April 25, 2024 08:07 PM (Qoa6L)

509 The Tucker Carlson interview with Joe was the most insulting that I have seen. I went in expecting him to be a truth teller about his firing, about the things he learned and the goals he wants to achieve, but he came off as a bigger loon than von Dannican.

Meanwhile, go back a year or two, and the podcast with Bill Maher made me have a LOT of respect for bill. Bill is Wrong, but he had a humanity to him, and that made me respect him.

Tucker's absolutism was just off putting. "I know things but I can't tell you" makes me hate him. It reminded me of the podcast with the guy from blink 182. "I have contacts and UFO'S are real, but I can't tell you, about the things that I won't actually say."

As an aside.

I'm not religious, I was raised Catholicish, and I am well versed in the general study of catholic doctrin, and of course having re-read the bible a few times in terms of reference.

There is a counter argument to the in the absense of faith you will follow anything sort of statement. I'm on the opposite sided. In the face of ANT-FAITH, I have found myself turning closer to it again.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at April 25, 2024 08:15 PM (XKj0h)

510 I think Tucker treats his audience with contempt. He thinks they are just ignorant enough to accept, unquestioning, the nonsense he trotted out in Moscow or in his 'interviews' with Candace Owens or the Pally priest.
It's about time American conservatism got over it's weird infatuation with him and other talking heads.
He isn't a serious thinker, he's not even a good interviewer and he certainly isn't interested (or capable) of truly giving viewers a full appreciation of the subjects he pretends to cover.
My old housemaster used to say "Read everything, read deeply and take no buggers word for absolute truth".
I think that's the 2nd best advice I ever got after, "Never put your finger where you wouldn't put your willy".
Still got all my fingers!

Posted by: stv at April 25, 2024 08:43 PM (vmHhd)

511 There is only one way to commit to war.
War is hell.
Civilians have to get out of the way, or become fodder.
Total commitment. Make the opposition cry for mercy.
Anything less is BS, which is what we are dealing with today.
Today, war is touchy feely. That is not war. It is procrastination and costly. Which is the point, profit!
An actual war is to win ASAP. Make the opponent suffer, quickly and irreparable.

Posted by: john at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (nEWxZ)

512 Really disappointing to see the crowd dump on Tucker. I like him and think he speaks the truth as he sees it. Is he always right or do I always agree with him--No. But WTF is WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? You deserve the MSM you get! Listen to MSNBC or CNN if that makes you feel better...

Posted by: Ozzie at April 25, 2024 09:10 PM (iOwhL)

513 I started to listen to this while I was doing some other things. Kinda half listening. At one point he implies that even nuclear fission was helped along by supernatural means because there was no ah-ha Newton hit on the head with an apple moment. What? Has the guy read anything in detail about what he’s talking about? Basically, HE doesn’t understand it so there you go … supernatural. He’s not alone in this… but he is really veering into the tall weeds with a large following.

Posted by: PaterNovem at April 25, 2024 09:46 PM (Ryu2c)

514 512 Really disappointing to see the crowd dump on Tucker. I like him and think he speaks the truth as he sees it. Is he always right or do I always agree with him--No. But WTF is WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? You deserve the MSM you get! Listen to MSNBC or CNN if that makes you feel better...
Posted by: Ozzie at April 25, 2024 09:10 PM (iOwhL)

I missed the memo that states Mr. Carlson is above criticism.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 26, 2024 12:03 AM (8sMut)

515 The Instapanzy / Ace Of Special 'Mericans have jumped the shark. Good riddance. 👍 It'll be fun to troll you dingbats when Trump takes office.

Posted by: MikeN at April 26, 2024 12:18 AM (sGt6g)

516 511 Posted by: john at April 25, 2024 08:54 PM (nEWxZ)

>>> Civilians have to get out of the way, or become fodder.
Total commitment. Make the opposition cry for mercy.

Do you believe there should be any boundaries at all for what is off-limits in a war? Or is it anything goes? Torture children, kill babies in front of their mothers, terrorism? Is all that on the table for you, too?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (NAuoi)

517 I hate to say this, because I usually hate theories like this, but I think Tucker's been bought by someone. The guy turns into Fox's superstar, then is cold-fired by Fox for making too much sense too often, then he appears to be on the brink of turning himself into a one-man news and opinion juggernaut that says everything the Establishment fears, and then.... he's suddenly anti-Israel and saying that the US was manifestly evil to bomb Japan and end WWII. It's too convenient. I look for him to say even more things compatible with the left in the future. Once a supposedly conservative star burns too brightly, he gets his balls clipped. It happens too often to be coincidence. They all have their price, and someone is just figuring out what the amount is.

Posted by: dabhidh at April 26, 2024 10:28 AM (aZWEX)

518 Tucker Carlson is a national treasure. Not just because he had th courage to swim upstream in the ideological sewer that is the corporate media, but do so with panache in attacking the Left. He’s a NATIONAL TREASURE because he’s willing to question the realities the Right assumes. One of those realities is that Russia is, and should be, our ideological enemy. That’s not wise. We made friends with the Germans after we defeated them. But we’re now engaged in a proxy war in Eastern Europe because of “Russia Bad” and “Putin’s evil.” Russia sees an existential threat – NATO – edging closer to their doorstep, and we’re confirming their paranoia by arming their enemies. When a nuclear-armed country considers an existential threat, it’s not wise to see if you can get them to set off nuclear fireworks.
I have always believed that the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified. War is hell, as someone once said. But I understand that incinerating a city is not necessarily an unalloyed good thing. And, given the fact that the government has been gaslighting the country about so many things in the last few years, is it possible the story about the number of people w

Posted by: Moneyrunner at April 26, 2024 02:42 PM (qJ5Lc)

Of Course: One of LA Soros DA George Gascon's Top Employees -- the Attorney "For Ethics and Integrity Operations" -- Illegally Accessed Police Files on Political Opponents

How much degradation and brutalization by evil communists can this country withstand?

Note she illegally read the records of opponents of his former boss, who was the LA Sheriff, not the opponents of George Gascon. (Although, of course, they share the same list of enemies.)

Jen VanLaar from Red State:

One of LA County District Attorney George Gascon's top employees, Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files."

It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.


According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Teran "accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018, while working as a Constitutional Policing Advisor at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and, after joining the LADA in January 2021, impermissibly used that data at the LADA."

...

Starting in June 2018, when Alex Villanueva made a good showing in the primary election for LA County Sheriff against his former boss, then-incumbent Sheriff Jim McDonnell, Teran improperly accessed and downloaded the personnel files of Villanueva and other LASD employees who supported his campaign. Sources say this was done at the direction of county Inspector General Max Huntsman, who is also currently under investigation by AG Bonta.

Teran's actions ramped up in November 2018 when underdog Villanueva unseated McDonnell, marking the first time an incumbent Sheriff lost re-election in 104 years. The weekend before Villanueva was sworn in, according to sources, Huntsman sent Teran into the Sheriff's office with an external hard drive and instructions to gather additional personnel files.

About a month after Villanueva took office he got wind of what had happened and alerted the California AG's office and the FBI. The FBI told Villanueva's office they'd provide technical assistance but there was nothing they could really do, and the AG's office gave Villanueva's office the go-ahead to investigate themselves.

Teran has been accused of political misconduct against Villaneuva before. See the article for details. But basically, Teran held off on announcing the office was not prosecuting alleged charges against Villaneuva's cops until after the election, so that the public wrongly believed he was running a dirty shop.


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1 Of course

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (2UnvF)

2 It's who they are

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (N1tpc)

3 BabylonBee: Palestine Protester Tries To Argue With Skinhead But They Just Agree On Everything

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

4 Laws are for the little people. Not the ruling class.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (N1tpc)

5 Latest.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 25, 2024 03:17 PM (a/dOO)

6

How much degradation and brutalization by evil communists can this country withstand?

All of it?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:17 PM (63Dwl)

7 One of LA County District Attorney George Gascon's top employees, Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files."
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Time for a repeat of Mannix's Iron Law of Job Titles:
Anyone who has the word "ethic" or any of its derivatives in his job title is a monster.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:17 PM (HnUIn)

8 Time for a repeat of Mannix's Iron Law of Job Titles:
Anyone who has the word "ethic" or any of its derivatives in his job title is a monster.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:17 PM (HnUIn)

*fistbump* Peter Singer.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 03:17 PM (PiwSw)

9 dem indicted by other dems? Wonder who she pissed off.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (2UnvF)

10 Damn it, we really are a third world country.

I use to think better of us, but then again I voted for Bush..and McCain.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (JeYYB)

11 It's LA county of course there were shenanigans.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (QNSds)

12 So… this happened almost 6 years ago and is only now coming out?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (Hkcdp)

13 It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.

Everything is a mindfuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (R4t5M)

14 About a month after Villanueva took office he got wind of what had happened and alerted the California AG's office and the FBI. The FBI told Villanueva's office they'd provide technical assistance but there was nothing they could really do, and the AG's office gave Villanueva's office the go-ahead to investigate themselves.
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LOL. If a DeSantis-friendly guy had done exactly the same thing, the feds would be crawling all over the place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (HnUIn)

15 New browser test...

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (/y8xj)

16 But basically, Teran held off on announcing the office was not prosecuting alleged charges against Villaneuva's cops until after the election, so that the public wrongly believed he was running a dirty shop.
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Sounds like election interference...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (HnUIn)

17 When everything is will to power, anything is allowed.

These people have no moral foundation.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (di6C2)

18 Democrat is a synonym for "lie, cheat, and steal"

... and lynch.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (OaZlZ)

19 15 New browser test...
Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (/y8xj)

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I'm praying for you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (JeYYB)

20 13 It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.

Everything is a mindfuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (R4t5M)

Not worse that the Secretary of State running the election of her own run for governor.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:20 PM (di6C2)

21 It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.

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Atomic Tranny DogBoy would make an perfect "Ethics and Integrity Operations Czar" for The Junta.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:20 PM (EDbIo)

22 Villanueva was one of the few sane officials during the lockdowns, refusing to enforce the more ridiculous mandates.

I think he was also pretty strong on 2A as well.

It really sucked when he lost reelection.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 25, 2024 03:20 PM (hCzfy)

23 "How much degradation and brutalization by evil communists can this country withstand?"

And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
They only answer, "more, more, more, more" . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (iFTx/)

24 It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.

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Let's square the circle. How'd she get caught. Who'd she piss off to have anyone looking into this.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (dGCAG)

25 Why is it when the FBI does this (while falsely claiming Section 702) that nobody ever gets arrested ?

Wasn't it last year that it was revealed the FBI misused intelligence database in a mere 278,000 searches .. and not one single arrest or indictment

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (RHGPo)

26 20 Not worse that the Secretary of State running the election of her own run for governor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:20 PM (di6C2)

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Hey, at least in our system the SoS got a slap on the wrist for effectively turning off signature verification on mail in ballots...10 months after the election.

The justice system works!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

27 It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.
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More properly, Commissar of Ethics.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (RIvkX)

28 Nothing will happen.

No one will be punished

No problem.

Republicans are RACIST.

Continue please.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (I6NNh)

29 28 Nothing will happen.

No one will be punished

No problem.

Republicans are RACIST.

Continue please.
Posted by: Czech Chick at April 25, 2024 03:21 PM (I6NNh)

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Don't forget that Republicans hate the gays.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

30 BabylonBee: Palestine Protester Tries To Argue With Skinhead But They Just Agree On Everything
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

That's not true. Skinheads actually believe the things they say.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (dGCAG)

31 Boy I hate woke technical language.

"There is one master node and two or more slave nodes in the cluster" is way too triggering. So now it's stupid shit like "There is one primary node and two or more worker nodes in the cluster."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

32 I had already lost faith in this country by then, but after Joe the Plumber *asked Obama a question* and a day later the media published his convictions or drivers license suspensions or whatever, I knew sure as fuck we were done done done.

The Left hasn't changed a bit or "gone crazy" since then. This is what they are.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (RQM8P)

33 "How much degradation and brutalization by evil communists can this country withstand?"

Decades more. If history has shown us anything, it's that well-connected and -organized commies can hold onto power for a very long time. China? Going on 80 years, including about 50 of the most repressive communism on the planet. Even the disorganized lunatics (Castro, Pol Pot, Idi, etc) manage to cling to power for much longer that you'd expect.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

34 That's not true. Skinheads actually believe the things they say.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (dGCAG)

I dunno, the one I ran into was pretty stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (di6C2)

35 31 Boy I hate woke technical language.

"There is one master node and two or more slave nodes in the cluster" is way too triggering. So now it's stupid shit like "There is one primary Capitalist node and two or more worker wage slave nodes in the cluster."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

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Suggested edit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

36 BabylonBee: Palestine Protester Tries To Argue With Skinhead But They Just Agree On Everything
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

That's not true. Skinheads actually believe the things they say.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (dGCAG)

And besides, Ryan Long already did this joke, months ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (dGCAG)

37 "There is one primary node and two or more worker nodes in the cluster."

... just how does that fit in with proper Communist ideology in a workers paradise ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

38 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

Wait until the Left finds out about the Masters Degree.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (RQM8P)

39 This is probably the worst rendition of a banana republic I've ever seen. No tanks in the streets. No strongman in an olive green jump suit, a sidearm and cool beret. No bodies swinging from lampposts. No fires burning in the capitol city.

Tyranny by judicial decree sucks. I think it should be more "hands on." Knives and tire irons instead of politically motivated lawsuits.

I pine for the old traditions...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Q4IgG)

40 a leftist woman is unsurprising. ethics and integrity aren't their strong suits.

Posted by: x at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Yfotv)

41 Max Huntsman is an American attorney who became the first Inspector General of Los Angeles County,
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So not like Sargent Shriver?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (vtyCZ)

42 That's not true. Skinheads actually believe the things they say.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (dGCAG)

I dunno, the one I ran into was pretty stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (di6C2)

Well sure, of course he's stupid, I'm just saying he believes in his cause. He's not a paid Soros operative, like these college protesters are.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (dGCAG)

43 39 This is probably the worst rendition of a banana republic I've ever seen. No tanks in the streets. No strongman in an olive green jump suit, a sidearm and cool beret. No bodies swinging from lampposts. No fires burning in the capitol city.

Tyranny by judicial decree sucks. I think it should be more "hands on." Knives and tire irons instead of politically motivated lawsuits.

I pine for the old traditions...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Q4IgG)

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So, which is the best Banana Republic?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

44 Suggested edit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (GBKbO)
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Nah.

There is one People's Kommissar node and two or more Loyal Comrade nodes!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (HnUIn)

45 "There is one master node and two or more slave nodes in the cluster" is way too triggering. So now it's stupid shit like "There is one primary node and two or more worker nodes in the cluster."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

You notice how their language for slave is 'worker'? Not secondary or support. Or even power. Also 'primary' for master. Primary, first among equals.

They look at circuits or mechanical designs like politics. In their minds they are the bosses and the slaves are their workers. They just want the names changed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (di6C2)

46 44 There is one People's Kommissar node and two or more Loyal Comrade nodes!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (HnUIn)

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Does that imply different classes?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

47 Her last name is “Teran?” Sounds awfully close to “Tehran” to me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:27 PM (9yWhg)

48 You notice how their language for slave is 'worker'? Not secondary or support. Or even power. Also 'primary' for master. Primary, first among equals.

They look at circuits or mechanical designs like politics. In their minds they are the bosses and the slaves are their workers. They just want the names changed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (di6C2)
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I don't think they're thinking that much about it. They were ordered to wokify the language, so they did it. I see lots of options.

"Primary" and "Secondary"
"Coordinator" and "Worker"

My favorite I have ever seen is "Primary" and "Minion." Never mind that the two don't even go together.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (HnUIn)

49 At this point will it make any difference?

Posted by: Disgusted at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (Z8Yh2)

50 Suggested edit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:24 PM (GBKbO)

Nah, they want to fit in the paradigm. They want to be the master cylinder, but they want to change the names of them being a master directing the slaves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (di6C2)

51 Another democrat broad who just does what she wants, when she wants and goes out of her way to fuck other people over while blaming everything on The Old White Man.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (R/m4+)

52 39 This is probably the worst rendition of a banana republic I've ever seen. No tanks in the streets. No strongman in an olive green jump suit, a sidearm and cool beret. No bodies swinging from lampposts. No fires burning in the capitol city.

Tyranny by judicial decree sucks. I think it should be more "hands on." Knives and tire irons instead of politically motivated lawsuits.

I pine for the old traditions...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Q4IgG)

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Lol

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (JeYYB)

53 43 39 This is probably the worst rendition of a banana republic I've ever seen. No tanks in the streets. No strongman in an olive green jump suit, a sidearm and cool beret. No bodies swinging from lampposts. No fires burning in the capitol city.

Tyranny by judicial decree sucks. I think it should be more "hands on." Knives and tire irons instead of politically motivated lawsuits.

I pine for the old traditions...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Q4IgG)

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So, which is the best Banana Republic?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
__________

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/241575967508140061/

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (iFTx/)

54 This is probably the worst rendition of a banana republic I've ever seen. No tanks in the streets. No strongman in an olive green jump suit, a sidearm and cool beret. No bodies swinging from lampposts. No fires burning in the capitol city.

Tyranny by judicial decree sucks. I think it should be more "hands on." Knives and tire irons instead of politically motivated lawsuits.

I pine for the old traditions...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (Q4IgG)
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You'll get them. Eventually.

We're still in the "keeping up appearances" stage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:29 PM (HnUIn)

55 Don't turn around, wa-uh-oh (yeah-yeah)
Der Kommissar's in town, wa-uh-oh
You're in his eye and you'll know why
The more you live, the faster you will die

Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 03:29 PM (NtVYv)

56 At the very least this piece of crap should be disbarred. Of course even if she is the Dems will find her a new cushy job where she can continue being a political operative

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:29 PM (aX7Uj)

57 Wasn't Banana Republic a clothing brand? They still around?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 03:29 PM (di6C2)

58 Another woke lefty white woman.

Worst human in the world.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:29 PM (MNhXM)

59 Don't forget the chest full of medals.

Posted by: Disgusted at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

60 Laws are for the little people. Not the ruling class.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (N1tpc)

...

Can I get an exception here?

Posted by: Robert Reich at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (z/ifB)

61 49 At this point will it make any difference?
Posted by: Disgusted at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (Z8Yh2)

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Shut up, Hillary.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (JeYYB)

62 My favorite I have ever seen is "Primary" and "Minion." Never mind that the two don't even go together.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (HnUIn)

Next it'll be Dark Prince and Legion

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (RQM8P)

63 "Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested."

Lol. Ethics and Integrity.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (NpAcC)

64
So, which is the best Banana Republic?





Chiquita

Posted by: RHCP at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (og5mY)

65 Time for a repeat of Mannix's Iron Law of Job Titles:
Anyone who has the word "ethic" or any of its derivatives in his job title is a monster.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:17 PM (HnUIn)

*fistbump* Peter Singer.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes


Fauci's wife, too, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (9yWhg)

66

Taren Capel was a scientist who tried to instigate a robot revolution on Kaldor in the late 29th century.

https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Taren_Capel

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (63Dwl)

67 There is one master node and two or more slave nodes in the cluster" is way too triggering. So now it's stupid shit like "There is one primary node and two or more worker nodes in the cluster."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

...

Nobody's car brakes are going to work in about two years.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (z/ifB)

68 Is it live or is it Memorex?

https://tinyurl.com/2tphy8yy

(X.com)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 03:32 PM (KbuES)

69 > So, which is the best Banana Republic?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Botswana all were good ones. Panama too.

Haiti's probably the "best" Banana Republic today.

"Best" being subjective.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:32 PM (Q4IgG)

70 At the moment we are in the Banana in Your Tailpipe Republic stage

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:32 PM (aX7Uj)

71 Personhole.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 03:32 PM (RH/fb)

72 So, which is the best Banana Republic?





Chiquita
Posted by: RHCP at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (og5mY)

I thought you guys liked boobs.

Posted by: Tropicana at April 25, 2024 03:33 PM (z/ifB)

73 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:33 PM (MNhXM)

74 I assumed that was the whole point of people striving for those positions, so what's the problem?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:33 PM (9Ct69)

75 So, which is the best Banana Republic?

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"The Banana-in-the-Tailpipe Republic, of course, silly."

/obligatory George Takei

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:33 PM (EDbIo)

76 Another democrat broad who just does what she wants, when she wants and goes out of her way to fuck other people over while blaming everything on The Old White Man.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (R/m4+)

Squad member Cori Boosh is being challenge for her House seat by the guy who is currently the St. Louis County Prosecutor.

There was a headline on one of the local rags today: See which billionaires are supporting each candidate.

I thought "well that's odd, acknowledging black pols are being backed by billionaires." But the more I think about it, the more I assume Bell's (the challenger) billionaires must be more darkly sinister than Boosh's, in the eyes of the media.

I wonder if Musk is one of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:34 PM (dGCAG)

77 69 > So, which is the best Banana Republic?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Botswana all were good ones. Panama too.

Haiti's probably the "best" Banana Republic today.

"Best" being subjective.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:32 PM (Q4IgG)
____________

"Fluck you!"

-- Burma

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

78 So, which is the best Banana Republic?


Liechtenstein

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:34 PM (9yWhg)

79 So, which is the best Banana Republic?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

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Maybe we can get jobs running the plant for Dole or like a rubber plantation or something.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 03:34 PM (z/ifB)

80 Afternoon.

Gooderer and harderer.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 03:35 PM (vr92T)

81 So, which is the best Banana Republic?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)

In spite of everything, I'd still say the United States of America.

I don't want to live anywhere else, all my stuff's here.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:36 PM (dGCAG)

82 How about the President's wife receiving the FBI files on political opponents?

That's still acceptable, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:36 PM (yikga)

83 So, which is the best Banana Republic?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:26 PM (GBKbO)
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Gaddafi's Libya was pretty functional until ValJar decided to topple it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)

84 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:33 PM (MNhXM)

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After Dear Leader Chairman Xi is "elected" in '28, his first Executive Order will be to rename the USA to "New North Korea."

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (EDbIo)

85 This is actually kind of surprising.

CA Atty General Rob Bonta is a full-blown leftist partisan hack who's trying to impress Newsom so he can be his "wingman" when Newsom inherits the Oval Office.

As CA AG, Bonta is also the successor to Kamala, so he has very big shoes to fill, though he will never match her in either eloquence or dick-handling skill.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (nOjd9)

86 "Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested."

... nothing less that seppuku is acceptable.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (RHGPo)

87 How about the President's wife receiving the FBI files on political opponents?

That's still acceptable, right?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:36 PM (yikga)
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Depends on the president.

Posted by: The FBI at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)

88 So Biden is up in Syracuse today talking about $6b in chip manufacturing grants to build plants in Syracuse and Boise, Idaho. Why do I think this will end up being a boondoggle?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (aX7Uj)

89 Micron got a huge Federal bribe to build a microchip plant in NY.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (MNhXM)

90 Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested."

Lol. Ethics and Integrity.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (NpAcC)

I'm guessing more like District Attorney of Interest and Ethnicity

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:38 PM (RQM8P)

91 Take the Gascon ... hell NO ... take the gas pipe

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:38 PM (RHGPo)

92 New browser test...
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I'm praying for you.

Actually, it's much worse than just a new browser. I'm going over to the Dark Side. My Windows laptop is getting long in the tooth plus the track pad is dying and the replacement is an ostentatiously large MacBook. I'm going to have to grow a neckbeard and starting hanging out at indie coffee shops (Starbuck's is far too bougie for us Mac users, you know) taking up the largest table by myself.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 03:38 PM (/y8xj)

93 Haiti's probably the "best" Banana Republic today.

"Best" being subjective.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:32 PM (Q4IgG)

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When your front runner for President is called "Cannibal" you're an excellent Banana Republic.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:38 PM (JeYYB)

94 So Biden is up in Syracuse today talking about $6b in chip manufacturing grants to build plants in Syracuse and Boise, Idaho. Why do I think this will end up being a boondoggle?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (aX7Uj)
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Because it will be a boondoggle.

If the plants get built, they will cost a fortune and never provide enough state revenue to justify the cost and if they don't get built, it will surprise precisely nobody.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:38 PM (HnUIn)

95 This is actually kind of surprising.

CA Atty General Rob Bonta is a full-blown leftist partisan hack who's trying to impress Newsom so he can be his "wingman" when Newsom inherits the Oval Office.

As CA AG, Bonta is also the successor to Kamala, so he has very big shoes to fill, though he will never match her in either eloquence or dick-handling skill.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (nOjd9)

I think the FBI was involved right?

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (MNhXM)

96 Gaddafi's Libya was pretty functional until ValJar decided to topple it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)

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Huh, was that President ValJar behind (pardon the pun) that?

I thought it was SoS Killary ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (EDbIo)

97 Depends on the president.
Posted by: The FBI at April 25, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)

We know that, the question was, what about giving files to his wife!

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (dGCAG)

98 Mmm. Chips.

Posted by: joey biden at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (vtyCZ)

99 Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations

.. any relation to Adam Schiff ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (RHGPo)

100 FFS...

@Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

101 BabylonBee: Palestine Protester Tries To Argue With Skinhead But They Just Agree On Everything
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

That's not true. Skinheads actually believe the things they say.
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Except the skinhead is an FBI agent ...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (yikga)

102 What the Left is willing to do to protect their own and with no others was bared with the Lois Lerner saga. And, as par for the course, the Right just sucked it up, without further ado.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (F6UFz)

103 Republic… the most misapplied term in the world… more so than that “ democracy” word being flogged of late..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (PCK5/)

104 From Syracuse Biden goes to a fundraiser at Michael Douglas's house in Westchester. Probably be flying directly over my head within the next hour. I'll make sure to go outside and hold my middle fingers up in the air.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (aX7Uj)

105 George Gascon played a leading role destroying civic peace and public safety in San Francisco and when he was done, the junta re-deployed him to LA to do the same thing there.

Because our city's leaders are people from here who care about here. Sure, Jan.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (RIvkX)

106 Next it'll be Dark Prince and Legion
Posted by: ...

Certain UNIX background processes have been called "daemons" forever, so it would fit.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (dazzz)

107 Here in 2024 you can get your banana removed and then another one put back on if you change your mind.

We are a Banana Re-pubic.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (RQM8P)

108 100 FFS...

@Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

=========

The phone call is about wantonly and gleefully killing a black man for no reason, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

109 101 BabylonBee: Palestine Protester Tries To Argue With Skinhead But They Just Agree On Everything
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (RHGPo)

That's not true. Skinheads actually believe the things they say.
---
Except the skinhead is an FBI agent ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (yikga)

=======

He does believe the things he says, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

110 @Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

+++++

WHAT??

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:41 PM (F6UFz)

111 Except the skinhead is an FBI agent ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (yikga)

Not all of them. Four out of five, probably, but that one guy... he really believes that stuff.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:41 PM (dGCAG)

112 111 Except the skinhead is an FBI agent ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (yikga)

Not all of them. Four out of five, probably, but that one guy... he really believes that stuff.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:41 PM (dGCAG)

========

Why do you assume the FBI agents don't believe that stuff?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

113 @Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)
++++
Start the timer on "White House spokesperson walks back Biden's statement about ..."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (HnUIn)

114 88 So Biden is up in Syracuse today talking about $6b in chip manufacturing grants to build plants in Syracuse and Boise, Idaho. Why do I think this will end up being a boondoggle?

... these aren't a giveaway, the feds want to be a partner

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (RHGPo)

115 100 FFS...

@Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

-------

hhhahahahahaaaaah


I'm changing my Banana Rebuplic vote to America. We, as a constituancy, have done a good job of not making eye contact with the fact our President is completely in the throws of dementia.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (JeYYB)

116 Fabulist Joe, at it again…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (PCK5/)

117 From Syracuse Biden goes to a fundraiser at Michael Douglas's house in Westchester.
Posted by: Smell the Glove


CZJ Is waaaaaaay too old for him, fortunately.
But Hunter better keep his grubby mitts off her.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (9yWhg)

118 The telephone call that Biden receives says "sniff the little girls Joe, sniff them now"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (aX7Uj)

119 So Biden's been an astronaut, a fireman, a doctor and now he's been married to a police officer. And that's just since March.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (RQM8P)

120 Gaddafi's Libya was pretty functional until ValJar decided to topple it.

-

Not only functional but IIRC had turned a corner and was outright cooperating with the U.S.

But, same as always, Gaddafi had decided to move to a gold standard.

WHOOPS WHOOPSIES!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (9Ct69)

121 @Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

They were never found, eaten by cannibals

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (NtVYv)

122 This reminds that it's probably time for someone to poke the hornets nest in Fulton County GA.

We haven't heard much lately of the Dems attacking each other.

Is there some sort of hood holiday where they have a truce?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (yikga)

123 Botswana is definitely not a banana republic and is quite possibly the only functioning democracy on the continent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (RIvkX)

124 ++++
Start the timer on "White House spokesperson walks back Biden's statement about ..."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (HnUIn)

+++++
"President Biden was just being symbolic."

Posted by: White House Spokesperson at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (F6UFz)

125 114 88 So Biden is up in Syracuse today talking about $6b in chip manufacturing grants to build plants in Syracuse and Boise, Idaho. Why do I think this will end up being a boondoggle?

... these aren't a giveaway, the feds want to be a partner
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (RHGPo)



Aah… so out of the closet Fascism..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:44 PM (PCK5/)

126 @Breaking911 2m
BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

+++++

WHAT??
Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:41 PM (F6UFz)

I gotta believe, the people in his ear, they would have told him "now don't go off-script, just say what we told you to say," but they couldn't because he would have said "don't go off script."

So as soon as they heard the words coming out of his mouth "I got one of those calls," there were half a dozen people in the control room, ripping off and slamming down their headsets, smacking their foreheads, pulling their hair.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (dGCAG)

127 Ace there's some new Nina Jankowicz news at zh. She's got a big new foundation where she exposes who's funding misinformation and RussianBots! but refuses to explain who funded her new job to the tune of a million so far. But she's now just a private disinfo zar.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (Y6IkP)

128 hahahaha

Bo Biden died in his job as a beat cop.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (9Ct69)

129 If I was in Syracuse I would be having dinner at Dinosaur BBQ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (RIvkX)

130 BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning,


an angel gets his wings!"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (9yWhg)

131 "President Biden was just being symbolic."
Posted by: White House Spokesperson at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (F6UFz)
++++
"The president meant that the call informing him of the passing of his - the brave freedom fighter Beau Biden - makes him able to empathize with the trauma such calls can cause. Republicans seizing on this expression of Biden's humanity is despicable."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (HnUIn)

132 (Starbuck's is far too bougie for us Mac users, you know) taking up the largest table by myself.
Posted by: Oddbob

Be sure to order a flat white with your avocado toast.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (IG4Id)

133 Jill is apparently both a doctor and a cop. How does she have time to campaign?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:46 PM (RQM8P)

134 130 BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning,


an angel gets his wings!"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (9yWhg)

========

"To get my wings, I have to convince Joe Biden to not kill himself?"
-Clarence

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

135 Do Apple users wear sweaters in July and drink Pilot truck stop coffee ironically?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:46 PM (9Ct69)

136 128 hahahaha

Bo Biden died in his job as a beat cop.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (9Ct69)

++++

Did not know this.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:46 PM (F6UFz)

137 132 (Starbuck's is far too bougie for us Mac users, you know) taking up the largest table by myself.
Posted by: Oddbob

Be sure to order a flat white with your avocado toast.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (IG4Id)


I thought the “ flat whites” were the counter girls…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:47 PM (PCK5/)

138 Biden is the bride at every wedding and the widow at every funeral.

Is there any story he's not the center of?

It must have galled him to no end to see the string of Obama selfies for every major event with no Joe beside him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:47 PM (yikga)

139 Beau was a hard-ass cop in Iraq. Everyone called him "Old Ironsides" because of his wheelchair after he got wartime cancer.

Posted by: joey biden at April 25, 2024 03:47 PM (vtyCZ)

140 >>>President Biden was just being symbolic."
Posted by: White House Spokesperson at April 25, 2024 03:43 PM (F6UFz)

======

"Just trying to make a connection with the people. What's so wrong with that."

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (GPSZ3)

141 135 Do Apple users wear sweaters in July and drink Pilot truck stop coffee ironically?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:46 PM (9Ct69)

Not really, but I do shoot deer in the back yard.. unironically..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

142 FFS...

@Breaking911 2m

BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 03:39 PM (IG4Id)

----------------

"Beau died as he lived: wearing & wielding The Shield, jack! They even named a TV show after him ... No Joke!"

Beau's died everywhere, man
Beau's died everywhere, man
Died crossing deserts bare, man
Died breathing mountain air, man
Of dying, he's had his share, man
Beau's died everywhere.
101 BabylonBee:

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (HaJYn)

143 Not all of them. Four out of five, probably, but that one guy... he really believes that stuff.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:41 PM (dGCAG)

========

Why do you assume the FBI agents don't believe that stuff?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

Let's back up. Skinheads and Pali protesters, they hate Jews, right? Among others?

Is that usually who the ham and eggers are going after with their sting operations?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (dGCAG)

144 @126 I think the inside of Biden's head is like the alien Rosenberg from Men in Black. Only in Biden's case the alien is wacked on meth and LSD and spouting nonsense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (aX7Uj)

145 Biden stutters and Trump said to drink bleach.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (9Ct69)

146 You BASTARDS! You killed Beau!!

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (krQz2)

147 Bo Biden died in his job as a beat cop.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
---
No, he said husband or wife so it's DOCTOR Jill. My guess is moonlighting as an undercover cop in a prostitution sting. Would explain the fishnets.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 03:48 PM (wQXfi)

148 If we could just figure out how to hack into Biden's teleprompter we could make this idiot say whatever we want. He is the living embodiment of Ron Burgundy.

Fuck you, Syracuse!

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 03:49 PM (LkLld)

149 BIDEN: "Every time a police officer puts on that shield every morning, their husband or wife…worries about will they get that phone call. I got one of those phone calls."
___

I suppose he is referencing the phone call he received when the truck driver "who drank his lunch killed his hot Republican wife who looked great in a bikini"*, which he is equating to the daily fear of the phone call when the spouse's LEO is on duty.

* yeah, I know, Biden is not only a defamer, but he's weird.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 03:49 PM (4hHmM)

150 Most people don't know this, but Hunter was a butt-baby. I don't usually talk about it because, for some reason, it embarrasses him... no reason to be ashamed of being a butt-baby, not in this day and age. You can thank Democrats for that.

His older brother came from a birthing person's front hole, God rest him.

But not him. This happened during the Stonewall Riots, when I was protesting for love the American Way, alongside a biker, an Indian, a cowboy, a sailor, and a construction worker. That kind of diverse coalition is our strength.

Now, in those days, I was a real lady-killer. I didn't just beat Wilt Chamberlain at basketball, ya know. But in that moment, I was so overcome by a passion for justice, that I let all those freedom fighters take me. And I can tell ya that one of those brave, costumed queens is the father of the smartest butt-baby you ever saw, jack. It was the fabulous policeman.

Anyway, he and Beau were killed raiding a warehouse full of Putin's phony ballots. Saddest phone call of my life. That's why we fight for Ukraine - because Democrats take action when the people have called them.

Word as a Brandon.

Posted by: Brandon at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (0FoWg)

151 Do Apple users wear sweaters in July and drink Pilot truck stop coffee ironically?
-

Not really, but I do shoot deer in the back yard.. unironically..
Posted by: tubal

--

I was mostly joking.

Almost everyone's grandma is an Apple user now, which makes the little Apple stickers on the back of SUVs a lot funnier.

"My granny has one of those!"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (9Ct69)

152 I often wonder just how national elections would turn out if we actually prevented cheating

Posted by: weew at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (ttxaD)

153 Concerning the newest sidebar I’m glad to say, despite my being a horrible judge of character, I never been a fan of Tucker C.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (GPSZ3)

154 That whole thing is a sh*t show, sheriff's deputies included. In case you were unaware, the sheriff's deputies actually established their own street gang (The Banditos). Before this Villanueva guy took over, no incumbent had been dethroned in over 104 years. The deputies actually have an internal policy to cover their own gang tattoos when they go to court.

There is no side to support on this...California is a cesspool of jackassery.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (dIske)

155 > "President Biden was just being symbolic shambolic."
__________

FIFY

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (Q4IgG)

156 Bo Biden died in his job as a beat cop.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
---
No, he said husband or wife so it's DOCTOR Jill. My guess is moonlighting as an undercover cop in a prostitution sting. Would explain the fishnets.
Posted by: screaming in digital
--

In all seriousness I think he was referencing the wife he drove to suicide who also tried to murder her children because of him.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:51 PM (9Ct69)

157 I knew a guy in the percussion section who was into cymbalism.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:52 PM (9yWhg)

158 I suppose he is referencing the phone call he received when the truck driver "who drank his lunch killed his hot Republican wife who looked great in a bikini"*, which he is equating to the daily fear of the phone call when the spouse's LEO is on duty.

If only Joe had been driving that car that day...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:52 PM (Akjoo)

159 157 I knew a guy in the percussion section who was into cymbalism.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:52 PM (9yWhg)

Well played?

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:52 PM (PCK5/)

160 The Adventure of the Disappearing Sidebar Entry

Posted by: John H. Watson at April 25, 2024 03:52 PM (9e2in)

161 I remember when I got the call about my husband. They told me Linc had passed on and oh boy did I cry like a baby, let me tell you fat. The only people who could console me were my roommates Janet and Chrissy. Sure we told the landlord I was gay but we had to back then because that was the times we were in, jack.

-Joe Biden

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:53 PM (RQM8P)

162 Be sure to order a flat white with your avocado toast.

Whoa, whoa, slow down. Not all at once.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 03:53 PM (/y8xj)

163 152 I often wonder just how national elections would turn out if we actually prevented cheating

Posted by: weew at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (ttxaD)

++++

I think a lot of people would fall over dead from the shock of realizing what are the actual numbers.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:53 PM (F6UFz)

164
Richard Hanania @RichardHanania
Biden Treasury Department says we need higher taxes on capital gains because it would hurt white people more and take away their wealth.

Whites own too many stocks and businesses, so they need to pay.

https://tinyurl.com/4m87k2ys
Screencaps

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (vtyCZ)

165 If only Joe had been driving that car that day...
Posted by: It's me donna

-

He was in his girlfriend Jill's husband's Corvette.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (9Ct69)

166 >>>The Adventure of the Disappearing Sidebar Entry
Posted by: John H. Watson at April 25, 2024 03:52 PM (9e2in)

=====

Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

167 Russia to seize $440 million from JP Morgan.

I'm still laughing at McDonald's canceling the franchises in Russia.
So the owners just reopened under a new name.
Same product, same suppliers, same customers.

But now they don't have to pay lease for the land to McDonald's or franchise fees.

McDonald's will get that land back right after the Cubans give the sugar plantations back.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (yikga)

168 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

169 Gascon never really recovered from being cucked by that weirdo with Hypertrichosis in the Disney movie. Sad.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Y6IkP)

170 "Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations"

Just think of the laughs these commies probably get out of picking those titles.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (w/RvR)

171 Beau was a cop in the Sandbox.
Now you know.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (j9uO3)

172 Richard Hanania… looked up his pic… smarmy looking little shit, pasty whie..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (PCK5/)

173 168 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (PCK5/)

174 At the very least this piece of crap should be disbarred. Of course even if she is the Dems will find her a new cushy job where she can continue being a political operative
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 03:29 PM (aX7Uj)

In a sane polity, she would be lynched.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (8zz6B)

175 So, the first cargo ships have started entering Baltimore Harbor again, through the deep channel that's been dug.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (9yWhg)

176 Ace there's some new Nina Jankowicz news at zh. She's got a big new foundation where she exposes who's funding misinformation and RussianBots! but refuses to explain who funded her new job to the tune of a million so far. But she's now just a private disinfo zar.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (Y6IkP)

--------------

Somebody mentioned it here in the comments yesterday.

The best part: it's called the "American Sunlight Project."

George Orwell, please pick up the white privilege courtesy phone...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (Q3+9O)

177 According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta

Pretty amazing that this is being exposed. There are cracks in the edifice...

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (KBusA)

178 UFOs are zapping sidebar entries. Tricky bastards.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (Y6IkP)

179 What did Tucker do?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)

180 163 152 I often wonder just how national elections would turn out if we actually prevented cheating

Posted by: weew at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (ttxaD)

++++

I think a lot of people would fall over dead from the shock of realizing what are the actual numbers.
---
We don't need to wonder.
Look at formerly swing states OH and FL.

But, "it's not who we are" and it's racist if you ask the national GOP to clean up elections.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (yikga)

181 Liberal CNN stars axed under previous leadership return to network’s airwaves

https://tinyurl.com/yc46vk98

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (NpAcC)

182 179 What did Tucker do?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)

He's turned left wing or something

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (Akjoo)

183 144 @126 I think the inside of Biden's head is like the alien Rosenberg from Men in Black. Only in Biden's case the alien is wacked on meth and LSD and spouting nonsense
Posted by: Smell the Glove


...Whoa...

Everything makes sense now.

Far out, man...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (sAmhv)

184 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
_

Disney and/or Comic Books

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (4hHmM)

185 >>>What did Tucker do?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)

======

Said it was evil to drop fat man and little boy on civilians.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (GPSZ3)

186 Fauci To Testify In Public Hearing On COVID-19 Response, Origins

“Retirement from public service does not excuse Dr. Fauci from accountability to the American people,” Mr. Wenstrup said.

“On June 3, Americans will have an opportunity to hear directly from Dr. Fauci about his role in overseeing our nation’s pandemic response, shaping pandemic-era policies, and promoting singular questionable narratives about the origins of COVID-19.”

.. Fauci has a memoir coming out soon so he will have to actually remember something

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (RHGPo)

187 173 168 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..
Posted by: tubal

Ewokscaping

Posted by: Kratwurst at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (+u4zE)

188 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (PCK5/)
===
Tucker is doing a movie about Disney.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (RIvkX)

189 182 179 What did Tucker do?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)

He's turned left wing or something
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (Akjoo)

Uh-huh..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (PCK5/)

190 What did Tucker do?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)

He tried to take on the might of Ford and General Motors, with a car featuring swiveling headlights and advanced safety features.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (OguvZ)

191 173 168 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..
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If it doesn't use the word "snizz" I'm not reading it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (yikga)

192 173 168 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (PCK5/)
_____________

Boobs

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

193 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (PCK5/)

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Beau Biden's murder last night by an UltraMAGAt after performing a traffic stop?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (Q3+9O)

194 ... Now, in those days, I was a real lady-killer. I didn't just beat Wilt Chamberlain at basketball, ya know. But in that moment, I was so overcome by a passion for justice, that I let all those freedom fighters take me. And I can tell ya that one of those brave, costumed queens is the father of the smartest butt-baby you ever saw, jack. It was the fabulous policeman.

Anyway, he and Beau were killed raiding a warehouse full of Putin's phony ballots. Saddest phone call of my life. That's why we fight for Ukraine - because Democrats take action when the people have called them. ...
Posted by: Brandon at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM (0FoWg)
++++
Funny, but too coherent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (HnUIn)

195 180 We don't need to wonder.
Look at formerly swing states OH and FL.

But, "it's not who we are" and it's racist if you ask the national GOP to clean up elections.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (yikga)

========

We are still told that mail in voting is incredibly secure despite it failing the most basic of smell tests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

196 hahahaha

Bo Biden died in his job as a beat cop.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 03:45 PM (9Ct69)

Just two weeks away from retirement. Was going to start living off his pension, just bought a boat he was gonna take out fishing every day.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (dGCAG)

197 Investigators say Harvard University's morgue manager was part of an underground network trafficking human remains. Here's how it unravelled

.. I bet they were hoping for a bloodbath from the demostrations

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

198 Personally I despise Tucker for speaking to people I have been told to not like or are officially not supposed to be heard.
And his OPINIONS. Heterodoxy has no place in conservatism. At least not all at one time. Conservatism is perfectly OK with defending positions it fought against seven years ago, but that is not heterodoxy

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 04:00 PM (D7oie)

199 >>> What did Tucker do?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)


I don't know, but I bet there's an absolute banger of a dirty limerick about it.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (Y6IkP)

200 Boobs
Posted by: Elric Blade


Nah. Talking about boobs is our responsibility.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (9yWhg)

201 Investigators say Harvard University's morgue manager was part of an underground network trafficking human remains. Here's how it unravelled

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You know what was completely fake, though?

That whole D.C. pizza thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (9Ct69)

202 Emory University protest descends into chaos as Georgia cops 'spray tear gas', fire rubber bullets and arrest dozens of students

... everybody know you are supposed to be "Emory bored"

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (RHGPo)

203 185 >>>What did Tucker do?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 03:57 PM (9yWhg)

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Said it was evil to drop fat man and little boy on civilians.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (GPSZ3)

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The fire bombing of Japan killed far more people, and it's never held up as some sort of terrible atrocity of war.

Because people are stupid.

And the idea that the nation and military that held Iwo Jima for weeks under heavy bombardment would just admit defeat once American boots hit the main Japanese island is outright stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

204 He tried to take on the might of Ford and General Motors, with a car featuring swiveling headlights and advanced safety features.
Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:59 PM (OguvZ)

Hah! I was sitting here thinking "I don't remember him saying anything about the car industry!"

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (dGCAG)

205 Yeah, that Lancelot Linc was one smart chimp P.I.

Posted by: joey biden at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (vtyCZ)

206 This busty bikini blonde on the beach is glad that she doesn't live in LA anymore:
http://tiny.cc/yzxuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (HnUIn)

207 BabylonBee: College Student So Caught Up Harassing Jews He Forgot About Term Paper On Inclusion

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (RHGPo)

208
Concerning the newest sidebar I’m glad to say, despite my being a horrible judge of character, I never been a fan of Tucker C.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:50 PM

His latest conversations with Joe Rogan have me stepping back a few steps. UFO's? Alex Jones as channeling some deity? And Israel? Quite a few more steps.

It must have been the polonium tea that Putin served him.

The sidebar item must have been 'memory holed'.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 04:02 PM (RKVpM)

209 206 This busty bikini blonde on the beach is glad that she doesn't live in LA anymore:
http://tiny.cc/yzxuxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
____

Her cups runneth over.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 04:02 PM (4hHmM)

210 We are still told that mail in voting is incredibly secure despite it failing the most basic of smell tests.
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You sound like a Russian agent J6 insurrectionist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM (yikga)

211 Investigators say Harvard University's morgue manager was part of an underground network trafficking human remains. Here's how it unravelled

.. I bet they were hoping for a bloodbath from the demostrations
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

There's an underground market for human remains? Whatever for? Wait, maybe don't answer that...

Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM (XPM1I)

212 210 We are still told that mail in voting is incredibly secure despite it failing the most basic of smell tests.
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You sound like a Russian agent J6 insurrectionist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM (yikga)

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False.

I am an Albanian bot, but also an asshole.

But mostly just an asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

213 THE US AID PACKAGE TO UKRAINE IS TO PAY FOR A PRIOR SECRET DELIVERY OF WEAPONS

... I guess Biden is hoping the SCOTUS allows for POTUS immunity

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

214 I have not noticed Fen rebuttals of Mannix Babes of late.. was kind of an HQ feature folly…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM (PCK5/)

215 There's an underground market for human remains? Whatever for? Wait, maybe don't answer that...
____

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Igor at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (4hHmM)

216 Said it was evil to drop fat man and little boy on civilians.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (GPSZ3)

No, that's not really what he said.

He was using the present tense when referring to people who "want to drop nukular weapons on people" when calling them evil.

The problem is, everyone is looking for reasons to say he's bad. Now, he most certainly did say it was wrong to drop the nooks on Japan, but the "evil" comment was about our modern day war goons who are hellbent on it now.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (dGCAG)

217 Ya spend thirty years in the gutter, taking garbage off the streets so that people can sleep at night, and whaddya get? Huh? A "thank you for your service," and a lousy gold watch, that's what! And before it even goes on your wrist, your old man gets a call that you're not coming home tonight, because a MAGA insurrectionist wouldn't get a vaccine.

Posted by: Brandon at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (0FoWg)

218 There's an underground market for human remains? Whatever for? Wait, maybe don't answer that...

--

I'm pretty sure it came out a few years ago that was a big part of Planned Parenthood / abortion clinics income schemes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (9Ct69)

219 Personally I despise Tucker for speaking to people I have been told to not like or are officially not supposed to be heard.
And his OPINIONS. Heterodoxy has no place in conservatism. At least not all at one time. Conservatism is perfectly OK with defending positions it fought against seven years ago, but that is not heterodoxy
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 04:00 PM (D7oie)
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I do not despise Tucker. However his interview of Putin was limp and non-revealing. His interview of the Bethlehem priest was misleading by omission.

To quote Tucker; Why?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (RIvkX)

220 Investigators say Harvard University's morgue manager was part of an underground network trafficking human remains. Here's how it unravelled
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Free Mummia!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:05 PM (vtyCZ)

221 You know what was completely fake, though?

That whole D.C. pizza thing.
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Have you heard the one about Ellen selling cheap junk furniture at oddly astronomical prices?

And the "names" of the pieces just happen to all be names of recently missing children in L.A.?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 04:05 PM (yikga)

222 There's an underground market for human remains? Whatever for? Wait, maybe don't answer that...
Posted by: hobbitopoly at April 25, 2024 04:03 PM

Most marketing of human remains occurs above ground.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (a3Q+t)

223 Her cups runneth over.
Posted by: Chuck Martel


Indeed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (9yWhg)

224 219


I do not despise Tucker. However his interview of Putin was limp and non-revealing. His interview of the Bethlehem priest was misleading by omission.

To quote Tucker; Why?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (RIvkX)

I have weighed Tucker in my Balance, and still find him not wanting…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

225 >>>The problem is, everyone is looking for reasons to say he's bad. Now, he most certainly did say it was wrong to drop the nooks on Japan, but the "evil" comment was about our modern day war goons who are hellbent on it now.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:04 PM (dGCAG)

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Thanks for the clarification. I was going off of the article at Redstate.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (GPSZ3)

226 Free Mummia!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ)


With purchase of a Mummia of equal or greater value.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (9yWhg)

227 I have weighed Tucker in my Balance, and still find him not wanting…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

I like him but he's come out with some things lately I don't agree with

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (Akjoo)

228 80 Afternoon.

Gooderer and harderer.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 03:35 PM (vr92T)
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Yes, those are bestest.

Posted by: Ciampino - did do let the banana out? at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (qfLjt)

229 Billy Mumia was an annoying kid…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (PCK5/)

230 I saw my first person wearing a ‘hamas to the sea’ teeshirt today, shirt was blue with a palm tree on a sandy shore. Looked like you’d buy at Daytona Beach. We are truly in the last days.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (o2ZRX)

231 His latest conversations with Joe Rogan have me stepping back a few steps. UFO's? Alex Jones as channeling some deity? And Israel? Quite a few more steps.

It must have been the polonium tea that Putin served him.

The sidebar item must have been 'memory holed'.
Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 04:02 PM (RKVpM)

All in all, it was an interesting conversation, but yeah, he went "out there" a bit with some of that stuff.

I think the UFO biz is mostly an op, and the notion that Alex Jones is channeling God's word seems a bit extreme to me, but even that, it's hardly a foreign concept for Christians to believe in prophets.

I think a better explanation is Alex is on the spectrum, but if Tucker wants to believe it's spiritual, I don't really have a problem with that.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:08 PM (dGCAG)

232 227 I have weighed Tucker in my Balance, and still find him not wanting…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

I like him but he's come out with some things lately I don't agree with
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (Akjoo)

To quote an elf “ our list of allies grows thin”..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:09 PM (PCK5/)

233 Billy Mumy >>>> Will Wheaton

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:09 PM (9yWhg)

234 Billy Mumia was an annoying kid…
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (PCK5/)
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Don't let him hear you, he'll send you to the cornfield

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 04:09 PM (RIvkX)

235 The best Mummia portrayal was by Lon Chaney, Jr.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 04:10 PM (9yWhg)

236 I look at Tucker Carlson as a source, but not an authority.
Nobody tells me what to believe.

I will reign down on them.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:10 PM (RHGPo)

237 Video of a drag queen in Massachusetts leading a group of young kids to chant “Free Palestine” has sparked fierce backlash — with some calling it “indoctrination” that is “wrong on every level.”

The encounter, which unfolded at a “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group in Amherst last week, had gone viral by Thursday as outrage mounted.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:10 PM (vtyCZ)

238 213 THE US AID PACKAGE TO UKRAINE IS TO PAY FOR A PRIOR SECRET DELIVERY OF WEAPONS
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You have to love it.
We're borrowing money.
To loan to the Ukraine.
So they can buy--on credit--our old equipment.
Forcing the US to borrow money to buy new equipment.

You know, if the Ukraine war was so popular, the Ukraine should be able to easily sell billions of Ukraine War Bonds.

I mean, all those social media profile pics are worth $100,000,000,000,000 at the least in War bond sales.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 04:11 PM (yikga)

239 Thanks for the clarification. I was going off of the article at Redstate.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 04:06 PM (GPSZ3)

There's an aspect of it too, Tucker knows he's pissing people off, and doesn't seem to mind doing so. It wouldn't be hard for anyone to make the connection that he was condemning everyone who was/is in favor of the Japan nooks, and it's his fault for not being more careful. If it was not his intention to give them that impression, I mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:11 PM (dGCAG)

240 The fire bombing of Japan killed far more people, and it's never held up as some sort of terrible atrocity of war.

Because people are stupid.

And the idea that the nation and military that held Iwo Jima for weeks under heavy bombardment would just admit defeat once American boots hit the main Japanese island is outright stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Operation Olympic would have invaded Kyushu, accompanied by a diversion on the even smaller, sparsely-populated island of Shikoku. Honshu, the largest island, wouldn't have been invaded until Operation Coronet in 1946, aimed at Tokyo.

Posted by: John H. Watson at April 25, 2024 04:11 PM (9e2in)

241 Billy Mumia was an annoying kid…
____

He was alright. But Robot, what a cantankerous cold-hearted clump, a hopeless heap of tainted tin, a lugubrious laggard. A bubble-headed booby, if you will.

Posted by: Dr Smith at April 25, 2024 04:11 PM (4hHmM)

242 DANGER .. DANGER .. DANGER .. Will ROBINSON
COSMIC STORM APPROACHING

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:11 PM (RHGPo)

243 >>I like him but he's come out with some things lately I don't agree with

I don't agree with anyone on every issue. The problem seems to be that since Tucker is one of the few voices mostly on our side and paid a heavy price for not bowing to the mob there seems to be a feeling that he has to have the same position on every issue.

I never thought of Tucker as an intellectual heavyweight and he isn't. He's a talking head I mostly agree with.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 04:12 PM (LkLld)

244 nooked tucker

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:12 PM (vtyCZ)

245 Said it was evil to drop fat man and little boy on civilians.
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:58 PM (GPSZ3)

It is a valid argument. It worked out well, but was it the best thing to do?

I will give you another thing to be angry about: the CSA was trying to negotiate a peace with the Union, and Lincoln was blocking the negotiations because he had other goals than ending the civil war. Who is to blame for those deaths?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (D7oie)

246 I look at Tucker Carlson as a source, but not an authority.
Nobody tells me what to believe.

I will reign down on them.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:10 PM (RHGPo)

We know he's being fed information. The question is, are there people knowingly feeding him false information?

I would have to think so, and is he smart enough to not just take THEIR word as authority?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (dGCAG)

247 >>>The encounter, which unfolded at a “Queer Storytime for Palestine” event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group in Amherst last week, had gone viral by Thursday as outrage mounted.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 04:10 PM (vtyCZ)

=====

They took their kids to a drag queen? I think I have identified their first mistake.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (GPSZ3)

248 "Queer Storytime for Palestine"

Crowd abolutely filled with minorities...NOT.

Posted by: Disgusted at April 25, 2024 04:14 PM (Z8Yh2)

249 Jill died in the line of duty?

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (kEO1K)

250 Rush hour chaos in London as 5 military horses get spooked, run amok .. been had! been took! been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray!

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:16 PM (RHGPo)

251 I watch the teasers and short vids that Tucker posts on X but I don't pay the annual dues for the full TCN content. I have also paid to use X, got verified, but I still get the ads.
I also hit the tip jar here at least annually.
I also subscribe to VDH's site.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 04:17 PM (MeG8a)

252 AG Rob Bonta, huckapino commie.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 04:19 PM (Q2P04)

253 There's an aspect of it too, Tucker knows he's pissing people off, and doesn't seem to mind doing so. It wouldn't be hard for anyone to make the connection that he was condemning everyone who was/is in favor of the Japan nooks, and it's his fault for not being more careful. If it was not his intention to give them that impression, I mean.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 04:11 PM (dGCAG)

One could argue that dropping the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an evil, but that not dropping them would lead to an even worse evil. Sometimes, the "good" option is greyed out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (8zz6B)

254 Kim Kardashian coming to White House for VP Harris roundtable discussion.

.. the hills are alive with the silence of dumbness

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 04:20 PM (RHGPo)

255 Villanueva exposited concealed carry permits, so, not of the body.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 04:22 PM (Q2P04)

256 Phoenix Internet was here today and changed out my rooftop radio dish. Hence the hash change.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (8zz6B)

257 exposited = expidited.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 04:23 PM (Q2P04)

258 173 168 Anyone want to take bets on the subject of Ace's next post?
Posted by: Turn 2 at April 25, 2024 03:54 PM (GPSZ3)

Tucker
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Akjoo)

Disney..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 03:56 PM (PCK5/)
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Electric Vespas?

Posted by: Ciampino - did you let the banana out? at April 25, 2024 04:25 PM (qfLjt)

259
I will give you another thing to be angry about: the CSA was trying to negotiate a peace with the Union, and Lincoln was blocking the negotiations because he had other goals than ending the civil war. Who is to blame for those deaths?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 04:13 PM (D7oie)

Great. Another Confederate apologist.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (mggQ3)

260 Anyone who has any sort of Relationship or Connections to George Soros and his rotten Son should lose their American Citizenship and Please Leave

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2024 05:28 PM (wGqjj)

261 We are still told that mail in voting is incredibly secure despite it failing the most basic of smell tests.

you mean failing EVERY test

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 25, 2024 05:36 PM (iNp3L)

NY Court of Appeals Tosses Harvey Weinstein's 2020 Rape Conviction

There's a rule that you can't put on evidence of prior "bad acts" to prove that a defendant committed the specific bad acts he's being tried for in the present case.

It's not that such evidence is completely irrelevant; it's that it's unduly prejudicial to the defendant. Such evidence tends to poison the jury against the defendant well out of proportion to the actual light it sheds on the current crime being judged at trial.

But that's what the state of New York did to get their conviction. They had some weak evidence of rape in cases where the statute of limitations hadn't run out yet, so they put on evidence from other women claiming they'd been raped (in cases where the statute of limitations had run out).

I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place. I assume (I haven't read much about the case) that they used the special and often-abused exemption to the "no prior bad acts" rule, the "signature" exception. Prosecutors will sometimes claim that a method of committing a crime is so specific to one individual that it constitutes a "signature" in the modus operandi, and can then put on witnesses who testify about the same M.O. being used in crimes against them.

It's often a weak and bullshitty exception: "The bank robbers wore ski masks and gloves, that's a signature." Okay it doesn't usually get that transparent, but you can see the way this rule can abused, and where a judge will allow "signature" evidence in a case The Regime is desperate to win.

Another exception, which seems to be the one used in this case, is to claim you're not putting on these witnesses to prove his prior bad acts, but to shed light on his state-of-mind he had when committing the acts he's on trial for.

The prosecution put on three witnesses to accuse Weinstein of prior rape, and claimed they weren't presenting this evidence just to show he's generally a rapist, but to prove that his state in mind in the current case was one of intent to commit a sexual assault. That is, it wasn't just a mistake where he misread the woman's level of interest in him.

But I mean, come on: You can't tell the jury "don't consider this testimony as evidence that he committed the current crime, just consider it as far as his state-of-mind." That's telling people to put the information in a special vault in their brain that they cannot access except to answer one particular question. No one's brain works like that, not even the brain of Noted "Compartmentalizer" Bill Clinton.

The toxic Regime will let every criminal out of jail to pacify one constituency. Then, when another constituency must be appeased, they'll change the rules and start presenting/allowing evidence that is plainly out-of-bounds just to convict one guy. The Regime is controlled by people who are all suffering from untreated moral breakdowns, permanently on tilt, and eager to suspend the law or change the law to to satisfy whatever moral panic they're currently in. (Trump can tell you all about that.)

Any trial that makes the news is now a political trial.

Weinstein is still in jail over a 2023 conviction for a rape in California.

But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.


Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals.

On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein's trial -- a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started -- had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial.

Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Good Will Hunting," is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.


...


"We reaffirm that no person accused of illegality may be judged on proof of uncharged crimes that serve only to establish the accused's propensity for criminal behavior," wrote Judge Jenny Rivera in the court's majority opinion. "It is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant's character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them."


...

Judge Madeline Singas wrote in the court's dissenting opinion, "With today's decision, this Court continues to thwart the steady gains survivors of sexual violence have fought for in our criminal justice system. Forgotten are the women who bear the psychological trauma of sexual violence and the scars of testifying again, and again. This erosion of precedent, born from a refusal to accept that crimes of sexual violence are far more nuanced and complex than other crimes, comes at the expense and safety of women."

This is always the pitch: We have to break the rules to convict this defendant for political reasons.

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At oral argument in February, Aidala maintained that Justice James Burke had stacked the deck against Weinstein by allowing three women -- Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young -- to testify against him.

Each of the women told the jury that Weinstein had sexually assaulted them after they showed up for what they thought would be a business meeting. The so-called "Molineux" witnesses were called to show that Weinstein's assaults had a common pattern, and that he was not confused about whether or not the victims consented.

Weinstein's defense argued that the effect of the testimony, however, was to attack his character without shedding any light on the allegations for which he was actually charged.

"This is major prejudice," Aidala argued in February. "It's saying, 'He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy.'"

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The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. In that case, five women were allowed to testify to buttress the one allegation that was charged. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that conviction on different grounds, finding that prosecutors had reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

2 So, it was a rushed prosecution with tenuous ties to actual law, pursued for political purposes?

That's not the NY court system that I know and love!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (GBKbO)

3 But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.

Will he?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (IUd0M)

4 Harvey Weinstein didn't kill himself...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 25, 2024 02:13 PM (esflq)

5 It's only a signature if he directly requests a ficus.

Or "signs" a slogan rather than a general sprinkling.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 02:13 PM (PMJuY)

6 Narrator in 2026: He was, in fact, never retried.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 02:14 PM (CwhoI)

7 It appears New York prosecutors love to play fast and loose with the law.

*cough*

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (JeYYB)

8 I wonder if he's being sued in civil. It makes sense if they rushed the criminal trials to get his civil defense strategy exposed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (IG4Id)

9 He's an awful person, who has LONG been known to be an awful person...

But you don't get to ignore the law just because he's awful.

The ruling is correct- the prosecution was given way too much leeway.

I'm absolutely shocked to see that there is a semblance of the rule of law hanging on. (If you have a ton of money to spend on appeals.)

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (N1tpc)

10 Move ovah, Ninth Ciuhkit!

Posted by: New Yawk Coawts at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (gKWVE)

11 RIP the rule of law in New York state. It's like they use the criminal justice system to get whomever they don't like at the moment.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (YqDXo)

12 Just in case you had doubts about there being two sets of laws....

Hopefully this means we'll get hot chicks in movies showing their tits again.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

13 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)

14 9 He's an awful person, who has LONG been known to be an awful person...

But you don't get to ignore the law just because he's awful.

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There are so many similarities.


Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (JeYYB)

15 Overturning the conviction is correct, even though the guy is a scumbag.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (ufFY8)

16 Why didn't the prosecution get their pee-pees knocked down when they brought up prior bad acts?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (YqDXo)

17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (/AKWf)

18 so, Trump can't be prosecuted for saying he grabbed them by the pussy

where's my fucking pearls ??

Posted by: yikes at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (us2H3)

19 So basically what you're saying is, the justice system in New York is run by monkeys and imbeciles.

That's the message I'm getting.

Weinstein's a pig, and deserves whatever hell he gets, in this life and the next, but prosecutors are the worst people on the planet. Worse than rapists.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (dGCAG)

20 "I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place.

Forget it Jake, it's New York.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (33Ta2)

21 Something something "Thomas More" something something "The Devil"...

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (pgwxJ)

22 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)

23 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)
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Female of what species? He might stand a chance with a female warthog.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

24 17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig

Unsure Trump's lawyers necessarily want to bring in "The Ficus Defense"

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (gKWVE)

25 My diseased and misshaped pneis is so happy

Posted by: Harvy Pervy Weinerstein at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (NtVYv)

26 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)
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It was SRO in the Bergdorf changing rooms.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

27 24 17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig

Unsure Trump's lawyers necessarily want to bring in "The Ficus Defense"
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (gKWVE)

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If you can't ficus, then you must acquit us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

28 17 Heh. NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig

I thought the same thing

Posted by: Harvy Pervy Weinerstein at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (NtVYv)

29 I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place.

Harvey Weinstein was the ORANGEMANBAD of #metoo. He was loved, respected, powerful within the system and then... something changed and he was public enemy #1.

Is there anything you wouldn't do to stop Hitler Weinstein?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (IUd0M)

30 It is the right call. No chance he has a second trial though.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (7PziG)

31 Morning.

Holy shit, are we going to have to defend Harvey fucking Weinstein now?

What a world.

Can the ficus testify?

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (oNOxo)

32 29 I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place.

Harvey Weinstein was the ORANGEMANBAD of #metoo. He was loved, respected, powerful within the system and then... something changed and he was public enemy #1.

Is there anything you wouldn't do to stop Hitler Weinstein?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (IUd0M)

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He was taking jobs that should have gone to an oppressed minority like Ivy league educated, wealthy white women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (GBKbO)

33 It was SRO in the Bergdorf changing rooms.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

Thanks. So, it's Alvin Bragg's call, eh? LOL

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (rj6Yv)

34 But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.
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E. Jean Carroll is warming in the bullpen. Once she gets out of the mental institution.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (YqDXo)

35 31 Morning.

Holy shit, are we going to have to defend Harvey fucking Weinstein now?

What a world.

Can the ficus testify?
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (oNOxo)

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I see it as opportunity to point and laugh at the NY court system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

36 16 Why didn't the prosecution get their pee-pees knocked down when they brought up prior bad acts?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Character evidence alleging past bad acts gets problematic when it involves uncharged crimes. Had Weinstein been tried and convicted of those past crimes, it would have been allowable because it would demonstrate a pattern of ability to commit those crimes in the past. Essentially what NY prosecutors did was use uncharged past bad acts to argue that that this evidence applied to the particular case at hand.

Goes back for a retrial is what will happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (/AKWf)

37 The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. In that case, five women were allowed to testify to buttress the one allegation that was charged. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that conviction on different grounds, finding that prosecutors had reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:10 PM


Ah, I see the press is dutifully hiding information.

The prosecutors SPECIFICALLY promised not to prosecute Cosby so that he could not invoke the 5th amendment in a civil trial.

Then, USING THE EVIDENCE FROM THE CIVIL TRIAL, the prosecutors charged him with crimes.

They should be in jail for deprivation of rights under the color of law.

But there are no consequences for the ruling class. They get a "scolding" and then go on to do the same thing again.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (N1tpc)

38 Not to defend Harvey Weinstein, who is by all reports an enormous bag of douche, but any accusation that he has not been convicted of, by definition, he is innocent of in our system. At least, under the system we used to have.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (esflq)

39 UGGGGG... off you vile sock.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (N1tpc)

40
Why bother having another trial? It sounds like he's in jail for the rest of his life. Anyway, the NY judicial system needs to spend every dollar on prosecuting that serial jay-walker and sexual deviant Donald Trump.

Did you know he said the word, 'pussy'?

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (RKVpM)

41 "Yeah, but where does my ficus go to get its reputation back?"

#MeToo

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (yZP7y)

42 How did Weinstein ever get to his position? He's got enough ugly to open a branch face. He'd be better off shaving his ass and walking on his hands.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

43 This gives Harvey another out, by saying the jury pool of almost the whole USA is now tainted because of this unjust trial.

He owns enough Democrats that im actually shocked this went this far.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (hwnBu)

44 "Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (pgwxJ)

45 but any accusation that he has not been convicted of, by definition, he is innocent of in our system. At least, under the system we used to have.
Posted by: Hawkpilot

That Western standard of law went out the door with employment discrimination law.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (IG4Id)

46 43 This gives Harvey another out, by saying the jury pool of almost the whole USA is now tainted because of this unjust trial.

He owns enough Democrats that im actually shocked this went this far.
Posted by: Rbastid at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (hwnBu)

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I don't think it's going to get him out of the California penal system, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

47 Did you know he said the word, 'pussy'?

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 02:21 PM (RKVpM)
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And he tore the tag off a mattress. This cannot stand!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

48 Holy shit, are we going to have to defend Harvey fucking Weinstein now?

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Unfortunately we are. The courts are simply another shit show.

I had a friend say, "I know at least one juror will not convict Trump." My response, "that didn't work out during the MOST bogus rape/defamation trial." Not one person had enough critical thinking skill to know that woman was a nut case.

The more I hear about her the more I get enraged.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (JeYYB)

49 Bailiff, whack him on the pee pee.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (2UnvF)

50 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)

He's got a ton of money. He could get hundreds of women to have sex with him willingly.

But he wouldn't get the thrill of using his power on them, nor these specific women to sleep with him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (N1tpc)

51 >> crimes of sexual violence are far more nuanced and complex than other crimes, comes at the expense and safety of women."

Nuanced and complexed is shorthand for Banana In The Tail Pipe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (JIdXK)

52 Can the ficus testify?

Kamala Ficus Harris

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (ufFY8)

53 But that's what the state of New York did...


Pretty much sums it up right there.
We're New York so everyone else can piss off!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (W/lyH)

54 Overturning the conviction is correct, even though the guy is a scumbag.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (ufFY

Same point I made about OJ a couple weeks ago, even though a lot of people don't want to hear it.

They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

55 Weinstein is a scumbag but the Court of Appeals was correct. All of the judges were appointed by either Cuomo or Hochul. It was a surprise that the appellate division, which is the first level of appeal in NYS let it stand. The trial judge screwed this up , just like the Judge in Trump's case are screwing up. They are trying to cater to the mob, which should be ignored by a judge

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (aX7Uj)

56 I'm going to have to testify at the retrial, aren't I?

Posted by: Ficus at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (8b2OY)

57 ‘He isn’t getting out of jail because there is still the 16 year for the LA conviction.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

58 Come on Eileen !

Posted by: Harvy Pervy Weinerstein at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (NtVYv)

59 The trial judge allowed it because they knew the conviction would be tossed. It was specifically challenged by the defense and the judge ruled against them.

Fast forward to now. The New York judiciary is allowing Trump to be prosecuted based on an act for which the statute of limitations has expired. They've further allowed other charges to be falsely compounded and brought based on that unlawful charge.

New York courts routinely do things like this on a regular basis. To the point they've even ignored SCOTUS in cases like Bruen.

Meanwhile criminals and illegal immigrants roam free.

People are leaving New York for many reasons. But one of those is increasingly a justice system that has been weaponized against the average person or business who doesn't agree with them.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (33Ta2)

60 57 as Ace noted had I read instead of skimmed.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 He'd be better off shaving his ass and walking on his hands.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

Lord help me but I have days like this.

Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (oNOxo)

62 Frankendick comes out on top

Posted by: nckate at April 25, 2024 02:24 PM (4bYb7)

63 Ersatz AnarchoTyranist: Listen we just have to bend the rules to get pigs like Harvey Weinstein and wreckers like Trump and also grannies parading and alternate electors and...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (JIdXK)

64 Character evidence alleging past bad acts gets problematic when it involves uncharged crimes. Had Weinstein been tried and convicted of those past crimes, it would have been allowable because it would demonstrate a pattern of ability to commit those crimes in the past. Essentially what NY prosecutors did was use uncharged past bad acts to argue that that this evidence applied to the particular case at hand.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (/AKWf)
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Is this another "Judge Engoron presents?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (YqDXo)

65 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

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I don't disagree with you but at least one OJ juror actually said that for them it was sticking it to the white man.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (JeYYB)

66 Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (N1tpc)

Not gonna lie, I'm impressed by your analysis. Who did you copy it from?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IUd0M)

67 But that's what the state of New York did to get their conviction. They had some weak evidence of rape in cases where the statute of limitations hadn't run out yet, so they put on evidence from other women claiming they'd been raped (in cases where the statute of limitations had run out).

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President Donald J. Trump hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (yZP7y)

68 And this is how Democrats treat a Democrat when he's no longer useful.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (RQM8P)

69 Unsure Trump's lawyers necessarily want to bring in "The Ficus Defense"
Posted by: gKWVE
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It is more to the point that the appellate court has handed the Trump team a cudgel to apply to the judge in the case. Bragg just introduced the Natl Inquirer editor to testify about how stories are squelched and this is the key to the argument that the payments to Stormy and McDougal as well as to the doorman to squash a stupid story about Trump impregnating a maid at the Trump hotel constitute a pattern of misbehavior.

Since all of that, like whether Weinstein actually had relationships with the accuser, were uncharged activity (in Trump's case because there is literally no law that prohibit disclosure agreements and payment to prevent disclosure), the past bad acts to show they are a bad person is not allowed due to the Weinstein appellate ruling.

Make the leap even larger that appellate courts can uphold any guilty verdict based on Orangeman Bad tactics.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (/AKWf)

70 I see it as opportunity to point and laugh at the NY court system.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju wi

cue Nelson Muntz

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (CIS44)

71 It was just serving "Believe All (People Who Say That They Are) Women"

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (OaZlZ)

72 Weinstein is a pig, but 99% of this was just casting couch type arrangements and the women were pissed he didn’t make them a star as promised.

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (Jt4ck)

73 @59

>>Fast forward to now. The New York judiciary is allowing Trump to be prosecuted based on an act for which the statute of limitations has expired.

It's actually worse than that, the base charge of falsifying records happened in 2017 after the election, so they are in essence charging Trump with pre-crime.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (JIdXK)

74 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (F6UFz)

He is, or was, really, really, really rich AND could get you a major boost in showbiz.

He was swimming in pussy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (IUd0M)

75 Kinda' makes me question the fairness of our justice system.

Nah... it's nowhere near political enough yet, is it? Plenty of room to the left

<------ over there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (Q4IgG)

76 NY Court is run by Charlie Foxtrot.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (OaZlZ)

77 Not gonna lie, I'm impressed by your analysis. Who did you copy it from?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IUd0M)

That guy who forgets to remove his sock.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (ufFY8)

78 Ace noted had I read instead of skimmed.
Posted by: Piper a

Piper ace knows we dont read the content

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (CIS44)

79 I don't think people are defending Weinstein per se. They are more so pointing out the courts in New York are the most corrupt in our nation and therefore at some point subject to reversal.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (33Ta2)

80 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

I cry no tears at this.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (KbCG3)

81 NY prosecutor Bragg is using the same strategy during the Trump trial and dragging in peripheral mudslinging that has nothing to do with the conduct on trial.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (/AKWf)

Took Weinstein 4 years to get his conviction overturned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (IUd0M)

82 I doubt there was any rapes. The women were willing to have sex with Weinstein to further their careers.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (Dz6Vv)

83 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."

"Something something Healing power of 'And'..."

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (esflq)

84 Weinstein is a pig, but 99% of this was just casting couch type arrangements and the women were pissed he didn’t make them a star as promised.
Posted by: Benchmark

I literally just said this to my buddy in class.

also it was a chance for woman to open up spots in hollywood and move up the ladder.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (CIS44)

85 Oprah sure liked herself some Weinstein.

She liked a lot of sickos.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (JeYYB)

86 I'm getting the impression that legal proceedings in New York are pretty like the trial scene in Idiocracy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (YqDXo)

87 When is that poor fern going to get justice?!

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (OaZlZ)

88 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024

Weinstein's ex-wife Georgina Chapman is gorgeous. It's amazing what type of woman an ugly man can get if he's loaded and connected. She runs a fashion line now and maybe needed his $$ and connections to get that off the ground.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (oiNtH)

89 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:23 PM (dGCAG)

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I don't disagree with you but at least one OJ juror actually said that for them it was sticking it to the white man.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:25 PM (JeYYB)

I only ever heard one juror talk about the case, at length, and the impression I had was she would have voted guilty if it wasn't for all the obvious holes they were able to poke at the work of the cops and the techs.

So in a sense, "sticking it to the white man" could be construed as saying "no" when the system tries to railroad defendants. Which it does. A lot. And not just to ex-NFL running backs.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (dGCAG)

90 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:26 PM (/AKWf)

The smart (if lazy and cowardly) thing for the judge to do, might well be to declare "mistrial":
markicohenattorneynyc.com/what- is-a-mistrial-and-what-are-some-of-the-common- grounds-for-a-mistrial/
... and let some other judge pick up Bragg's rancid turd of a case.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (gKWVE)

91 It's actually worse than that, the base charge of falsifying records happened in 2017 after the election, so they are in essence charging Trump with pre-crime.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at

it's actually worse than that, the crime they boot strapped it to to make it a felony to extend the staute of limitations is a state law about running for state office.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (CIS44)

92 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.
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Meryl Streep was grateful for the action.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (YqDXo)

93 88 He really is one ugly looking human being. I'd have to say he would never get a female to have sex with him willingly.


maybe he had a really great personality?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (s3qiR)

94 Ficus was great on the Quark show.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (oOdkd)

95 The casting couch is still in use because the casting couch still works. If you decide your dignity and self respect are worth less than a chance at playing dress-up and make-believe for a (good) living, well...?!?

(Assuming any of them got to that level or stage with any dignity or self-respect left.)

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (pgwxJ)

96 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC
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I watched every minute of the trial. The cops and the DAs were a disgrace. Lying, contradicting, fabricating bastards. If they had done their job by the book they would have won the case.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (lCWOD)

97 On OJ, Lefties weren't happy that a rich famous person had got away with murder just because he was black. What they were actually happy about was that he'd killed a pretty rich blonde woman and got away with it, thereby "pwning the whites".

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (RQM8P)

98 Harvey Weinstein was the ORANGEMANBAD of #metoo. He was loved, respected, powerful within the system and then... something changed and he was public enemy #1.

Is there anything you wouldn't do to stop Hitler Weinstein?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (IUd0M)

They had to make him duh Devil, because the Women involved will NEVER admit to any culpability via their behavior.

None of this was a secret. Hollywood KNEW what he was doing, and 'some' would pay that price, for a foot in the door.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (xaFKb)

99 It seems that the NY state justice system is not as robust as the tv shows would have us believe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (PHukT)

100 it's actually worse than that, the crime they boot strapped it to to make it a felony to extend the staute of limitations is a state law about running for state office.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:30 PM (CIS44)

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Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

101 They botched his case, and the cops planted evidence. Which is why he was acquitted, not because the jurors were sticking it to the "white man."
Posted by: BurtTC
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Except if you see some of the jurors in that case interviewed, they say themselves, in so many words, that they were sticking it to the white man.

Not sure how this is difficult.

Posted by: ballistic at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (oqH4h)

102 I wasn't Johnny Cochran what won the case, it was Alan Dershowitz and Barry Schect.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (lCWOD)

103 President Donald J. Trump hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS
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Vice versa, Trump's prosecutors are the hardest hit. It undermines their pattern of behavior and character assassination disguised as evidence.

They are relying on 2015-2016 testimony which is past the statute of limitations for the misdemeanors of false business reporting based on payments to Stormy, McDougal, etc. This is being used to argue a pattern of Trump misbehavior led to the conduct of Trump misleading the population so that they would have voted for Killary in 2016. To that level, they are trying to apply a NYS statute that deals with state elections to make the misreporting of financials from Trump Inc (categorizing campaign expenditures as legal ones) which is the whole 34 count bullshit where each check payment to Cohen is alleged to have benefited Trump illegally in the 2016 election.

FEC and the Feds already investigated and declined to charge--even the tainted SDNY Trump haters did so. So can Bragg change a state statute to apply to federal elections (which actually creates a federal appellate question to the whole deal) and now has this appellate court ruling undermining his case.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (/AKWf)

104 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at

other than ORANGEMANBAD TDS?

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

105 Harvey Weinstein's 1969 school photo shows a young, good looking guy.

As has been said in at least one movie about a 30yo woman, half way between ripe and rotten.

He didn't always look like a monster, most don't.
If his looks and not his actions convicted him heaven help the ugly.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (F3Dlr)

106 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

Being Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (Akjoo)

107 100 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

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Being an enemy of the American IC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

108 You can point at New York and laugh all you want. They may be the worst, but Democrats are corrupting and subverting the courts wherever they can get their jurists on the bench. It has become essential to foisting their agenda on the people. I just listened to possibly the dumbest jurist ever appointed to SCOTUS by Democrats, Jackson, have her ass intellectually handed to her again today. They don't care. They're not embarrassed. They have an agenda and that's all that matters. Not law. Not constitution. Not tradition. Not right or wrong. Justice for Democrats isn't blind. It is fully focused on using its vision to attack its detractors.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (33Ta2)

109 The prohibition of "Prior Bad Acts" evidence is ironic. Often the best evidence that the defendant is guilty of the currently alleged conduct is that he has a history of such conduct. Yet the jury is generally not allowed to hear about it. It's one of the many paradoxes of jurisprudence.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

110 Except if you see some of the jurors in that case interviewed, they say themselves, in so many words, that they were sticking it to the white man.

Not sure how this is difficult.
Posted by: ballistic at A

A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

111 "Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?"


Heh. Alvin Bragg can't even do that.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (pgwxJ)

112 104 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at

The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (PHukT)

113 But there are no consequences for the ruling class. They get a "scolding" and then go on to do the same thing again.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (N1tpc)

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* The Clintons, The DogEater & His Wingman, James Comey, John Brennan, Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, and a whole of serial traitors too long to list have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (yZP7y)

114 ------

Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit
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He ruins their grafty punchbowl.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (lCWOD)

115 95 The casting couch is still in use because the casting couch still works. If you decide your dignity and self respect are worth less than a chance at playing dress-up and make-believe for a (good) living, well...?!?

(Assuming any of them got to that level or stage with any dignity or self-respect left.)

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:31 PM (pgwxJ)

++++

Sex becomes a mechanical business deal and both parties know what they are. Can't be good for one's morale, on either side.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (F6UFz)

116 If OJ wasn't a "makeup verdict" why was the Left so fucking elated about it?

And don't tell me they weren't. I was in a room full of hundreds of them and they cheered like they'd won the super bowl. Disclgraceful commie shitstains.

I thought I was on another planet. But only because back then I was too young and dumb to understand what the Left was.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (RQM8P)

117 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

not a crime

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (CIS44)

118 A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

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This is the juror I heard.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (JeYYB)

119 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?
Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Bergdorf Goodman. That's where they be rapin' errybody!

Posted by: Hide your kids, hide your wife! at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (Wc83a)

120 not a crime
Posted by: BruceWayne

Are you telling me the news is wrong, sir? I shannot believe it!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (PHukT)

121 The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania.

.. that's not really how Cosby "got off".
It seemed that a previous DA had made an offer to Cosby to testify in a civil suit, which in turn the DZ would not prosecute Cosby criminally. Cosby did testify.
The next DA just ignored the "deal" and prosecuted Cosby anyway. Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the "deal" was still in force, so there was no conviction.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

122 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

Being Trump
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (Akjoo)
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Being the main source of TDS to so many coastal elites.

They hate that.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (OaZlZ)

123 They are more so pointing out the courts in New York are the most corrupt in our nation...
Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 02:27 PM (33Ta2)

Hey, hey, hey! What are we, chopped liver?

-- DC courts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (IUd0M)

124 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

He once drank straight from an orange juice bottle then put it back in the fridge.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (RQM8P)

125 They had to make him duh Devil, because the Women involved will NEVER admit to any culpability via their behavior.

None of this was a secret. Hollywood KNEW what he was doing, and 'some' would pay that price, for a foot in the door.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Harvey being Harvey, I do suspect he sexually assaulted some of them because he got used to getting what he wanted. Just because some floozy actresses climbed into bed with him willingly does not mean all of them did so.

His pursuit of one actress in France for the Cannes Festival (Mira Sorvino maybe) was particularly appalling and he blackballed her in the industry when she would not give into the bastard.

That is both a civil and criminal matter.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (/AKWf)

126 117 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

not a crime
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (CIS44)

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Right.

I seriously don't know what he's on trial for. Something about hush money, but didn't what's her name write a letter stating their affair never happened? I don't get it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (JeYYB)

127 118 A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)


I thought reginald denny paid the price for that sin?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (PHukT)

128 If OJ wasn't a "makeup verdict" why was the Left so fucking elated about it?

And don't tell me they weren't. I was in a room full of hundreds of them and they cheered like they'd won the super bowl. Disclgraceful commie shitstains.

I thought I was on another planet. But only because back then I was too young and dumb to understand what the Left was.
Posted by: ... at

I was in class at a school that was about 50/50 white/black we watched the verdict come in. half the class jumped up and cheered, half groaned and rolled their eyes. I'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to who did what.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (CIS44)

129 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

not a crime
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (CIS44)

In Soviet Amerika, crime commits you.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (RQM8P)

130 Weinstein's ex-wife Georgina Chapman is gorgeous. It's amazing what type of woman an ugly man can get if he's loaded and connected. She runs a fashion line now and maybe needed his $$ and connections to get that off the ground.
Posted by: Cheri at April

Marchesa was part of the whole kerfuffle. Everyone was wearing it on the red carpet, because Weinstein told them they had to do so. It tanked with Weinstein. She divorced him and friend to come back. They still exist, but you don’t see it worn like you used to.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (ZdaMQ)

131 Oprah sure liked herself some Weinstein.

She liked a lot of sickos.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:29 PM (JeYYB)

And now she's a billionaire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (IUd0M)

132 "Sex becomes a mechanical business deal and both parties know what they are. Can't be good for one's morale, on either side."


Acknowledged. I personally can't view sex through that lens. Too much of a romantic.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (pgwxJ)

133 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain coo in Minnesota

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (FQmDC)

134 Okay - Trump was convicted of defamation on FAR less evidence that presented in the Harvey Weinstein trial.

Not only that, but he was convicted of "defamation" by saying he didn't sexually assault E. Jean Carroll. yes, by defending himself against the allegations he "defamed" her. Then he was told to pay, what $5 million, in damages.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (nLFEI)

135 I thought I was on another planet. But only because back then I was too young and dumb to understand what the Left was.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:34 PM (RQM8P)

I was in the Navy in San Diego at the time. They put us on alert, and restricted us to base the day of the verdict.

We were on call for Riot Duty.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xaFKb)

136 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain coo in Minnesota
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (FQmDC)


Yeah, you can still get a semblance of justice... if you have enough money for bunches of appeals.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (N1tpc)

137 And now she's a billionaire.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (IUd0M)

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D'OH!

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (JeYYB)

138 This is the juror I heard.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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The KeyStone kops made it easy for them to say that.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (lCWOD)

139 I was in class at a school that was about 50/50 white/black we watched the verdict come in. half the class jumped up and cheered, half groaned and rolled their eyes. I'll allow you to draw your own conclusions as to who did what.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (CIS44)

Heard that from others but my room was full of rich white privileged leftist shitstains on the ass of humanity.

Was your room fully leftarded or just.... half of them

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (RQM8P)

140 124

He once drank straight from an orange juice bottle then put it back in the fridge.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:36

It was milk. But not just any milk. Chocolate milk. And we all know why!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

141 Then he was told to pay, what $5 million, in damages.
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (nLFEI)

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I thought it was something insane like 250,000,000.

I don't know shit.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (JeYYB)

142 The news tells me it was hush money payments to porn stars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
________________

A patent lawyer where I used to work was fired for incompetence (God knows, justifiably), but she was connected, and the company paid her hush money just because they didn't want the bad publicity.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (YqDXo)

143 Weinstein wasn't guilty of anything more than the typical casting-couch sleazy business that happens in producers and directors' rooms every day across the country. The NYC trial was indeed a railroading to appease MeToo, and the appeals court rightfully threw it out.

Harv is a fucking pig, but that's not illegal. And there was no shortage of THOTs eager to fuck him for career advancement.

The California case wasn't much better. His THOT accuser accused him of raping her when she inexplicably went to his hotel room for an "interview" (or some similar obviously red-flag situation). Then -- as she admitted -- she began a consensual relationship with him. Yes, that was her testimony: she started dating her rapist. Then, she claims, he raped her again!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (iFTx/)

144 @103

>>They are relying on 2015-2016 testimony which is past the statute of limitations for the misdemeanors of false business reporting based on payments to Stormy, McDougal,


The documents in question are not forward facing documents that would be proffered in an audit or any sort of financial accounting or filing, they were essentially inter-business diaries.

The only reason anyone knows about them is because of Michael Cohen.

So ipso facto these entries could not have been made to cover for a crime BECAUESE NO ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN THE F***KING ENTRIES!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (JIdXK)

145 The prohibition of "Prior Bad Acts" evidence is ironic. Often the best evidence that the defendant is guilty of the currently alleged conduct is that he has a history of such conduct. Yet the jury is generally not allowed to hear about it. It's one of the many paradoxes of jurisprudence.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Criminal has a higher standard on character evidence that does civil.

Actually has a logical basis to it if you view each trial as only pertaining to the facts of the case at hand rather than whether the person is a 'bad' un that needs to be locked up whether or not they did the crime at hand.

Nothing pisses an old lag off more than being accused and convicted of a crime they did not commit. Many of them will more or less admit sotte voce that they got what was coming in just convictions but they cannot stand being convicted for things they did not do.

For a long time, that is how sloppy cops solved crimes--they go to the persons likely to have committed the crimes on past behavior and if necessary build a case to frame them because the cops reason even if they did not do it, they should be locked up to prevent the inevitable future crimes from the perp

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (/AKWf)

146 124 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)
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Two. Scoops.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (OaZlZ)

147 This is always the pitch: We have to break the rules to convict this defendant for political reasons.
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Facts vs. feelz

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (Be/+i)

148 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain cop in Minnesota
Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:38 PM (FQmDC)
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This.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (YqDXo)

149 Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Truist, Charles Schwab, HSBC, MUFG, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union have all been asked to turn over documents and communications with FinCEN and the FBI

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

150 I told him, more than once. If you want your freedom you dispatch the witnesses and plaintiffs. But, he had to do it the hard way.

Say, is that a Boy's School over there? Be back later.

Posted by: Kevin Spacey at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (dIske)

151 lol, my husband was compared to a young James Dean when I married him.
I hope I'm not judged for marrying him by his looks now.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (F3Dlr)

152 Right.

I seriously don't know what he's on trial for. Something about hush money, but didn't what's her name write a letter stating their affair never happened? I don't get it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at

In essence, his lawyer recorded the payment in a ledger 'incorrectly' (this is debatable), all the counts stem from everytime this ledger was altered or amended or emailed etc. this happened in 2017 the statute of limitations ran out in 2019. so they strapped it to another crime to claim it was in furtherance to up it to a felony. that crime was FINALLY outed this week. a state law about running for state office (bragg was trying to claim it is a campaign finance violation)

he duped the voters cause they should have know, it was fraud (is braggs underlying claim) BUT the election was in 2016 this happened in 2017, the bootstrapped crime is a state election thing he was running for federal office. The FEC looked at it and said nope nothing illegal here. IF he had used campaign funds that would have been illegal.

That's the best I can sum it up. It's all beyond bullshit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (CIS44)

153 The documents in question are not forward facing documents that would be proffered in an audit or any sort of financial accounting or filing, they were essentially inter-business diaries.

The only reason anyone knows about them is because of Michael Cohen.

So ipso facto these entries could not have been made to cover for a crime BECAUESE NO ONE WOULD HAVE SEEN THE F***KING ENTRIES!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Yes, it is only a DIE prosecutor, Bragg that is willing to do so for fame and fortune. Cyrus Vance Jr retired instead of doing so.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:43 PM (/AKWf)

154 That's the best I can sum it up. It's all beyond bullshit.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Did a good job, better than I did about summing it up.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:43 PM (/AKWf)

155 Heard that from others but my room was full of rich white privileged leftist shitstains on the ass of humanity.

Was your room fully leftarded or just.... half of them
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024

hs so prly most not even politically aware.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:43 PM (CIS44)

156 I thought it was something insane like 250,000,000.

I don't know shit.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:40 PM (JeYYB)

Different case... one is for defending himself against a false rape charge.

Other is a made up charge for fraud that never existed and had no victim.

Not to be confused with the other 7 or so court cases going on right now....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (xaFKb)

157 Hey!!!!

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (RQM8P)

Hey, yourself. Hope all is well.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (i24o9)

158 Yeah, I'm a little emaciated these days

Posted by: James Dean at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (gKWVE)

159 119 Did the alleged rape occur in Manhattan?
Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:18 PM (rj6Yv)

Bergdorf Goodman. That's where they be rapin' errybody!
Posted by: Hide your kids, hide your wife! at April 25, 2024 02:35 PM (Wc83a)
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It was the exact plot of a Law & Order episode. The alleged rape in the episode was so similar -- practically identical -- to Crazy Carrol's bullshit story that there's no way it's a coincidence.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

160 12 Just in case you had doubts about there being two sets of laws....

Hopefully this means we'll get hot chicks in movies showing their tits again.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (xcxpd)

My eyes are up here...

Posted by: Sydney Sweeny at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (53oGX)

161 In essence, his lawyer recorded the payment in a ledger 'incorrectly' (this is debatable), all the counts stem from everytime this ledger was altered or amended or emailed etc. this happened in 2017 the statute of limitations ran out in 2019. so they strapped it to another crime to claim it was in furtherance to up it to a felony. that crime was FINALLY outed this week. a state law about running for state office (bragg was trying to claim it is a campaign finance violation)

he duped the voters cause they should have know, it was fraud (is braggs underlying claim) BUT the election was in 2016 this happened in 2017, the bootstrapped crime is a state election thing he was running for federal office. The FEC looked at it and said nope nothing illegal here. IF he had used campaign funds that would have been illegal.


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I had to read it twice. I don't think I'm confused I think I'm confounded.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (JeYYB)

162 149 Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Truist, Charles Schwab, HSBC, MUFG, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union have all been asked to turn over documents and communications with FinCEN and the FBI
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

Surprised TD Bank isn't on the list.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (N39Ws)

163 Weinstein wasn't guilty of anything more than the typical casting-couch sleazy business that happens in producers and directors' rooms every day across the country

Elric Blade
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LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

164 Weinstein had a long time consensual relationship with an Italian actress IIRC. She decided years after it was over that it really wasn’t consensual and he had raped her.

This is the quandary that juries are put in when deciding whether rape occurred between people who know each other and it’s a he said she said scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (MNhXM)

165 A Juror said (paraphrasing) this verdict was in response to Rodney King
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:33 PM (CIS44)

I wonder if that juror has even gone back and advocated for imprisoning all the members of the major media outlets for lying about Rodney King.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:46 PM (IUd0M)

166 How many successful actresses got their start due to servicing old Harv? Not like he is the only one either.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (FQmDC)

167 Yeah, I'm a little emaciated these days
Posted by: James Dean

News Alert - if you are 30yo most people think of you as half way between ripe and rotten.

This crap of looks makes you subject to ridicule/guilt will come back to haunt most, unless they die young and leave a good looking corpse.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (F3Dlr)

168 Weinstein is a disgusting POS, but they mis-handled his first trial

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (Akjoo)

169 Hey, yourself. Hope all is well.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:44 PM (i24o9)

We're muttering through.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (RQM8P)

170 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

Accused years later. The Duke LaCrosse team was accused of violent gang rape too.


Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (MNhXM)

171 This is the quandary that juries are put in when deciding whether rape occurred between people who know each other and it’s a he said she said scenario.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (MNhXM)

Dat thit is thupid

Posted by: Mike Tythn at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (NtVYv)

172 It was the exact plot of a Law & Order episode. The alleged rape in the episode was so similar -- practically identical -- to Crazy Carrol's bullshit story that there's no way it's a coincidence.
Posted by: Elric Blade a

except she didnt want to press charges cause she didnt want to be racist and that young man must have been a victim too

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (CIS44)

173 I thought reginald denny paid the price for that sin?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 02:37 PM (PHukT)

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"He was like one one-billionth of the problem, h8r! Reparations be costly, yo ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (yZP7y)

174 Ficus Fucker beat the rap.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (R4t5M)

175 148 Right, he is a scumbag but he did not get a fair trial. You know who else got the most unfair trial I have ever witnessed and is not even being given an appeal? A certain cop in Minnesota
Posted by: steevy
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You should have been here during the trial. Many were ready to hang him for raping poor little innocent girls.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:48 PM (lCWOD)

176 124 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:32 PM (JeYYB)

Beating Hillary.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (RQM8P)

177 163 Weinstein wasn't guilty of anything more than the typical casting-couch sleazy business that happens in producers and directors' rooms every day across the country

Elric Blade
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LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)
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Link? He was not convicted of any of such conduct and I don't think it was even presented at a trial. I'm sure a lot of women accused him of a lot of things once he became a target and money was being paid.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

178 Harvey being Harvey, I do suspect he sexually assaulted some of them because he got used to getting what he wanted. Just because some floozy actresses climbed into bed with him willingly does not mean all of them did so.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:36 PM (/AKWf)

Maybe. But you cannot convict someone over something you suspect.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (IUd0M)

179 Flounder!

How are the little flounders? Is baseball season in full swing?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (9w3M/)

180 OT, but worth a view.

How many WWII vets are alive today (by country)

https://tinyurl.com/yt4w6z6f

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CsUN+)

181 I wonder if that juror has even gone back and advocated for imprisoning all the members of the major media outlets for lying about Rodney King.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at

you know the answer to that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (CIS44)

182 There's a rule that you can't put on evidence of prior "bad acts" to prove that a defendant committed the specific bad acts he's being tried for in the present case.
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Eh, that rule applies whenever we feel like it. Feel free to do this to Trump.

Posted by: NY Court of Appeals at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (4hHmM)

183
LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

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Did she make a police report on the spot or did this come out decades later. I don't disbelieve it, he probably exploded due to his inner rage of being so ugly.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (F6UFz)

184 Flounder- I hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (R4t5M)

185 This is the quandary that juries are put in when deciding whether rape occurred between people who know each other and it’s a he said she said scenario.
Posted by: polynikes
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That is why he said she said still go to trial. Rape of spouse used to be absolutely barred from criminal action by states. The idea at the time was that consent was rendered when the marriage occurred and the the court should not be involved in domestic spats.

Even until recently legally speaking, spouses had an absolute bar on being able to testify against their spouse. This made criminal charges of domestic abuse particularly difficult as you had to have third party witnesses willing to testify instead of teh direct victim.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (/AKWf)

186 180 OT, but worth a view.

How many WWII vets are alive today (by country)

https://tinyurl.com/yt4w6z6f
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (CsUN+)

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Gulp.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (JeYYB)

187 But hold Trump.on minor charges long after the fact

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (mb6GH)

188 My gulp was my inarticulate way of saying, that was an great picture.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (JeYYB)

189 Weinstein is a repulsive piece of shit. But. He's representative of Hollywood. They can keep him. And they can make excuses for him. And they can forgive him and celebrate him and give him another award.

Good for them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 02:51 PM (9w3M/)

190 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)
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Yeah, but there might have been a safeword she wasn't saying.

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (OaZlZ)

191 I copied the wrong frame.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (lCWOD)

192 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.

Posted by: ... at

So was Trevor Bauer and the woman is a lying sack of shit now indicted for fraud

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (CIS44)

193 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)

194 How are the little flounders? Is baseball season in full swing?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 25, 2024 02:49 PM (9w3M/)

Hell yeah.

L2 got two hits, 1 double, 1 single with error, 2 RBI, and lots of heads up play as pitcher and catcher. First win, 7-6 in 6. Out defense was on fire, with a deep CF catch by a weaker kid who I practiced a bit more with on catching just before game.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (i24o9)

195 Accused years later. The Duke LaCrosse team was accused of violent gang rape too.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:47 PM (MNhXM)

They all knew what he was. I certainly don't "believe all women" but it was more credible than that bs.

My point is I'm not comfortable with the assumption that Weinstein was just a boys will be boys sexist pig trading favors, nor defending a POS bigtime Democrat obvious scumbag like that just to pwn libs.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (RQM8P)

196 So was Trevor Bauer and the woman is a lying sack of shit now indicted for fraud

Well I have no doubt he choked her....when she said 'choke me daddy" as they were banging

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (FQmDC)

197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (JeYYB)

198 193 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)

Tom Brady still the best skit SNL ever did and ever will do.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (MNhXM)

199 170 LMAO he was accused of punching a woman in the face and spitting on her while raping her in his hotel room. Let's please relax.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:45 PM (RQM8P)

_________________________

Was that wrong? Because, I gotta tell ya, no one said anything to me.

Posted by: CosssssSTANZA at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (dIske)

200 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)

Or Kevin Spacey?

Sometimes a vicious disgusting criminal pig is just a vicious disgusting criminal pig.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (RQM8P)

201 Maybe. But you cannot convict someone over something you suspect.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Nope. did not say that. What I said, is that some commenters are going toward the position if the lady shows up at Harvey's hotel room it is to be considered consent for what Harvey does to them or to the poor ficus tree in front of them.

That is an injustice just as arguing that whores cannot be raped.

FWIW, I can go into song and verse about FRE 404 if you like and its corollaries that apply to witnesses.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/AKWf)

202 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit

She still is, she was supporting him throughout the trials and such. She was also just photographed wearing a mask so........

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (CIS44)

203 We all have our kinks but it was consensual
Vince McMahon

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (FQmDC)

204 Facts vs. feelz
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 02:41 PM (Be/+i)

But in this case, the feelz ARE the facts!!

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (gtY/l)

205 Flounder- I hope you are feeling better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (R4t5M)

Thanks for asking. I went off one of the meds, metoprolol (without Dr. instruction), got my energy back, and nearly back to pre-weight.

Feeling good and looking the part. I hope all is well with you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (i24o9)

206 104 Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
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Sure.
In 2016, Stormy Daniels let it be known that she was going to allege her and Trump had an affair.
Micheal Cohen, Trump's lawyer at the time, got wind of it and made her a deal: Cash to keep quite.
National Enquirer got wind of that deal with Stormy.
Cohen then paid them to spike it.
Cohen billed Trump for "legal services."
Trump, Inc entered the payment in the business ledger as same, "legal services."
At some point, certainly after Trump, Inc paid, but definitely not before, Trump may have been told, "those payments were to Stormy and the Enquirer."

This was felony fraud on the poor people of New York state _who _voted_FOR_Trump_ as those ledger entries were 1) indirect campaign expenditures that 2) should have been reported on FEC reports (an illegal campaign expenditure) that 3) deceived those Trump voters into voting for him had they but known he paid Stormy and the Enquirer.

These alleged false entries are a misdemeanor punishable only by a fine. And the statute of limitations has passed.
Unless they are done to further a second crime. Which has a longer limitations.
Except ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (yikga)

207 202 She still is, she was supporting him throughout the trials and such. She was also just photographed wearing a mask so........
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (CIS44)

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Weinstein got her her Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook. She went nuclear during the Fappening against people who viewed her pictures, calling it sexual assault, and never said a word against Weinstein. When Weinstein blew up, she quietly announced a break from acting for a year when she was going to get in touch with her inner activist.

Yeah, she did things with Weinstein.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (GBKbO)

208 197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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And those that declined to have anything to do with Harvey's sexual activities were blackballed from the industry like Mira Sorvino.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (/AKWf)

209 I wonder if that juror has even gone back and advocated for imprisoning all the members of the major media outlets for lying about Rodney King.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:46 PM (IUd0M)

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There should be monuments in every blue shithole to Rodney King and St. George Floyd french-kissing a oa Brezhnev and Honecker in that famous Berlin Wall graffiti art.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (f1PpG)

210 197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:54 PM (JeYYB)

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You have to wonder about Anne Hathaway. I know at least one actress got blacklisted for turning him away. What's his name's daughter.... ah, Mira Sorvino.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (dIske)

211 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/AKWf)

No that’s your incorrect opinion of what posters are saying.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (MNhXM)

212 Can a ficus give consent ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (+x87d)

213 My point is I'm not comfortable with the assumption that Weinstein was just a boys will be boys sexist pig trading favors, nor defending a POS bigtime Democrat obvious scumbag like that just to pwn libs.
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:53 PM (RQM8P)

Yeah, my only position is that his trial was not impartial by the rules that our ruling class have set.

He might very well be guilty of everything he's accused of- he is a pretty awful person and I'm pretty sure he's guilty of a lot.

However, in a just country, you still have to prove it under the rule of law and the prosecutors/judges bent the law because getting him was more important.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (N1tpc)

214 Yeah, she did things with Weinstein.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And apparently Meryl Streep along with a few other female Oscar winners.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (/AKWf)

215 208 197 Interesting to think many a young lass got their careers off the ground by blowing Weinstein. Wasn't Jennifer Laurence a fan of his? Just thinking out loud.

And others had to blow him and got nothing.

Posted by: Seems Legit
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And those that declined to have anything to do with Harvey's sexual activities were blackballed from the industry like Mira Sorvino.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (/AKWf)

The pictures of Emma Watson out and about with Harvey Weinstein were classic.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (N39Ws)

216 I can go into song and verse about FRE 404 if you like and its corollaries that apply to witnesses.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:55 PM (/AKWf)

Please, no.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (i24o9)

217 No consent needed from plants or animals
Cenk Uyghur

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (FQmDC)

218 Sigh. Doing some training and the manual says to "click the ENTER key."

Not press. Not "strike" (old school now, my preference). No, I should "click" the key.

Copy-editing doesn't happen anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (HnUIn)

219 Reporter- "What's it like seeing so many Republicans and Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you?" Construction Worker, ""No- not at all- it's turning now" Reporter- "What's your message to Joe Biden?" Construction Worker- "F*&^% You!!"+

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1783517791317864653

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (lCWOD)

220 Oh, come now. Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo raped 'oo...

Posted by: Monty Python at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (jAber)

221 Yeah, she did things with Weinstein.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (GBKbO)
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To quote a favorite Python sketch: What kind of things?

Posted by: Axeman at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (OaZlZ)

222 This busty brunette in a dress never tried to break into acting, so she's never met Harvey Weinstein:
http://tiny.cc/4pxuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

223 The Ficus was an FBI plant.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (lf83v)

224 If Weinstein looked like Paul Newman or Brad Pitt or Zac Efron the sentiment might be much different.
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 02:52 PM (F3Dlr)
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True, but good-looking guys were also accused of similar conduct. James Franco had a bunch of accusers. Even Zac Efron himself was accused of abusive conduct, although I don't think it was sexual.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

225 219 Reporter- "What's it like seeing so many Republicans and Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you?" Construction Worker, ""No- not at all- it's turning now" Reporter- "What's your message to Joe Biden?" Construction Worker- "F*&^% You!!"+

https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1783517791317864653
Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (lCWOD)

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"But when we get news reports of trucks full of ballots showing up to counting stations, we'll just yell at the TV and then complain that it wouldn't have happened with a better candidate."
-Same Construction Worker

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

226 No that’s your incorrect opinion of what posters are saying.
Posted by: polynikes
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Opinions vary so you cannot have an incorrect opinion by definition if you want to be pedantic.

That is for the lefties.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (/AKWf)

227 218 Sigh. Doing some training and the manual says to "click the ENTER key."

Not press. Not "strike" (old school now, my preference). No, I should "click" the key.

Copy-editing doesn't happen anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (HnUIn)

Or "Mash" the button. Popular down south.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (N39Ws)

228 Did she make a police report on the spot or did this come out decades later. I don't disbelieve it, he probably exploded due to his inner rage of being so ugly.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:50 PM (F6UFz)

I did say "accused". My point is jumping up to say he's no different than all those casting couch producers is rather a stretch. Even on the surface.

I'm not gonna white knight for a very obvious POS like him.

Pretty obvious he would eat you or me for dinner, literally, and don't forget the Left idolized and promoted the skunk while knowing everything he was, then dropped him when it got too convenient. He'd still be their scumbag hero had they not needed the whole Force is Female mindfuck bullshit in 2016.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (RQM8P)

229 On the same day that Susan Sarandon called the Hamas rapes on October 7th a “myth?”

lol. Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (Hkcdp)

230 Sometimes a vicious disgusting criminal pig is just a vicious disgusting criminal pig.
Posted by: ...

Agreed, as long as he/she is convicted of being a vicious disgusting pig and NOT on physical appearance or social shunning when convenient after a supportive group movement that absolves the victim's of prior active participation.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (F3Dlr)

231 I not saying anything alleged didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that he's scum and he did the things these women claim. My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy, a few minutes from a major cardiac emergency. Where they afraid of others too and if so why aren't the gang of people betting this slimeball also getting tossed in jail?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:01 PM (Y6IkP)

232 Opinions vary so you cannot have an incorrect opinion by definition if you want to be pedantic.

That is for the lefties.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:00 PM (/AKWf)

It’s my opinion you are incorrect so I said so.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:02 PM (MNhXM)

233 It’s my opinion you are incorrect so I said so.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:02 PM (MNhXM)

It's ok. You're entitled to your wrong opinion.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 03:02 PM (N1tpc)

234 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

“What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. “They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

.. say what ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

235 You have to wonder about Anne Hathaway.
Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 02:57 PM (dIske)

Wonder what? She has been a reasonably successful actress. She became over-the-top screechy about gay marriage, and anti-Catholic, when her brother came out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (IUd0M)

236 Continued

Bragg has nowhere alleged or stated what the second crime is.
And NY law specifically excludes federal campaigns and federal campaign law violations as the "second crime."

But the judge is going to allow the jury to infer the commission of a second crime ... because the first crime-- the ledger entry-- was a crime and the only reason Trump committed that crime was to obviously commit a second crime.

It's absolutely insane that anyone thinks this has any legal merit.

It's 100% a political prosecution that proudly, defiantly stomps on all law, rules, regulations and norms.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (yikga)

237 My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:01 PM (Y6IkP

The hotel room accuser I alluded to was 98 pounds.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RQM8P)

238 And those that declined to have anything to do with Harvey's sexual activities were blackballed from the industry like Mira Sorvino.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (/AKWf)

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I want to make it clear, I support Sorvino. She said no and props to her.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (JeYYB)

239 Somehow I think the fat fuck could take her.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RQM8P)

240 On the same day that Susan Sarandon called the Hamas rapes on October 7th a “myth?”
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If only tits were brains. Wouldn't that be something?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (YqDXo)

241 OK I spell like crap but it was "abetting" and autocucumber screwed me. It is always dumbing down my spelling changing real words to other smaller words.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Y6IkP)

242
Can anyone here succinctly tell me what Trump is on Trial for in New York?
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For beating Hillary

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (63Dwl)

243 Pretty sure “click” is the preferred verb on the MS manual of style, but then you just say “Click Enter” (no t Enter button), Joe Mannix…

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Hkcdp)

244 I not saying anything alleged didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that he's scum and he did the things these women claim. My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy, a few minutes from a major cardiac emergency. Where they afraid of others too and if so why aren't the gang of people betting this slimeball also getting tossed in jail?
Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 03:01 PM (Y6IkP)
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Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

This is extremely sleazy. It might even be criminal - it is coercion at worst and quid pro quo at best. But it probably isn't assault or forcible rape.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)

245 Well she was reasonably hot in the 80s but still stark raving crazy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (PXvVL)

246 I think I gotta take a break from politics.

Back to gambling, drugs and hookers for me.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (RQM8P)

247 3) deceived those Trump voters into voting for him had they but known he paid Stormy and the Enquirer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 02:56 PM (yikga)

Better? Under that standard ANY Politician who lied to get elected, should be prosecuted for fraud?

Biden? Hillary and Russian Collusion? need I go on...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (xaFKb)

248 Hollywood is a special place. It's a place for disillusion and illusion.
It unlike those places in Mexico in that it doesn't have a wall around it. Sometimes, although rarely, and innocent stray meanders in.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (lCWOD)

249 Beware the slippery slope! If we start overturning convictions just for the prosecution being, umm, 'creative', where will it all end?

Posted by: FBI at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (710OU)

250 Pretty sure “click” is the preferred verb on the MS manual of style, but then you just say “Click Enter” (no t Enter button), Joe Mannix…
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Hkcdp)
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Microsoft is wrong. Keyboard keys are not "clicked." You "press" them or "strike" them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)

251 247 Biden? Hillary and Russian Collusion? need I go on...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (xaFKb)

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Russian collusion is true! Eric Trump had a 15 minute meeting with a Russian! And the Alfa Bank ping!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

252 Judge Madeline Singas should be removed as a judge.
1. She gives emotional reasons why the guy should remain convicted, not judge material.
2. Sh makes the case of: to get some 'justice' for women, we have this defendant, Let's find him guilty for the sake of putting the blame on someone for all past inequities.

Posted by: Ciampino - Somebody served at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (qfLjt)

253 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

254 234 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

“What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. “They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

.. say what ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

Quick, somebody find Sheila Jackson Lee for her expert opinion!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (PiwSw)

255
NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

To develop photograhic film.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)

256 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

George Bush is a surprise

Posted by: Mike Tythn at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

257 Odd, AOS has in the last few days dropped from first to come up on Google search(typing exact blog name in) to 20+ down in results. Wiki page on AOS is now top.

Posted by: KarlHungus at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (MhCcX)

258 To develop photograhic film.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)
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It's expensive to do for a single roll, but if you're doing it in bulk, it probably makes sense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

259 You have to go to the dark side of the moon to get at the long-ago deposited Transformers tech, duh!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (Hkcdp)

260 If a prostitute has sex with an ugly man, it's not his fault if she thinks the pay was too low.

And that's all #metoo was:
Whores who wanted to renegotiate how much the john paid.

You don't get your chastity back because you later feel dirty for what you did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (yikga)

261 “What do you think the Chinese are trying to get at, at the back side of the moon?” Rep. David Trone (D-MD) asked NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a congressional hearing last week. “They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side which is always in dark. Uh, we’re not planning to go there,” he said.

.. say what ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

Well... Duh... that's where the Space Nazi base led by the Sarah Palin look alike is!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (xaFKb)

262 258 To develop photograhic film.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (63Dwl)
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It's expensive to do for a single roll, but if you're doing it in bulk, it probably makes sense.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

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How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

263 How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Surplus EV batteries?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (HnUIn)

264 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

They heard there's a killer Laser Floyd show playing there.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (OguvZ)

265 George Bush is a surprise
Posted by: Mike Tythn at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (NtVYv)

Not a big air travel guy but I thought Southwest was only at Hobby anyway.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (MNhXM)

266 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

In hindsight it should’ve been obvious when she suddenly was the lead in Oscar bait well after you’d have been expected her to be doing guest roles on NCIS or Law and Order.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (8n+VG)

267 257 Odd, AOS has in the last few days dropped from first to come up on Google search(typing exact blog name in) to 20+ down in results. Wiki page on AOS is now top.
Posted by: KarlHungus at April 25, 2024 03:07 PM (MhCcX)

Check bounced?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (xaFKb)

268 Weinstein's a disgusting pig-man, for sure... But at the end of the day, this was a stable of whores claiming their pimp raped them. Tough case to make under any evidentiary rules.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (0FoWg)

269 263 How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Surplus EV batteries?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (HnUIn)

======

Disposing of them is gonna be hard. Just throwing them onto the moon's surface would be pollution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

270 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’


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And people wonder why there are NASA/Moon landing conspiracies.

Hey, remember when NASA's main push was something about Muslims and their contribution to something.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:09 PM (JeYYB)

271 Supreme Court justices in Trump case lean toward some level of immunity

Lets face it, Congress has a Speech and Debate Clause to protect them, but if the POTUS doesn't have some level of immunity, then how do judges/prosecutors get any immunity ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (RHGPo)

272 Agreed, Joe Mannix, but if they set the industry standard then proper grammar loses.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (Hkcdp)

273 Odd, AOS has in the last few days dropped from first to come up on Google search(typing exact blog name in) to 20+ down in results. Wiki page on AOS is now top.

Pixy had a relevant link this morning. Google put the head of ad sales in charge of search in 2019 and it’s been all downhill.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (8n+VG)

274 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

Another Pete Buttgig and the Biden economy success story.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

275 270 Hey, remember when NASA's main push was something about Muslims and their contribution to something.

.. the latest crew for a Mars mission (simulation) contains no white guys

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (RHGPo)

276 but if they set the industry standard then proper grammar loses.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (Hkcdp)
++++
It's still proper grammar, I suppose. I just hate it LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (HnUIn)

277 231 I not saying anything alleged didn't happen. I'm of the opinion that he's scum and he did the things these women claim. My question is how'd he overpower them? He continuously looks weazy, a few minutes from a major cardiac emergency. Where they afraid of others too and if so why aren't the gang of people betting this slimeball also getting tossed in jail?
Posted by: banana Dream
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Female versus male strength, even of an old out of shape pervert like Weinstein is an issue. Plus there is the whole power thing that often happens.

You see similar issues with other powerful men and their sexual activities like Matt Lauer and his notorious button locking the office. Going down depravity road does not sate the hunger but increases it to reach the next level.

For a lot of people, power over others is their aphrodisiac. Read an interview once where a senator was asked why he continued as a senator when he could make millions outside of Congress--the senator gave a demonstration of how he got to make his staff hop on his orders and then leaned back and told the reporter that is why he continued in office.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (/AKWf)

278 Syracuse Hancock International Airport
_______

How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)

279 Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

This is extremely sleazy. It might even be criminal - it is coercion at worst and quid pro quo at best. But it probably isn't assault or forcible rape.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)
_________

That is how many industries work. Not just Hollywood. Wherever there is money and power and men in positions to wield it, you will find women willing -- eager, even -- to assume their own position for it. Finance, management, education, marketing, etc -- and above all, politics. From yacht girls to starlets to ambitious secretaries to college professor "assistants," sex is still a very big medium of exchange.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

280 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

Another Pete Buttgig and the Biden economy success story.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

It's a first step towards Biden's zero emissions transportation sector.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (OguvZ)

281 Pixy had a relevant link this morning. Google put the head of ad sales in charge of search in 2019 and it’s been all downhill.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Yes and before that that particular guy ran Yahoo search into the ground until the tech was sold off for a pittance to Microsoft.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (/AKWf)

282 Lets face it, Congress has a Speech and Debate Clause to protect them, but if the POTUS doesn't have some level of immunity, then how do judges/prosecutors get any immunity ?
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 03:10 PM (RHGPo)

That's what happens when you put lawyers in charge of the law.

Everyone other than lawyers get the shaft.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (dGCAG)

283 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at...

Not enough people responding to their email barrage of $49 flights (to places you would never go).

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (WWBBV)

284
George Bush is a surprise
Posted by: Mike Tythn

Won't get fooled again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (63Dwl)

285 Rochester, NY has a nice airport. I was surprised.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (R4t5M)

286 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’
__________

This is the same guy who noted that the Sun is too hot for us to fly there, so we should fly there at night.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (lf83v)

287 The same people who were cheering people getting fired for not taking the shot, not wearing masks want us to feel bad that actors and actresses had to suck some D to keep their jobs ... or they might get fired.

I have no sympathy for them

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (yikga)

288 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

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"Cuz dat's where the Black Martians are who planted da American Flag, h8r!"

-- Mad Maxine Waters

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (EDbIo)

289 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Pikesville principal Eric Eiswert was caught on tape going on a racist rant.

People called for his life to be destroyed.

Turns out, the entire recording was fake and generated (using AI) by Dazhon Darien, the school's former athletic director.

https://tinyurl.com/3zy4vh2h

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

290 Oh, forgot about the space Nazi settlement! And a T-Rex ,too, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (Hkcdp)

291 That is how many industries work. Not just Hollywood. Wherever there is money and power and men in positions to wield it, you will find women willing -- eager, even -- to assume their own position for it. Finance, management, education, marketing, etc -- and above all, politics. From yacht girls to starlets to ambitious secretaries to college professor "assistants," sex is still a very big medium of exchange.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (iFTx/)
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Once you have lots of money, I imagine it becomes even more desirable. Getting more money is pointless. Getting to fuck a startlet - or worse, getting to fuck a sex slave - is probably a much bigger thrill.

The small-time landlord having trouble making ends meet probably won't accept a hummer from the cute 20-something in lieu of the rent. The big-time landlord with plenty of margin might.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (HnUIn)

292 279 Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

-------

LOL

I think all celebrities are whores. This aligns with my beliefs therefore it is true.

No, really, I think all celebrities are whores.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (JeYYB)

293 How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)
===

Weekly flight to Toronto

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

294 You don't get your chastity back because you later feel dirty for what you did.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Right to the point. A welcome masthead to remind the masses.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (F3Dlr)

295 262
How will they power their red lights if they can't get solar?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)
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A very long extension cord to the lightside?

Posted by: Ciampino - did someone remember an adaptor for 3-pin plugs? at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (qfLjt)

296 Everyone other than lawyers get the shaft.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (dGCAG)
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I'm generous that way.

Posted by: Harvey Weinscum at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (OaZlZ)

297 How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)
++++
When I used to fly through Syracuse many moons ago, there were short-hop flights to Canada and longer-hop flights to the Caribbean (Jamaica, I think, but it's been a long time).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (HnUIn)

298 278 Syracuse Hancock International Airport
_______

How is Syracuse an international airport?

They have ZERO international destinations.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 03:11 PM (lf83v)

Perhaps it should be renamed Syracuse Hancock International Transport.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (AwbAS)

299 Is it 5:30 yet? I want a drink.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (lCWOD)

300 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2024 03:15 PM (2UnvF)

301
Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

He'll always be the King of Coffee.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (63Dwl)

302 NASA administrator has ‘no idea’ why China is going to far side of moon that is ‘always in dark’

It's so they don't have to squint, Party of Science guy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (WWBBV)

303 It's a first step towards Biden's zero emissions transportation sector.
Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 03:12 PM (OguvZ)

It'll be like during Covid, when all the fish returned to the water, and sheep were running through the streets.

This time, the birds and bats will return to the skies. What a world that would be.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)

304 279 Nobody likes to talk about how Hollywood works. Every person you see on screen - there are probably exceptions, but damn few of them - is a whore. Now did they go into the effort with their eyes open and the full knowledge that success would depend on being a whore? I don't know. Probably not all of them, surely some of them.

When push came to shove and it was time to get bedded by Weinstein or one of his countless analogues, they decided to lay back and think of England.

This is extremely sleazy. It might even be criminal - it is coercion at worst and quid pro quo at best. But it probably isn't assault or forcible rape.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 03:05 PM (HnUIn)
_________

++++

The ironic thing is that Hollywood has been making pictures about this very subject since they began. Many movies of the 30's depict a young good-looking starlet being propositioned by a wealthy old geezer and what actions were taken, either to succumb to the good life at a high price, or go with her morals and upbringing. A lot of them with this theme.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 03:18 PM (F6UFz)

305 -------

LOL

I think all celebrities are whores. This aligns with my beliefs therefore it is true.

No, really, I think all celebrities are whores.
Posted by: Seems Legit
---------------------------------

They are broke in before they finish their first year of extracurricular drama classes.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (lCWOD)

306 I remember they tried to prosecute Don Jr for accepting an Outlook meeting. Then there's Hunter...

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (RQM8P)

307 Hollywood has been all about sexual coercion probably since its inception. Judy Garland was a later example, notoriously so. And by that time Hollywood was 40 years old, at least.
Today a lot of pressure is being shown from homosexuals in high power. They only want to hire other homosexuals. And they want you to prove it, on themselves.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 03:19 PM (MeG8a)

308 94 Ficus was great on the Quark show.

God, that's obscure.
You, me and my dad must have been the only ones to watch that show.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 25, 2024 03:20 PM (roH4R)

309 After Mira Sorvino turned down Harvey I think her dad Paul Sorvino threatened Ol' Harv.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (iNp3L)

310 80 Ol' Harve was a well-known POS when Meryl Streep led Hollywood in a standing ovation for him.

I cry no tears at this.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 02:28 PM (KbCG3)

Let's not forget about Robert DeNiro. Many of Weinsteins assignations started with a meal at Tribeca Grill, followed by a trip up to the Miramax HQ. Both were located in a building that DeNiro owned - and still owns. He was an owner of Tribeca Grill as well. He knew, and was OK with the whole thing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (AwbAS)

311 I did too.

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2024 03:23 PM (PXvVL)

312 After Mira Sorvino turned down Harvey I think her dad Paul Sorvino threatened Ol' Harv.
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 25, 2024 03:22 PM (iNp3L)

I imagine Paul had some connects of his own...

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 03:25 PM (CIS44)

313 I think all celebrities are whores.
Posted by: Seems Legit

I think many ordinary people are, too, they just hide behind nicer labels.

Many do this, in exchange for that.
Submit if their want is meet.
Value prizes in exchange for their attention.
Need validation even if it's from strangers.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 03:28 PM (F3Dlr)

314 283 Southwest Airlines to fire 2,000 employees and close operations at...

Not enough people responding to their email barrage of $49 flights (to places you would never go).
Posted by: t-bird

In their case, it was escalating labor costs, duplication of service (they already have Hobby as their hub and just dropped service to Bush International in Houston) AND the delay in getting their 737/737 Maxx planes from Boeing due to safety concerns. SW flies an all Boeing fleet and the whole crisis in Boeing mfg is gonna hit them hard.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:30 PM (/AKWf)

315 307 Hollywood has been all about sexual coercion probably since its inception. Judy Garland was a later example, notoriously so. And by that time Hollywood was 40 years old, at least.
Today a lot of pressure is being shown from homosexuals in high power. They only want to hire other homosexuals. And they want you to prove it, on themselves.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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David Geffen has entered the room.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (/AKWf)

316 David Geffen has entered the room.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 03:31 PM (/AKWf)

It's he the one Cories hinted at that drugged and raped them

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 25, 2024 04:07 PM (dKiJG)

317 You're now free to drive about the country.

Posted by: Announcer Voice at April 25, 2024 04:28 PM (jAber)

318 The whole New York Court System needs to be cleaned out Disinfected and Fumigated from the Rats Cock-Roaches and Louse that live there

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2024 05:32 PM (wGqjj)

319 A Shame I will admit now. Back in '96, I was in The Corps, yes I was a Marine at one time, I don't know if I mentioned it. There was this girl, who was WAY into me. It was 100% consentual and undstood, I didn't have sex with her, but I kissed her. I KISSED her, and she was receptive. She asked me, her name was Amy, one of the few people in The Corps that I only knew by their first name, Amy started to melt into my arms, "is this common for you?" CLEARLY asking if she was special . . . She wasn't and I'm honest, "yes." she then got upset and I tried to assuage her, but it failed, then she asked "What about if I was jen." I said, "You aren't Jen but I would like that tool." She had coyote ugly from KISSING me.

She told me to leave her alone and never touch her, and I understood it, she was a one man girl, and she wanted me to be that one man at the time we kissed, JUST KISSED, until she realized I wasn't a one woman guy, at least not for her.

A couple weeks later, because I was a very outgoing guy at the time, and hosted a bit of a party, she realized I was the one hosting, and said, "If you touch me all these guys will fuck you up." I said, "No they won't, but if

Posted by: Wickedpinto at April 25, 2024 09:48 PM (XKj0h)

320 you are that worried about me, here." I gave her one of my knives, I used to carry 2 knives on me at all times. . .I was raised in south chicago, you kinda have to get used to it.

I knelt down, and said, "I did not assault you, but if that's how you feel, I will take the punishment. Cut me, Kill me, I feel ashamed though I don't think I did anything wrong." she but stroked me, and remained friends.

Unfortunately I never got to sleep with her or jen.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at April 25, 2024 09:50 PM (XKj0h)

A Secret Service Agent Assigned To Kumala Harris Physically Attacks the Special Agent In Charge of the Detail, While Armed;
There Were Reportedly "DEI Concerns" About How This Agent Was Hired

Tom Rogan
@TomRtweets

Scooplet- An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris's protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning. The incident occurred at Andrews AFB, shortly before Harris arrived.


Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree

BREAKING: Sources within the Secret Service community tell me the agent assigned to VP Kamala Harris was armed during the fight - that the gun was secured in the agent's holster until other agents physically restrained the agent and took the gun from the agent's possession.

I'm also told there are DEI concerns among the USSS community about the hiring of this agent. Other agents and officers within the USSS are asking questions about the agent's hiring process, whether the USSS did enough to look into the agent's background and monitor the agent's mental well-being because there have been widespread concerns about other strange behavior before this incident. For now, I am also withholding the agent's name.


Other details: Sources say the agent in question was acted erratically upon showing up for a traveling shift at Joint Base Andrews. The agent ended up tackling the Senior Agent in Charge of the VP detail, got on top of him and started punching him. At this point, I'm told, the agent who was attacking the SAIC did indeed have a gun, but it was in the holster. Other agents are expressing relief that the agent did not shoot the SAIC.


Can no one position Kamala Harris for success?

An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris's protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning.

The incident occurred at the Washington, D.C.-area Andrews Air Force Base, before Harris arrived, and after the agent suffered what the Secret Service has characterized as a medical incident. The Washington Examiner is aware of the agent's name and specific detail responsibilities but is withholding those details for privacy reasons.

The Washington Examiner understands that the agent became aggressive with other agents. When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent, a physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before being withdrawn from service for medical assessment.

Yup. As planned:

Butterscotch
@Butters09016449

Every institution is cracking.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:03 PM




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1 Self-willowing blog post.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (0+kTp)

2 Whoa

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (rAQ0h)

3 Is it safe in here?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

4 The time machine is acting up again. Ace needs to add another quarter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (PHukT)

5 undernood!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

6 Kumswalla has been put in more unsuccessful positions than the kama sutra

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (rAQ0h)

7 Let's just chalk this up to another case of boys will be boys.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (+zCpJ)

8 Kumswalla has been put in more unsuccessful positions than the kama sutra

Ba dum bump!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (CsUN+)

9 Was the concern too much DEI or not enough?

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (hCzfy)

10 Easy fix. Make Kamala the Secret Service Czar.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (rAQ0h)

11 Roomy under-nood.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

12 Ba dum bump!
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (CsUN+)

I thought it was pretty good.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (rAQ0h)

13 I am totally sure Trump's agents will be fine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (PHukT)

14 10 Easy fix. Make Kamala the Secret Service Czar.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (rAQ0h)

Goes well with her AI Czar position.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

15 Roomy under-nood.

Right now, they're all piled up at the end of the last thread, like the band in Animal House.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (CsUN+)

16 In The Line of Fire was an exceptional film, probably the best Secret Service Film ever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (JIdXK)

17 It says in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (z/ifB)

18 what is the purpose of the undernood

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (/7KEl)

19 13 I am totally sure Trump's agents will be fine.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (PHukT)

He could staff an entire company of armed praetorians just from volunteers alone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (GkFGh)

20 17 It says in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (z/ifB)

There's a version of the Bible with a misprint that said "Thou shalt commit adultery". Was very popular with some folks, I assume.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (ynpvh)

21 @18

>>what is the purpose of the undernood

Keep everybody on their toes and confuse those under 29.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (JIdXK)

22 In The Line of Fire was an exceptional film, probably the best Secret Service Film ever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender a

how many secret service movies are there? does murder at 1600 count?

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (CIS44)

23 Just planting the seeds for when another agent protecting a disfavored pol goes rogue.

Posted by: Cranky J Anne at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (vGxHN)

24 what is the purpose of the undernood
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (/7KEl)

Periodically one nood is chosen to bear the sins of the people and allowed to escape into the wilderness. We call that the undernood.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (z/ifB)

25 fought unarmed with other detail agents

So, lots of kicking and biting?

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (v0R5T)

26 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5)

27 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5).

Or.........

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (XvUFg)

28 26 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5)

Good catch

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (GkFGh)

29 28 26 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5)

Good catch

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (GkFGh)

It puts on the lotion or it gets the hose!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (ynpvh)

30 I heard they were arguing about Taylor Swifts new album

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (z/ifB)

31 Periodically one nood is chosen to bear the sins of the people and allowed to escape into the wilderness. We call that the undernood.

I thought those were nood-eaters?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (CsUN+)

32 …
Oh, please no!
No trans in the SS. Please make it not be so.

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:15 PM (HDGM5)

33 28 26 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red
--------
Get with the times, it could mean a trans it nowadays. Would explain the cray cray.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:15 PM (/AKWf)

34 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red
......

And oddly familiar looking. The claws are out.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2024 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

35 Oh, please no!
No trans in the SS. Please make it not be so.

Stop being such a cissy.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (CsUN+)

36 >Means it’s a her.

Posted by: RI Red


somebody made a remark, then AGENT said 'Oh no you DIDN'T' (finger wave! ☝️ and it was game on

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (/7KEl)

37 There's a version of the Bible with a misprint that said "Thou shalt commit adultery". Was very popular with some folks, I assume.

This traduzione went down more... easily, in my tongue. Or on it? Magari I need to study English better

Posted by: Paolo at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (gKWVE)

38 Hey, you're pretty good at sitting in a cubicle and watching other people solve forgery cases. Here's a gun. Go make sure that guy don't get shot.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (GkFGh)

39 My guess it is one of those people confused about whether they are man or woman.

Posted by: Wodun at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (eeyuG)

40 Periodically one nood is chosen to bear the sins of the people and allowed to escape into the wilderness. We call that the undernood.

I thought those were nood-eaters?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (CsUN+)

That's a regional term for undernoods wearing assless chaps.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (z/ifB)

41 somebody made a remark, then AGENT said 'Oh no you DIDN'T' (finger wave! ☝️ and it was game on

Perhaps someone did a substandard job of parallel parking.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (CsUN+)

42 Archimedes, ISWYDT.
Funny, too.

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:17 PM (HDGM5)

43 >Oh, please no!
No trans in the SS. Please make it not be so.


sorry
I bet they got trannies furries dykes hairys homos- the whole f***ing circus

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (/7KEl)

44 40 Periodically one nood is chosen to bear the sins of the people and allowed to escape into the wilderness. We call that the undernood.

I thought those were nood-eaters?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (CsUN+)

That's a regional term for undernoods wearing assless chaps.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (z/ifB)

backwards

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

45 43 >Oh, please no!
No trans in the SS. Please make it not be so.


sorry
I bet they got trannies furries dykes hairys homos- the whole f***ing circus

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (/7KEl)

Don't forget the Satanists.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

46 Just planting the seeds for when another agent protecting a disfavored pol goes rogue.
Posted by: Cranky J Anne at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (vGxHN)

Would not surprise me if the DEI nutbar gets "cured" and is transferred to Trump's detail.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (tkR6S)

47 Don't forget the Satanists.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (ynpvh)

They're the chaplains.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (GkFGh)

48 TRUCK JOE BIDEN!


President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

This is about protecting the health of families who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, and other routes today – and building a better freight system for tomorrow.
1:51 AM · Apr 25, 2024

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (KbuES)

49 Charles Bronson did a movie where he played a secret service agent protecting the first lady. First lady played by Jill Ireland. Had a female ss agent assigned also.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (4XwPj)

50 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5)

Absolutely!

Posted by: Adm. Rachel Levine at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (tkR6S)

51 You haven't seen nothing yet!

Posted by: DEI Air Traffic Controllers! at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (YAtuc)

52 26 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5)
Good catch
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (GkFGh)

This reminds me I have to update my list. When the oriental broad got in the fight with her cullid boss last week, I advised people not to hire any orientals or cullid folks due to creating a hostile work environment for both.

I will now advise them not to hire Orientals, cullid folks or wimmen. Especially with guns around.

The options are getting pretty narrow!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (cDEsv)

53 Totally unfounded of course, but now I’m wondering about the race of “the agent”.
Because I’m shallow and a h8ter.

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (HDGM5)

54 51 You haven't seen nothing yet!

Posted by: DEI Air Traffic Controllers! at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (YAtuc)

"Airplane!" the movie in real life.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (ynpvh)

55 i mean, i'd be physical with whoever assigned me to guard that hadrian so i kind of understand it...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (nXhwP)

56 ahhh man we are no longer under

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (CIS44)

57 50 Notice how it is “the agent” throughout. Never him or her.
Means it’s a her.
Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (HDGM5)

——-

Or trans.

But the “DEI concern” means what?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (Dz6Vv)

58 Secret Service Agent Assigned To Kumala Harris

So much, explained by four words.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (IUd0M)

59 Oh come on. The poor guy paid Kamala for a blowjob and she took the money but didn't deliver. Of course he was pissed and spoiling for a fight.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

60 Would not surprise me if the DEI nutbar gets "cured" and is transferred to Trump's detail.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I may be incorrect but dont the details for former Prez get volunteered for/requested by the Prez

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (CIS44)

61 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

This is about protecting the health of families who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, and other routes today – and building a better freight system for tomorrow.

This guy has no more idea about what makes a modern economy go than a chicken has about quantum mechanics.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)

62 ahhh man we are no longer under
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (CIS44)

Was there a disturbance in the Force?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (tkR6S)

63 "Bitch says venn diagram one more time i'mma slap whoever in front of me...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (GkFGh)

64 The norms are starting to be Unnorm.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (+oR7L)

65 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (v/xlV)

66
President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

This is about protecting the health of families who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, and other routes today – and building a better freight system for tomorrow.
1:51 AM · Apr 25, 2024
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (KbuES)

————

Star Trek transporters

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Dz6Vv)

67 Waiting for fatal, "unforeseen," accidents helmed by United Airlines pilots. Thanks to their flamboyant CEO's DEI initiative.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Odr3r)

68 This guy has no more idea about what makes a modern economy go than a chicken has about quantum mechanics.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)

Buh muh fambly, they explained.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (GkFGh)

69 ARMED!!! Why wouldn't he be armed? I don't know the whole story but I assume they were all armed and he had no intention to draw his weapon. They are pulling a gun wedgie. If he wanted to shoot the guy he would have.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (lCWOD)

70 Every institution is cracking.

Society decides that you no longer need the 50-year-old white guys that we previously relied upon for the smooth functioning of society, and Things Start Happening.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (YAtuc)

71 You know how on a Geiger counter the frequency of the ticking indicates danger?
And when it starts beeping that's "oh fuck, that's bad," territory?

Yeah, pointing the society Geiger counter at ... everything and it's beeping

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (yikga)

72 This guy has no more idea about what makes a modern economy go than a chicken has about quantum mechanics.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)
---
At least the chicken has a remote chance of building a functioning particle accelerator...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (7fElN)

73 Why are we playing the pronoun game?

"The agent" is 'he,' right?

Or is it not, which perfectly demonstrates the problem?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (/nCD+)

74 To be fair, having to be around Kamala all day and be willing to take a bullet for her would probably push me over the edge too.

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (JojsZ)

75 I may be incorrect but dont the details for former Prez get volunteered for/requested by the Prez
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (CIS44)

I don't know, but if the Junta could fuck with that, what would stop them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (tkR6S)

76 Did you know you could get an extended warranty on your employees?

Posted by: Extended Warranty at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (DBd2Y)

77 Dissent among our Praetorian betters?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (TGL++)

78 This guy has no more idea about what makes a modern economy go than a chicken has about quantum mechanics.
Posted by: Archimedes a

That ladies yogurt makes me go, I can tell you that Jack
-Joey B

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:26 PM (CIS44)

79
What were the agents preferred pronouns? He/Him, They/Them?

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 25, 2024 01:26 PM (+oR7L)

80 I vote all of bidens and harris secret service agents be traps. They have been underrepresented in the service for far too long.

Posted by: Tom at April 25, 2024 01:26 PM (lfaKo)

81 4 The time machine is acting up again. Ace needs to add another quarter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (PHukT)
----
With inflation it may have gone up to a Kruger Rand.
I wonder if Kruger Rands still have Kruger's profile on them and not some terrorist's mug?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #119 at April 25, 2024 01:26 PM (qfLjt)

82 Cut the agent some slack here. He was probably on his period.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 25, 2024 01:26 PM (xPl2J)

83 Weird how they described the person being pummeled as "him" but I've yet to see any sort of pronoun for the agent who flipped out. Funny that.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (wb1YC)

84 More than a few Secret Service agents are rotters.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (rJ48h)

85 61 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.
....

----
You know, sometimes the reason something has never been done before is because it's a patently bad idea that has been rightly rejected every time it's been brought up.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (Odr3r)

86 >>>Other agents are expressing relief that the agent did not shoot the SAIC.
------------------

hmmm, None of them could stand the SAIC and if they were in Nam he would have been fragged?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (lCWOD)

87 Wow, colour me shocked.

They are getting exactly what they wished for.

Whether they'll survive the experience is another matter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (Jj0+x)

88 This guy has no more idea about what makes a modern economy go than a chicken has about quantum mechanics.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)
-

1. This guy is not running the country.

2. Whoever is running the country knows what makes a modern economy go. Their goal is to do the opposite and destroy it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (KbuES)

89 Posted by: DEI Air Traffic Controllers!

Two near-collisions of passenger jets on airport runways in the last week.

I listened to the ATCs talking during one of the near-collisions, and they were definitely diverse.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (YAtuc)

90 I don't know, but if the Junta could fuck with that, what would stop them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at

well of course not, because this time is special and shit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (CIS44)

91 Note that this fight happened on Monday. It's Thursday. Why the delay? I suspect they tried to cover this up entirely but couldn't.

Also, isn't it odd that some outlets are covering this story as if the agent had some kind of mental breakdown or other medical emergency, but not mentioning any fight with other agents? See link below.

https://tinyurl.com/3fwua987

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

92 Putting down the marker: The agent who had the freakout is a woman. The XX kind.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (/nCD+)

93 This passage from Wm Butler Yeats 'The Second Coming' sums it up nicely:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
- January 1919

Posted by: Dr_No at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (ayRl+)

94 Shocking thing is that nothing is shocking.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (ytSiK)

95 I've taken many shots for the team over my career so I don't see what the big problem is.

Posted by: Kamala! at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (gKWVE)

96 Mentioned previously:

ALL female secret service agents are DEI hires.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (9Ct69)

97 Yup. As planned:
++++
Not as planned. They wanted to take out some institutions, to be sure, but to subvert most of them and continue on.

Well, they subverted them but they cannot continue on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (HnUIn)

98
My security detail used to fight over who got the sloppy seconds with Kama. She was always a distraction.

Posted by: Willie Brown at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (+oR7L)

99 LOL

Person of color, perhaps?
Trying to turn around his life?
A spark of divinity?

Clown Show.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (ufFY8)

100 This guy has no more idea about what makes a modern economy go than a chicken has about quantum mechanics.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (CsUN+)
-----------
There you go again.

Posted by: The Chicken at April 25, 2024 01:29 PM (Be/+i)

101 I'm also told there are DEI concerns among the USSS community about the hiring of this agent. Other agents and officers within the USSS are asking questions about the agent's hiring process, whether the USSS did enough to look into the agent's background and monitor the agent's mental well-being because there have been widespread concerns about other strange behavior before this incident. For now, I am also withholding the agent's name.
++++
When you make "qualifications" synonymous with "identity category," don't be surprised when the old qualifications are no longer satisfied.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:29 PM (HnUIn)

102 97 Not as planned. They wanted to take out some institutions, to be sure, but to subvert most of them and continue on.

Well, they subverted them but they cannot continue on.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (HnUIn)

=======

"We can still run a church if we drive away all congregants and push the belief in the self rather than anything mystical, right? Right?!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

103 Russia is famous for packing them off to the looney bin when they get out of line.
But not to be forgotten:
One of the Kennedy daughters was lobotomized for her behaving like her brothers.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (DBd2Y)

104 So what happens to a citizen that attacks a SS officer?

Is that a big time put-you-away-for-life insurrection type crime? I assume it is.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (9Ct69)

105 69 ARMED!!! Why wouldn't he be armed? I don't know the whole story but I assume they were all armed and he had no intention to draw his weapon. They are pulling a gun wedgie. If he wanted to shoot the guy he would have.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (lCWOD)
----
Good observation.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #120 at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (qfLjt)

106 Did this occur during, or right after, a NoVaMoMe?

Posted by: Mike Zee at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (WWVl1)

107 Putting down the marker: The agent who had the freakout is a woman. The XX kind.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (/nCD+)

Well, it presented as a woman. Can't rule out "tranny" as mentally unstable is baked right into that cake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (tkR6S)

108 Yeah, pointing the society Geiger counter at ... everything and it's beeping

Nuclear power plants.

One of the precepts of nuclear safety culture is that the frequency of small incidents is an excellent predictor of the frequency of major incidents at a reactor.

We're starting to get a lot of small incidents across society all of a sudden.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (YAtuc)

109 Yes, she is a woman I've seen pics. Not bad looking but, of course with the crazy eyes...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (MeG8a)

110 Following up on my comment above, here's CBS totally covering up the fight angle, pretending this was just some medical issue:

https://tinyurl.com/bdbdu8nc

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

111 "President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector. "

When it grinds to a halt there will be zero emulsions. Winning!

Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (JojsZ)

112 "... we choose to put go kart motors in all our tractor trailers, not because it is easy, but because we're fucking retards and so are most of you...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (GkFGh)

113 About the DEI air traffic controller issue.

About a week ago they almost had an on-ground collision. The planes were 300 feet apart. They played the recording and it was absolutely a DEI hire yelling for the planes to stop and redirect.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (JeYYB)

114 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

This is about protecting the health of families who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, and other routes today – and building a better freight system for tomorrow.
1:51 AM · Apr 25, 2024
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (KbuES)

It seems that fairly recently we saw how important it was to the Biden administration to protect the health of families who live near railway lines.

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (Sf2cq)

115 Would YOU take a bullet to save the demented pervert?

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (DBd2Y)

116 43 >Oh, please no!
No trans in the SS. Please make it not be so.


You did not enjoy the latest movie out, "Trans She Wolves of the SS?"

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (/AKWf)

117 I'm getting a Janice Lester deja vu.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (v/xlV)

118 109 Yes, she is a woman I've seen pics. Not bad looking but, of course with the crazy eyes...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (MeG8a)

----

White or black?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (JeYYB)

119 BREAKING: Sources within the Secret Service community tell me the agent assigned to VP Kamala Harris was armed during the fight - that the gun was secured in the agent's holster until other agents physically restrained the agent and took the gun from the agent's possession.
-


"the agent" this and "the agent" that.

It's weird how careful they're being to not disclose that it's a chick. Probably a black chick since DEI stuff is mentioned.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (9Ct69)

120 @POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

This is about protecting the health of families who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, and other routes today – and building a better freight system for tomorrow.
1:51 AM · Apr 25, 2024
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (KbuES)
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Uh huh. Sure.

Two possibilities:
1. This never happens, and there's just a lot of graft
2. This does happen, and everyone dies

I'm not sure the powers that be even care which it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (HnUIn)

121 Would YOU take a bullet to save the demented pervert?
Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (DBd2Y)
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Which one?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (KbuES)

122

DEI is seeming to be used more to attack than to fix any "past wrongs". Too funny.



Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (et1vG)

123 It seems that fairly recently we saw how important it was to the Biden administration to protect the health of families who live near railway lines.

Oooo, that's quite the burn.

Posted by: Maxwell Azzarello at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (CsUN+)

124 "An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris's protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning."

Just like Justice Jackson today, who is mentally disarmed. What an embarrassment. I have bags of dirty socks smarter than Biden's DEI pick.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (33Ta2)

125 The agent ended up tackling the Senior Agent in Charge of the VP detail, got on top of him and started punching him.

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Nah, that doesn't say "woman" to me. I says...ummmm....pole smoker.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (dIske)

126 About a week ago they almost had an on-ground collision. The planes were 300 feet apart. They played the recording and it was absolutely a DEI hire yelling for the planes to stop and redirect.
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BITCH I DONE TOLT YOU TURN LEFT UP IN HERE!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (9Ct69)

127 48 TRUCK JOE BIDEN!


President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

This is about protecting the health of families who live and work near highways, ports, railyards, and other routes today – and building a better freight system for tomorrow.
1:51 AM · Apr 25, 2024

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (KbuES)


I believe a lot of the goals and handouts Biden is announcing almost daily is partly to directly buy votes and partly to set-up the MSM to ask Trump and down-ballot Republicans gotcha questions.

"If you don't support the zero-emissions freight transport goal announced by President Biden, aren't you condemning children living near freight routes to a higher rate of illness?"

"If you are against President Biden's needed college loan forgiveness moves, what is your solution to relieving the painful college loan financial burdens on too many young singles and parents?"

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (5fDan)

128 NAILED IT!!

"An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (/nCD+)

129 It seems that fairly recently we saw how important it was to the Biden administration to protect the health of families who live near railway lines.
Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (Sf2cq)
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Ouch.

Very, very well done, Emmie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (HnUIn)

130 Putting down the marker: The agent who had the freakout is a woman. The XX kind.

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I went immediately to "black female" when I heard the story.
I denounce myself proactively.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (wb1YC)

131 This country was better off when it was run by old guys with crew cuts and pocket protectors


you are dangerously close to my lawn..

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (/7KEl)

132 Maybe the agent got into Hunter's stash.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (njExo)

133 This may turn out to be a M-F tranny hire.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (MvF+J)

134 Some asked her to make a sammich and she went nutz?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (Q4IgG)

135 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

I believe MV Dali was zero-emission for a time prior to ramming the FSK bridge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (IUd0M)

136 is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring

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BOOYAH

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (9Ct69)

137 The agent ended up tackling the Senior Agent in Charge of the VP detail, got on top of him and started punching him.

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Nah, that doesn't say "woman" to me. I says...ummmm....pole smoker.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 01:33 PM (dIske)

See, I read this the other way. The SAC wouldn't punch a woman in the face, and so got himself taken down.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (/nCD+)

138 the agent" this and "the agent" that.

It's weird how careful they're being to not disclose that it's a chick. Probably a black chick since DEI stuff is mentioned.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (9Ct69)

Trans woman.

Posted by: Suppurating crotch wounds make them at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (Wc83a)

139 It seems that fairly recently we saw how important it was to the Biden administration to protect the health of families who live near railway lines.
Posted by: Emmie at

*insert that 70s show 'BURN' gif here*

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (CIS44)

140 They played the recording and it was absolutely a DEI hire yelling for the planes to stop and redirect.

She also broke communications protocol - instead of using standard ATC language, she just started yelling "STOP STOP STOP".

Complete panic reaction.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (YAtuc)

141 "We can still run a church if we drive away all congregants and push the belief in the self rather than anything mystical, right? Right?!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

Hallelujah! Here at the First Pentecostal Unitarian Church Of The Rainbow Mother, we celebrate self each Sunday and talk about how Mother Gaia is being healed by our hands on you and your hands on us. Join us Brother this week and look for the large Rainbow flags on the frontage road!

Posted by: Reverend Martha Lesbean, LGQTBXYZ Advocate And Wiccan at April 25, 2024 01:35 PM (cDEsv)

142 The Washington Examiner understands that the agent became aggressive with other agents. When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent, a physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before being withdrawn from service for medical assessment.


Pulls the old Bugs Bunny and holds up a picture of a screw and a picture of a baseball.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:35 PM (Jxvt5)

143 Whoa.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:35 PM (9yXr+)

144 141 Hallelujah! Here at the First Pentecostal Unitarian Church Of The Rainbow Mother, we celebrate self each Sunday and talk about how Mother Gaia is being healed by our hands on you and your hands on us. Join us Brother this week and look for the large Rainbow flags on the frontage road!
Posted by: Reverend Martha Lesbean, LGQTBXYZ Advocate And Wiccan at April 25, 2024 01:35 PM (cDEsv)

========

"Do whatever you want!"

"Okay. I'm not going to waste my time here. I'm going to go and 'bate to some pron."

"Celebrate you! Also, please donate. We gotta keep the lights on....He's gonna donate, right?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (GBKbO)

145 24 what is the purpose of the undernood
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (/7KEl)

Periodically one nood is chosen to bear the sins of the people and allowed to escape into the wilderness. We call that the undernood.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (z/ifB)
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OK I'll go with that but I thought that was the scapenood?
You look at your flock of noods and stochastically assign one as the scapenood.
(don't confuse scapenood with escapenood, the latter being the one that got away).

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #121 at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (qfLjt)

146 "Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herczeg."

https://tinyurl.com/kwdrm972

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (/nCD+)

147
This country was better off when it was run by old guys with crew cuts and pocket protectors

The people who got it done are now hated. Replaced by people who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

It's not a pretty site to watch it decay.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (RKVpM)

148 Pulls the old Bugs Bunny and holds up a picture of a screw and a picture of a baseball.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:35 PM (Jxvt5)
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You forgot "crackpot" and "bats in belfry."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (KbuES)

149 Yeah, if'n I was a top Agent, but had to work for Kamala or Joe Potato Head.... I'd probably end up getting violent too.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (xaFKb)

150 is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring

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BOOYAH
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (9Ct69)

Did the pull down her drawers and check for a dick?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (tkR6S)

151 When it grinds to a halt there will be zero emulsions. Winning!
Posted by: Ripley at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (JojsZ)

We're getting rid of mayonnaise?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (IUd0M)

152 Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herczeg."

https://tinyurl.com/kwdrm972
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

what no pic?!
*kicks rocks*

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (CIS44)

153 I'm all for having mentally unstable people armed with automatic weapons "protecting" Democrats.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (33Ta2)

154 "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told RealClearPolitics."

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (/nCD+)

155 She also broke communications protocol - instead of using standard ATC language, she just started yelling "STOP STOP STOP".

Complete panic reaction.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (YAtuc)

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Yes. I couldn't remember exactly what she said but it was in panic mode. It was a black female.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (JeYYB)

156 She also broke communications protocol - instead of using standard ATC language, she just started yelling "STOP STOP STOP".

Every beat down in any ghetto liquor store I've ever seen was accompanied by the heavenly music of some Black Bitch screaming:

"STAAHP! STAAHP! STAAHP!"

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (9yXr+)

157 Boy, that's a really uncommon name.

Wait, what's that?

"A female Dallas police officer is asking for more than $1 million in a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city, claiming she was assaulted by a male superior.

Michelle Herczeg, 36, filed the suit against the city of Dallas on Wednesday, claiming she "was targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably."

https://tinyurl.com/27etvoo7

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:38 PM (9Ct69)

158 Michelle Herczeg

This one?

A female Dallas police officer is asking for more than $1 million in a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city, claiming she was assaulted by a male superior.
Michelle Herczeg, 36, filed the suit against the city of Dallas on Wednesday, claiming she “was targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably.”

The suit alleges that Herczeg was retaliated against after she reported sexual harassment and illegal actions of other officers. She also claims she was not allowed to return to a crime reduction team after she alleged a senior officer assaulted her in May 2015.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:38 PM (YAtuc)

159 Looks like the SS agent filed a gender discrimination lawsuit when she was a cop:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9azw2b

Posted by: weew at April 25, 2024 01:38 PM (/uwTS)

160 Smooshing Tin

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:38 PM (GkFGh)

161 The US government--systemic fuckuppery.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 25, 2024 01:38 PM (LfcYE)

162 dude there should be exactly ZERO female (or M-to-F tranny, or the opposite) SS agents wtf

ZE. RO.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (s3qiR)

163 This country was better off when it was run by old guys with crew cuts and pocket protectors


you are dangerously close to my lawn..
Posted by: Don Black


Where have you gone, Gene Kranz
A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (Jxvt5)

164 She's a white lady, if you go over to Citizens Free Press there are links to images.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (MeG8a)

165 She also broke communications protocol - instead of using standard ATC language, she just started yelling "STOP STOP STOP".

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HOLD UP! I SAID HOLD UP, BRUH!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (9Ct69)

166 Yes. I couldn't remember exactly what she said but it was in panic mode. It was a black female.

The pictures on Google show a white female.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (CsUN+)

167 Two possibilities:
1. This never happens, and there's just a lot of graft
2. This does happen, and everyone dies

I'm not sure the powers that be even care which it is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (HnUIn)

European countries promising to round up and send home any Ukrainian men in their countries suggests that they have a preference.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (IUd0M)

168 A police officer (in 2016) with the same name filed 'gender discrimination' complaints against the Dallas PD.

She seems to have a history of blaming her vag for her shortcomings.

https://tinyurl.com/489brrhp

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (/nCD+)

169 Not patting myself on the back, but see my #26.

***pats self on back***

Posted by: RI Red at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (HDGM5)

170 Smooshing Tin
Posted by: Warai-otoko at

*golf clap*

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (CIS44)

171 When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent, a physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before being withdrawn from service for medical assessment.


Pulls the old Bugs Bunny and holds up a picture of a screw and a picture of a baseball.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:35 PM (Jxvt5)

Yeah, maybe tellin her to 'calm her tits' wasn't such a great idea...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (xaFKb)

172 See, I read this the other way. The SAC wouldn't punch a woman in the face, and so got himself taken down.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (/nCD+)

___________________

Oh, hmmm, good point. Thinking on it, that seems about right. I wouldn't haul off on a woman either. And a SS supervisor isn't going to be a p*ssy.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 01:40 PM (dIske)

173 Not patting myself on the back, but see my #26.

***pats self on back***
Posted by: RI Red

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Sure, but that would've been dangerously close to reading content.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:40 PM (9Ct69)

174 I can't even find this story at UPI

it's a woman

no coverage at CNN

it's a black woman

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:40 PM (/7KEl)

175 According to RCP, she started throwing menstrual pads at other agents.

"That time of the month. Amirite?"

Posted by: Wally at April 25, 2024 01:40 PM (8b2OY)

176 I had no idea that the Secret Service is being run by DIE Director hire Kimberly A. Cheatle -- an F. Joe Mugabe flunky.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (YOjqC)

177 Ha...ha...ha. Never underestimate Joe's ability to f#&k stuff up.

Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (lPeS+)

178
The Trump trip to a New York construction site recently was unbelievable. All of those bigots yelling 'USA, USA, USA' at him had me protecting my daughter from seeing my computer screen. Tears ran down my face as I wondered aloud, 'Why is Trump doing this to the country?'

Posted by: Karen CheChe at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (RKVpM)

179 Every beat down in any ghetto liquor store I've ever seen was accompanied by the heavenly music of some Black Bitch screaming:

"STAAHP! STAAHP! STAAHP!"
Posted by: LenNeal'

This also applies to any beat down in anyplace regardless of skin color.

"STAAHP! STAAHP! STAAHP!"

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (9yXr+)

180 Yes. I couldn't remember exactly what she said but it was in panic mode. It was a black female.

The pictures on Google show a white female.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:39 PM (CsUN+)

You guys are talking about separate incidents.

The black female was the ATC during the near miss. The white female was the USSS agent who lost her shit.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (/nCD+)

181 159 Looks like the SS agent filed a gender discrimination lawsuit when she was a cop:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9azw2b
Posted by: weew at April 25, 2024 01:38 PM (/uwTS)

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Huh, so this is the twat the SS thought should be protecting the VP.

I'd love to know how that decision was made and if this was a "to shut her up" kind of deal.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (JeYYB)

182 She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told RealClearPolitics."
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:37 PM (/nCD+)

Mushrooms. High On The Shrooms.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (cDEsv)

183 166 Yes. I couldn't remember exactly what she said but it was in panic mode. It was a black female.

The pictures on Google show a white female.


two different stories Archimedes, he was talking about a DEI ATC

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (s3qiR)

184 The pictures on Google show a white female.

Really? Because the accent of the ATC person was definitely black female.

It's not possible that the FAA is lying to us, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (YAtuc)

185 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.
===================
There are those who truly beleive this can work, smugly, "All you got to do is tell the engineers and scientists to do it."

The problem with so-called "leadership" across the board (not just politicks) is that they are really fvcking stupid. Maybe a bit of evil in there, but the stupid overwhelms all other factors except good old-fashioned cronyism/neptism.
We are ruled by the same stupid inbred 'tards that kept the middle ages dark.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (cOq4q)

186 Every institution is cracking.

---------------

"The Competency Crisis: it's real and it's spectacular!*

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (YOjqC)

187 So we went from Barky's "Hope and Change" to Mush Head's "Broke and Deranged".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (N39Ws)

188 Yes. I couldn't remember exactly what she said but it was in panic mode. It was a black female.

The pictures on Google show a white female.


two different stories Archimedes, he was talking about a DEI ATC

Ah, my mistake.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (CsUN+)

189 Also Daily Mail has Georgia cops kicking student ass at Emory

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (/7KEl)

190 The black female was the ATC during the near miss. The white female was the USSS agent who lost her shit.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (/nCD+)

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Yes. I was talking about the ATC near miss incident.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (JeYYB)

191 Yeah, pointing the society Geiger counter at ... everything and it's beeping
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (yikga)

Generally that meas YOU are highly radioactive.
It was nice knowing you. could you go stand outside please?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (D7oie)

192 European countries promising to round up and send home any Ukrainian men in their countries suggests that they have a preference.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic'

If Western Europe pulls that they will all end up in the Balkans and then we'll have to kill them there.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (9yXr+)

193 "Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herczeg." ...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (/nCD+)
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Odd name. I did find a different article with a cop by that name in Dallas who sued her department:

Michelle Herczeg, 36, filed the suit against the city of Dallas on Wednesday, claiming she "was targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably."

The suit alleges that Herczeg was retaliated against after she reported sexual harassment and illegal actions of other officers. She also claims she was not allowed to return to a crime reduction team after she alleged a senior officer assaulted her in May 2015.

If this is the same person - *and* assuming that this was bullshit - then yeah, I'd say the Secret Service probably didn't engage in much "vetting."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:43 PM (HnUIn)

194 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.
--------------
Drivin' that train
High on cocaine
Sleepy Joe you better
Watch your speed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 01:43 PM (Be/+i)

195 Hey now, the important thing here isn't that she was an unstable person given a gun and told to protect the vice president, the important thing here is diversity.

In this case mental diversity, in that everyone else had the old boring sameness of sanity.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 01:43 PM (nLFEI)

196 I saw a movie about this. "Herczeg's Angry Inch."

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (MvF+J)

197 If this is the same person - *and* assuming that this was bullshit - then yeah, I'd say the Secret Service probably didn't engage in much "vetting."

Most of which probably involved confirming the presence of a front hole.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (CsUN+)

198 More fun about the agent from Real Clear Politics,
"The suit alleged that Herczeg was “targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably” and was retaliated against after she reported sexual harassment and illegal actions of other officers. She also claimed she was not allowed to return to a crime-reduction team after she alleged a senior officer assaulted her. A Texas trial court dismissed the suit, Herczeg appealed, and a Texas court of appeals affirmed the lower court’s decision in 2021 and denied a rehearing in 2022.

While serving on the Dallas police force, Herczeg and another officer shot an armed man while he sat in a parked car. According to a department spokesman, the officers were firing in self defense because the man, who had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting a child, was brandishing a weapon and eventually shot himself in the head. A headline in the Dallas Observer raised some doubt about the official police account: “Two Dallas Cops Shot a Man Last Night, but They Say He Killed Himself""

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (/AKWf)

199 the USSS did enough to look into the agent's background and monitor the agent's mental well-being because there have been widespread concerns about other strange behavior before this incident.
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Melanin privilege?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (YqDXo)

200 I have to admit, even I didn't think that the Dems were so evil as to decide that the best way to be free of Kamala was to give the mentally ill firearms and regular access to her, but here we are.

Posted by: American Hawkman at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (skAOD)

201 Looky here you are cleared for takeoff

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (RQM8P)

202
Also Daily Mail has Georgia cops kicking student ass at Emory

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM

Red state behavior.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (RKVpM)

203 If this is the same person - *and* assuming that this was bullshit - then yeah, I'd say the Secret Service probably didn't engage in much "vetting."
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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It is the same person, go to Real Clear Politics for the story.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (/AKWf)

204 202
Also Daily Mail has Georgia cops kicking student ass at Emory

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM

Red state behavior.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (RKVpM)

=======

But the family almond farm!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

205 Looks like I lose the betting-pool; I was going with transgender.
Herczeg looks like just another crazy white Karen who became a cop because she liked strutting around Da Streetz with a gun and badge. And when other officers told her off, probably because she came close to shooting a suspect or two, she sued.
Obviously this woman and the massive baggage she brought to the interview made for perfect SS material.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:45 PM (gKWVE)

206 ... While serving on the Dallas police force, Herczeg and another officer shot an armed man while he sat in a parked car. According to a department spokesman, the officers were firing in self defense because the man, who had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting a child, was brandishing a weapon and eventually shot himself in the head. A headline in the Dallas Observer raised some doubt about the official police account: “Two Dallas Cops Shot a Man Last Night, but They Say He Killed Himself""
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (/AKWf)
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Wow. So they shot a guy and argued that it was a righteous shot - but only made that argument *after* lying about it and claiming he shot himself?

And they hired her at the Secret Service for protective detail? Wow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:46 PM (HnUIn)

207
While serving on the Dallas police force, Herczeg and another officer shot an armed man while he sat in a parked car. According to a department spokesman, the officers were firing in self defense because the man, who had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting a child, was brandishing a weapon and eventually shot himself in the head. A headline in the Dallas Observer raised some doubt about the official police account: “Two Dallas Cops Shot a Man Last Night, but They Say He Killed Himself""
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (/AKWf)

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HOLY SHIT, how is it possible the SS would hire this woman. Of course, we could be talking about different women. If so. Nevermind.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:46 PM (JeYYB)

208 You could do zero emissions freight if there were trucks stationed every 100 miles on the highway. Stop, drop your truck off at the charging station, hitch your trailer to a freshly charged cab and go.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:46 PM (PHukT)

209 thinking it over, she was probably a perfect choice for Kamala

simpatico, as it were

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 01:46 PM (s3qiR)

210 Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector/

Today, I'm announcing another never-ending policy to make everything cost more.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (wra9p)

211 U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low...total fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, a 2% decline from a year earlier (replacement level is 2.1).

what do we think is going to happen when giving birth gets you a 50k hospital bill?

After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy. Especially if they live in red states where getting pregnant carries high risks of non-treatment for complications. This s another argument for why we need immigrants.

Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.

My daughter is leaning towards not having kids. What if my kid is queer? LGBTQ+ plus are being attacked.

Hispanic birth rates aren't declining. Hence calls for "the wall" and "But muh white babies!!! Lesser races will outbreed us!!!", and the associated elevation of clowns like Justices Handmaid and Kegger to the court.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

212 The Agent will get a promotion and be on Slow Joe’s detail any moment.

As a reward.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (Qcqjd)

213 Noticed something during Biden's speech to union members. He started screeching about getting rid of Trump's tax cuts. The union people were very tepid in their responses. It's like they realize that Trump's tax cuts were good for them and Biden is full of it. A good sign

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (aX7Uj)

214 While serving on the Dallas police force, Herczeg and another officer shot an armed man while he sat in a parked car. According to a department spokesman, the officers were firing in self defense because the man, who had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting a child, was brandishing a weapon and eventually shot himself in the head

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o_O

So they both shot him and then he eventually shot himself in the head.

Sounds like SS material.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (9Ct69)

215 @207

>>HOLY SHIT, how is it possible the SS would hire this woman. Of course, we could be talking about different women. If so. Nevermind.


Doubtful, how many bat shit crazy women named Herczeg can there possibly be?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (JIdXK)

216 This busty blonde in a dress has never thought about being a Secret Service agent, but now she actively doesn't want to be a Secret Service agent:
http://tiny.cc/5kxuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (HnUIn)

217 HOLY SHIT, how is it possible the SS would hire this woman. Of course, we could be talking about different women. If so. Nevermind.


no, its the same woman

I'm sure the Secret Service is fine tho. no problems.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (s3qiR)

218 I wonder if a woman hired this maniac SS woman.

Everything is a shit show.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (JeYYB)

219 Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (/AKWf)

Huh, second guess turned out... correct. As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (gKWVE)

220 If this is the same person - *and* assuming that this was bullshit - then yeah, I'd say the Secret Service probably didn't engage in much "vetting."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:43 PM (HnUIn)

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Something else here going on. This was a white woman with a history of questionable claims and mental illness. Not a fat juicy DEI hire especially for the black VP. It's not like there aren't equally unqualified -- and maybe even some actually qualified -- black or minority or tranny candidates out there that would score higher on the DEI meter.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

221 You could do zero emissions freight if there were trucks stationed every 100 miles on the highway. Stop, drop your truck off at the charging station, hitch your trailer to a freshly charged cab and go.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:46 PM (PHukT)
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Why, that would add nothing at all to transportation costs!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (Be/+i)

222 67 Waiting for fatal, "unforeseen," accidents helmed by United Airlines pilots. Thanks to their flamboyant CEO's DEI initiative.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (Odr3r)

Matt Walsh solicited texts from airline pilots about dangers in the cockpit and ATC. He got many messages of a scary nature. Bad things on the way.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (94Pn8)

223 HOLY SHIT, how is it possible the SS would hire this woman. Of course, we could be talking about different women. If so. Nevermind.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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Is the same woman. Here is the link to the whole SS freakout agent story at RCP https://tinyurl.com/msswyypy

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (/AKWf)

224 I've seen this thread before

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (Akjoo)

225 Hey now, the important thing here isn't that she was an unstable person given a gun and told to protect the vice president, the important thing here is diversity.
_________________

How did the FAA miss this one as an air traffic controller?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (YqDXo)

226 Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.
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I'm not even creative enough to make this shit up.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (CIS44)

227 There are those who truly beleive this can work, smugly, "All you got to do is tell the engineers and scientists to do it."

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (cOq4q)

Scientist: Yes, we can do that, I'll need a $5M grant to research it.
Engineer: If I could do that I'd have Elon Musk money and I wouldn't be stuck talking to you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (IUd0M)

228 211 Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

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If it's bad for capitalism, it's gonna be real bad for socialism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

229 Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.

Wow, nice virtue signal with a high degree of difficulty. 9 out of 10.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (CsUN+)

230 DEI is running wild thru out the Gov and the DOD

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (PQ4m2)

231 The suit alleges that Herczeg was retaliated against after she reported sexual harassment and illegal actions of other officers. She also claims she was not allowed to return to a crime reduction team after she alleged a senior officer assaulted her in May 2015.

If this is the same person - *and* assuming that this was bullshit - then yeah, I'd say the Secret Service probably didn't engage in much "vetting."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:43 PM (HnUIn)

It is the same person, and her discrimination lawsuit failed in court, and again on appeal. That should have made her radioactive for any other LE hire, anywhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (tkR6S)

232 so... the agent's pronoun is "the agent"?

Posted by: anachronda at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (v3pYe)

233 Maybe look real hard and find some of those Afghan guys that went UA a few years back from a US base. Real Secret Service material there.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (0EOe9)

234 The United States has a mental health problem. A very serious problem.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (JeYYB)

235 229 Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.

Wow, nice virtue signal with a high degree of difficulty. 9 out of 10.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:48 PM (CsUN+)

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These people really should probably kill themselves.

For the planet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

236 Wow. So they shot a guy and argued that it was a righteous shot - but only made that argument *after* lying about it and claiming he shot himself?

And they hired her at the Secret Service for protective detail? Wow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Well, she is the perfect agent to argue that Trump shot himself. Just like Epstein killed himself and so on.

Probably on Team Killary.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (/AKWf)

237 >Melanin privilege?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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nah, just estrogen

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:49 PM (/7KEl)

238 what do we think is going to happen when giving birth gets you a 50k hospital bill?

After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy. Especially if they live in red states where getting pregnant carries high risks of non-treatment for complications. This s another argument for why we need immigrants. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (JCZqz)
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The expensive hospital bill does need to be fixed. I don't think that's the primary consideration, but it does need to be fixed. This person won't like the fix.

And the second person is a total 'tard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (HnUIn)

239 She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God

I can fix her.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (gKWVE)

240 The Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris was removed from her duties Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and other agents trying to subdue her, according to an agency spokesman and knowledgeable Secret Service sources.
_________________

"Oh no you dint!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (YqDXo)

241
It is the same person, and her discrimination lawsuit failed in court, and again on appeal. That should have made her radioactive for any other LE hire, anywhere.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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The crazy part is that it was probably a no-joke resume enhancer for this administration and the VP.

"I spoke truth to power by accusing my superiors..."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (9Ct69)

242 Yeah, pointing the society Geiger counter at ... everything and it's beeping
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 01:25 PM (yikga)

Generally that meas YOU are highly radioactive.
It was nice knowing you. could you go stand outside please?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:42 PM (D7oie)

Or you've got the geiger counter's sensitivity set too high and it's picking up the ubiquitous background radiation.

You can really mess with people's minds doing that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (IUd0M)

243 238 The expensive hospital bill does need to be fixed. I don't think that's the primary consideration, but it does need to be fixed. This person won't like the fix.

And the second person is a total 'tard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (HnUIn)

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"Also, every single regulation that makes healthcare more expensive, child rearing more expensive, and school more expensive, must not only remain in place but be made more onerous in order to protect children."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

244
This busty blonde in a dress has never thought about being a Secret Service agent, but now she actively doesn't want to be a Secret Service agent:
http://tiny.cc/5kxuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM

Her fence should have been stained years ago which shows lesbian tendencies toward deferring maintenance.

1/10 WNB.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (RKVpM)

245 Something else here going on. This was a white woman with a history of questionable claims and mental illness. Not a fat juicy DEI hire especially for the black VP. It's not like there aren't equally unqualified -- and maybe even some actually qualified -- black or minority or tranny candidates out there that would score higher on the DEI meter.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (iFTx/)
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Maybe it's old-school and she's just somebody's cousin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (HnUIn)

246 Female agent on her period.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (FQmDC)

247 "Several sources in the Secret Service community identified the agent who physically attacked her superior as Michelle Herczeg." ...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 25, 2024 01:36 PM (/nCD+)
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Col Muammar Gaddafi did all female guards better.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (cOq4q)

248 Wait, hasn't Obamacare been in place and fully the law for well over a decade now?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (9Ct69)

249 Why, that would add nothing at all to transportation costs!
Posted by: Captain Obvious

We would just pass a law that companies can't pass increased transportation costs to the customer. Boom. Problem solved.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (PHukT)

250 Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.
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That person has no idea about Rez life--crime, substance abuse, etc. are off the charts. Now it appears that cartels have been infiltrating the rez to the extent that they are becoming centers for Fentanyl trafficking.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (/AKWf)

251 what do we think is going to happen when giving birth gets you a 50k hospital bill?

After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy. Especially if they live in red states where getting pregnant carries high risks of non-treatment for complications. This s another argument for why we need immigrants. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (JCZqz)
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The expensive hospital bill does need to be fixed. I don't think that's the primary consideration, but it does need to be fixed. This person won't like the fix.

And the second person is a total 'tard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

Im willing to bet the birth rates in the red states are higher than the blue

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (CIS44)

252 185 President Biden
@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.
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There are those who truly beleive this can work, smugly, "All you got to do is tell the engineers and scientists to do it."

The problem with so-called "leadership" across the board (not just politicks) is that they are really fvcking stupid. Maybe a bit of evil in there, but the stupid overwhelms all other factors except good old-fashioned cronyism/neptism.
We are ruled by the same stupid inbred 'tards that kept the middle ages dark.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (cOq4q)


I'm insulted! Chasten and I reviewed a draft plan of zero-emission fright transport and we agreed this is scientifically and engineeringly do-able and will not cost freight haulers an additional dime! So I assured the President that this goal is as easy to achieve as getting a boner while watching Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling!

Posted by: Your Secretary of Transportation at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (5fDan)

253 Col Muammar Gaddafi did all female guards better.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (cOq4q)

How'd dat work out for him?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (PQ4m2)

254 And they hired her at the Secret Service for protective detail? Wow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:46 PM (HnUIn)

They probably hired her to "protect" Trump then forgot about it

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (RQM8P)

255 248 Wait, hasn't Obamacare been in place and fully the law for well over a decade now?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (9Ct69)

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"Obamacare is proof that Obama was actually a centrist. It did nothing but provide a giant government-enforced line of money to big corporations. If he were as leftist as conservatives said, he'd have done Single Payer."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

256 There's only one thing to: transfer her to the Trump protection detail.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (YqDXo)

257 22 In The Line of Fire was an exceptional film, probably the best Secret Service Film ever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender a

how many secret service movies are there? does murder at 1600 count?
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (CIS44)


Guarding Tess is the best Secret Service comedy ever.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (IGKzA)

258 251 Im willing to bet the birth rates in the red states are higher than the blue
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (CIS44)

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I'm willing to bet the high birthrates of Hispanics are coming from people who don't think trannyism is great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

259 That person has no idea about Rez life--crime, substance abuse, etc. are off the charts. Now it appears that cartels have been infiltrating the rez to the extent that they are becoming centers for Fentanyl trafficking.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:51 PM (/AKWf)
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The rez is a near-perfect welfare state, and has been since WWII.

It is not something to wish on everyone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (HnUIn)

260 So the market is down 300 and change... Guess they think it's not so bad after all... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (Akjoo)

261 @POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.

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This will involve buying indulgences, same as always.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (9Ct69)

262 Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

What? You want to go back to the days when there were no basic protections for children?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (PHukT)

263 Did we lose a thread?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (xcxpd)

264 and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”



She may be a batshit crazy "Didn't Earn It" hire but I'd have to rate that statement directed at PrezNot Poopy Pants Praetorean guard as "mostly true".

Posted by: The Walking Dude at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (cCxiu)

265 top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (ufFY8)

266 And they hired her at the Secret Service for protective detail? Wow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'

I mean, if I shot someone threatening to kill themselves I'd be upset about it.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (9yXr+)

267 After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy.

Finest DU logic here.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (OguvZ)

268 I'm willing to bet the high birthrates of Hispanics are coming from people who don't think trannyism is great.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

h8r

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (CIS44)

269 262 Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

What? You want to go back to the days when there were no basic protections for children?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:53 PM (PHukT)

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Yes. Children are resilient, I was told during covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

270 257 22 In The Line of Fire was an exceptional film, probably the best Secret Service Film ever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender a

how many secret service movies are there? does murder at 1600 count?
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:12 PM (CIS44)


Guarding Tess is the best Secret Service comedy ever.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 25, 2024 01:52 PM (IGKzA)


Another SS movie is "To Live and Die in LA."

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (5fDan)

271 As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (gKWVE)

If only those alternatives didn't always include "trying Montgomery's dumb ass plan".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (IUd0M)

272 Herczeg probably got her SS job because she sued the Dallas police patriarchy (she lost) and so I'm sure she's a hero in some sectors

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (aX7Uj)

273 hat person has no idea about Rez life--crime, substance abuse, etc. are off the charts. Now it appears that cartels have been infiltrating the rez to the extent that they are becoming centers for Fentanyl trafficking.
Posted by: whig a

they are also the sites of many of the cartels illegal grows

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (CIS44)

274 The problem with so-called "leadership" across the board (not just politicks) is that they are really fvcking stupid. Maybe a bit of evil in there, but the stupid overwhelms all other factors except good old-fashioned cronyism/neptism.
We are ruled by the same stupid inbred 'tards that kept the middle ages dark.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (cOq4q)
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It's like the claim of certain demographics that AIDS was engineered to target them. They're so stupid that they think the intelligent people can do anything at all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (YqDXo)

275 Butterscotch
@Butters09016449
Every institution is cracking.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:03 PM

Turns out there are consequences for living life like there are no consequences

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (FCbAQ)

276 265 ... top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.

I'd like to know who outscored her on that part of the exam. Keith Richards?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (gKWVE)

277 267 After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy.

Finest DU logic here.
Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (OguvZ)

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It's this idea that laws against abortion have no language about things like DNCs for children that die in the womb.

Which is nonsense, but it's a central line of fear directed towards women about abortion bans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

278 Huh, second guess turned out... correct. As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE
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For all we know, she is taking hormones to become a dickless dude. Nowadays, predicting dysfunction in an agency is far easier than predicting exactly which 'identity' is providing the laughs in a story about that agency dysfunction.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (/AKWf)

279 Turns out there are consequences for living life like there are no consequences
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (FCbAQ)
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Go figure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (HnUIn)

280 Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish



Authentic frontier gibberish!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (Jxvt5)

281 261 @POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.


I'm not sure that's a winning proposition if he's doing it for votes... He's already has the eviron-wacko vote

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (Akjoo)

282
The expensive hospital bill does need to be fixed. I don't think that's the primary consideration, but it does need to be fixed. This person won't like the fix.

And the second person is a total 'tard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM

Both of my kids were born during Carters reign. Even with good insurance I had to fork over a lot of money to extract wife and child from hospital. Adjusted for inflation it's the same amount as peeps have to out-of-pocket nowadays with ObamaCare.

I don't know where the $50,000 number came from unless someone wanted private room, special surgery to restore hymen, or some other weirdness.

Oddly enough, insurance paid 100% of vasectomy. Not a single dime came out of my pocket.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RKVpM)

283 You could do zero emissions freight if there were trucks stationed every 100 miles on the highway. Stop, drop your truck off at the charging station, hitch your trailer to a freshly charged cab and go.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Run conductors over the road so the trucks will have these things that slide along the conductors and keep the batteries continuesly charging.

Like trolley cars in the old days...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (cOq4q)

284 different nic, that was a fake quote probably anyway:
quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (gKWVE)

285 As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (gKWVE)
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If by "right" you mean "bailing Europe's ass out of the trouble they got themselves into. Again."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (Be/+i)

286 All I know is I remember when they all had to be "careful" in an election year because they needed votes and didn't want to upset anyone. This is how it was our entire lives.

Are Democrats acting like it's an election year and they carefully need votes from everyone or nah bro?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RQM8P)

287 Move freight with zero emissions ? Biden can't walk two steps without emissions...

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (FQmDC)

288 As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (gKWVE)

If only those alternatives didn't always include "trying Montgomery's dumb ass plan".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:54 PM (IUd0M)
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Or Churchill's, come to that. Gallipoli leaps to mind, as does his plan to invade the south of France.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:57 PM (YqDXo)

289 top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.'

Poor soul, she was just too high strung.

Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 01:57 PM (9yXr+)

290 282 I don't know where the $50,000 number came from unless someone wanted private room, special surgery to restore hymen, or some other weirdness.

Oddly enough, insurance paid 100% of vasectomy. Not a single dime came out of my pocket.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RKVpM)

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I imagine it has some semblance to the reality of giving birth in a hospital without insurance. Except...Obamacare fixed the no insurance thing, right? Also, no one pays the full price anyway. Those are there to milk the insurers.

Also, bring back midwives?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

291 Is this the same Michelle Herczeg? From 2016:
"A female Dallas police officer is asking for more than $1 million in a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city, claiming she was assaulted by a male superior.
Michelle Herczeg, 36, filed the suit against the city of Dallas on Wednesday, claiming she "was targeted for being a female officer and treated less favorably."

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 25, 2024 01:57 PM (IGKzA)

292 278 Huh, second guess turned out... correct. As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE
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For all we know, she is taking hormones to become a dickless dude. Nowadays, predicting dysfunction in an agency is far easier than predicting exactly which 'identity' is providing the laughs in a story about that agency dysfunction.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:55 PM (/AKWf)


Occam's Razor says she's always been bat-shit crazy yet manages to act sort-of sane some of the time.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (5fDan)

293 Suddenly, withdrawing SS 'protection' for Trump seems like a good idea.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (XeU6L)

294 top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.

I'd like to know who outscored her on that part of the exam. Keith Richards?
Posted by: gKWVE


Keith Richards
Steven Tyler
Jim Morrison
Jimmy Hendrix
Michael Jackson

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (Jxvt5)

295 lol, woman.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (i24o9)

296 289 top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.'

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Or her class was comprised of a bunch of dumbasses which I'm more likely to believe.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (JeYYB)

297 The expensive hospital bill does need to be fixed. I don't think that's the primary consideration, but it does need to be fixed. This person won't like the fix.

And the second person is a total 'tard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 01:50 PM

Both of my kids were born during Carters reign. Even with good insurance I had to fork over a lot of money to extract wife and child from hospital. Adjusted for inflation it's the same amount as peeps have to out-of-pocket nowadays with ObamaCare.

I don't know where the $50,000 number came from unless someone wanted private room, special surgery to restore hymen, or some other weirdness.

Oddly enough, insurance paid 100% of vasectomy. Not a single dime came out of my pocket.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (RKVpM)
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The $50k bill is for surrogate births including paying the surrogate. Which btw is an exploding growth industry . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

298 Is you is or is you ain't on heading 270?

Posted by: DEI Air Traffic Controller at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (2UnvF)

299 Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish
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She was just speaking to Kamala Harris in her native tongue.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

300 299 Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish
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She was just speaking to Kamala Harris in her native tongue.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

She could be Pentecostal

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM (xcxpd)

301 Also, bring back midwives?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda'

Did a homebirth for my daughter with no medical personnel at all. It went fine.

Is human birth a medical emergency, or a natural event? Decide.

Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM (9yXr+)

302 122

DEI is seeming to be used more to attack than to fix any "past wrongs". Too funny.


Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (et1vG)
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Your credentials leave me incredulous.
/s

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #122 at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM (qfLjt)

303 298 Is you is or is you ain't on heading 270?
Posted by: DEI Air Traffic Controller at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (2UnvF)

299 Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish
_______________

She was just speaking to Kamala Harris in her native tongue.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

LOL to both of you

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM (Akjoo)

304 I got a bill from a hospital not too long ago and it outright said that if you were a cash payer you got a 60% or so discount.

I assume an uninsured birth is $10-12K or so out of pocket.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM (9Ct69)

305 top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.
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Sounds like she'd done some preparatory homework on that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (YqDXo)

306 different nic, that was a fake quote probably anyway:
quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (gKWVE)

I don't know that it was wrong, I just thought that was an amusing point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (IUd0M)

307 top 5 percent of her class and that she sought other law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.'

Poor soul, she was just too high strung.
Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning


Jack Russell Terriers wish they were as high strung.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (Jxvt5)

308 295 lol, woman.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (i24o9)

Woe, man
Whoa man

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (xcxpd)

309 Churchill was against the landings in the south of France. It was the US plan which went ahead and was very successful.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (FQmDC)

310 @146 Looks like the wacko secret service agent was previously a litigious Dallas cop, https://tinyurl.com/mrxtyrmb

Nothing but trouble.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (Odr3r)

311 301 Also, bring back midwives?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda'

Did a homebirth for my daughter with no medical personnel at all. It went fine.

Is human birth a medical emergency, or a natural event? Decide.
Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM (9yXr+)

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My sister was born by midwife. Also, she's the only progressive in the family.

Coincidence?! There are no coincidences!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (GBKbO)

312 After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy.
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Uhhhhhh....

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (RQM8P)

313 Probably a good thing. Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere, lowering birth rates is a good thing. Not so much for capitalism but fuck capitalism, it does nothing but accelerate our demise. I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.
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How many generations before a family line becomes "native".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 02:00 PM (cOq4q)

314 Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere

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I'm curious what their evidence of this is?

Obama's seaside mansion?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

315 @291 yes

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (Odr3r)

316 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 25, 2024 01:58 PM (i24o9)

Hey!!!!

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (RQM8P)

317 I guess it's a good thing this woman didn't try out for the SS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ31uqH07E

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (CsUN+)

318
Here's her picture

https://tinyurl.com/bdubde8v

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (/7KEl)

319 Clearly, not enough vowels in her diet.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (XeU6L)

320
Also, bring back midwives?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024

I offered to my wife the option for her to stay at the Hilton Hotel, which was right next door to my apartment, instead of three days in the hospital after the first birth. I figured I'd save (adjusted for inflation) about $5,000 dollars. She declined.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (RKVpM)

321 She is cute.
But fucking nuts, so Rule 1.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (ufFY8)

322 Re: childbirth.

This is a sore spot with me. It really is a decision. Is it a natural process or a medical emergency? If it's a medical emergency then how in the FUCK did human beings manage to proliferate? If you are so stupid as to believe that every single childbirth is a huge catastrophe waiting to happen, then pay a fortune for a hospital. It is wholly unnecessary and you are a a stupid fuck.

Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (9yXr+)

323 Occam's Razor says she's always been bat-shit crazy yet manages to act sort-of sane some of the time.
Posted by: Gref
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Possibly, the Dallas lawsuit story ended up with the lower court dismissing the case and the appeals court affirming the lower court's dismissal. The whole lying on the police report about the dude shooting himself was another issue. Her career in DPD was dead so she went to the Feds to get hired. It was probably that or join the ATF which is another crappy agency.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (/AKWf)

324 Here's her picture

https://tinyurl.com/bdubde8v
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (/7KEl)

I can fix her

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (xcxpd)

325 I guess it's a good thing this woman didn't try out for the SS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ31uqH07E
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (CsUN+)
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She looks too competent to make the cut.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (HnUIn)

326 I assume an uninsured birth is $10-12K or so out of pocket.

As with most things, I assume one of the top 2-3 considerations are going to be location, location, location.

Having a baby in rural Alabama isn't going to cost near as much as LA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (IUd0M)

327 324 Here's her picture

https://tinyurl.com/bdubde8v
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (/7KEl)

I can fix her
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (xcxpd)

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You think you're a Duncan Idaho ghola, or something?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

328 326 I assume an uninsured birth is $10-12K or so out of pocket.

As with most things, I assume one of the top 2-3 considerations are going to be location, location, location.

Having a baby in rural Alabama isn't going to cost near as much as LA.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (IUd0M)

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Also, epidurals. Injecting drugs into the spine is expensive, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

329 After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy.

So you're saying women CAN prevent pregnancy via means other than infanticide.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (IUd0M)

330 281 261 @POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.


I'm not sure that's a winning proposition if he's doing it for votes... He's already has the eviron-wacko vote

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 01:56 PM (Akjoo)


One of the objectives of today's announcement has to be giving a fig-leaf of official cover for Secretaries Butt Plug and Granwhore to award profitable-for-Junta members and Friends of Joe research contracts and grants to Junta-selected companies and universities.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (5fDan)

331 TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

My only child was born at home and my then-wife divorced me after 13 years of marriage.

Coincidence?

Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (9yXr+)

332 Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish
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Have she and rainmandodo been seen in the same room?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

333 314 Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere

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I'm curious what their evidence of this is?

Obama's seaside mansion?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

There's no helping it, the leftists are going to have to kill themselves.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (eYoxG)

334 331 TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

My only child was born at home and my then-wife divorced me after 13 years of marriage.

Coincidence?
Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (9yXr+)

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THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCES! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

335 So you're saying women CAN prevent pregnancy via means other than infanticide.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (IUd0M)
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Shhhhhh!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (HnUIn)

336 It is wholly unnecessary and you are a a stupid fuck.
Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (9yXr+)

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Calm down.

You do know that childbirth use to kill a lot of woman. Mortality rates have changed, due to nutrition, cleanliness, etc, however, some woman cannot have children vaginally without issues. Serious issues.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (JeYYB)

337 Here's her picture

https://tinyurl.com/bdubde8v
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (/7KEl)

I can fix her
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (xcxpd)

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You think you're a Duncan Idaho ghola, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

The Honored Matres fear my pelvic sorcery

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

338 Bang up job on the background checks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (J3ymU)

339 try out for the SS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ31uqH07E
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (CsUN+)
++++
She looks too competent to make the cut.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:03 PM (HnUIn)

Now do Democrats, instead of grass.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (ufFY8)

340 Also, bring back midwives?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024
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"I don't know nuthin' about no birthin'!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (YqDXo)

341 After the Dobbs decision, many young women do not want to risk pregnancy. / So you're saying women CAN prevent pregnancy via means other than infanticide.

Well, there's this, claiming they're not doing that :
patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2024/04/why- is-the-abortion-rate-increasing/

Posted by: gKWVE stalking IUd0M (sorry) at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (gKWVE)

342 At least he wasn’t stiffing South American whores.

Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (MNhXM)

343 There's no helping it, the leftists are going to have to kill themselves.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy



Actually, I'm ok with that.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (Jxvt5)

344 Did he take the red pill?

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (o2ZRX)

345 333 There's no helping it, the leftists are going to have to kill themselves.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (eYoxG)

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They need to stop breeding. They need to get their kids to become transgender so they can never breed. They need to get the rest of their generation so fearful of their own breathing because of global warming that even if they someone don't mule themselves through their transgender phase, they don't want to do it anyway.

The next generation has to show up, and the left is actively making that not happen for them. It's weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (GBKbO)

346 >>Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish

Definitely a woman.

Kidding, just kidding. Put the gun down.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (LkLld)

347 314 Our species has exceeded the carrying capacity for the biosphere

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I'm curious what their evidence of this is?

Obama's seaside mansion?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

There's no helping it, the leftists are going to have to kill themselves.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 02:05 PM (eYoxG)
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Yeah, this is all about US being forced out of existence. THEY, on the other hand, get to live the life of luxury they've always been entitled to.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (7fElN)

348 337 You think you're a Duncan Idaho ghola, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

The Honored Matres fear my pelvic sorcery
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

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Such a weird book...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

349 >@POTUS
Today, I'm announcing a first-ever national goal to transition to a zero-emissions freight sector.
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Can't be done, but we can squander billion$ on it anyway

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (/7KEl)

350 try out for the SS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ31uqH07E
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 02:02 PM (CsUN+)
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I think I just figured out where the crop circles come from.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (YqDXo)

351
I assume an uninsured birth is $10-12K or so out of pocket.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:59 PM

That's the number I've heard is out of pocket for ObamaCare peeps. Which, adjusted for inflation is what I had to pay out of pocket even with insurance way back when.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (RKVpM)

352 I wonder how much attention the Biden administration is paying to polls.

It appears they are pushing hard for real lefy bullshit. Do they fear now is thier last chance before Trump?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (JeYYB)

353 You think you're a Duncan Idaho ghola, or something?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:04 PM (GBKbO)

The Honored Matres fear my pelvic sorcery
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (xcxpd)

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Such a weird book...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

It's the worst book in the series to start with.
Ask me how I know...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (xcxpd)

354 @TheInsiderPaper
NEW: Southwest closing operations at four airports, fire 2,000 employees

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (LkLld)

355 Bongino will be all over this.

Posted by: Orson at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (dIske)

356 It's the worst book in the series to start with.
Ask me how I know...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

If you read that one first how would you have ever gotten to the others?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (CIS44)

357 Interesting that hospital stays for pregnancies have gotten much shorter but bills for pregnancies have gotten much higher. Up until maybe the early 1980s, mothers would be in the hospital a week after giving birth. Now, they kick the mom out after 24 hours at most. I assume the exponentially higher bills are due to insane insurance costs for OBGYN and all the probably unnecessary testing and procedures done primarily to ward off lawsuits.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

358 352 I wonder how much attention the Biden administration is paying to polls.

It appears they are pushing hard for real lefy bullshit. Do they fear now is thier last chance before Trump?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (JeYYB)

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The administration is being run like it's populated by true believers who will do whatever they want because it is their obligation to do it.

Also, massive skimming off the top from every dollar sent to Ukraine, but that's another faction in the Pennsylvania Avenue Politboro.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (GBKbO)

359 Tough gigs in this WH. Either be bitten by a dog or beaten by a co-worker.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (CwhoI)

360 353 It's the worst book in the series to start with.
Ask me how I know...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (xcxpd)

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How on earth did that come to pass?

It came out, and you were all, "Let's see what this Dune thing is all about?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

361 Bang up job on the background checks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:06 PM (J3ymU)
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For 23 days per month she's OK.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (YqDXo)

362 Calm down.

You do know that childbirth use to kill a lot of woman. Mortality rates have changed, due to nutrition, cleanliness, etc, however, some woman cannot have children vaginally without issues. Serious issues.
Posted by: Seems Legit



Stronk Russian peasant woman. Hips like cow. No birthing problem.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (Jxvt5)

363 354 @TheInsiderPaper
NEW: Southwest closing operations at four airports, fire 2,000 employees
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (LkLld)

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JackStraw, does it say why?

Lack of pilots?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (JeYYB)

364 You do know that childbirth use to kill a lot of woman. Mortality rates have changed, due to nutrition, cleanliness, etc, however, some woman cannot have children vaginally without issues. Serious issues.
Posted by: Seems Legit'

The one thing that has determined child survival rates over time in the last 200 years is hygiene. Most child-bed deaths were due to ignorance, filth, and stupid shit like women pulling on the umblical cord and causing hemorrhages. I talked to my Mexican buddy and he told me his grandmother was tied to a ceiling during birth by women, in a filthy hovel, so her child would 'fall out'.
Percentage-wise, if you keep your house even remotely clean and the woman doesn't fucking panic due to to negative conditioning, anyone can have a no-problem natural birth.

Posted by: LenNeal with a Colt Lightning at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (9yXr+)

365 Pelvic Sorcery opened for Bush at the Civic Arena in '94.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (J3ymU)

366 The next generation has to show up, and the left is actively making that not happen for them. It's weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They hate Whitey even if they are in fact white and their self loathing that was brought about by education and their parents will lead them to their own destruction.

There is a reason that despair is a sin.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (/AKWf)

367 heInsiderPaper
NEW: Southwest closing operations at four airports, fire 2,000 employees
Posted by: JackStraw a

syracuse, cozumel, bellingham,WA and GHWB in Houston

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (CIS44)

368 JackStraw / @TheInsiderPaper: Southwest closing operations at four airports, fire 2,000 employees

Fired, or laid-off? 2000 fireable morons seems a... lot, even for Southwest.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (gKWVE)

369 Tough gigs in this WH. Either be bitten by a dog or beaten by a co-worker.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (CwhoI)
_______________

Or are treated to seeing Joe Biden's wrinkly sac when he swims. /shudder

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (YqDXo)

370 @ 122

DEI is seeming to be used more to attack than to fix any "past wrongs". Too funny.
______________________

I thought 'reparations' were supposed to fix those imaginary 'past wrongs'. No ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (ayRl+)

371 So he’s a woman agent?

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (o2ZRX)

372 Interesting that hospital stays for pregnancies have gotten much shorter but bills for pregnancies have gotten much higher. Up until maybe the early 1980s, mothers would be in the hospital a week after giving birth. Now, they kick the mom out after 24 hours at most. I assume the exponentially higher bills are due to insane insurance costs for OBGYN and all the probably unnecessary testing and procedures done primarily to ward off lawsuits.
Posted by: Elric Blade


Single occupancy rooms are a big reason.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 02:11 PM (Jxvt5)

373 Wow. First the homeschoolers - now the homebirthers. The virtue signals are strong today.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (+x87d)

374 nood weinstein

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

375 Huh, second guess turned out... correct. As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (gKWVE)

Likely apocryphal. Since Congress made him an honorary citizen of the United States, and he accepted the honor, I'm going with those who doubt he ever said it.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (rj6Yv)

376 >>JackStraw, does it say why?

>>Lack of pilots?

There was no underlying story just the headline. I'm going to see if there is anything else online.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (LkLld)

377 352 I wonder how much attention the Biden administration is paying to polls.

It appears they are pushing hard for real lefy bullshit. Do they fear now is thier last chance before Trump?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (JeYYB)

++++

I get the opposite feeling. They are so very confident that they'll be able to scam out the votes again, that every single rotten left-tard program is going to be pushed through
enthusiastically.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (F6UFz)

378 Interesting that hospital stays for pregnancies have gotten much shorter but bills for pregnancies have gotten much higher. Up until maybe the early 1980s, mothers would be in the hospital a week after giving birth. Now, they kick the mom out after 24 hours at most. I assume the exponentially higher bills are due to insane insurance costs for OBGYN and all the probably unnecessary testing and procedures done primarily to ward off lawsuits.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Bills for everything are higher and will continue to get higher. The US medical system increasingly resembles a racket, and so much is tied up in that fixing it - and it can be fixed, and fixed relatively quickly - would likely trigger a wave of bankruptcies and probably a recession and upset a whole lot of very important and powerful apple carts.

So it won't be fixed. Not yet. Not until it consumes the federal budget. Once that happens, they'll "fix" it by nationalizing it. That will work after a fashion, but will work through rationing like any nationalized system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (HnUIn)

379 At least he wasn’t stiffing South American whores.
Posted by: polynikes at April 25, 2024 02:07 PM (MNhXM)

Isn't stiffing them the object of the exercise?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (tkR6S)

380 >>>You do know that childbirth use to kill a lot of woman.

I've always found it strange that the human body seems pretty badly designed for developing offspring and birthing them. Do other mammals have this issue or is just humans?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (CwhoI)

381 365 Pelvic Sorcery opened for Bush at the Civic Arena in '94.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (J3ymU)

I believe it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:13 PM (xcxpd)

382 Huh, second guess turned out... correct. As Churchill put it, an American will always get it right having exhausted all alternatives
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2024 01:47 PM (gKWVE)

Likely apocryphal. Since Congress made him an honorary citizen of the United States, and he accepted the honor, I'm going with those who doubt he ever said it.

Posted by: mrp at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (rj6Yv)
______________

Churchill's mother was an American.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2024 02:13 PM (YqDXo)

383 Here's the Southwest information.

https://tinyurl.com/4t28hk8s

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 02:14 PM (LkLld)

384 "Southwest said it lost $231 million and will limit hiring, offer voluntary time off to employees and stop flying to four airports: Cozumel, Mexico; Syracuse, New York; Bellingham, Washington; and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where the airline’s major operation is at smaller Hobby Airport." The story also has this tidbit---"Airlines are dealing with higher labor costs and delays in getting new planes from Boeing, which is limiting their ability to add more flights at a time of high demand for travel."

https://tinyurl.com/3s9c29wx

Story from MSN.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 02:14 PM (/AKWf)

385 374 nood weinstein

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)


Reading that will strike most people blind!

whrs mi brale keebord?

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 02:14 PM (5fDan)

386 zIt's the worst book in the series to start with.
Ask me how I know...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:08 PM (xcxpd)

======

How on earth did that come to pass?

It came out, and you were all, "Let's see what this Dune thing is all about?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 02:10 PM (GBKbO)

I was browsing the sci-fi section of the library as a young-un. It had an interesting cover so I checked it out....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 02:15 PM (xcxpd)

387 I've always found it strange that the human body seems pretty badly designed for developing offspring and birthing them. Do other mammals have this issue or is just humans?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 02:12 PM (CwhoI)

Some breeds of domestic cattle, big-time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (tkR6S)

388 In the little town of Mulberry AR there's the now restored Kirksey Maternity Hospital. A very large house, it was operated by a Dr. Kirksey from 1946 to 1966. Approximately 4600 babies were born there. A place like that probably would be economically unfeasible nowadays with regs and insurance.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 25, 2024 02:16 PM (0EOe9)

389 syracuse, cozumel, bellingham,WA and GHWB in Houston

Honestly, I didn't even know Southwest flew out of Bush Int'l.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (/y8xj)

390 You do know that childbirth use to kill a lot of woman. Mortality rates have changed, due to nutrition, cleanliness, etc, however, some woman cannot have children vaginally without issues. Serious issues.
Posted by: Seems Legit'

Sore spot. The 'belly dance' of Eurasia was in fact originally a women-only movement for physical positioning of a child in utero to make sure the head is down and to prevent a potentially deadly breech birth. It became a demonstration of women to show they know how to safely give birth to children.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 02:17 PM (9yXr+)

391 This news piece seems to be getting scrubbed from sites that were previously reporting it.

Posted by: cheztrainor at April 25, 2024 02:19 PM (aellD)

392 I only wish Native Americans were increasing in numbers.

This is the stupid dumb idiotic fallacy that Native Americans are these peaceful peoples at one with the earth. They watched Pocahontas and believe everyone notices the colors of the wind. They think everyone stayed on their little section of the country making pottery and moccasins. They do not understand tribes warred with each other violently. Stole women, set fire to other tribes villages, stole their land and took it over *gasp* colonized it! The Comanche were hard core. The Sioux would whack you as soon as look at you. The Pawnee would come down hard on inter tribal violence, which is why there are stories about them being more peaceful, but were pretty vicious outside of it. They also had some very weird sexual ideas that I am personally glad didn’t carry through.

In summary, Native Americans were not hanging out in headdresses (war regalia, but details) with a domesticated wolf next to them (domesticated because of the oneness with the earth, no doubt). It was ugly and brutal.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 02:20 PM (ZdaMQ)

393 @371 So he’s a woman agent?
______________

Remember Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Tran" ... same song, diff'rent verse. "They've given it a number / And took away its name" ... or somethingsomething ...

Posted by: Dr_No at April 25, 2024 02:39 PM (ayRl+)

394 I assume an uninsured birth is $10-12K or so out of pocket.


Just wait until they feed and clothe the little shits!

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 25, 2024 02:58 PM (iNp3L)

395 I read elsewhere that the Special Agent shoved the Secret Service guy to the ground to “cool him off”. That’s a known technique for cooling people down — giving them a big shove. /sarc

Posted by: Joe Schmoe at April 25, 2024 03:16 PM (SLcpr)

396 Based on this reporting, it seems likely the armed SS Stormtrooper was actually the good guy in this situation.

Are you guys so god damned stupid you believe what USINT and Legacy Media tell you to think about something?

Holy shit, can't #conservatives ever learn a single lesson?

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 25, 2024 06:25 PM (FRT/w)

Unexpectedly, Dow Drops Over 600 Unexpected Points After GDP Unexpectedly Flatlines to Unexpectedly Low 1.6%

Bidenomics, baby!

Stocks tumbled Thursday after the latest U.S. economic data showed a sharp slowdown in growth and pointed to persistent inflation.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 611 points, or 1.6%, weighed down by steep declines in Caterpillar and IBM. The S&P 500 dropped 1.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.7%.

U.S. gross domestic product expanded 1.6% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast GDP growth would come in at 2.4%.

And inflation surged, too:

Along with the downbeat growth rate for the quarter, the report showed consumer prices increased at a 3.4% pace, well above the previous quarter's 1.8% advance. This raised concern over persistent inflation and put into question whether the Federal Reserve will be able to cut rates anytime soon.

This may sound bad to you, but don't worry, the Washington Post's "journalist" says this is "very solid" growth we should all be pleased by.

GDPfallisgreat.jpg

Note that "solid" growth is usually thought to be 3% or higher and "very solid" would be 3.5% or 4.0%.

But now 1.6% growth, which we all know is a snapshot of a falling line and we'll probably be at near-0% next quarter, is "very solid" because we have to all pull together and drag this evil rotten-brained husk of a rapist across the finish line again.

It increased by a negative amount

Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:06 PM




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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

2 Prepare the "Republicans Pouncing and Seizing" macro.

Posted by: The MSM at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (PiwSw)

3 Pump more federal tax dollars into the economy! Hire more federal employees!

Turn those machines back on!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

4 Sponge!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 25, 2024 12:08 PM (N39Ws)

5 meh. Call me when it drops 6000.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (vFG9F)

6 If it were just gdp wouldn't necessarily be interpreted negatively since that could mean rate cuts, it's that plus the inflation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (eYoxG)

7 The fundamental problem??? Biden killing American energy production? Which cascades down to everywhere?

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (PCK5/)

8 Can you say stagflation?

Sure you can.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (LkLld)

9 Insert Chip Diller character "All is well!" Clip from Animal House [Here].

Posted by: Beartooth at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (XT+5H)

10 Is that "quantative easing" still going on?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (AwYPR)

11 Summarizing some earlier Stock Operator Pedantry for Ace: It's DJIA, not DOW. We use percentages now, not points.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (MvF+J)

12 It increased by a negative amount

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (cKlsY)

13 Quick!! Print more money!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (AD14M)

14 Hi Ace

Yikes!
I was sure that the Fed would support Biden's 4 more years by cutting the Fed rate. But I guess they have decided to Pause.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

15 Lot of funemployment and funflation!

Norms restored!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (Ys9p5)

16 A 600 point drop is statistical noise for an over inflated dow. I would start getting concerned if it drops by 2,500 in a 24 hour period.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (QNSds)

17 "Spending big on services and being choosy on goods."

Interesting. Note that they don't go into reasons.

Services are often inelastic. If you need to go to the doctor or have the furnace fixed or whatever, that *has* to happen. You will cut other things to achieve it. And what will you cut? Goods. You're not being "choosy" so much as you're being forced out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)

18 This may sound bad to you, but don't worry, the Washington Post's "journalist" says this is "steady" growth we should all be pleased by.

-
Nothing to see here, comrade. Move along!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (FVME7)

19 FedGov spending is never moderating but skyrocketing under Biden. The spigot for pandemic has been shut down but redirected to hundreds of other losing causes with no end in sight. Nice try Heather.

Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2024 12:11 PM (oiNtH)

20 That WP “reporter”… sigh. As much as we hate the media, it’s not nearly enough

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 12:11 PM (+r3lU)

21 We need Nr. MooMoo to interpret these data for us.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:11 PM (l4B/J)

22 "U.S. gross domestic product expanded 1.6% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast GDP growth would come in at 2.4%."


Take out all of the federal government deficit spending and we are at negative growth and have been for some time.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM (QNSds)

23 A 600 point drop is statistical noise for an over inflated dow. I would start getting concerned if it drops by 2,500 in a 24 hour period.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (QNSds)

What's the threshold where they shut down trading?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

24 All is well! Return to your homes! ALL IS WELL!!!!!

Posted by: Biergood at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM (PwgSL)

25 The GDP is just an idea, man!

- The Sniffer-in-Chief

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM (gtY/l)

26 Don't forget the New Rules: Every penny the DOW drops is a panic worthy impeachable offense proving the idiocy and incompetence of everyone in power. *

* (When you don't like who's in power)

Hey, i don't make the rules. Don't blame me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM (GkFGh)

27 Economic stagnation isn't happening, and it's good that it's happening.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2024 12:13 PM (bhRsz)

28 22 Take out all of the federal government deficit spending and we are at negative growth and have been for some time.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM (QNSds)

=========

Almost like the feds are gaming the system by printing money in order to create positive headlines for political purposes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

29 There was that tweet by Biden crowing about all the jobs created since he took office.

And the response:

Yeah, and most people have to work two of them to make ends meet.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 12:13 PM (yikga)

30 None of the media is worth the paper it's printed on or the pixels it occupies. They are all liars and one party shills. Any gossip is likely to contain more truth than what "journalists" spout off.

Posted by: Decaf at April 25, 2024 12:13 PM (unUNN)

31 By choosy does she mean choosing beans and rice and 1 ply toilet paper over steak so bills get paid?

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 12:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

32 None of the media is worth the paper it's printed on or the pixels it occupies. They are all liars and one party shills. Any gossip is likely to contain more truth than what "journalists" spout off.

Are you suggesting Taylor Swift DIDN'T have Biden's baby?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:14 PM (CsUN+)

33 31 By choosy does she mean choosing beans and rice and 1 ply toilet paper over steak so bills get paid?
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 12:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Poor People food and motel TP…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 12:15 PM (PCK5/)

34 Being "choosy" = no longer being able to afford it. Never trust economic advice from somebody named Heather.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 12:15 PM (mupln)

35 A 600 point drop is statistical noise for an over inflated dow. I would start getting concerned if it drops by 2,500 in a 24 hour period.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (QNSds)

What's the threshold where they shut down trading?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:12 PM


A bing search says a 20% drop will suspend trading for two hours.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:15 PM (QNSds)

36 [O/T -- Jeebus, as I predicted, Bongino is all over the Secret Service DIE hire story and ...]

I had no idea that the Agency is being run by DIE Director hire Kimberly A. Cheatle -- an F. Joe Mugabe flunky.

"Where have you gone Atomic Tranny DogBoy?
A nation turns its empty leash to you ... woo, hoo, hoo"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:15 PM (/JOu+)

37 Those two quarters of negative growth. Wasn't that a recession? Why did no one call it that?

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (fMN7A)

38 Sooo... GDP growth is much less than the rate of inflation.... but they won't call it a recession, or depression.

We need some media to start ALLOWING the truth to get out..

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (xaFKb)

39 I actually agree with this WP nitwit's read of the actual numbers, but not with her conclusion. The numbers as published do in fact show big services spending moderated by reduced goods spending (looks like cars are way down).

It also shows reduced government spending. It's that last part that seems completely wrong to me. How can gov't spending be down?? Shouldn't it be up?? I wonder if these numbers aren't all just pulled out of someone's asshole.

I suspect this is the beginning of the op to give the Fed cover to reduce rates to try to juice Joey Showers' chances in November.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (iFTx/)

40 Imagine making the claim that government spending is "moderating".

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (OguvZ)

41 Decent chance they just declare a climate emergency and seize dictatorial power

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (FQmDC)

42 Meh, no biggie. Have I mentioned that my house is so big you can fucking see it from space?

Posted by: Mr Noo Noo at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (2UnvF)

43 Saying that federal spending is 'moderating' after the pandemic surge is like saying flooding moderated on the Titanic once the bow went under.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM (CwhoI)

44 >>>I was sure that the Fed would support Biden's 4 more years by cutting the Fed rate. But I guess they have decided to Pause.

I bet they'll leak they're thinking about cutting rates anyway.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM (KRtlO)

45 Anyone here know offhand how much we have pissed away on Ukraine?? Also, how much on illegals??

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM (PCK5/)

46 Wait, Taylor Swift had Joe's baby? Or Hunters? I gotta know!

Because I thought Taylor Swift was too old to get Joe's attention.

But if this is true, it might explain why it looks like Swift has hit the wall hard in the last few months. Ever since she started dating that football player, her looks, such as she had, have gone downhill in a hurry. She used to be moderately cute, but now her face, ewww.

Posted by: SimoHayha at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM (N/k1H)

47 fortunately there is massive market growth room in commercial real estate and nothing is safer than municipal bonds.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (D7oie)

48 Adding 1 Trillion in deficit spending every 100 days is "moderating spending." Yeah, that's the ticket.

Posted by: Storm of Ale at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (i14/a)

49 Also, as far as that "spending big on services" claim goes, the government report says most of the increase there came from health care and insurance--you know, the sort of things that are necessities for most people.

Consumers were being "choosy" on goods because they couldn't choose not to be.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (bhRsz)

50 U.S. gross domestic product expanded 1.6% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
++++
Ouch. Double ouch when you consider something that economists resolutely - almost religiously - refuse to consider.

From the BEA:
Current-dollar GDP increased 4.8 percent at an annual rate, or $327.5 billion

So, unadjusted for inflation (the raw figure), we added $327.5 billion to GDP.

The US federal deficit spending from January through March was around $550 billion. The deficit *alone* for that period is smaller than the growth in GDP.

Every penny of that growth and then some was borrowed - and borrowed not by the economy at large, but by the feds alone. Absolutely none of this growth is real. If you subtract out the deficit - not all government spending, but just the deficit spending - GDP fell by nearly a quarter trillion dollars.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (HnUIn)

51 If you want propaganda, go over to the Bureau of Labor Shititstics.

This supposedly non-partisan organization has over called employment so badly that it had to revise downward every initial report for 13 straight months.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (RHGPo)

52 "It's the fault of the extreme MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump. "

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (IRhCl)

53 47 fortunately there is massive market growth room in commercial real estate and nothing is safer than municipal bonds.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (D7oie)

I love me some humor in the morning!!

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 12:18 PM (PCK5/)

54 37 Those two quarters of negative growth. Wasn't that a recession? Why did no one call it that?
Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (fMN7A)

It's one of those things where everyone has decided to ignore it. We had a pretty clear recession in tech and office space, some of the effects of which are still rolling off, but that's why a lot of 2023 looked more like economic recovery from recession, albeit a weak bounceback.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (eYoxG)

55 Currently there are 10 states that have a combined rate at or above 50%. Under Biden plan for his 2nd term, 36 states will have combined taxation at or above 50%.

Clearly, we need a Constitutional Amendment to cap combined taxation at 50%.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (RHGPo)

56 Look phat, the new Five Year Plan is going to be so awesome it will blow away all those tired old statistical-thingees. So, shut up and hand over your ballot to our neighborhood captains. We will vote it for you.

Posted by: The Junta, looking for some understanding at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (e+E3X)

57 Remember, these governnment economic figures are also dishonestly favorable to whatever the actual reality is. If Trump were President right now with this same economy, the regime's GDP figures would be negative, news anchors would somberly by declaring a Recession, and impeachment proceedings would be commencing for Trump's criminal mismanagement of the economy.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (d9Cw3)

58 Going to crash and burn sooner or later

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (mb6GH)

59 Sure, officer, I was doing 187mph. But I was moderating my speed. I hit 191 just a few minutes before that.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (OguvZ)

60 I was sure that the Fed would support Biden's 4 more years by cutting the Fed rate. But I guess they have decided to Pause.

I bet they'll leak they're thinking about cutting rates anyway.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM


I was convinced that the fed would give biden 4 rate cuts this year to help him win in November, boy was I wrong.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (QNSds)

61 Negative growth is what an Admiral Ackbar link induces.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:20 PM (l4B/J)

62 GDP, chocolate rations, whatever.

Posted by: Pious Agnostic at April 25, 2024 12:20 PM (BFEJQ)

63 Time for a Fed bond auction ?

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2024 12:20 PM (v0R5T)

64 "Spending big on services and being choosy on goods."

Interesting. Note that they don't go into reasons.

Services are often inelastic. If you need to go to the doctor or have the furnace fixed or whatever, that *has* to happen. You will cut other things to achieve it. And what will you cut? Goods. You're not being "choosy" so much as you're being forced out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)

Good news everyone! People are spending all they have, and more, just to stay alive and cannot improve their lot! This is just the way that I, and the rest of the global aristocracy, envision life for American peasants before we determine the optimal means for putting them down.

-- Journalist unaware that she isn't "actually" a member of the global aristocracy

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 12:20 PM (IUd0M)

65 Uh oh.. Bidenomics is on the ropes... Quick.. Get some more Trump indictments STAT !

Posted by: Joe at April 25, 2024 12:20 PM (Akjoo)

66 45 Anyone here know offhand how much we have pissed away on Ukraine?? Also, how much on illegals??
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM (PCK5
These two investments will yield dividends for the next hundred years.
- uniparty crooks

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (o2ZRX)

67 38 Sooo... GDP growth is much less than the rate of inflation.... but they won't call it a recession, or depression.

We need some media to start ALLOWING the truth to get out..
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2024 12:16 PM (xaFKb)

GDP as reported is already adjusted for inflation. Now given inflation is understated or gdp growth overstated, then that's true.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (eYoxG)

68 I had no idea that the Agency is being run by DIE Director hire Kimberly A. Cheatle -- an F. Joe Mugabe flunky.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:15 PM

And she reports to...Mayorkas.

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (AwYPR)

69 >>>Currently there are 10 states that have a combined rate at or above 50%.

*tugs on collar uncomfortably*

Posted by: California at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (CwhoI)

70 Unexpectantly...
Unexpectantly...
Unexpectantly...

Wait for a few weeks when they quietly sneak out the "revised" numbers.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (W/lyH)

71 If Trump makes it to the White House again and unfucks what *biden has done to the economy, the media will spin it as "the recovery is much smaller, slower, etc. than expected."

Forgetting that in 3 short years *biden and his minions destroyed most American's wealth, the country's infrastructure and economy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4IgG)

72
Those two quarters of negative growth. Wasn't that a recession? Why did no one call it that?
Posted by: Lex

The dictionary is a living document. Like the constitution.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (63Dwl)

73 Only a society that feels wealthy can afford the ridiculous WEF, transmania, illegal immigration policies that the Dems have imposed over the last three years.
The only positive is that by ignoring their normal consituencies for the Hamas wing of the party and illegal immigrants, they have alienated the consituency that helped them cheat last time. They did not get their expected reward. Instead of reparations and defund the police, they got inflation and loss of imfluence.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (t/2Uw)

74 I bet they'll leak they're thinking about cutting rates anyway.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 12:17 PM (KRtlO)


Probably. I doubt they'll actually cut them in the end, but they'll let the speculation circulate as long as possible to make the market bullish again and give the junta some good news to point to.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (bhRsz)

75 Why does that last graph look like a dead-cat bounce?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

76 Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (RHGPo)

77 Federal gov't spending is moderating after the pandemic surge

Why do I read this as, "Federal gov't spending on citizens is being cut as quickly as possible to free up money for importing more illegals and proxy wars overseas"?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (dZVON)

78 16 A 600 point drop is statistical noise for an over inflated dow. I would start getting concerned if it drops by 2,500 in a 24 hour period.
Posted by: Mister Scott
------
The stock market officially entered correction territory last week (aka losing ten percent off the peak this year) and this is putting a cherry on top of it.

While people have been partying on here--the Dow got pumped up a bit this year by expecting the Fed to start chopping interest rates. Since then, it has been quietly declining since about late February when the fed did not chop interest rates and signal cuts were coming. The Fed is concerned that inflation is persistently higher than target and thus are not likely to help the Biden junta this year unlike what the market expected.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (/AKWf)

79 Biden was misquoted. He didn't say "America is back." He said he'd knocked America on its back.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (1bNHn)

80 I'm okay. People I know are okay.

Posted by: Nobel winner Paul Krugman at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (VGOMa)

81 It increased by a negative amount
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

No, it advanced in reverse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

82 the report showed consumer prices increased at a 3.4% pace, well above the previous quarter's 1.8% advance.

Yes, but think how good we'd be looking if arms shipments to the Ukraine were included in the GDP...

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ls1gy)

83 GDP as reported is already adjusted for inflation. Now given inflation is understated or gdp growth overstated, then that's true.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM


Inflation has been understated since the 1970s/80s when they started monkeying around with the formula. The "official" inflation numbers haven't been tethered to reality for over 50 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (QNSds)

84 80 I'm okay. People I know are okay.

Posted by: Nobel winner Paul Krugman at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (VGOMa)

Yo, PK! Barbeque of Haiti needs you personal advice; he needs you to visit him stat!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

85 If Trump makes it to the White House again and unfucks what *biden has done to the economy, the media will spin it as "the recovery is much smaller, slower, etc. than expected." ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4IgG)
++++
He won't. Even if he makes it in, he won't.

This doesn't get solved without a balanced budget that stays balanced for a goodly while. Surpluses would be better, but we have to at least stop deficit spending for a while. That's up to Congress, and it won't happen. Too many pigs at the trough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (HnUIn)

86 Biden was misquoted. He didn't say "America is back." He said he'd knocked America on its back.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (1bNHn)


That's a fact, Jack! Just like Ashley!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (bhRsz)

87
"Spending big on services and being choosy on goods."

Choosy mothers choose Jif.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 12:24 PM (63Dwl)

88 But Notable Prize Winner Krugtron the Invincible says it's all great.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 12:24 PM (1bNHn)

89 This can all be fixed by raising taxes on billionaires!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 25, 2024 12:24 PM (i7Q7S)

90 I went to dinner last night at a fancy restaurant and everything looked fine to me!

Posted by: Don LeMon at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (2UnvF)

91 Fedbov spending is moderating after pandemic surge = Refractory period.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (l4B/J)

92 In all fairness, blue states are enacting legislation that will for sure destroy their economies.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (nLFEI)

93 82" the report showed consumer prices increased at a 3.4% pace, well above the previous quarter's 1.8% advance."

Yes, but think how good we'd be looking if arms shipments to the Ukraine were included in the GDP...
Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ls1gy)

They would be assuming they're made in the US.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (eYoxG)

94 You can't afford groceries.
But they just sent $60 billion to Ukraine

You have maxed out your credit cards.
But they have sent $50 billion to terrorists in Iran.

You haven't gotten a raise in years.
But they tell you the economy is doing great.

You can't even think about a vacation.
But they're flying illegal aliens for free all over the country.

Your roads are falling apart.
But they are building a free seaport for the terrorists of Hamas.

You want to know what your kids are learning.
But they're pumping them full of hate and chemicals that sterilize.

You asked about a tax cut.
But they told you it's too expensive.

You want to vote for someone to fix it.
But they tell you he's a criminal and so are you.

When is it time for Americans to get help?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (yikga)

95 It increased by a negative amount
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

brother, have you heard? gdp is growing!

Posted by: parsons at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (v3pYe)

96 83 GDP as reported is already adjusted for inflation. Now given inflation is understated or gdp growth overstated, then that's true.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM


Inflation has been understated since the 1970s/80s when they started monkeying around with the formula. The "official" inflation numbers haven't been tethered to reality for over 50 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (QNSds)

"Oh, steak is too expensive; lets substitute hamburger!"
and a whole host of other tricks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

97 If you don't vote Biden then you ain't back.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (63Dwl)

98 Smaller bars on the chart are good, right?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (vFG9F)

99 I bet heather wouldn't call shrinkage like that "solid growth" if it happened to her man.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (Y6IkP)

100 -- Journalist unaware that she isn't "actually" a member of the global aristocracy
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Journalist (or propagandists as I like to call them) at the elite media are now nepots and trust fund babies. It is a occupation with relatively high social status but well suited for the more stupid of the elite to be employed. All you have to do is follow the party line.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (/AKWf)

101 I guess we must all be finally paying our fair share of taxes.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (nLFEI)

102 When Heather Long says the "economy is still very solid" HTF does this relate to people who can't afford gas, food, or rent?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (JeYYB)

103 Read Karl D. market ticker.
Everything DC does is wrong.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (PMJuY)

104 94
...

When is it time for Americans to get help?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (yikga)

At some point, Americans will have to do it themselves, just like they always have.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

105 Those two quarters of negative growth. Wasn't that a recession? Why did no one call it that?
Posted by: Lex

The dictionary is a living document.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Actually, it is. The language is constantly changing, so dictionaries require constant revision.

But yeah, I understand your point about TPTB purposely changing the definition of words ("vaccine," "recession") to suit their purposes. And that's something that real dictionaries should not be a party to.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (9yWhg)

106 94 Your roads are falling apart.
But they are building a free seaport for the terrorists of Hamas.

i hear they broke ground on high-speed rail from la to vegas just the other day

Posted by: anachronda at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (v3pYe)

107 Clearly, we need a Constitutional Amendment to cap combined taxation at 50%.
Posted by: SMOD

That would mean no-income tax states would be subsidizing income tax states, a subsidy like that one Trump eliminated.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (IG4Id)

108 56 Look phat, the new Five Year Plan is going to be so awesome it will blow away all those tired old statistical-thingees. So, shut up and hand over your ballot to our neighborhood captains. We will vote it for you.
Posted by: The Junta, looking for some understanding at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (e+E3X

And if that doesn't work, we'll make a "Great Leap Forward", just like Mao and all his Commie friends failed at.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (IRhCl)

109 "Oh, steak is too expensive; lets substitute hamburger!"
and a whole host of other tricks.
Posted by: jim
=======
Yep. They have steadily impoverished the middle and working classes in favor of themselves and their rent a vote poor welfare class.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (/AKWf)

110 Inflation has been understated since the 1970s/80s when they started monkeying around with the formula. The "official" inflation numbers haven't been tethered to reality for over 50 years.

Hey, what a coincidence! Our dollar has also been untethered from assets for over 50 years. What are the odds...

Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (ls1gy)

111 Economics is hard!

Posted by: Heather at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (vtyCZ)

112 98 Smaller bars on the chart are good, right?

this is about the choco ration, isn't it?

Posted by: parsons at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (v3pYe)

113 Marketing genius.

Single ply toilet paper: Get in youch with yourself.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Jxvt5)

114 When is it time for Americans to get help?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
---
I don't want "help" especially not for the fedgov definition of "help"

Just want to be left the fuck alone. But nobody can skim 10% off the top of that.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (wQXfi)

115 102 When Heather Long says the "economy is still very solid" HTF does this relate to people who can't afford gas, food, or rent?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (JeYYB)

Depends on the meaning of "economy", "is", "still", "very", and "solid"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

116 Does anyone else feel that they don't take responsibility because they were so sure what they did would work?

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (nLFEI)

117 " Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Posted by: SMOD"

Oh no! Better give them another 48 hours to recover.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:28 PM (vFG9F)

118 113 Marketing genius.

Single ply toilet paper: Get in youch with yourself.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (Jxvt5)

If they add the splinters back, you'll use less.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

119 >>>This doesn't get solved without a balanced budget that stays balanced for a goodly while.

There's absolutely no political will in either party for the austerity budgets needed to get our debt under control. I think at this point they've decided to max out the credit cards and party until things go bust.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 12:28 PM (CwhoI)

120 44 >>>I was sure that the Fed would support Biden's 4 more years by cutting the Fed rate. But I guess they have decided to Pause.
+++

I bet they'll leak they're thinking about cutting rates anyway.

Posted by: ace at April 25, 2024 12:17 P

I worked so hard to slip in that clever(at least I thought it was clever) double entendre and no one got it.
Sigh

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (t/2Uw)

121 Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (wQXfi)


Hey, SiD. Yesterday was Scream Day. Hope you had a good one -- a good day and a good scream.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (9yWhg)

122 There's enough holes in the bucket now that the water is leaking out faster than they can pi55 in it.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (DBd2Y)

123 And, of course, my stupid straddle on DIS stock locks it in at 113, the only price that hurts me the most.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (3wEtP)

124 When Heather Long says the "economy is still very solid" HTF does this relate to people who can't afford gas, food, or rent?


Much like feces when someone is dehydrated is "very solid". That may be, but it's still shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (dZVON)

125 119 There's absolutely no political will in either party for the austerity budgets needed to get our debt under control. I think at this point they've decided to max out the credit cards and party until things go bust.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 12:28 PM (CwhoI)

=======

"I'm all for cutting federal spending, as long as I still get mine."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

126 " Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Posted by: SMOD"


I'm melting, I'm melting!! Oh my world....

Posted by: Student Protesters at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (bhRsz)

127 Heather Long

Washington, D.C.
Editorial writer and columnist

Education: Wellesley College, BA in economics and English; Oxford University, master's in financial economics and medieval literature

Well . . . that explains it!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

128 Be not afraid. There'll be plenty of cicadas to eat this year.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (1bNHn)

129 106 94 Your roads are falling apart.
But they are building a free seaport for the terrorists of Hamas.

i hear they broke ground on high-speed rail from la to vegas just the other day

Posted by: anachronda at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (v3pYe)

Boondoggle...again. Kali and it's desire to pay it's "benefactors" with all the money for these "trains to nowhere". Yo, Sacramento! How much money do I get if I "house" a few homeless guys? Some of those hotel owners were getting somewhere around $100k each...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

130
Yo, PK! Barbeque of Haiti needs you personal advice; he needs you to visit him stat!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

wowl this could be Paul Krugman's Friedman moment!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (D7oie)

131 There is still time for Powell and company to do two or three quick rate cuts before November, to goose the markets just in time. But if Powell cares about his "legacy" maybe not, idk.

Someone (not sure if it was Team Biden or the Fed Reserve goofs) already promised rate cuts this year, even after they "paused" recently.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (Cus5s)

132 If they're still online go look at the stories about the economy under Bush. Even actual growth was written in the most catastrophically negative terms. It's funny.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (rAQ0h)

133 i hear they broke ground on high-speed rail from la to vegas just the other day
Posted by: anachronda at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (v3pYe)

Dammit -- should have called me first

Posted by: Lyle Landley at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (gtY/l)

134 "No worries, Mr. President, we'll just tell them next week that you created 300,000 new jobs in April."

Posted by: Fake ... Everything at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (qUkBO)

135 Much like feces when someone is dehydrated is "very solid". That may be, but it's still shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (dZVON)

hurts, too

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

136 You want to vote for someone to fix it.
But they tell you he's a criminal and so are you.

When is it time for Americans to get help?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 12:25 PM (yikga)

I hope we see the effects of a "silent majority" -- if I can bring back that old idea.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (IRhCl)

137 108 56 Look phat, the new Five Year Plan is going to be so awesome it will blow away all those tired old statistical-thingees. So, shut up and hand over your ballot to our neighborhood captains. We will vote it for you.
Posted by: The Junta, looking for some understanding at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (e+E3X

And if that doesn't work, we'll make a "Great Leap Forward", just like Mao and all his Commie friends failed at.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 12:26 PM (IRhCl)

Ya, right over a cliff...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

138 When is it time for Americans to get help?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
=======
There is no one coming over the hill, least of all GOP in Congress, to our aid. If anything, the GOP is all in with the Dems in destroying the Federal public fisc.

As productive types, we have to develop essentially a parallel economy and society and that requires a change in one's thinking and economic decisions. Go around, behind, underneath, and create and remember barter is always an option.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (/AKWf)

139 There's absolutely no political will in either party for the austerity budgets needed to get our debt under control. I think at this point they've decided to max out the credit cards and party until things go bust.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 25, 2024 12:28 PM (CwhoI)
++++
Yup.

I've described it as "loot the bitch empty before it augers in" or the "loot the empire stage" of development. The non-retards in power - and there are many - know that this doesn't end well. But they also know that the power structure utterly depends on theft and corruption, so they have no choice but to continue and accelerate until it's all gone. Those at the tippity-top probably expect to be able to jump clear of the wreckage when that happens.

The music is still playing, so they're going to keep dancing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (HnUIn)

140 Are the RNG forecasts for GDP growth out yet for next quarter?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (l4B/J)

141 Be not afraid. There'll be plenty of cicadas to eat this year.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (1bNHn)
---
I live smack dab in the middle of cicada country. I am expecting a bumper crop this year!

At least my cats and I won't go hungry for a while...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (7fElN)

142 Stagflation

If our Republican Congress had a spine (and wasn’t following Trumps orders) they would cut off all this stimulus that’s propping up the economy.

$1 trillion in debt every hundred days, but let’s give another hundred billion to defend other countries borders

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (YZ529)

143 134 "No worries, Mr. President, we'll just tell them next week that you created 300,000 new jobs in April."
Posted by: Fake ... Everything at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (qUkBO)

Which they will probably do

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (Akjoo)

144 GDP is only one of many yardsticks, and it's a pretty stupid one. It measures only output. Dog a ditch and fill it back in and got GDP. Government spending is a direct component of GDP as well - and they are spending well over 1 trillion a year more than they have, it's like maxing out your credit card to clear out the Rent2Own place and saying you're doing awesome now. Combine government spending along with digging and refilling ditches, and you've got Washington DC.

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (X3M8m)

145 "Be not afraid. There'll be plenty of cicadas to eat this year.
Posted by: Eeyore"

You are not kidding. They are all over the place here.
Come and git it yall!

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (vFG9F)

146 109 "Oh, steak is too expensive; lets substitute hamburger!"
and a whole host of other tricks.
Posted by: jim
=======
Yep. They have steadily impoverished the middle and working classes in favor of themselves and their rent a vote poor welfare class.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:27 PM (/AKWf)

Eating flat screen TVs just doesn't work. Besides, I can live with my old TV for quite a while, but I need gas for the car, food in my belly, and electricity and gas form my house...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

147 I think retail financial institutions have been expecting this downturn. Last month my company laid off about 3000 people. We were told in November that the bonuses in 2024 wouldnt be as generous as 2023...that was around the same time our DIE VP was let go quietly.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (Mykux)

148 We don't care about austerity, cutting spending or budget deficits. EVERYONE knows the answer is increased revenue! Now pay the tax and eat the bugs. And shut up.

Posted by: Congress at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (AD14M)

149 Can you say stagflation?

Sure you can.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM

If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (Wnv9h)

150 The trick is to figure out how to rotate in and out of the dead cat bounce.
The Congresscritters got the inside track no matter what.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (DBd2Y)

151 117 " Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Posted by: SMOD"

Oh no! Better give them another 48 hours to recover.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:28 PM (vFG9F)

The water needs more chlorine. It's for the gene pool!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

152 Hey, SiD. Yesterday was Scream Day. Hope you had a good one -- a good day and a good scream.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
---
Hey, B. Good to see you as always. No screaming here, it freaks out my 84 year old mother and the cat.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (wQXfi)

153 106 94 Your roads are falling apart.
But they are building a free seaport for the terrorists of Hamas.

----

I understand that I'm a dunce but isn't that treason?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (JeYYB)

154 Those at the tippity-top probably expect to be able to jump clear of the wreckage when that happens.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
=======
Those at the tippity top depend more on society and its productive workers because they literally do not know how to produce anything.

That, plus easy enough for drones to make the tippity top have to live in caves and cower in fear for what they have done to society.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (/AKWf)

155 This doesn't get solved without a balanced budget that stays balanced for a goodly while. Surpluses would be better, but we have to at least stop deficit spending for a while. That's up to Congress, and it won't happen. Too many pigs at the trough.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (HnUIn)

My only qualification to make this comment is I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night… but I disagree. If Trump gets in if all he does is unleash energy production and begin eliminating regulations again… the positive impact will be quite noticeable IMHO

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (+r3lU)

156 DU has a thread on this...but no relevant discussion lol. There are other threads trying to hype up the "positives" of Bidenomics, though.

New US Home Sales Jump to Highest Level Since September! Sales of new homes in the US bounced back in March in a broad advance as prospective buyers toughed out high mortgage rates. New single-family home sales increased 8.8% to a 693,000 annual pace last month, the fastest since September, government data showed Tuesday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg gave a median estimate of 668,000.

US applications for jobless claims fall to lowest level in 9 weeks. The Labor Department reported Thursday that unemployment claims for the week ending April 20 fell by 5,000 to 207,000 from 212,000 the previous week. That's the fewest since mid-February.

Best President of my lifetime! (Dark Brandon image) And possibly most underappreciated.

And the stock markets immediately tank. Big money players think that too many commoners getting jobs will bite into their share of the pie.

The markets are WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY overdue for a correction. notably a 10% one.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (QG++7)

157 [Looks at bank account.] The economy is booming! Well, *my* economy is! [Smirks.]

Posted by: Heather Long at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (qUkBO)

158 If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Don't comment on old threads.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (9yWhg)

159 "Spending big on services and being choosy on goods."

Interesting. Note that they don't go into reasons.

Services are often inelastic. If you need to go to the doctor or have the furnace fixed or whatever, that *has* to happen. You will cut other things to achieve it. And what will you cut? Goods. You're not being "choosy" so much as you're being forced out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)

Also does spending big actually mean an increase, or is it just a shift in the proportions--with services spending perhaps being static or even decreasing, but not as fast as goods spending has cratered?

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (z/ifB)

160 If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
--------------
In the economy that we are heading into, you won't be able to afford pants nor the fabric to make them. You might be able to make and wear a loincloth.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (/AKWf)

161 Dang, I'm hungry. I know, I'll have a muffin!

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGV3yV9q4Q4

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (X4yCj)

162 126 " Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Posted by: SMOD"


I'm melting, I'm melting!! Oh my world....

Posted by: Student Protesters at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (bhRsz)

"No one told me we'd be made to shower!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

163 Remember with all of this garbage data, the directors and executives at Bear Stearns and Lehman had to end up somewhere. These idiots had connections 15 years ago...they didn't disappear.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (Mykux)

164 Looks like it was a very bad day for Team Lawfare at the Supreme Court today.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (LkLld)

165 127 Heather Long

Washington, D.C.
Editorial writer and columnist

Education: Wellesley College, BA in economics and English; Oxford University, master's in financial economics and medieval literature

Well . . . that explains it!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

Yes! Propaganda supporting Medieval economics.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

166 "New single-family home sales increased 8.8% to a 693,000 annual pace last month, the fastest since September, government data showed Tuesday."
---
"government data"

I think I found a flaw in your argument...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (7fElN)

167 Under my watch, the economic recovery has hit. Pause. New heights, giving Americans. Pause. Hope for the future.

Posted by: POTUS at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (CwhoI)

168 I laugh over the FNM still pretending we are not in a recession. We've formally been in one for years now.

And combining it with the current Biden hyperinflation? Worst economy since the great Depression.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (ibTVg)

169 "If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState"

How about plaid shorts?

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (vFG9F)

170 156 And the stock markets immediately tank. Big money players think that too many commoners getting jobs will bite into their share of the pie.

The markets are WAAAAAAAAYYYYYY overdue for a correction. notably a 10% one.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (QG++7)

======

Interesting that the big money antagonism is still there...despite their constant cheering on of big money interests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

171 I wonder what the actual debt limit is? Not the voted upon one, but the real one where no one will buy T bills. 50T?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (uTFcg)

172 130
Yo, PK! Barbeque of Haiti needs you personal advice; he needs you to visit him stat!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

wowl this could be Paul Krugman's Friedman moment!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 12:30 PM (D7oie)

Ha! Or Fried-man...LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

173 If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

...

I'd be okay with plaid if we get a decent reboot of the Olds 442.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (z/ifB)

174 Best President of my lifetime! (Dark Brandon image) And possibly most underappreciated.


Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (QG++7)

born at night...last night

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (AwYPR)

175 135 Much like feces when someone is dehydrated is "very solid". That may be, but it's still shit.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:29 PM (dZVON)

hurts, too

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (AwYPR)

Quicksand. Quicksand all the way down...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

176 U.S. gross domestic product expanded 1.6% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast GDP growth would come in at 2.4%.

And they're lying about that.

Rest assured that number will be quietly adjusted downwards in a few weeks.

Posted by: General at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (YAtuc)

177 It may be too late. I hope it's too late.
This was NYC this morning:

https://tinyurl.com/52w5e3ec

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

178 If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Don't comment on old threads.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (9yWhg)

Damn, Bulg -- that was well played.
*steady loud clap*

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (gtY/l)

179 Looks like an exponential decay curve, with a few blips in it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (tkR6S)

180 Moose and Squirrel just punted a hundred billion into the war vortex against Natasha and Boris Badenov.
Just what did you think would happen when that much wealth was removed from our economy?
There is no free lunch.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (DBd2Y)

181 145 "Be not afraid. There'll be plenty of cicadas to eat this year.
Posted by: Eeyore"

You are not kidding. They are all over the place here.
Come and git it yall!

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:31 PM (vFG9F)

Cicada burgers,
Cicada Fries,
Cicada with pineapple,
Cicada fricassee,
Cicada...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

182 Panic as Automatic Sprinklers Soak Harvard’s Anti-Israel Encampment
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:22 PM (RHGPo)

Has anyone informed them that it's Zionist water?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (IUd0M)

183 If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
---
How about any of these?

https://tinyurl.com/2t9u6xmf

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (wQXfi)

184 Most, if not all of the "GDP" growth is coming from gov spending. So, really no growth is occurring, is my bet. Inflation, from my grocery spending is running in the 10-15 percent range. Saw price increases and shrinkflation happening over the past 4,-8 weeks. Good times.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (A2E7p)

185 If Biden has lost NYC...

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

186 New single-family home sales increased 8.8% to a 693,000 annual pace last month, the fastest since September, government data showed Tuesday."
---
"government data"

I think I found a flaw in your argument...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM (7fElN)

Is that 8.8 percent YOY, or just compared to the crappy month before? Same question for Sept of last year the "previous fastest" one.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (z/ifB)

187 149 Can you say stagflation?

Sure you can.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM

If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (Wnv9h)

Stagflation sounds like a Jimmy Carter Porno.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

188 Looks like it was a very bad day for Team Lawfare at the Supreme Court today.

Don't worry, I'll pick up the slack!

Posted by: The Fascist Attorney General of Arizona! at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (YAtuc)

189 But now 1.6% growth, which we all know is a snapshot of a falling line and we'll probably be at near-0% next quarter, is "very solid" because we have to all pull together and drag this evil rotten-brained husk of a rapist across the finish line again.

To break even the US economy has to grow more then Bidenflation, immigration, and government debt.

So if the economy grows 1.6% in a quarter, but we've got 2.6% inflation per quarter (a stupidly low ball estimate) we are already at -1% growth, not including population growth and increased debt.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (ibTVg)

190 Eating flat screen TVs just doesn't work. Besides, I can live with my old TV for quite a while, but I need gas for the car, food in my belly, and electricity and gas form my house...
Posted by: jim
-----
Our elites are in the same mindset as Marie Antoinette was when she expressed that the poor should eat cake when they could not afford bread.

(Bit more of obscure French economics at the time to what Marie said but the principle is the same).

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (/AKWf)

191 Education: Wellesley College, BA in economics and English; Oxford University, master's in financial economics and medieval literature
------
Someone needs it up the nether ye good and hard!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (vtyCZ)

192 185 If Biden has lost NYC...
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

=======

Trust me.

He hasn't lost Tammany's ballots.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

193 Damn, Bulg -- that was well played.
*steady loud clap*
Posted by: Doof

Thanks, Doof. Not the first time I've used it.

No one seemed to notice my Stuyvesant pun in the last thread, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (9yWhg)

194 150 The trick is to figure out how to rotate in and out of the dead cat bounce.
The Congresscritters got the inside track no matter what.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (DBd2Y)

So F*cking the dead cat.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (ynpvh)

195 Great news! No unrealized capital gains to tax!

You’re welcome.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (GD2xa)

196 My only qualification to make this comment is I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night… but I disagree. If Trump gets in if all he does is unleash energy production and begin eliminating regulations again… the positive impact will be quite noticeable IMHO
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM (+r3lU)
++++
That will help, to be sure. There is a boot on the neck and removing that boot (or even just reducing the pressure) will help. It will not solve the problem unless productivity increases enough to offset the deficit, which has the same final net effect on the budget as cutting: balance.

The deficits *must* be brought under control or the problem cannot be solved. It might - maybe - be able to be delayed a bit. But until deficits hit zero (or, at bare minimum, no longer exceed GDP growth), the continue to corrode the economy. There is no other choice. Things *must* always balance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (HnUIn)

197 195 Great news! No unrealized capital gains to tax!

You’re welcome.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (GD2x

=======

Also, we have to increase taxes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

198 Yes, but think how good we'd be looking if arms shipments to the Ukraine were included in the GDP...
Posted by: t-bird at April 25, 2024 12:23 PM (ls1gy)

Would $1.78 really make that big a difference?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (IUd0M)

199 188 Looks like it was a very bad day for Team Lawfare at the Supreme Court today.

Don't worry, I'll pick up the slack!
Posted by: The Fascist Attorney General of Arizona! at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (YAtuc)

Is that good ? I heard the Trump lawyers were awful

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (Akjoo)

200 In the economy that we are heading into, you won't be able to afford pants nor the fabric to make them. You might be able to make and wear a loincloth.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM

The Horde will be ahead of the fashion curve. So we got that going for us. Which is nice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (Wnv9h)

201 The small GDP we do have is purely a result of government spending like drunken sailors

All spending bills start in the House of Representatives, but our fearless leaders won’t cut this off at the knees.

We already had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP, but they change the definition of what a recession is to cover for Biden

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (YZ529)

202 196
The deficits *must* be brought under control or the problem cannot be solved. It might - maybe - be able to be delayed a bit. But until deficits hit zero (or, at bare minimum, no longer exceed GDP growth), the continue to corrode the economy. There is no other choice. Things *must* always balance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (HnUIn)

=========

Can people please stop buying government bonds, please?

Let's just get this party started.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

203 financial economics and medieval literature

Well . . . that explains it!
Posted by: Elric Blade

**********

Heather Long's Economic predictions, by G. Chaucer:

...and Heather dud abib leet fle a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (l4B/J)

204 The fiscal crisis is inevitable and we can see it coming like a ship that's about to hit the bridge.

The only way to avoid it is to cut government outflows and increase private sector growth. Fat chance of that happening with the central-planning statists in charge.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (r5tfK)

205 3.6 roentgens , not great not terrible.

Posted by: Some Dead Russian at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (DBd2Y)

206 There is no free lunch.
Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:36 PM (DBd2Y)

...

In my wife's family there is a cousin who is usually "homeless" which is to say drugged out and living on the streets.

He does sometimes show up at family events. One year when I was there his brothers started dragging him for being an idiot about where he went dumpster diving.

Like, go dumpster diving at the steakhouse, not the burger king.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (z/ifB)

207 I did recently buy a new TV. And they were cheaper then the last time I was in market for one...10 years ago.

But I do not care about inflation or lack there of for TVs because I buy one once a decade.

Now the meat I buy every single week being 100% more then 4 years ago? That I, and my wallet, care about.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (ibTVg)

208 Don't comment on old threads.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024

You won today! Woohoo!

I am going to go make a smoothie. I am starving. It will be in your honor.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

209 16 A 600 point drop is statistical noise for an over inflated dow. I would start getting concerned if it drops by 2,500 in a 24 hour period.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (QNSds)

Well, the DJI hir its 2024 high of 39,807 on March 28. It's "only" about 4.5% off that high

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (joIaL)

210 Moose and Squirrel just punted a hundred billion into the war vortex against Natasha and Boris Badenov.
Just what did you think would happen when that much wealth was removed from our economy?

Now, now, most of that money is going to patriotic American arms manufacturers!

It's economic stimulus, baby!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (YAtuc)

211 I look forward to the return of the 70's leisure suits!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (A2E7p)

212 Interesting that the big money antagonism is still there...despite their constant cheering on of big money interests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think it was you or maybe someone else that mentioned that DU is probably composed of government employees posting while on the job.

Bureaucrats have a natural antipathy to wealthy because it always reminds them someone is better off than them. Envy is the very basis of the hierarchy in a bureaucracy.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (/AKWf)

213 54....my point is it would have been called a recession if under Trump. But under Biden, as you say, ignored. It's just amusing the reporter posted that graph to show how the economy is supposedly doing well, but those two bars that go down...WTF is that? Doesn't she know?

Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (fMN7A)

214 Almost like the feds are gaming the system by printing money in order to create positive headlines for political purposes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:13 PM

The fact that you even think that is indicative of a level of cynicism that is well beyond your tender years.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (c6wLM)

215 Heather Long's Economic predictions, by G. Chaucer:

...and Heather dud abib leet fle a fart,
As greet as it had been a thonder-dent,

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (l4B/J)

Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (r5tfK)

216 Thanks, Doof. Not the first time I've used it.

No one seemed to notice my Stuyvesant pun in the last thread, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (9yWhg)

I missed it. But I wouldn't have gotten it anyway.

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (gtY/l)

217 And to cap it all off, or maybe to pop a cap in it, Bai-Den has announced that the feds are now wanting a "zero-emissions freight sector". Apparently they plan to starve us out by making everything too expensive for any but the richest to afford to survive.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (dZVON)

218 I'd be okay with plaid if we get a decent reboot of the Olds 442.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (z/ifB)

Mein Fuhrer, Oldsmobile ... Oldsmobile died 20 years ago.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (OguvZ)

219 Can people please stop buying government bonds, please?

Let's just get this party started.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Right now? No. The primary dealer system ensures that bonds get sold.

The US government might not like the price, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

220 >>Is that good ? I heard the Trump lawyers were awful

Sure didn't sound that way. It did sound like the government prosecutor was awful but then he was a bit hampered by having a completely bullshit case.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (LkLld)

221 How about any of these?

https://tinyurl.com/2t9u6xmf
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM

That was not a nice thing you just did.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (Wnv9h)

222 You won today! Woohoo!

I am going to go make a smoothie. I am starving. It will be in your honor.
Posted by: Piper


Thanks, Piper!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (9yWhg)

223 Clearly, we need a Constitutional Amendment to cap combined taxation at 50%.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (RHGPo)

The end result of such a cap would be that it also becomes a floor. THAT, you can bank on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (tkR6S)

224 just wrapped up at SCOTUS.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (CIS44)

225 219 Right now? No. The primary dealer system ensures that bonds get sold.

The US government might not like the price, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (HnUIn)

=======

We could always use someone who says, "Arrest me. I'd rather be in jail than buy this shit."

But that's asking a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

226 Things have gotten so tight that this brunette in a dress can no longer afford socks:
http://tiny.cc/aexuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (HnUIn)

227 207 I did recently buy a new TV. And they were cheaper then the last time I was in market for one...10 years ago.

----


TVs are cheap because the "smart" tvs collect your data and sell it to advertisers. They make far more on that than the price of the TV.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (JeYYB)

228 224 just wrapped up at SCOTUS.
Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (CIS44)

======

How was the catering?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

229 I look forward to the return of the 70's leisure suits!
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

Posted by: Leisure Suit Larry at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (c6wLM)

230 190 Eating flat screen TVs just doesn't work. Besides, I can live with my old TV for quite a while, but I need gas for the car, food in my belly, and electricity and gas form my house...
Posted by: jim
-----
Our elites are in the same mindset as Marie Antoinette was when she expressed that the poor should eat cake when they could not afford bread.

(Bit more of obscure French economics at the time to what Marie said but the principle is the same).

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (/AKWf)

Yes. I read that cake was the ends of the bread that were cut off or something like that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

231 Like, go dumpster diving at the steakhouse, not the burger king.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (z/ifB)
****
That reminds me. There's a Texas Roadhouse (steak joint) a few minutes away.
Thanks for the tip!

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (DBd2Y)

232 The Horde will be ahead of the fashion curve. So we got that going for us. Which is nice.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
------
I see the Horde mainly as 29 year old Vikings that are pillaging and scourging our betters. If you see a guy with a horned helmet and wearing a loincloth--they are probably of the Horde.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (/AKWf)

233 We could always use someone who says, "Arrest me. I'd rather be in jail than buy this shit."

But that's asking a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Nah. But they could quit being primary dealers. Right now, though - and for the foreseeable future - the benefits of being in that club still outweigh the costs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (HnUIn)

234 The deficits *must* be brought under control or the problem cannot be solved. It might - maybe - be able to be delayed a bit. But until deficits hit zero (or, at bare minimum, no longer exceed GDP growth), the continue to corrode the economy. There is no other choice. Things *must* always balance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:38 PM (HnUIn)

...

And we never pay of the debt, just the interest, and we're therefore super vulnerable to the interest rate...

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (z/ifB)

235 223 Clearly, we need a Constitutional Amendment to cap combined taxation at 50%.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (RHGPo)

The end result of such a cap would be that it also becomes a floor. THAT, you can bank on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (tkR6S)

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50%????????????

It should be at about 5% Tops.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (JeYYB)

236 204 The fiscal crisis is inevitable and we can see it coming like a ship that's about to hit the bridge.

The only way to avoid it is to cut government outflows and increase private sector growth. Fat chance of that happening with the central-planning statists in charge.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 25, 2024 12:39 PM (r5tfK)

Did someone call me?

Posted by: Vivek Ramaswamy at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (joIaL)

237 194 150 The trick is to figure out how to rotate in and out of the dead cat bounce.
The Congresscritters got the inside track no matter what.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (DBd2Y)

So F*cking the dead cat.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

= =

Sufferin' succotash! Can't a dead cat have some peace!?!?

Posted by: Sylvester, The Dead Cat at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (AD14M)

238 There’s a Biden official on Fox Business who is lying more than Biden. According to him, food inflation is 0 % , and everyone s buying power is increasing.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (FrWOI)

239 It's going to be interesting to see what the UAW and Musk are going to do when the Chinese EV's hit the US shores via Sweden.
https://shorturl.at/kDJX6

Posted by: sidney at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Uy/WF)

240 Amusingly you can formally get "better economic growth" just be spending more Bidenbux.

Not only do they not county hyperinflation as a negative they implicitly count it as a positive.

Imagine, for example, that the real economic output in 2023 and 2024 are the same, but due purely to say 10% inflation the GDP "grew" from $20T to $22T. They would claim that was 10% growth.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (ibTVg)

241 Oh, and now that the Ukrainians are refusing to renew passports and provide other consular services to Ukrainian males living abroad, the Poles have said that they will "assist" Ukraine in returning Ukrainian males in Poland back to Ukraine, so they can be drafted into the army.

This will be fun to watch.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (YAtuc)

242 How was the catering?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, f

day old bagels and limp veggies

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (CIS44)

243 Don't comment on old threads.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:33 PM

Dare I say it, possible threadwinner.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Wnv9h)

244 59 Sure, officer, I was doing 187mph. But I was moderating my speed. I hit 191 just a few minutes before that.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 12:19 PM (OguvZ)

LOL.
I was driving down a desert road doing about 100 when I saw a spec of a car in the distance, so I started slowing down. It was a highway patrol, and he turned around and got me. Going 75 in a 65. LOL.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

245 Things have gotten so tight that this brunette in a dress can no longer afford socks:
http://tiny.cc/aexuxz

The dress doesn't really show it, but if she lives in the Alps like that picture makes it appear she's probably got some serious lung capacity.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (dZVON)

246 Afternoon Ace. Listening to some White House economic advisor babble about how things are looking great and on the right track. Government spending is the only thing making the economy "look" good. These people are delusional

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (gzrLG)

247 That reminds me. There's a Texas Roadhouse (steak joint) a few minutes away.
Thanks for the tip!
Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM (DBd2Y)

...

I'm a little offended that given my nic you felt the need to explain Texas Roadhouse to me.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (z/ifB)

248 Our elites are in the same mindset as Marie Antoinette was when she expressed that the poor should eat cake when they could not afford bread.

(Bit more of obscure French economics at the time to what Marie said but the principle is the same).

Posted by: whig


I think they've pretty much debunked that she ever said it. Some anti-Bourbon propogandist made it up. Maybe Voltaire.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (9yWhg)

249 The fiscal crisis is inevitable and we can see it coming like a ship that's about to hit the bridge.

= =

Interesting metaphor!

Posted by: The Titanic at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (AD14M)

250 Don't comment on old threads.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That was bloody brilliant!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (4XwPj)

251 It's all bull shit, smoke and mirrors, Nacht und Nebel, lies, made up fairy tales and bush league psyche out shit.

The "economy" that is.

Go long on Ramen Noodles.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (cDEsv)

252 Just so we’re clear, Trump is not cutting government spending one penny either.

He’s obviously better than the alternative, but Trump is no small government conservative.

He handily outspent Obama

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (YZ529)

253 Fifty years ago I sported plaid pants, now I wear no pants. That's progress-that's America.

Posted by: No Book Thread For Me! at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (V5BDR)

254 Go long on Ramen Noodles.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (cDEsv)
++++
The US Government: Making Giffen Goods Great Again!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (HnUIn)

255 I see the Horde mainly as 29 year old Vikings that are pillaging and scourging our betters. If you see a guy with a horned helmet and wearing a loincloth--they are probably of the Horde.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM

Damn. Now I have to get a helmet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)

256 Fifty years ago I sported plaid pants, now I wear no pants. That's progress-that's America.
Posted by: No Book Thread For Me! at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (V5BDR)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (HnUIn)

257 This reminds me of the Obama years. Growth was so anemic under Obama because of his suffocating policies that they could not get to any sort of robust economic growth. So instead, the newspapers and airwaves were suddenly flooded with "experts" declaring the it wasn't possible to grow the economy more than 2.5% annually. And what do you know? That's what was happening at peak times under Obama--another A+! There was never any explanation for why better growth was possible and actually happened all the time before that. No matter. As of right then, 2.5% was the absolute metaphysical maximum possible growth rate. Because experts. None of whom were available after Trump took office and showed it was all a bunch of crap.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (4+3qm)

258 The only thing worse would be F. Joe Mugabe announcing he's repealing Trump's tax cuts and raising taxes -- including a "wealth tax' to tax your unrealized deplorable capital gains, deplorables!

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (/JOu+)

259 TVs are cheap because the "smart" tvs collect your data and sell it to advertisers. They make far more on that than the price of the TV.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (JeYYB)
****
See. No free lunch.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (DBd2Y)

260 Looks like it was a very bad day for Team Lawfare at the Supreme Court today.

____________

Do you have a link to a source I can look at ?

Thanks

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (NtVYv)

261 Damn. Now I have to get a helmet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


I want a picklelhaube.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (9yWhg)

262 "Is that good ? I heard the Trump lawyers were awful"

Who did you hear it from? Most opinions expressed by "news" sources are the opposite of what they say.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (r5tfK)

263 Think of the deficit as the government printing a dollar without collecting a dollar in taxes.

Think of inflation as the dollar shrinking in value as a result.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (RIvkX)

264 I suspected that Ms Long was not a fan of penis. I was wrong. She is married and has a kid. Her husband is a gay-looking Asian guy. Odd. What is it with these lilly-white AWFLs shacking up with swarthy (that NPR twat) or otherwise non-white guys? Gotta be some kind of virtue-signal.

Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against dating or marrying outside of your race. Most of the girls I go out with are not white. My last few dates were Dominican, Chinese, Brazilian, and Zulu.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

265 If our Republican Congress had a spine (and wasn’t following Trumps orders) they would cut off all this stimulus that’s propping up the economy.

If there's one thing that Republicans in Congress have shown that they will never turn their back on, it's "following Trumps orders".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (IUd0M)

266 255 I see the Horde mainly as 29 year old Vikings that are pillaging and scourging our betters. If you see a guy with a horned helmet and wearing a loincloth--they are probably of the Horde.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM

Damn. Now I have to get a helmet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)

And I have to go get a loin cloth...

Posted by: Warai-otoko, horny and swingin' in the breeze at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (GkFGh)

267 When the burning times come I'm going to make my loincloth from the upholstery of a dead Tesla.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (vFG9F)

268 I want a picklelhaube.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM

That doesn't sound kosher.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (Wnv9h)

269 ZIRP is what saved Obama. No growth, but ultra low interest rates and a stock market that benefited.

I will say I was shocked. We didn’t have any inflation problems under Obama.

Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (YZ529)

270 TVs are cheap because the "smart" tvs collect your data and sell it to advertisers. They make far more on that than the price of the TV.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (JeYYB)
****"
You should check out our inexpensive laptop deals too!

Posted by: Walmart at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (DBd2Y)

271 I see the Horde mainly as 29 year old Vikings that are pillaging and scourging our betters. If you see a guy with a horned helmet and wearing a loincloth--they are probably of the Horde.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:42 PM

Damn. Now I have to get a helmet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)

--------------

Wait, you guys are wearing loincloths?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (/JOu+)

272 https://tinyurl.com/2t9u6xmf
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM

Impish, bordering on scamptitude.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (C5+VE)

273 and Zulu
Posted by: Elric Blade

She was always on time. You could set your clock by her.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (9yWhg)

274 259 TVs are cheap because the "smart" tvs collect your data and sell it to advertisers. They make far more on that than the price of the TV.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:41 PM (JeYYB)
****
See. No free lunch.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (DBd2Y)

That's why you never connected it to the internet or wifi. I like my TVs like my cars; stupid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

275 I'd be okay with plaid if we get a decent reboot of the Olds 442.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:35 PM (z/ifB)

Mein Fuhrer, Oldsmobile ... Oldsmobile died 20 years ago.
Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (OguvZ)

...

I think we'd all agree it died a while before that even.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (z/ifB)

276 The great thing about quoting Chaucer is that if you fat finger a word everybody just assumes it's an obscure Olde English word.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (l4B/J)

277 I want a picklelhaube.

You want a picklehaube.

You'd settle for a samurai helmet.

You'll get a sombrero from Tijuana.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

278 217 And to cap it all off, or maybe to pop a cap in it, Bai-Den has announced that the feds are now wanting a "zero-emissions freight sector". Apparently they plan to starve us out by making everything too expensive for any but the richest to afford to survive.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG 4h
If you were wondering why AOC was holding hands with Joe Biden? Why she keeps playing ball with Congressional leadership (including Mike Johnson)?

It’s because she just got the Green New Deal!

Joe Biden just announced the Climate Corps (20,000 new federal agents) to police and terrorize the oil industry, the auto industry, and every small business across America.

These new feds will focus on “conservation, green energy and environmental justice work.” In other words, they’ll be coming after you, your car, and your business.

Speaker Johnson could have stopped this in his two-part omnibus in appropriations, but yet again he gave the Democrats everything they wanted.

It’s absolute insanity!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (vtyCZ)

279 Watch for a flurry of media reports on the "Problem of American Obesity".

Food shortages to follow.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (njExo)

280 If there's one thing that Republicans in Congress have shown that they will never turn their back on, it's "following Trumps orders".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (IUd0M)

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Nominated for early thread-winner.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (/JOu+)

281 "Witness a real Viking funeral!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (Jj0+x)

282 When you buy your in your home Big Brother spying device, don't forget the extended warranty.

Posted by: Extended Warranty at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (DBd2Y)

283 I understand that I'm a dunce but isn't that treason?
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 12:32 PM (JeYYB)

None dare call it treason if I get a cut of the money allocated.

-- Congress pyrsyn

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (IUd0M)

284 Wait, you guys are wearing loincloths?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (/JOu+)

...

They go well with chaps.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (z/ifB)

285 I think they've pretty much debunked that she ever said it. Some anti-Bourbon propogandist made it up. Maybe Voltaire.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Rousseau.

That being said, there is a reason why the elite simply cannot comprehend people who have to work for a living to keep a roof overhead and the lights on. Today's saying would let the poor buy electric cars if they cannot afford a Lamborghini.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (/AKWf)

286 276 The great thing about quoting Chaucer is that if you fat finger a word everybody just assumes it's an obscure Olde English word.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (l4B/J)

"I didn't know they used to spell waterfall with a 3!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (GkFGh)

287 261 Damn. Now I have to get a helmet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I want a picklelhaube.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM (9yWhg)

My Grandpa took one off a dead German Colonel who got pinned to his bed in the trenches while he slept (Grandpa's company snuck in and caught them unawares). Was lost in a flood back in the 40's. Too bad. Silver-inlaid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (ynpvh)

288 Cicada burgers,
Cicada Fries,
Cicada with pineapple,
Cicada fricassee,
Cicada...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

And introducing -- new Cicada-Flavored Kaboom!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (9yWhg)

289 Watch for a flurry of media reports on the "Problem of American Obesity".

Food shortages to follow.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (njExo)

--------------

"Chronic Cricket Protein Malnutrition."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (/JOu+)

290 They go well with chaps.
Posted by: TexasDan
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Assless chaps as per AOS style manual.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (/AKWf)

291 The first economic concept I heard: "Inflation favors the debtor."

And who/what is the world's largest debtor?

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (HDFv7)

292 I will say I was shocked. We didn’t have any inflation problems under Obama.
Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:47 PM (YZ529)
++++
We sequestered the inflation in foreign trade flows. Foreign trade totals continued to surge during that era, and that required a *lot* of dollars to lubricate. We were able to offshore a lot of our monetary emissions abroad and that helped both hide the problem and delay the reckoning.

But that era is over. Global trade is not growing fast enough to absorb the new emissions, and we've taken various policy steps that encourage non-dollar settlement (our response to the Russia/Ukraine war was very damaging, and radically reduced trust in USD for these purposes. The party ain't over, but it's waning).

There's no place to hide it anymore, and those dollars have to come home while the new emissions have to stay home. This game is over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (HnUIn)

293 One thing we can count on is, the numbers they provided are inflated and it is worse than they are saying.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (NtVYv)

294 183 If we're going back to the 70s, we have to have to stand firmly against the return of plaid pants. I'm just sayin'.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
---
How about any of these?

https://tinyurl.com/2t9u6xmf
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:37 PM (wQXfi)
__________

At least none of the girls had dicks

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

295 "I think we'd all agree it died a while before that even.
Posted by: TexasDan"

I'm not quite dead yet!


Oh,

no

I died

Posted by: The Calais at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (vFG9F)

296 The Chilean army still uses the Pickelhaub.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (Jj0+x)

297 "Witness a real Viking funeral!"
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM

See Jews In Space!!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (Wnv9h)

298 Just so we’re clear, Trump is not cutting government spending one penny either.
He’s obviously better than the alternative, but Trump is no small government conservative.
He handily outspent Obama
Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (YZ529)

Concur. The federal leviathan will never be tamed until it dies from overconsumption. We can't cut spending as all the federal layabouts on the payroll, all the moochers getting disability this or EBT that, all the defense contractors and fruit salad boys at the pentagon and all the rapists in congress just cannot live with less.

Oh No! Can't have that...cuts will never happen.

Ever.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (cDEsv)

299 Fifty years ago I sported plaid pants, now I wear no pants. That's progress-that's America.
Posted by: No Book Thread For Me! at April 25, 2024

My wife put a sign on our front door saying, "Hold on, we're probably not wearing pants ". She doesn't know about the Horde pants meme.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (XT+5H)

300 I think they've pretty much debunked that she ever said it. Some anti-Bourbon propogandist made it up. Maybe Voltaire.

I've seen it attributed to Maria Theresa of Austria which seems more likely.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (ibTVg)

301 89
This can all be fixed by raising taxes on billionaires!!!
Posted by: Jay in PA
......

and building High Speed Rail !

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

302 263 Think of the deficit as the government printing a dollar without collecting a dollar in taxes.

Think of inflation as the dollar shrinking in value as a result.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (RIvkX)

Why, can't the Gov't just print money instead of collecting taxes?

::: channeling my inner DU stupidity :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

303 I will say I was shocked. We didn’t have any inflation problems under Obama.

Yeah, it was amazing that we could inflate the money supply for as long as we did before inflation kicked in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (YAtuc)

304 My Grandpa took one off a dead German Colonel who got pinned to his bed in the trenches while he slept (Grandpa's company snuck in and caught them unawares). Was lost in a flood back in the 40's. Too bad. Silver-inlaid.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Wow, cool.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (9yWhg)

305 Nah, it’ll be fine.

Posted by: (Not) The Critical Drinker at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (Obu2X)

306 I want a picklelhaube.

You want a picklehaube.

You'd settle for a samurai helmet.

You'll get a sombrero from Tijuana.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (CsUN+)

I used to play a game called TeamFortress 2. They were early in the advent of in-game items. In particular, they introduced hats.

At first I thought okay but how many different kinds of hats are there really. The answer is infinity. There are infinity kinds of hats.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (z/ifB)

307 286 276 The great thing about quoting Chaucer is that if you fat finger a word everybody just assumes it's an obscure Olde English word.
Posted by: Muldoon

To be thoroughly pedantic, Middle English.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (/AKWf)

308 Inflation is a regressive tax that punishes the working class more than the investing class.

The only winners in an inflationary economy are the owners of real assets, like oligarchs, landowners, homeowners, utilities.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (RIvkX)

309 Democrats are like a chess player with a beautiful 75 move checkmate planned that is immediately upset when the Universe makes the one move their plan cannot counter.

Then they try to change the rules or argue that move was 'illegal'.

Posted by: JB1000 at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (mRTZb)

310 264 I suspected that Ms Long was not a fan of penis. I was wrong. She is married and has a kid. Her husband is a gay-looking Asian guy. Odd. What is it with these lilly-white AWFLs shacking up with swarthy (that NPR twat) or otherwise non-white guys? Gotta be some kind of virtue-signal.

Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against dating or marrying outside of your race. Most of the girls I go out with are not white. My last few dates were Dominican, Chinese, Brazilian, and Zulu.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

Zulu, eh? Sounds like she was a feisty one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

311 259 TVs are cheap because the "smart" tvs collect your data and sell it to advertisers. They make far more on that than the price of the TV.
Posted by: Seems Legit

That reminds me, I need to change the art on my Frame to a more spring and summer like piece!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

312 There's no place to hide it anymore, and those dollars have to come home while the new emissions have to stay home. This game is over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (HnUIn)

Or has it just begun ? - Queensryche ref, shhhh !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (NtVYv)

313 This can all be fixed by raising taxes on billionaires!!!

And you know it will be because the congress voting on those tax increases were selected by those same billionaires!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ibTVg)

314 Foreign trade totals continued to surge during that era, and that required a *lot* of dollars to lubricate. We were able to offshore a lot of our monetary emissions abroad and that helped both hide the problem and delay the reckoning.

But that era is over. Global trade is not growing fast enough to absorb the new emissions

Dang, lubrication, emissions...what school of economics did you attend?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (CsUN+)

315 268 I want a picklelhaube.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:45 PM

That doesn't sound kosher.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 12:46 PM (Wnv9h)

It's Kaiser, not Kosher.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

316 My Grandpa took one off a dead German Colonel who got pinned to his bed in the trenches while he slept (Grandpa's company snuck in and caught them unawares). Was lost in a flood back in the 40's. Too bad. Silver-inlaid.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Wow, cool.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (9yWhg)

Props to whoever grabbed the pickelhaub to ride out the flood though. Tragic maybe, but stylish.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (z/ifB)

317 Rousseau.

That being said, there is a reason why the elite simply cannot comprehend people who have to work for a living to keep a roof overhead and the lights on. Today's saying would let the poor buy electric cars if they cannot afford a Lamborghini.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (/AKWf)

--------------

And when the economy and society collapse after a CBDC is instituted: "Let them eat their Digital Wallets if not their Teslas."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (/JOu+)

318 "I'm all for cutting federal spending, as long as I still get mine."
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It's the over 65 crowd that should be screaming the loudest to stop the spending and inflation.
Because they are the very, very last--if at all-- that can go back to work.

And yet, polls show they support Biden the most.

I guess they figure they'll kick the bucket before the music stops ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (yikga)

319 There's no place to hide it anymore, and those dollars have to come home while the new emissions have to stay home. This game is over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a
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Yep. Thoroughly agree.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (/AKWf)

320 My last few dates were Dominican, Chinese, Brazilian, and Zulu.

Are you just happy to see me or is that an Iklwa in your pocket?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:53 PM (ibTVg)

321 So, when the Kaiser was resident in Berlin, was he a jelly roll?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:53 PM (9yWhg)

322 Don't comment on old threads.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

*********

Props!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:53 PM (l4B/J)

323 Four more years! Pause...

Posted by: An idiot at April 25, 2024 12:54 PM (AXJ6N)

324 313 This can all be fixed by raising taxes on billionaires!!!

And you know it will be because the congress voting on those tax increases were selected by those same billionaires!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ibTVg)


Whoa! Isn't this a Democrat attempt at populism (gasp)? Two-faced scumbags. As always.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 12:54 PM (5fDan)

325 I can attest as a guy who sells food to people yeah, the economy is generally fucked.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 12:54 PM (9yXr+)

326 And when the economy and society collapse after a CBDC is instituted: "Let them eat their Digital Wallets if not their Teslas."
Posted by: ShainS
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Tis most lamentably true.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:54 PM (/AKWf)

327 286 276 The great thing about quoting Chaucer is that if you fat finger a word everybody just assumes it's an obscure Olde English word.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:48 PM (l4B/J)

"I didn't know they used to spell waterfall with a 3!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (GkFGh)

Twas an old English letter not obsolete.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:54 PM (ynpvh)

328 Dang, lubrication, emissions...what school of economics did you attend?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (CsUN+)
++++
My senior thesis was titled:
Economic Entendre: Vocabulary and its effects on economic literature, with four approaches to improving general demand for economic discourse

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:54 PM (HnUIn)

329 318 It's the over 65 crowd that should be screaming the loudest to stop the spending and inflation.
Because they are the very, very last--if at all-- that can go back to work.

And yet, polls show they support Biden the most.

I guess they figure they'll kick the bucket before the music stops ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM (yikga)

=======

"Just give me my social security check and keep my drugs low cost, and I'll vote any way you like."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

330 295 "I think we'd all agree it died a while before that even.
Posted by: TexasDan"

I'm not quite dead yet!


Oh,

no

I died

Posted by: The Calais at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (vFG9F)

Just pining for the Fords.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

331 "I didn't know they used to spell waterfall with a 3!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 12:49 PM (GkFGh)

Twas an old English letter not obsolete.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

yogh

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:55 PM (9yWhg)

332 Dang, lubrication, emissions...what school of economics did you attend?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:52 PM

The Ribbed For Her Pleasure School.

Posted by: Paolo at April 25, 2024 12:55 PM (C5+VE)

333 Send in the scoops.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 12:55 PM (3wEtP)

334 Now, I can trot on over to Manhattan Contrarian, that bastion of Fiscal Conservatives who seem to believe they can talk sense to a mythical swayable people, also known as the Squishy Middle, who may believe in money as a medium of exchange instead of Magic and Alchemy, but I'm not going to bother.

Nope.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (9yXr+)

335 I will say I was shocked. We didn’t have any inflation problems under Obama.

Yeah, it was amazing that we could inflate the money supply for as long as we did before inflation kicked in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (YAtuc)

---------------

All that inflation was exported to foreign countries. And when the U.S. Dollar ceases to be the World's Reserve Currency (#Soon), all those dollars will come flooding back -- causing hyperinflation (think Wiemar and Zimbabwe).

Long wheelbarrows ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (/JOu+)

336
Whoa! Isn't this a Democrat attempt at populism (gasp)? Two-faced scumbags. As always.

Well...my point was that the current members of the Dems and GOPe are hand selected by the same billionaires that the left claims to want to tax...and yet somehow these always managed to tax the somewhat lower, unpoliticaly connected, cohorts.

Basically they promise to soak Bezos and yet instead they always hit the guy running a small business taking home $250K-$1M. Because higher then that and you can start buying Dem or GOPe politicians...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (ibTVg)

337 It's going to be interesting to see what the UAW and Musk are going to do when the Chinese EV's hit the US shores via Sweden.
https://shorturl.at/kDJX6
Posted by: sidney at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Uy/WF)

Pretty sure that's vaporware. The Volvo/Geely marriage has been rocky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (tkR6S)

338 324 313 This can all be fixed by raising taxes on billionaires!!!

And you know it will be because the congress voting on those tax increases were selected by those same billionaires!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ibTVg)


Whoa! Isn't this a Democrat attempt at populism (gasp)? Two-faced scumbags. As always.
Posted by: Gref

The latest half brained idea to loot the productive classes is the idea of taxing unrealized capital gains. That is if you received a house from Pop Pop that he spent 50k on in 1970's and that house is now worth 150k due primarily to inflation caused by big gubmint, then you should have to pay taxes on the 100k gain when you received the asset via estate as income.

This greases the upper class in stealing wealth because they will hide theirs in trusts etc. while the poors will have to sell their assets to pay the tax bills.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (/AKWf)

339 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?

Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1)

340 Well, off to my phlebotomy appointment. Later, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (9yWhg)

341 I don't know about anyone else but, I've recently been having sexual knowledge with my gold bars and coins.

Is that wrong?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (aFNOf)

342 To be thoroughly pedantic, Middle English.
Posted by: whig

********

Thanks Cliff!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (l4B/J)

343 Pretty sure that's vaporware. The Volvo/Geely marriage has been rocky.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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You can depend on old Sid, whatever is said by it, believe the opposite is reality.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:58 PM (/AKWf)

344 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at

and how!
-Mayor Pete

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 12:58 PM (CIS44)

345 335 I will say I was shocked. We didn’t have any inflation problems under Obama.

Yeah, it was amazing that we could inflate the money supply for as long as we did before inflation kicked in.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (YAtuc)

---------------

All that inflation was exported to foreign countries. And when the U.S. Dollar ceases to be the World's Reserve Currency (#Soon), all those dollars will come flooding back -- causing hyperinflation (think Wiemar and Zimbabwe).

Long wheelbarrows ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (/JOu+)

Okay, I don't want this to be a Long Wheelbarrow vs Cross Wheelbarrow thread...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

346 This greases the upper class in stealing wealth because they will hide theirs in trusts etc. while the poors will have to sell their assets to pay the tax bills.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (/AKWf)

It also forces the sale especially of ranches and farms. Family run farm and ranch enterprises will end within a generation.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:58 PM (z/ifB)

347 Thanks Cliff!
Posted by: Muldoon
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Your penance is to read the Miller's Tale again.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:58 PM (/AKWf)

348 339 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?

Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1)

Until someone puts their ass in it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

349 339 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at April

Yes.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 12:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

350 It's going to be interesting to see what the UAW and Musk are going to do when the Chinese EV's hit the US shores via Sweden.
https://shorturl.at/kDJX6
Posted by: sidney at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (Uy/WF)
++++
It's already happened. The "Polestar" brand - which is part of Volvo - is already in the US, and has been for years. It is a "premium" car that competes directly against Tesla. It isn't a huge market, but it's already here and Polestar has been building out its service and parts network. The cars are also made in China.

All this move means to me is that Volvo is confident it has the kinks worked out enough to move down-market into Volvo's segment and have the service and parts capacity to deal with it. I suspect that Polestar was the beta test, and it's worked out well enough that they're ready to expand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 12:59 PM (HnUIn)

351 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1)

...

Welcome to AOSHq mind the barrel over there.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:59 PM (z/ifB)

352
The latest half brained idea to loot the productive classes is the idea of taxing unrealized capital gains.

The amount of damage that idea would reek is amazing. In my area real estate prices have exploded and as you point out all those people that inherited their parent's house are going to have to sell and move.

They are doing the same thing with property taxes, though slower.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 12:59 PM (ibTVg)

353 Not a humblebrag. I made more than I have ever made last year in my 40 year career, way more. The tax bill really knocked down my expectations of the new income.

A real bummer, an insane amount. Oof

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 01:00 PM (NtVYv)

354 And the estima2025 ted COLA for Social Security for 2025 is a whopping 2.6%

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 01:00 PM (bD7I/)

355 Just donated a truck to Vehicles for Veterans. Hope they can afford the gas to come pick it up.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2024 01:01 PM (v0R5T)

356 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1

Not if they're on backwards...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:01 PM (GkFGh)

357 It also forces the sale especially of ranches and farms. Family run farm and ranch enterprises will end within a generation.
Posted by: TexasDan
======
Yep. All to the point of corps and trusts of the wealthy picking up assets on the cheap.

I never envied the rich but I am coming to the realization that unless the bien pensant rich are neutered as a political class that they will steadily make my life worse on behalf of their greed disguised as compassion.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:01 PM (/AKWf)

358 "Just give me my social security check and keep my drugs low cost, and I'll vote any way you like."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda'

Exactly. In Mid America Stasis Land, made up of old people living on pensions and Medi-whatever, that is all they care about.

I sometimes ask, 'Do these decrepit people I see flirting with each other at McDonalds at 7:00 in the morning making overtures to each other involving their chronic, degenerative illnesses, believe they somehow they will never die? What have they done, what metaphysical preparations have they made?'

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:01 PM (9yXr+)

359 356 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1

Not if they're on backwards...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:01 PM (GkFGh)

Would that make it a dickless chap? Tranny chap?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

360 They are really trying to stop the motor of the world.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (3wEtP)

361 They are supposed to say that the GDP came in "Hot" and smashed some analysts expectations.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (PHukT)

362 Aren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1)'

Beat me to it.

And yes.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (9yXr+)

363 One very serious ongoing problem is economic disparity and too many small businesses. We are announcing a plan, called "Operation Kulak" to seize all businesses bigger than $1 million in sales, unless owned by a registered Party Member. Republicans still living after Operation Kulak goes into full production will be exiled to work on state enterprises in Alaska.

Income disparity will disappear under our plan, and the middle class will finally get what's coming to them.

Posted by: The Junta, looking for some understanding at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (0yg/c)

364 ren't all chaps assless chaps?
Posted by: reason at April 25, 2024 12:57 PM (s3On1

Not if they're on backwards...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at

I think thats how DOCTOR Jill wear them so she accommodate her strap-on

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (CIS44)

365 361 They are supposed to say that the GDP came in "Hot" and smashed some analysts expectations.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (PHukT)

Hah! Your hash is F*cked. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

366 I just saw a story Legal Insurrection that Columbia students are asking for a refund since they can’t go to class. lol.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

367 From Insty:
"The difference between science and social science boils down to prediction. On Sept. 26, 2022, a NASA rocket hit the target at which it was aiming, a 560-foot diameter asteroid some 6.8 million miles from Earth.

In the same month, the Fed missed its target for the consumer-price index; inflation registered 8.2%, some six percentage points higher than the 2% reading at which the central bank was taking aim. Behold physics—and behold economics."

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (CsUN+)

368 Some analysts predicted a 10% contraction, so this 1.6 number is hot and smashed expectations! Go Joe!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (PHukT)

369 They are supposed to say that the GDP came in "Hot" and smashed some analysts expectations.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (PHukT

Biff. Bang. Ker-chonk.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (GkFGh)

370 The amount of damage that idea would reek is amazing.

It would absolutely crash the economy.

Someone noted an example - you are someone working in a tech company who gets shares in an IPO.

The IPO happens, and you immediately have to sell a quarter of your shares to pay the tax bill, along with all other IPO shareholders.

What do you think happens to the stock price?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (YAtuc)

371 Rooting for a poor economy just so you can implement fascism. So patriotic!

Too bad the economy is better than it's been since 2016.

Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (sPcaX)

372 Oh, and now that the Ukrainians are refusing to renew passports and provide other consular services to Ukrainian males living abroad, the Poles have said that they will "assist" Ukraine in returning Ukrainian males in Poland back to Ukraine, so they can be drafted into the army.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (YAtuc)

If someone were to make the assertion that the goal of the west in regards to the Russo/Ukraine war is to ensure the annihilation of the male half of the Ukrainian population, it would be hard to argue against.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (IUd0M)

373 It's easy to bust on Social Security recipients

Right up to the day when you too start drawing a monthly benefit

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (/7KEl)

374 The IPO happens, and you immediately have to sell a quarter of your shares to pay the tax bill, along with all other IPO shareholders.

What do you think happens to the stock price?
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And THEN the realized capital gains tax on those shares

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (CIS44)

375 Damn, too bad I can't lock that hash down

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (PHukT)

376 New thread

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (0+kTp)

377 Trump didn't have to cut government spending because his tax cuts, deregulation, eneregy policies created wealth resulting in more revenue.
It was Biden's crazy energy policies that started the ball rolling. Cutting off oil and gas production here benefitted Russia, made them rich enough to go to war with Ukraine. Benefitted Iran and caused the uprising in the Middle East.
Strangled industries here and caused inflation.
Cheap energy priduces prosperous societies that can afford to be profligate.
This has been squandered.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (t/2Uw)

378 Also, for the young'uns, fentanyl is now so incredibly cheap it has almost eliminated junkie crime. You know, strungouts who will steal a potted plant off your porch, that is gone.
Fettie is so ubiquitous it is barely a commodity.
You can stay mortally fucked up for almost nothing.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (9yXr+)

379 Undernood

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (rAQ0h)

380 If someone were to make the assertion that the goal of the west in regards to the Russo/Ukraine war is to ensure the annihilation of the male half of the Ukrainian population, it would be hard to argue against.

Can't get Ukrainian "refugees" girls/sex workers if their father is still alive and supporting the family...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ibTVg)

381 Some anti-Bourbon propogandist made it up. Maybe Voltaire.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 12:43 PM (9yWhg)

I didn't know Voltaire was a Scot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (IUd0M)

382 >Damn, too bad I can't lock that hash down

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (PHukT)
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f***it
that's classic

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (/7KEl)

383 The left loves projection and gaslighting. I mean they must really enjoy it. It's like a beloved hobby.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (JeYYB)

384 373 It's easy to bust on Social Security recipients

Right up to the day when you too start drawing a monthly benefit

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (/7KEl)

As is with Ponzi scams, the first to collect get more out than they put in. The rest of us who haven't yet retired (younger 29) will get schlonged. But at least we'll have our 401K's right? Right? The Left would NEVER touch those, RIGHT?!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

385 375 Damn, too bad I can't lock that hash down

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (PHukT)

And appropriate as upthread talked about screwing the dead-cat bounce. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:05 PM (ynpvh)

386 373 It's easy to bust on Social Security recipients

Right up to the day when you too start drawing a monthly benefit
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (/7KEl)

=======

I only bust on them to demonstrate how there is no electorate for actually cutting spending.

"Cut theirs, not mine," is 99% of fiscal conservatism.

Apply that to government employees and their checks, contractors and their, well, contracts, or to Medicaid recipients and their "healthcare".

Remember "Get the government's hands off my Medicare"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

387 Damn, too bad I can't lock that hash down
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:04 PM (PHukT)

It's perfect. Properly PHukT

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (NtVYv)

388 What do you think happens to the stock price?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (YAtuc)

Gotta love it when a plan really comes together!

And besides, gasoline prices in my area only went up 1% for each[b/] of the three most recent weekends.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (hOUT3)

389 Just so we’re clear, Trump is not cutting government spending one penny either.

He’s obviously better than the alternative, but Trump is no small government conservative.

He handily outspent Obama
Posted by: Benchmark at April 25, 2024 12:44 PM (YZ529)

And why was that? Do you recall?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (IUd0M)

390 I just saw a story Legal Insurrection that Columbia students are asking for a refund since they can’t go to class. lol.
Posted by: Piper'

Find your ring?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:06 PM (9yXr+)

391 If someone were to make the assertion that the goal of the west in regards to the Russo/Ukraine war is to ensure the annihilation of the male half of the Ukrainian population, it would be hard to argue against.

The arms companies get rich, and the Ukrainians get slaughtered.

What's not to like?

Nothing says "high morale" like trying to force male Ukrainians living abroad back to Ukraine, so they can be immediately drafted into the army.

Posted by: The Deep State! at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (YAtuc)

392 You can depend on old Sid, whatever is said by it, believe the opposite is reality.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:58 PM (/AKWf)

I don't think "sidney" is "sid". If they are, it's two different aspects of trollitude.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (tkR6S)

393 The Chilean army still uses the Pickelhaub.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2024 12:50 PM (Jj0+x)

As does the Colombian Presidential Guard.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:07 PM (D7oie)

394 Average Joe's economic indicators:

Bank balance at or near the end of the month.
Tires on his wife's car with 20% tread left that cost 35% more then his last purchase.
Check engine light on his car that's been on for over a month but he's still paying for his kids broken arm.
The Dow is a terrible economic indicator.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Monkey without a country at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (hKZ+8)

395 You could have a 100% tax on income, wealth, property and capital gains.

And the rich will still not pay any more taxes than they are paying now.

No one at DU will ever be able to figure that one out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (yikga)

396 It's easy to bust on Social Security recipients

Right up to the day when you too start drawing a monthly benefit

If you retired after 2015 or so, you paid more money into the Social Security system than you are forecasted to get back in benefits.

One of the key functions of Social Security is to provide cheap financing for Federal deficits, at the expense of retirees.

Posted by: The Deep State! at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (YAtuc)

397 If you want to guilt me for planning for my final years, and taking benefits due me, you're barking up the wrong tree

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (/7KEl)

398 394 Average Joe's economic indicators:

Bank balance at or near the end of the month.
Tires on his wife's car with 20% tread left that cost 35% more then his last purchase.
Check engine light on his car that's been on for over a month but he's still paying for his kids broken arm.
The Dow is a terrible economic indicator.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Monkey without a country at April 25, 2024 01:08 PM (hKZ+

Dowsing is more accurate.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (ynpvh)

399 Zulu, eh? Sounds like she was a feisty one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

Released his Chaka for him, I expect

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:09 PM (D7oie)

400 1. Import millions of people illegally
2. Borrow money to provide food, shelter, clothing, and medical care to them.
3. Call it economic growth.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (5IFb9)

401 369 They are supposed to say that the GDP came in "Hot" and smashed some analysts expectations.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (PHukT

Biff. Bang. Ker-chonk.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 01:03 PM (GkFGh)


I bet all my quatloos that the Junta will call this Historic Positive News and Continued Proof that Bidenomics Works for All Americans!

Based on a statistic they'll find buried in the report, or that White House Interns will create out of whole cloth.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (5fDan)

402 Check engine light on his car that's been on for over a month'

I take this one personally. I don't have mandatory inspections. I bought this car 6 years ago and it's been on the whole time. Those bulbs last a long time.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (9yXr+)

403 I have big problems with some of you people.

Posted by: Mike Johnson at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM (aFNOf)

404 Words like "recession" and "bloodbath" are constantly being changed to take advantage of more useful definitions.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

405 And the rich will still not pay any more taxes than they are paying now.

These idiots think that rich people actually paid the theoretical 80% marginal tax rate under Eisenhower.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (YAtuc)

406 picked a bad week to start investing

and don't call me Shirley

Posted by: yikes at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (us2H3)

407 4 MO YEZ POZ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (n/1xr)

408 Dowsing is more accurate.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I'm stealing that one.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Monkey without a country at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (hKZ+8)

409 And why was that? Do you recall?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

People with intentionally bad memory did not note that Trump's initial budget did have substantial cuts but GOPe led by Lyin Ryan and Bitch McConnell promptly ignored it and furthermore continued the no budget resolution approach followed by the Dems since 2010. That meant 2010 increases by Obammy were still baked into the cake.

Most people don't really understand the budget nor how Congress magically makes items disappear by calling them contingencies which means off the books.

Easier to simply blame Trump.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:11 PM (/AKWf)

410 That meant 2010 increases by Obammy were still baked into the cake.

--

($800B "one time stimulus" has entered the chat)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (9Ct69)

411 One of the key functions of Social Security is to provide cheap financing for Federal deficits, at the expense of retirees.
Posted by: The Deep State!
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LBJ in Hell lets out a Heh.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 01:13 PM (/AKWf)

412 All that inflation was exported to foreign countries. And when the U.S. Dollar ceases to be the World's Reserve Currency (#Soon), all those dollars will come flooding back -- causing hyperinflation (think Wiemar and Zimbabwe).

Long wheelbarrows ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (/JOu+)

The first time this happened was under the Yuan dynasty when the paper currency was overprinted so much that its collapse economically wrecked central Asia

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (D7oie)

413 It could be worse. We could be the Chinese. They still think we're going to pay them pack.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (z+89e)

414 Those bulbs last a long time.
Posted by: LenNeal

Sounds like the Ford Windstar I bought. Found out after I bought it, that it had the record for most recall notices. Drove that thing for 2 years until the reverse solonoid went out one night. Gave it to a lady at church who's son worked at a Transmission shop.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Monkey without a country at April 25, 2024 01:16 PM (hKZ+8)

415 412 All that inflation was exported to foreign countries. And when the U.S. Dollar ceases to be the World's Reserve Currency (#Soon), all those dollars will come flooding back -- causing hyperinflation (think Wiemar and Zimbabwe).

Long wheelbarrows ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:56 PM (/JOu+)

The first time this happened was under the Yuan dynasty when the paper currency was overprinted so much that its collapse economically wrecked central Asia

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:14 PM (D7oie)

I thought it was that Greek guy that owed a debt, so recalled all the coinage under penalty of death, restamped it to a higher denomination, and paid the bill. This of course caused automatic inflation...
But maybe you're talking Weimer-level and Hungarian Pengo level inflation...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:17 PM (ynpvh)

416
I take this one personally. I don't have mandatory inspections. I bought this car 6 years ago and it's been on the whole time. Those bulbs last a long time.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM

a $15 code reader from Walmart can clear that right up

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 25, 2024 01:17 PM (bEb2S)

417 366 I just saw a story Legal Insurrection that Columbia students are asking for a refund since they can’t go to class. lol.
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (ZdaMQ)

I would if my kid's college pulled this stunt...you can't just cancel science lab time at the end of the semester...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (exHjb)

418 I only bust on them to demonstrate how there is no electorate for actually cutting spending.

"Cut theirs, not mine," is 99% of fiscal conservatism.

Apply that to government employees and their checks, contractors and their, well, contracts, or to Medicaid recipients and their "healthcare".

Remember "Get the government's hands off my Medicare"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Never forget. SS monies were taken at gunpoint. No one else's were.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (Jxvt5)

419 Thank goodness they increased the chocolate rations

Posted by: Gaff at April 25, 2024 01:18 PM (jPS2y)

420 Don't know if it has been stated, but that 1.6% will be revised downward in about a month.

Guaranteed.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (lf83v)

421 a $15 code reader from Walmart can clear that right up
Posted by: AltonJackson'

I did run the codes and it wasn't anything serious so whatever. 6 years.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (9yXr+)

422 The trend is your friend.

If we lived in pre-Communist America, Biden would be doomed.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (v+mv3)

423 I am guessing we just aren't economically sophisticated enough to appreciate this growth?

Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (xhfG9)

424 I just saw a story Legal Insurrection that Columbia students are asking for a refund since they can’t go to class. lol.
_________

Is there a college major known as Go Fuck Yourself Studies?

If not, there should be.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (lf83v)

425 I take this one personally. I don't have mandatory inspections. I bought this car 6 years ago and it's been on the whole time. Those bulbs last a long time.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:10 PM

a $15 code reader from Walmart can clear that right up
Posted by: AltonJackson



Not always. My mechanic can't get mine to stay off for any reason other than to replace the $300 part. Car runs fine as is.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (Jxvt5)

426 within 10 years, probably less

all spending will have to take a 25-30% haircut

and it is not up for discussion, it will happen

Posted by: yikes at April 25, 2024 01:20 PM (us2H3)

427 423 I am guessing we just aren't economically sophisticated enough to appreciate this growth?

Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 01:19 PM (xhfG9)

Obama believes this is growth. He's been told that
::: making measurment gesture with thumb and forefinger :::
is 6".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (ynpvh)

428 I do however need to look up the type of bulb used in Check Engine lights solely for their longevity.

6 YEARS?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (9yXr+)

429 Just curious, how does everyone else deal with the constant loss of our freedoms? I feel a malaise.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (JeYYB)

430 429 Just curious, how does everyone else deal with the constant loss of our freedoms? I feel a malaise.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:21 PM (JeYYB)

Embracing the outlaw lifestyle or praying a lot. Or both.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (xcxpd)

431 They are supposed to say that the GDP came in "Hot" and smashed some analysts expectations.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 01:02 PM (PHukT)

well, Columbia came in hot, so . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (D7oie)

432 "The economy is booming!"

The 70s called, they want some of what you are smoking.

Posted by: davidt at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (SYTee)

433 One dash light that won't go off and doesn't affect vehicle operation?

TPMS sensor. Yeah. Driver's rear is bad.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (Jxvt5)

434 Not to digress but again, there is no mandatory inspection by me. So if the Check Engine light is on, well, So What.
I bought the car, ran the codes, slightly out of emission spec etc. but nothing really serious, 6 years later still driving.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (9yXr+)

435
After listening to a couple hours of the Supreme Court Q and A it was pretty interesting. Seems the left wants to open up the country (and Joe Biden to the rest of his life in a courtroom) while the majority don't think they wanna touch the hot poker. They cited Obama killing a US citizen and other acts of former Presidents.

Won't know until about May 9th or so.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (RKVpM)

436 Embracing the outlaw lifestyle or praying a lot. Or both.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 01:22 PM (xcxpd)

-----

I have been trying to hand this shit over to God but I feel I should be doing something. Maybe not.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (JeYYB)

437 We'd be near or under zero growth already if it weren't for the massive illegal immigration and deficit spending. Just like every net added job since Biden took over went to non-citizens every terrible Biden statistic is worse than you think.

Posted by: Big E at April 25, 2024 01:23 PM (D2+f+)

438 Yellen has stated the problem is those high interest rates and when interest rates were close to zero, the national debt didn't matter

another thing from Yellen's own balance sheet, the #1 asset of the US government is the student loan debt

and they are giving it away

Posted by: yikes at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (us2H3)

439 If Yellen says it, it isn't so.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 25, 2024 01:24 PM (JeYYB)

440 Not to digress but again, there is no mandatory inspection by me. So if the Check Engine light is on, well, So What.
I bought the car, ran the codes, slightly out of emission spec etc. but nothing really serious, 6 years later still driving.
Posted by: LenNeal

My $700 Ford Expedition has a "service vehicle soon" light on. Every time I start the car, it gets an F U Ford from me.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Monkey without a country at April 25, 2024 01:26 PM (hKZ+8)

441 All that inflation was exported to foreign countries. And when the U.S. Dollar ceases to be the World's Reserve Currency (#Soon), all those dollars will come flooding back -- causing hyperinflation (think Wiemar and Zimbabwe).

Long wheelbarrows ...

It'll be nice to forgo a loaf of bread to pay my off my home loan. Too bad I'll be starving in my house.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (dZVON)

442 Engine codes are almost always emissions related and can be safely ignored unless the car starts running rough.

if the check engine light begins flashing those are the ones you need to pull over and fix.

Thanks, Feds!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (9Ct69)

443 Or both.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo

Both. Definitely both.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Monkey without a country at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (hKZ+8)

444 Just curious, how does everyone else deal with the constant loss of our freedoms? I feel a malaise.
Posted by: Seems Legit'

I deal with it by living in a sea of low-income, lowlife criminals.

I really do not understand the sense of loss that seems to be happening with Good People who mowed their lawns, paid their taxes, sent their kids to Good Colleges. I never did any of that.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:27 PM (9yXr+)

445 Can you imagine being a parent with a kid at Columbia U who's not into this stupidity?

Yea, I'd want my money back.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 01:28 PM (Q4IgG)

446 Secret Service chick noods.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:29 PM (9Ct69)

447
Looks like it was a very bad day for Team Lawfare at the Supreme Court today.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 12:34 PM

Benny Johnson had a guest SC certified lawyer on after the court closed. He thinks it went well but there is the possibility it gets kicked back to a lower court for further clarification. He thought that would be good for Trump for some reason which I don't understand.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 01:29 PM (RKVpM)

448 I fix my house, I mow my grass, I obey all the laws, why is my life falling apart?

You failed to fight. You are a inbred house cat.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (9yXr+)

449
Joe Biden just announced the Climate Corps (20,000 new federal agents) to police and terrorize the oil industry, the auto industry, and every small business across America.

Climate Emergency! Everyone to get from street!

Posted by: The Greenies Are Coming at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (63Dwl)

450 446 Secret Service chick noods.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 01:29 PM (9Ct69)

No longer an under-Nood.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

451 Trump averaged 2.3% gdp growth. Ace rates that as lacking solid growth

Posted by: Paul banned at April 25, 2024 01:32 PM (ceokG)

452 Climate Emergency! Everyone to get from street!
Posted by: The Greenies Are Coming'

That made me laugh, what a great scene

Ee-mergenc-ee, Emergencee, Every-one to get from Street!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 01:34 PM (9yXr+)

453 Who could have antIcIpated that Trump's malIgnant aura could do thIs to the stock market whIle he Is In NYC?

Posted by: #OccupiedResoluteDesk at April 25, 2024 01:41 PM (O9Moz)

454 Education: Wellesley College

Yeah, Liberty League...my daughter played them in league golf. Mostly Asians, as I recall.

Posted by: Boswell at April 25, 2024 01:44 PM (K+UlC)

455 Your bread ration has risen to two loaves from four!

Posted by: WaPo at April 25, 2024 05:13 PM (mggQ3)

456 A stagnating GDP with inflating prices. If only there were some portmanteau word for such a situation!

Posted by: ameryx at April 25, 2024 06:26 PM (q9OK+)

457 "recession"

The last time we had a recession, the Federal Govt solved the problem by redefining what a "recession" actually is, so they could just say it didn't happen. Because there was a D POTUS in office at the time.

Posted by: Aarradin at April 26, 2024 02:03 AM (5kvQv)

458 Subtract federal spending from GDP to get a real measure of the economy.

Posted by: jj at April 26, 2024 01:48 PM (WN4MV)

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

punk-monkey.jpg

Who could possibly have predicted this shockingly unexpected result of increasing labor costs via government mandate? The idea that if wages go up, demand for workers will decrease and the price of goods and services will increase is insane! No economist could have foreseen this Black Swan event! There is simply no experience anywhere in history that would predict this.

Our legislators and the professional staff that supports them are, of course, expert in all facets of economics, and have a sound understanding of basic economic laws. I am confident that they are just as surprised as the companies they are driving out of business and the formerly employed casual workers who now have no jobs.


Seattle takeout orders have reached a breaking point. Amid horror stories of $122 Thai delivery and $26 to-go coffees, the Emerald City is now considering rolling back a brand new wage law that’s causing food takeout prices to skyrocket and delivery orders to tank. It's just the latest in a series of wage laws that are backfiring this year, causing chaos for customers, restaurants, and the gig workers they were meant to help.

The true minimum wage is $0.00/hr, and any other mandated wage distorts the labor markets. That is fact. Governments have been playing fast and loose with immutable economic laws for centuries, and while they are expert at obfuscation, they cannot hide the undeniable fact of their missteps, because the data are screaming in everyone's faces!

Every minimum wage law, every legal restriction on the free exchange of capital for goods and labor restrains the natural growth of an economy. That's the obvious first order effect. But there are even more malign ones that do not appear for years. teenagers can't get summer jobs when the minimum wage is higher than their labor is worth. Who wants to pay some pimply-faced 16-year old $20/hour to push a broom around or flip burgers? So that work experience is lost to him, never to be recovered. Companies on the margin of profitability will fail, and companies that are someone's life's dream will never be created because the artificial labor market -- courtesy of our legislators who never worked an honest day in their entitled lives -- has priced them out.

Maybe that would have been the next Apple or Lincoln Electric or Carnegie Steel.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM




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1 Got it

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:01 AM (N1tpc)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

3 Dammit. Not first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

4 Liberalism is the insistence that all that matters is your intentions.

ACTUAL results and foreseeable consequences are never the liberals' fault.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:02 AM (N1tpc)

5 I culled the otters.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:02 AM (9yWhg)

6 Maybe if Seattle didn't elect out and proud Commies this wouldn't happen?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 11:02 AM (cCVOS)

7 OH! And people who warn about the easily foreseeable consequences are just bigotted, racist, and sexist.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:02 AM (N1tpc)

8 What did they expect with a $20/hr minimum wage?

Soon to be a $30/hr minimum, cuz inflation... yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Seattle is the "Emerald City?"

The witch must have taken over.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:03 AM (9yWhg)

10 And when those bigotted racist sexist Cassandras are proved right, there's no reason to listen to them about the next easily foreseeable consequence.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:03 AM (N1tpc)

11 The invisible hand is slapping a lot of people right now, not just those in the junta.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (vUTjU)

12 I would vote for Seattle to raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour to make up for the increased sense of greed from massive corporations driving up inflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

13 By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen so sharply that it would be on a parity with the cost of a petrol or diesel car. If you have looked on Auto Trader recently you may well have been fooled into thinking that this has come true.

... UBS ? Unfiltered Bull Shirt ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (RHGPo)

14 10 And when those bigotted racist sexist Cassandras are proved right, there's no reason to listen to them about the next easily foreseeable consequence.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:03 AM (N1tpc)

=======

Cassandra was right for the wrong reasons. Can't listen to her. Her heart isn't pure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

15 Maybe this is a sign that we need to invest in companies that make home coffee makers.

Posted by: Paco at April 25, 2024 11:05 AM (njExo)

16 In my AO I notice a lot of the local businesses have just stopped hiring people.

The person owning the business will maybe employee his relatives, I assume under the table, but they have no interest in expanding the business by bringing on other people. It just isn't worth it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (ibTVg)

17 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

18 $26 for a coffee ?

.. give it to em good and hard

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (RHGPo)

19
Speaking of the NY judiciary, this NY judge says the second amendment doesn't exist in NY.

Dane@UltraDane
NY Judge: The Second Amendment Doesn't Exist Here. ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.'
Judge Abena Darkeh, suggesting that the Second Amendment doesn't apply anywhere she doesn't approve? What other rights don't exist in New York under Judge Darkeh's paradigm? Do defendants not have the right to representation? Is free speech non-existent?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)

20 Huh. It's like Adam Smith's invisible pimp hand is smacking a 1000 lib twats.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (di6C2)

21 >>But there are even more malign ones that do not appear for years. teenagers can't get summer jobs when the minimum wage is higher than their labor is worth.

At also destroys entry level job ladder. A classic from Mike Rowe who understands the economy better than most of the MSM:

“There is a ladder of success that people climb,” he continued. “Some of those jobs that are out there for seven, eight, nine dollars an hour, in my view, they’re simply not intended to be careers. They’re not intended to be full-time jobs. They’re rungs on a ladder.”

“[Those jobs] are ways for people to get experience in the workforce doing a thing that might not necessarily pay you as much as you’d like, but nevertheless serves a real purpose,” Rowe added. “I worry that the path to a skilled trade can be compromised when you offer an artificially high wage for, I hate the expression, but an unskilled job.”

Rowe’s poignant warning is borne out by the statistics. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (cCVOS)

22 17 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

======

Oh no.

Anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

23 My coffee cost around 3 cents a cup including water and electricity.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (lCWOD)

24 I still don't get the appeal of going out to get coffee.

Yes, if you are out and about and you want a coffee sure.

But apparently every morning on their way to work a bunch of people stop by places like Starbucks to get their fetid coffee.

So you spend more time, more money, and get crappier coffee then you'd get at home. What the hell?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (ibTVg)

25 17 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.

.. most definitely a turning point in the "special military operation"

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (RHGPo)

26 $26 for a coffee ?

.. give it to em good and hard

Dudes, we're working as fast as we can here.

Posted by: Coffee-loving civet cats at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (CsUN+)

27 "Lincoln Electric"

Man, there is a surprising blast from my personal past. Best summer job ever.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (J6Kki)

28 The person owning the business will maybe employee his relatives, I assume under the table, but they have no interest in expanding the business by bringing on other people. It just isn't worth it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (ibTVg)

That's what I'd do. My employees suddenly become my family and no one else.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (N1tpc)

29 My mind always runs to latterday Soviet Union situations nowadays… I know that there is no apple to apple comparisons to be made, but certain dynamics are in play, I believe..

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (PCK5/)

30 I am stunned. Just flabbergasted the increase in labor costs resulted in an increase in prices! It’s like businesses are taking advantage here and acting as if these things are connected somehow!

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (ZdaMQ)

31 Judge Abena Darkeh, suggesting that the Second Amendment doesn't apply anywhere she doesn't approve? What other rights don't exist in New York under Judge Darkeh's paradigm? Do defendants not have the right to representation? Is free speech non-existent?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)

The laws are whatever they say they are. Just look at Trump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (di6C2)

32 22 17 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

======

Oh no.

Anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

I had that same thought...but still...it's obvious Russia will now play tit for tat since we're seizing their assets here (the JP Morgan assets stolen are ones they hold there in foreign subs)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (exHjb)

33 4 Liberalism is the insistence that all that matters is your intentions.

ACTUAL results and foreseeable consequences are never the liberals' fault.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
=======
They are not liberals--they are leftie commies in their economics and beliefs. The whole project is designed to destroy society so any result that moves society toward destruction 'works' for them.

By Any Means Necessary is their motto to bring about a new socialist world with them on top of it.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (/AKWf)

34 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (mb6GH)

35 "Companies on the margin of profitability will fail, and companies that are someone's life's dream will never be created because the artificial labor market -- courtesy of our legislators who never worked an honest day in their entitled lives -- has priced them out."

So Obama was right -- "you didn't build that!"

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 11:08 AM (gtY/l)

36 >>OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.


Sucks for them. Bummer!

Sadly, they're probably going to tap into the $60 billion Ukraine pkg or some other government handout and be just fine.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (cCVOS)

37 Even if the laws of economics were suspended, a barista making $20 an hour isn't going to be able to repay the debt accumulated by earning a wymyns studies degree at $180k.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (vUTjU)

38 By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen so sharply that it would be on a parity with the cost of a petrol or diesel car. If you have looked on Auto Trader recently you may well have been fooled into thinking that this has come true.

... UBS ? Unfiltered Bull Shirt ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM


Both Ford and Chevy loose $$$$ on every EV they sell. Their plan was initially to soak up the losses with their IC truck and car lines and really crank up the EV production because the Federal government told them that by 2030 all new cars sales would be mandated to be electric vehicles.


When that happened they could really jack up the EV prices and start making a fortune. Now that isn't gonna happen and they both lost big bucks betting on the EV market. Sucks to be them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (QNSds)

39 I still haven't gotten a rational answer for why if we need to raise the minimum wage we don't just set it at a true "living wage" of $30/hr or more.

I mean the people supporting this claim endlessly raising it to $15/hr has no effect so why not...$30? Hell $100?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (ibTVg)

40 I still don't get the appeal of going out to get coffee.

Yes, if you are out and about and you want a coffee sure.

But apparently every morning on their way to work a bunch of people stop by places like Starbucks to get their fetid coffee.

Even more astonishingly, they'll wait in a line to give their order, then wait in another line to get their order. Sheep are more enterprising.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

41 Now, Biden is promising a massive tax increase if he is elected.

Of course, he won't be.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 11:10 AM (J6Kki)

42 It's just the latest in a series of wage laws that are backfiring this year, causing chaos for customers, restaurants, and the gig workers they were meant to help.

None of this was meant to help the gig workers. All of this was meant to help the politicians by appealing to soft-headed voters who don't understand how ANYTHING works.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:10 AM (IUd0M)

43 Some economic holes are too deep to be gotten out of… it is called downward mobility.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:10 AM (PCK5/)

44 forty-second!

Posted by: deep thought at April 25, 2024 11:10 AM (v3pYe)

45 By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen so sharply that it would be on a parity with the cost of a petrol or diesel car. If you have looked on Auto Trader recently you may well have been fooled into thinking that this has come true.
Posted by: SMOD

Speaking of:
@AndyPuzder 4h
Americans don’t want EVs at levels Biden’s climate hysteria require. Ford’s EV Q1 losses soared to $1.3 billion - a ridiculous $132,000 per EV sold. All Ford’s profits came from combustion engine vehicle sales. Collectivist policies destroy prosperity.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 11:10 AM (IG4Id)

46 45 Speaking of:
@AndyPuzder 4h
Americans don’t want EVs at levels Biden’s climate hysteria require. Ford’s EV Q1 losses soared to $1.3 billion - a ridiculous $132,000 per EV sold. All Ford’s profits came from combustion engine vehicle sales. Collectivist policies destroy prosperity.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 11:10 AM (IG4Id)

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This can't go on forever.

But a small cadre are going to get very rich in the meantime.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

47 Our legislators and the professional staff that supports them are, of course, expert in all facets of economics, and have a sound understanding of basic economic laws. Posted by: CBD

**********

Hey, you dripped sarcasm in my cynicism!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (l4B/J)

48 The focus is on the lower-income "minimum wage" laws and how it's driving out workers (mostly younger workers) as companies look elsewhere for labor (mostly to automation).

But it's happening at the high end too, as more and more Americans are forced out in favor of foreign workers. In many instances, the foreign workers never leave their home countries. 90% of coding or research or STEM can be done remotely. Why would a company pay Americans $X salary and Y benefits, when it can pay foreigners in India or China or Philippines maybe 25% of that?

I recently spoke to some Stuyvesant students about future job prospects, mostly from my perspective of the legal field. These are very smart kids -- almost all foreigners, btw -- and heavy on STEM. But they see the writing on the wall, or at least their parents do.

I feel really bad for today's kid's who are gonna enter a workforce where Americans get shafted. This isn't our country any more.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (iFTx/)

49 I had to drive through a local very wealthy, very blue city on the way to work a few years ago.

There was a starbucks on my way. And every day there was a line of luxury SUVs with "save da erf" bumper stickers idling all the way out on to the road.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (ibTVg)

50 Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Includes $3.5 Billion to Fund Mass Migration from Middle East

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Yeah, we don't have enough kill crazy fanatics here.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (FVME7)

51 The Lincoln Electric guys have a marvelous presentation they do at steel conferences regarding welding, weld details, what to do, what not to do--it's a gold mine of info, and the guy who does it or used to do it is hilarious. Lots and lots of weld fails.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (z/ifB)

52 The seized [Russian] funds are held in JPMorgan’s Russian accounts and include a stake in a Russian subsidiary. This development is part of the ongoing tensions between the US and Russia, with the US Senate recently passing legislation to send seized Russian assets to Ukraine as part of its $95 million security assistance package.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (lCWOD)

53 Both Ford and Chevy loose $$$$ on every EV they sell. Their plan was initially to soak up the losses with their IC truck and car lines and really crank up the EV production because the Federal government told them that by 2030 all new cars sales would be mandated to be electric vehicles.


When that happened they could really jack up the EV prices and start making a fortune. Now that isn't gonna happen and they both lost big bucks betting on the EV market. Sucks to be them.

Who could have predicted that what couldn't happen, wouldn't. Well, aside from everyone at this site.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:13 AM (CsUN+)

54 ... Governments have been playing fast and loose with immutable economic laws for centuries, and while they are expert at obfuscation, they cannot hide the undeniable fact of their missteps, because the data are screaming in everyone's faces!
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Nobody works for free, but minimum wages *will* distort the market, because any kind of price control does.

The greatest distortions happen when you have two essential but at least somewhat flexible categories and you make one synthetically expensive and the other synthetically cheap. This will cause a compound effect, and that's exactly what's happening. *Everything* is made up of (at least in terms of meta-categories) "capital" and "labor." The mix is not fixed, but everything has both.

Policy keeps the price of labor high (minimum wage, work restrictions, credentialing, etc.) and the price of capital low (interest rate repression), making a net effect of extremely cheap capital *and* extremely expensive labor. Say hello to "capital preference" in all endeavors.

In a proper market, capital and labor prices are balanced through supply and demand. In this environment, the state's thumb on the scale is a 1-2 punch against labor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:13 AM (HnUIn)

55 The invisible hand is slapping a lot of people right now, not just those in the junta.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (vUTjU)

Those who have ruled that you must support them or suffer indefensible harm will never miss a meal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:13 AM (IUd0M)

56 Even more astonishingly, they'll wait in a line to give their order, then wait in another line to get their order. Sheep are more enterprising.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

Aren't those folks by and large really just buying coffee-flavored dessert drinks?

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 11:13 AM (gtY/l)

57 >> Judge Abena Darkeh,

She was co-founder and VP of the Association of Ghanian Lawyers of America. What gun rights do they have in Ghana. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 11:13 AM (cCVOS)

58 I recently spoke to some Stuyvesant students

Was your legture delivered in a wooden tone?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)

59 So, did you hear that the junta is making internal combustion engines nearly illegal to operate, by 2030?

No law changed. It's all deep state regulation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (J6Kki)

60 13 ... UBS ? Unfiltered Bull Shirt ?

i prefer my shirt filtered by cats. can't beat a good cat filter.

Posted by: anachronda at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (v3pYe)

61 I have rarely found any coffee served at any place worth the money. The same goes for iced tea…

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (PCK5/)

62 *Insert Nelson Muntz laugh here*

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (Jxvt5)

63 There was a starbucks on my way. And every day there was a line of luxury SUVs with "save da erf" bumper stickers idling all the way out on to the road.
Posted by: 18-1

Good news, everybody! We've gotten a stay!

Oh look, the UN's climate chief says we once again have 2 years to save the world from climate change or whatever

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)

64 Axios/Harris Poll: 51% Support Mass Deportations

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

65 59 So, did you hear that the junta is making internal combustion engines nearly illegal to operate, by 2030?

No law changed. It's all deep state regulation.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (J6Kki)

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Already state AGs are putting up lawsuits. The Raimondo case should completely end Chevron Doctrine making this sort of regulation even harder to pass judicial review.

I think it's just an election year stunt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

66 Have we spoken about Arizona? Their AG s unfortunate looking.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (ZdaMQ)

67 By 2024, UBS confidently predicted in a October 2020 report, the cost of manufacturing an electric car would have fallen so sharply that it would be on a parity with the cost of a petrol or diesel car.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (RHGPo)

They failed to learn one lesson from the nuclear industry which said that it would make electricity so cheap there would be no reason to meter it. Of course, nuclear was destroyed by lawsuits and regulations whereas EVs are supported by them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:16 AM (IUd0M)

68 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

That's really sad.

Did Russia not have access to any more than that?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:16 AM (N1tpc)

69 Speaking of ignoring reality in favor of your ideological fantasies.

https://tinyurl.com/duu8e68e

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:16 AM (CsUN+)

70 29 My mind always runs to latterday Soviet Union situations nowadays… I know that there is no apple to apple comparisons to be made, but certain dynamics are in play, I believe..
Posted by: tubal
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It is the same dynamic and largely the people--the nomenklatura of the US--that are responsible for the collapse. Walter Dean Burnham, a former commie who turned conservative, named them as the 'managers' in his Managerial Revolution book in the 40's. What he did not see back then before he died is that managerialism is no less than a mask for petty aristocrats that are basically blood sucking parasites on society and totally unnecessary for a free economy to work.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (/AKWf)

71 GAO estimated total direct annual financial losses to the government from fraud to be between $233 billion and $521 billion, based on data from fiscal years 2018 through 2022.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

72 66 Have we spoken about Arizona? Their AG s unfortunate looking.
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (ZdaMQ)


Seems like Arizona is gone. I blame California.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (PCK5/)

73 Now, Biden is promising a massive tax increase if he is elected.

Of course, he won't be.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

From your tablet to God's iPhone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)

74 Oh look, the UN's climate chief says we once again have 2 years to save the world from climate change or whatever
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)
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Cool. Take it at face value.

Two years is not enough time to completely deindustrialize without a titanic body count. Given that, there is only one rational response to the coming crisis: produce. A lot. Of everything.

If we're already beyond the Rubicon - and we are, if the 2-year timeline is to be believed - then there is *zero* downside to accelerating the unstoppable trend and stockpiling resources as insurance against the future. All environmental regulation should be zeroed. All of it, without exception. Produce as much as possible while you still can, and damn the consequences. We're up against the end of the world, so the survival of the species and its organizations is paramount, so take every step possible to prevent the die-off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (HnUIn)

75 They failed to learn one lesson from the nuclear industry which said that it would make electricity so cheap there would be no reason to meter it. Of course, nuclear was destroyed by lawsuits and regulations
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The China Syndrome. Another gift from America's sweetheart, Jane Fonda.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (9yWhg)

76 58 I recently spoke to some Stuyvesant students

Was your legture delivered in a wooden tone?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)
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It should have been delivered in Mandarin. I'm not shitting you that probably 70% of the kids were Chinese. Some had strong Chinese accents still. The parents? Some barely spoke English and if they did, their accent was so thick I could barely understand them. The rest of the kids were Indian or looked Indian. White kids? Maybe one or two. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

77 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

Gosh, when the west - not "officially" at war with Russia - decided to freeze, and then started seizing, assets of both Russian citizens and the Russian government, no one thought that Russia would respond in kind. It's so unfair.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:18 AM (IUd0M)

78 Since the US is not at war with Russia, formally, all of this asset seizing is piracy/theft and could be punished as such.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM (ibTVg)

79 64 Axios/Harris Poll: 51% Support Mass Deportations
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

And another 48% do, but won't say so...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM (exHjb)

80 74 Oh look, the UN's climate chief says we once again have 2 years to save the world from climate change or whatever

Where do they get this 2 year number ? Out of their ass is my guess

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM (Akjoo)

81 75 The China Syndrome. Another gift from America's sweetheart, Jane Fonda.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (9yWhg)

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The China Syndrome in combination with Three Mile Island.

The movie was released on March 16, 1979. Three Mile Island happened on March 28, 1979.

Quite a coincidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

82 What other rights don't exist in New York under Judge Darkeh's paradigm? Do defendants not have the right to representation? Is free speech non-existent?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (FVME7)

You'd think a black woman would be careful with that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM (IUd0M)

83 "Seattle takeout orders have reached a breaking point. Amid horror stories of $122 Thai delivery and $26 to-go coffees, the Emerald City is now considering rolling back a brand new wage law"

this is just proof that we need communism because the evil capitalist pigs are greedy and starving people...

-- typical leftist twatwaffle

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (nXhwP)

84 It should have been delivered in Mandarin. I'm not shitting you that probably 70% of the kids were Chinese. Some had strong Chinese accents still. The parents? Some barely spoke English and if they did, their accent was so thick I could barely understand them. The rest of the kids were Indian or looked Indian. White kids? Maybe one or two. Not joking.

My nephew is in the CompSci program at GA Tech. He's literally the only non-Asian (of all types) in the program.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (CsUN+)

85 Always always always this obsession with delivery drivers and making sure delivery drivers get windfall incomes. What about all the other working stiffs? Oh yea: delivery drivers are overwhelmingly foreign and overwhelmingly illegal. This is just another subsidy that Americans pay to illegals and invaders.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

86 9 Seattle is the "Emerald City?"

The witch must have taken over.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:03 AM (9yWhg)

Oz was never all that great himself. You know he never did give nothin' to the tin man, that he didn't, that he didn't already have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (oy4r9)

87 57 >> Judge Abena Darkeh,

She was co-founder and VP of the Association of Ghanian Lawyers of America. What gun rights do they have in Ghana. . .?
Posted by: Lizzy
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Oppressing Americans is just one more job that not enough Americans want to do but foreigners will. Way back when, the British were complaining about King John doing the same thing. Ditto in the Glorious Revolution with King James II. Ideologues find it useful always to go abroad to find people willing to oppress the native populations.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (/AKWf)

88 Uber eats delivery be expensive yo.

The idea that a fast food worker is making 25 an hour is ludicrous.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (JIdXK)

89 My late grandpa used to tell the story of how he was employed in the early 30s when the first(?) national minimum wage law was passed. The day after passage, he lost his job.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (mupln)

90 I recently spoke to some Stuyvesant students

Was your legture delivered in a wooden tone?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)

I knew a Stuyvesant guy at Cornell who assumed he would impress people wearing his Stuyvesant letter jacket around as a freshman at Cornell. Such was not the case.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (z/ifB)

91 The invisible hand is slapping a lot of people right now, not just those in the junta.
Posted by: Thomas Paine


Not hard enough.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:21 AM (Jxvt5)

92 this is just proof that we need communism because the evil capitalist pigs are greedy and starving people...

If you think take out is expensive under capitalism just wait for how expensive it is in a socialist system...while you wait in line for your ration of gruel...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:21 AM (ibTVg)

93 The China Syndrome in combination with Three Mile Island.

The movie was released on March 16, 1979. Three Mile Island happened on March 28, 1979.

Quite a coincidence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I was thinking the order was reversed -- that TCS was a hysterical reaction to TMI. Thanks for setting me straight.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

94 I saw Fetid Coffee open for Iron Butterfly at the Monterey Pop Festival in '67.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 11:21 AM (Be/+i)

95 Now, Biden is promising a massive tax increase if he is elected.

Of course, he won't be.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

From your tablet to God's iPhone.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (FVME7)

As proved in 2020, just because he isn't elected doesn't mean "he" won't remain in power.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:22 AM (N1tpc)

96 92 this is just proof that we need communism because the evil capitalist pigs are greedy and starving people...

If you think take out is expensive under capitalism just wait for how expensive it is in a socialist system...while you wait in line for your ration of gruel...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:21 AM (ibTVg)

Teach your kids how to garden, shop, and cook...someone will always want them around...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:22 AM (exHjb)

97 I mean the people supporting this claim endlessly raising it to $15/hr has no effect so why not...$30? Hell $100?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:09 AM (ibTVg)

Frankly, if you don't make the minimum wage $100M/hr so that people could quickly move to a life of leisure, you're a tool of the wreckers and kulaks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:22 AM (IUd0M)

98 93 I was thinking the order was reversed -- that TCS was a hysterical reaction to TMI. Thanks for setting me straight.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

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Yeah, the movie was just largely routine anti-nuclear agitprop that suddenly became the biggest thing ever culturally for a hot minute because of that coincidence.

Without Three Mile Island, The China Syndrome would have been mostly forgotten in the sea of other activist films made at the time rather than becoming a cultural touchpoint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

99 If we're already beyond the Rubicon - and we are, if the 2-year timeline is to be believed - then there is *zero* downside to accelerating the unstoppable trend and stockpiling resources as insurance against the future. All environmental regulation should be zeroed. All of it, without exception. Produce as much as possible while you still can, and damn the consequences. We're up against the end of the world, so the survival of the species and its organizations is paramount, so take every step possible to prevent the die-off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Easier to just get rid of the UN and quit funding it. If the UN was suddenly not getting about a third of its funding from the US, it would have to actually do something useful for a change or die.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (/AKWf)

100 The Laffer Curve is Being Proven Real in at Least Ten States

Under the progressive tax rate system, additional income earned over certain income thresholds is subject to higher tax rates, ranging from 10 percent to 37 percent. The highest‐paid Americans are charged a federal marginal income tax rate of 37 percent on each dollar earned above $731,200 (married) in 2024. The average top rate increases to 46 percent after factoring in state, local, and Medicare taxes.

When the government takes close to half of each additional dollar earned, it changes an individual’s decisions about how much to work and what type of work to do. There are at least four ways high tax rates decrease economic activity.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

101 Maybe if Seattle didn't elect out and proud Commies this wouldn't happen?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 11:02 AM (cCVOS)


Seattle can take a flying f**k at a rolling donut. I live over 40 miles Seattle and I still have to pay a Regional Transit Tax when I pay my car tags. I hate everything from Seattle to Olympia and if Mrs D would agree, we'd be gone.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (W/lyH)

102 GAO estimated total direct annual financial losses to the government from fraud to be between $233 billion and $521 billion, based on data from fiscal years 2018 through 2022.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

...

Half of that got turned into Dodge Hellcat Challengers.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (z/ifB)

103 I do love the people complaining about the need for a living wage also complaining about the cost of delivery food.

You want that guy to make whatever you think a living wage is right? So...pay up @sshole.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (ibTVg)

104 We're up against the end of the world, so the survival of the species and its organizations is paramount, so take every step possible to prevent the die-off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (HnUIn)
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And yet the "elites" are taking every step possible to CAUSE the die-off, because that's what they want.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (7fElN)

105 100 When the government takes close to half of each additional dollar earned, it changes an individual’s decisions about how much to work and what type of work to do. There are at least four ways high tax rates decrease economic activity.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (RHGPo)

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"Tax rates do not affect personal decisions. Also, we need sin taxes on things we don't like to affect personal decisions."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (GBKbO)

106 Latest Poll Shows 49% “Strongly” Disapprove of Biden

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In popularity, he's coming in right behing diarrhea.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (FVME7)

107 Without Three Mile Island, The China Syndrome would have been mostly forgotten in the sea of other activist films made at the time rather than becoming a cultural touchpoint.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I prefer the Pepsi Syndrome skit on SNL back in the day to the actual movie.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:24 AM (/AKWf)

108 Technically, Three Mile Island was not a very serious accident. But the media hyped the hell out of it and convinced everyone it was China Syndrome in real time, and that pretty much killed all nuke construction in the US from that point forward.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2024 11:24 AM (oy4r9)

109 The Laffer Curve is Being Proven Real in at Least Ten States

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That's not funny!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (FVME7)

110 And yet the "elites" are taking every step possible to CAUSE the die-off, because that's what they want.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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They forget the immortal words issues in Children of the Corn--"He wants you too Malachai"

Stan always, and I mean always, breaks his tools on Earth.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (/AKWf)

111 In popularity, he's coming in right behing diarrhea.

--

LOL

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (mupln)

112 Why would a company pay Americans $X salary and Y benefits, when it can pay foreigners in India or China or Philippines maybe 25% of that?

I would argue because the people in those places, quite frequently, suck. They don't understand what they're working on and rely on badly written shit from AI get code in... but I'm not a corporate executive and didn't attend a prestigious university.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (IUd0M)

113 I knew a Stuyvesant guy at Cornell who assumed he would impress people wearing his Stuyvesant letter jacket around as a freshman at Cornell. Such was not the case.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (z/ifB)
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When were you at Cornell?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (Be/+i)

114 Who did these whining food-delivery customers vote for? They are getting in the ass exactly what they voted for. Fuck them.

Manhattan is a short ways behind Seattle in this regard. But I already changed my eating habits to avoid sky-high food delivery fees. What did I do? I stopped using them. Fuck them and their fees.

I either cook for myself. That's very easy to do in a city where all supermarkets have aisles of good quality, ready-made food. If I want to order food, I'll get off my ass, walk the two blocks to the restaurant, and order take out. I'll save literally 30-35%.

The only time I'll use the delivery apps any more if if I have a date that I'm not cooking for. In that case, the delivery vig is worth not having to go to the place to pick it up.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

115 Easier to just get rid of the UN and quit funding it. If the UN was suddenly not getting about a third of its funding from the US, it would have to actually do something useful for a change or die.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:23 AM (/AKWf)
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LOL. Of course. But if they are to believed about the conditions, their prescription is the exact opposite of what we should actually do.

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:26 AM (HnUIn)

116 I would guess that a living wage for a single person in a shithole city would be … what??… 50k nowadays?? Napkin math sez 20$/hr ain’t gonna cut it….

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:26 AM (PCK5/)

117 Never heard of Lincoln Electric before.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:27 AM (63Dwl)

118 Maybe that would have been the next Apple or Lincoln Electric or Carnegie Steel.

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True but also another Solyndra if they have the right connections eventually.

Posted by: Ciampino - Maybe at April 25, 2024 11:27 AM (qfLjt)

119 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:27 AM (MvF+J)

120 I would guess that a living wage for a single person in a shithole city would be … what??… 50k nowadays?? Napkin math sez 20$/hr ain’t gonna cut it….
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:26 AM (PCK5/)
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I don't think I could afford to live in a city these days. I make a comfortable, but not extravagant living, and some days I feel like I'm living from paycheck to paycheck just paying my living expenses.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 11:28 AM (7fElN)

121 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

Gosh, when the west - not "officially" at war with Russia - decided to freeze, and then started seizing, assets of both Russian citizens and the Russian government, no one thought that Russia would respond in kind. It's so unfair.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Since the US is not at war with Russia, formally, all of this asset seizing is piracy/theft and could be punished as such.
Posted by: 18-1



Bwahahahahahahaha.
The US won't go after actual Somali pirates.
They damn sure ain't going after Russia.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:28 AM (Jxvt5)

122 Clearly, we need a Constitutional Amendment to cap combined taxation at 50%.

Currently there are 10 states that have a combined rate at or above 50%. Under Biden plan for his 2nd term, 36 states will have combined taxation at or above 50%.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

123 112 Why would a company pay Americans $X salary and Y benefits, when it can pay foreigners in India or China or Philippines maybe 25% of that?

I would argue because the people in those places, quite frequently, suck. They don't understand what they're working on and rely on badly written shit from AI get code in... but I'm not a corporate executive and didn't attend a prestigious university.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (IUd0M)

If I ruled the US, it's b/c I'd be putting a 100% tax on all salaries paid to foreigners for any company which does business in the US (or more - they'd pay the equivalent salary of a US worker back to the US govt). If you want access to our lawfulness, resources, and consumers, you can pay people here to create and provide it, or pay what it would cost if you were here.

Thus, bringing back the jobs for the 90 IQ male in this country.

Yes, things would cost more. But people would be employed and entitlements would plummet (b/c getting entitlements would require work within a certain period...b/c I'd also link work with bennies)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (exHjb)

124 Good morning morons. Another day in clown world, enjoy life as best you can.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (xcxpd)

125 "Seattle takeout orders have reached a breaking point. Amid horror stories of $122 Thai delivery and $26 to-go coffees, the Emerald City is now considering rolling back a brand new wage law"

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"Emerald City"? More Puke Green City.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (FVME7)

126 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:27 AM (MvF+J)

Our best and brightest

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (N1tpc)

127 LOL. Of course. But if they are to believed about the conditions, their prescription is the exact opposite of what we should actually do.

It's all bullshit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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When the UN goes totally to virtual conferences and meetings and avoiding all those carbon spewing jet trips, I will believe it is serious. Well, probably not even then because when has the UN been right about something. There is something about collective decisionmaking that always makes it appear that the lowest possible iq in the group came up with the decision.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (/AKWf)

128 Whoa, the Dow is down 580 points. Did Joe have another "incident"?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)

129 76 58 I recently spoke to some Stuyvesant students

Was your legture delivered in a wooden tone?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)
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It should have been delivered in Mandarin. I'm not shitting you that probably 70% of the kids were Chinese. Some had strong Chinese accents still. The parents? Some barely spoke English and if they did, their accent was so thick I could barely understand them. The rest of the kids were Indian or looked Indian. White kids? Maybe one or two. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

I went to Science (mumble mumble) years ago, and I was one of the few black students there. It's probably even worse now, and because of that NYC wants to eliminate the specialized HSs. It was so important for poor, smart students to get a chance at an amazing education. Now the wokies want to do to them what the $20 min wage people are doing to the workplace.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (9miN6)

130 84 It should have been delivered in Mandarin. I'm not shitting you that probably 70% of the kids were Chinese. Some had strong Chinese accents still. The parents? Some barely spoke English and if they did, their accent was so thick I could barely understand them. The rest of the kids were Indian or looked Indian. White kids? Maybe one or two. Not joking.

My nephew is in the CompSci program at GA Tech. He's literally the only non-Asian (of all types) in the program.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (CsUN+)
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I'm sure it's like that at all tech schools. White kids rarely go into that any more, and even if they do, they get crowded out by Asians.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

131 126 Watch it turn out to be a M-to-F tranny.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (MvF+J)

132 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (T4tVD)

133 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"
Posted by: gp
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Over and under on brain fried with prior and maybe current drug use.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (/AKWf)

134 I would argue because the people in those places, quite frequently, suck. They don't understand what they're working on and rely on badly written shit from AI get code in... but I'm not a corporate executive and didn't attend a prestigious university.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (IUd0M)
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Quality is one piece. Overhead is another. Offshoring is not free. It is, in fact, very expensive. In non-real goods (software, call centers, etc.) it's less expensive, but there are very real costs involved. Telephony goes up a lot. You need real company HQ personnel onsite to keep things in line, and those guys are going to have to be paid a lot. Scheduling is very difficult and introduces operational friction. All of this can be dealt with, but it isn't a free ride.

Physical goods are worse. All of the above applies, but then so does transportation. That's all expensive and the labor can't be a bit cheaper and have the math work. The labor has to be dramatically, wildly cheaper for it to balance. This is one of the reasons why stuff is moving out of China. Eventually, the people you're offshoring to want to be paid more and the model breaks down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)

135 119 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:27 AM (MvF+J)

Ah, she feels it too.
She might even be right.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (xcxpd)

136 The true minimum wage is $0.00/hr, and any other mandated wage distorts the labor markets. That is fact.

It's more than a fact its axiomatic.
Like two points make a line or any politicians make a clusterfuck.

Posted by: DaveA at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (PMJuY)

137 Now, Biden is promising a massive tax increase if he is elected.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:31 AM (IUd0M)

138 Thanks CBD !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 11:31 AM (T4tVD)

139 107 Without Three Mile Island, The China Syndrome would have been mostly forgotten in the sea of other activist films made at the time rather than becoming a cultural touchpoint.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I prefer the Pepsi Syndrome skit on SNL back in the day to the actual movie.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:24 AM (/AKWf)

Classic sketch. I miss that SNL.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:31 AM (9miN6)

140 I'm sure it's like that at all tech schools. White kids rarely go into that any more, and even if they do, they get crowded out by Asians.

I'm not criticizing those kids. They've worked hard, and from my nephew's experience, continue to work hard. They'll be running the country someday. I just wish more native born made the effort to be competitive in such programs.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:32 AM (CsUN+)

141
Produce as much as possible while you still can, and damn the consequences. We're up against the end of the world, so the survival of the species and its organizations is paramount, so take every step possible to prevent the die-off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:32 AM (63Dwl)

142 128 Whoa, the Dow is down 580 points. Did Joe have another "incident"?
Posted by: Archimedes
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The accident is believing that the Fed would reduce interest rates by now by the stock market. We also see increasing problems with the US Treasury selling bonds (buyers demanding more yield) last week at auction.

Tells you that the Fed efforts to stymie inflation are not working.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:32 AM (/AKWf)

143 Oh look, the UN's climate chief says we once again have 2 years to save the world from climate change or whatever

Where do they get this 2 year number ? Out of their ass is my guess
Posted by: It's me donna

They prefer to call it "analysis".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

144 When the government takes close to half of each additional dollar earned, it changes an individual’s decisions about how much to work and what type of work to do. There are at least four ways high tax rates decrease economic activity.
Posted by: SMOD


There are only four ways to get rich:
1) inheritance
2) stealing
3) working really hard
4.) learn how to suck a di** like you lost your car keys in it

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (Jxvt5)

145 I went to Science (mumble mumble) years ago, and I was one of the few black students there. It's probably even worse now, and because of that NYC wants to eliminate the specialized HSs. It was so important for poor, smart students to get a chance at an amazing education. Now the wokies want to do to them what the $20 min wage people are doing to the workplace.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (9miN6)

THIS.

This is what really gets me angry.

Our school system is PURPOSELY stealing the futures of poor, but gifted students.

It's not an exaggeration. Look at what the public school defenders say about vouchers- "THEN ALL THE SMART KIDS WILL LEAVE AND THE OTHER CHILDREN WON'T BE CHALLENGED AS MUCH!"

So we steal those smart children's futures to slightly raise the grades of the dumb children.

WHAT A GREAT IDEA.

(As I said, this gets me angry.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (N1tpc)

146 The movie was released on March 16, 1979. Three Mile Island happened on March 28, 1979.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

Fun fact... approximately zero people were harmed by radiation from TMI.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (IUd0M)

147 Since the US is not at war with Russia, formally, all of this asset seizing is piracy/theft and could be punished as such.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:19 AM


We do it to Iran and North Korea as well. And the president can do it all by himself without any oversight from congress.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (QNSds)

148 The economic hole is too deep for most.. this fact is planned. There are only 2 recourses left for most people, and in either the arrow points down for them.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (PCK5/)

149 Classic sketch. I miss that SNL.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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Yep. It had sparks of life over the years after the brilliant original cast left until the Millennials took it over. Sad.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:34 AM (/AKWf)

150 Oh look, the UN's climate chief says we once again have 2 years to save the world from climate change or whatever

Where do they get this 2 year number ? Out of their ass is my guess
Posted by: It's me donna

They prefer to call it "analysis".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Anal sis. So they pulled it outta their sister's ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:34 AM (Jxvt5)

151 Any word on SCOTUS and the immunity case ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 11:34 AM (Akjoo)

152 Oh yea: delivery drivers are overwhelmingly foreign and overwhelmingly illegal. This is just another subsidy that Americans pay to illegals and invaders.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

You can avoid personally paying that cost with this one simple trick...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:35 AM (IUd0M)

153 Also... DOL's New Rule Increases Salary Threshold for FLSA Overtime Exemption Eligibility.

Currently it's at 684/wk (35.6k/yr) and goes to 844/wk (43.9k/yr) July 1 2024. Jan 1 2025 jumps to 1128/Wk (58.7/yr)

So, making less than the threshold defined by the DOL will be excluded from the white-collar exemption and, thus, will be entitled to overtime pay.

F*ck the DOL (Dept of Labor.)

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 11:35 AM (ViCCR)

154 Our legislators and the professional staff that supports them are, of course, expert in all facets of economics, and have a sound understanding of basic economic laws.

From what little sense I can make out - this madness began a few decades ago when the Chicago School embraced Keynesian economics.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 11:35 AM (+x87d)

155 "companies that are someone's life's dream will never be created because the artificial labor market -- courtesy of our legislators who never worked an honest day in their entitled lives -- has priced them out."

Exactly. I have *way* more design ideas than I have the time, or ability, to execute but I can't afford to hire (and pay all the *extra* costs of employment beyond just the salary) anyone to do that part for me. Most of the ideas are probably not worthwhile, but there are also probably a couple that would be marketable. The current system ensures I will never no which and no one else will ever benefit from what will now just stay in my head.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (XjtdB)

156 The accident is believing that the Fed would reduce interest rates by now by the stock market. We also see increasing problems with the US Treasury selling bonds (buyers demanding more yield) last week at auction.

Tells you that the Fed efforts to stymie inflation are not working.
Posted by: whig


Money printer go "whiiiirrrrrrr".

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (Jxvt5)

157 So we steal those smart children's futures to slightly raise the grades of the dumb children.

In Fairfax Co., here in NoVa, you don't even have to leave your base school for them to screw over the smart kids. Many schools have GT programs, and the teacher's unions have done their absolute best to get rid of them, and barring that, dumb them down enough so they aren't anything special.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (CsUN+)

158 137 Now, Biden is promising a massive tax increase if he is elected.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:31 AM (IUd0M)

Yep. Most people have no idea who Lenin is… the best some could muster is “ wasn’t he one of the Beatles??”

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (PCK5/)

159 ... So we steal those smart children's futures to slightly raise the grades of the dumb children.

WHAT A GREAT IDEA.

(As I said, this gets me angry.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:33 AM (N1tpc)
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This, too, is a consequence of an open border. The Left is indeed correct that not everyone flooding over the border is a bloodthirsty savage or a lazy bum. There are in fact smart and hard-working people who come over, too. I have no idea what the ratio is, but the groups are all represented.

The open border is the "voucher system" in this comparison. If the good people all leave and just the flotsam remains behind, how will their home countries ever advance, eh? Isn't our open border really, really, really bad for the likes of Guatemala who experience the "brain drain?"

Look at Egypt and, to a much greater degree, Yemen for what happens when you suffer a proper, elongated brain drain.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

160 129 76 58 I recently spoke to some Stuyvesant students

Was your legture delivered in a wooden tone?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)
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It should have been delivered in Mandarin. I'm not shitting you that probably 70% of the kids were Chinese. The rest of the kids were Indian or looked Indian. White kids? Maybe one or two. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

I went to Science (mumble mumble) years ago, and I was one of the few black students there. It's probably even worse now, and because of that NYC wants to eliminate the specialized HSs. It was so important for poor, smart students to get a chance at an amazing education. Now the wokies want to do to them what the $20 min wage people are doing to the workplace.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (9miN6)
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There were a few black Stuyvesant students, but my guess based on their accents is that they were Nigerian or other African. It's like there were almost no Americans there of any race.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

161 Yep. Most people have no idea who Lenin is… the best some could muster is “ wasn’t he one of the Beatles??”
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (PCK5/)
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I am the walrus.

Posted by: Donny Karabatsos at April 25, 2024 11:37 AM (Be/+i)

162 157 So we steal those smart children's futures to slightly raise the grades of the dumb children.

In Fairfax Co., here in NoVa, you don't even have to leave your base school for them to screw over the smart kids. Many schools have GT programs, and the teacher's unions have done their absolute best to get rid of them, and barring that, dumb them down enough so they aren't anything special.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (CsUN+)

The answer is to homeschool. If you do, Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)

163 156 The eternal thirst for more debt terrifies me. Can't we accomplish anything without making future generations pay for it?

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (MvF+J)

164
They prefer to call it "analysis".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Joe Rochefort?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:39 AM (63Dwl)

165 Pelosi Calls Netanyahu an “Obstacle” to Peace, Demands He Resign

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Sumbitch is against a new Holocaust!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

166 Busted link in the sidebar re Weinstein rape conviction overturned.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (GD2xa)

167 They prefer to call it "analysis".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Joe Rochefort?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2024 11:39 AM (63Dwl)
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They're not fit to polish Joe's carpet slippers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (Be/+i)

168 134 This is one of the reasons why stuff is moving out of China. Eventually, the people you're offshoring to want to be paid more and the model breaks down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25

It’s moving out of China and in to Mexico. Even with the crazy Mexican labor laws, which they are, the delta is still so significantly less than manufacturing here. Another reason it’s moving out of China is the requirement all accounting be run on Chinese servers with Chinese products. Not a mystery why. Also, the Chinese facade is something you have to see to appreciate. You have been there, even in Shanghai hotels the tstat is fake. It’s beautiful, until you look in the back room. This is true for office buildings, etc. the bathrooms we got to use were like …Trump Tower! The employee real bathrooms? Egads.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)

169 The answer is to homeschool. If you do, Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...

My kids are grown, so I don't have to deal with FCPS anymore, but homeschooling is probably not an option for many folks (folx?) if they want to live in FC. It's too expensive for all but a very few single income families.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

170 The Heritage Foundation, Commentary, 'Jobs And Labor Obama's Union Bailout' June 19, 2012
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WSJ Opinion: The Biden Bailout Presidency, Wonder Land: Joe Biden’s administration is willing to bail out, backstop, guarantee and subsidize just about everything. Mar. 2023

The Hill, Biden’s pension ‘guarantee’ stretches the law to bail out unions, By Aharon Friedman, Opinion Contributor, 07/14/22

Austin American Statemen, POLITIFACT, Biden's $36 billion to save Teamsters fund is largest-ever private pension bailout, Tom Kertscher, Dec 15, 2022

WSJ, Biden Bails Out the Teamsters, The $36 billion he delivered to the union’s pensions this week was sold as Covid ‘relief,’ Dec 09, 2022

The ILA, railroad workers, communications workers, teachers, certain healthcare workers...higher and higher pay and benefits. Starbucks, etc. moving to unionize.

It's not too hard to predict the path before us and who wins and loses for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (NFX2v)

171 156 The eternal thirst for more debt terrifies me. Can't we accomplish anything without making future generations pay for it?
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (MvF+J)
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The Left is all in on eliminating future generations.

Problem solved!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (7fElN)

172 Money printer go "whiiiirrrrrrr".
Posted by: rickb223
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Either Treasury has to spend more and more on interest which accelerates the growth in the deficit or the Fed eats the bonds and prints more money on it. Both are inflationary but we are now seeing economic signs that we have not seen since the 1970's and early 80's and if and when the US ceases to be the world reserve currency then expect imports to skyrocket to nosebleed levels and inflation into the stratosphere.

If you like sci fi, An Enemy of the State by F. Paul Wilson does a pretty decent job in explaining the economics and politics of a dying welfare state. Well worth reading.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (/AKWf)

173 165 Pelosi Calls Netanyahu an “Obstacle” to Peace, Demands He Resign

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Sumbitch is against a new Holocaust!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

I am always stunned when I think that old bitch is still alive.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (PCK5/)

174 Whoa, the Dow is down 580 points.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)

As Montec likes to point out, the days when a 500 point drop in the Dow meant anything are long in the rearview mirror.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (IUd0M)

175 They prefer to call it "analysis".
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Joe Rochefort?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Hey! If you call me out every time I steal a joke, we're never gonna get nothing done!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

176 Any word on SCOTUS and the immunity case ?

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I was just reading a post over at Mooch's Mirror and someone said that the questions posed to Trump's attorney shows he's lost. FWIW....

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (mupln)

177 I have it on good authority that people never spend less on something just because the price would go up and the only reason any business would go under because of a minimum wage increase is to spite the efforts of Democrats to improve the entire economy.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 25, 2024 11:42 AM (iZEhM)

178 I was just reading a post over at Mooch's Mirror and someone said that the questions posed to Trump's attorney shows he's lost. FWIW....
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (mupln)


Damn

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 11:42 AM (Akjoo)

179 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"
Posted by: gp
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Over and under on brain fried with prior and maybe current drug use.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:30 AM (/AKWf)

Biden's protection detail. Had to see his lemon party one too many times.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:42 AM (IUd0M)

180 The eternal thirst for more debt terrifies me. Can't we accomplish anything without making future generations pay for it?
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (MvF+J)
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Of course we can. but there are two costs to it:
1. It happens less quickly, because demand can't be pulled forward and consumed today (the other side of this - that future demand must be reduced - is conveniently ignored)
2. There is less margin for squeeze. There is no way that our current corruption levels could be maintained on a pay-go basis.

Initially, point 1 is more important. We can produce and develop more, and do it faster, with judicious use of debt and on balance this is a good thing. It lets you bootstrap.

Eventually, though, debt becomes uneconomic and harder to maintain. This *should* result in bankruptcy and correction, but you can also - if you're big enough, like a government - stave that off by transferring the debt to stronger shoulders instead. Everyone's happy this way, and the ability for the spice to flow grows dramatically and it creates its own demand. Until those stronger shoulders weaken and fall, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:42 AM (HnUIn)

181 162 157 So we steal those smart children's futures to slightly raise the grades of the dumb children.

In Fairfax Co., here in NoVa, you don't even have to leave your base school for them to screw over the smart kids. Many schools have GT programs, and the teacher's unions have done their absolute best to get rid of them, and barring that, dumb them down enough so they aren't anything special.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:36 AM (CsUN+)

The answer is to homeschool. If you do, Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)

I believe that homeschooling is the way to break this education impasse. Right now, good schools are in expensive neighborhoods, and the middle class can't afford to go there (as an aside, you'll never see a stricter border policy in a blue city than the one that prevents kids from other neighborhoods to attend your blue ribbon blue school). If you're middle-class and want to gentrify an up-and-coming area, homeschool your kid there. They stay safe, get educated, and watch the property values go up around you.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:43 AM (9miN6)

182 The answer is to homeschool. If you do, Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)


... if you're a millionaire or bought your house 20 years ago.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:43 AM (N1tpc)

183 156 The eternal thirst for more debt terrifies me. Can't we accomplish anything without making future generations pay for it?
Posted by: gp
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Debt that cannot be repaid will not be--either they will continue with their inflate the debt away or you get formal repudiation--sometimes both at the same time.

Carmine and Rogoff, economic historians, wrote an excellent book--This Time It's Different that studies how governments have mismanaged public finances for over 1000 years of economic history and the consequences of that.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:43 AM (/AKWf)

184 *Opens Fartbook*

Very first story is how Chipotle is raising prices due to minimum wage increase.

98% of the comments are about CEO & Corporate greed. 😂😂😢

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (Jxvt5)

185 169 The answer is to homeschool. If you do, Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...

My kids are grown, so I don't have to deal with FCPS anymore, but homeschooling is probably not an option for many folks (folx?) if they want to live in FC. It's too expensive for all but a very few single income families.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

I said homeschooling, not private schooling. Private schooling here is $16K/kid and up. Homeschooling has cost me about $1K/kid/year, and that's usually for enrichment when they were kids, and science labs and foreign tutors for language in HS. You don't need to pay really anything to homeschool. And now VA (thanks to Youngkin) allows free Dual Enrollment for 6 credits/semester for all grade 11/12, so I no longer pay for those classes either (b/c I do have all my kids start CC classes in grade 11)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (exHjb)

186 173 165 Pelosi Calls Netanyahu an “Obstacle” to Peace, Demands He Resign

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Sumbitch is against a new Holocaust!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:39 AM (FVME7)

I am always stunned when I think that old bitch is still alive.
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (PCK5/)

Pelosi is Jeffries' id. She can say what he and the rest of leadership are thinking.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (9miN6)

187 174 Whoa, the Dow is down 580 points.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)

As Montec likes to point out, the days when a 500 point drop in the Dow meant anything are long in the rearview mirror.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (IUd0M)
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Bad GDP data. Came in UNEXPECTEDLY low . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (iFTx/)

188 Hey! If you call me out every time I steal a joke, we're never gonna get nothing done!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (N1tpc)

189 Forgot:

NY Post, OPINION, Biden forced to bail out a banking system (and his donors) he endangered, By Post Editorial Board, Published March 13, 2023

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (NFX2v)

190 151 Any word on SCOTUS and the immunity case ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 11:34 AM (Akjoo)
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I'm listening and I can't tell which way its going. The libs of course are "Lock him up" but conservatives are poking holes is prosecutions case.

Posted by: WisRich at April 25, 2024 11:45 AM (G0vdT)

191 My kids are grown, so I don't have to deal with FCPS anymore, but homeschooling is probably not an option for many folks (folx?) if they want to live in FC. It's too expensive for all but a very few single income families.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

I said homeschooling, not private schooling.

Yes, I understood you. Homeschooling requires one parent to stay home. That is not an economic reality for many.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:45 AM (CsUN+)

192 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"

--

Maybe she's the secret service chick who said she wouldn't take a bullet or protect Trump's life while he was president.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 11:45 AM (mupln)

193 It’s moving out of China and in to Mexico. Even with the crazy Mexican labor laws, which they are, the delta is still so significantly less than manufacturing here. ...
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (ZdaMQ)
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It's moving everywhere. Mexico will be a big winner (and the higher labor cost is offset to a degree by much lower transportation costs), but there are others like Vietnam and India and even the US, in certain areas. There will be no next and singular "the world's factory" like Red China. Mexico is not going to be "the world's factory." It might become "North America's factory," at least for a bit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:45 AM (HnUIn)

194 I'm listening and I can't tell which way its going. The libs of course are "Lock him up" but conservatives are poking holes is prosecutions case.
Posted by: WisRich at April 25, 2024 11:45 AM (G0vdT)

Thanks

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 11:46 AM (Akjoo)

195 182 The answer is to homeschool. If you do, Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)


... if you're a millionaire or bought your house 20 years ago.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 25, 2024 11:43 AM (N1tpc)

Or live in a townhome you bought 20 years ago...

Although even then, my townhome isn't worth much, even now...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:46 AM (exHjb)

196 Cassandra was disinformation and an attack on Democracy.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 11:46 AM (rAQ0h)

197 "By 2030, you will all be white slaves or otherwise wards of The State (based on your skin color), and you will be happy."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 11:46 AM (/JOu+)

198 The eternal thirst for more debt terrifies me. Can't we accomplish anything without making future generations pay for it?
Posted by: gp


It's not the thirst for debt. It's the thirst for government to do things.

Those things cost money. Save the poor. Clothe the destitute. Free housing. Free meals. That shit costs money. Money governments don't have.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:46 AM (Jxvt5)

199 We're up against the end of the world, so the survival of the species and its organizations elite is paramount, so take every step possible to prevent the die-off, you peasants.
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FIFY

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 11:47 AM (wQXfi)

200 That s*** costs money. Money governments don't have.

Ah, but you do....for now.

Posted by: Governments at April 25, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)

201 191 My kids are grown, so I don't have to deal with FCPS anymore, but homeschooling is probably not an option for many folks (folx?) if they want to live in FC. It's too expensive for all but a very few single income families.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

I said homeschooling, not private schooling.

Yes, I understood you. Homeschooling requires one parent to stay home. That is not an economic reality for many.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:45 AM (CsUN+)

It is, if you set your life up to be. No one needs a big house, or new fancy cars, or a lot of what people think they need. I have many homeschooling friends here (including myself) who fall at the median and below for Fairfax...and we make do.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (exHjb)

202 As Montec likes to point out, the days when a 500 point drop in the Dow meant anything are long in the rearview mirror.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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We are officially in correction territory for this year's stock market. The market hopes for the Fed to open the taps to keep Biden in office are fading while for a lot of corporations--the increase in costs are greater than the inflationary increase in revenues. The overleveraged Infotainment industry is basically a canary in the coal mine---decreased appetite for expensive infotainment and decreased ad revenues coupled with exploding costs for content and streaming.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (/AKWf)

203 Fairfax is one of the nicest places to live...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)

1. I am absolutely not advocating violence of any kind against anyone.
2. Go on vacation, explode a neutron bomb in Fairfax, wait a few months for the cleanup. Then you might be correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (IUd0M)

204
I said homeschooling, not private schooling. Private schooling here is $16K/kid and up. Homeschooling has cost me about $1K/kid/year, and that's usually for enrichment when they were kids, and science labs and foreign tutors for language in HS. You don't need to pay really anything to homeschool. And now VA (thanks to Youngkin) allows free Dual Enrollment for 6 credits/semester for all grade 11/12, so I no longer pay for those classes either (b/c I do have all my kids start CC classes in grade 11)...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:44 AM (exHjb)

Homeschooling requires someone stay home with the children.

Therefore, 1 income.

Therefore, EXPENSIVE. (Especially in NoVA)

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (N1tpc)

205 Having never worked a regular job or whatever, this redhead in her underwear doesn't really grok any of this:
http://tiny.cc/h4xuxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (HnUIn)

206 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"

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Maybe she's the secret service chick who said she wouldn't take a bullet or protect Trump's life while he was president.
Posted by: Lady in Black


DEI hire.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (Jxvt5)

207 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (mb6GH)

208 Cassandra was disinformation and an attack on Democracy.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 11:46 AM (rAQ0h)

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"Why won't you people stop Hectoring me with these Cassandra references!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (/JOu+)

209 One of the best things you can ever do for your kids is home school them. It may be also one of the most important things you'll ever do.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (vFG9F)

210 @174

>>As Montec likes to point out, the days when a 500 point drop in the Dow meant anything are long in the rearview mirror.

My recommendation is to buy Tesla and NVIDIA on the dip, especially NVIDIA before it hit 3k a share.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (JIdXK)

211 It is, if you set your life up to be. No one needs a big house, or new fancy cars, or a lot of what people think they need. I have many homeschooling friends here (including myself) who fall at the median and below for Fairfax...and we make do.

Understood. That's a choice. Fortunately, it's not one I have to make.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)

212 Do you think the elite overlords have already calculated how many lumpen will be required to sustain them as the gods they perceive themselves to be?

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

213 It is, if you set your life up to be. No one needs a big house, or new fancy cars, or a lot of what people think they need. I have many homeschooling friends here (including myself) who fall at the median and below for Fairfax...and we make do.
Posted by: Nova Local
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Well said. It depends on whether your lifestyle is keeping up with the Joneses or whether it is investing in your kids.

Theodore Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption describing the upper middle class of his era.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (/AKWf)

214 180, 183 I had accounting courses where they taught me how to calculate the correct fraction of debt and equity to use, in order to fund projects under varying taxing regimes, and it all seems rational to me. But I have a visceral terror of debt, so the giddy enthusiasm I see for lower interest rates disturbs me, esp after so many years of accumulated ZIRP damage.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (MvF+J)

215 212 Do you think the elite overlords have already calculated how many lumpen will be required to sustain them as the gods they perceive themselves to be?
Posted by: tubal
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Men make plans and the Lord laughs.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (/AKWf)

216 Homeschooling requires someone stay home with the children.

Therefore, 1 income.

Therefore, EXPENSIVE. (Especially in NoVA)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (N1tpc)

Actually, I do have homeschooling friends who both work. Separate shifts also make homeschooling very doable, and separate shifts (be it medical, restaurant, etc - these 2 are the ones friends do, although not included are some who do FT one and PT another parent) are very doable. Again, it's what you value. If you value teaching your kids, you'll make it work.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (exHjb)

217 I was just reading a post over at Mooch's Mirror and someone said that the questions posed to Trump's attorney shows he's lost. FWIW....
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 25, 2024 11:41 AM (mupln)

Which just means that every future President will pardon himself and his cabinet for everything on their way out the door. It's like people can't think one step ahead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (IUd0M)

218 Terence P. Jeffrey: State Department: Ukraine Has “Significant” Human Rights Issues

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You don't say?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (FVME7)

219 Well said. It depends on whether your lifestyle is keeping up with the Joneses or whether it is investing in your kids.

I see. Anyone who doesn't make the choice to homeschool is putting luxuries ahead of their kids. Got it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (CsUN+)

220 213 It is, if you set your life up to be. No one needs a big house, or new fancy cars, or a lot of what people think they need. I have many homeschooling friends here (including myself) who fall at the median and below for Fairfax...and we make do.
Posted by: Nova Local
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Well said. It depends on whether your lifestyle is keeping up with the Joneses or whether it is investing in your kids.

Theodore Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption describing the upper middle class of his era.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (/AKWf)

To take it back to Elric Blade's initial post on this subject, the parents of those Stuyvesant kids made this choice themselves. They are sowing back into their kids.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:51 AM (9miN6)

221 "It's not the thirst for debt. It's the thirst for government to do things."

Yet consumer debt is as reckless as govt debt.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:51 AM (MvF+J)

222 I toyed with the idea of homeschooling our son when my wife was pregnant.

Now I can't imagine doing it. Either he or I would have ended dead by the other's hand.

Probably the same if my wife had been doing the homeschooling.

That boy could be a real handful at times.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (9yWhg)

223 Fire them all, let their god sort them out.

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (lZVy/)

224
Bad GDP data. Came in UNEXPECTEDLY low . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade

MSM:
Conservatives seize and pounce on bad inflation and economic indicators.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (A5kvx)

225 206 RCP sez female secret service agent flips out: "She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”"

--

Maybe she's the secret service chick who said she wouldn't take a bullet or protect Trump's life while he was president.
Posted by: Lady in Black

DEI hire.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:48 AM (Jxvt5)
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Will have to listen to Bongino this morning; he should be all over this story -- and still has numerous contacts in the Secret Service so likely some "Inside Baseball" info.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (/JOu+)

226 We are officially in correction territory for this year's stock market. The market hopes for the Fed to open the taps to keep Biden in office are fading while for a lot of corporations--the increase in costs are greater than the inflationary increase in revenues. The overleveraged Infotainment industry is basically a canary in the coal mine---

decreased appetite for expensive infotainment and decreased ad revenues coupled with exploding costs for content and streaming.
Posted by: whig


Lady that works at my wife's place is a registered massage therapist. (No hanky panky)

She took the job simply because massages, unless medically necessary and insurance paid, is a discretionary expenditure.

Most can't afford $60 a week for a massage.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (Jxvt5)

227 214 180, 183 I had accounting courses where they taught me how to calculate the correct fraction of debt and equity to use, in order to fund projects under varying taxing regimes, and it all seems rational to me. But I have a visceral terror of debt, so the giddy enthusiasm I see for lower interest rates disturbs me, esp after so many years of accumulated ZIRP damage.
Posted by: gp
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ZIRP only worked because the US offshored its production and its inflation to China and other third world countries. Essentially the Chinese ate the debt by buying US Treasuries at below market rates. Stupid elites believed it could go on forever; the smarter ones grifted as much as they could and departed afterwards to live the life of the generational wealthy.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (/AKWf)

228 Terence P. Jeffrey: State Department: Ukraine Has “Significant” Human Rights Issues

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You don't say?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (FVME7)

Not the least would be American taxpayers perpetuating a pointless war.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 11:52 AM (dGCAG)

229 Man, imagine if the Republicans had tied funding to the students and not schools when they controlled the House and Senate under the most conservative president in 100 years.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (o74n0)

230 215 212 Do you think the elite overlords have already calculated how many lumpen will be required to sustain them as the gods they perceive themselves to be?
Posted by: tubal
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Men make plans and the Lord laughs.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (/AKWf)

Yes. Yes indeed. I think they perceive themselves as Pharaohs or Shahs. And did not process the history.

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (PCK5/)

231 Actually, I do have homeschooling friends who both work. Separate shifts also make homeschooling very doable, and separate shifts (be it medical, restaurant, etc - these 2 are the ones friends do, although not included are some who do FT one and PT another parent) are very doable. Again, it's what you value. If you value teaching your kids, you'll make it work.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (exHjb)
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The ability to work remotely has also made homeschooling very attractive for many families. One or both parents can work from home and also homeschool their kids.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (7fElN)

232 It is, if you set your life up to be. No one needs a big house, or new fancy cars, or a lot of what people think they need. I have many homeschooling friends here (including myself) who fall at the median and below for Fairfax...and we make do.
Posted by: Nova Local

They way we set up homeschooling for my wife to stay home was I got a job in Southern Virginia and we sold our condo and moved to where my same salary bought a house and let my wife stay home with the kids.

In NoVA that would have been a lot harder. (But we were doing it with our first 2)

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (N1tpc)

233 Increase your value to your employer, increase your wage. You’re welcome.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (o2ZRX)

234 It's utterly absurd for there to be a female secret service agent.

They are DEI hires by default.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (o74n0)

235 Man, imagine if the Republicans had tied funding to the students and not schools

This is the real answer, and it's simple, so naturally it won't be tried.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

236 Yet consumer debt is as reckless as govt debt.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:51 AM (MvF+J)

Which you will be expected to pay off.

Unless you are a favored voting bloc.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (dGCAG)

237 219 Well said. It depends on whether your lifestyle is keeping up with the Joneses or whether it is investing in your kids.

I see. Anyone who doesn't make the choice to homeschool is putting luxuries ahead of their kids. Got it.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (CsUN+)

I don't think it's that Manichean. Many people can afford to have it all - just look at the number of Manhattan parents who can comfortably send their kids to $70,000++ private schools. The issue I think is for those parents on the bubble and below. Lots of pressure to overextend yourself financially, when there's another option out there.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (9miN6)

238 In NoVA that would have been a lot harder. (But we were doing it with our first 2)
Posted by: Amy Schumer

Am I sensing a sock fail here?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (9yWhg)

239 Do you think the elite overlords have already calculated how many lumpen will be required to sustain them as the gods they perceive themselves to be?
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

750M. They wrote it down and published it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:55 AM (IUd0M)

240 "It's not the thirst for debt. It's the thirst for government to do things."

Yet consumer debt is as reckless as govt debt.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:51 AM (MvF+J)

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The emasculation and infantilization (a world sans "boundaries") of America continues apace and unabated ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 11:55 AM (/JOu+)

241 Lady that works at my wife's place is a registered massage therapist. (No hanky panky)

She took the job simply because massages, unless medically necessary and insurance paid, is a discretionary expenditure.

Most can't afford $60 a week for a massage.
Posted by: rickb223
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Personal services are going to get pinched first. I also suspect that the service industry like GrubHub, etc. where they can be replaced easily by a person's own efforts will also take it in the shorts. Fast food and casual restaurants are also likely to take a hit.

Takes awhile but eventually every inflationary period is followed by a big bust and that is what terrifies the remaining staff with a brain in big finance and the Fed/Treasury complex.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (/AKWf)

242 It's utterly absurd for there to be a female secret service agent.

They are DEI hires by default.
Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (o74n0)
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Eh, not entirely, probably. Not all of the Secret Service is on presidential protection detail. The agency probably has legitimate use for women in support roles or even for field work in some cases (undercover operations, for example, where a woman might needed).

But lady bodyguards? Probably not outside of some narrow roles - like following a female protectee into the bathroom.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

243 I sense a little homeschool virtue signal on the horizon.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (+x87d)

244 WSJ, Biden Bails Out the Teamsters, The $36 billion he delivered to the union’s pensions this week was sold as Covid ‘relief,’ Dec 09, 2022

The Teamsters. So their pension was always a hot mess and I predict will go back to hot mess soon. They have been plagued by corruption from the word go. They would try to get companies to take on their pensions every negotiation because it was just a disaster.

If you must join a union, the one to join is the IBEW. They get it as much as any union ever will. Johnny Dougherty aside, they have an amazing training program and while they aren’t going to advertise it, they will cross a picket line.

I need to tell y’all my Johnny Doc story and the time my boss tried to get me killed. I stood up to that man in Philly having not the faintest idea who he was. All 5’1 of me, toe to toe. He is the catalyst for my nickname -Piper. My word as a Biden. I am kidding this is actually a true story.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (ZdaMQ)

245 I don't think it's that Manichean. Many people can afford to have it all - just look at the number of Manhattan parents who can comfortably send their kids to $70,000++ private schools. The issue I think is for those parents on the bubble and below. Lots of pressure to overextend yourself financially, when there's another option out there.

Agreed. It's just that sometimes, homeschoolers can come across as self-righteous scolds. It doesn't help them sell it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (CsUN+)

246
Maybe she's the secret service chick who said she wouldn't take a bullet or protect Trump's life while he was president.
Posted by: Lady in Black


DEI hire.
Posted by: rickb223

Demon
Embedded
Individual

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (lZVy/)

247 Google claims it is stepping up efforts to combat online “misinformation” ahead of the European Union’s parliamentary elections in June with a new “prebunking” initiative. The European elections will likely serve as a dry run for Google’s attempts to influence the 2024 presidential election.

TIME reports that as the European Union prepares for its parliamentary elections in June, concerns about the potential impact of AI-generated disinformation on the democratic process are mounting. In response, tech giant Google is launching a “prebunking” campaign across five European countries, aimed at educating voters about manipulative techniques used in online misinformation.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

248 "I see. Anyone who doesn't make the choice to homeschool is putting luxuries ahead of their kids. Got it.
Posted by: Archimedes"

It sure sounds like it when you put it that way.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (vFG9F)

249 But everyone must earn a Living Minimum Wage™!!!!!

What necessary minimum living expenses is a Living Minimum Wage™ based on? Those of a single mother with 3 three kids who wants a new car every 4 years? Of a 17-year old in high school living at home? Who knows? That is the problem.

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (5fDan)

250 But lady bodyguards? Probably not outside of some narrow roles - like following a female protectee into the bathroom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


The Secret Service was one of the first LE organizations to have female agents, for that very reason.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (9yWhg)

251 Man, imagine if the Republicans had tied funding to the students and not schools when they controlled the House and Senate under the most conservative president in 100 years.
Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (o74n0)

Solving problems don't get you re-elected, son. -- Mitch McConnell (probably)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (IUd0M)

252 we steal those smart children's futures

NEW MATH!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (i82PB)

253 Lady that works at my wife's place is a registered massage therapist. (No hanky panky)

She took the job simply because massages, unless medically necessary and insurance paid, is a discretionary expenditure.

Most can't afford $60 a week for a massage.

And also, her profession was basically outlawed by fiat four years ago.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 11:58 AM (/y8xj)

254 "I see. Anyone who doesn't make the choice to homeschool is putting luxuries ahead of their kids. Got it.
Posted by: Archimedes"

It sure sounds like it when you put it that way.

@ 245 Case in point.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:58 AM (CsUN+)

255 243 I sense a little homeschool virtue signal on the horizon.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 11:56 AM (+x87d)

Nah, just in Fairfax. As mentioned, it's an amazing place to live if you avoid the schools. Thus, if you value your kids, you'll avoid their public schools.

Other places probably don't suffer as much on that front.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:58 AM (exHjb)

256 (But we were doing it with our first 2)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2024 11:53 AM (N1tpc)

Wiki says you only have one kid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (IUd0M)

257 It's utterly absurd for there to be a female secret service agent.

They are DEI hires by default.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 11:54 AM (o74n0)

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* Firefighting, male professional sports commentators, and the U.S. Military have entered the chat *

"Discipline is the soul of an army." -- George Washington, 1757

"High heels are the sole of an army." -- Beijing Biden, 2021

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (/JOu+)

258 "No one needs a big house, or new fancy cars, or a lot of what people think they need."

Fewer and fewer peeps can afford any house, or any car. It's dire.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (MvF+J)

259 Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:20 AM (z/ifB)
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When were you at Cornell?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 11:25 AM (Be/+i)

Graduated '91

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (z/ifB)

260 Not the least would be American taxpayers perpetuating a pointless war.
Posted by: BurtTC

Russia Hit By Ukraine With Long-range Missiles Secretly Provided by U.S.

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It's a secret so don't tell anybody!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (FVME7)

261 Graduated '91
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (z/ifB)
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Ah. Long after I was there, then.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 12:00 PM (Be/+i)

262 Increase your value to your employer, increase your wage. You’re welcome.

These days you increase your wage by learning the skills to make you valuable to your next employer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:00 PM (dZVON)

263 239 Do you think the elite overlords have already calculated how many lumpen will be required to sustain them as the gods they perceive themselves to be?
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

750M. They wrote it down and published it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:55 AM (IUd0M)

90% kill-off. Lots of new green spaces, eh?

Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 12:00 PM (PCK5/)

264 Female secret service agents were typically assigned to daughters. Not wives or VP's. Not sure when it changed, but probably sometime around Clinton's first term because Hilary was such a shrew no man wanted to be near her.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 12:01 PM (Q4IgG)

265 Female secret service agents were typically assigned to daughters. Not wives or VP's. Not sure when it changed, but probably sometime around Clinton's first term because Hilary was such a shrew no man wanted to be near her.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

The stench was no picnic either.

Posted by: Huma at April 25, 2024 12:02 PM (lZVy/)

266 I see. Anyone who doesn't make the choice to homeschool is putting luxuries ahead of their kids. Got it.
Posted by: Archimedes
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At this point--yes if you don't want little Jimmy and little Elizabeth to come home taking puberty blockers, and literally knowing nothing of use except sexual deviancy. Moving to a better locale for public schools used to be an answer but all of them are infected with the woke virus. A lot of private schools as well nowadays including religious ones are woke.

At this point, consider every institution in the US is broken, woke, and corrupt--corporations, political parties, schools, medicine, finance, news, etc. The timeless solution to that problem is to go minarch---base your activities on your family and small local institutions around you--your neighborhood friends, your local church or synagogue, and so on.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:02 PM (/AKWf)

267 bunk (noun)
nonsense:
"anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk"

so, Google "prebunking" is to inject nonsense before anybody else

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

268 If you want to send your kids to be indoctrinated by lefty nitwits, go for it. If not, go for what it takes to give them a decent education, at home or elsewhere. Some may have to give up some luxuries, some may not.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:02 PM (vFG9F)

269 But lady bodyguards? Probably not outside of some narrow roles - like following a female protectee into the bathroom.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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"THIS is why we need to allow men pretending to be women into women's bathrooms and locker rooms, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:02 PM (/JOu+)

270 Prices in this country are set by the police. Well, I’m sorry, but if the price mechanism were allowed to work, the shortages that happened during the coof wouldn’t have happened.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 12:02 PM (e0dkU)

271 Eh, not entirely, probably. Not all of the Secret Service is on presidential protection detail. The agency probably has legitimate use for women in support roles or even for field work in some cases (undercover operations, for example, where a woman might needed).

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Oh, absolutely. There's bound to be paperwork or light duty jobs.

Or, like was mentioned, an occasional trip to the bathroom.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (o74n0)

272 OT: Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets.
Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2024 11:06 AM (exHjb)

I'd seize Jaye P. Morgan's assets!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (tkR6S)

273 90% kill-off. Lots of new green spaces, eh?
Posted by: tubal
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Not for the evil Stan tools, they will be compost as well if they try such idiocy and bunkers in New Zealand won't protect them from it any more than the Maginot Line protected France from that Man.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (/AKWf)

274 Graduated '91
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 11:59 AM (z/ifB)
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Ah. Long after I was there, then.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 12:00 PM (Be/+i)

I am only 29 after all.

Ithaca is truly beautiful, it was great to be in that location.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (z/ifB)

275 If you want to send your kids to be indoctrinated by lefty nitwits, go for it.

Why yes, that is my goal. Seriously, get your nose out of the air.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (CsUN+)

276 The ability to work remotely has also made homeschooling very attractive for many families. One or both parents can work from home and also homeschool their kids.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I work at home. I don't have kids, but I do look after my mother (who currently needs minimal help - meals, meds, etc., - not constant supervision). Just being at home doesn't mean you're constantly available to devote attention to kids/parents. I couldn't homeschool effectively with my work-at-home job. Of course, I'll never have to, but being at home doesn't equal being available.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 25, 2024 12:04 PM (wQXfi)

277 I'm betting female SS agents were assigned to daughters as a friend role, while actual protection remained men.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 25, 2024 12:04 PM (o74n0)

278 What care do our legislators have when they get paid by their big donors to tank our economy and destroy the middle class? None whatsoever.

Jefferson had the solution to where we are now. We should use that solution.

Posted by: Tracy at April 25, 2024 12:04 PM (axHFI)

279 "Russia is now seizing $440M of JP Morgan assets."

$440M of synthetic CDO derivatives. Put em in a safe-deposit box, Ivan.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (MvF+J)

280 Female secret service agents make good sammiches. When they're not insane.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)

281 249 But everyone must earn a Living Minimum Wage™!!!!!

What necessary minimum living expenses is a Living Minimum Wage™ based on? Those of a single mother with 3 three kids who wants a new car every 4 years? Of a 17-year old in high school living at home? Who knows? That is the problem.
Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 11:57 AM (5fDan)

People who want this “living minimum wage” can never come up with a number.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (e0dkU)

282 Ithaca is truly beautiful, it was great to be in that location.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (z/ifB)
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Yep. I enjoyed reading in the Uris Library, in the room with the bow windows overlooking the lake.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (Be/+i)

283 I am only 29 after all.

Ithaca is truly beautiful, it was great to be in that location.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (z/ifB)

The winters suck. But pretty in the summer and early fall.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (R4t5M)

284 140 I'm sure it's like that at all tech schools. White kids rarely go into that any more, and even if they do, they get crowded out by Asians.

I'm not criticizing those kids. They've worked hard, and from my nephew's experience, continue to work hard. They'll be running the country someday. I just wish more native born made the effort to be competitive in such programs.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 11:32 AM (CsUN+)
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I expect that most of those Asians ARE US-born. Their parents may be immigrants or maybe also native born. That's a bad term because you really mean of European descent.

Posted by: Ciampino - mirth maybe at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (qfLjt)

285 241 Lady that works at my wife's place is a registered massage therapist. (No hanky panky)

She took the job simply because massages, unless medically necessary and insurance paid, is a discretionary expenditure.

Most can't afford $60 a week for a massage.
Posted by: rickb223
__________

$60 for a massage? Where can you get a massage for $60? The last massages I got were $215 for 50 mins plus a mandated 25% tip.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

286 These days you increase your wage by learning the skills to make you valuable to your next employer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 25, 2024 12:00 PM (dZVON)

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* A young ShainS, software developer who never lasted more than two years anywhere, has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (/JOu+)

287 Fewer and fewer peeps can afford any house, or any car. It's dire.
Posted by: gp
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Depends on location on housing costs and whether one can fix up an old car and keep it running.

For people living in expensive areas without the income to support it, it often comes down to what sacrifices are you willing to make to stay there.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (/AKWf)

288 "Why yes, that is my goal. Seriously, get your nose out of the air.
Posted by: Archimedes'

Your goal or not, the Left is coming for your children.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (vFG9F)

289 286 Required: five years proven experience with enterprise platform first released last month.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (MvF+J)

290 The winters suck. But pretty in the summer and early fall.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (R4t5M)
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I grew up in SoCal. To my surprise, I found winter to be not too bad.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (Be/+i)

291 I expect that most of those Asians ARE US-born. Their parents may be immigrants or maybe also native born. That's a bad term because you really mean of European descent.

Posted by: Ciampino - mirth maybe

You are correct. Thanks for that.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (CsUN+)

292 Do you think the elite overlords have already calculated how many lumpen will be required to sustain them as the gods they perceive themselves to be?
Posted by: tubal at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

750M. They wrote it down and published it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 11:55 AM (IUd0M)

90% kill-off. Lots of new green spaces, eh?
Posted by: tubal



They better have waaaay more robotics than they have now. 10% world population wouldn't be enough to grow food to keep them alive.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 12:07 PM (Jxvt5)

293 278 What care do our legislators have when they get paid by their big donors to tank our economy and destroy the middle class? None whatsoever.

Jefferson had the solution to where we are now. We should use that solution.
Posted by: Tracy at April 25, 2024 12:04 PM (axHFI)

Seeing that America is in fact a very hate filled, class obsessed, Marxist country, maybe we should just have a class war and settle it out. Americans would really enjoy that.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 12:08 PM (e0dkU)

294 nood

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 12:08 PM (MvF+J)

295 Completely unrelated.

"I’m pretty sure they showed their crotch a little bit": New Mexico high school lets man in drag dance seductively for minors at prom 🤨

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 12:08 PM (FVME7)

296 $60 for a massage? Where can you get a massage for $60? The last massages I got were $215 for 50 mins plus a mandated 25% tip.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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There is a reason that NYC is dying and that is one of them. You get the typical Third World city with the rich and the poor with no middle class. Other cities like San Fran are exhibiting the same tendency but NYC is a bit behind the curve but catching up fast.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (/AKWf)

297 237 I see. Anyone who doesn't make the choice to homeschool is putting luxuries ahead of their kids. Got it.
Posted by: Archimedes

I see myself a little differently. I homeschool my youngest and it’s a blessing I can. We did change our lifestyle for it to happen, I had to walk away from my job going from a lot to nothing, but it’s still not what anyone would call suffering. It’s not J’s job to support me or my child. If it was just me, there is no way I could do it. I would have to work to keep a roof over our heads. I don’t get a dime from her father. He hasn’t seen her or spoken to her in almost 7 years now. I am so grateful J earns what he does that allows it, but moreover, he is willing to do it.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

298 244. Posted by: Piper

Yeah, in with the Communications workers, Bernie's folks.

The carpenters and plumbers are doing OK. John I. Kane
Senate District 9, Democrat (Term Expires: 2024) serving Chester (part) and Delaware (part) Counties. And the Teamsters, always in the mix.

Watch the Johnny Doc trial & follow the family.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (NFX2v)

299 283 I am only 29 after all.

Ithaca is truly beautiful, it was great to be in that location.
Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:03 PM (z/ifB)

The winters suck. But pretty in the summer and early fall.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (R4t5M)

They're liveable if you're used to any sort of actual winter. Not nearly as much snow as places like Syracuse and of course Buffalo. It's moderate compared to a lot of New England, or at least I thought so.

Buttermilk falls, Taughannock Falls, Robert Treeman--not hard to head over to Watkins Glen either but you don't need to with all the spectacular beauty right there. It's amazing.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 25, 2024 12:09 PM (z/ifB)

300 The winters suck. But pretty in the summer and early fall.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 12:05 PM (R4t5M)
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I grew up in SoCal. To my surprise, I found winter to be not too bad.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea,

I had to work outside in that region for years. And drive in the shit constantly. Probably skews my view.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (R4t5M)

301 Judge Abena Darkeh,

She was co-founder and VP of the Association of Ghanian Lawyers of America. What gun rights do they have in Ghana. . .?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 11:13 AM (cCVOS)

That right there is a rayciss name. "Abeena Darkeh, but now Imma pyrson of cullor."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (tkR6S)

302 "I’m pretty sure they showed their crotch a little bit": New Mexico high school lets man in drag dance seductively for minors at prom 🤨
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

This is why I say that regardless now of location--all public schools are suspect in the US because the pedos and the caring educational establishment want to make your kids into deviants and druggies because teaching them useful information is contrary to what the elites in society want the plebes to learn.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2024 12:10 PM (/AKWf)

303 "It's just the latest in a series of wage laws that are backfiring this year, causing chaos for customers, restaurants, and the gig workers they were meant to help."

Gosh - how unexpected!! By Seattle economic geniuses, that is.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 25, 2024 12:21 PM (fvaUq)

304 Ever notice the hierarchy of professional economists' critiques of government policy?

First, they will oppose protective tariffs. Then oppose various taxes on the wealthy. Then price controls.

Rarely do other bad ideas come under any significant fraction of the same scrutiny. Minimum wage? Rent control? Subsidy or "private public partnerships" for stadium deals, convention centers, high speed rail?

Even if one agrees that protecting, for instance, tire makers from Chinese Rubber will raise prices on cars, suggesting that perhaps other considerations than prices might come into play will draw insults. "Comparative Advantage, you idiot! Read Ricardo! Study Bastiat!" Yes, okay. I'll do that. Now tell me why you don't attack NYC's rent control regime with the same ferocity.

Posted by: pouncer at April 25, 2024 12:40 PM (PrOMo)

305 Considering the massive amount of corporate welfare going on, and how little notice it receives on Right winger sites compared to the kvetching about minimum wage, one might suppose something weird and/or stupid was going on.

Free labor means open borders if taken to its logical conclusion. It also means allowing people to sell themselves into slavery, and organ donation.

As to no one wanting to pay a pimply faced sixteen year old 20/hr. True. No one in business wants to pay any decent wage at all---if they can get away with it. Businessmen would whine about paying a dollar an hour if the m. wage was a dollar, and the prevailing wage was such. Businessmen are like women, they whine a lot.

Posted by: Eric2 at April 25, 2024 03:06 PM (HMtpY)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Guercino Elijah.jpg

Elijah fed by Ravens
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino)

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 1

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (ENQN6)

2 Art Feet!

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (MvF+J)

3 5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there.
6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

4 What's on the menu?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

5 He looks more like Elisha to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (GBKbO)

6 Lighting seems a bit dark. Maybe easier to see things in person or maybe the background is dark because it's irrelevant.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (eYoxG)

7 The ravens are so black I can't see them.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (SfhV1)

8 This reminds me - didn't King Ahab get into whaling after messing with Elijah?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (WXNFJ)

9 Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

10 UberEats. The early years.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (dg+HA)

11 Elijah fed by Ravens


Good thing, too. He was ravenous.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

12 Are ravens the smart birds? Or is that crows?

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (6On2Z)

13 He looks more like Elisha to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

I thought it was Alec Baldwin

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (T4tVD)

14 Nat Gallery London (great place)

Full title Elijah fed by Ravens
Artist Guercino
Artist dates 1591 - 1666
Date made 1620
Medium and support Oil on canvas
Dimensions 195 × 156.5 cm (a little over an acre)

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)

15 Birdies!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (i82PB)

16 Good thing, too. He was ravenous.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

B., that's terrible!

(SNORT.)

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (WXNFJ)

17 Elijah's the guy you want on a camping trip. When it comes to starting a campfire, he's tops!

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (MvF+J)

18
I see no ravens
painting is too dark and grim

plus, old man feet- blech

no hang

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (/7KEl)

19 I can't make out much in this painting, even when I embiggen it. Why is it so dang dark?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

20 When it came time for the feeding to stop, Elijah asked if they would come back. The raven replied, "Nevermore".

Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (OyyDO)

21 Dang, Elijah is in way better shape than I expected. His caloric intake from all the wine on Pesach alone should make him at least a bit tubby, but he's not.

Dude definitely lifts. A lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

22 Does the raven say “Nevermore” or “Eat My Shorts”?

Posted by: Slayer at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (uTTG7)

23 Seems to be a step up from doordash.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (Y6IkP)

24 Bro's got some janky ass toes.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (Ys9p5)

25 Something is wrong with Elijah's toes.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

26 I love Slayer but time for the sock to depart.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (uTTG7)

27 This is one of two paintings Guercino made in 1620 for the papal legate of Ferrara, Cardinal Jacopo Serra, an early and enthusiastic patron of the artist.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (ENQN6)

28 Clearly the poor man suffers from arthritic feet/toes.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (WXNFJ)

29
Ravens, but no dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (MoZTd)

30 Why is it so dang dark?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

needs cleaning?

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (AwYPR)

31 12 All corvids are in the smartass club. Crows, ravens, jays, magpies.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (MvF+J)

32 Dark but well done

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (mb6GH)

33 Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

Your comment was made in Poe taste

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (gtY/l)

34 This is more in the nature of art that I enjoy.

Could an AI produce "better"? Maybe, someday almost certainly, but it's more impressive that it was produced by a human. I suppose someone could argue that pieces of a more technical nature, such as yesterday's, are impressive but I think that's, at best, only the case for the first time it's done.

Anyway, religious art isn't particularly my preference but... would hang.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (IUd0M)

35 This image is tad brighter.

https://is.gd/CMy2JK

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (ViCCR)

36 Is this supposed to be so dark, or is it dirty?

If it's dirty, it's begging for a restoration. The level of detail and use of color are very good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (HnUIn)

37 21 Dang, Elijah is in way better shape than I expected. His caloric intake from all the wine on Pesach alone should make him at least a bit tubby, but he's not.

Dude definitely lifts. A lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

=======

See, I always figured Elijah to be a cardio guy and Elisha to be the weight lifter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (GBKbO)

38 Too dark. Even with Klieg lighting.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (Jxvt5)

39 Nothing to crow about.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (vtyCZ)

40 Never more, never more

Posted by: Edgar Allan Poe at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (Q4IgG)

41 If night you might think owls would be the ones bringing dead mice.

Ok maybe ravens are better, what are they bringing anyway?

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (mb6GH)

42
Just some bread and meat left outside my chamber door.
Only this, and nothing more.

Posted by: E. A. Poe at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (dg+HA)

43 When it came time for the feeding to stop, Elijah asked if they would come back. The raven replied, "Nevermore".
Posted by: Kris


And Elijah looked at him poe-faced.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

44 Your comment was made in Poe taste
Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (gtY/l)

I have this sudden urge to play “Murders In The Rue Morgue” by Iron Maiden.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (uTTG7)

45 Both are large passerine birds in the Corvidae family that belong to the Corvus genus.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:37 AM (ENQN6)

46 9 Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

20 When it came time for the feeding to stop, Elijah asked if they would come back. The raven replied, "Nevermore".
Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (OyyDO)

Missed it by *that* much.

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at April 25, 2024 09:37 AM (OyyDO)

47 The rock caption makes this a verse painting than I thought at first.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:37 AM (vtyCZ)

48 39 Nothing to crow about.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (vtyCZ)

Except perhaps a murder.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:37 AM (uTTG7)

49 10 UberEats. The early years.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Maybe AI delivery drones aren't the answer...a global flock of bioengineered, super intelligent, delivery crow. HyperCorvid! WAY bigger than a swallow, so working in pairs, they could carry things much bigger than coconuts...

Posted by: mElon Musk at April 25, 2024 09:37 AM (JCZqz)

50 Elijah - "I don't know how I'll eat out there. Hmmm, I'll just wing it."

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

51 Alan Parsons liked this one a lot also.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:38 AM (WXNFJ)

52 11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (ENQN6)

53 This image is tad brighter.

https://is.gd/CMy2JK
Posted by: olddog

I can see Elijah better, but I still don't see any ravens.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (9yWhg)

54 What is the airspeed of an unladen raven?

Posted by: Monty Python at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

55 I guess my eyes must really be deteriorating. I see - vaguely - a face and beard, an arm and a leg. No ravens at all.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (1bNHn)

56 Cool add-on, CBD, where the blue circle arrow 'icon' gets you back to the comment section in one move.

Is it a smartphone 'app' that also works for laptops/desktops??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (vtyCZ)

57 I've seen this on "Squawk Box"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (Q4IgG)

58 Aziz!

Light!

Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 09:41 AM (xhfG9)

59 Yo! Raven better not be feeding some old dude.

Posted by: Beastboy at April 25, 2024 09:41 AM (ibTVg)

60 Allegedly

Posted by: Paul banned at April 25, 2024 09:41 AM (TRjZ+)

61 54 What is the airspeed of an unladen raven?
Posted by: Monty Python at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

Tower or Poe?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (ENQN6)

62 54 What is the airspeed of an unladen raven?
Posted by: Monty Python at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

African or European?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (276f5)

63 61 54 What is the airspeed of an unladen raven?
Posted by: Monty Python at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (dg+HA)

Tower or Poe?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (ENQN6)

======

Ah, yes, I remember. I had the lasagna raven.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (GBKbO)

64 [insistent slow clap begins]
Mul-DOON
Mul-DOON

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (zdLoL)

65 64 [insistent slow clap begins]
Mul-DOON
Mul-DOON
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (zdLoL)

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I was saying Boo-doon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:43 AM (GBKbO)

66
"Don't worry about it. Look at this AlmostMeat wrapper.

These guys are fine with eating crickets."

Posted by: The Ravens at April 25, 2024 09:43 AM (eDfFs)

67 The artist's next painting was titled, "Stop bitching! I can't afford very much white paint! No one makes the cheap titanium oxide stuff yet!"

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 09:43 AM (5fDan)

68 I can see Elijah better, but I still don't see any ravens.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (9yWhg)

Click on the picture and hover your curser over it. It embiggens and you can see them "better".

Posted by: Maxwell Smart at April 25, 2024 09:44 AM (OyyDO)

69 Whoops. Sock off.

Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 09:44 AM (OyyDO)

70 What is the airspeed of an unladen raven?
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Judean or Sumerian??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:45 AM (vtyCZ)

71 Aren't Ravens supposed to be fairly intelligent? I've seen videos of them playing tic-tac-toe, bringing paper money back to someone, working simple puzzles, etc.

Kind of creepy...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

72
"What!?!?! No tip?

C'mon, man. I had to fly all the way out here.

And it's outta my way.

It's not like I'm UberEats, you jerk!"



Posted by: The Raven at April 25, 2024 09:46 AM (eDfFs)

73 I was reading a story the other day about a woman that was feeding a raven. She accidentally dropped a piece of jewelry down a ravine she couldn't get to and when she next went to feed the raven is had her ring for her.

I don't 100% trust the source of this particular story, but there is evidence of wild animals "returning the favor" to people that feed them.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:46 AM (ibTVg)

74 >>> I can see Elijah better, but I still don't see any ravens.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:40 AM (9yWhg)

(earworm)
I can see clearly now the raven's gone.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 09:47 AM (Y6IkP)

75 Corvids collect trinkets.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:47 AM (MvF+J)

76 I was reading a story the other day about a woman that was feeding a raven. She accidentally dropped a piece of jewelry down a ravine she couldn't get to and when she next went to feed the raven is had her ring for her.
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A Café report/link??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:47 AM (vtyCZ)

77 71: back when National Geographic was awesome, they had an outstanding article on ravens. “Ravens: Nature’s Birdbrains”. They are very intelligent birds.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:47 AM (276f5)

78 That's so Raven!

Posted by: Kyle Massey at April 25, 2024 09:48 AM (V5BDR)

79 Elijah fed by Ravens


Good thing, too. He was ravenous.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 09:49 AM (Wnv9h)

80 Clearly the poor man suffers from arthritic feet/toes.
Posted by: Tonypete

*************

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M20.11 Hallux valgus (acquired) - a limerick

The ravens fed Ellijah fried grunnions
With a side dish of sautéed sliced onions
But his suffering wasn't complete
Without the agony of defeat
brought about by his untreated bunions

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 09:49 AM (l4B/J)

81 This reminds me - didn't King Ahab get into whaling after messing with Elijah?
Posted by: Tonypete


Well, he did build the Whaling Wall.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)

82 An interesting piece. I wonder, though, if we could flip the story a bit. Perhaps, instead of being altruistic, these birds were...homicidal.

Posted by: Alfred Hitchcock at April 25, 2024 09:50 AM (QG++7)

83 Did the ravens bring him a poe boy?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (Wnv9h)

84 I was reading a story the other day about a woman that was feeding a raven. She accidentally dropped a piece of jewelry down a ravine she couldn't get to and when she next went to feed the raven is had her ring for her.

I don't 100% trust the source of this particular story, but there is evidence of wild animals "returning the favor" to people that feed them.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:46 AM (ibTVg)


There was one neat story out of Yellowstone where a woman gave a grizzly half-of her candy bar.

The next day the grizzly came back and ate her.

But, he did it really fast, so's she didn't suffer too much.

Favor returned!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (eDfFs)

85 Something wrong with the alignment of the toes on the left foot.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (oaGWv)

86 "Don't worry about it. Look at this AlmostMeat wrapper.

These guys are fine with eating crickets."

Posted by: The Ravens at April 25, 2024 09:43
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They eat beetles in the dark of night.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (vtyCZ)

87 This reminds me - didn't King Ahab get into whaling after messing with Elijah?
Posted by: Tonypete


Well, he did build the Whaling Wall.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:50 AM (9yWhg)
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Sounds fishy to me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (Be/+i)

88 Something wrong with the alignment of the toes on the left foot.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM

Muldoon probably has the code for that, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

89 Never thought about it before, but wouldn't meat brought by ravens be, by definition, treif?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (XjtdB)

90 There was one neat story out of Yellowstone where a woman gave a grizzly half-of her candy bar.

The next day the grizzly came back and ate her.

This particular pick-a-nick basket sure screams a lot when I eat it.

Posted by: Yogi Bear at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (ibTVg)

91 There was one neat story out of Yellowstone where a woman gave a grizzly half-of her candy bar.

The next day the grizzly came back and ate her.

But, he did it really fast, so's she didn't suffer too much.

Favor returned!
Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (eDfFs)

Does a bear shit tourist in the woods?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (ENQN6)

92 Old truism that is still true: Bears shit in the woods

Old truism that is no longer true: The Pope is catholic

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:53 AM (ibTVg)

93 >88 Something wrong with the alignment of the toes on the left foot.
Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM

Muldoon probably has the code for that, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (Wnv9h)

Dr. Muldoon > Dr. Scholl

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 25, 2024 09:53 AM (Ys9p5)

94 God has a sense of humor. An eagle, a hawk or a large shore bird could carry much more than a raven. But no, let's make it an annoying , dirty raven

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 09:53 AM (gzrLG)

95 I practically invented the modern mystery story, wrote The Gold Bug, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Telltale Heart, and many other classic short stories, and some rockin' poetry like "The Bells" -- but all anyone remembers about me is THAT DAMN RAVEN!!!!!
-- Zombie Edgar Allen Poe

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)

96 This particular pick-a-nick basket sure screams a lot when I eat it.
Posted by: Yogi Bear

We all thought Yogi was rather civilized because he sported a tie and a hat.

Somehow, we overlooked the fact that he didn't have any pants on. Once again, Yogi was a Moron in training.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:54 AM (WXNFJ)

97 I have this sudden urge to play “Murders In The Rue Morgue” by Iron Maiden.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (uTTG7)

ALWAYS a good choice! Wrathchild must be played too!!

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (gtY/l)

98 God has a sense of humor. An eagle, a hawk or a large shore bird could carry much more than a raven. But no, let's make it an annoying , dirty raven
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 09:53 AM (gzrLG)
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Well, at least it isn't African swallows trying to bring him coconuts....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (7fElN)

99 Does a bear shit tourist in the woods?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (ENQN6)
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Grizzly bear scat smells like pepper and contains bells.
-just the punchline

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (Be/+i)

100 Elijah was out begging God for death, and the answer he gets is, “have a snack and a nap.”

Just like a toddler, then everything was alright.

Posted by: Corona exile-back_in_exile at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (62iZI)

101 There are YT videos about crows and ravens leaving gifts for people they like. A lot of times, the person helped them so they attached themselves to that person. The gifts they leave tend to be shiny or colorful. Some have been know to construct complex gifts.

They may also be very protective of their human. I have read stories of a flock attacking other animals they think are threats to their human. It also seems other animals are picking up the behavior too. It's pretty wild.

Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (OyyDO)

102 I don't see Ray Lewis in this painting.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (Oy/m2)

103 The next day the grizzly came back and ate her.
Posted by: naturalfake


Hey this art is about me! Don't bring that Elisha guy into my Art Thread!
-- Elijah

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (9yWhg)

104 I have this sudden urge to play “Murders In The Rue Morgue” by Iron Maiden.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM

Iron Maiden?! Excellent!!

*air guitar*

Posted by: Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (Wnv9h)

105 94 God has a sense of humor. An eagle, a hawk or a large shore bird could carry much more than a raven. But no, let's make it an annoying , dirty raven
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 09:53 AM (gzrLG)

Aeschylus was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (ENQN6)

106 Does a bear shit tourist in the woods?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:52 AM (ENQN6)

It takes a while to work the fanny pack out.

Posted by: Mr. Bear at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (R4t5M)

107 Well, at least it isn't African swallows trying to bring him coconuts....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (7fElN)

Who says they weren’t European?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (276f5)

108 Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM (OyyDO)

Crows are considered to be very intelligent.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (Oy/m2)

109 So Harvey Weinstein gets a new NY trial. NY trial courts could f**k up a wet dream , see Donald Trump

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (gzrLG)

110 59 Yo! Raven better not be feeding some old dude.
Posted by: Beastboy

I wouldn't know the reference, except for various memes that pop up all over the place. I don't know if she is exaggerated in the memes, or was drawn this sexy in the original cartoon:

https://tinyurl.com/38dxv6ps

And I don't want to chexk. Gyatt, as the kids say. Or maybe something about cake?

Posted by: Part spelled backwards at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (QG++7)

111 Actual headline from The New Republic

Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

I didn’t realize it needed saving. But OK, whatever you say.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (6On2Z)

112 Well, at least it isn't African swallows trying to bring him coconuts....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 09:55 AM

It would have been okay if they brought him some limes, too.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (Wnv9h)

113 There are YT videos about crows and ravens leaving gifts for people they like. A lot of times, the person helped them so they attached themselves to that person. The gifts they leave tend to be shiny or colorful. Some have been know to construct complex gifts.

They may also be very protective of their human. I have read stories of a flock attacking other animals they think are threats to their human. It also seems other animals are picking up the behavior too. It's pretty wild.
Posted by: Kris


Just like democrats. Someone takes care of their basic needs, (feeding), they tend to favor them.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 09:58 AM (Jxvt5)

114 Aeschylus was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him.
Posted by: rhennigantx

When Aeschylus heard "Duck!", he straightened up to look for the duck. Bad move.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 09:58 AM (WXNFJ)

115 109 So Harvey Weinstein gets a new NY trial. NY trial courts could f**k up a wet dream , see Donald Trump
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (gzrLG)

=======

The same court system that is letting Weinstein off for rape is prosecuting Trump for a non-crime.

The left will treat the NY system as both corrupt and incorruptible in the same breath.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:58 AM (GBKbO)

116 I practically invented the modern mystery story, wrote The Gold Bug, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Telltale Heart, and many other classic short stories, and some rockin' poetry like "The Bells" -- but all anyone remembers about me is THAT DAMN RAVEN!!!!!
-- Zombie Edgar Allen Poe
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:54 AM (9yWhg)

The Bells -- great example of onomatopoeia.

Todd Rundgren - Onomatopoeia
https://youtu.be/pN-pnU8hGSw

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (gtY/l)

117 Why do so many renaissance paintings have figures is contorted positions?

Maybe it is supposed to indicate movement?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (di6C2)

118 Dow plummeting.
How will Biden and his court jesters spin this?

META down 14.2% ... Oh poor Mark Zuckerigger
MSFT down 4.58% ... Oh poor Bill Gates
IBM sown 9.34%
DIS down 2.67%
AMZN down 3.44%

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

119 Actual headline from The New Republic

Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

I didn’t realize it needed saving. But OK, whatever you say.
Posted by: Montec


People have been pushing for an official 32 hr work week.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (Jxvt5)

120 We all thought Yogi was rather civilized because he sported a tie and a hat.

Somehow, we overlooked the fact that he didn't have any pants on. Once again, Yogi was a Moron in training.
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It's a little-known fact that the common bear's genitals, Ursus knobus, are effectively covered by their shaggy, hollow fur unlike your rat genitals for e.g. Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: cliff clavin, usps (ret.) at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (vtyCZ)

121 Aeschylus was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM

*the Great God Om has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (Wnv9h)

122 I'm all up for Elisha summonong bears onto certain specified college campuses.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (Be/+i)

123 Weinstein still has to serve the california conviction. So he’s not getting out of prison.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (6On2Z)

124
The Bells -- great example of onomatopoeia.

Todd Rundgren - Onomatopoeia
https://youtu.be/pN-pnU8hGSw
Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (gtY/l)

Dude use “onomatopoeia” in a sentence!

Not as good as using “exeligmos” in a sentence, but almost. : o )

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:00 AM (276f5)

125 I wouldn't know the reference, except for various memes that pop up all over the place. I don't know if she is exaggerated in the memes, or was drawn this sexy in the original cartoon:


Not clicking your link Mr Bar...

Anyway in the cartoons Raven is in shape woman who wears basically a one piece bathing suit though under a cloak and is beastboy's love interest but as will many things on the internet people have decided to go with a rather lurid take on her.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:00 AM (ibTVg)

126 Boo-Boo should have been prosecuted as an accessory to serial grand theft, but he turned state's evidence and ratted out Yogi to Ranger Smith and was joined by Cindy Bear in denouncing Yogi's crimes. Ranger Smith turned out to be the very last non-lesbian forest ranger, BTW.

Posted by: I'm Your Huckleberry at April 25, 2024 10:00 AM (V5BDR)

127 So he wipes his ass with the rabbit.

Posted by: just the punchline at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (vtyCZ)

128 FFS Dow is not plummeting. It’s down 1.5%.
It’s not 1987, 500 point swing doesn’t mean much.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (6On2Z)

129 127 So he wipes his ass with the rabbit.
Posted by: just the punchline at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (vtyCZ)

========

"Eh...what's up, doc?"
-Famous Last Words

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (GBKbO)

130 great example of onomatopoeia.
Posted by: Doof


Look, Doof, I won't talk about my sex life if you don't talk about yours.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (9yWhg)

131 Actual headline from The New Republic

Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week

If government would stop taking more then half of people's salaries they'd only need a 20 hour work week...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (ibTVg)

132 I'm all up for Elisha summonong bears onto certain specified college campuses.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM

We're ahead of the curve!

Posted by: UCLA at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (Wnv9h)

133 14
Dimensions 195 × 156.5 cm (a little over an acre)

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (ENQN6)
----
Remind me not to ever buy land from you.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #116 at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (qfLjt)

134
This election, if you are polled, be sure to tell the pollster Trump, if that's who you prefer. The pollsters are engaging in shenanigans I'm sure.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (RKVpM)

135 Anyway in the cartoons Raven is in shape woman who wears basically a one piece bathing suit though under a cloak and is beastboy's love interest but as will many things on the internet people have decided to go with a rather lurid take on her.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:00 AM (ibTVg)

We're.... we're dudes. If someone is sexy, we imagine she would be even sexier with bigger boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (di6C2)

136 "I said go to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stay there and get a job"...not layabout and wait for me to feed your big ass. Some people just do not listen.
De Lawd

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (cDEsv)

137 Is the painting supposed to be that dark or does it need a good cleaning?

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (oaGWv)

138 Posted by: Part spelled backwards at April 25, 2024 09:57 AM (QG++7)
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Not gonna look. Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (Be/+i)

139 Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week
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You know, from your 3.5 part-time jobs.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:03 AM (vtyCZ)

140 126 Boo-Boo should have been prosecuted as an accessory to serial grand theft, but he turned state's evidence and ratted out Yogi to Ranger Smith and was joined by Cindy Bear in denouncing Yogi's crimes. Ranger Smith turned out to be the very last non-lesbian forest ranger, BTW.
Posted by: I'm Your Huckleberry at April 25, 2024 10:00 AM (V5BDR)

So somebody did not teach Boo-Boo about omertà.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:03 AM (276f5)

141 Muldoon probably has the code for that, too.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

********

It's right there in the title @80

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:03 AM (l4B/J)

142 Meta is down 14% after being up 100% the past year. Indeed poor Zuck. lol.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:03 AM (6On2Z)

143 Don't take exeligmos if you are allergic to exeligmos.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (9yWhg)

144 It's right there in the title @80
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:03 AM

Now we're supposed to read the whole comment?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (Wnv9h)

145 Sure, the ravens get all the credit, but you never hear a thing about the Keebler elves who actually made the bread.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (bo7UB)

146 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code M20.11 Hallux valgus (acquired) - a limerick
The ravens fed Ellijah fried grunnions
With a side dish of sautéed sliced onions
But his suffering wasn't complete
Without the agony of defeat
brought about by his untreated bunions
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 09:49 AM (l4B/J)

Tied it all up in a neat little bow there. Love it.

Though I'll admit the title is... Greek to me.

Did any of you ever see the nature show with the crow that recognized, harassed and always warned his homies about the bad man with the weird mask, even after bad man had been absent for (like) a couple of years?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (JCLJi)

147 So somebody did not teach Boo-Boo about omertà.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Heh. When I was a teenager, I bought my grandparents a novelty sign for the house that stated: "Protected by the Black Hand".

Nonno made me take it down. Nothing to be made fun about apparently.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (WXNFJ)

148 124
The Bells -- great example of onomatopoeia.

Todd Rundgren - Onomatopoeia
https://youtu.be/pN-pnU8hGSw
Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (gtY/l)

Dude use “onomatopoeia” in a sentence!

Not as good as using “exeligmos” in a sentence, but almost. : o )

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:00 AM (276f5)
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Look, just stochastically picking abstruse and archaic verbiage from a dictionary doesn't make you erudite.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #117 at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (qfLjt)

149 We're.... we're dudes. If someone is sexy, we imagine she would be even sexier with bigger boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 10:02 AM (di6C2)

Some of us.

I was watching a YT recap of Smokey and the Bandit the other night and was reminded of just how well Sally Field filled out her jeans back in the day. Her hips, *** and thighs were perfect.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (276f5)

150 Combine ingredients with drums, bass and vibes, and cook for 92 minutes:
youtube.com/watch?v=NjFfu7HKOro

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (MvF+J)

151 Report: The Biden Junta is Behind an ICC Plan to Arrest Senior Israeli Officials

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International Cricket Council?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (FVME7)

152 Is the painting supposed to be that dark or does it need a good cleaning?
Posted by: Tuna

ISWYDT, might not look quite the same after 'cleaning'.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (A5kvx)

153 Interesting morning... AZ indicted everyone who ever knew Trump and the market is plummeting . Biden's America

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (Akjoo)

154 "Protected by the Black Hand".

Nonno made me take it down. Nothing to be made fun about apparently.
Posted by: Tonypete


Well, it was still too soon after the assassination of the Archduke.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (9yWhg)

155 Look, Doof, I won't talk about my sex life if you don't talk about yours.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:01 AM (9yWhg)

First rule of --- ah, nevermind

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (gtY/l)

156 Tech stocks have big short term swings both ways. Look at a TSLA yoy chart. It’s a roller coaster. One day swings are blips.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (6On2Z)

157 stochastically picking abstruse and archaic verbiage from my nose

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (i82PB)

158 Report: The Biden Junta is Behind an ICC Plan to Arrest Senior Israeli Officials

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International Cricket Council?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM

How many divisions does the ICC have?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (Wnv9h)

159 Look, just stochastically picking abstruse and archaic verbiage from a dictionary doesn't make you erudite.
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #117 at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (qfLjt)

So you are cognizant of, and object to, superfluous polysyllabic verbiage?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:07 AM (276f5)

160 147 So somebody did not teach Boo-Boo about omertà.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Heh. When I was a teenager, I bought my grandparents a novelty sign for the house that stated: "Protected by the Black Hand".

Nonno made me take it down. Nothing to be made fun about apparently.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (WXNFJ)
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As an Italian speaker I LOLed.
How about a sign " MAFIA-ADJACENT" ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #118 at April 25, 2024 10:08 AM (qfLjt)

161 Look, Doof, I won't talk about my sex life if you don't talk about yours.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

If those circles of the Venn Diagram overlap greater than 75%, no one here wants to hear about it either!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:08 AM (WXNFJ)

162 117 Why do so many renaissance paintings have figures is contorted positions?

Maybe it is supposed to indicate movement?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 09:59 AM (di6C2)

The short answer? They're showing off. The longer answer involves classicism.

Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (OyyDO)

163 Look, just stochastically picking abstruse and archaic verbiage from a dictionary doesn't make you erudite.
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #117 at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (qfLjt)

Say that to Muldoon's face. I dare ya!!

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (gtY/l)

164 142 Meta is down 14% after being up 100% the past year. Indeed poor Zuck. lol.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 10:03 AM (6On2Z)

Fuck Zuck.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (276f5)

165 I want Elijah to visit and mock the idolaters. Mock them mercilessly.

Posted by: Emmie at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (Sf2cq)

166 True fact: I made Sally blow Dom DeLouise in his Captain Chaos costume.

Posted by: Zombie Burt Reynolds at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (R4t5M)

167 Look, just stochastically picking abstruse and archaic verbiage from a dictionary doesn't make you erudite.
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #117 at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (qfLjt)
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Well, we can't have archaic and eat it, too.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (Be/+i)

168 Well, it was still too soon after the assassination of the Archduke.
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[Early?] Sicilian Mafia not the Serb terrorists.

https://tinyurl.com/4pankhx5
Wiki

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:10 AM (vtyCZ)

169 o somebody did not teach Boo-Boo about omertà.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Heh. When I was a teenager, I bought my grandparents a novelty sign for the house that stated: "Protected by the Black Hand".

Nonno made me take it down. Nothing to be made fun about apparently.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:05 AM (WXNFJ)
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As an Italian speaker I LOLed.
How about a sign " MAFIA-ADJACENT" ?
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #118 at April 25, 2024 10:08 AM

When I was on Naxos a few years ago, I noticed a restaurant called Omerta. I just shook my head and kept walking.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 10:10 AM (Wnv9h)

170 Those are cromulent words

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 25, 2024 10:10 AM (PXvVL)

171 Is the painting supposed to be that dark or does it need a good cleaning?
Posted by: Tuna

ISWYDT, might not look quite the same after 'cleaning'.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron


Quick, somebody call Cecilia Gimenez!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:10 AM (9yWhg)

172 Well, we can't have archaic and eat it, too.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM

You could if it's last year's fruit cake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 10:11 AM (Wnv9h)

173 Now I'm listening to Iron Maiden's KILLERS album with high quality, over the ear headphones. What an incredible album! Criminally wrong that they are STILL not in the R&R HOF!

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (gtY/l)

174 Well, we can't have archaic and eat it, too.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

You could if it's last year's fruit cake.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Not if it was left out in the rain.
-- Zombie Richard Harris

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (WXNFJ)

175 CW? I think did a live action take on the Teen Titans. Much like the Scarlet Witch they took Raven out of her one piece and put her into normal-ish modern clothes.

The part that was odd though is they cast Starfire, a humanoid alien with slightly coppery skin (think Trump) and red hair as a black woman to play.

Cartoons: https://tinyurl.com/2bxbsaz7

Live action: https://tinyurl.com/33nv672r

Not as bad as Cleopatra but...still stupid.

Note, one of the other major characters, Cyborg, is canonically black.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (ibTVg)

176 Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned. The American Judicial system proceeds apace.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (FVME7)

177 Rock and Roll HOF is a fucking joke. Fitting it is located by the Mistake on the Lake.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:13 AM (R4t5M)

178 Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned. The American Judicial system proceeds apace.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM

*steeples fingers*

Eeeexcellent.

Posted by: George Soros at April 25, 2024 10:14 AM (Wnv9h)

179 FFS Dow is not plummeting. It’s down 1.5%.
It’s not 1987, 500 point swing doesn’t mean much.

Posted by: Montec

In 2008--2009 we had daily swings of what? 8% ?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 10:14 AM (IG4Id)

180 Rock and Roll HOF is a fucking joke. Fitting it is located by the Mistake on the Lake.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:13 AM (R4t5M)
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Lake Havasu?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 25, 2024 10:15 AM (Be/+i)

181 Rock and Roll HOF is a fucking joke. Fitting it is located by the Mistake on the Lake.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

If one gets up there, spare yourself the Rn'R HOF and go tour the USS Cod instead - a Gato class submarine just a bit away on the water.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2024 10:15 AM (WXNFJ)

182 Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned. The American Judicial system proceeds apace.

Not only are there a bunch of other Weinstein's in Hollywood, but a larger number of the current big named actors got to where they are via the casting couch.

Rose McGowan deserves some credit for pushing this but every power broker in Hollywood, and every Dem officeholder, is going to do as much as they can to make this go away.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:15 AM (ibTVg)

183 173 Now I'm listening to Iron Maiden's KILLERS album with high quality, over the ear headphones. What an incredible album! Criminally wrong that they are STILL not in the R&R HOF!
Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (gtY/l)

Yeah, but remember, if the R&RHoF was worth a damn Rush would have been inducted IMMEDIATELY in 1999 as soon as they were eligible.

Dream Theater has been eligible since 2013.

So injustices to Iron Maiden Are sadly expected.

Side note, EVERY HS English department in the Anglosphere needs to build a monument to Iron Maiden in recognition of their making English lit and history appealing to teenage boys. Well, I was into both but Iron Maiden made it that much better.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (276f5)

184 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

The kittens are out and very energetic.
There's another more extensive photo update #250 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

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ALSO LIVE STREAMING!! - Now most nights as well

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Posted by: Ciampino - Cata Cats everywhere at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (qfLjt)

185 Buy Tesla on the dip, and buy NVIDIA before it goes to 3K.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (JIdXK)

186 >>> Interesting morning... AZ indicted everyone who ever knew Trump and the market is plummeting . Biden's America
Posted by: It's me donna

The latest multi-state coordinated attack is indicting 'alternate electors" and listing Trump as unidicted co-conspirator in some sort of election fraud.
Alternate Electors have always been used in challenged elections becuase if a challenge is successful there must be electors ready to go to the Electoral College or that State gest no votes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (cOq4q)

187 FFS Dow is not plummeting. It’s down 1.5%.
It’s not 1987, 500 point swing doesn’t mean much.

Posted by: Montec

In 2008--2009 we had daily swings of what? 8% ?
Posted by: weft cut-loop


It wasn't held up by hot air only then.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (Jxvt5)

188 173 Now I'm listening to Iron Maiden's KILLERS album with high quality, over the ear headphones. What an incredible album! Criminally wrong that they are STILL not in the R&R HOF!
Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (gtY/l)

Not a fan of Iron Maiden, but I thought their album covers were cool back in the day. My favorite was Powerslave.

Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (OyyDO)

189 179 FFS Dow is not plummeting. It’s down 1.5%.
It’s not 1987, 500 point swing doesn’t mean much.

Okay... It still isn't good

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (Akjoo)

190 "Don’t think our enemies haven’t noticed our civilizational failure of nerve."

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They see Joe "Stonewall" Biden for what he is.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:17 AM (FVME7)

191 Powerslave:

https://tinyurl.com/mr4xr38x

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:18 AM (vtyCZ)

192 Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned. The American Judicial system proceeds apace.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (FVME7)

In fairness, if the appeals court found that the trial court had been prejudicial, this was the correct result regardless of his guilt.

The only sad thing is that appellate courts seem to miss these points if the convicted isn't a member of a favored class - like rich Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 10:18 AM (IUd0M)

193 They see Joe "Stonewall" Biden for what he is.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:17 AM (FVME7)

All you need to know:

AMLO is openly disrespectful of him. But, when Trump was in office, AMLO was Trump’s bitch.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:19 AM (276f5)

194 Argentina celebrates first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years:

https://tinyurl.com/mw5ffdsu

I don't suppose we have time enough for a constitutional amendment that makes this guy Milei eligible to run in the United States?

Posted by: Woulez Boulez (was Rodrigo Borgia) at April 25, 2024 10:19 AM (W5ArC)

195 ...a larger number of the current big named actors got to where they are via the casting couch.

I'm guessing every single one who ever tweeted #metoo.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 10:20 AM (IUd0M)

196 Not a fan of Iron Maiden, but I thought their album covers were cool back in the day. My favorite was Powerslave.
Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (OyyDO)

That came out of left field.

+1

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:20 AM (R4t5M)

197 Though I'll admit the title is... Greek to me.


**********

Actually Romann but yeah.

Hallux - great toe

Valgus - deviated 'away' from the midline ( as opposed to varus - toward the midline)

e.b. genu varus (bowlegged) vs. genu valgus (knock knneed)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:20 AM (l4B/J)

198 Hate to say this but the NYS Court of Appeals was correct on Weinstein. The trial court screwed up allowing women to testify about Harvey's past similar acts when they never brought charges or sued Harvey previously. Under NY law you usually have to have a prior conviction or court case to introduce such evidence and that wasn't the case here. The trial court screwed up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 10:21 AM (gzrLG)

199 hallux tosis - stinky toe

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:21 AM (l4B/J)

200 Not a fan of Iron Maiden, but I thought their album covers were cool back in the day. My favorite was Powerslave.
Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (OyyDO)

“Aces High” with Eddie in the Battle of Britain
“Somewhere In Time” with the futuristic Eddie
“Seventh…” open up the album, and check out the wicked prophet Eddie; a candle burns and the smoke forms a Grim Reaper in the background.

I do dig the Powerslave cover.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:21 AM (276f5)

201 Yeah, but remember, if the R&RHoF was worth a damn Rush would have been inducted IMMEDIATELY in 1999 as soon as they were eligible.

Dream Theater has been eligible since 2013.

So injustices to Iron Maiden Are sadly expected.

Side note, EVERY HS English department in the Anglosphere needs to build a monument to Iron Maiden in recognition of their making English lit and history appealing to teenage boys. Well, I was into both but Iron Maiden made it that much better.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:16 AM (276f5)

Lots of truth there, brother!!

Alex Lifeson's RRHOF speech was awesome. "Blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah. Blah. Blah"

Posted by: Doof at April 25, 2024 10:21 AM (gtY/l)

202 198 Hate to say this but the NYS Court of Appeals was correct on Weinstein. The trial court screwed up allowing women to testify about Harvey's past similar acts when they never brought charges or sued Harvey previously. Under NY law you usually have to have a prior conviction or court case to introduce such evidence and that wasn't the case here. The trial court screwed up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 10:21 AM (gzrLG)

==

"The NY state court system is completely fucked up and can't be trusted!"

"I can't wait for the NY state court system to bring down Trump!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

203 The short answer? They're showing off. The longer answer involves classicism.
Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 10:09 AM (OyyDO)

Imitating show-offs from days of yore?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 25, 2024 10:22 AM (GkFGh)

204 Dont fuck with an old man that can call bears from the woods to come eat you.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 10:22 AM (ENQN6)

205 DC judge points out pervasive hypocrisy hell that’s permeating every corner of the federal government

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Old and busted: We're from the government and we're here to help.

New and cool: We're from the government and Hell's coming with us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:22 AM (FVME7)

206 Posted by: Muldoon


Do you know what "oxter" means? Someone used it here yesterday.

(It's not a formal medical term, but it does refer to a part of anatomy.)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:23 AM (9yWhg)

207 I don't suppose we have time enough for a constitutional amendment that makes this guy Milei eligible to run in the United States?
Posted by: Woulez Boulez (was Rodrigo Borgia) at April 25, 2024 10:19 AM (W5ArC)
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No, but it also doesn't matter.

When the fiscal meltdown happens, it will *really* be Calvinball and the Constitution won't even be a hypothetical thing people pretend to care about to keep up appearances.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (HnUIn)

208 Red State story: American tourist on vacation with family in Turks and Caicos was found to have 4 deer hunting cartridges in a zip lock bag in his luggage he forgot about. He is facing 12 years in prison. Three other Americans have been detained are are being held for the same thing and the State Department can’t do much about it. New bulletin from the State Department yesterday warning Americans to check their luggage carefully before traveling to T&C.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (FrWOI)

209 Democrat Harvey Weinstein not guilty. Verdict overturned. Republican Donald Trump guilty on phony charges.

See how that works ?

Posted by: NY Kangaroo Courts at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (q3ANs)

210 If the great toe (hallux) is deviated away from, the midline, the joint at the base of the toe protrudes inward, forming what is commonly known as a bunion.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (l4B/J)

211 Expect a shit-ton more of this:

JAN 17
@Phil_Lewis_
Baltimore County Public Schools is investigating the principal at Pikesville High for alleged derogatory remarks about students and staff

A voice believed to be the principal can be heard ranting about Black students and Jewish families

APR 25
@peterjhasson
Update: The audio in this viral tweet was a hate crime hoax using AI, according to local authorities. The school’s former AD, Dazhon Darien, is facing charges.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (IG4Id)

212
Quick, somebody call Cecilia Gimenez!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:10 AM

Can't trust a girl with that name. One time I got out of bed to wash my face and when I came back again someone had taken my place.

Posted by: Paul Simon at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (RKVpM)

213 Oxter thermidor -- Roman oxtail soup.

Posted by: cliff clavin, usps (ret.) at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (vtyCZ)

214 Oops.

GDP came in at 1.6%, down from 3.4%, reported in Q4.
PCE went from 2.0% to 3.7%

Oops. The economy is flailing while inflation is taking off. When does the deep state threaten the fed into cutting rates to make things worse?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (MNPEW)

215 The point of blue state "justice" systems has nothing to do with justice and everything with protecting and empowering blue state politicians.

So letting their friend Weinstein go? Advances their interests.

Through the book at Trump for a non-crime? Also advances their interests.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (ibTVg)

216 Many of the communists in the NY Legislature come from the Caribbean. Why would anyone travel to any of those islands?

Posted by: NY Kangaroo Courts at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (q3ANs)

217 208 Red State story: American tourist on vacation with family in Turks and Caicos was found to have 4 deer hunting cartridges in a zip lock bag in his luggage he forgot about. He is facing 12 years in prison. Three other Americans have been detained are are being held for the same thing and the State Department can’t do much about it. New bulletin from the State Department yesterday warning Americans to check their luggage carefully before traveling to T&C.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (FrWOI)

Heard about this via Dana Loesch yesterday. Definitely pack separate bags if traveling internationally. Separate from what you use for the range or hunting, that is.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (276f5)

218 Can't trust a girl with that name. One time I got out of bed to wash my face and when I came back again someone had taken my place.
Posted by: Paul Simon at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (RKVpM)

How long were you washing your face? I mean, I get the feeling that you were missing some red flags somewhere here, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (di6C2)

219 When the fiscal meltdown happens, it will *really* be Calvinball and the Constitution won't even be a hypothetical thing people pretend to care about to keep up appearances.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (HnUIn)

How many days were there between the IMF saying that the US needs to stop spending so much fucking money and Congress saying, "Wheee... billions for Ukraine! You get a blonde, and you get a blonde..."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (IUd0M)

220 Oops. The economy is flailing while inflation is taking off. When does the deep state threaten the fed into cutting rates to make things worse?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (MNPEW)

Time for more Trump indictments

Posted by: It's me donna at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (Akjoo)

221 My name, Cecilia Gimenez.

Posted by: Cecilia Gimenez at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (vtyCZ)

222 Valgus - deviated 'away' from the midline ( as opposed to varus - toward the midline)

e.b. genu varus (bowlegged) vs. genu valgus (knock knneed)

I'm confused. And tempting the barrel with excess tags.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (/y8xj)

223 If the great toe (hallux) is deviated away from, the midline, the joint at the base of the toe protrudes inward, forming what is commonly known as a bunion.

Thus endeth the lesson.
Posted by: Muldoon


I hear dogs and cats can get those on their feet. Paw bunions.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (9yWhg)

224 That came out of left field.

+1
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:20 AM (R4t5M)

I know, right? You'd never know it. My brother was a metalhead. I used to sneak into his room and look at the albums. I thought Eddie was cool and I liked that one the best.

Posted by: Kris at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (OyyDO)

225 Update: The audio in this viral tweet was a hate crime hoax using AI, according to local authorities. The school’s former AD, Dazhon Darien, is facing charges.

I expect we'll get at least once Deepfake of Trump saying something racist this october.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:26 AM (ibTVg)

226 >>> Aeschylus was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (ENQN6)


Oh great, us bald guys have to worry about ballistic turtles now.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 10:27 AM (Y6IkP)

227 Red State story: American tourist on vacation with family in Turks and Caicos was found to have 4 deer hunting cartridges in a zip lock bag in his luggage he forgot about. He is facing 12 years in prison. Three other Americans have been detained are are being held for the same thing and the State Department can’t do much about it. New bulletin from the State Department yesterday warning Americans to check their luggage carefully before traveling to T&C.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (FrWOI)

With Mudpants and his flunkies running the State Dept., he's going to be there a while. They'll make an example of him because of the ammo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 25, 2024 10:27 AM (R4t5M)

228 Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

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Octopi are peopli too!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:27 AM (FVME7)

229 Do you know what "oxter" means? Someone used it here yesterday.

(It's not a formal medical term, but it does refer to a part of anatomy.)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

********

Not familiar with it

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:28 AM (l4B/J)

230 CW? I think did a live action take on the Teen Titans. Much like the Scarlet Witch they took Raven out of her one piece and put her into normal-ish modern clothes.

The part that was odd though is they cast Starfire, a humanoid alien with slightly coppery skin (think Trump) and red hair as a black woman to play.
Cartoons: https://tinyurl.com/2bxbsaz7
Live action: https://tinyurl.com/33nv672r
Not as bad as Cleopatra but...still stupid.
Note, one of the other major characters, Cyborg, is canonically black.
Posted by: 18-1
=================

That live action Starfire doesn't even try to match the toons.

IIRC - The original Teen Titans animation was in a very simple style (like Bugs Bunny) and had a follow-on series with more detailed animation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 10:28 AM (cOq4q)

231 Democrat Harvey Weinstein not guilty. Verdict overturned.
Posted by: NY Kangaroo Courts at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (q3ANs)

The second point, while true, does not make the first also true. Now, if they choose to not re-try the case, since their judicial budget is being entire used up my that criminal mastermind Trump... then he's "officially" not guilty (in NY, but still guilty in Cali).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 10:29 AM (IUd0M)

232 Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”


Actually, octopi are pretty intelligent. Not sure if that equates to "consciousness," though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:29 AM (9yWhg)

233 Red State story: American tourist on vacation with family in Turks and Caicos was found to have 4 deer hunting cartridges in a zip lock bag in his luggage he forgot about. He is facing 12 years in prison. ...
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (FrWOI)
++++
I know someone who went through this. A coworker went on a business trip to India and had a single cartridge in his bag that he had missed. It got discovered going through Indian airport security on his way home. He didn't pay the bribes (he said he didn't even realize he was being solicited for bribes until after the fact) and landed in Indian jail. He called his boss and explained what happened, and the company - thankfully - went to bat for him.

It took the company's lawyers and reps in India three *months* to spring him and get him home. I shudder to think of what it cost, because I learned that apparently that company actually follows the law and doesn't have a local spook contracted to pay bribes and whatnot. Took forever, and he had to rot in Indian jail the entire time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 10:29 AM (HnUIn)

234 I do believe that this is "Towel Day" in celebration of that thing you should always have with you when going galactic hitchhiking.

God bless you Douglas Adams.

Posted by: Steven Tyler at April 25, 2024 10:29 AM (QB+5g)

235 Do you know what "oxter" means? Someone used it here yesterday.

(It's not a formal medical term, but it does refer to a part of anatomy.)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

********

Not familiar with it
Posted by: Muldoon


It's an old dialectal term for the armpit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:29 AM (9yWhg)

236 Off, 10 inch sock!

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 10:30 AM (QB+5g)

237 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Elijah wonders if there is dessert? Never more quoth the raven.
Yeah. That's all I got this morning. Modes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2024 10:30 AM (W/lyH)

238 Actually, octopuses -- Ancient Greek for 'rubber chickens of the sea'.

Posted by: cliff clavin, usps (ret.) at April 25, 2024 10:30 AM (vtyCZ)

239 Actually, octopi are pretty intelligent. Not sure if that equates to "consciousness," though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

/pedant
Octopuses -> Greek words are pluralized with 's,' 'es.'
/pedant

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 10:30 AM (IG4Id)

240 I hear dogs and cats can get those on their feet. Paw bunions.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

********

...and his great blue Oxter!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:30 AM (l4B/J)

241 IIRC - The original Teen Titans animation was in a very simple style (like Bugs Bunny) and had a follow-on series with more detailed animation.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Correction

Teen Titans, 2003
Teen Titans Go, 2013 with simplier animation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (cOq4q)

242 151 Report: The Biden Junta is Behind an ICC Plan to Arrest Senior Israeli Officials

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International Cricket Council?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:06 AM (FVME7)
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It's not cricket, Chaps. I will refer it to the MCC.
(Marylebone Cricket Club)

Posted by: Ciampino - Cats Cats everywhere at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (qfLjt)

243 Or 'octopodes'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (IG4Id)

244
Now, if they choose to not re-try the case, since their judicial budget is being entire used up my that criminal mastermind Trump...

LOL.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (RKVpM)

245 Off, 10 inch sock!
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The Paolo no needs, how you say, the sock.

Posted by: paolo at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (vtyCZ)

246 I do believe that this is "Towel Day" in celebration of that thing you should always have with you when going galactic hitchhiking

That movie got me to start carrying one in my car and honestly it comes in handy.

Spill something? Covered
Have to touch something hot/cold? Covered
Raining? Covered
Have to protect something fragile while driving? Covered
and on and on...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (ibTVg)

247 I was told there would be no astronomy on the blog.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM (ENQN6)

248 The original teen titans was YA level serious

Teen Titans Go was not at all serious and...hilarious.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:32 AM (ibTVg)

249 /pedant
Octopuses -> Greek words are pluralized with 's,' 'es.'
/pedant
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 25, 2024 10:30 AM (IG4Id)

Maud was a double Bond girl.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 10:33 AM (ENQN6)

250 /pedant
Octopuses -> Greek words are pluralized with 's,' 'es.'
/pedant
Posted by: weft cut-loop


I know, but for once I was trying to avoid pedantry. But since you brought it up...
The actual Greek plural should be "octopodes," according to H.W. Fowler.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:33 AM (9yWhg)

251
I was told there would be no astronomy on the blog.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 10:31 AM

I don't think it's a universal rule.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 10:33 AM (RKVpM)

252 Here in FL, I use a towel in the car to cover the steering wheel. It really is very useful to have around.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 10:33 AM (QB+5g)

253 >>> Red State story: American tourist on vacation with family in Turks and Caicos was found to have 4 deer hunting cartridges in a zip lock bag in his luggage he forgot about. He is facing 12 years in prison. Three other Americans have been detained are are being held for the same thing and the State Department can’t do much about it. New bulletin from the State Department yesterday warning Americans to check their luggage carefully before traveling to T&C.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2024 10:24 AM (FrWOI)


Here's to hoping there are a lot of sharp coat hooks in the guard rooms.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 25, 2024 10:34 AM (Y6IkP)

254 250 As I see you noted above.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:34 AM (9yWhg)

255 Been watching some pieces by Arch on ewetub. I like this guy- even though he is a filthy scandi.

https://tinyurl.com/mtzca5fv

Warning: Stellar Blade controversy. Stellar Blade is a souls like hack and slash, but decided to put an (horror of horrors) attractive woman as the protagonist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 10:34 AM (di6C2)

256 247 I was told there would be no astronomy on the blog.
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Did it startle you??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:34 AM (vtyCZ)

257 256 247 I was told there would be no astronomy on the blog.
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Did it startle you??
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:34 AM (vtyCZ)

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Don't blind me with science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 10:35 AM (GBKbO)

258 Scientists Sign Declaration Proclaiming Fish, Lobsters, Octopi, and Insects Have “Consciousness”

**********

Don't they have anything better to octopi their time with?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:35 AM (l4B/J)

259 Is Stellar Blade the game where feminists complained the female protagonist was too good looking to be real and then the game designers pointed to the real woman they based her on?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:36 AM (ibTVg)

260 I was told there would be no astronomy on the blog.


Don't be so saturnine about it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:36 AM (9yWhg)

261 Don't blind me with science.
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Sure, terra me a new one.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 10:36 AM (vtyCZ)

262 Pro-Palestinian students set up ‘liberation zone’ encampment in Harvard Yard.

... "Big Dig" in danger ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 10:37 AM (RHGPo)

263 Would hang

Posted by: A.Hitchcock at April 25, 2024 10:37 AM (Gfz8S)

264 259 Is Stellar Blade the game where feminists complained the female protagonist was too good looking to be real and then the game designers pointed to the real woman they based her on?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:36 AM (ibTVg)

Yes. 'Unrealistic body'. Body scan of real woman.

https://tinyurl.com/4t9pn6p5

That's... probably NSFW. Just saying. Not nude but... damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 10:38 AM (di6C2)

265 Plural for octopus =>

"That octopus and those others also. "

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:38 AM (l4B/J)

266 "Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001)."

Crap, off by a month.

Posted by: pawn at April 25, 2024 10:38 AM (QB+5g)

267 magnificent art today.

thanks CBD

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 10:39 AM (74s8k)

268 I hear dogs and cats can get those on their feet. Paw bunions.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


Male dogs & cats.
Female dogs and cats get maw bunions.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 10:40 AM (Jxvt5)

269 Alex Lifeson's RRHOF speech was awesome. "Blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah. Blah. Blah"
Posted by: Doof

The funny part of his speech was I felt I could understand the meaning of very blah.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 25, 2024 10:40 AM (A5kvx)

270 Plural for octopus =>

"That octopus and those others also. "
Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:38 AM (l4B/J)

calamari

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 10:41 AM (AwYPR)

271 the worst possible combo of economic news this morning, slow growth and higher inflation = "Stagflation"

Welcome back to Jimmah Carter days again.

Biden is toast. At least we have that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 10:41 AM (74s8k)

272 Male dogs & cats.
Female dogs and cats get maw bunions.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 10:40 AM (Jxvt5)

... ouch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 10:41 AM (di6C2)

273 Susan "Sieg Heil" Sarandon says 10/7 is a myth.

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸
@MarinaMedvin
Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.
While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:41 AM (FVME7)

274 213 Oxter thermidor -- Roman oxtail soup.

Posted by: cliff clavin, usps (ret.) at April 25, 2024 10:25 AM (vtyCZ)
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Funny place to keep your tail or did you have too many face-lifts? Do you now raise your arm to pee?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #117 at April 25, 2024 10:42 AM (qfLjt)

275 maw bunions


bunions in the mouth?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:42 AM (9yWhg)

276 Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned. The American Judicial system proceeds apace.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:12 AM (FVME7)

Can't rape the willing.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at April 25, 2024 10:42 AM (cDEsv)

277 I have a little awning outside of my office window. Occasionally a squirrel or robin will pop up there and entertain me for a few minutes.

One day a crow popped up there and looked in the window. I remember seeing him and saying out loud, "What're you doing here?"

About an hour later, got a call that my uncle died. Haven't had a crow visit me since.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 10:43 AM (KbCG3)

278 A bit OT:

We had a touch of Apocalypse Now last night as elements of the 160th SOAR from Ft. Campbell left Knox after training. About 2 dozen Blackhawks flew over our place around 10PM.

It was surreal. And loud.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 10:43 AM (Q4IgG)

279 ISS:
Roscosmos - Russian ISS Spacewalk 62 - International Space Station - Space Affairs Live
Spacewalk is expected to begin approx. 11 a.m. EDT and last 7 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jP2rrWsGAz8

In about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #118 at April 25, 2024 10:44 AM (qfLjt)

280 273 Susan "Sieg Heil" Sarandon says 10/7 is a myth.

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸
@MarinaMedvin
Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.
While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:41 AM (FVME7)

=======

Anything negative said about an oppressed population is false.

Anything positive said about an oppressor population is false.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

281 >>Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.
While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

If I was running the Israeli government I would broadcast the tapes of October 7th endlessly. Make the terrorist supporters defend them.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 10:44 AM (LkLld)

282 One day a crow popped up there and looked in the window. I remember seeing him and saying out loud, "What're you doing here?"

About an hour later, got a call that my uncle died. Haven't had a crow visit me since.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


Wow. That's...kinda spooky.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:44 AM (9yWhg)

283 While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

Believe All Women. Except, you know, those Jewish ones.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 10:45 AM (/y8xj)

284 WSJ:

Some Anti-Israel Protesters Are Paid
Rockefeller and Soros grants are subsidizing those who disrupt college campuses.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 10:46 AM (RHGPo)

285 A bit OT:

We had a touch of Apocalypse Now last night as elements of the 160th SOAR from Ft. Campbell left Knox after training. About 2 dozen Blackhawks flew over our place around 10PM.

It was surreal. And loud.
Posted by: Martini Farmer



Anyone who runs is a citizen.
Anyone who stands still, is a well disciplined citizen.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 10:46 AM (Jxvt5)

286 I'm confused. And tempting the barrel with excess tags.
Posted by: Oddbob

*******

The valgus term in genu valgus refers to the extremity distal to the knee joint deviating away from the midline. This causes the appearance of the knees coming together. Similarly, in hallux valgus the toe distal to the metatarsal-phalangeal (MP) joint deviate away from the midline, causing the bunion to deviate inward.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:46 AM (l4B/J)

287 When we were visiting the Dauphin aquarium in Alabama they had the octopus in a tank with the lock on the outside because it would unlock the inside lock and get out. There was a note on it explaining why it was locked. They are supposed to be intelligent creatures.

Posted by: Megthered at April 25, 2024 10:47 AM (4acn+)

288 If I was running the Israeli government I would broadcast the tapes of October 7th endlessly. Make the terrorist supporters defend them.

Hamas looks on this with pride.

And their defenders in the US and Europe do not care.

The left has been clear on this "oppressed" people are literally allowed to do ANYTHING to their oppressors. Who determines who is oppressed and who is not? The left of course

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:47 AM (ibTVg)

289 The valgus term in genu valgus refers to the extremity distal to the knee joint deviating away from the midline. This causes the appearance of the knees coming together. Similarly, in hallux valgus the toe distal to the metatarsal-phalangeal (MP) joint deviate away from the midline, causing the bunion to deviate inward.
Posted by: Muldoon


That's not one of your better limericks, Muldoon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:47 AM (9yWhg)

290 The Trump presidential immunity arguments seem to be going well for OrangeManBad.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 10:48 AM (LkLld)

291 248 The original teen titans was YA level serious

Teen Titans Go was not at all serious and...hilarious.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:32 AM (ibTVg)

TTG did some incredibly funny stuff. Amazing World of Gumball was also awesome but in a more insane context. A lot of fun to watch when my kids were real little and were simply entertained by colors.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 10:48 AM (KbCG3)

292 >>Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.
While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.


IT'S FUNNY* BECAUSE HAMAS VIDEOED AND DISTRIBUTED THE ATROCITIES THEMSELVES VIA GO PRO AND PHONE CAMERAS.


*NOT FUNNY, HORRIFYING

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 25, 2024 10:48 AM (cCVOS)

293 Poll Shows the Democrat Base Is Unmarried Women

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Unmarried women, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 10:49 AM (FVME7)

294 TTG did some incredibly funny stuff. Amazing World of Gumball was also awesome but in a more insane context. A lot of fun to watch when my kids were real little and were simply entertained by colors.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


Wow, that brings back memories. My son watched most of that stuff. Also Adventure Time and Regular Show.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

295 The valgus term in genu valgus refers to the extremity distal to the knee joint deviating away from the midline

So the point of reference is the foot/ankle, not the knee. Got it. Sometimes I learn stuff. Might win me a beer some day.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 25, 2024 10:50 AM (/y8xj)

296 292 >>Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.
While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.


IT'S FUNNY* BECAUSE HAMAS VIDEOED AND DISTRIBUTED THE ATROCITIES THEMSELVES VIA GO PRO AND PHONE CAMERAS.


*NOT FUNNY, HORRIFYING
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 25, 2024 10:48 AM (cCVOS)

Somewhere, some terrorist in a cave is hearing people like Sarandon and wanting to cut off her face for denying his victory.

May he get his wish.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 10:50 AM (KbCG3)

297 You and Johnny got drunk after the big party and you regret having sex with him now: RAPE

Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed shot you and while you were wounded and bleeding forced himself upon you: Not Rape

Posted by: Western feminists at April 25, 2024 10:50 AM (ibTVg)

298 >>Hamas looks on this with pride.

>>And their defenders in the US and Europe do not care.

>>The left has been clear on this "oppressed" people are literally allowed to do ANYTHING to their oppressors. Who determines who is oppressed and who is not? The left of course

Exactly, but there are millions of people who aren't on the left. Put the evidence out for everyone to see and make the terrorist supporters defend them instead of pretending October 7th didn't happen or wasn't a bid deal.

Being on offense is generally better than being on defense when trying to win support.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 10:51 AM (LkLld)

299 Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.

Turns out Ike knew something about human nature.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 25, 2024 10:51 AM (+x87d)

300 Poll Shows the Democrat Base Is Unmarried Women

They aren't unmarried really - they are married to Uncle Sugar. Either getting welfare checks from their man, or winning at his "business" in some paper pushing government office.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:51 AM (ibTVg)

301 294 TTG did some incredibly funny stuff. Amazing World of Gumball was also awesome but in a more insane context. A lot of fun to watch when my kids were real little and were simply entertained by colors.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


Wow, that brings back memories. My son watched most of that stuff. Also Adventure Time and Regular Show.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:50 AM (9yWhg)

Amazing World of Gumball made me question what mental state I really needed to be in to get the full effect of the show.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 25, 2024 10:52 AM (KbCG3)

302 273 , everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through

I was thinking about that little 4 year old Biden met with- there were speculations photos with her family were released but not of the Biden meeting because Biden was acting foolish. Maybe. My guess is even more cynical. I bet that poor tiny thing is so traumatized it would show in the pictures removing any question of who the Palestinians are as a people. I am praying for her. I hope she recovers and doesn’t spend her life fighting mental demons.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 10:52 AM (ZdaMQ)

303 Oh, Susan? *points wildly*

Photo of Hamas terrorists parading Shani Louk’s body wins top award, sparking outrage

A sickening image of Hamas terrorists parading a slain woman’s near-naked body through the streets of Gaza has been awarded a prestigious photo-of-the-year prize — sparking fierce outrage from those who slammed the win as “an outrageous desecration of Jewish life.”

The grim photo featuring Shani Louk’s body was among a collection of 20 images that helped the Associated Press secure first place in one of the Pictures of the Year International award categories earlier this month. . .
Louk, a 23-year-old German Israeli tattoo artist, was among the scores of innocent music festival-goers taken hostage when Hamas terrorists carried out its deadly Oct. 7 onslaught.

She quickly became one of the faces of the war after the shocking images of her lifeless body on the back of pickup truck started going viral. Israeli authorities later confirmed the young woman had tragically been beheaded by her captors.

That's a "myth?"?!?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 10:52 AM (cCVOS)

304 That's a "myth?"?!?!?

Its not rape rape.

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at April 25, 2024 10:54 AM (ibTVg)

305 Susan Sarandon couldn't hold a candle to Gwyneth Paltrow.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 10:54 AM (l4B/J)

306 Old and Busted: BELIEVE ALL WOMEN #MEETOO

New Hotness: Those Israeli b#tches made it all up, and also, shouldn't have asked for it by being on Palestinian land.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 10:54 AM (cCVOS)

307 Susan Sarandon couldn't hold a candle to Gwyneth Paltrow.

And I have to say those candles really DO smell like her hoohaw

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at April 25, 2024 10:54 AM (ibTVg)

308 @290

>>The Trump presidential immunity arguments seem to be going well for OrangeManBad.

I predict 7-2 for Trump with Jumanji and The Wise Latina in the minority.

Otherwise, SCOAMF, Meat Puppet, The Shrub and a host of future Presidents will be in the dock for acts they committed as President.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 10:55 AM (9MpwF)

309 New Hotness: Those Israeli b#tches made it all up, and also, shouldn't have asked for it by being on Palestinian land.

Can you imagine if some Texas rancher took an illegal prisoner and raped her and broadcast it to the internet with pride?

Not only would he get a lifetime in prison but we'd get laws giving police protection to every illegal crossing the border...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:56 AM (ibTVg)

310 They aren't unmarried really - they are married to Uncle Sugar. Either getting welfare checks from their man, or winning at his "business" in some paper pushing government office.
Posted by: 18-1

"Bureaugamy" is the term I've seen to describe this.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:56 AM (9yWhg)

311 "Bureaugamy" is the term I've seen to describe this.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:56 AM

Stealing that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2024 10:57 AM (Wnv9h)

312 "Bureaugamy" is the term I've seen to describe this.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:56 AM

Stealing that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Fine with me. I didn't come up with it. But it is an apt term.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 10:58 AM (9yWhg)

313 Not to belabor this, but it boggles the mind that the same people who got near sooooo hysterical over Bret Kavanaugh allegedly"sexually assaulting" a fellow teen with an unwelcome kiss are now shrugging off barbaric rape, torture, and murder of Israeli women as a "myth."

You have no values except power, and the only women you value are your fellow rich, elitist white American woman, babe. You disgust me.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 10:59 AM (cCVOS)

314 Speaking of the NY judiciary, this NY judge says the second amendment doesn't exist in NY.

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NY Judge: The Second Amendment Doesn't Exist Here. ‘Do not bring the Second Amendment into this courtroom. It doesn’t exist here. So you can’t argue Second Amendment. This is New York.'
Judge Abena Darkeh, suggesting that the Second Amendment doesn't apply anywhere she doesn't approve? What other rights don't exist in New York under Judge Darkeh's paradigm? Do defendants not have the right to representation? Is free speech non-existent?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at April 25, 2024 11:01 AM (FVME7)

315 U nas yest' shimpanze. NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

316
Saw some young woman on X complaining about the cost of rent, the cost of food... basically everything. She then went on to say if she has no where to live the government will give her a place to live and give her money for food.

I was lucky during the Carter years, but it was a similar sense of hopelessness back then.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 11:02 AM (RKVpM)

317 Saw some young woman on X complaining about the cost of rent, the cost of food... basically everything.

In my blue state I see a lot of people complaining this way...but then they quickly caveat "but it isn't inflation!!!"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)

318 >>The Trump presidential immunity arguments seem to be going well for OrangeManBad.

I predict 7-2 for Trump with Jumanji and The Wise Latina in the minority.

Otherwise, SCOAMF, Meat Puppet, The Shrub and a host of future Presidents will be in the dock for acts they committed as President.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

El Presidenta has absolute immunity while in office as he is the actual Federal Government (Executive Branch). He can for shits and giggles and the only recourse is impeachment. Perceived accounting errors are trivial, but that's all they gots.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (cOq4q)

319 Morning, hourde. America still exists, it moved to Wyoming.

Posted by: Auspex at April 25, 2024 11:12 AM (gbdAc)

320 Not only would he get a lifetime in prison but we'd get laws giving police protection to every illegal crossing the border...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 10:56 AM (ibTVg)

You mean they don’t already have that?

If General Bill McManus, San Antonio Police Department, Commanding had his way - he already has said that the police can and should pick and choose the laws it wants to enforce (in different words) - the illegal aliens would be a protected class, because he is concerned they will not turn to the police for help if those poor SWEETHEARTS are in fear of the law.

(This is one reason why if you have your Pom poms out for the cops, you are a blithering idiot.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 11:49 AM (e0dkU)

321
In my blue state I see a lot of people complaining this way...but then they quickly caveat "but it isn't inflation!!!"
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 11:04 AM (ibTVg)

A lot of my friends are convinced inflation isn’t a thing but it’s an excuse to commit “price gouging”. Whenever that phrase comes out, you know economic illiteracy is afoot.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 25, 2024 11:50 AM (e0dkU)

322 The first Meal delivered by Air Krrrrraaaawwww

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 25, 2024 05:35 PM (wGqjj)

The Morning Report — 4/25/24

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Good morning, kids. First, a big thanks to Mis Hum for filling in yesterday. Not going to go into detail about my situation except to say that I'm neither better nor worse than before the consult. In the coming weeks, I might be absent for a few days here and there, hopefully no longer than that and not on a continuing basis. As always, your prayers and words of encouragement are appreciated more than you can know. We'll muddle through somehow.

Now, back to the meshugas of upside down world . . .

Well, we've established that the GOP – Grifting Oleaginous Parasites – are not the stupid party but are in fact stooges/pawns/confederates of the Uniparty playing the role in the ongoing kabuki-bukkake theatre of "opposition." With the latest maddening sell-out by Mike Johnson, who is turning out to be the Paul Ryan of Kevin McCarthy's, insofar as sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, and whatever minimal pittance to Israel (of course I support Israel, and dollars sent there as opposed to virtually anywhere else on the planet would actually do some good in terms of its and our own security, but that's for another time) while doing nothing to stop the border invasion, you want to tear your hair out.

In point of fact, the $61 billion sent to Ukraine would build the wall several times over. Even better would be stripping the IRS of the 80,000 new agents and using the money to fund 80,000 CBP/INS agents to round up and deport every damned wetback who's on our soil and returning them from whence they came. But the duplicity aside, perhaps stupidity shouldn't be discounted out of hand:

The estimable Raheem Khassam probably said it best:

“When the enemy is making a false movement, we must take good care not to interrupt him,” so said Napoleon at one of the critical junctures of the Battle of Waterloo. Today it is commonly written as: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

”With that in mind: what the fuck is Mike Johnson doing? No, not with his predictable capitulation to the defense industry. That move was obvious as the day is long. What’s more stunning is his bizarre trip to Columbia University on Wednesday, where he squeaked into a microphone, drowned out by cacophonous students chanting – doubtless to their chagrin (and ignorance) – in agreement with Steve Bannon of late: “Mike you suck! Mike you suck!”

Johnson’s completely arbitrary trip to New York is the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. An issue that was completely at the feet of Joe Biden and the fools in his foreign policy apparatus now appears – at best – as a “uniparty” issue, and at worst, as a scenario where the GOP is running interference for neoconservatism like its 2003. . .

. . . Why is it yours, my, or Mike Johnson’s job to save them from themselves? Simply speaking: it ain’t.And what happens when the Columbia University President refuses to resign, as Johnson demanded? The faculty will frame it as defiance against Republicans on Capitol Hill and by proxy (though you and I might know it’s not true), Donald Trump. . .

. . . So I ask you again: what the fuck was Mike Johnson doing? When Biden’s White House is under continuous fire from its once-believed “baked-in” voters. To interrupt your enemy when he’s making a false move? The height of narcissism and folly. And dare I suggest, perhaps intentional?"

Thanks, Raheem. I needed that last sentence to disabuse me of the notion that they're stupid. Stupid though as it seems at first glance, it does indeed seem that this GOP is intentionally trying to sabotage Trump and other Republicans, MAGAns or RINOs, from gaining control this November.

Then again, as we have all postulated what do elections really mean in a nation that is now so top-to-bottom corrupt both in and outside of government, that they can be stolen now openly with zero repercussions? Where kangaroo courts, as well as private institutions such as banks and media platforms, are running pell-mell to destroy political opposition, be it from the most prominent leaders to lowly citizens?

Worst of all, we have schools that have not only poisoned the minds of at least three generations of children to hate their country, their heritage, their parents and even themselves? Where scores of them are now ready, willing and able to commit acts of violence at the drop of a hat. Or yarmulke?

A Jewish Yale University student was jabbed in [near] the eye with a flag pole by an anti-Israel protester on Saturday night, Sophomore Sahar Tartak told The Jerusalem Post.

Tartak, a history student and editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, had attempted to film the pro-Palestinian protest encampment that had been set up on the campus.

The visibly religious Jewish student and her friend were immediately met with a wall of five activists each, who did not allow them to pass.

“One of them takes their Palestinian flag and waves it in my face and then jabs it in the face,” said Tartak.

Tartak reported the assault to campus police, but she is unaware of any action taken besides calling an ambulance for her. The student went to the hospital, but was discharged and will not suffer permanent damage. Mentally, however, Tartak said that she was in an “awful” state.

Why did the campus police not seek to arrest the student who hit her in the face with a flagpole? Will the university now investigate the matter, and determine who that student was, so that he, or she, can be subject to appropriate discipline, including expulsion from Yale?

Sahar Tartak is now fearful of returning to the Yale campus, since these pro-Hamas demonstrators now know who she is and may seek her out for violent retribution for reporting the flagpole attack to the police, especially if the perpetrator is indeed discovered and prosecuted.

Meanwhile, just off Washington Square Park, not five blocks from where I once lived, this happened yesterday at NYU:

Out of control New York University protesters swarmed and berated an NYPD chief and his officers – calling them “f–king fascists” – after they cuffed one of the demonstrators at an anti-Israel rally, wild new video shows.

The viral video, shared on X, shows NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy and his officers being chased and surrounded by protestors on Monday night while trying to get inside the NYU Catholic Center after arresting one of them.

“F–k you! F–k you, pigs,” the crowd could be heard shouting as they harassed the officers and demanded they release the woman in custody.

Mccarthy is seen attempting to get inside the NYU Catholic Center, but couldn't open the door. He eventually finds an unlocked door around the corner. . .

. . . The wild incident occurred when the NYPD was called in to clear out the campus encampment set up at NYU on Monday night, with more than 100 protesters arrested.

The students had created their own “tent city” in solidarity with the sprawling encampment set up at Columbia University, with NYU students demanding their own school divest holdings tied to Israel over the war in Gaza.

During Monday night’s clash with police, some protesters pelted NYPD officers with bottles as they worked to clear the encampment, with one demonstrator hitting a cop in the head with a chair, the NYPD said.

If I want to be positive, most of these bastards will be descending on Chicago this summer to "attend" the Democrat National Convention. Although it's small consolation that they'll be mindlessly shrieking at Democrats, I suspect quite a few synagogues in the Windy City might have their walls covered in swastikas, if not firebombed. All in the name of "coexistence."

On the downside, how else can the Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants/Kalorama Klown Komintern stab Israel in the heart to try and appease them beforehand?

While perhaps that might not satisfy the rabid tiger's appetite for Jewish blood, this is on the horizon to mollify the Einsatz-groupies:

Democrats have already made it clear that they will stop at nothing – nothing – to prevent Donald Trump from winning in November. So, we aren’t surprised to read reports that President Joe Biden might declare a “climate emergency” this year in hopes that it gooses his reelection odds. Never mind that such a declaration would put the U.S. right on the path to a Venezuela-style future.

Late last week, Bloomberg reported that “White House officials are weighing whether to declare a national climate emergency several months out from the 2024 election.”

. . . Let’s leave aside the entirely fatuous notion that there is anything even remotely constituting a climate “emergency.” What would be the basis for such a declaration? The number of hurricanes, fires, floods? None of these has been trending upward. Death rates from natural disasters are a tiny fraction of what they were 60 years ago, and lower than they were 20 years ago. Food production is way up. . .

. . . As we just learned from the three-year COVID national emergency, the left will eagerly use a climate emergency declaration to strip Americans of basic rights.

Whatever you think of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he is one of the few who has been outspoken about the dangers the COVID precedent set.

“We’ve now established a precedent in this country – they suspended the First Amendment: religion; freedom of association when they did the lockdowns,” he told Fox News.

“[They restricted] freedom of speech. They banned jury trials against vaccine companies – that’s [a violation of] the Seventh Amendment. They abolished property rights [which violates the] Fifth Amendment [when] they closed 3.3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation, although there was no pandemic exception in the United States Constitution.”

Way back in 1973, a Senate report noted that emergency declarations give the president the ability to “seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.”

. . . Declaring a climate emergency would give Biden the ability to control anything that uses energy – which means literally all human activity – in the name of fighting this emergency.

If Biden were to declare a “climate emergency” and if – God forbid – it helps him win reelection, there will be little hope for the future of this nation.

And if by some miracle the majority of American-Americans say "Hell no!" to this, the little monsters on campuses nationwide terrorizing Jews will be unleashed, unbound, and will come after us for threatening Mother Earth.

Picture Greta Thunberg in a Palestinian terror towel wielding a Molotov Cocktail. Times tens of thousands. Of course, Jews will be targeted first because capitalism is destroying the planet.

Remember: given everything going on today, we are all Jews now.

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:36 AM (ENQN6)

2 Good to see you JJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:37 AM (ENQN6)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 07:37 AM (IUd0M)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 07:38 AM (Q4IgG)

5 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 07:38 AM (a1415)

6 Good morning again dear horde and missed you yesterday JJ happy birthday.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

7
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 25, 2024 07:40 AM (bEb2S)

8 name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 07:40 AM (9Ct69)

9 Looking a little narrow this morning.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:42 AM (vtyCZ)

10 ”With that in mind: what the fuck is Mike Johnson doing?

-

Ahem.

REPUBLICAN Mike Johnson

Posted by: Moron Robbie - feminism took women from not sweating to tits and vagina deodorant in a generation at April 25, 2024 07:42 AM (9Ct69)

11 Breaking911 @Breaking911
BIDEN ON TRUMP: "How many times does he have to prove we can't be trusted?"

https://tinyurl.com/mtmnvj3v
7 seconds

Breaking911 @Breaking911
WOW! Check out the massive crowd that showed up for a Biden rally in Florida 👀

https://tinyurl.com/97aeyabj
13 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:42 AM (vtyCZ)

12 We are the type of country we used to make fun of.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 07:42 AM (6igns)

13 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 07:43 AM (T4tVD)

14 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok Apr 22
Meet Solomon Galligan, a known s*x offender who was just arrested for attempting to kidnap a boy at Black Forest Hills Elementary in Colorado.

Based on his Facebook profile, Galligan also appears to be trans.

The governor of Colorado just signed Tiaras Law which allows trans cr*minals to hide their cr*minal record. Solomon may now be able to hide his s*x offenses and cr*minal history.
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The Governor of CO quietly signed HB1071 aka “Tiara’s Law.”

The law will make it easier for trans criminals to change their name, evade identification, & hide their criminal record.

It’s named after Tiara, a d*ag queen, convicted felon, & s*x worker.

This is the group who pushed for it to pass. [andy: the usual suspects]

RIP Colorado.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:43 AM (vtyCZ)

15 Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton Apr 22
Is Law & Order returning to Los Angeles?

-Suspect breaks into a home
-Immediate & overwhelming police response
-Nonviolent criminal in jail on $100,000 bail

What changed?
Oh, I see. It’s just special treatment for [andy: black Mayor] Karen Bass...

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:43 AM (vtyCZ)

16 Rootin For Putin.

Hope the Russians advance to Kiev, burn the place down and leave.

But first, there will be rape. Lots and lots of rape, like Berlin 1945.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 07:44 AM (cDEsv)

17 What's to prevent biden from declaring multiple states of emergencies? He can do climate, gun control, homeless, etc. emergencies and work around congress with zero oversight and spend however much money he wants to spend. Plus he can put in place any number of mandates that he wants to.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2024 07:44 AM (QNSds)

18 When you stop thinking that the Republicans are an opposition party to the Democrats, that they're simply part and parcel of the same with a different name, it keeps the blood pressure from spiking too much.

They're the American Politburo.

Except ours will swap out those little allegiance pins for whatever "the current thing" is that particular day of the week.

They're all criminals and we've "elected" them over and over and over....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

19 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Muddle? Dude, I want you to conquer your situation so bigly that you earn a cool Roman nickname for it, like Scipio got Africanus after dealing with Carthage.

Prayers up from the Texas Hill Country, JJ.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2024 07:45 AM (JcnCJ)

20 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 1h
Obama-appointed Judge Loretta Biggs (D) just ruled that North Carolina must allow felons to vote in their elections.

North Carolina has a law on the books that prevents felons from voting. The judge just determined that the law is discriminatory, primarily against black voters in NC.

This could have a MASSIVE impact on the election results in November.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:45 AM (vtyCZ)

21 Dr. Rami @RamiNguyen 18h
Breaking: Bishop Mar Mari weighs in on @X fight for free speech against @eSafetyOffice and governments exploiting crises to seize control over our voices. He wishes Australia a happy Anzac Day, a reminder of our brave soldiers who fought for our freedom of speech.

Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi 10h
This is why Bishop Mar Mari is so loved.

The priest says the video of his attack should stay up on X because that’s the freedom of religion and speech our brave Anzacs fought for, declaring himself a ‘proud Aussie’.

Praying for Israel and Palestine was a nice touch after so many bad-faith actors tried to paint the Christian leader as something he doesn’t seem to be.

BTW: Australian Police Arrest 7 Alleged Muslim Teen Extremists Linked To Stabbing Of A Bishop In A Sydney Church
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation.

The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop...

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:47 AM (vtyCZ)

22 19 Prayers up from the Texas Hill Country, JJ.
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2024 07:45 AM (JcnCJ)


Thanks brother. I am feeling upbeat and positive. Poor wife, who is usually the rock of Gibraltar by comparison is putting on a brave face but she's got to be eating her guts up inside. Sigh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

23 Voters as such don't matter much, but the Democrats do need supporters in the streets, and the campuses, and in the HR departments. And Democrats who are put off by any of this are all retirement age or near it. They don't go out burning things down and intimidating people anymore, and they'll be phased out of influential positions (and life) soon enough.

Thanks to their digital propaganda apparatus, their younger supporters, the ones who matter, want pogroms. The politically smart move is to play to them, and so the Democrats will do that. The vicious rhetoric about, street actions against, and social isolation of Jews and many other groups will continue to grow in scope and intensity.

The kids want blood, and they'll have it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 07:48 AM (0FoWg)

24 >> Remember: given everything going on today, we are all Jews now.

This!! Many times over…. Or as JFK famously said: Ich bin ein Berliner. In this context: I am Jewish now.

If Mushbrains really wants to start a nullification crisis (with Florida and Texas prominent among the nullifying states) that climate emergency proclamation is exactly what he should do. DeSantis and Abbott and other governors will not allow, I predict, any fed climate tyranny in their states….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 07:48 AM (xT8gx)

25 ACT For America @ACTforAmerica Apr 23
WATCH: Columbia University Protesters: ‘There Is No God But Allah and Martyr Is Beloved of Allah’
https://tinyurl.com/2rt3j5ax
1:31 minutes of caterwauling; LOUD; BTW, one of the phrases sounded like "hizb'Allah" that is also used as the terrorist group's name although Western MFM sources spell it as one word so as not to emphasize the 'Allah' part of it.

Alan Fryer @alanfryermedia Apr 24
Average cost of an undergraduate degree at Columbia - $86,000.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:48 AM (vtyCZ)

26 20 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 1h
Obama-appointed Judge Loretta Biggs (D) just ruled that North Carolina must allow felons to vote in their elections.

North Carolina has a law on the books that prevents felons from voting. The judge just determined that the law is discriminatory, primarily against black voters in NC.

This could have a MASSIVE impact on the election results in November.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:45 AM (vtyCZ)


Is anyone immediately filing a lawsuit to a higher court to stop this cunt?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 07:49 AM (x0n13)

27
(RFK Jr)
“We’ve now established a precedent in this country – they suspended the First Amendment: religion; freedom of association when they did the lockdowns,” he told Fox News.

Why the hell is Fox giving this guy a platform? They might like 5% of what he says but the other 95% is pure Biden/Obama.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 07:49 AM (RKVpM)

28 Expensive Stupidity: Columbia Student Admits She Has No Clue Why She's Protesting

Edited for brevity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 07:49 AM (IUd0M)

29 Mmm. Berliners.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:50 AM (vtyCZ)

30 Yes, the Aussies think they get to say what I see or don't see. Because they're fascistic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

31 Thanks brother. I am feeling upbeat and positive. Poor wife, who is usually the rock of Gibraltar by comparison is putting on a brave face but she's got to be eating her guts up inside. Sigh.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

Prayers for you and she !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 07:51 AM (T4tVD)

32 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 25, 2024 07:51 AM (53oGX)

33 WOW! Check out the massive crowd that showed up for a Biden rally in Florida 👀

https://tinyurl.com/97aeyabj
13 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:42 AM (vtyCZ)

That video is weird! Someone is playing a child’s musical instrument (a recorder?) for the entire duration

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 07:51 AM (xT8gx)

34 Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe

Also, Jewish students, it's not Christians who're attacking you... at least not in the US. Europe may be a different matter.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 07:52 AM (IUd0M)

35 JJ, my prayers continue for you specifically and the entire horde in general.

My overall understatement for today: this shit is batshit out of control. Now, back to the links for some examples!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 25, 2024 07:52 AM (gxokI)

36 Is anyone immediately filing a lawsuit to a higher court to stop this cunt?
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I don't know although I'm sure similar cases have lost in the past but will it be stayed/overturned before November??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:52 AM (vtyCZ)

37 This!! Many times over…. Or as JFK famously said: Ich bin ein Berliner. In this context: I am Jewish now.

I thought he said he was a donut !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 07:52 AM (T4tVD)

38 They're the American Politburo.
They're all criminals and we've "elected" them over and over and over....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

Best description I have ever heard for the criminals in warshington dc. So gonna use it.

Thanks Martini Farmer!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 07:54 AM (cDEsv)

39 That video is weird! Someone is playing a child’s musical instrument (a recorder?) for the entire duration
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I assume sarcasm from the Xposter commenting on Joe's IQ.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:54 AM (vtyCZ)

40 Johnson thinks he is a war time Speaker, and wants to be invited on the speaking circuit after he is tossed out.

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 07:54 AM (YCxFk)

41 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

I initially read “Biden Border Bloodbath” as “Biden Border Birdbath.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 07:55 AM (9yWhg)

42 Why the hell is Fox giving this guy a platform? They might like 5% of what he says but the other 95% is pure Biden/Obama.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 07:49 AM (RKVpM)

I believe RFK is more of a harm to Democrats than he is a help. But many people disagree, and believe the opposite. Fox is likely in that group, and figure that bringing him on to harp about issues the GOP base cares about will draw votes from Trump. That's all they exist to do - keep the Right's sheep in the pen, the way the other nets do for the Left.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 07:55 AM (0FoWg)

43 It wasn't 20 babies -- it was only a couple that were beheaded!!!

Marina Medvin @MarinaMedvin 8h
Susan Sarandon says October 7 atrocities and rapes are a myth.

While some stories that emerged from social media may have come from untrustworthy sources, everything reported by Israeli media was substantiated. The rapes have certainly been proven real.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:55 AM (vtyCZ)

44 Not one dime for the wall, and 60 billion to a grifter with a swiss bank account, is the only optic many of my friends see.

How many Louis Vitton purses does that buy for Zalensky's wife?

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 07:56 AM (YCxFk)

45 That video is weird! Someone is playing a child’s musical instrument (a recorder?) for the entire duration
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 07:51 AM (xT8gx)

***

That was Dr Jill

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 25, 2024 07:56 AM (ZV+pB)

46 Kiev is the sex traffiking capital of the World

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 07:56 AM (YCxFk)

47 Oh, the irony of Jew-haters calling people "fascists"

Posted by: Halfhand at April 25, 2024 07:57 AM (wra9p)

48 Poll: Biden Deep Underwater on Top Issues of Inflation, Immigration

Doesn't matter. Biden has the key "imaginary voter" demographic sewn up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 07:57 AM (IUd0M)

49 In 2023 I was saying "it's bad" but not as bad as 1968.

2024 is shaping up to be another 1968. We only need an assasination or two to make it worse, as the there are already larger cracks in our foundation.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (Gse2f)

50 MFM:
Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes on Rafah have killed at least five people.

Memorial in Washington today to honour seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza.

MFM euphemism of the Day:
Dozens arrested as police and demonstrators clashed during pro-Palestinian protest at the U of Texas.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says "more has to be done" to stop pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. campuses.

What Bibi actually said:
Breaking911 @Breaking911 11h
NETANYAHU: “What’s happening in America’s college campuses is horrific. Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities.”

https://tinyurl.com/5emja4sw
2:08 minutes; sound level fine oddly enough unlike singing jihadists.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (vtyCZ)

51 RFK only takes Trump votes away in deep blue states, per Baris.

RFK takes way Biden votes in the Rust belt

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (YCxFk)

52 >>"USAID head Samantha Power declined meeting with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan during 2021 Hamas conflict."

The Queen of Regime Change.

For those keeping score at home USAID is a CIA cut out. Whereever Power shows up the ruling party is in deep doo doo.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (LkLld)

53 > The vicious rhetoric about, street actions against, and social isolation of Jews and many other groups will continue to grow in scope and intensity.

The kids want blood, and they'll have it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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These outrage mobs the left gins up have already killed. The list of victims is getting pretty long too.

Since before the days of BLM and Antifa any right of center demographic is fair game. The focus on Jews is particularly virulent, and I personally think that is completely by design. Nobody's safe if the movers and shakers of the left decide to put you in their sights.

This has been a dry run for a more comprehensive op against the public at large. Bet on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)

54 Prayers for you also, JJ

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (YCxFk)

55 Rudy Giuliani and some other Trump people indicted in Arizona for disagreeing with the 2020 elections results

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 07:58 AM (/7KEl)

56 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 1h
Obama-appointed Judge Loretta Biggs (D) just ruled that North Carolina must allow felons to vote in their elections.

North Carolina has a law on the books that prevents felons from voting. The judge just determined that the law is discriminatory, primarily against black voters in NC.

This could have a MASSIVE impact on the election results in November.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 07:45 AM (vtyCZ)

Fuck you, bitch. Kiss our ass.

Posted by: Signed, North Carolina at April 25, 2024 07:59 AM (iODuv)

57 THANK YOU JJ WE LOVE YOU

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 07:59 AM (rAQ0h)

58
I believe RFK is more of a harm to Democrats than he is a help.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 07:55 AM

I just saw a poll released yesterday that puts Trump and Biden dead even with RFK getting 3%.

I'm still WTF?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 07:59 AM (RKVpM)

59 Remember: given everything going on today, we are all Jews now.
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You need to go back to being a Continental militia. And it's late, maybe too late.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 08:00 AM (KbuES)

60 I must be stupid…. Politicians fool me over and over again. This Mike Johnson character fooled me and first… but the mask came off fast at least. My read is he’s a weak weak beta…. And probably on top of that the IC has some kompromat on him as well. Is Trump, with all his flaws, the only honest person in the game?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:00 AM (xT8gx)

61 I would be a real shame if someone dropped a case of weapons and ammo at the DNC protest site.

Posted by: TC at April 25, 2024 08:00 AM (FjlUt)

62 NEXTA @nexta_tv
⚡️⚡️ Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been sent to a pre-trial detention center in a case of taking a bribe on a particularly large scale

It is noteworthy that Ivanov was not even allowed to change into civilian clothes and was sent to detention center in his uniform with general's shoulder straps and plaques of the highest state orders.

Sergei Borodin, Ivanov's close friend, was also detained

According to the investigators' version, Ivanov and Borodin conspired to receive a bribe during contracting and subcontracting works for the needs of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Borodin and Ivanov were detained for two months by court order.
===
My guess is 1.2-million Ruble toilet seats for the ISS.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:01 AM (vtyCZ)

63 26. 4th circuit of Appeals JJ. Scotus has been very friendly to NC GOP on other cases also

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 08:01 AM (YCxFk)

64 "I believe RFK is more of a harm to Democrats than he is a help. "

We're in a POTUS campaign so Media needs something to cover that isn't Trump, other than Trump's being a dangerous criminal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:01 AM (Gse2f)

65 [1 of 2:]
Now, back to the meshugas of upside down world . . .

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* "The Upside Down" of "Stranger Things" has entered the post *

/Great to see you as always, JJ! Every day, every moment, is a blessing ... see Part 2 (if I can fit the lyrics in (in Part 2): "My Thanksgiving" by Don Henley, on the same album ("Inside Job") as my wedding song "Everything Is Different Now"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:01 AM (/JOu+)

66 One of the 1st pages I scan every morning is the Daily Mail- it has become a horror show of human depravity

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:02 AM (/7KEl)

67 Good to see you here, JJ. Stay strong.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 08:02 AM (Oy/m2)

68 I hate Cindy McCain. Homewrecking Cu$t

Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 08:02 AM (YCxFk)

69
I see 'Paul' showed up and was shown the door at warp speed.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 08:03 AM (RKVpM)

70 Rudy Giuliani and some other Trump people indicted in Arizona for disagreeing with the 2020 elections results
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Giuliani too? I'd only seen:

@Breaking911
BREAKING: Arizona grand jury indicts 11 Republicans who falsely declared Trump won the state in 2020 - AP

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (vtyCZ)

71 [2 of 2:]

Oh well, Pixy won't let me post the lyrics to "My Thankgiving":

youtube.com/watch?v=65wpSmEQlc4

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (/JOu+)

72 The group, the American Sunlight Project, was announced as a bipartisan advocacy organization founded by Jankowicz that was “launched to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States.”

ASP

ASPHOLES

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (ENQN6)

73 Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:02 AM (/7KEl)

You don't come here first?

* gives Don Black the side eye *

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (Oy/m2)

74 >>I just saw a poll released yesterday that puts Trump and Biden dead even with RFK getting 3%.

>>I'm still WTF?

Same thing always goes on, poll manipulation. Polls like Quinnipiac and Marist are notorious for over weighting Democrats or switching to registered versus likely voters. They have to make Biden look at least plausible.

There is no logical reason for Biden to be closing in on Trump and there certainly is no evidence on the ground. Biden gets a couple dozen people at his speeches while Trump is drawing thousands.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (LkLld)

75 One of the 1st pages I scan every morning is the Daily Mail -- it has become a horror show of human depravity
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Human depravity and boobs but mainly ... ??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:05 AM (vtyCZ)

76 There is no logical reason for Biden to be closing in on Trump and there certainly is no evidence on the ground. Biden gets a couple dozen people at his speeches while Trump is drawing thousands.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (LkLld)

Um... Do you remember what happened in the last election?

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 08:07 AM (Oy/m2)

77
There is no logical reason for Biden to be closing in on Trump and there certainly is no evidence on the ground. Biden gets a couple dozen people at his speeches while Trump is drawing thousands.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM

Biden's approval rating on key metrics is basement level. But people would still vote for him? Does not compute.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 08:08 AM (RKVpM)

78 NEXTA @nexta_tv
⚡️⚡️ Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov has been sent to a pre-trial detention center in a case of taking a bribe on a particularly large scale

It is noteworthy that Ivanov was not even allowed to change into civilian clothes and was sent to detention center in his uniform with general's shoulder straps and plaques of the highest state orders.

------------

More notworthy, Ivanov was NOT found dead after accidentally "jumping" out of the window from the top of a high-rise building.

Yet ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:08 AM (/JOu+)

79 It’s gotten to the point where I’ll actively avoid news about the Trump show trial (including Viva Frei’s great YouTube summaries)… it’s too depressing. That judge Merchan belongs in Soviet Russia…. How someone that obviously biased could be allowed to stay on this case is proof that the court system is broken. Every time I remember he wouldn’t let Trump attend his son’s HS graduation my blood boils…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:08 AM (xT8gx)

80 There is no logical reason for Biden to be closing in on Trump and there certainly is no evidence on the ground. Biden gets a couple dozen people at his speeches while Trump is drawing thousands.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM

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* 2020 has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:09 AM (/JOu+)

81 I'm sure it's overexaggerated but the only now-anti-Trump former-supporters would be those that blame PDT for the vaxx [including the odd troll here] and that is their only issue, no matter how moronic giving Joe a de facto vote is 'voting' for the guy who made it mandatory while supporting it fully.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:09 AM (vtyCZ)

82 The state of news on the internet is pretty bad- Daily Mail is more tabloid than news, Fox hides stories behind a 'free registration' wall, the local Fox affiliate carries AP's propaganda...

NYPost is useful, and they do not like Biden

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:09 AM (/7KEl)

83 House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly reversed course and led the aid package through the House in part because, during intelligence briefings, he came to “believe the intel” that without the “lethal aid,” “Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed.

Putin, who's been in control of Russia for 25 years now. That Putin? The guy who hasn't invaded anywhere that wasn't a former part of the USSR where we were trying to install NATO. That Putin?

Russia, which I'm informed... even on these pages, is incapable of manufacturing their own military equipment. Which is bringing up WW2 relics in an attempt to defeat the Glorious People's Ukrainian Army. That Russia?

Russia, led by Putin, is going to roll over Europe. So says the "intelligence community". Is that the same intelligence community which installed Zelensky's party into power in Ukraine and was instrumental in preventing a peace accord at the start of all this? That intelligence community?

Either Mike Johnson is a fucking idiot, or he thinks we are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 08:10 AM (IUd0M)

84 NYPost is useful, and they do not like Biden
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And hate PDT as much.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:11 AM (vtyCZ)

85 Good to see you back today J.J.
I will continue to keep you in my prayers.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

86 These protests are not organic. This is Occupy Wall Street. This is Black Lives Matter.

They're not protesting FOR Hamas. They are puppets protesting AGAINST America. The racism, nihilism, communism, anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism is baked into the big, stinking pie of putrescent evil.

The protests are Demonic. Just like Hamas, these protestors are of the Devil. There is no good in them.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 25, 2024 08:11 AM (LaNzR)

87 The Junta may be counting on a Steal, but it will need to be so large and obvious as to have consequences. What those would be, who knows.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:12 AM (Gse2f)

88 The group, the American Sunlight Project, was announced as a bipartisan advocacy organization founded by Jankowicz that was “launched to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States."

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Paging Zombie George Orwell, please pick up the white privilege courtesy phone ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:12 AM (/JOu+)

89 Polls mean nothing, including the one in November. Fox is stupid. But if they want to promote RFK, fine... anything with potential to cause infighting among the regime is beneficial. I believe RFK has the potential to draw support and create dissatisfaction among the more radical, younger Dems who, as I noted above, are the important ones.

If their base has divided loyalties, it gives the normies a better chance at surviving the coming storm. Any anti-establishment Leftist should be considered a strange bedfellow, at least until one of them rises to leadership.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 08:13 AM (0FoWg)

90 My only two must-visit sites for news are here at AoS and RCP. Everything else is garbage as far as I can tell. Occasionally I’ll check the Fox News website to see what they’re trying to sell to the rube conservatives stuck in 2003….

Do I miss Rush! He left a vacuum

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:13 AM (xT8gx)

91 These protests are not organic. This is Occupy Wall Street. This is Black Lives Matter.

They're not protesting FOR Hamas. They are puppets protesting AGAINST America. The racism, nihilism, communism, anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism is baked into the big, stinking pie of putrescent evil.

The protests are Demonic. Just like Hamas, these protestors are of the Devil. There is no good in them.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 25, 2024 08:11 AM (LaNzR)
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[As I said yesterday:]

Sleep Cells (including BLaMtifa) Status: ACTIVATED.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:14 AM (/JOu+)

92 It always starts with the Jews, never stops there. Come summer, the hordes will hit the streets and st george riots will look like a picnic.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:14 AM (V13WU)

93 "North Carolina has a law on the books that prevents felons from voting. The judge just determined that the law is discriminatory, primarily against black voters in NC."

FFS, laws against murder also have disparate impact.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

94 Giuliani too?
andy canuck

Last night Fox website said Mark Meadows, Kelli Ward (and her husband), Giuliani and an unindicted co-conspirator described as "a former president of the United States".

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (F3Dlr)

95 34 Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe

Also, Jewish students, it's not Christians who're attacking you... at least not in the US. Europe may be a different matter.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 07:52 AM (IUd0M)

No TRUE Christians anywhere are attacking Jews. It's Muslims and Maoists all the way down. That said, if it takes a clueless self-gassing Yid getting his face smashed to wake the fuck up, so be it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (x0n13)

96 Today is World Penguin Day. 🐧

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

97 WSJ sez Rockford is now America's top housing market.
https://tinyurl.com/5n84vmst

Article sez: "Rockford is sometimes referred to as the City of Gardens." No, nobody has ever said that, ever ever. We have been called the Forest City,

Like the rest of the Rust Belt, it was OK until several decades ago. Now, it's a violent shithole. In my case, the cheap CoL keeps me here.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (MvF+J)

98 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (Jxvt5)

99 I mean, the Fox news website is becoming clickbait- I'll click on a story, only to find I need to give them my email address first, before I can read further

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (/7KEl)

100 I start with AoS followed by WSJ and Bing .

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (Oy/m2)

101 I will not get on an email list

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (/7KEl)

102 How many Louis Vitton purses does that buy for Zalensky's wife?
Posted by: Jonah at April 25, 2024 07:56 AM (YCxFk)

How many luxury houses does that guy have around the world? Last I heard it was seven.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (IUd0M)

103 House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly reversed course and led the aid package through the House in part because, during intelligence briefings, he came to “believe the intel” that without the “lethal aid,” “Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed Epstein Island videos of him diddling little boys would be revealed.

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FIFM

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (/JOu+)

104 I hope ace and co celebrates World Penguin Day in style !

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (V13WU)

105 where is Rockford ??

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:17 AM (V13WU)

106 87 The Junta may be counting on a Steal, but it will need to be so large and obvious as to have consequences. What those would be, who knows.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:12 AM (Gse2f)


And this time, those who either ignored or approved of the results have four years of Joey's disasters on their heads and in their wallets to not be happy about.

They'll see it like we all saw it last time. I know MP4 is lurking and thinks, perhaps correctly, that nothing will come of it. But maybe it is the tonic that will lead to some sort of major societal revolution down the road.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 08:17 AM (x0n13)

107 >>Um... Do you remember what happened in the last election?

Of course, that's what I just said and have been saying for months. They need to make Joe look at least somewhat believeable to make the cheat plausible.

Biden is getting crushed in all of the key issues like the immigration, the economy, inflation, war, etc.. He's loosing is most polls in at least 6 of the 7 swing states he "won" in 2020. Yet somehow he is tied with Trump?

Oh, ok.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (LkLld)

108 105 Ninety miles WNW of Chicago.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (MvF+J)

109 >where is Rockford ??

Posted by: runner
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He lives in a trailer down by the beach

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (/7KEl)

110 I just saw a poll released yesterday that puts Trump and Biden dead even with RFK getting 3%.

I'm still WTF?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 07:59 AM (RKVpM)

Polls exist to legitimize the cheat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (IUd0M)

111 103 House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly reversed course and led the aid package through the House in part because, during intelligence briefings, he came to “believe the intel” that without the “lethal aid,” “Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed Epstein Island videos of him diddling little boys would be revealed.

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FIFM
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:16 AM (/JOu+)


CIA Niger yellow cake has also entered the chat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (x0n13)

112 The Junta may be counting on a Steal, but it will need to be so large and obvious as to have consequences. What those would be, who knows.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:12 AM (Gse2f)

I agree with this. Shenanigans will happen again…. If they push really hard, they’ll push Brandon over the top again with cheating. It’ll take more cheating this time….. if that occurs I have no clue how the country will respond. I vacillate between optimism and pessimism.

I had been thinking they’d reluctantly let Trump win… but the more I realize how much they hate him I’m beginning to think they’re attitude is that that cannot be allowed to happen no matter the cost… which means the rest of this year, and especially the weeks after Election Day, could be totally chaotic

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:19 AM (xT8gx)

113 WSJ sez Rockford is now America's top housing market.

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Wait, Jim Rockford's 1959 Nashua House Trailer in Malibu Paradise Cove, Malibu is now worth a fortune?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:19 AM (/JOu+)

114 Newsmax link to Republicans indicted in Arizona.
https://tinyurl.com/3c6t5p5h

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 08:19 AM (F3Dlr)

115 "He lives in a trailer down by the beach"

Nowhere near that luxurious.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 08:20 AM (MvF+J)

116 And always remember - in the intellectually blighted landscape of American media, the most barren and longest fallow patch of dirt is Fox News. When you're asking "why does Fox say such and such," the answer is most likely "because they are retarded people in fancy clothes."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 08:20 AM (0FoWg)

117 It's also...
National Lingerie Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

118 Last night Fox website said Mark Meadows, Kelli Ward (and her husband), Giuliani and an unindicted co-conspirator described as "a former president of the United States".
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Thanks, old chick.

And it didn't actually mean Obama??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:21 AM (vtyCZ)

119 Johnson’s completely arbitrary trip to New York is the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

***

TLA probably planted kiddie pxxn on his comput.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 25, 2024 08:21 AM (q2svT)

120 where is Rockford ??
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:17 AM (V13WU)

In his trailer down on Malibu beach of course! Hanging with his friend Angel

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:22 AM (xT8gx)

121 Either Mike Johnson is a fucking idiot, or he thinks we are.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 08:10 AM (IUd0M)

Hey remember me

Posted by: And at April 25, 2024 08:22 AM (Gfz8S)

122 The thing with the Junta wanting to openly install Totalitarianism is that they've already proven hopelessly incompetent. They risk not having anything to lord over, because they're destroying what we already have.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:22 AM (Gse2f)

123 > Republicans indicted in Arizona.
________
I think it might be time for Trump and his supporters who are perpetually being indicted for bullshit claims to quit playing by the left's rules and ignore these attempts to get them in court.

It's time to drop all pretenses that the left is at war with us. They will overreact. They will make the mistake of showing how far they're willing to go to impose their will on the public.

The media will make a spectacle of armed agents or soldiers swarming business suited men and women in public to arrest them for being on the "wrong side." The spin will be epic. But also complete horseshit.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

124 105 Ninety miles WNW of Chicago.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (MvF+J)

***

Almost WI

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 25, 2024 08:23 AM (ZV+pB)

125 He lives in a trailer down by the beach
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:18 AM (/7KEl)

115, 120

Horde mind

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:23 AM (xT8gx)

126 It saddens me to see Rudy being treated so badly. FFS, he saved NYC. This time around, there won't be another Rudy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:24 AM (Gse2f)

127 The thing with the Junta wanting to openly install Totalitarianism is that they've already proven hopelessly incompetent. They risk not having anything to lord over, because they're destroying what we already have.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:22 AM (Gse2f)
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As I've said before, they will burn this country to a cinder just so they can rule over the ashes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 08:24 AM (7fElN)

128 History does not move in a smooth arc that beds this way or that.

Rather, it describes a chaotic caricature as drawn in fits and starts by an over-caffeinated epileptic sketch artist with St. Vitus' dance and hemiballismus.


(The word for the day is: Hemiballismus)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 08:24 AM (l4B/J)

129 And it didn't actually mean Obama??
Posted by: andycanuck

Unfortunately no, I think they meant that PDT is no longer standing in the way and the next 7 months will see a cascade of indictments that will cripple many more morally and financially.

Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2024 08:25 AM (F3Dlr)

130 Mmm. Yellow cake.
.
.

Doh!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:25 AM (vtyCZ)

131 Four more years (pause)

Posted by: Redenzo at April 25, 2024 08:25 AM (V/pbu)

132 As usual, the world is in nearly complete Clown Show mode. Thank you for pointing this out, JJ, and happy birthday.

Great job, as is typical.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 08:25 AM (ufFY8)

133 Speaker Johnson believes the promise he will keep his job if he helps Joe get re-elected. Simple as that. Johnson joined the ranks of UNIPARTY leadership but he has yet to figure out he is just another stooge of the UNIPARTY like Biden.

Posted by: bang-a-gong at April 25, 2024 08:26 AM (jG3gZ)

134

Four more years of paw-paw's paws up teenybopper panties . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13)

135 Rockford Baja Wisconsin

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:27 AM (ENQN6)

136 Our country is upside down indeed. And it continues to feel like there is nothing we can do about it but hang on for a ride we didn’t ask for or want.

I need a Celsius.

Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2024 08:28 AM (2UJ+q)

137 131 Four more years (pause)

FOUR MORE YEARS PAUSE!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 25, 2024 08:28 AM (q2svT)

138 Good morning!

Huh, hadn't seen that Mike Johnson went Columbia.
Yeah, WTF?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 08:28 AM (cCVOS)

139 134

Four more years of paw-paw's paws up teenybopper panties . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 08:27 AM (x0n13)

I really do not think there is an age limit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:28 AM (ENQN6)

140 I now put high odds that the Deep State has shown Johnson pictures of him with a dead girl or a live boy. IYKWIM

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:28 AM (Gse2f)

141 Trump has been daring the judge to throw him in jail for violating the gag order. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:30 AM (Gse2f)

142 Trump's lawyers will be at the Supreme Court today for oral arguments over presidential immunity. You can listen to the arguments starting at 9 am here.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3hnrhc

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:30 AM (LkLld)

143 North Carolina has a law on the books that prevents felons from voting. The judge just determined that the law is discriminatory, primarily against black voters in NC."
FFS, laws against murder also have disparate impact.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

All those cullid felons ain't putting down their 40 oz and leaving their hos and running to vote.

The democrat criminals want them eligible to vote so they, the democrats, can fill out the ballots in their name.

Same with dead folks.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 08:30 AM (cDEsv)

144 Now the trouble with you and me, my friend
Is the trouble with this nation
Too many blessings, too little appreciation
And I know that kind of notion—well, it just ain't cool
So send me back to Sunday school
Because I'm tired of waiting for reason to arrive
It's too long we've been living
These unexamined lives
I've got great expectations
I've got family and friends
I've got satisfying work
I've got a back that bends
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my Thanksgiving
...
Now I'm welcoming the fall
For every moment of joy
Every hour of fear
For every winding road that brought me here
For every breath, for every day of living
This is my Thanksgiving

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:31 AM (/JOu+)

145 @138 "House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s president to resign Wednesday during a tense news conference where the crowd repeatedly interrupted the speaker and at times loudly booed him and other GOP lawmakers who were with him as they stood at the microphones.

“We just can’t allow this kind of hatred and antisemitism to flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped in its tracks. Those who are perpetrating this violence should be arrested. I am here today joining my colleagues, and calling on President Shafik to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos,” Johnson said Wednesday."

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:31 AM (V13WU)

146 Johnson’s completely arbitrary trip to New York is the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. An issue that was completely at the feet of Joe Biden and the fools in his foreign policy apparatus now appears – at best – as a “uniparty” issue, and at worst, as a scenario where the GOP is running interference for neoconservatism like its 2003.
++++
Republicans gonna Republican.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

147 now put high odds that the Deep State has shown Johnson pictures of him with a dead girl or a live boy. IYKWIM
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 08:28 AM (Gse2f)

Def possible. But telling him "welcome to the goodie room" is just as likely. The Party can always offer anyone more than their subject classes can.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 08:32 AM (0FoWg)

148 Sure, Biden is tied with Trump. Pull the other one, it has bells.

https://tinyurl.com/3z6v3nz5

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:33 AM (LkLld)

149 what arbitrary trip to NY ?? to go and face the antisemites at Columbia U and to tell their leader to resign ?

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:33 AM (V13WU)

150 Morning all, thx JJ hope you are doing well. The GDP raye just came out for the first quarter. It was 1.6%growth vs 2.4 % estimated. Bidenomics is awesome!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 08:33 AM (gzrLG)

151 > "House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University’s president to resign Wednesday


who Gs AF
this is not his job
get back to DC and stay in your lane, Poindexter

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:33 AM (/7KEl)

152 In point of fact, the $61 billion sent to Ukraine would build the wall several times over.

---------------

My prediction a couple of years ago -- that over $1 trillion would eventually be grifted from the Ukrainian Oligarchs including the Z-Man as he allows his young men to be needlessly slaughtered -- becomes more true with each passing day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:34 AM (/JOu+)

153 Most important video on the Internet right now:

https://tinyurl.com/3nn873hs

(X.com)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 08:34 AM (KbuES)

154 Sahar Tartak is now fearful of returning to the Yale campus, since these pro-Hamas demonstrators now know who she is and may seek her out for violent retribution for reporting the flagpole attack to the police, especially if the perpetrator is indeed discovered and prosecuted.
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Carry a gun and be prepared to use it.

Judged by 12 vs. carried by 6, etc.

We used to have a relatively peaceful society. Outside of known and fairly well-defined bad spots, you could be fairly confident in your safety. That is not the case anymore. Erosion has continued unabated, and the script has flipped. Only within known and transient good spots can you be fairly confident in your safety. React accordingly. Arm yourself and let the chips fall where they may if it comes down to it. There will be consequences, of course. There always are. But you might live through it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:34 AM (HnUIn)

155 I now put high odds that the Deep State has shown Johnson pictures of him with a dead girl or a live boy. IYKWIM
Posted by: Ignoramus


I think it is either his adopted son, or death threats.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 08:35 AM (QIBZ+)

156 Morning all, thx JJ hope you are doing well. The GDP raye just came out for the first quarter. It was 1.6%growth vs 2.4 % estimated. Bidenomics is awesome!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 08:33 AM (gzrLG)

-----------------

Soon to be "revised" to -1.6% grown.

Something something ration something something increased ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:35 AM (/JOu+)

157 This morning Donald Trump met with construction workers who erupted into chants of ‘USA!’ before ‘hush money’ trial

https://tinyurl.com/yv2hmrah

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

158 The students had created their own “tent city” in solidarity with the sprawling encampment set up at Columbia University, with NYU students demanding their own school divest holdings tied to Israel over the war in Gaza.
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And probably ride the subway to meet up with each other and use their mobile phones to coordinate.

C'mon, kids. If you're going to do the "solidarity" thing, make it a *real* tent city.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:36 AM (HnUIn)

159 who Gs AF
this is not his job
get back to DC and stay in your lane, Poindexter
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:33 AM (/7KEl)

That is a very narrow view. He brought a delegation of R lawmakers to the viper's nest , the cauldron of antisemitism, and told to their face to GTFO. He is a leader of the House and is representative of the American people. It matters.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:37 AM (V13WU)

160 @154 Joe Mannix, and that is definitely the point . The deconstruction of the criminal justice system is just one more deconstruction let loose on the nation

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 08:37 AM (gzrLG)

161 I’m enjoying watching NYC collapse even further. Between this shit and the illegals…popcorn time.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 08:37 AM (PkKnD)

162 >>C'mon, kids. If you're going to do the "solidarity" thing, make it a *real* tent city.

I'd wager a good amount that the billions Biden gave Iran are helping fund this totally spontaneous show of solidarity with Iranian funded terrorists.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:38 AM (LkLld)

163 If the protestors make their way to Chicago for the convention, they'll be eaten alive by Chicago's black criminal underclass. It will be beautiful to watch.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 25, 2024 08:38 AM (rJ48h)

164 Mike Johnson. Piece of garbage and a coward.

Needs a pantsing, then run out on a rail like old times.

Still nothing on our three campuses other than some whining thank God. I guess they chose pretty wisely when then went for "vibe."

So far still good vibes. Semester almost done and summer jobs lined up. But they say there is a sickness on campus, even theirs.

I think it's being orchestrated, in every state college flagship, and all the Top 20 or Top 50 schools.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 08:38 AM (s3qiR)

165 “American Sunlight Project launched to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM (ENQN6)


Wow. Maybe the American Sunlight Project should start by looking at the American Sunlight Project.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 08:38 AM (rAQ0h)

166 Democrats have already made it clear that they will stop at nothing – nothing – to prevent Donald Trump from winning in November.
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I'm not at all sure that this is true. Time will tell with how hard they cheat, but so far everything they have done increases Trump's popularity. Trump gets victim points because of their direct actions against him, and resentment with the status quo increases with every governance change the administration makes. A "climate emergency" will be more of the same.

They're pathological but many of them are not stupid. I think the possibility that they want Trump should be considered. It would be a modest setback for sure and they also hate that for sure, but it would solve a decent number of problems for them as well. It wouldn't shock me if the Party's cost/benefit analysis shows that a second Trump administration might narrowly beat out his defeat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:39 AM (HnUIn)

167 161 I’m enjoying watching NYC collapse even further. Between this shit and the illegals…popcorn time.


it is not and hasn't for a long time been part of the USA.

it's its own mini-country. we should make that official.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 08:39 AM (s3qiR)

168 151 Poindexter. Wow, that’s a call-back.

And Johnson does look like he would get aroused by memorizing actuarial tables.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 08:39 AM (9yWhg)

169 The attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct 7, which included horrific terror, abuse, torture, rape, mutilation, murder and abduction of civilians, some of whom are still hostages, including Americans, caused an uprising in support for Hamas(!) in the US. I don't see these sick people as fellow citizens, rather, I see them as terrorists with the potential to do the same, as Hamas did to Isrealis, to me and my family (though we're not Jewish). They declared themselves, by their actions, as my enemy and the enemy of civilization.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (0fGMb)

170 110 I just saw a poll released yesterday that puts Trump and Biden dead even with RFK getting 3%.

I'm still WTF?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 07:59 AM (RKVpM)

Shitpants is woefully behind where it matters but somehow is even more popular than before in the nutty states

here in MA, 18 wheel Joey is 30 points ahead

the election is over but it's bad for biz for the media to admit it

Trump has got a headlock on 268

Posted by: yikes at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (us2H3)

171 I'm looking for the man who shot my (pause).

Posted by: Dog with a bandaged foot at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (l4B/J)

172 How can you not love this guy:

@realDonaldTrump
Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy” (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word “Lethargic” from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (3ImbR)

173 If the protestors make their way to Chicago for the convention, they'll be eaten alive by Chicago's black criminal underclass. It will be beautiful to watch.

==


they are one of the same, the professional protesters we are seeing now will be joined by the acolytes of st george 2020

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (V13WU)

174 >>These protests are not organic. This is Occupy Wall Street. This is Black Lives Matter.

They're not protesting FOR Hamas. They are puppets protesting AGAINST America.
- - - -
Looks like this is one of those "embrace the power of 'and'" situations.

Yes, this is very much being facilitated, funded and organized by the same people that gave us OWS, #MeToo, BLM, etc.

However, it *is* being coordinated with Hamas. Hamas started these protests all across Western world within a day or two of 10/7 attack. Hell, the Girl Scouts started a fund for Palestinian kids on 10/10 (and how many others orgs did this, too?) - like, before the Israeli dead had been counted, the kibbutz fires put out, etc..

Op-ed on Tuesday's WSJ "Who's Behind the Anti-Israel Protests by Steven Stalinsky, Exec Dir of MEMRI says it is ME terrorists organizing these protests. Terrorists.

[iEvery Senior Hamas leader has acknowledged the importance of the protests and said that influencing U.S. and Western policy is a part of the organization's strategy for destroying Israel. Khaled Mashal, the Hamas leader abroad, on October 10th, urged supporters to protest "in the cities everywhere." . ..

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (cCVOS)

175 @realDonaldTrump
Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy” (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word “Lethargic” from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!
Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (3ImbR)
++++
So Trump's still not a fan...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:41 AM (HnUIn)

176 Mike Johnson, who is turning out to be the Paul Ryan of Kevin McCarthy's
_____

Couldn't have said it better. Who was the last speaker that did anything to reduce the power of the state?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 08:42 AM (0fGMb)

177 The Democratic Socialists of America are going to be protesting Biden doing a fundraiser with billionaires tonight. They are calling him "Genocide Joe". More popcorn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 08:42 AM (gzrLG)

178 @174 Hamas=Iran

in the end, Iran survived after attacking Israel. it worked.

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:42 AM (V13WU)

179 Carry a gun and be prepared to use it.

Judged by 12 vs. carried by 6, etc.

We used to have a relatively peaceful society. Outside of known and fairly well-defined bad spots, you could be fairly confident in your safety. That is not the case anymore. Erosion has continued unabated, and the script has flipped. Only within known and transient good spots can you be fairly confident in your safety. React accordingly. Arm yourself and let the chips fall where they may if it comes down to it. There will be consequences, of course. There always are. But you might live through it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:34 AM (HnUIn)
----------------
Back in the day, wifey and I used to watch "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)" until an episode where a repeatedly raped by the same man and "battered woman" (cue "Battered Conservative Syndrome").

The cops never said "Hey, you need to 'f*cking get a gun and defend yourself" ... no, it was "you need to call us earlier."

GFY

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:42 AM (/JOu+)

180 >>They're pathological but many of them are not stupid.

Don't forget, Trump knows what the deep state did to try and take him down while he was in office.

I don't think the intel community and their partners in and out of government not to mention foreign actors who helped are all that excited about having all of that exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:43 AM (LkLld)

181 "what do elections really mean in a nation that is now so top-to-bottom corrupt both in and outside of government, that they can be stolen now openly with zero repercussions?"


Do you ever remember a 'president' running for re-election proposing tax increases months before the election. 45% capital gains tax? If anything signals "we're going to steal the election & there is nothing you can do about it..."

Posted by: Dino58 at April 25, 2024 08:43 AM (LVPff)

182 This morning Donald Trump met with construction workers who erupted into chants of ‘USA!’ before ‘hush money’ trial

https://tinyurl.com/yv2hmrah
Posted by: redridinghood
---------
Related:

Bad Hombre @joma_gc
This whole “keep Trump in NYC for 6+ weeks for a case that is going to end in a mistrial” strategy is really going to backfire.

https://tinyurl.com/22yehxyy
7 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:43 AM (vtyCZ)

183 Oct. 7 will happen again and again and again and again... because the Obama/Biden clan wants it that way.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 08:44 AM (Oy/m2)

184 As the world prepares to erupt in flames, it's good to know that our Navy is ready to not only deal out death and destruction, but be able to absorb battle damage, and be quickly repaired and put back into the fight.

Salamander, and the front porch gang.

https://tinyurl.com/535ak67n

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 08:44 AM (a1415)

185 Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Includes ‘$3.5 Billion to Supercharge Mass Migration from the Middle East’

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

186 ... Hell, the Girl Scouts started a fund for Palestinian kids on 10/10 (and how many others orgs did this, too?) - like, before the Israeli dead had been counted, the kibbutz fires put out, etc.. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (cCVOS)
++++
This really pisses me off, far more than most similar actions.

When a cute kid tries to sell me popcorn or cookies, I now (well, for quite some time, actually, but whatever) have to decline. But the *reason* I have to decline is not that kid's fault, and the kid will be unlikely to understand why I have to decline. I just have to tell him or her, "no, thank you." If I tell him or her, "I will not because I do approve of your organization's support for various causes I find socially corrosive" or similar, he or she won't understand and will just tell his or her parent, "no, he didn't buy anything he was just mean to me."

Using organizations for children to do this stuff ensures that there is no effective feedback loop to the organization. Most people don't want to upset to children and even if the person clarifies, it is likely to be lost in translation. It sucks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:44 AM (HnUIn)

187 If course Johnson is just like McCarthy. They're both Renfields. They're all the same. Get rid of his ass next. Keep doing it til the GOP is dead. But never expect the next Renfield to be different than the last Renfield. Just view him as the next one to be destroyed.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 08:44 AM (0FoWg)

188 I'm pretty sure all funding for the Hamas horseshit here can be traced back to Doha, Qatar.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

189 The Intel community and their partners in and out of government know who is behind this pro Hamas crap. They are certainly indirectly supporting it at the very least by not rolling up the network. More likely they are directly supporting the network.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 08:45 AM (0fGMb)

190 @realDonaldTrump
Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy” (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word “Lethargic” from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!
Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 08:40 AM (3ImbR)
++++
So Trump's still not a fan...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:41 AM (HnUIn)

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Trump's response should have been "Go DIAF, traitor."

/Yeah, we're totally f*cked ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 25, 2024 08:45 AM (/JOu+)

191 amazing how these professional protester are always at the ready to sow chaos - Vietnam, Afghanistan/Iraq, Occupy Wall Street, BLM , Antifa...

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:45 AM (V13WU)

192 And Johnson does look like he would get aroused by memorizing actuarial tables.
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Double-entry bookkeeping!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:46 AM (vtyCZ)

193 Clown World ™
@ClownWorld_

Man Confronts Toronto Police In a LGBTQ Police Car

https://tinyurl.com/e9pe33zk

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

194 Chinese launch in about 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/live/d-cdY0C1pMQ

The Falcon 9 launch set for today has been scrubbed.

Posted by: Ciampino - Peking Duck for space lunch? at April 25, 2024 08:46 AM (qfLjt)

195 He is a leader of the House and is representative of the American people. It matters.
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 08:37 AM (V13WU)

He "represents" people in northern Louisiana. Speaker is an administrative position for one half of the legislature. He's not a noble. It's not his job.

He accomplished nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 08:47 AM (IUd0M)

196 Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announces that a Grand Jury has just indicted 18 Republicans, including Donald Trump, over ALLEGED attempt to change the 2020 elections' results.

Same person that had over 9000 ballots destroyed to win by < 200 votes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:47 AM (ENQN6)

197 In the uplifting news, Baltimore's Hopkins University is about to enjoy the blessings of a Pro-Hamas demonstration.

Up to this point, the campus has been pretty quiet.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (a1415)

198
Newt Gingrich was the best House Speaker ever and had to be destroyed. Some of it was self inflicted.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (RKVpM)

199 FM Humza Yousaf faces no confidence vote in Scotland after collapse of coalition with Greens

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

200 196 Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announces that a Grand Jury has just indicted 18 Republicans, including Donald Trump, over ALLEGED attempt to change the 2020 elections' results.

Same person that had over 9000 ballots destroyed to win by
Posted by: rhennigantx
____

Taking something that has happened many times before and making it a crime only because 'Trump' is restoring norms.

Posted by: National Review at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (0fGMb)

201 "Communist societies have a long history of imprisoning political dissidents in psychiatric wards."
Marxist Health Officials Want You Committed


This is why involuntary commitment is a perilous policy. Who are the deciders?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (SfhV1)

202 The Dow futures does not like the GDP numbers. Sell off at the the moment with a -400 loss. Of course with this highly liquid market who knows

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (gzrLG)

203 Remember: given everything going on today, we are all Jews now.

Can I call myself a Jew 2.0?

Posted by: pookysgirl, clarifying her faith at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (dtlDP)

204 I think it is either his adopted son, or death threats.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 08:35 AM (QIBZ+)

I think the “persuasion” campaigns must be more subtle. Because if it’s happening all the time and it’s blatant it would be human nature for at least one pol to say “F U… I won’t be blackmailed, I’m going to the press”… if Johnson was being blatantly blackmailed his smartest play would be to go straight to Fox News and say “I just got a visit from the FBI (or whoever) and they threatened to expose (this or that) if I didn’t fund Ukraine; well this or that happened but I won’t be blackmailed”…. Since no one has ever done this, I conclude the pressure campaigns are very subtle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (xT8gx)

205 188 I'm pretty sure all funding for the Hamas horseshit here can be traced back to Doha, Qatar.
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And Iran.
=====
"They're the same picture."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (vtyCZ)

206 And if by some miracle the majority of American-Americans say "Hell no!" to this, the little monsters on campuses nationwide terrorizing Jews will be unleashed, unbound, and will come after us for threatening Mother Earth.

Is that a promise?

We have a lot of feral hogs and buzzards out here.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (4HcMG)

207 >>But the *reason* I have to decline is not that kid's fault, and the kid will be unlikely to understand why I have to decline. I just have to tell him or her, "no, thank you." If I tell him or her, "I will not because I do approve of your organization's support for various causes I find socially corrosive" or similar, he or she won't understand and will just tell his or her parent, "no, he didn't buy anything he was just mean to me."



Heh, YES.
GSA has been pro-abortion for years - no thanks.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (cCVOS)

208 Do you ever remember a 'president' running for re-election proposing tax increases months before the election. 45% capital gains tax? If anything signals "we're going to steal the election & there is nothing you can do about it..."
Posted by: Dino58 at April 25, 2024 08:43 AM (LVPff)

Remember that around 45% of the public are fucking retards. They know literally ZERO about investments and money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (ENQN6)

209 He "represents" people in northern Louisiana.
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I hope the people of northern Louisiana are giving him an earful. Probably won't matter unless they vote in the primary to oust him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (0fGMb)

210 In the most blatant move of hatred of the United States Constitution to date, U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Jamie Raskin (MD-0, Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) have filed legislation which will create an Office of the Inspector General to ensure accountability of justices in the Supreme Court of the United States.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

211 Remember that around 45% of the public are fucking retards.
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We did that!

Posted by: Teachers Union at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (0fGMb)

212 ... I don't think the intel community and their partners in and out of government not to mention foreign actors who helped are all that excited about having all of that exposed.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:43 AM (LkLld)
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Much of it already has been. It didn't matter. What's Trump gonna do? Declassify? Sure, okay. The drone will just violate orders. Hold a press conference? The spin doctors will call it a conspiracy theory and write it off for weeks until the NPCs get the programming.

They know how to contain Trump and know now that they can get away with violating any order they please and that Congress will back them if push comes to shove. Trump lost the last "shutdown battle" - the only real recourse left - and will lose the next one if he tries it. The nuke fizzled in the silo.

Which is why I am not sure they actually care whether Trump gets in again. It would be a setback for sure, but not insurmountable - and it would give them a reprieve from public responsibility for a moment *and* let them cleanly ice Biden while saving face and prepping his replacement (probably Whitmer, maybe Newsom).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (HnUIn)

213 I think the “persuasion” campaigns must be more subtle. Because if it’s happening all the time and it’s blatant it would be human nature for at least one pol to say “F U… I won’t be blackmailed, I’m going to the press”… if Johnson was being blatantly blackmailed his smartest play would be to go straight to Fox News and say “I just got a visit from the FBI (or whoever) and they threatened to expose (this or that) if I didn’t fund Ukraine; well this or that happened but I won’t be blackmailed”…. Since no one has ever done this, I conclude the pressure campaigns are very subtle
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (xT8gx)

Chuck U Schumer
7 ways from Sunday

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:51 AM (ENQN6)

214 Since the Girl Scouts retired Golden Yangles, they've been dead to me.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 08:51 AM (MvF+J)

215 iJew???

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 08:51 AM (vtyCZ)

216 "have filed legislation which will create an Office of the Inspector General to ensure accountability of justices in the Supreme Court of the United States.
"

I'm guessing that the term' co-equal' has no real bearing on this, right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 08:51 AM (a1415)

217 I’m enjoying watching NYC collapse even further. Between this shit and the illegals…popcorn time.
Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 08:37 AM (PkKnD)

Concur. All the rape, subway pushing, police getting a beating, white karen slapping, soy boy immolating, DA criminality, muzzie goat fuckers protesting and rape all going on in the democrat yankee shithole of New Yawk City makes me hard.

Pass the popcorn box.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 08:52 AM (cDEsv)

218 We did that!
Posted by: Teachers Union at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (0fGMb)

ha funny that worst SAT scores ay any Uni is Ed College.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:52 AM (ENQN6)

219 This is why involuntary commitment is a perilous policy. Who are the deciders?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2024 08:48 AM (SfhV1)
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Me, of course. I am honorable and just.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)

220 >Heh, YES.
GSA has been pro-abortion for years - no thanks.

Posted by: Lizzy


and Nutter Butters are better anyway

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (/7KEl)

221 "have filed legislation which will create an Office of the Inspector General to ensure accountability of justices in the Supreme Court of the United States.
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It's unconstitutional.

Posted by: Supreme Court 9-0 decision at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (0fGMb)

222 "Remember that around 45% of the public are fucking retards. "

Well, that would explain where we keep getting more of them from.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (a1415)

223 >>The Intel community and their partners in and out of government know who is behind this pro Hamas crap. They are certainly indirectly supporting it at the very least by not rolling up the network. More likely they are directly supporting the network.

Well Biden did give Iran billions which they are using to fund terrorism. What is happening on college campuses is terrorism of a sort.

Qatar, Iran's partner in crime, has been funneling billions to US colleges for decades and greatly inflluencing what is taught in these schools. Remember Rashid Khalidi, one of Obama's besties?

Professor at both U of Chicago and Columbia and a very prominent Palestinian voice and leader of the Hamas movement.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (LkLld)

224 Concur. All the rape, subway pushing, police getting a beating, white karen slapping, soy boy immolating, DA criminality, muzzie goat fuckers protesting and rape all going on in the democrat yankee shithole of New Yawk City makes me hard.

Pass the popcorn box.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 08:52 AM (cDEsv)

you said rape twice

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (ENQN6)

225 Remember that around 45% of the public are fucking retards.


Um... Why are you looking at me??

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (Oy/m2)

226 US Births Alarmingly Slide To Lowest Level Since 1979, Failing To Exceed Replacement Rate Since Before GFC
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"Any nation with a birth rate below replacement will eventually cease to exist."

.. this is why illegal immigration is being allowed

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

227 Celebrating World Penguin Day should be a universal joy we all hold in common. Time was, we could unite in such matters. Anti-Penguites seem to have no conscience or decency. How I long for a day where such reprobates could hold their nose and embrace the goodness along with us!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at April 25, 2024 08:54 AM (V5BDR)

228 Does Tartuk have a cause of action, against Yale? As guarantor of her safety and security, and because New Haven police can only enter campus with Yale permission (meaning she can't appeal to NH cops for help), you would think Yale has some obligation to enforce its stated rules. They failed.

The publicity of a suit would be terrible for Yale, and therefore (you would think) worth doing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 08:54 AM (+Yo1p)

229 What we need is a 1968 Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley cracking skulls.

As JJ said, these folks will be in Chicago. The Rs should be ready in Jan 2025 because this is coming to a place near you after Trump wins.

Unfortunately, Tom Cotton seems to be the only one who gets it.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2024 08:54 AM (FxH7T)

230 >have filed legislation which will create an Office of the Inspector General to ensure accountability of justices in the Supreme Court of the United States.


accountable to who, and for what

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:54 AM (/7KEl)

231 ha funny that worst SAT scores ay any Uni is Ed College.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:52 AM (ENQN6)
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The dumbest people on campus are in either the Ed school or the J school. Every time. Both departments are filled with lazy dullards as the norm. If a college has both departments, flip a coin as to which one is stupider and lazier. If a college has only one, no coin flip is needed.

"But in my Ed school, I was smart and diligent and ..." Well, maybe. You are also an unreliable narrator. "But in my Ed school, I had classmates who were brilliant and ..." Doubtless. No population is uniformly totally useless. But the mean is pretty damn bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:55 AM (HnUIn)

232 Me, of course. I am honorable and just.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)


I never doubted you for a moment.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 25, 2024 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

233 >How I long for a day where such reprobates could hold their nose and embrace the goodness along with us!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front


the PLF is a gang of fish-smelling thugs
RELEASE THE LEOPARD SEALS

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:56 AM (/7KEl)

234 "Any nation with a birth rate below replacement will eventually cease to exist."

.. this is why illegal immigration is being allowed
Posted by: SMOD
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Which also will eventually cause the nation, as founded anyway, to cease to exist. Who knew something as simple as not having families with at least 3 kids would destroy the nation?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 08:56 AM (0fGMb)

235 "No population is uniformly totally useless."

Soylent Green accepts and finds the good in all.

So apply now....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 08:57 AM (a1415)

236 Russian court orders seizure of JPMorgan Chase funds in VTB lawsuit
https://shorturl.at/ipCL7

Ok Poo Tin, now claim some yachts

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2024 08:57 AM (llON8)

237 .. this is why illegal immigration is being allowed
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
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That is one of the reasons, yes. I strongly suspect that the smartest people in power positions in government are motivated by the demographic crisis.

The bulk of them don't even realize it's a problem and support an open border for different reasons, but the smart ones are trying to solve for birth rate. It's a bad solution.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 08:57 AM (HnUIn)

238 As to the polls: Biden "closing in" is who would you vote for being used as "are you going to vote."

Bloomberg says Joe's "bounce" after the SOTU scream has dissipated. He will only get more angry and gas isn't coming down. He's boned

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2024 08:57 AM (FxH7T)

239 180 I heard an investigative reporter give a presentation a couple weeks ago about the border, trafficking, national security.

The lay of the land is much, much worse than even most informed freedom-minded people get.

It will take a miracle or three for Trump to win and take office.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2024 08:58 AM (JcnCJ)

240 This is what Leopard Seal thinks of Penguin

https://tinyurl.com/mrku2yzp

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 08:58 AM (/7KEl)

241 >>Much of it already has been. It didn't matter.

I think you greatly overestimate just how much has been exposed and to whom. I doubt less than 25% of the public has any idea how extensive the corruption goes. THis group is far more knowledgable than the public as a whole and we don't even know it all.

I've been banging the drum about our government pushing NATO inclusion for both Georgia and Ukraine knowing since 2008 it would lead to war but the vast majority of this country still thinks Putin woke up one day and invaded for no reason. At the start of this war most here thought that as well.

Ask 5 people at your office if they know that the US government ran color revolusions in both Georgia and Ukraine and see how many know that happened let alone how many of them know they also ran a color revolution on the US in 2020 and it's still going on.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:59 AM (LkLld)

242 Celebrating World Penguin Day should be a universal joy we all hold in common. Time was, we could unite in such matters. Anti-Penguites seem to have no conscience or decency. How I long for a day where such reprobates could hold their nose and embrace the goodness along with us!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at April 25, 2024 08:54 AM (V5BDR)

Dangit, Pookette, get off the computer and get to school!

Posted by: pookysgirl, penguin mom at April 25, 2024 09:00 AM (dtlDP)

243 >>The Intel community and their partners in and out of government know who is behind this pro Hamas crap. They are certainly indirectly supporting it at the very least by not rolling up the network. More likely they are directly supporting the network.
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It's very well organized, likely by the same people behind Antifa and BLM. National Review just had an article talking about the organization going on at Princeton right now, where they are getting ready to open one of these camps. Training sessions and documents on how to deal with police and media, explaining university disciplinary procedures (showing a legal review) and discussing just what students can and cannot do. The article capped it all off by saying "don't worry, even if you do get suspended, we have three faculty members on the discipline committee who are members of our organization".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 09:00 AM (ij0BO)

244 Op-ed on Tuesday's WSJ "Who's Behind the Anti-Israel Protests by Steven Stalinsky, Exec Dir of MEMRI says it is ME terrorists organizing these protests. Terrorists.


the best part? we paid for that. we gave Hamas that money

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 09:01 AM (s3qiR)

245 Do you ever remember a 'president' running for re-election proposing tax increases months before the election. 45% capital gains tax? If anything signals "we're going to steal the election & there is nothing you can do about it..."
Posted by: Dino58 at April 25, 2024 08:43 AM (LVPff)

Remember that around 45% of the public are fucking retards. They know literally ZERO about investments and money.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (ENQN6)

Don't somewhere north of 50% pay no net federal income tax? Why would they care? More for them, stolen from us, without the police hassling them about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 09:01 AM (IUd0M)

246 I think you greatly overestimate just how much has been exposed and to whom. I doubt less than 25% of the public has any idea how extensive the corruption goes. THis group is far more knowledgable than the public as a whole and we don't even know it all. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:59 AM (LkLld)
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That's precisely the point.

Anyone *could* know if he wanted to do or even just got exposed to it. Yet so few do. Why? Information control, spin, propaganda and personal interest.

Most people don't have personal interest, so they don't have to be considered. You just have to shield them from too much accidental exposure. Those that do have personal interest are more dangerous, so you have to not only shield them but also supplement the shield with lies. Thankfully, however, the mechanism for doing both is the same: the propaganda complex.

They still have it, and will retain it. Trump can't break it and so they can run essentially the same playbook they developed last time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:02 AM (HnUIn)

247 It's very well organized, likely by the same people behind Antifa and BLM. National Review just had an article talking about the organization going on at Princeton right now, where they are getting ready to open one of these camps. Training sessions and documents on how to deal with police and media, explaining university disciplinary procedures (showing a legal review) and discussing just what students can and cannot do. The article capped it all off by saying "don't worry, even if you do get suspended, we have three faculty members on the discipline committee who are members of our organization".

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well, there you go; it's been in the works for years

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 09:03 AM (V13WU)

248 In the most blatant move of hatred of the United States Constitution to date, U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Jamie Raskin (MD-0, Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (CT) have filed legislation which will create an Office of the Inspector General to ensure accountability of justices in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

Given that it would almost certainly be declared unconstitutional, it's stupid and pointless.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 09:03 AM (IUd0M)

249 National Review just had an article talking about the organization going on at Princeton right now, where they are getting ready to open one of these camps

the choice of locales might have to do with the Ivies having a later date for start/end of term than most schools do - I think? maybe I'm crazy but the Ivies, NEWMAC (MIT), Centennial (JHU) - they all have this weirdly belated schedule.

bc my guys are having finals and getting ready to leave first week of May

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 09:03 AM (s3qiR)

250 "our organization"...right

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2024 09:03 AM (V13WU)

251 Pour out the Healing Angels on JJ and those that he loves. Let JJ feel the beam of the Healing Angels, the light of their healing hands. JJ will let the healing begin, no matter what way God grants it (but hopefully in a way we can continue to enjoy his work).

Posted by: Mutnodjmet at April 25, 2024 09:03 AM (MIlLy)

252 And a Modest Proposal: Sue the Bastards

A competent New York prosecutor (if there were such a thing) or a non-politicized Department of Justice (fat chance!), should be investigating the source of this logistical support. These terrorists and their financial backers should then be subject to criminal charges for conspiracy in connection with the illegal acts now occurring on campus.

Absent a competent and willing state or federal prosecutor, Jewish organizations – and others – should provide financial support for civil lawsuits for conspiracy against the on-campus terrorists and their financiers. Smart lawyers can no doubt come up with numerous theories of liability. Perhaps they would include such things as tortious interference with the students’ contractual right to attend classes and conspiracy to prevent their attendance? The full discovery that goes with such a suit should be very interesting.

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

253 Don't somewhere north of 50% pay no net federal income tax? Why would they care? More for them, stolen from us, without the police hassling them about it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 09:01 AM (IUd0M)

Someone should axe Joe why do we bother to have people pay taxes when Joe and The Boys just borrow what they want to spend anyways.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 09:04 AM (cDEsv)

254 From JJ's link: And this is how BLM = what we are seeing now:

Columbia Law School students told their Jewish classmates they should not advocate for the school to bring police to campus to ensure their safety because the presence of law enforcement "makes students of color feel unsafe,"

In one message, second-year law student Aya Hashem admonished her Jewish counterparts for advocating for police presence on campus, saying it "makes students of color feel unsafe and feel as though we've learned nothing since George Floyd."

"I shouldn't have to explain why POC especially black students do not want dozens of police officers in riot gear all over campus. Why are we pretending like we don't know that this country has a serious police brutality problem, where unarmed black people (especially men) are murdered indiscriminately by police officers???"

Please note that CAIR and Palestinian activists were partnering w/BLM since at least the Michael Brown riots.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 09:04 AM (cCVOS)

255 JackStraw gets it.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2024 09:04 AM (JcnCJ)

256 yes I would like to also send my best wishes for healing to JJ, and pray for the wisdom and caring of his medical team.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 09:05 AM (s3qiR)

257 Those who actively root for Hamas or leopard seals should have their increments frozen and franking privileges suspended, pending deportation. Time to take out the riff-raff.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at April 25, 2024 09:06 AM (V5BDR)

258 >>They still have it, and will retain it. Trump can't break it and so they can run essentially the same playbook they developed last time.

I don't think Trump is going to fall for the old banana in the tail pipe trick again. Remember, they didn't what they were looking for at Mar A Lago.

The fact is that after everything they have thrown at Trump they are losing and not by a little. People may not know the cause of what is happening to the country but they can see it just like we do and despite 7 years of non-stop attacks on Trump is more popular than ever. And if he does win he will be infinitely more prepared and knowledgable about the swamp than he was in 2016.

If they weren't so afraid of him they wouldn't be running non-stop bullshit legal cases at him and his supporters.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 09:07 AM (LkLld)

259 >"makes students of color feel unsafe and feel as though we've learned nothing since George Floyd."



Mindreading. Did she take a fucking poll of "students of color?"

Posted by: mr tmz at April 25, 2024 09:07 AM (rJ48h)

260 Dangit, Pookette, get off the computer and get to school!
Posted by: pookysgirl


PG, you mentioned yesterday, I think, that Pookette was getting ready for her first marching band experience. Has that happened yet, and, if so, how did it go?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:07 AM (9yWhg)

261 >>> 204 I think it is either his adopted son, or death threats.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 25, 2024 08:35 AM (QIBZ+)

I think the "persuasion" campaigns must be more subtle. Because if it's happening all the time and it's blatant it would be human nature for at least one pol to say "F U… I won’t be blackmailed, I'm going to the press"… if Johnson was being blatantly blackmailed his smartest play would be to go straight to Fox News and say "I just got a visit from the FBI (or whoever) and they threatened to expose (this or that) if I didn't fund Ukraine; well this or that happened but I won't be blackmailed"…. Since no one has ever done this, I conclude the pressure campaigns are very subtle
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 08:49 AM (xT8gx)

The mafia used threats because they mostly worked.

The press would cover "intel" threats the same way they cover anything else that makes commies look bad.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2024 09:07 AM (llON8)

262 "A new book examines weaknesses in China’s meritocratic system—and in our own."
Meritocracy and the Great Power Competition
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Interesting read, though the author (of the article) has a distressing tendency to use "GDP" as if it were one of the actors in the events, rather than a measure.

Also, the book definitely sounds Procrustean, cutting or stretching the historical record to make it fit the model. It should be the other way round.

But it is refreshing to see someone being less than 100% enthusiastic in flag waving for "meritocracy", and does note that in the US that took hold strongest at the start of the Cold War. The record of "The Best and the Brightest" was, at best, mixed.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:08 AM (1bNHn)

263
Once again it's all-

"I never thought the leopards would eat my face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

24/7 in NewsLand.

Honestly...after the victims of these unAmerican, anti-Jewish assaults are safe and medically cared for,

the first question should be-

"Who did you vote for in 2020?"

Followed by:

"If you voted for Joe Biden and the Democrats, you voted for every single thing that's happened to you. You realize that don't you? Did you support BLM, antifa, Hamas lawlessness? Did you support open borders to allow dangerous people to enter and set up shop? Did you support the release of criminals back into the populous?"

Think about it. Did any of this happen while Trump was President?

No, it did not.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2024 09:08 AM (eDfFs)

264 Celebrating World Penguin Day should be a universal joy we all hold in common. Time was, we could unite in such matters. Anti-Penguites seem to have no conscience or decency. How I long for a day where such reprobates could hold their nose and embrace the goodness along with us!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at April 25, 2024 08:54 AM (V5BDR)

Dangit, Pookette, get off the computer and get to school!
Posted by: pookysgirl, penguin mom at April 25, 2024 09:00 AM (dtlDP)
********
On this special day maybe
ace will bring back The Sorrows of Duncanthrax Cafe.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

265 US Births Alarmingly Slide To Lowest Level Since 1979, Failing To Exceed Replacement Rate Since Before GFC
teaser image

"Any nation with a birth rate below replacement will eventually cease to exist."

.. this is why illegal immigration is being allowed
Posted by: SMOD



That's not why. Sorry. You give too much credit to dems. They aren't that smart.

Illegal immigration is for vote stealing and raw, naked power. That's it. Nothing more.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 09:08 AM (Jxvt5)

266 Thankfully, however, the mechanism for doing both is the same: the propaganda complex.
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If Trump says that he'll overturn Obama's repeal of the prohibition against US govt propagandizing US citizens, it will be called overturning democracy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 09:09 AM (fs1hN)

267 I just listened to JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech. Great speech…. Too bad modern Dems don’t love freedom like JFK did. Remember, it’s quite likely our deep state murdered JFK

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 09:09 AM (xT8gx)

268 Please note that CAIR and Palestinian activists were partnering w/BLM since at least the Michael Brown riots.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 09:04 AM (cCVOS)
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And NAMBLA openly partnered with the "gay rights" groups back when the ball got rolling on that back in the 60s. The gays asked the pedos to back off when they got traction, assuring them that their time would come.

The communists openly partnered with (actually, founded and controlled from the start much of) the "environmentalist" and "feminist" movements back when the ball got rolling on that even earlier. They, too, toned down the openness of their support and control once things started growing.

There is literally nothing new about any of this. This is how *all* movements work. They're all backstopped and supported by evil groups run by evil men.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:09 AM (HnUIn)

269
🐧 Boycott, divest, sanction. Stop Big Penguin!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (RKVpM)

270 Yeah, guns are useful that way. My husband used to tell of a family friend with an abusive husband. His dad gave her a gun and showed her how to use it. The abusive husband showed up at the house. He tried to break down the door and yelled that he was going to kill her. She shot him through the door and killed him. It's an equalizer.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (yeEu9)

271 I just listened to JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech. Great speech…. Too bad modern Dems don’t love freedom like JFK did. Remember, it’s quite likely our deep state murdered JFK
Posted by: LinusVanPelt


Well, the admission that he was a jelly donut was pretty damning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (9yWhg)

272 "USAID head Samantha Power declined meeting with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan during 2021 Hamas conflict."
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She's as competent as she is beautiful.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (1bNHn)

273 Stop Big Penguin!
Posted by: Divide by Zero



Big Penguin is funded by Soros.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:11 AM (9yWhg)

274 ... If they weren't so afraid of him they wouldn't be running non-stop bullshit legal cases at him and his supporters.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 09:07 AM (LkLld)
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Pathology is a factor, too. Trump hatred is pathological. Hatred and terror is surely a major part of all this.

But from the guys with real power - the guys skulking through the IC and the Politburo? I doubt they care. Trump in, Trump out or Trump alive or Trump dead, or Trump free or Trump imprisoned, whatever - they can adequately handle any of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

275 267 I just listened to JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech. Great speech…. Too bad modern Dems don’t love freedom like JFK did. Remember, it’s quite likely our deep state murdered JFK

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 25, 2024 09:09 AM (xT8gx)


I am a Hamas Freedom Fighter, folks!

Posted by: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (5fDan)

276 >>> 271 I just listened to JFK’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech. Great speech…. Too bad modern Dems don’t love freedom like JFK did. Remember, it’s quite likely our deep state murdered JFK
Posted by: LinusVanPelt


Well, the admission that he was a jelly donut was pretty damning.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (9yWhg)

Did someone say 'jelly donut'?

Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (llON8)

277 "USAID head Samantha Power declined meeting with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan during 2021 Hamas conflict."
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She's as competent as she is beautiful.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (1bNHn)
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Now I'm afraid to do an image search to refresh my memory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

278 Is anyone else getting a drift that Maga is involved with Campus turmoil? What a great way to distract the upcoming election and the craziness of Trump at his trials by blaming "liberals??" for the campus riots.

Yes. I told my husband the other day I would not be surprised if there are not maga instigators infiltrating among the students and protesting with the students.

The far right and far left bend and meet at antisemitism.

but the right is UTTERLY unconcerned with the suffering or deprivations of anyone outside these shores (and mostly, to any outside their own household). So solidarity with the Palestinian people or cause? Not even as a passing thought.

if they see any possibility in hurting Biden, they most certainly will capitalize on it. I could see a few agitators causing violence, property destruction and then having RW media blame it on leftists.

No. Take a look at where right wing media and MAGA talking points are on this subject. I think forces outside of America are stirring things up, though.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

279 From Mount Erebus to the sea, all Antarctica will be free 🦭

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

280 Is anyone else getting a drift that Maga is involved with Campus turmoil? What a great way to distract the upcoming election and the craziness of Trump at his trials by blaming "liberals??" for the campus riots.

Yes. I told my husband the other day I would not be surprised if there are not maga instigators infiltrating among the students and protesting with the students. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (JCZqz)
++++
I am glad to see that assumptions about 12-dimensional chess aren't limited to the opposition side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:13 AM (HnUIn)

281 Don't somewhere north of 50% pay no net federal income tax? Why would they care? More for them, stolen from us, without the police hassling them about it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 25, 2024 09:01 AM (IUd0M)

Bottom 3/5ths pay < 10% of all taxes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:13 AM (ENQN6)

282 FBI Director Christopher Wray: "We Don’t Monitor Protests"
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Am I the only one astounded that he didn't use his go to excuse "I cannot comment on continuing investigations"?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (1bNHn)

283 279 From Mount Erebus to the sea, all Antarctica will be free 🦭
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

Which sea?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (ENQN6)

284 Now I'm afraid to do an image search to refresh my memory.
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It's a trap!

Posted by: Admiral Squidward at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (fs1hN)

285 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:07 AM (9yWhg)

They're still practicing by marching around the block once a day. The band goes on a trip in a week to march in a town festival parade (and that town's band shows up at our festival three weeks later). I wish I could go see her first real parade, but I'd be a huge distraction and I can't leave Pooky alone for that long (his family is busy this time of year due to the aforementioned festival).

Posted by: pookysgirl can hear the drumline every noon at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (dtlDP)

286 262 "A new book examines weaknesses in China’s meritocratic system—and in our own."
Meritocracy and the Great Power Competition
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Interesting read, though the author (of the article) has a distressing tendency to use "GDP" as if it were one of the actors in the events, rather than a measure.

Also, the book definitely sounds Procrustean, cutting or stretching the historical record to make it fit the model. It should be the other way round.

But it is refreshing to see someone being less than 100% enthusiastic in flag waving for "meritocracy", and does note that in the US that took hold strongest at the start of the Cold War. The record of "The Best and the Brightest" was, at best, mixed.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:08 AM (1bNHn)

Well meritocracy, or aristocracy, theoretically means the most capable in a given area should run things in that area. In practice, sorting mechanisms besides straightforward competition seem dubious. The shift towards examination systems in the west was an intentional imitation of Asia's practices.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (eYoxG)

287 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

And... they are right back on message.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (di6C2)

288 >>> 272 "USAID head Samantha Power declined meeting with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan during 2021 Hamas conflict."
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She's as competent as she is beautiful.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:10 AM (1bNHn)

Ann B recently posted pictures of a young and current-day Victoria Nuland for contrast.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (llON8)

289 Now I'm afraid to do an image search to refresh my memory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)
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Let Admiral Ackbar take one for the team!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (7fElN)

290 Yeah, guns are useful that way. My husband used to tell of a family friend with an abusive husband. His dad gave her a gun and showed her how to use it. The abusive husband showed up at the house. He tried to break down the door and yelled that he was going to kill her. She shot him through the door and killed him. It's an equalizer.
Posted by: Notsothoreau


God made man.
Samuel Colt made them equal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (Jxvt5)

291 Unskew the polls.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (rAQ0h)

292 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

It's the X factor that doesn't get enough attention. I expect a huge falling off in minority turnout. Anyone who stays home is half a vote for Trimp, in effect. Complicates ballot stuffing.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (Gse2f)

293 They're still practicing by marching around the block once a day. The band goes on a trip in a week to march in a town festival parade (and that town's band shows up at our festival three weeks later). I wish I could go see her first real parade, but I'd be a huge distraction and I can't leave Pooky alone for that long (his family is busy this time of year due to the aforementioned festival).
Posted by: pookysgirl

What does she play?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (9yWhg)

294 >Which sea?

Posted by: rhennigantx''

I think the common term is 'the Southern Ocean'

Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (/7KEl)

295 From Mount Erebus to the sea, all Antarctica will be free 🦭
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

Which sea?
Posted by: rhennigantx


YES!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (Jxvt5)

296 >>> 292 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

It's the X factor that doesn't get enough attention. I expect a huge falling off in minority turnout. Anyone who stays home is half a vote for Trimp, in effect. Complicates ballot stuffing.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (Gse2f)

Wanna bet?

Posted by: mail-in ballots at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (llON8)

297 280 Is anyone else getting a drift that Maga is involved with Campus turmoil? What a great way to distract the upcoming election and the craziness of Trump at his trials by blaming "liberals??" for the campus riots.


this tells me they know the antics are hurting the Ds

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (s3qiR)

298 If they weren't so afraid of him they wouldn't be running non-stop bullshit legal cases at him and his supporters.
Posted by: JackStraw

I think that's part of it.

The other is to drive the polls so when the cheat happens, it's in line with the polls. Sure, Trump was up by 3. But turnout, turnout, turnout will be the MSM reply.

People don't understand 2% are several hundred thousand votes. So when said several hundred thousand votes apperceive- hey, the polls said 2% which was within the MoE. So there you go. Bad polling

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (FxH7T)

299 Happy Birthday JJ!

Dragging this in here not because I am trying to get in a fight with JackStraw but it was sitting in a comment box that I had pushed the "Post" button on (probably because ads covered it up):

They aren't just trying to beat Trump, they are trying to crush him. What they are doing to him and his supporters is like nothing that has ever happened in this country before. They are desperate.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 24, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)

Here is where I really part ways. The Dems are not desperate. They are demonstrating that they are in charge and that they have power and that they have no compunction in using it. In short, they aren't doing it because they have to, they are doing it because they can.

No Democrat in this country is worried about John Eastman. Yet they destroyed him anyway.

Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (xhfG9)

300 253 Someone should axe Joe why do we bother to have people pay taxes when Joe and The Boys just borrow what they want to spend anyways.

... apparently, the IMF has been starting to treat the US as they would normally treat a 3rd World country that is heading for bankruptcy

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

301
The election results in Pennsylvania on the (R) side were problematic to put it mildly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 09:17 AM (RKVpM)

302 Oh, interesting, now I read the comments! It was perfectly cromulent comment to drag forward!!

Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 09:17 AM (xhfG9)

303 From Mount Erebus to the sea, all Antarctica will be free 🦭
Posted by: Don Black at April 25, 2024 09:13 AM (/7KEl)

Which sea?
Posted by: rhennigantx
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From Atlantic to Pacific
The icebergs are terrific!

Posted by: Admiral Squidward at April 25, 2024 09:18 AM (fs1hN)

304 > FBI Director Christopher Wray: "We Don’t Monitor Protests"
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Horseshit.

You don't monitor leftist protests. Those you help organize. Asshole.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

305 I think forces outside of America are stirring things up, though.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

Like from places such as, I don't know, Qatar? Or Iran?

Posted by: pookysgirl, just spitballing at April 25, 2024 09:18 AM (dtlDP)

306 I expect a huge falling off in minority turnout. Anyone who stays home is half a vote for Trimp, in effect. Complicates ballot stuffing.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Increased minority voter apathy just means it's easier for someone else to request and complete mail-in ballots for them.

Posted by: Blue Metro Voter Machine at April 25, 2024 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

307 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

A gathering of lunatics.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 09:18 AM (Oy/m2)

308 NYC collapsing is well deserved but unfortunately it produces nasty results elsewhere. I live 90m north of NYC and have my whole life . Since 9/11, and increasing since DeBlasio my area has been overrun by idiots from the city. The vote the same way her as they did there , expecting a different result.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2024 09:18 AM (gzrLG)

309 *does image search of Samantha Power*

Yeah. Yeah. She looks severe, and miserable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 25, 2024 09:19 AM (di6C2)

310 >>FBI Director Christopher Wray: "We Don’t Monitor Protests"



. . . because you infiltrate and instigate them?!

[insert picture of 6 FBI dude-bros in matching sunglasses, watches and jorts at a failed "white nationalist" rally in DC here]

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 09:19 AM (cCVOS)

311 Putin, like JJ , is very upset over the passing of the 60 billion dollar sid bill.
Europe is doing 100 billion aid

Posted by: Paul banned at April 25, 2024 09:19 AM (TRjZ+)

312 MAGA War Room
@MAGAIncWarRoom

Steamfitters Local 638 manager: "It was great to see the president come and engage with the blue collar worker of New York City...I put out a poll in my union, President Trump is leading Joe Biden 3 to 1...we are very tired of...inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration..."

https://tinyurl.com/m38znw29

Posted by: redridinghood at April 25, 2024 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

313 If they weren't so afraid of him they wouldn't be running non-stop bullshit legal cases at him and his supporters.
Posted by: JackStraw

That's a good point.

Posted by: dantesed at April 25, 2024 09:19 AM (Oy/m2)

314 The full discovery that goes with such a suit should be very interesting.
Posted by: SMOD

Any money wired across state lines pursuant to illegal activities is a felony.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2024 09:19 AM (FxH7T)

315 >>> 299
==
Here is where I really part ways. The Dems are not desperate. They are demonstrating that they are in charge and that they have power and that they have no compunction in using it. In short, they aren't doing it because they have to, they are doing it because they can.
==
Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (xhfG9)

That, and what Joe Mannix said; even if Trump were to become the next President, all of the feralgov bureaucracies will just keep on doing whatever the F they want.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (llON8)

316
Now I'm afraid to do an image search to refresh my memory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

Samantha Power = crack whore
Victoria Nuland = asst. crack whore

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (x0n13)

317 LOL

Mrs.DIG is channel surfing. She spent one minute on an old Reba sitcom, then changed the channel, saying "Bluey is more intelligent."

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (ufFY8)

318
The poll I mentioned earlier included Cornel West with 0%.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (RKVpM)

319 Trump posted on Truth Social late Wednesday:

Wow! Former A.G. Bill Barr, who let a lot of great people down by not investigating Voter Fraud in our Country, has just Endorsed me for President despite the fact that I called him “Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy” (New York Post!). Based on the fact that I greatly appreciate his wholehearted Endorsement, I am removing the word “Lethargic” from my statement. Thank you Bill. MAGA2024!

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

320 The election results in Pennsylvania on the (R) side were problematic to put it mildly.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Why? Because Trump has the nomination wrapped up already, so overall turnout is low, so a small group of butthurt RINOs can have an amplified, but still meaningless, message?

Yeah, I'm sure that's the main concern of Trump's right now.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

321 282 FBI Director Christopher Wray: "We Don’t Monitor Protests"
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Am I the only one astounded that he didn't use his go to excuse "I cannot comment on continuing investigations"?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:14 AM (1bNHn)


"I meant to say we don't monitor peaceful protests. And before you ask, I cannot give you our definition of a peaceful protest because that would reveal operational planning details and threaten undercover agent safety. Plus, GFY."

Posted by: FBI Director Christopher Wray at April 25, 2024 09:21 AM (5fDan)

322 Mr. Zimmerman gets it.

Pardon my mood of late. It's been a rough year personally, and frankly, watching the same patterns year in and year out just gets old after a while.

Be aware that no matter what else happens, I love y'all.

Even if some of you DO put salt on your French Toast.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (OUMaO)

323 I am mauve. That's a color. Therefore I am colored

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (ZV+pB)

324 Samantha Power = crack whore
Victoria Nuland = asst. crack whore

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (x0n13)

Read that as ass crack whore

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (ENQN6)

325 315 That, and what Joe Mannix said; even if Trump were to become the next President, all of the feralgov bureaucracies will just keep on doing whatever the F they want.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (llON

Here's a thought: The Dems might actually want Trump to win, so they can claim election rigging/illegitimacy and that concentration camps are on the way so as to initiate a violent revolution and martial law, so as to take power permanently and declare the Constitution null and void.

And if that happens, all hell breaks loose. Or it should. If not, it's the new dark age, forever.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13)

326 I just saw a tweet from Commisar Van der Lyden bragging about EU's 1.5b commitment to Ukraine. Whoopdie freaking do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (fs1hN)

327 Putin, like JJ , is very upset over the passing of the 60 billion dollar sid bill.
Posted by: Paul


Paul, I bet you're pissed that Sid is getting $60 billion instead of you.

But why are we giving $60 billion to Sid?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (9yWhg)

328 FBI Director Christopher Wray: "We Don’t Monitor Protests"
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Posted by: Eeyore

Of course not. They're already they.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (FxH7T)

329 What does she play?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:15 AM (9yWhg)

Bells, and she's a backup for the snare drums. But they have plenty of drummers and she's really good at bells, so that's what she does.

Posted by: pookysgirl is constantly picking up mallets at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (dtlDP)

330 Why? Because Trump has the nomination wrapped up already, so overall turnout is low, so a small group of butthurt RINOs can have an amplified, but still meaningless, message?

Yeah, I'm sure that's the main concern of Trump's right now.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2024 09:20 AM (JCZqz)
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The nomination is sewn up, so the only purpose really is a protest vote (or a counter-protest vote).

My area is *very* heavily Republican, but during our primary, I saw ... zero Democrat ballots go out. That's a narrow range of exposure, I know because I was only in line for a bit, but zero. Zero is weird, even where I live.

There was no point. Biden had it sewn up already, so why bother, especially in a precinct where the outcome was known anyway?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn)

331 313 If they weren't so afraid of him they wouldn't be running non-stop bullshit legal cases at him and his supporters.
Posted by: JackStraw

That's a good point.
Posted by: dantesed

Meh. Even if they were 100% convinced he'd lose, they still want to punish him, and his supporters, to scare off any outsiders looking to rock the boat in the future. It doesn't cost the Left (and GOPe) anything to run Trump and Co. into the ground, and helps motivate their base. Every junta needs an "other" to persecute and blame.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2024 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

332 "I meant to say we don't monitor peaceful protests. And before you ask, I cannot give you our definition of a peaceful protest because that would reveal operational planning details and threaten undercover agent safety. Plus, GFY."
Posted by: FBI Director Christopher Wray at April 25, 2024 09:21 AM (5fDan)

mostly peaceful
semi peaceful
almost peaceful
kind of peaceful

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:23 AM (ENQN6)

333 Bells, and she's a backup for the snare drums. But they have plenty of drummers and she's really good at bells, so that's what she does.
Posted by: pookysgirl


That's great. I had a lot of fun in marching band. I wish her well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:24 AM (9yWhg)

334 "‘Your safety shouldn’t be predicated on making others unsafe,’ says Aya Hashem"
Columbia Law Students Tell Jewish Classmates Police Presence on Campus Makes Them Feel Unsafe
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That story just boggles the mind.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:24 AM (1bNHn)

335 324 Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (ENQN6)

Crazy-ass cracker vs crazy ass-cracker. Only Rachael Genteal knows for sure . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 09:24 AM (x0n13)

336 Weinstein rape conviction overturned.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:24 AM (MvF+J)

337 mostly peaceful
semi peaceful
almost peaceful
kind of peaceful
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:23 AM (ENQN6)
++++
Initially peaceful until it got out of hand due to MAGA provocateurs!
-- DU Poster

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)

338 because they can.


why a dog licks his balls.

Posted by: BignJames at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (AwYPR)

339 332 protests experiencing mostly peacefulness

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (9yWhg)

340 We are we acting like Trump has no control or input over what Johnson is doing? He floated the parameters of the Ukrainians getting a loan they wouldn't have to pay back to fund the war months ago. On the FISA reauthorization, he said representatives should vote how they want on the bill. He has repeated backed Johnson throughout this. Trump is as much of an establishment hack/quisling as the rest of the GOP leadership and apparatus, maybe if even more so because he is doing so despite supposedly being against it (draining the swamp was one of his raison d'etre, no?) and the establishment and deep state aim their fire at him.

Posted by: Papadoc19 at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (CgQRi)

341 In point of fact, the $61 billion sent to Ukraine would build the wall several times over. Even better would be stripping the IRS of the 80,000 new agents and using the money to fund 80,000 CBP/INS agents to round up and deport every damned wetback who's on our soil and returning them from whence they came.

Those 80k agents were mostly brought on to go after people in the gig economy. These people are generally LIVs and don't often vote.

If there was an opposition party they'd point out that Biden is now fleecing them to pay for the illegals and his friends. If...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (ibTVg)

342 Or Trump could have just said thank you for the endorsement. He’s his own worst enemy.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (6On2Z)

343 Tehran and Beijing trained Antifa leaders years ago. And Antifa sent personnel into Syria so they could get combat experience.

Obviously, Antifa's handlers will want a return on their investment.



Posted by: callsign claymore at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (JcnCJ)

344 336 Weinstein rape conviction overturned.
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Meat is back on the menu boys!

Posted by: Orc Weinstein at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (fs1hN)

345 Is anyone else getting a drift that Maga is involved with Campus turmoil? What a great way to distract the upcoming election and the craziness of Trump at his trials by blaming "liberals??" for the campus riots.

Yes. I told my husband the other day I would not be surprised if there are not maga instigators infiltrating among the students and protesting with the students.

OMG!!! They're right! I received this Secret List of Instructions on how to be "maga instigators infiltrating among the students and protesting with the students.

Step 1: Smoke tons of weed to lower your mental faculties and stink like dope.

Step 2: Acquire head lice. Lots of head lice. I mean, so it looks like your scalp is rippling.

Step 3: Acquire Tattoos. Lots of tattoos. Favorites include rainbows, penguins, Mao and hillary.

Step 4: Patchouli. Bathe in the stuff. Roll in it. You cannot successfully infiltrate without smelling like a Patchouli Factory.

Step 5: Piercings, Everywhere. I said EveryFuckingWhere!!!!

Step 6: Dress all in black with a black hoodie.

Good luck Mama-infitrators!!!


Wow! Scary, huh? sounds like a lot of work though.
Pass.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (eDfFs)

346 Here's a thought: The Dems might actually want Trump to win, so they can claim election rigging/illegitimacy and that concentration camps are on the way so as to initiate a violent revolution and martial law, so as to take power permanently and declare the Constitution null and void.

And if that happens, all hell breaks loose. Or it should. If not, it's the new dark age, forever.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 25, 2024 09:22 AM (x0n13)

I hear the Minot ND base is actually quite pleasant for most of the Winter. No mosquitos.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (ENQN6)

347 It is amazing how quickly the left went from "war is never the answer" to "we have to give all our money to Ukraine or the war might end!"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (ibTVg)

348 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (l4B/J)

349 Gonna be a lot of angry women today. Fuel for the fire.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (MvF+J)

350 No Democrat in this country is worried about John Eastman. Yet they destroyed him anyway.
Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 09:16 AM (xhfG9)
~~~~~

Pour encourager les autres.

You can't see this?

Posted by: IrishEi at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (3ImbR)

351 Read that as ass crack whore
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That's better than reading the name of an animated kids' film as Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakhole!!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (vtyCZ)

352 ‘Your safety shouldn’t be predicated on making others unsafe,’ says Aya Hashem"
Columbia Law Students Tell Jewish Classmates Police Presence on Campus Makes Them Feel Unsafe
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That story just boggles the mind.
Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:24 AM (1bNHn)
++++
I really wish it did.

This is an unsophisticated form (the person is a very junior Party academic adjunct and still inexperienced and inexpert in the fine art of postmodern nonsense), but it's boilerplate stuff.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (HnUIn)

353 The presumption that should the left fail in stealing the next so-called "election" that they will abide the results is not necessarily true.

No matter the outcome, there will be conflict.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (Q4IgG)

354
hmmmm.

Mama = Maga

Posted by: naturalfake at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (eDfFs)

355
Yes. I told my husband the other day I would not be surprised if there are not maga instigators infiltrating among the students and protesting with the students.

The left: No justice no peace!

Also the left: Any violence by these justice movements is actually caused by right wing infiltrators!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

356 The election results in Pennsylvania on the (R) side were problematic to put it mildly.


???

not really

no one bothered with this primary. I'm a D and went late and was D number 60 voting lol. I did write in "uncommitted" for president! and voted for all the non-incumbents.

we had some upsets on the D side that have people grumbling so that made me happy

there was literally NOTHING for the Rs this go-round so my husband didn't bother and he's Mr Good Citizen.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (s3qiR)

357 >>No Democrat in this country is worried about John Eastman. Yet they destroyed him anyway.

Trump represents a movement. He's the orange face and loud voice of at least half this country and that includes people like John Eastman and now a number of other Trump supporters in Arizona.

Yes, they are corrupt and yes they have power. They've had it for decades but are now being forced out into the open to try and tamp down a movement that is a real threat to the insider game they have been playing for decades.

We aren't a communist country, not yet anyway, and popular support still means something in this country. For how much longer is anyone's guess but they are committing open warfare against us in the courts and it is all of us who they are trying to send a message. The cases are so blatantly political it seems to be having the opposite effect.

They threw hundreds into prison for J6 trespassing because they can't have people questioning election integrity. They will have to do much more cheating this time with senile Joe. This is why I wanted Trump to be the nominee. This election will decide whether we are still the USA anymore and they know it too.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (LkLld)

358 David Harsanyi: "Many 'new right' populists don’t like defending tax cuts (Ronald Reagan talked about them a lot, so yuck).
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Harsanyi has a bad habit of reading his own imagination onto reality. The actual "dislike" is for the view that tax cuts are everything - which Ronnie didn't believe.

Odd, as he has been know to call out Mollie when she fell into that trap on other issues. (It's an excellent show, though.)

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:28 AM (1bNHn)

359 355
Yes. I told my husband the other day I would not be surprised if there are not maga instigators infiltrating among the students and protesting with the students.

The left: No justice no peace!

Also the left: Any violence by these justice movements is actually caused by right wing infiltrators!
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

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War is never the answer. Right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

360 349 Gonna be a lot of angry women today. Fuel for the fire.


nah they don't really care

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 25, 2024 09:28 AM (s3qiR)

361 282 FBI Director Christopher Wray:
"We Don’t Monitor Protests" .. we initiate them

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:28 AM (RHGPo)

362 Gonna be a lot of angry women today. Fuel for the fire.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom

? "Isn't that every day"? Help me out here.

Posted by: What's the punchline at April 25, 2024 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

363 Gonna be a lot of angry women today. Fuel for the fire.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:26 AM (MvF+J)
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What makes this day different from all other days?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

364 Brown's wife, Connie Schultz, headlined the March 6 event alongside Heather Cox Richardson, a columnist who regularly compares Trump and Republicans to Nazis.
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Badly written sentence, but its so true that Connie Schultz is an openly socialist columnist (formerly for the Cleveland Plain Dealer). She might even call herself a communist. Her father was a union organizer in Youngstown and she a a true bitch. It's hard to believe her husband fools so many people with his "centrist" claims. I think its only because Ohio Republicans hate to get personal in political attacks, and they let Brown slide.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (ij0BO)

365 No matter the outcome, there will be conflict.

One of the disappointing parts of Trump's presidency is that he just was not prepared for this.

Has he learned? Hard to say - but not only should he already have a plan to deal with The Steal '24, but he should have a plan to deal with The Resistance '24 if he does win...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (ibTVg)

366 Or Trump could have just said thank you for the endorsement. He’s his own worst enemy.
Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 09:25 AM (6On2Z

Bill Barr's endorsement doesn't mean shit on a shingle. It won't move a single opinion in this country. Not even one person's, out of 350m. Meanwhile, he repeatedly betrayed Trump personally, and all of his voters fucking despise the man. Distancing himself from that crooked cop is the right play.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (0FoWg)

367 Or Trump could have just said thank you for the endorsement. He’s his own worst enemy.
Posted by: Montec


Oh, come on. What he posted was hilarious. Making people laugh is a good trait in a politician.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (9yWhg)

368 C17 just flew over.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (ENQN6)

369 The left: No justice no peace!
Also the left: Any violence by these justice movements is actually caused by right wing infiltrators!
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot...

Posted by: 1984 at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (cDEsv)

370 363 Weinstein rape conviction overturned. AWFLs will explode.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (MvF+J)

371 "Nina Jankowicz says criticism of 'disinformation researchers' poses 'greatest threat' to country."
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Another mind boggler.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (1bNHn)

372 War is never the answer. Right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

War never changes.

Posted by: Fallout at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

373
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Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (ENQN6)

374 366 Bill Barr's endorsement doesn't mean shit on a shingle. It won't move a single opinion in this country. Not even one person's, out of 350m. Meanwhile, he repeatedly betrayed Trump personally, and all of his voters fucking despise the man. Distancing himself from that crooked cop is the right play.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 25, 2024 09:29 AM (0FoWg)

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Refusing to investigate voter fraud as AG was a betrayal of America as a whole. Barr should be insulted wherever he goes, no matter what he's saying now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 25, 2024 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

375 This just in: NY court overturns Harvey Weinstein's conviction.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 09:30 AM (KbuES)

376 I’d be thrilled if MAGA were behind the riots on campus. But sadly our side isn’t good at stuff like that.

Posted by: Montec at April 25, 2024 09:30 AM (6On2Z)

377 A little over one-half of one per cent of all hate crime reports made since the introduction of new draconian speech codes in Scotland have been found to be legitimate as chaos continues to engulf First Minister Humza Yousaf’s big-ticket legislation.

.. I find this sort of thing truly hateful

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

378 Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction was overturned Thursday in New York, making way for a new trial. The state Court of Appeals found that the judge in the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the former film mogul with improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case.

.. but he is a Democrat

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:31 AM (RHGPo)

379 Weinstein rape conviction overturned. AWFLs will explode.

A common feminist trope is that "rich white men" are able to get away with sex crimes against women.

They aren't completely wrong but it isn't "rich white men", it is politically connected leftist men that can get away with it - from Weinstein to Clinton to Biden.

And...if there was an opposition party they'd be pointing this out. If...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:32 AM (ibTVg)

380 >>The election results in Pennsylvania on the (R) side were problematic to put it mildly.

Biden is the sitting POTUS and PA is supposedly his home state and he only got 87% of the D vote.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 09:33 AM (LkLld)

381 Refusing to investigate voter fraud as AG was a betrayal of America as a whole. Barr should be insulted wherever he goes, no matter what he's saying now.

In the disputed '00 election, Florida allowed all sorts of leftwing orgs to audit the vote in as much detail as they wanted. None found anything of note.

Compare that to the '20 election where the left and the GOPe imprisoned people for wanting to audit the vote.

The former is a sign you have nothing to hide, the latter is a sign you have everything to hide...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

382 Personally, I find the popup at the bottom of the screen .. truly obnoxious .. but what really grates on my soul is when it has one of those ads claiming some known heterosexual appearing in public with a gay partner

Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

383 196 Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announces that a Grand Jury has just indicted 18 Republicans, including Donald Trump, over ALLEGED attempt to change the 2020 elections' results.

Same person that had over 9000 ballots destroyed to win by

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:47 AM (ENQN6)


Win or lose, in 2025 Donald J. Trump will be indicted on dozens and dozens of BS state charges in every Deep Blue State. If told they cannot try a sitting POTUS, the State AG and local DAs will say, "Fine. We can wait four years. No biggie. "

Posted by: Gref at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (5fDan)

384 >>That story just boggles the mind.

She organized a campus pro-Hamas protest a few days after 10/7. She doesn't feel unsafe at all - just playing word games.

But it get weirder, because all Lefty things inevitably merge: https://tinyurl.com/4u2uzct7

When Columbia suspended him in early April, Aidan Parisi was technically required to leave campus. . . Four days later, he posted a statement to his Instagram account detailing his refusal to leave.

"As I am writing this I am sitting in my campus apartment which Columbia University is attempting to illegally evict me from, leaving me housing, food, and healthcare insecure," he wrote. "We will resist institutional repression just as the Palestinians have resisted occupation. … We must remain steadfast in our commitment to university divestment and to a free Palestine."

"Que viva la intifada. … Inshallah, we will rise victorious."
Parisi has advertised his status as a protest leader under the X handle "itsaidanbitch" and was an easily identifiable figure on campus on Monday, sporting a gold chain, large sunglasses, a nose ring, long acrylic fingernails, and a floral basketball jersey worn underneath a keffiyeh.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (cCVOS)

385
Biden is the sitting POTUS and PA is supposedly his home state and he only got 87% of the D vote.

He lost NH to the Dem congressman with the big nose. Until the DNC found a bunch of votes...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (ibTVg)

386 They threw hundreds into prison for J6 trespassing because they can't have people questioning election integrity. They will have to do much more cheating this time with senile Joe. This is why I wanted Trump to be the nominee. This election will decide whether we are still the USA anymore and they know it too.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 09:27 AM (LkLld)

And despite all their efforts, they can't shut us up.

Can't stop the signal.

Posted by: pookysgirl still loves that movie at April 25, 2024 09:35 AM (dtlDP)

387 A group of propalestinia. Jewish students who were arrested at Columbia vheld a press conference in front of the Columbia University president's house
They are protesting the actions of the Israeli GOVERNMENT
😁They are not "antisemitic"

[Kurt you fool. They're apostate self-gassing Jews who are dupes and stooges of your kind. And protesting the Israeli govt, arguably as close to the world's absolute moral authority as we can get, IS in fact anti-semitic by any definition of the term and history. Go get fucked and hit my tip jar first - jjs]

Posted by: Paul banned [Kurt sucking Nadler's lap-band] at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (TRjZ+)

388 Remember, Paul thought Switzerland was giving tanks to the Ukraine, when if fact they were selling some clapped-out pieces of shit to Germany, with the explicit proviso that they could not be transferred on to the Ukraine in any way.

So I'm sure his "100 billion" in aid from "Europe" is actually six pallets of expired Red Bull and one syphilitic French whore.

Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (OguvZ)

389 Win or lose, in 2025 Donald J. Trump will be indicted on dozens and dozens of BS state charges in every Deep Blue State. If told they cannot try a sitting POTUS, the State AG and local DAs will say, "Fine. We can wait four years. No biggie. "

I hope Trump has a plan to put these people on trial (assuming he wins) on day 1 for election interference. The best defense legally is a good offense.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (ibTVg)

390 224

you said rape twice

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 08:53 AM (ENQN6)
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You have to do that to make it real rape-rape -- W. Goldberg

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #114 at April 25, 2024 09:39 AM (qfLjt)

391 Nood bird food

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2024 09:41 AM (ibTVg)

392 Most important video on the Internet right now:

https://tinyurl.com/3nn873hs

(X.com)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 08:34 AM (KbuES)

Wow! How did that actually appear on MSNBC?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 25, 2024 09:47 AM (iODuv)

393 Prayers and good vibes every day, JJ.

The greatest sideshow the Trump era ever gave us - at his expense both of loss of freedom and cash - is that the republican party is the same as democrat; both are controlled by lobbyists who represent China. The ALL love China and it is disgusting.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (klw0w)

394 Pearl Harbor survivor Leonard Crofford dies at 103

https://tinyurl.com/bdf3dp79

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #115 at April 25, 2024 09:51 AM (qfLjt)

395 The email address of Columbia University General counsel is:

Felice B. Rosan
fbr@gc.columbia.edu

May I suggest emails from people here reminding General Counsel that all materials regarding the protests, harassment of Jewish students, and professorial support of same needs to be retained and preserved, on the basis of an obvious significant likelihood of litigation.

These professors forget that the rarefied environment of the University ends at the front gate and the normal world starts just beyond

Posted by: Johnny at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (PmiZd)

396 And the same for NYU General counsel and other universities. Their email addresses are available on the University website.

Posted by: Johnny at April 25, 2024 09:56 AM (PmiZd)

397 So I'm sure his "100 billion" in aid from "Europe" is actually six pallets of expired Red Bull and one syphilitic French whore.
Posted by: spindrift at April 25, 2024 09:36 AM (OguvZ)
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Most sources reporting on Ukraine aid defer to the Institute for the World Economy (IFW) tracker out of Germany.

Per that source, the EU (institutions and member states) have allocated (that is, spent/budgeted for) 89.6 billion EUR, about half of it military and the rest financial and "humanitarian." The EU has "committed" (that is, promised) a total of 145.6 billion EUR, about a third of it military.

The US has allocated 67.1 billion EUR, 2/3 military. It has "committed" a total of 70.4 billion EUR, about 40% military. These numbers do *not* count the bill that was just passed.

The US alone has actually contributed nearly as much as all of Europe (might be higher now, with the recent bill) and most of the military aid. Throw in the UK and it matches what Europe has spent. The Anglosphere as a whole exceeds Europe.

Into the future, Europe has *promised* more than the US or the Anglosphere more broadly - but those are promises, not deliveries.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 25, 2024 10:04 AM (HnUIn)

398 "The leviathan that is the 'Swamp' has been allowed to grow to the point where it cannot be drained on an incremental basis."
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One action is absolutely necessary, and that is SCOTUS must recognize the administrative state is unconstitutional and disband it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2024 10:19 AM (ioK/c)

399 I do believe that this is "Towel Day" in celebration of that thing you should always have with you when going galactic hitchhiking.

God bless you Douglas Adams.

Posted by: Steven Tyler at April 25, 2024 10:29 AM (QB+5g)

400 Personally, I find the popup at the bottom of the screen .. truly obnoxious .. but what really grates on my soul is when it has one of those ads claiming some known heterosexual appearing in public with a gay partner
Posted by: SMOD at April 25, 2024 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

Brave is your friend.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 25, 2024 10:34 AM (iODuv)

401 If they weren't so afraid of him they wouldn't be running non-stop bullshit legal cases at him and his supporters.
Posted by: JackStraw

That's a good point.
Posted by: dantesed

Meh. Even if they were 100% convinced he'd lose, they still want to punish him, and his supporters, to scare off any outsiders looking to rock the boat in the future. It doesn't cost the Left (and GOPe) anything to run Trump and Co. into the ground, and helps motivate their base. Every junta needs an "other" to persecute and blame.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 25, 2024 09:23 AM

Yeah, what the Marxist left has been doing the past 5 years has not been done out of fear, but from a position of power. And they are using the Ender's Game principle. Where Ender Wiggin beat the bully into the ground, so as to win not just that fight, but every future fight.

What the Marxist left is doing is sending a message to every single person in America that what they are doing to Trump, they will do to you if you dare oppose them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 25, 2024 10:39 AM (P5BPp)

402 I totally get it, but there is ZERO chance in hell that a "climate emergency" declaration isn't stayed immediately and eventually found to be utter nonsense by the courts.

Its a hail mary that's going nowhere, fast.

Posted by: deadrody at April 25, 2024 10:42 AM (OeYsY)

403 Same thing always goes on, poll manipulation. Polls like Quinnipiac and Marist are notorious for over weighting Democrats or switching to registered versus likely voters. They have to make Biden look at least plausible.

There is no logical reason for Biden to be closing in on Trump and there certainly is no evidence on the ground. Biden gets a couple dozen people at his speeches while Trump is drawing thousands.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2024 08:04 AM

Yep, this is prepping the battlefield for the rigged and stolen election in November. This will be a repeat of 2020.

And I would pay close attention to Texas. That is now a battleground state that I think the right is taking for granted. Just as Hillary took for granted she would win PA, MI and WI in 2016.

From 2012 to 2020, Democrats made up 630k votes. The difference in 2020 was... 631k votes. This after the difference was 1.2mil in 2012 and 1.7mil in 2004. With the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens that have invaded over the past 4 years, that easily makes up the 631k votes needed to flip Texas.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 25, 2024 10:45 AM (P5BPp)

404 Well, it's weird that Speaker Johnson walks into a SCIF thinking one thing and walks out saying something completely different.

You start to wonder what skeletons are in his family's closet and what the flying *bleep* difference that would make in this time? If a Democrat sodomized baby lambs, nobody would bat a *bleeping* eye. He couldn't have done something worse than that, I hope.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 25, 2024 10:46 AM (Qnwun)

405 It's a little late (not here but in the nation's evolution), but if this experiment fails then maybe next time ALL voting is at the county level. That prevents New York City from dominating the entire state. If we are a Republic, then maybe that *should* be the required structure all the way down to a certain low level.

It won't prevent voter fraud (the ants find the sugar, as a commenter on the old Protein Wisdom website used to say), but static defenses always fail over time.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 25, 2024 10:52 AM (Qnwun)

406 "Johnson’s completely arbitrary trip to New York is the very definition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."
In other words, some people were on the verge of admitting that maybe Hamas did something to provoke the current crisis. And now they won't do it because Republicans are icky and keeping a united front against Republicans is more important than whatever Hamas did. Right?

Posted by: PG at April 25, 2024 10:59 AM (gQbO4)

407 “We’ve now established a precedent in this country – they suspended the First Amendment: religion; freedom of association when they did the lockdowns,” he told Fox News.

“[They restricted] freedom of speech. They banned jury trials against vaccine companies – that’s [a violation of] the Seventh Amendment. They abolished property rights [which violates the] Fifth Amendment [when] they closed 3.3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation, although there was no pandemic exception in the United States Constitution.”

Yep. And no one who executed the Plandemic faced consequences for anything. Nothing. Not here in USA, not in Canada, not in Australia, not in New Zealand, not in Europe. No where in western civilization did anyone who perpetrated this tyranny face consequences.

The Deep State then went on to rig and steal the 2020 Presidential election and the 2022 Arizona Governor election. And went on to entrap American citizens in the "insurrection". Again, with zero consequences.

The Deep State does not do this out of fear, they do this because they can and know no one can or even has the will to stop them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 25, 2024 11:00 AM (P5BPp)

408 Thank you, J.J. Prayers continuing. Good morning, all.

Johnson can't play against the full fledged socialist, Chuck Schumer, who - like Biden - began & will end in politics surrounded by the like minded family. I doubt much of story within the CNN article re: Joe's Team and, 'How the White House convinced Mike Johnson to back Ukraine aid,' 04/24/24. I figure Mikey - IF not already all in on that piece of political theater - was sat down & told by 'Joe's Team' to take a good look at Louisiana Economic Development (LED), Military and Defense. (You, too, in your future, Mikey, can be picking sh*t with the chickens.)

Maybe the brave Congressional folks from NY who stood with him will be OK when it comes to reelection but Ms. Foxx from NC, I wouldn't bet the farm next year. First, the NC Governor was an invitee at the State Dinner for Japan; it's heavily invested in the state. Secondly, she's a member of the dwindling Constitution Caucus & third, see K-12Dive, Feb 12, 2024, Dive Brief article, "The congresswoman has been a vocal critic of the Education Department, including its pandemic spending and Title IX regulatory efforts." (Reading of the full article suggested.)

Cont'd:

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

409 #2 - Yet, nothing offended me recently as much as: The U.S. Department of State, 'U.S. Security Cooperation with Ukraine, Fact Sheet, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs,' April 24, 2024. Until TODAY, when I see this: Joint Statement from the Leaders of the United States, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom Calling for the Release of the Hostages Held in Gaza, April 25, 2024, Statements and Releases

F*cking A! Such sincerity, and after the grifting worm, Zelenskyy, who gives not one F for human & civil rights gets his $ & the EU is bailed out again, all the while it, too, plots. Speaking of plots & plans: Pipeline & Gas Journal, 02/27/2024, 'Home News, Qatar's LNG Expansion Plans Set to Squeeze Out U.S., Rivals.' I'd say there's a few reasons for FJB to pretend to be Climate Czar, and surely there more to be revealed in the future.

Standing with Israel.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 25, 2024 11:15 AM (NFX2v)

410 Johnson is my congressman. Right up until he got the speaker gavel I was 100% satisfied with his work and I think AoSHQ was, too. Now we're going Nor Luap and calling out the circular firing squad? Over Ukraine ? Why?

Posted by: hurricane567 at April 25, 2024 01:31 PM (g0EyX)

Daily Tech News 25 April 2024

Top Story


Tech News

  • Snap is the worst thing since systemd.

    If you are running LXD, and you install it with Snap, MAKE SURE TO PIN THE VERSION OR IT WILL DIE.


  • Meanwhile, Ubuntu 24.04 is here. (Techzine)

    The beta version was delayed by a week due to the near-catastrophe with the xz hack, while the team at Canonical (makers of Ubuntu) rebuilt every single package to ensure that no trace of the hack was left.

    I had expected the release of the live version to be likewise delayed, but it has shipped on time.

    While I wouldn't install it on a production server just yet, the 22.04 release was remarkably trouble free. And I do have a couple of Beelink mini-PCs waiting to be set up.

    (Ubuntu releases twice a year, and the even-number year April releases are LTS - guaranteed free support for five years with paid support for another five beyond that.)


  • IBM is buying Hashicorp for $6.4 billion. (Tech Crunch)

    Hashicorp does... Stuff. I dunno. Docket strangulation, something like that.


  • Stellar Blade is here and the perpetually outraged classes have a new game to be perpetually outraged about. (WCCFTech)

    In this case, they're mostly outraged that the game represents impossible standards of feminine beauty, a claim somewhat weakened by the fact that the in-game character looks almost exactly like the motion-capture actress who worked with the animation team.

    WCCFTech, which is not a game review site, gives it 9 out of 10.

    The actual game review sites hate it because they're all run by the perpetually outraged classes.


  • The man who destroyed Google. (Where's Your Ed)

    The man running Google Search for the past five years - replacing the man who built Google Search for the previous 20 - was previously head of search at Yahoo.

    Which was such a success that they had to replace it with Bing.
    Raghavan's story is unique, insofar as the damage he's managed to inflict (or, if we're being exceptionally charitable, failed to avoid in the case of Yahoo) on two industry-defining companies, and the fact that he did it without being a CEO or founder. Perhaps more remarkable, he's achieved this while maintaining a certain degree of anonymity. Everyone knows who Musk and Zuckerberg are, but Raghavan's known only in his corner of the Internet. Or at least he was.
    Did Google Search fall or was it pushed?

    A little of both, it seems.


Disclaimer: Or rather, a whole lot of both.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:03 AM (fwDg9)

2 G'day Skip.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 25, 2024 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2024 04:17 AM (sAmhv)

4 guaranteed free support for five years with paid support for another five beyond that.



Hell, I been paying support longer than that.

And the kid don't even look nothing like me.

Posted by: Miklos bewails the injustice at April 25, 2024 04:25 AM (oGyF9)

5 G'day Skip.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

IT IS A SCHOOL NIGHT

Sleepovers on SATURDAYS

Posted by: Auntie Miklos at April 25, 2024 04:27 AM (oGyF9)

6 30 degrees. full moon, so spring is somewhat delayed. Its all those ICE cars, wait until the cyber truck hits the road in huge numbers it will year around summer.

Posted by: Colin at April 25, 2024 04:30 AM (/z/eU)

7 G'Day! I nominate Raghavan to be head of the post Chicom TicTok.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 25, 2024 04:32 AM (b6UlB)

8 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 04:34 AM (T4tVD)

9 Thanks for this thread and everything else you do for the HQ, Pixy.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 04:34 AM (epMFw)

10 Ze bain des oiseaux, comment on dit....glacee?

Posted by: Les Neiges d'antin at April 25, 2024 04:39 AM (oGyF9)

11 In anime news, while scrolling through my recommendations on YT I was introduced to the fascinating madness of Happy Science, the Japanese cult.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 04:44 AM (43xH1)

12 Pixy needs to install a better and faster comment processor on the Tech Thread.

Posted by: Miklos is not a tech guy at April 25, 2024 04:45 AM (oGyF9)

13 Long commute today

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 04:51 AM (fwDg9)

14 Looked up the actress/model for that video game, yeah, she's a cutie all right.
Has it ever occurred to the harpies/scolds who do this kind of thing that maybe their problem is their own ugliness on the inside?


...nevermind.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 04:53 AM (43xH1)

15 Evening and morning to all the satellites of AoSHQ out there in the Asteroid Belt! (Ceres, you're doing a good job. Just be sure to work out on the centrifuge machine *every day*, or you'll collapse when you get back to Earth. A one-gee field is a bitch.)

Your intrepid correspondent is battling a mild throat infection or cold. It began as throat scratchiness on Tuesday and has started to move up into my pharnyx, which I dread, like the colds of my childhood. Though I'm tired, I'm clearheaded and not sneezing (yet). Gonna take off from work today and maybe tomorrow, with a needed nap this p.m.

So! Whass happenin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 04:56 AM (omVj0)

16 Ze bain des oiseaux, comment on dit....glacee?
Posted by: Les Neiges d'antin at April 25, 2024

***
I could almost read that. Had to look up "oiseau," though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 04:57 AM (omVj0)

17 Long commute today
Posted by: Skip

Uphill both ways ?

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 05:02 AM (T4tVD)

18 Google is bad but bing is useless in its entirety.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 05:05 AM (782Qe)

19 I am convinced that even the bing development team does not use bing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024 05:06 AM (782Qe)

20 Little chilly out, long road and short time to get there
Forward Dog 9 out

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 05:07 AM (fwDg9)

21 I am convinced that even the bing development team does not use bing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 25, 2024

***
Did they name it after Chandler on Friends? After all, he was supposed to be in "data processing." A running gag on the show was that none of the other characters knew what he did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:08 AM (omVj0)

22 Your intrepid correspondent is battling a mild throat infection or cold.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Palinka, garlic, and tea with lemon and honey.

Posted by: Evey Hungarian Grandma at April 25, 2024 05:11 AM (oGyF9)

23 Little chilly out, long road and short time to get there
Forward Dog 9 out
Posted by: Skip

AVANTI!

Posted by: OldGuyForward 9 at April 25, 2024 05:14 AM (oGyF9)

24 The man who destroyed Google.

May the sandworms take his corpse … and all others like him.

Posted by: Adriane the Full Moon Critic . . . at April 25, 2024 05:17 AM (4Winp)

25 Have a good one and stay safe Skip !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 05:17 AM (T4tVD)

26 Does Hashicorp make good hashi browna (Japanese pronunciation)?

Posted by: pookysgirl, now hungry at April 25, 2024 05:17 AM (dtlDP)

27 Nina Jankowicz is back spilling her bile across the internet. She got bored talking to herself on her invite only Minecraft-Mastodon server.

Posted by: 13times at April 25, 2024 05:18 AM (IQCCV)

28 The man who destroyed Google.

May the sandworms take his corpse … and all others like him.
Posted by: Adriane the Full Moon Critic

I thought destroying Goolag was a Good Thing...

Posted by: but what does a mere Miklos know at April 25, 2024 05:18 AM (oGyF9)

29 Does Hashicorp make good hashi browna (Japanese pronunciation)?
Posted by: pookysgirl, now hungry

*bows deeply*

Hai!

Posted by: Miklos at the Kyoto Waffle House at April 25, 2024 05:20 AM (oGyF9)

30 Posted by: Miklos at the Kyoto Waffle House at April 25, 2024 05:20 AM (oGyF9)

Crap, now I'm craving a Japanese-style crepe too.

Posted by: pookysgirl misses Blue Seal, er, Bru Seah at April 25, 2024 05:22 AM (dtlDP)

31 Re: printers.

At home I keep the Giant Block that is the HP 5si because it disregards all embedded coding in PDFs and prints out anything.

At the office the fancy Kyoceras won't print out a lot of PDFs.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 05:22 AM (43xH1)

32 Your intrepid correspondent is battling a mild throat infection or cold.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Palinka, garlic, and tea with lemon and honey.
Posted by: Evey Hungarian Grandma at April 25, 2024

***
I'll have to pass on the spirits, Grammaw, but when I run out to Aldi today I'll see if they have any herbal tea I can put the honey into.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:23 AM (omVj0)

33 I thought destroying Goolag was a Good Thing...
Posted by: but what does a mere Miklos know

Others like him destroyed McDonell-Douglas and Boeing … among others.

Posted by: Adriane the Full Moon Critic . . . at April 25, 2024 05:25 AM (4Winp)

34 Also at the office we have two beer tappers, and people donate liquor to a shared bar.

I donated a rather nice bottle of bourbon because while it's excellent, it is that oak-barrel type stuff and I learned the hard way that if you have a few shots during the day, when you go to work at midnight people can still smell it on your breath 20 feet away, 6-7 hours later.
It's strong-smelling stuff so to the 'donate' rack it went.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 05:26 AM (43xH1)

35 Breakfast: a beef & bean burrito with chili powder and cheddar, topped with a scrambled egg combined with the same. Maybe, if I'm still hungry, I'll toast half a slice of whole-grain bread and slather a little peanut butter on it.

My appetite hasn't been affected by this cold, for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:27 AM (omVj0)

36 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 05:27 AM (ju2Fy)

37 Hai!
Posted by: Miklos at the Kyoto Waffle House

(you mis-spelled hiya)

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 05:27 AM (T4tVD)

38 I could've been Top 5 but went back to bed. Cat decided I only needed an extra hour of sleep.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 05:29 AM (ju2Fy)

39 Looked up the actress/model for that video game, yeah, she's a cutie all right.
Has it ever occurred to the harpies/scolds who do this kind of thing that maybe their problem is their own ugliness on the inside?


...nevermind.
Posted by: LenNeal

Combined with the ugliness outside too.

Posted by: Bruce at April 25, 2024 05:30 AM (kiO8+)

40 I could've been Top 5 but went back to bed. Cat decided I only needed an extra hour of sleep.
Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024

***
Big black Stirling started bumping his head against my chin sometime before three, I guess. After I finally realized I was not only not getting back to sleep but also needed to eat, my watch read 3:30. Oh, well. A short nap this p.m. for sure.

Time to feed the cats!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:33 AM (omVj0)

41 (you mis-spelled hiya)
Posted by: JT

Wai I oughtta...

Posted by: Moe-san at April 25, 2024 05:33 AM (oGyF9)

42 Did they name it after Chandler on Friends? After all, he was supposed to be in "data processing." A running gag on the show was that none of the other characters knew what he did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Rachel (guessing what Chandler Bing does for a living):
"He's a Transponster!"

Monica (her teammate in the game): "NOOOoooO!!!! That's not even a word!"

Posted by: Bruce at April 25, 2024 05:35 AM (kiO8+)

43 BOING!

BOING! BOING! BOING!

BOEING!

https://tinyurl.com/2xja3suw

(Daily Mail)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 05:35 AM (KbuES)

44 At the office the fancy Kyoceras won't print out a lot of PDFs.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 05:22 AM (43xH1)


Of all the things in the world found vulnerable to hacking and whatnot - converting and printing legible text from PDF remains …..

Posted by: 13times at April 25, 2024 05:38 AM (IQCCV)

45 "Others like him destroyed McDonell-Douglas and Boeing … among others."

Not seeing the problem here.

Posted by: Dwight David Eisenhower at April 25, 2024 05:38 AM (89Sog)

46 Posted by: Moe-san

I pronounced that correctly. I really need to work on renewing the family's passports so we can go back to the land of Miku and Hello Kitty.

Posted by: pookysgirl misses Blue Seal, er, Bru Seah at April 25, 2024 05:40 AM (dtlDP)

47 16 Ze bain des oiseaux, comment on dit....glacee?
Posted by: Les Neiges d'antin at April 25, 2024

***
I could almost read that. Had to look up "oiseau," though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 04:57 AM (omVj0)
----
I actually remembered that from my school French. Amazed myself. If you has asked me for the French word for bird I wouldn't have remembered though.
BTW 43°F here so my virtual BB would be ice-free.

Posted by: Ciampino - dribbles and bites at April 25, 2024 05:42 AM (qfLjt)

48 I popped a little ivermectin onto my toast & peanut butter. Can't hurt, might help.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:45 AM (omVj0)

49 In Kollidge in Noo Awlins, I learnt to speak bad French fluently.

Posted by: Miklos, honorary Cajun at April 25, 2024 05:47 AM (oGyF9)

50 I popped a little ivermectin onto my toast & peanut butter. Can't hurt, might help.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Sounds like trying to get a dog or cat to take a pill.

Posted by: George Washington Miklos-Carver at April 25, 2024 05:49 AM (oGyF9)

51 Made it, sure wish it was Friday

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2024 05:49 AM (uN3Cy)

52 I pronounced that correctly. I really need to work on renewing the family's passports so we can go back to the land of Miku and Hello Kitty.
Posted by: pookysgirl misses Blue Seal, er, Bru Seah at April 25, 2024

***
I was floored a few years ago when I saw pics on the 'Net of Hello Kitty motor oil. No idea if it was real . . . but if it were, who would be the intended customer? A woman who changes her own engine oil, but secretly loves HK? How many of those could there be . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:49 AM (omVj0)

53 Made it, sure wish it was Friday
Posted by: Skip

It is

Posted by: Miklos the Time Master at April 25, 2024 05:50 AM (oGyF9)

54 Reminder for the Chinese manned launch

CASC - Long March 2F/G - Shenzhou 18 - Crewed Launch
The launch is scheduled for April 25, 8:59 EDT, 12:59 UTC, 14:59 CEST, 20:59 China Standard Time (CST)

https://www.youtube.com/live/d-cdY0C1pMQ
_________

Posted by: Ciampino - Busy day today at April 25, 2024 05:51 AM (qfLjt)

55 It'll be windy into the weekend, but with highs of 86 F., and heat index probably over 90. It's April, and Sweat Bath Time has already begun.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:51 AM (omVj0)

56 I popped a little ivermectin onto my toast & peanut butter. Can't hurt, might help.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:45 AM (omVj0)
-

Wait an hour. After that, I would be concerned if you become a little horse.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 05:51 AM (KbuES)

57 Reminder for the Chinese manned launch



Those can be extra fun

Posted by: Miklos likes fireworks at April 25, 2024 05:51 AM (oGyF9)

58 And the local Fox outlet weather expert says Atlantic and Caribbean water temps are already at July levels. Supposedly it'll be an active hurricane season.

My last, I hope, I hope . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

59 Someone yesterday mentioned, during my questions about Medicare supplement plans, that Weird Dave is a health insurance guy. Does anybody know how I can email him?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:54 AM (omVj0)

60 I was floored a few years ago when I saw pics on the 'Net of Hello Kitty motor oil. No idea if it was real . . . but if it were, who would be the intended customer? A woman who changes her own engine oil, but secretly loves HK? How many of those could there be . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:49 AM (omVj0)

Japanese motorsport enthusiasts, or maybe even the entire population. Miku supplanted Hello Kitty being on everything in Japan, including cars.

Posted by: pookysgirl, singing Tell Your World at April 25, 2024 05:55 AM (dtlDP)

61 Made it, sure wish it was Friday
Posted by: Skip

remember the old saying about wishing in one hand and shitting in the other and seeing which one fills up first.

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 05:55 AM (T4tVD)

62 I popped a little ivermectin onto my toast & peanut butter. Can't hurt, might help.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024
-
Wait an hour. After that, I would be concerned if you become a little horse.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024

***
Funny you should say that. I was just thinking about reading some stories about Fetlock Holmes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:56 AM (omVj0)

63 remember the old saying about wishing in one hand and shitting in the other and seeing which one fills up first.
Posted by: JT
-----

No. How's it go?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 05:57 AM (ju2Fy)

64 yo wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 05:58 AM (ENQN6)

65 Funny you should say that. I was just thinking about reading some stories about Fetlock Holmes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 05:56 AM (omVj0)
-

The trot thickens!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 25, 2024 05:59 AM (KbuES)

66 Others like him destroyed McDonell-Douglas and Boeing … among others."

Not seeing the problem here.
Posted by: Dwight David Eisenhower

‘AAAiiiieeeee !!!!!’

Posted by: Passengers on the 737 Max . . . at April 25, 2024 05:59 AM (4Winp)

67 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at April 25, 2024 06:00 AM (5HQE5)

68 Wolfus, don't go riding roughshod over anyone.

Posted by: Ciampino - Busy day today in Space at April 25, 2024 06:01 AM (qfLjt)

69 No. How's it go?
Posted by: olddog

VROOOOOM- VROOM !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 06:01 AM (T4tVD)

70 No further comment needed:
"Princess Beatrice’s ex-boyfriend Paolo Liuzzo dead of drug overdose in Miami hotel room: report"

Posted by: PG at April 25, 2024 06:01 AM (gQbO4)

71 Funny you should say that. I was just thinking about reading some stories about Fetlock Holmes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Is Fetlock on?

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at April 25, 2024 06:03 AM (oGyF9)

72 We're starting to stirrup horse puns already this morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 06:03 AM (omVj0)

73 ‘AAAiiiieeeee !!!!!’
Posted by: Passengers on the 737 Max

Hmmmm

Posted by: Miklos from Aero Pinochet at April 25, 2024 06:04 AM (oGyF9)

74 We're starting to stirrup horse puns already this morning.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I pity the foal

Posted by: B A Baraclos at April 25, 2024 06:05 AM (oGyF9)

75 Things Turn Ugly at USC as Pro-Hamas Protestors Face Off with Campus Police - Outside Forces Infiltrated to Kickstart a Riot (VIDEO)

https://t.co/xxq41dg6nv

Posted by: Ciampino - Shitheads got even more faecal at April 25, 2024 06:07 AM (qfLjt)

76 Hiya Zodster !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 06:08 AM (T4tVD)

77 This is the first weekend of Jazz Fest, where dazed and confused locals willingly fight traffic and fork over large sums of money to park, ride cramped buses, and stand around in heat that would stun a Cape buffalo -- all to hear music (and a lot of it just barely "music") that they could hear in comfort on their stereos.

Like doing an oil change while you're eating, aka a crawfish boil, these people are nuts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 06:08 AM (omVj0)

78 FIND UNBELIEVABLE WOMEN DEALS NEAR YOU (WATCH)

Posted by: ZOD at April 25, 2024 06:14 AM (5HQE5)

79 NEUROPATHY? CUT YOUR BODY BY 90%

Posted by: ZOD at April 25, 2024 06:15 AM (5HQE5)

80 58 And the local Fox outlet weather expert says Atlantic and Caribbean water temps are already at July levels. Supposedly it'll be an active hurricane season.

My last, I hope, I hope . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Keep in mind, they say that every year. I mean, maybe they're right this time. Or not.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2024 06:16 AM (sAmhv)

81 Like doing an oil change while you're eating, aka a crawfish boil, these people are nuts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 06:08 AM (omVj0)

At least they're not drinking water from a muddy hoofprint...

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 06:16 AM (T4tVD)

82 UK
Schoolteacher stabbed in the neck 'lucky to be alive' after she was targeted in playground attack that saw one pupil and another teacher slashed with flick knife as police quiz Year 9 girl over 'attempted murder'

https://mol.im/a/13346851

Posted by: Ciampino - Shitheads got even more faecal? at April 25, 2024 06:16 AM (qfLjt)

83 80 58 And the local Fox outlet weather expert says Atlantic and Caribbean water temps are already at July levels. Supposedly it'll be an active hurricane season.

My last, I hope, I hope . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius


Keep in mind, they say that every year. I mean, maybe they're right this time. Or not.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2024 06:16 AM (sAmhv)
----
Broken clock ..... twice a day thingee .....

Posted by: Ciampino - TOP MEN at April 25, 2024 06:19 AM (qfLjt)

84 mornin yall. The local rag has this bit of crawfish news:

"Dublin, Ga. — Last month, Louisiana's governor declared a disaster because severe weather disrupted their crawfish harvest. So the city of Dublin canceled their annual crawfish festival, and they're gearing up for a new kind of celebration on Saturday called Spring Fest. "


I'm not that fond of boiled springs, so will pass.


Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 06:19 AM (vFG9F)

85 "Keep in mind, they say that every year. I mean, maybe they're right this time. Or not."

I was going to say the same thing. Predictions are like that. Nobody ever remembers the predictions that were wrong.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 06:21 AM (vFG9F)

86
Looked up the actress/model for that video game, yeah, she's a cutie all right.
Has it ever occurred to the harpies/scolds who do this kind of thing that maybe their problem is their own ugliness on the inside?

Heaven forbid that women actually try to look feminine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 06:21 AM (MoZTd)

87 That UK school stabbing: Ammanford sounds almost middle-eastern.

Posted by: Ciampino - Where's the video? at April 25, 2024 06:25 AM (qfLjt)

88 Broken clock ..... twice a day thingee .....
Posted by: Ciampino - TOP MEN

Dang!

If you break a clock twice a day, that 730 clocks a year !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Confused Critic . . . at April 25, 2024 06:28 AM (4Winp)

89 Good morning morons

Nothing worthwhile on local TV news this morning

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 06:28 AM (RIvkX)

90 Windows 11 Start menu ads arrive. How to turn them off. (msn.com)
https://tinyurl.com/3pesm2px

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #101 at April 25, 2024 06:31 AM (qfLjt)

91 Years ago I did a project with Vagrant and VirtualBox and Ansible - seemed like cool tech but ground based virtualization was not where the industry was going.

I had recent reason to go and reinvestigate the tech and HashiCorp had pretty much let Vagrant die on the vine and looked the company was going nowhere. Now IBM spent $6B with a B on them? Wow wow wow.

Posted by: blaster at April 25, 2024 06:31 AM (IFNME)

92 On another note, biopsy came back positive. Going in for PET scan in two weeks. 2nd surgery scheduled in a month to make sure there aren't any tendrils that were missed in first surgery. Should be outpatient unless they have to do skin graft. Then they'll throw me in the hospital for a night or two.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 06:33 AM (ju2Fy)

93 Ciampino @ 90-
Righteous, dude,

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 06:34 AM (o2ZRX)

94 Ilhan Omar's daughter Irsa Hirsi mocked for claiming she was sprayed with chemicals at Columbia protest after 'getting hit with a novelty fart spray': 'We're heading down Jussie Smollett street'

https://mol.im/a/13345069

One ugly bitch.

A novelty fart spray is still chemical in nature - isn't everything?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #102 at April 25, 2024 06:36 AM (qfLjt)

95 May GOD bless and keep you, olddog.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 06:37 AM (o2ZRX)

96 Olddog did you get biopsy results?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 06:37 AM (RIvkX)

97 G'Day, Pixy. My Samsung phone is coming up on its Five year End-of-Life. Meaning, no more security up dates, but it works just fine. Do I really have to trash it? It was expensive.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 06:38 AM (TlBpz)

98 Horse seen badly hurt in London yesterday is being looked after by vets

https://mol.im/a/13346607

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #103 at April 25, 2024 06:38 AM (qfLjt)

99 As they say olddog, may you have "clean edges"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

100 Arizona going Colorado?
Arizona House REPEALS 1864 abortion ban: Three Republicans join Democrats to reverse Civil War-era bill less than three weeks after it was revived by the state Supreme Court

https://mol.im/a/13346833

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #104 at April 25, 2024 06:40 AM (qfLjt)

101 Biden administration rejects latest bid to release Prince Harry's visa records due to ambassador's 'extraordinary' comment that Joe will never deport the royal

https://mol.im/a/13346925

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #105 at April 25, 2024 06:41 AM (qfLjt)

102 Good luck, olddog.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 06:43 AM (TlBpz)

103 Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 06:33 AM

Prayers up.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 06:43 AM (mH6SG)

104 Olddog, prayers for you.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #106 at April 25, 2024 06:43 AM (qfLjt)

105 Arizona going Colorado?

Not sure. I think the repeal moves the law back to what it was before the revival, only “legally correctly done” this time.

I think.

Posted by: Adriane the Easily Confused Critic . . . at April 25, 2024 06:43 AM (4Winp)

106 Keep in mind, they say that every year. I mean, maybe they're right this time. Or not.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 25, 2024 06:16 AM (sAmhv)
---
They've got a 50/50 shot...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2024 06:44 AM (BpYfr)

107 National coffee shop chain shuts down ALL stores with immediate effect

https://mol.im/a/13345637

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #107 at April 25, 2024 06:45 AM (qfLjt)

108 For unknown reasons the YT feed has recommended Vivabeat, Party In The War Zone, 1980 New Wave-type stuff which I admit isn't bad at all.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 06:46 AM (43xH1)

109
National coffee shop chain shuts down ALL stores with immediate effect

https://mol.im/a/13345637
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #107

"She turns the camera to show customers sitting in the shop drinking coffee and working on laptops."

Every coffee shop has to have customers working on laptops. I think they get them from a warehouse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 25, 2024 06:50 AM (MoZTd)

110 olddog in mo

Prayers ascending for good outcomes.

Ya know, there are easier wats to meet cute, young, nurses.

When I was in hospital last year, I enjoyed talking with the older, experienced nurses. The young, cute, fit, blonde with pony-tail nurses aide told me "You sound just like my Dad." So I gots that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:52 AM (u82oZ)

111 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:53 AM (u82oZ)

112
Message to everyone from Netanyahu
https://twitter.com/HilzFuld/status/1783208605845709222

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 06:53 AM (RKVpM)

113 Italian city, Milan, brings in bizarre BAN on eating pizza and ice cream

https://mol.im/a/13344643

Daily mail calls it 'gelato ice cream'. That's like saying 'ice cream ice cream' or 'icy ice cream' -- I know, it's the UK.

While on that article check the link to Australian Schools.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #108 at April 25, 2024 06:54 AM (qfLjt)

114 Salty, I get ‘you sound like my GrandPa.’.

Posted by: Eromero at April 25, 2024 06:54 AM (o2ZRX)

115 My Samsung phone is coming up on its Five year End-of-Life. Meaning, no more security up dates, but it works just fine. Do I really have to trash it? Posted by: JM

I will play. No you don't have to trash it but you need to consider your security risk footprint. If the bulk of your use is limited to checking email a few times a week and watching cat videos on YouTube, you probably don't have much to worry about. On the other hand, if you are on your phone everyday and do everything on your phone such as managing your finances, booking medical appointments, or have credit cards stored on it, well that's a whole different story. Another thought is 5 years is a pretty good run with a cell phone and it just might be time for a new device. The good news is mid-tier priced cell phones, say around $500, are pretty solid options so there is a path to getting a new device and not having to spend $1,000.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 25, 2024 06:55 AM (b6UlB)

116 Every coffee shop has to have customers working on laptops. I think they get them from a warehouse.'

I like to sit in coffee shops on my ancient Dell writing my manifesto.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 06:57 AM (43xH1)

117 The man running Google Search for the past five years - replacing the man who built Google Search for the previous 20 - was previously head of search at Yahoo.

--

Amazing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 25, 2024 06:58 AM (Ka3bZ)

118 I am not paying $500 for a phone.$80 is my limit and I will use it until it dies.

Posted by: fd at April 25, 2024 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

119
@unusual_whales
BREAKING: US 30-year mortgage rates have hit 7.29%, per Bankrate.

Rates have more then doubled under Biden's rein of error.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 06:58 AM (RKVpM)

120 Last night I had my usual Wednesday night get together with our Constitution Bee survivors.

5 years ago, when my wife fell out of a chair and had spinal issues, she was in hospital until released. I then cared for her at home. Until she got so bad she was put back in hospital. She was close to death when she went back in.

The wife of our local political leader told me then she had someone in mind for me, if things got worse. Always been a Plan A and plan B person.

Last night, I asked my friend how that women was getting along.

"Oh, she died." To much laughter from the table.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 06:58 AM (u82oZ)

121 On the other hand, if you are on your phone everyday and do everything on your phone such as managing your finances, booking medical appointments, or have credit cards stored on it, well that's a whole different story.

I guess I'm paranoid, but I just won't do any of that stuff on my phone.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 06:59 AM (mH6SG)

122 The Fulton County 2020 election was 100% fake:

https://tinyurl.com/5a6c7erx

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:00 AM (ENQN6)

123 I thought destroying Goolag was a Good Thing...
Posted by: but
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Do you remember, back in the before days of pre Covid, google search results made "sponsored " search results a different color and you could actually find relevant results on the first page?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 25, 2024 07:00 AM (Ka3bZ)

124 Every coffee shop has to have customers working on laptops. I think they get them from a warehouse.'

I like to sit in coffee shops on my ancient Dell writing my manifesto.
Posted by: LenNeal

I like sending the White House Spokes Muppet videos of Donald Trump making fun her. I'm resigned to being gulag material if Biden wins in November.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 25, 2024 07:00 AM (b6UlB)

125 Eromero

She was being charitable. I saw her taking care of my wife last month, and she said I looked familiar. I told her that story to no response.

I think it's hilarious.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:01 AM (u82oZ)

126 Morning, Salty.

Not really in the market for young, cute nurses. Had my full of those when wife went through her ordeal 5 yrs ago. Although to be fair, they were competent and professional.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 25, 2024 07:01 AM (ju2Fy)

127 if you are on your phone everyday and do everything on your phone such as managing your finances, booking medical appointments, or have credit cards stored on it, well that's a whole different story.'

I'll also weigh in: I have found that when phones legit go obsolete, all those high-security apps will simply stop working due to your phone not being updateable. I recently had to get a new phone as my work schedule app, which I have to have to, you know, work, stopped working entirely. What will happen is your phone tries to update, can't, then bricks apps with security updates. I have an ancient Samsung I use for 'a phone' as the call quality is terrific, and it does YouTube and such on a web browser but none of the apps work anymore. It won't even let me use my Google account on it.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:02 AM (43xH1)

128 Notorious BFD

I see so much mental trauma with all your data on a easily lost or damaged phone. Easier to skip the drama.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

129 This is probably not going to be on CNN or MSM.

Russia breaks through Ukraine front line and captures strategically important town after 'newly-arrived brigade fled their post' in major blow to Kyiv - just as US finally approves huge aid package

https://mol.im/a/13343997

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #109 at April 25, 2024 07:03 AM (qfLjt)

130 olddog in mo

You are very wise. Eye candy can not compare to competent angels of mercy with legal opioids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:04 AM (u82oZ)

131 I should clarify I have 2 phones, one for work and one personal.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:04 AM (43xH1)

132 Chris Christie: "I would have preferred any of those people over Trump. Ramaswamy and Trump I would have hoped for a death match. Where they both die."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:05 AM (ENQN6)

133 I guess I'm paranoid, but I just won't do any of that stuff on my phone. Posted by: Notorious BFD

There are massive generational differences in how people use cell phones. The younger, the person, the more tasks they do on them. In my casual observations, cell phones are the computer of choice for people that are below 25.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 25, 2024 07:06 AM (b6UlB)

134

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 25, 2024 07:07 AM (X4yCj)

135 Moto has great cheap phones.

moto g play - 2024 - sapphire blue
$149.99
$129.99

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:07 AM (ENQN6)

136 I see so much mental trauma with all your data on a easily lost or damaged phone. Easier to skip the drama.

Agreed. And mobile devices are being targeted by the bad guys bigly. Many of the vulnerabilities are inherent in apps that are installed on the device by the user.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 25, 2024 07:08 AM (mH6SG)

137 In past three weeks

99 cent store closed 380 stores.
Foxtrot closes 33 shops.
Mod pizza closed 30? shops.

Locally another long lived restaurant just shuttered. Chinese takeout/lunch crowd. been there for at least 15 years.

Posted by: 13times at April 25, 2024 07:08 AM (Pd0yN)

138 moto g stylus - 2023 - midnight blue
$199.99
$129.99

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:08 AM (ENQN6)

139 Those Moto phones are pretty good and should be on a shopping list.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 25, 2024 07:09 AM (b6UlB)

140
I think I paid about $45 bucks for my cell phone through Consumer Cellular deal. It works, nothing amazing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 25, 2024 07:10 AM (RKVpM)

141 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

142
So the NY law that Bragg is using is for state election.
Presidential elections are Federal.
Federal Election Commission, declined on two occasions to prosecute the claim against Trump that the alleged hush money payment was in fact a federal violation.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:11 AM (ENQN6)

143 You know life is good when the Assheads in warshington dc pass a "Law" and it has no effect on my life one way or the other.

They can take Tick Tack and shove it and their "laws" up their Yam Chutes.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 25, 2024 07:11 AM (cDEsv)

144 For example of obsolete phones/etc. I use a Samsung 10.1 SM-T520 made in 2014 at the office.
None of the apps work on that, I just use a web browser for everything.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:12 AM (43xH1)

145 'Boy in the attic' Jaylen Griffin was the FOURTH dead body found in Buffalo house of horrors in past four years

https://trib.al/t0Tfrkn

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #110 at April 25, 2024 07:12 AM (qfLjt)

146 Len and Lost. Thanks for phone guidance. I know I'll just have to get a new one, but less expensive this time.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 07:12 AM (WlMqs)

147 rhennigantx

The number of goons is increasing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

148 It's shaved and showered I am, fed, vitamin-ed, and actually feeling pretty good. About 7:45 I'll email my boss ("I'm still at the coughing-sneezing stage"). Later, I'll head out to Aldi, the bank, and Target for my Rx and some more throat lozenges.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 07:13 AM (omVj0)

149 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be free and with friends in your local area.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2024 07:14 AM (u82oZ)

150 138 moto g stylus - 2023 - midnight blue
$199.99
$129.99
Posted by: rhennigantx ath

I'll check them. Thanks

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 07:15 AM (WlMqs)

151 The TLDR on the Google thing: they made an unqualified dot-Indian man CEO whose previous experience at McKinsey involved helping Purdue Pharma boost oxycontin sales (!!!)

And he proceeded to hire an even more incompetent dot-Indian man who'd destroyed Yahoo and put him in charge of first advertising and then also search.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 25, 2024 07:15 AM (dJwzg)

152 Israel's senior officials may imminently be subjected to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court at the Hague. And according a "very senior officials" at the Hague who spoke with @amit_segal, Israel's top political reporter, the US is behind it all. - Caroline Glick
===
Obama and ValJar

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

153
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 25, 2024 07:19 AM (bEb2S)

154 @142

>>So the NY law that Bragg is using is for state election.
Presidential elections are Federal.
Federal Election Commission, declined on two occasions to prosecute the claim against Trump that the alleged hush money payment was in fact a federal violation.

Everything about the Bragg Persecution is corrupt, down to the fact that the alleged record falsifications occurred in 2017 after the election, so Bragg is trying to prosecute a pre-crime.

These people are animals.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 25, 2024 07:19 AM (XV/Pl)

155 On the Gateway Pundit bankruptcy

https://tinyurl.com/4san6rcd

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #111 at April 25, 2024 07:25 AM (qfLjt)

156 Israel's senior officials may imminently be subjected to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court at the Hague. And according a "very senior officials" at the Hague who spoke with @amit_segal, Israel's top political reporter, the US is behind it all. - Caroline Glick
===
Obama and ValJar
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I never imagined I would see the day come when the US government was allowing pogroms to get spun up here in the US against Jewish citizens and would be playing a duplicitous game in the Middle East with the goal of undermining the Jewish state. I do not like where any of this is headed.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 25, 2024 07:27 AM (b6UlB)

157 I have looked into the discussed sanctions against a specific military unit and admit bafflement. I can see sanctions against a paramilitary, semi-independent entity, like some of the 'volunteer units' in the Bosnian War, which would identify individuals within those outfits that were mostly bandit gangs barely under State control if at all.
But this thing of sanctioning a single unit of a cohesive, national army just confuses me no end. Does it sanction individuals within the unit? Everyone who has ever cycled through it? When and where do the sanctions apply, at what point in time? It makes absolutely NO sense from any standpoint. None.
I'll have to do some more digging, it is simply bizarre.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:30 AM (43xH1)

158 In this case, they're mostly outraged that the game represents impossible standards of feminine beauty, a claim somewhat weakened by the fact that the in-game character looks almost exactly like the motion-capture actress who worked with the animation team.

-

Spoiler alert:

Gamers are mostly young men and young men don't care at all about ugly chicks or fat chicks.

Add in ugly and/or fat chicks as a super hero and the ugly/fat chick becomes a joke.

It's shocking that this is so difficult for the ugly fat chicks in charge of making everything miserable for everyone. You'd think they'd already have this figured out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:31 AM (9Ct69)

159 A possible precedent might be the Nazi SS, which was considered a criminal organization, but in that case it was an entirely separate legal entity from the Wermacht.

None of this makes a shred of sense.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:32 AM (43xH1)

160 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 25, 2024 07:32 AM (dg+HA)

161 US secretly sent long-range missiles to Ukraine after months of resistance

https://tinyurl.com/76ezfmth

An act of war in my book.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #112 at April 25, 2024 07:33 AM (qfLjt)

162 The moto g phones have an astonishing 50MP camera

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 25, 2024 07:33 AM (TlBpz)

163 Israel's senior officials may imminently be subjected to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court at the Hague. And according a "very senior officials" at the Hague who spoke with @amit_segal, Israel's top political reporter, the US is behind it all. - Caroline Glick

--

This is why no one wants the Philistines to have their own state.

If they have their own state then this type of action by one state against another state that just attacked and murdered a bunch of innocent women and children is a perfectly reasonable response.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:33 AM (9Ct69)

164 The only thing I can think of is that sanctioning a single military unit is just a wedge to eventually apply sanctions to the entire legally constituted entity of the IDF and declare the Israeli Army, in its totality, a criminal organization just like the SS.

It's the only thing that makes sense to me.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:34 AM (43xH1)

165 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Not frozen, but it AIN'T warm out thar !

Posted by: JT at April 25, 2024 07:35 AM (T4tVD)

166 Last fall, the US first sent Ukraine the mid-range variant of the ATACMS missile system, which can reach about 100 miles, while the longer-range version can reach as far as 190 miles.

-

Dang.

Russia has already taken 200+ miles of Ukraine?

hahahaha

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:35 AM (9Ct69)

167 two words

J J

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 25, 2024 07:36 AM (ENQN6)

168 "All branches of the IDF answer to a single General Staff. The Chief of the General Staff is the only serving officer having the rank of Lieutenant General (Rav Aluf). He reports directly to the Defense Minister and indirectly to the Prime Minister of Israel and the cabinet.'

There is no practical way to limit sanctions to a single military unit of a national armed force.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 25, 2024 07:36 AM (43xH1)

169 158
Gamers are mostly young men and young men don't care at all about ugly chicks or fat chicks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:31 AM (9Ct69)
----
'don't care' = indifferent? or = don't like? which meaning here?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #113 at April 25, 2024 07:37 AM (qfLjt)

170 In positive news, Baltimore's Hopkins University is about to be blessed with anti-American/Pro Hamas protests.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2024 07:37 AM (a1415)

171 The Iranian regime has no popular support.
https://tinyurl.com/5t2nrnn3

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2024 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

172 138 moto g stylus - 2023 - midnight blue
$199.99
$129.99
Posted by: rhennigantx ath

I'll check them. Thanks
Posted by: JM in Ill

-

Look at the renewed Moto G 5g on Amazon. I picked one up recently to bridge a gap and decided to keep it indefinitely. It's $80 or so. Lots of phone for that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:38 AM (9Ct69)

173 'Boy in the attic' Jaylen Griffin was the FOURTH dead body found in Buffalo house of horrors in past four years

https://trib.al/t0Tfrkn

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #110 at April 25, 2024 07:12 AM (qfLjt)

That story is sad, especially with all the willful ignorance. A string of tenants and supposedly no one noticed the body rotting in the attic until a subcontractor found it.

Also, Daily Mail, what is the purpose of describing a home as "multi-room"?

Posted by: pookysgirl, confused by British English at April 25, 2024 07:38 AM (dtlDP)

174 Gamers are mostly young men and young men don't care at all about ugly chicks or fat chicks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:31 AM (9Ct69)
----
'don't care' = indifferent? or = don't like? which meaning here?
Posted by: Ciampino

--

Don't want to see naked and idealized. Might accept blowjob or sex in real life.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 25, 2024 07:38 AM (9Ct69)

175 Almost time for Have Gun -- Will Travel. Two good first-season episodes are on H & I today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 07:55 AM (omVj0)

176 Noodus JJ

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2024 08:14 AM (omVj0)

177 I have considered Google to be the enemy within the gates for at least 25 years. It started with their celebration of everything communist and bare minimums of US history.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 25, 2024 09:42 AM (qZdIZ)

178 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

I really like having you back in the comments again, Biden's Dog!

Posted by: m at April 25, 2024 02:09 PM (o3SCB)

179 If some one needs to be updated with most up-to-date technologies therefore he must be
go to see this site and be up to date daily.

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