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President Trump: The Anti-Marionette
For the Deep StateTM and the political class of America, one of the most frustrating things about President Trump is his conspicuous lack of private or secret funding. They cannot fathom a politician without strings attached, without a handler, someone who is not beholden to anyone. Because those are things that they use to control and manipulate each other.
That's why they had to invent Russian collusion. That's why they had to go after his children with fake charges. That's why they had to make the laughable accusation that he was somehow connected to and beholden to Jeffrey Epstein. And on and on and on. They cannot imagine a politician who is not part of their sleazy, backroom world in which quid pro quo is a fact of life, where money stolen from the American people is funneled from person to person in payment of political debt. Bernie's Billionaire: How the Richest Man in Hawaii Funds Bernie's PR and Opposition Research That's just one of thousands of examples... It is becoming more and more obvious that Donald Trump the man is so fixated on his own independence from everything that he chafes and fights against any hint of control. That was the Democrat's fatal error in early 2017. As many people have noted in these pages, had they been even marginally collaborative they would have been much more successful in co-opting President Trump. But the instant and visceral attacks against him pushed him and his policies away from the paradigm that has been our government for generations. Did they realize early on that he was uncontrollable by conventional means? Probably. But they have been operating with the same playbook for so long they simply had no idea how to deal with a truly independent man. Would he have been the disruptive force we are blessed with had the Democrats been smarter? Would he have remade our courts and gutted the regulatory state and protected (at least more than other presidents) our fighting men? I don't know, and it is academic at this point. But my guess is that yes, he would have, but without the urgency and speed. So in a perverse way we have the Democrats to thank for this respite from the headlong plunge over the cliff of government power and corruption.It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And am I the only one who is giddy with anticipation for his second term?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:16 PM (Ci6sH)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:16 PM (Ci6sH)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:16 PM (Ci6sH)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:17 PM (Ci6sH)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:18 PM (Ci6sH)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:18 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: bongo strums at March 15, 2020 02:19 PM (B+t5k)
The wackos below were just sharing their bidet experience, too.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:20 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 02:20 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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When you have one, you can't wait to take a shit.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:20 PM (sjTfF)
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 15, 2020 02:21 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip
Has the "no pics" protocol been implemented?
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 15, 2020 02:21 PM (kkxOW)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:21 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (ekmuQ)
Am I the only one that wants a dem body count?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (QZCjk)
I hate to be crude, but can someone tell me how a bidet does not make a mess all over your buttocks?
I mean, what do those filthy europeans and ginzos do after, take a towel and dry off and then hang up the towel on the rack for the next person?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:20 PM (sjTfF)
wait!
it's not for washing your face ??
Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (rpxSz)
Most of the 538 or so billionaires, at least the more famous ones are Leftists, they can afford to be Socialists.
Posted by: Skip at March
See also, tax increases.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (kkxOW)
But you make a good point. I think the last time our guv'mint had a president with so few strings was Gerald Ford. He came from the pool, but as a Rep from Michigan, and with so little time as VP, the strings weren't that many.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (axyOa)
Trump is nothing if not obsessively driven to prove naysayers wrong.and when the Dems went 100 percent 24/7 nay, Trump, genetically, had no choice.
IOW the Dems MADE him do what he's done.
Thanks assholes. Thank you asshole Commies...keep it coming--- because our Boy will keep giving it back to you. Hard.
Posted by: Voter theater. at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (xXx5y)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 02:22 PM (bXR6b)
===NO
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (pw+jk)
Bill Gates?
Pretty sure he has a piece of the rock. Maybe a whole island.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (COzlW)
on the downside the guy who's been my best friend since we repo'd cars together in the early 80's disowned be as a friend Friday, our relationship poisoned by a constant barage of "OrangeManBad" from his stereotypical NYC lieberal Jewish wife... and smoking too much of his crop.
i guess we'll just wait and see if he comes to his senses or stays lost.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (Ci6sH)
It's Katy Bar The Door next November, he's got nothing to worry about. I hope it starts with getting rid of every last holdover.
Posted by: clutch cargo at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (8B6Ng)
He is the right man at the right time and may - God willing - be the one who saves our Republic. Only time will tell.
Posted by: LGoPs the former boyscout who now shouts Broken Arrow!, Broken Arrow! at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (j42ZK)
Posted by: Rider of the Apocalypse at March 15, 2020 02:24 PM (9Oc7e)
Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2020 02:24 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (1g7ch)
*raises hand*
Posted by: Larry Ellison at March 15, 2020 02:25 PM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Skip
________________
I would be fine with a tax cut for say people who make under a million a year and have it paid for with a wealth tax on billionaires.
Just to see these virtue signaling assholes squeal would be delightful.
They are almost all left-wingers. The Kochs might as well be left-wingerw with their libertarian horseshit open borders obsession.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:25 PM (sjTfF)
Yep. He's totally off the reservation. Which terrifies the people who are used to calling the shots.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:25 PM (YLq84)
Who do you want to vote for in November?
Someone who closes the borders to threats or someone who opens the borders wider to threats?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:25 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2020 02:24 PM (FhXTo)
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He'll be a lot more inflexible.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:26 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Little Lupe at March 15, 2020 02:26 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 02:26 PM (ekmuQ)
Posted by: Blago
I thought there was only one Koch left?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 02:26 PM (bXR6b)
Who do you want to vote for in November?
Someone who is honest about the source of our threats, or someone who is dishonest about the source of our threats/attacks so they do not offend the people responsible for the threat/attack?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:27 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2020 02:27 PM (r+sAi)
Am I the only one that wants a dem body count?
Posted by: rickb223
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Nope!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2020 02:27 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: JAS at March 15, 2020 02:28 PM (2BZBZ)
Posted by: saf at March 15, 2020 02:28 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:28 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 15, 2020 02:29 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: JAS at March 15, 2020 02:29 PM (2BZBZ)
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JAS at March 15, 2020 02:30 PM (2BZBZ)
on the downside the guy who's been my best friend since we repo'd cars together in the early 80's disowned be as a friend Friday, our relationship poisoned by a constant barage of "OrangeManBad" from his stereotypical NYC lieberal Jewish wife... and smoking too much of his crop.
i guess we'll just wait and see if he comes to his senses or stays lost.
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 15, 2020 02:23 PM (Ci6sH)
Sorry. Still....Guessing that most posters here have variations of your story. Not easy. Not fun. Losing friends. But then you think what a billionaire with a smoking hot wife and life is doing to save his --OUR--country and ...well , there are some phone numbers that need to be forgotten.
Posted by: Voter theater. at March 15, 2020 02:30 PM (xXx5y)
https://tinyurl.com/tz4pz2u
The IRONY it burns.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:30 PM (pw+jk)
Just to see these virtue signaling assholes squeal would be delightful.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:25 PM (sjTfF)
But you KNOW it wouldn't end there. Having set the principle of redistribution, the pressure to extend that tax downwards would be irresistible. The Reds would think all of their ... well, not Christmases, but you know what I mean ... had arrived at once.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:30 PM (YLq84)
I want him to abolish whole agencies and bureaucracies.
I imagine that will not go down well since the 4th unofficial branch is Democrat 100% and passes edicts that almost never are reversed and have the power of law despite us plebes not having consented nor voted for such people to have that power.
Kill DC dead.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2020 02:31 PM (pS94+)
Posted by: JAS
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*Deep announcing voice:*
"In a world where the deplorables are fed up, a hero has emerged to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And he's all out of bubble gum. . . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2020 02:32 PM (Y4EXg)
Battle of the Giants on @ 5pm over by 5:13.
Posted by: saf at March 15, 2020 02:32 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Ebeneezer Scrooge at March 15, 2020 02:32 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2020 02:27 PM (r+sAi)
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You are a better person (?) than I. I am rooting fro a complete body count on them and many donkey-commeis.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:32 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:28 PM (vw+Q6)
"Start studying, because this test is gonna be hard! And everything is on the test!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:32 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Maybe, but considering most of the Left really is bankrolled by these people, I'm willing to take the risk.
If this class kept their nose out of politics, I wouldn't support it.
The way people like Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg etc hide their wealth in things like Foundations is criminal.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:33 PM (sjTfF)
https://tinyurl.com/tz4pz2u
The IRONY it burns.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:30 PM (pw+jk)
It really does.
"Hey, gringos, keep your cruddy diseases to yourself! Oh, and mow your OWN lawns, comprende?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (JNxXD)
https://tinyurl.com/tz4pz2u
The IRONY it burns.
Posted by: Jukin
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Their economy will crash... no more america tourist $$$
Posted by: lin-duh at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (ekmuQ)
Posted by: Summer of Love at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (FJrl0)
"In a world where the deplorables are fed up, a hero has emerged to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And he's all out of bubble gum. . . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at March 15, 2020 02:32 PM (Y4EXg)
Modified for today:
We're here to chew bubblegum and wipe ass. And due to Covid-19, we're all out of toilet paper.
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
If this class kept their nose out of politics, I wouldn't support it.
The way people like Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg etc hide their wealth in things like Foundations is criminal.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:33 PM (sjTfF)
I subscribe to the sentiment, but you KNOW what the progression would be:
2020: billionaires
2021: millionaires
2022: hundred thousandaires
2023: thousandaires
2024: hundredaires
2025: anybody with TP
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (JNxXD)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (UUBmN)
They make $5 billion a year off illegals sending money back home.
They'll be fine.
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (COzlW)
Quite likely. But Trump will have bought us 10-25 years of grace before it all goes socialist (i.e., goes to shit).
Posted by: West at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (jqZBS)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: lin-duh at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (ekmuQ)
The size of coconuts. Except harder.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Bill Gates at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (EgshT)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff's (D-CA) lead
impeachment lawyer Daniel Goldman has contracted the Chinese
coronavirus, according to a Politico reporter.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (/669Q)
Posted by: CBD
WLNSSEODQY.
Posted by: Winston Wolfe at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (COzlW)
And Chinese fentanyl.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious
Trump. You did it!
You crazy son of a bitch! You did it!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (bXR6b)
Reagan had jelly beans.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: davidt at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:34 PM (COzlW)/i]
Probably, but Trump's legacy: he's disinfected a lot of the judiciary, which is how the Reds rammed through so much of their agenda.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:38 PM (YLq84)
2020: billionaires
2021: millionaires
2022: hundred thousandaires
2023: thousandaires
2024: hundredaires
2025: anybody with TP
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM
2026: anybody with a Sears catalog
2027: anybody with corncobs
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 15, 2020 02:38 PM (DMUuz)
impeachment lawyer Daniel Goldman has contracted the Chinese
coronavirus, according to a Politico reporter.
===
Exxxxcccceeeeelllent.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:39 PM (pw+jk)
I just don't think it was planned. I think the Chinese f'ed up and are now trying to pin their own incompetence on the US and Trump and the media is helping their ChiCom masters.
But too many businesses controlled by Dems (like the NBA and Hollywood) will be hurt by this as well because the panic is world wide. I don't think anybody intended that.
What the left is great at doing is turning a crisis to their own advantage. That's what they're trying to do now.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 02:39 PM (d6Ksn)
They'll be fine.
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
The next thing Trump should draw a bead on. A withholding tax on remittances to Mexico, to be credited against income tax.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (YLq84)
Remember last year when I told you that Democrats and Democrat operatives were actively advising China and Iran on how to hurt the US economy and the president?
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Democrat Traitors are most susceptible to Wuhan Flu.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (vw+Q6)
I can see future Congressional hearings with the questions revolving around:
"Are you, or have you ever been, a spreader of Covn19?"
"Mr. Chairman, I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may ostracise me! I will only answer your question if given immunity."
"Um...Uh.... Legal or disease?"
(Witness discusses with lawyer.)
"Upon advise of council, both."
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (e1mEI)
Trump 41 Biden 49
Trump 42 Bernie 48
now chance of re election Trump 42% : 43: 44 :45.
Just add 30 to Trump figures and subtract 30 from the others and you would be nearer to the truth.
Posted by: saf at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:41 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: This is CNN at March 15, 2020 02:41 PM (pw+jk)
The next thing Trump should draw a bead on. A withholding tax on remittances to Mexico, to be credited against income tax.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (YLq84)
I thought he'd mentioned something like that early on as a method for paying for the wall.
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable
Looking forward to seeing some cretins bent over.
Posted by: DaveA at March 15, 2020 02:41 PM (FhXTo)
a LOT of them made their billions off the stock market, with average working class pouring wages into mutual funds. Some provided a real product, but some of those then bought off competition (there can be only one). iirc Gates was taken to court over that (included stolen ideas "for free" in his windows). Now all the big guys buy up new internet venues ... a handful of conglomerate powers ... all magically far left "dictatorships" to silence speech, vomit constant propaganda.
Then even worse are the Soros types that actually create the market chaos, to profit. Soros known for breaking the bank of England ... it is like warfare with the BigGuys that have the ability to move markets. Government is supposed to protect our rights FROM the Google archipelago ... but the oligarchs still lord over us. We will need another Trump 2.0 even if we get four more years of the original.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 15, 2020 02:41 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Apostate at March 15, 2020 02:42 PM (NaHkI)
Crap, there are a lot of grammatical errors in that comment I beg the horde's pardon. I wrote fast and was sloppy.
Sr. Mary Elizabeth would NOT be happy with me.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 02:42 PM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2020 02:37 PM (XxJt1)
I think you have to forward her full name and SSN to the DJT reelection committee before anything will happen.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:42 PM (XVuno)
https://tinyurl.com/tz4pz2u
The IRONY it burns.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:30 PM (pw+jk)
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Everything Trump said has come to pass.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2020 02:42 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 02:43 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 02:39 PM (d6Ksn)
Yeah, but that was then. This is now. And the left has lost its mojo on that crap, because the MSM has been gelded. Trump goes right around them with Twitter, etc., and calls them out by name in his rallies.
They used to get away with it because the talking heads would sound imperious and high-minded, but in fact were Red operatives. (Think Cronkite, Rather, etc.) But now Trump has pantsed them, so they don't have nearly the influence that they had before they were unmasked.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:43 PM (YLq84)
Moral of the story: Stay tuned. I want to see how this plays out.
God support Trump because Trump (as all of us sinners) hates abortion and the deaths of the innocent.
Yeah. He is flawed. But aren't all we all?
Think about this one thing. Before the creation of the universe, God knew what everything and every life was going to happen. EVERYTHING. Nothing happens that He didn't know from the beginning of the universe (multi verses?) happens. He has a plan.
Posted by: JAS at March 15, 2020 02:44 PM (2BZBZ)
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Democrat Traitors are most susceptible to Wuhan Flu.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (vw+Q6)
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I got shouted down for posting that the donkey-commies and the chinese-commies were colluding together with Wuhan chinese Flu. I initially pu it at 35% then, raised my estimate to 45% mid last week and am now at 60%.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:45 PM (pw+jk)
And he needs to keep reminding the country he was for those things for very good reasons long before this corona virus crap.
Slow Joe and Bernie the Commie have no answer for that except moar government.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 02:45 PM (d6Ksn)
2020: billionaires
2021: millionaires
2022: hundred thousandaires
2023: thousandaires
2024: hundredaires
2025: anybody with TP
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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But isn't that always a risk? It's not like liberals aren't trying this 24/7.
I agree with Ace that a big reason the ultra rich bankroll the Left is they know Republicans at the end of the day will protect them.
Maybe if they didn't have that safety net, their priorities would change?
If Democrats ever put a wealth tax on the middle class, it would be way worse than Mondale promising to raise taxes and losing 49 states.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:45 PM (sjTfF)
Just like Florida barely managed to dodge Andrew Gilliam, who has some interesting pastimes when he's not busy playing his race bingo card.
Andrew, like Bill, apparently has to assuage his anxiety with a little extramarital side action. And drugs, which he most definitely did not inhale.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 15, 2020 02:46 PM (Jdw1U)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 15, 2020 02:40 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:46 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2020 02:36 PM (JNxXD)
I hope you're right but I don't see many on the horizon. OTOH, the Bill Kristols and Jen Rubins of the world are busy plotting their re-entry to relevance once that yucky Trump is finally out of the picture.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:46 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: Zod at March 15, 2020 02:47 PM (XzT/D)
Posted by: davidt at March 15, 2020 02:47 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Zod at March 15, 2020 02:48 PM (XzT/D)
Posted by: klaftern at March 15, 2020 02:48 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: JAS
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AMEN!!! This is why I am not worried no matter what happens. I am good with GOD.
Posted by: lin-duh at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (UUBmN)
Kristols and Jen Rubins of the world are busy plotting their re-entry to
relevance once that yucky Trump is finally out of the picture.
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Those people are gone from the republican party. Trump did this at the very least in remaking the R party. There still is a sizable portion that is GOPe but that is shrinking.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (aKsyK)
And liver spots!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (bXR6b)
Maybe, but I don't think he could have been moved too far to the Left with cooperation, since Trump has lived among these people in NYC and in the media (NBC, NYC papers) for many years. I don't think there are many tricks Schumer and Nadler could pull on him that would surprise him (i.e., their usual bait and switch, compromise = we get everything now and you get a promise of your stuff in the future). I think his initial attempts at working with them was Trump giving *them* the opportunity to get on board with his agenda and subsequent successes.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: AltonJackson
Be Better, Boomer
Wash you hands!!!
at March 15, 2020 02:50 PM (AHWpc)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
I was thinking that the TP panic is a sign of how far our civilization has fallen.
Think back to the WII Black Market: the most valuable items were things with a bit of glamour and luxury attached to them: cigarettes (still glamorous in the '40's), booze, nylon stocking, chocolate bars.
Fast forward to 2020: people are trying to make a killing selling asswipe on Amazon.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 02:50 PM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 02:50 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Zod at March 15, 2020 02:51 PM (XzT/D)
Posted by: Offended Millenial at March 15, 2020 02:51 PM (pw+jk)
I was thinking, as my gaze rested on my mini-crossbow, that we need a crossbow MoMee when the weather gets better.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2020 02:51 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Hierominous Botch at March 15, 2020 02:51 PM (YqED9)
Where oh where is Beto today....
Posted by: Colin at March 15, 2020 02:52 PM (7/38M)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 15, 2020 02:52 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 02:52 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:53 PM (XVuno)
Where oh where is Beto today....
Posted by: Colin
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That's the tact Trump needs to take against Biden.
Do Americans really want a million illegals walking into our country every year? Because that's the world Democrats want to keep.
Democrats will try with the whole federal agency funding argument.
Trump's argument will win the day.
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:54 PM (sjTfF)
I was thinking, as my gaze rested on my mini-crossbow, that we need a crossbow MoMee when the weather gets better.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2020 02:51 PM
oh, yaaas
we could combine it with our walking tour of old bookstores in The Peoples' Republik of AnnArbor...
Posted by: AltonJackson
Be Better, Boomer
Wash you hands!!!
at March 15, 2020 02:54 PM (AHWpc)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 15, 2020 02:49 PM (pw+jk)
Rubin and Kristol murdered their own careers and are too stupid to realize it, because they still think their cuck act has some sort of following outside the Beltway.
Conservatives will never trust them again. And liberals have only contempt for them, using them to serve a purpose (as the "conservative" commentators on MSNBC and CNN) but quickly smacking them down if they step out of line, like for instance, when they presume to dictate to leftists who they should vote for in the primaries. Both their Twitter feeds were full of lefties telling them "F off neocons."
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at March 15, 2020 02:55 PM (d6Ksn)
Posted by: saf at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (5IHGB)
It's the Burning Times, who's gonna stop us?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (Dc2NZ)
"President Trump will be the guest of honor at a Saturday fundraiser at the palatial Palm Beach estate of billionaire Nelson Peltz. Trump's fellow guests: donors who gave $580,600 per couple to support the president's reelection, making it the most expensive such fundraising event since Trump took office."
https://wapo.st/38Psu6T
Posted by: Random Guy at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (UHFUK)
They do remodeling so they will have to wipe everything down at the homes they are working on.
Church this morning, maybe 1/3 full. All grocery store parking lots were jammed.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (JVgnl)
Posted by: Blago at March 15, 2020 02:45 PM (sjTfF)
If they did it explicitly, sure. But they'd do it in a sneaky fashion. For example, require that X% of 401(k)s be held in those safe safe government bonds, you know, to "protect" people from the vagaries of the stock market.
People would say, "Oh. That's OK. It's still mine, right?" Except it isn't, not really. The government can now monkey with returns, etc. as it sees fit, since they now have effectively expropriated your money.
We see this in California. The Reds here hate Prop. 13 with a purple passion, because it prevents them from hosing the bourgeoisie ... oooh, did I say that out loud? I meant the "property-owning middle class," as they were doing before Prop. 13.
So now the Reds are trying to circumvent this state constitutional amendment by peeling off commercial real estate from its provisions. Next up will be a "parcel tax," nothing to do with a property tax. No, nothing at all. They'll still observe Prop. 13, they'll just have another tax, this one on the parcel of land, that's all. Nothing to do with a property tax. Nosir.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 02:57 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: BJ54 at March 15, 2020 02:57 PM (M/3Um)
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at March 15, 2020 02:58 PM (1g7ch)
Posted by: Random Guy at March 15, 2020 02:58 PM (UHFUK)
Oh so you do like crossbows?
I have linked the wacky jovial kraut, Joerge Sprave, on youtube a few times and I heard crickets.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 02:58 PM (vw+Q6)
Trump is notable not for his independence, but for his policy positions on key matters, and above all, *FOR DOING WHAT HE SAID HE'D DO*.
Border security/immigration rule of law, trade policy, judges - all things that literally and without question made him first the nominee, then the president.
On none of these would a different reaction have changed things.
The "control/manipulation" of leaders - pretty much exaggerated I think, because it ignores that these people/groups backing them *want the policies they deliver* - is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
It's Trump's policies they abhor.
They care far more about no border, mass labor importation (this includes 90% of the GOP, including those Trump has been endorsing robotically), etc than they care about the stupid Dem-lite policies Trump has delivered (jail-break, family leave). So there's no "credit" for those.
Policies are what matter, not labels, $, or histrionics. At least for those in power, not the screaming idiots on the sidelines, whose TDS understandably draws the eyeballs.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 02:59 PM (El6T/)
And that they wouldn't be outta asswipe.
Posted by: BluesFish at March 15, 2020 02:59 PM (Eh6LC)
Huh.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 15, 2020 02:59 PM (Ndje9)
It's the Burning Times, who's gonna stop us?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM
No one, that's who
Posted by: AltonJackson
Be Better, Boomer
Wash you hands!!!
at March 15, 2020 02:59 PM (AHWpc)
Where oh where is Beto today....
Posted by: Colin
I love Democrats complaining about the cost of something. The first time they've shown a scintilla of fiscal responsibility in their miserable lives.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:00 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 15, 2020 03:00 PM (Dc2NZ)
President Trump will be the guest of honor at a Saturday fundraiser at the palatial Palm Beach estate of billionaire Nelson Peltz.
Ha Haaaaaa
Oh, wrong Nelson.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 03:00 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:00 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: JAS at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (2BZBZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (XVuno)
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Look at you, flaunting your potato privilege.
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (/669Q)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:56
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Wow, you're lucky. Went to store this morning and no potatoes. And no chicken. Weird the things flying off the shelves.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (Dhht7)
Posted by: Random Guy at March 15, 2020 02:58 PM (UHFUK)
Hong Kong Fluey.
Nice hash......
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 02:56 PM (XVuno)
Pro tip: just make sure they're not yams.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at March 15, 2020 03:02 PM (Dhht7)
This was, literally again, a specific reason many said they needed to support him.
He had specific important policy commitments that he's sticking to.
No sane or normal reaction from the Dems would have changed that a bit.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:03 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2020 03:03 PM (W/gIX)
What the left is great at doing is turning a crisis to their own advantage. That's what they're trying to do now.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V
Heard on a talk show Friday that NBA owners have insurance policies to provide for situations such as these, so possible that they won't be hurt by the shut downs. Or, at least not hurt as bad. How many other companies have policies that kick in once a "National Emergency" is declared by the CinC?
Posted by: 6-4-3 at March 15, 2020 03:03 PM (jPtGI)
See WWI.
And they took out Western Europe in the conflict.
Posted by: JAS at March 15, 2020 03:03 PM (2BZBZ)
Posted by: USNtakim at March 15, 2020 03:03 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:01 PM (/669Q)
Bluebell, do you happen to know of a recipe that uses potatoes, tartar sauce and a pomegranate? I'm ready to go all in tonight.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:04 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2020 03:04 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2020 03:05 PM (W/gIX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:05 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: Cicero
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Turnip...one turnip, for the four of us.
Posted by: Norma Rae at March 15, 2020 03:05 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Cicero
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Save yourself the trouble... put everything together in a blender, once it's pureed, pour it straight down the toilet. It will save you toilet paper this way.
Posted by: lin-duh at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2020 03:04 PM (Z+IKu)
I'll bet you're not smirking at those stacks of remaindered Hillary Clinton books now, are you, smart guy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (XVuno)
This virus is going to be a point of inflection in western society and human history. We are going to experience several weeks of greatly diminished traffic jams and fuel usage and crowding in metropolitan businesses.
This is going to lead to the final firm realization in the business world, and in employees, that work is generally an activity, not a location and that there are man financial and human and environmental benefits to leveraging the internet to disperse the US work force.
That will reduce demand for commercial real-estate freeing up cheaper housing in metro centers, at that same time, people will begin to relocate out of Metro centers because they will no longer feel tied to having to be "close to the office".
The result of that will be a resurgence of rural living and rural values.
Give it 10 to 20 years and you'll see the City States begin to completely unwind and devolve into dystopian centers of remainders and poor.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 03:07 PM (COzlW)
Posted by: JuJuBee at March 15, 2020 03:07 PM (COzlW)
HOW WILL WE MAKE SOUPS!??!
Posted by: Sponge at March 15, 2020 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (af5xa)
Los Angeles is way ahead of you.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:08 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:04 PM (XVuno)
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I certainly don't, but you certainly are. Bon appetit!
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:08 PM (/669Q)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2020 03:04 PM (Z+IKu)
While the press breathlessly reports there is no toilet paper because of the Dem Panic, there will be an unexpected right in newspaper sales at retail.
Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (n13/j)
2 ER doctors who treat coronavirus are in critical condition. 1 in NJ 1 in WA.
Posted by: TAKE THE PROFIT OUT OF CORPORATE MEDIA
lulz,
where's this from, zerohedge or business insider?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: trapper's girl at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (rLrg9)
Posted by: AltonJackson
=====
I still miss Afterwords. Date night, we'd have dinner along Main, then roam around that store. Kid's books, history, anything at all.
Posted by: 2009Refugee - Thought Indifferent at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 02:35 PM (ekmuQ)
The size of coconuts. Except harder.
_________
No kidding. Ow!
Posted by: Melania Trump at March 15, 2020 03:09 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (/669Q)
1 hr.
BREAKING:
New reports claim that the FBI & DOJ have "lost" General Michael Flynn's records.
Is this just like how Bob Mueller's team "lost" thousands of text messages between Page & Strzok?
Or how they "lost" Lois Lerner's emails?
Posted by: IrishEi at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (sGotD)
Posted by: Cicero
Boil potatoes. Drain.
Semi mash them, add sour cream, salt, pepper, butter, bacon & cheese.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (bXR6b)
This virus is going to be a point of inflection in western society and human history. We are going to experience several weeks of greatly diminished traffic jams and fuel usage and crowding in metropolitan businesses.
This is going to lead to the final firm realization in the business world, and in employees, that work is generally an activity, not a location and that there are man financial and human and environmental benefits to leveraging the internet to disperse the US work force.
That will reduce demand for commercial real-estate freeing up cheaper housing in metro centers, at that same time, people will begin to relocate out of Metro centers because they will no longer feel tied to having to be "close to the office".
The result of that will be a resurgence of rural living and rural values.
Give it 10 to 20 years and you'll see the City States begin to completely unwind and devolve into dystopian centers of remainders and poor.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (af5xa)
Working from home sucks for me, did it for a year and a half and it was depressing. Not everyone is able to socialize on their own. They need to be "pushed" by the need to go to work and or school.
Posted by: Serious Cat at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (zqs/f)
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (/669Q)
Hah!
Since they went all online, it just isn't the same.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:11 PM (XVuno)
Daily Mail: Mayor Bill de Blasio is considering a NYC LOCKDOWN and expects
coronavirus cases to skyrocket past 1,000 in the next few days - and
claims 'we are SO far behind' due to Trump's failure
Health officials warned NYC residents should assume they've come in contact with the novel virus
These c*ckscukers are really going to shut down the country just to score political points and try to blame Trump for it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2020 03:11 PM (W/gIX)
Westwood/West LA (historically, post-war, what had become the nexus of nightlife and entertainment) lost that central status.
Of course there had always been "satellite" entertainment areas (LA area is about the size of CT, if you're being serious about contiguous urban/suburban area). But from what I saw/was told, the riots gave a big boost to the trend.
Don't see this changing the existing trends overall, for work or housing, though. Think those will continue to be driven by costs, convenience, commute time, etc.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:12 PM (El6T/)
Is this just like how Bob Mueller's team "lost" thousands of text messages between Page & Strzok?
Or how they "lost" Lois Lerner's emails?
Posted by: IrishEi
Or like how the State Dept "lost" clinton's illegal servers and illegal emails.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:12 PM (vw+Q6)
This is going to lead to the final firm realization in the business world, and in employees, that work is generally an activity, not a location and that there are man financial and human and environmental benefits to leveraging the internet to disperse the US work force.
That will reduce demand for commercial real-estate freeing up cheaper housing in metro centers, at that same time, people will begin to relocate out of Metro centers because they will no longer feel tied to having to be "close to the office".
The result of that will be a resurgence of rural living and rural values.
Give it 10 to 20 years and you'll see the City States begin to completely unwind and devolve into dystopian centers of remainders and poor.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:06 PM (af5xa)
A good point, and how I hope you're right. My CPA firm sent out an email saying that they've put all of the programs etc. in the cloud, and will be preparing tax returns remotely, from home. At some point many knowledge-based businesses are going to wonder why they're paying top dollar for commercial real estate, and wasting time commuting, etc.
I just the same sentiment eventually extends to education, which will break the back of the Reds' hold on that endeavor.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:13 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (/669Q)
Hah!
Since they went all online, it just isn't the same.
Posted by: Cicero
Hard to wipe with an iPad.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:13 PM (bXR6b)
yes
1 put potato in uW, cook HI for 5 minutes
2 discard tartar sauce and pomegranate
3 remove tater from uW, split open, slather with butter, sour cream, etc.
4 enjoy
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:14 PM (iTXRQ)
"Mmmm, Takis Fuego!"
Posted by: Gabby Johnson at March 15, 2020 03:14 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Colin at March 15, 2020 03:14 PM (7/38M)
This virus is going to be a point of inflection in western society and human history. We are going to experience several weeks of greatly diminished traffic jams and fuel usage and crowding in metropolitan businesses.
This is going to lead to the final firm realization in the business world, and in employees, that work is generally an activity, not a location and that there are man financial and human and environmental benefits to leveraging the internet to disperse the US work force.
That will reduce demand for commercial real-estate freeing up cheaper housing in metro centers, at that same time, people will begin to relocate out of Metro centers because they will no longer feel tied to having to be "close to the office".
The result of that will be a resurgence of rural living and rural values.
Give it 10 to 20 years and you'll see the City States begin to completely unwind and devolve into dystopian centers of remainders and poor.
Consider that this is actually already going on, and I think that you're right in that the current "crisis" will accelerate these trends.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: TheQuietMan
power is everything
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Colin
I scored two cases of dehydrated water.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (bXR6b)
When it first was reported to the court by DOJ, I found it to be almost funny - so ridiculous was it, in the context of a "case" that was obviously horseshit from the get-go, and would have been laughed out of court in an America that existed up til recently.
As I said earlier, I think Powell (probably Flynn too) prefer to unravel the case/expose the abuses through the judicial process itself (that certainly is the best explanation for the behavior since Powell took over).
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:16 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:16 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (bXR6b)
but you don't know what to add.
Posted by: S. Wright at March 15, 2020 03:16 PM (n13/j)
And the bac Lois Lerner's records, and the EPA's records. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (ZCEU2)
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Skip, in the land of the toilet paper-less, you are king.
Posted by: bluebell at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (/669Q)
Posted by: Serious Cat at March 15, 2020 03:10 PM (zqs/f)
I loved it. I first worked from home about 15 years ago when I had the flu (the actual flu), and essentially nobody realized it, except for the people in the adjacent offices. I was still on email, phone conferences, etc. so it was totally transparent to outsiders.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (ZCEU2)
Its kind of ironic that ever since then, the city grandees have been trying to resuscitate the downtown L.A. area as somewhere that anyone would want to go in the evenings. The Arts District, Bunker Hill, DTLA, blah blah blah. It's still a ghost town at night.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (XVuno)
A patriotic editor might change "team" to "Mueller's criminal mafia" or "Mueller's globalist seditionists".
The syndicate that JFK wanted to smash runs the underworld in DC, it would seem. They and their various criminal cartel industries are untouchable. (EDKH, poor Seth)
Posted by: illiniwek at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (Cus5s)
See WWI."
The right to invade Belgium?
And the British Empire didn't come apart until after WWII.
Posted by: Apostate at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (g2mRk)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:18 PM (vw+Q6)
Even in a panic, no one wants it. Weird, huh?
Posted by: all doubt removed at March 15, 2020 03:18 PM (S2eH9)
I am not missing that train wreck, should be lights out by 8:25 with Crazy Old Joe's brain going sideways.
Posted by: Skip
Might just be a tag team Trump bash.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (aKsyK)
Trump praised CA yesterday in his press briefing.
I haven't and won't bother to say what the loathsome ridiculous idiot governor of CA may have said in reply, I assume nothing.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (ZxNvW)
Posted by: no good deed at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (MmFTx)
Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (32YRo)
And the bac Lois Lerner's records, and the EPA's records. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2020 03:17 PM (bDqIh)
Srsly, how do you legitimately lose stuff like that? Scan and burn, nitwits! As an early adopter of scanning, I have records going back over 20 years.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (YLq84)
Heh. that's a funny one.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara~~~~~~
Excellent point. I had meant to mention that as well, especially since it was a major point of my campaign when I ran for state office to push for heavy investment into remote education.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:20 PM (af5xa)
I haven't and won't bother to say what the loathsome ridiculous idiot governor of CA may have said in reply, I assume nothing.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:19 PM (El6T/)
Actually, Trump was responding to Newsom, who had praised Trump's handling of the situation.
I hope you're sitting down when you read that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:21 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 15, 2020 03:21 PM (C1Lsn)
The store next to me only had pork left. I needed to grab one thing to make dinner tonight or else I wouldn't even have gone near the place.
Posted by: no good deed at March 15, 2020 03:21 PM (MmFTx)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:21 PM (El6T/)
Many people are out taking advantage of the sunshine and natural areas.
We saw dozens of pleated woodpeckers today.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:22 PM (PhTYi)
So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has "lost" the records of General Michael Flynn. How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon!
Posted by: Tami at March 15, 2020 03:22 PM (cF8AT)
Posted by: Floridachick at March 15, 2020 03:22 PM (MXKb0)
To no one's surprise, the archivist assigned to Barack Obama freaked out at how little was provided to the National Archives when Obama left office. It was the ghost presidency, most done off record, and what records there were have since gone an lost or erased themselves, it's damndest thing! Not surprising this persists among those who continue on Obama's work beyond January 2017.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2020 03:22 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Hillary Clinton, kleptocrat at March 15, 2020 03:23 PM (Z+IKu)
I think Newsome also publicly praised Trump during the Camp Fire thing.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:23 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:15 PM (bXR6b)
but you don't know what to add.
Posted by: S. Wright
Just add water. Duh!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:23 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:24 PM (PhTYi)
New Trump strategy - get on tv every day with a Corona virus update!
Watch the media start to cringe and then claim Corona-virus is no big
deal, why does Trump have to come on TV every day and hawk it, boring us
all - is it a strategy to get attention - to boost his chances to get
elected? Let's get back to talking about Demento Joe or Nutsy Nancy or
Cheesy Chuck!
Posted by: Boswell
~~~~~~~~~
This!
Absolutely this!!
Donald! I've long suspected you or one of your inner circle follows this blog.
Make it so!!
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:24 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 15, 2020 03:24 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Caliban at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (QE8X6)
What "records" are said to be "lost?"
Records for his case?
His military records?
His dental records?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:22 PM (PhTYi)
What kind of sadist goes out and pleats defenseless woodpeckers anyway?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (XVuno)
Definitely. It was just a refreshing - and doubtless fleeting - moment of sanity.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (YLq84)
I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling unit. In this thread, I will summarise what I believe I (don't) know. (1/12)
Posted by: Woof at March 15, 2020 03:26 PM (MtmVO)
Records for his case?
His military records?
His dental records?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (vw+Q6)
Or the biggie: did they lose his tax records?
I'd bet my life they didn't. They're probably better protected than the original version of the Constitution.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:27 PM (YLq84)
246 We saw dozens of pleated woodpeckers today.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:22 PM (PhTYi)
What kind of sadist goes out and pleats defenseless woodpeckers anyway?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (XVuno)
I know, right?
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:27 PM (PhTYi)
A really dedicated one. Those birds do not like
being fed through a sewing machine.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at March 15, 2020 03:28 PM (SchxB)
https://www.twitch.tv/podiumesports
Posted by: ptschett at March 15, 2020 03:28 PM (zB+vL)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:29 PM (iTXRQ)
Notice how the president said he's considering a full pardon.
What he's saying there, in my opinion, is he's done listening to his shitty advisors telling him it's not "proper" or it's not good politics to pardon Gen Flynn at this moment.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:29 PM (vw+Q6)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at March 15, 2020 03:29 PM (C1Lsn)
The vile attacks on him and his family did not make him draw up a list of judicial nominees he's sticking to. They did not make him implement his decades' long firm beliefs about trade. They did not make him pursue his actual signature policies, on immigration rule of law and border security, that made him the nominee. He adopted those positions and is carrying them out because he has very high political integrity - a stark contrast to the clumsily mendacious non-entity Obama, and also to weak and irresponsible GOP leaders.
Whatever.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:29 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:30 PM (bXR6b)
Don't forget to help Adam Lovinger, Donald.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2020 03:30 PM (ZLI7S)
Will we be doing our commenting thing here tonight at the AoSHQ?
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:30 PM (oGBso)
The kid I hired to clean the poop out of my yard, just realized I don't have a dog.
Posted by: rickb223
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~So, he thought you, or your neighbors were shitting in your yard...?
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:31 PM (af5xa)
New Governor has instructed them to start planning for a "county of residence only" travel restriction in 14 days.
Unbelievable.
Posted by: Man is not a Logical Animal at March 15, 2020 03:32 PM (shN6a)
Will we be doing our commenting thing here tonight at the AoSHQ?
Posted by: Boots
I hope so- those threads are hilarious
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:32 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Spinny the rabbit trainer on Key West pier at March 15, 2020 03:32 PM (Av7TK)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:32 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:29 PM (iTXRQ)
Pileated, for sure!
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:33 PM (PhTYi)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:33 PM (af5xa)
------------
It is true. I came to this realization, personally about 5 years ago- left corporate America, the suburbs, the traffic etc. I started a consulting business in a remote mountain area and I telecommute. My salary nearly DOUBLED as a result. Now I have customers who I've never met.
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at March 15, 2020 03:33 PM (NiFkv)
Posted by: Colin at March 15, 2020 03:35 PM (7/38M)
NBC
March. 46
February 47
January 46
And I'm sure the sample is biased.
Posted by: TAKE THE PROFIT OUT OF CORPORATE MEDIA. at March 15, 2020 02:25 PM (AXS9h)
This was a Black Swan event, and I think that people understand that this was (mostly) outside Gov't control.
(I say mostly, because the CDC was asleep as the switch, probably for years. There is no excuse for them not to game out what could have happened with a pandemic, especially after the Ebola scare. Less gun violence epidemic and more bio pandemic, please!)
That being said, I think we're going to have to go public with our support for PDJT. We need to start to canvas door to door. We need to get bumper stickers for our cars, even though they may get keyed. We need to get those sweeeet SPACE FORCE t-shirts and swag. The media will do anything to drag that spittle-flecked Yuri Andropov-like bag of grifty awfulness named Joe Biden across the finish line in November.
Then, and only then, can we sit back, relax, and let DJT take care of all family business once and for all.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 15, 2020 03:35 PM (m2EfB)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 15, 2020 03:24 PM (d9Cw3)
This.
Beautifully stated.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:35 PM (PhTYi)
I think Trump is signaling to the court that one way or another Flynn is going to get off. Even those who don't like Flynn or think he is a bad guy have to see that the Obama FBI/DOJ was hopelessly corrupt and that includes judge Sullivan.
Wouldn't be the first time or even the 100th time Trump has tried to influence the outcome of something with public pressure.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2020 03:35 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:36 PM (ZCEU2)
Or how they "lost" Lois Lerner's emails?
Posted by: IrishEi
Or like how the State Dept "lost" clinton's illegal servers and illegal emails.
Posted by: Soothsayer
-------
One of my favorites is how Clinton WH Security Adviser (and ex Arkansas bar-bouncer) Craig Livingston 'accidentally' acquired 1000 FBI files on Clinton adversaries.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 03:37 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: Skip
probably, but you don't have to clean up after your hobo
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:37 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Skip
You have to pick up turds after your dog, but not your hobo.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:37 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:38 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: buzzion at March 15, 2020 03:38 PM (Z7lwY)
------------
One of my programming staff said similar in 1997 'the internet is so cool. we can work from home.'
'So can the Indian willing to work for $8.00/hour to take your job' I told him.
Posted by: BluesFish at March 15, 2020 03:39 PM (Eh6LC)
By chance can I bet LA has local ordnance to clean up after your dog?
Posted by: Skip
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
What an age we live in.
The gov passes out hypodermics to drug users for free, and they end up discarded on our street, but threaten the public with fines and even jail for plastic using plastic straws and bags. People shit in the street and on the sidewalks, but pet owners are fined or jailed for not picking up after their dogs...
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:40 PM (af5xa)
'So can the Indian willing to work for $8.00/hour to take your job' I told him.
That Indian is now a manager, and makes all his India based employees come into the office.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at March 15, 2020 03:41 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Colin
--------
Well, open borders, so all of those 'immigrants' can save us from ourselves.
Amnesty, so that all of those shadow-lurkers can bring their diagnostic/medical care abilities to bear, and, well, free national healthcare.
There.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 15, 2020 03:41 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 15, 2020 03:41 PM (d9Cw3)
Posted by: DB- just DB
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Can hobos be house trained or will I need to build a kennel?
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:42 PM (af5xa)
The gov passes out hypodermics to drug users for free, and they end up discarded on our street, but threaten the public with fines and even jail for plastic using plastic straws and bags. People shit in the street and on the sidewalks, but pet owners are fined or jailed for not picking up after their dogs...
Posted by: TSgt Ciz
Proof of a three tiered justice system.
Rich - exempt
Middle class - Fucked
Poor/homeless/illegal - exempt 'cause they have no money and you can't get blood out of a turnip.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:43 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at March 15, 2020 03:43 PM (iTXRQ)
282 LADYL: My anniversary present from my wife was a painting of a pileated woodpecker. i love those birds. Thank you for your kind words.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 15, 2020 03:41 PM (d9Cw3)
What a great gift! Is it a Ruthven?
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:43 PM (PhTYi)
Posted by: DB- just DB
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Can hobos be house trained or will I need to build a kennel?
Posted by: TSgt Ciz
Tie 'em out to the tree every night. Let 'em off in the morning.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:44 PM (bXR6b)
'So can the Indian willing to work for $8.00/hour to take your job' I told him.
Posted by: BluesFish
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Any job where that is a risk, is already at risk specifically because of the cost of housing a work force in a Metro area. Dispersal is your best chance at being competitive when you go from living where the median home is >750k to one where twice the home and land is <200k and you drop the commute costs.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:45 PM (af5xa)
Then, and only then, can we sit back, relax, and let DJT take care of all family business once and for all.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 15, 2020 03:35 PM (m2EfB)
------------------------------------
^^^This!!
I'm in a very blue part of a very blue state, and went to get some coffee today in a coffee shop (NOT starbucks!) which was busy, because everything else is closed.
An acquaintance who happened to be there started in on OrangeManBad, and the WHO offered us test kits and O.M.B refused them, and this is all O.M.B's fault, and on and on. Normally I wouldn't bother getting into it because I don't want my coffee poisoned but I realized in that instant that I have to start pushing back.
So I did, quoting Friday's White House briefing that I watched from start to finish. As soon as facts joined the conversation, all of a sudden it was crickets from everybody else. But I did wait until my coffee was in my hands before letting loose.
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:45 PM (oGBso)
Posted by: Bean Counteress of Rohan at March 15, 2020 03:45 PM (2+j2N)
Tie 'em out to the tree every night. Let 'em off in the morning.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:44 PM (bXR6b)
How do you keep them from howling at the moon and disturbing the neighbors?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 15, 2020 03:46 PM (halMU)
Using the FBI to frame the Travel Office was just practice for using the FBI to frame Trump's Office, because nobody stood up to Chappaqua Jezebel back then.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 15, 2020 03:46 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Skip at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: rickb223
You're gonna lose some to coyotes that way.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (kkxOW)
Posted by: Colin at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (7/38M)
Posted by: Tuna at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (RueoN)
https://tinyurl.com/r8rzeww
"Presidential"
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (El6T/)
So I did, quoting Friday's White House briefing that I watched from start to finish. As soon as facts joined the conversation, all of a sudden it was crickets from everybody else. But I did wait until my coffee was in my hands before letting loose.
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:45 PM (oGBso)
God bless you, Boots.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (PhTYi)
I'm right there with you.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 15, 2020 03:48 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2020 03:35 PM (ZLI7S)
Yeah, this is right - Trump is signaling to the judge here, "you can do as you want, but Flynn walks because we both know the DOJ and FBI were corrupted in this case. Why soil your own reputation for no purpose now? But, whatever dude, you be you..." I think that does sink in.
Posted by: Boswell at March 15, 2020 03:48 PM (32YRo)
Posted by: rickb223
You're gonna lose some to coyotes that way.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (kkxOW)
Let the coyotes take their chances.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:48 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Northernlurker
Spray 'em down with the hose.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:50 PM (bXR6b)
So I did, quoting Friday's White House briefing that I watched from start to finish. As soon as facts joined the conversation, all of a sudden it was crickets from everybody else. But I did wait until my coffee was in my hands before letting loose.
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:45 PM (oGBso)
God bless you, Boots.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:47 PM (PhTYi)
This.
Am I the only one who was swearing at the screen at all the idiotic questions from the "journalists?"
"THEY ALREADY ADDRESSED YOUR QUESTION IN THE PRESENTATION. PTF ATTENTION NEXT TIME!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:50 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Boswell
Be better, judge. Be better.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:51 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:51 PM (oGBso)
For that kind of money, he could get twenty of Hunter's prosecutors fired!
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 15, 2020 03:51 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at March 15, 2020 03:51 PM (E2o2V)
I got hooked on a recipe that uses lime juice and pineapple juice. It also makes a yummy marinade for jerky.
Posted by: Bean Counteress of Rohan at March 15, 2020 03:52 PM (2+j2N)
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:51 PM (oGBso)
Yes. Unfortunately, we do.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 2020 03:52 PM (PhTYi)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Well, as long as they are clean kills and we don't end up with some contaminated survivor coyotes running the neighborhood.
I'm more worried about them cross breading with the raccoons...
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:52 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: Meatgrinder at March 15, 2020 03:53 PM (CLteG)
The gov passes out
hypodermics to drug users for free, and they end up discarded on our
street, but threaten the public with fines and even jail for plastic
using plastic straws and bags. People shit in the street and on the
sidewalks, but pet owners are fined or jailed for not picking up after
their dogs...
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:40 PM (af5xa)
We are in Bizarro World
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2020 03:53 PM (KHrw8)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz
Batter them instead.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:53 PM (bXR6b)
At least we could yell at our computers and hit POST while we were together but maintaining our distance!
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:53 PM (oGBso)
Where did he get that number from?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 15, 2020 03:54 PM (halMU)
Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench at March 15, 2020 03:54 PM (SNx1U)
Really had to move
That's why if you please
I am on my bended knees
Bertha don't you come around here anymore
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2020 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)
Racoons in your area must be into some serious kink.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair at March 15, 2020 03:54 PM (SchxB)
https://tinyurl.com/tfx3sg3
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 03:55 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: torabora at March 15, 2020 03:55 PM (FUl7k)
Posted by: Boots at March 15, 2020 03:51 PM (oGBso)
Thank you, both!
I've always lived in blue states, and I've held my tongue for a long time because I always thought that friendships are more important than politics - still do.
In this case, however, this one is for all the marbles.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 15, 2020 03:56 PM (m2EfB)
"THEY ALREADY ADDRESSED YOUR QUESTION IN THE PRESENTATION. PTF ATTENTION NEXT TIME!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 03:50 PM (YLq84)
+++++++++++++++
Oh, no, Jay. No way.
He lined up some of the most powerful private citizens on the planet, along with the chiefs of public health and his executive staff. They then went through, point by point, what they were planning to do and how they would accomplish it by exploiting massive private expertise.
Then they went to Q&A and it was just "gotcha" question after gotcha question, peppered throughout with some ChiCom propaganda, including from PBS.
I found myself wishing that someone would quickly lower the stage down into the bunker under the Rose Garden, then drop a daisy cutter onto them.
Our press has become nothing more than a loosely confederated network of terrorist organizations.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2020 03:56 PM (9kgSk)
Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench at March 15, 2020 03:56 PM (SNx1U)
During his confused livestream, Joe said he would pay Brazil $20 billion to stop wildfires in the Amazon.
Where did he get that number from?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 15, 2020 03:54 PM (halMU)
++++What if they up it to 40 billion, Joe, you give it to them and they continue burning anyway. Whatcha gonna do then?
Posted by: washrivergal at March 15, 2020 03:56 PM (jSEze)
I'm more worried about them cross breading with the raccoons...
Posted by: TSgt Ciz
Batter them instead.
Posted by: rickb223
Why oh why do I ever trust spell check... hangs head in shame...
But on the other hand... deep fired hobo/raccon cross breeds... hmmm
Soyboylent blue?
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 03:56 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz[/
Racoons in your area must be into some serious kink.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - hiding out in the secret mountain lair
That's hot!
Posted by: Beto 0rourke at March 15, 2020 03:57 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: The Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench
3. Those that don't until there's a pandemic.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:57 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: torabora at March 15, 2020 03:57 PM (FUl7k)
Where did he get that number from?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 15, 2020 03:54 PM (halMU)
He's probably used to that being the minimum to bribe a country with to give his son a job there.
Posted by: buzzion at March 15, 2020 03:57 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: bigstarxxx at March 15, 2020 03:57 PM (pvJV4)
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 03:58 PM (kD8Fh)
But on the other hand... deep fired hobo/raccon cross breeds... hmmm
Soyboylent blue?
Posted by: TSgt Ciz
*snort.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 03:58 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: torabora at March 15, 2020 03:57 PM (FUl7k)
What's the false positive and false negative rate.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 15, 2020 03:58 PM (dLLD6)
Posted by: torabora at March 15, 2020 03:59 PM (FUl7k)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 15, 2020 03:59 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: torabora
339,000,000 people in the US.
3,324 confirmed cases.
You do the math.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 04:00 PM (bXR6b)
That's some funny stuff. If nothing else, the man exudes competence.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 04:00 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 15, 2020 03:59 PM (0O7c5)
++++++++++++
Probably at first, yes - a mandatory self-quarantine. If you end up in need of ICU space, I imagine they'll be able to prioritize it, direct you to where ventilators are, etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2020 04:01 PM (9kgSk)
Posted by: phoenixgirl
Pretty much.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 04:01 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 04:01 PM (Lqy/e)
Yup. Dumb and mean.
They have a narrative (coordinated with the DNC), so when DJT goes in a different direction (instead of ceding decisions to the scientists and CDC, he engages private businesses) they can't deal. Lacking the ability, flexibility to deal with him (once again) not doing whet all the DC conventional wisdom insists must be done, they keep going as if he did. They have a plan and they follow through, despite the plan/narrative not applying to what just happened.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 15, 2020 03:59 PM (0O7c5)
What I'd like to know is: What does "presumptive positive" mean? My own state's dept of health is reporting presumptive positive. OK. So what?
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (kD8Fh)
3,324 confirmed cases.
You do the math.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 04:00 PM (bXR6b)
Brian Williams: With 3,324 cases you could give one of those cases to everyone in America and still have some left over
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (KHrw8)
I expected the "gotcha" questions, and they pissed me off too. After all, this is a potentially catastrophic development for the country, so how about putting aside petty partisan shit and pulling together, just for a little while, OK? I've done that for Obama, so how about you reciprocating for Trump?
But the ones that REALLY pissed me off were the questions that had just been addressed in the presentation.
"What are you doing to facilitate approval of the test equipment?"
"Have you thought of using Wal-Mart parking lots as test locations?"
That sort of thing. Maybe that's the lecturer in me coming out, but that sort of thing drives me up a wall.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: dIb at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (VJOLZ)
Who gives a shit about wildfires in the Amazon anyway? They never should have put a country there in the first place.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 04:03 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: kallisto
Presumptive positive = They deem you sick.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2020 04:03 PM (bXR6b)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 04:03 PM (Lqy/e)
I think it was around 9k all week. Now it shows 80 ish.
Posted by: Armchair Quarterbacks Anti Trumpers Everywhere at March 15, 2020 04:03 PM (QxTuE)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 04:03 PM (El6T/)
What I'd like to know is: What does "presumptive positive" mean? My own state's dept of health is reporting presumptive positive. OK. So what?
Posted by: kallisto at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (kD8Fh)
Presumptive positive means that they have tested positive locally but the test result is waiting for confirmation by CDC.
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at March 15, 2020 04:04 PM (2GPSc)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 04:02 PM (YLq84)
+++++++++++++
Well, Jay, they had to Tweet some sort of partisan bullshit during the actual briefing. So they had to play catch-up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2020 04:04 PM (9kgSk)
It really does drive home the theatrical nature of this when Australia bans gatherings of more than five people, do not leave your home except to shop for food, GO TO WORK, or help other people. It feels like they are both trying to use this to really hurt Trump, but at the same time they are starting to realize that what they have created could go Mad Max if they are logical so they are trying to put the brakes on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2020 04:04 PM (XyVor)
Records for his case?
His military records?
His dental records?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 15, 2020 03:25 PM (vw+Q6)
His "Permanent" Record.
You know....that one.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 15, 2020 04:05 PM (Z+IKu)
Yesterday in PoorT-land we saw several instance of early stage wilding events apparently cascading here in the Cascades...
Three instances of multiple yutes sitting in plasti-cuffs chatting with police.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 04:06 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: Dark Helmet at March 15, 2020 04:06 PM (Oka5v)
Posted by: I MADE POOR FOOD CHOICES YESTERDAY
New cases of what?
Posted by: Hands at March 15, 2020 04:06 PM (786Ro)
I have a friend who grew up in Manaus. He loves to say that people in the region laugh when they hear "environmentalists" whine about protecting the Amazon from people. He says what really needs to happen is protect people from the Amazon.
We went for a hike in the Amazon one day with a guide who had to cut back the trail with machete the whole time. I asked him when was the last time the trail was used. He said about a week.
It's incredible how fast stuff grows down there.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2020 04:07 PM (ZLI7S)
Yes. Best description of the so called press I have seen.
Posted by: Floridachick at March 15, 2020 04:08 PM (MXKb0)
Posted by: Bean Counteress of Rohan at March 15, 2020 04:09 PM (2+j2N)
I ventured forth today. I drove past the Georgia Pacific pulp mill in
Camas WA. Last I heard, they make paper towels and toilet paper there. I
am sad to report that they weren't running today. The shortages may be
here awhile. The local burger chain, Burgerville, is drive through only
right now. And all the churches seemed to be closed.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Hey Neighbor!
when are we going to have another PNW-Meetup!?
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 04:09 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: navybrat, at large at March 15, 2020 04:10 PM (w7KSn)
As had been said elsewhere, there is not enough popcorn in the world that would be enough to satisfy me, once I'm tuned into a Trump-Biden debate.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at March 15, 2020 04:10 PM (m2EfB)
Maybe they should just wax the vegetation.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 04:11 PM (YLq84)
Posted by: Hands at March 15, 2020 04:06 PM
Felonies.
Posted by: I MADE POOR FOOD CHOICES YESTERDAY at March 15, 2020 04:08 PM (AXS9h)
Toilet paper?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 04:11 PM (YLq84)
Just sayin'.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 15, 2020 04:11 PM (YLq84)
*fistbump*
Extra credit for the sneaky Brazil reference.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 15, 2020 04:12 PM (XVuno)
I can imagine lots of other potential benefits. Would be like living in a Mars colony. Interesting.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 04:13 PM (af5xa)
Wipe accordingly.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 15, 2020 04:16 PM (e1mEI)
I can imagine lots of other potential benefits. Would be like living in a Mars colony. Interesting.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 04:13 PM (af5xa)
It would look cool, but I wonder about unintended side effects. Lack of sunlight getting to your house. Higher mold growth. Less air circulation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 15, 2020 04:16 PM (XyVor)
Yesterday in PoorT-land we saw several instance of early stage wilding events apparently cascading here in the Cascades...
Three instances of multiple yutes sitting in plasti-cuffs chatting with police.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 04:06 PM (af5xa)
Maybe the tech guys will get busy and create bail mandated neck collars made of titanium. With built in tasers. Activated by store theft sensors.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 15, 2020 04:24 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: RICO aka msm/dnc/bureaucracy at March 15, 2020 04:27 PM (x6XkS)
side effects. Lack of sunlight getting to your house. Higher mold
growth. Less air circulation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Clearly it would require its own environmental controls for just those concerns, similar to any greenhouse.
But not new technology.
The Russians so far are seeing significant energy benefits... in Siberia... ;-)
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at March 15, 2020 04:29 PM (af5xa)
Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2020 04:29 PM (6XZdO)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 15, 2020 04:32 PM (G/6B6)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 15, 2020 04:32 PM (pNxlR)
377 This is a good post, and a good point. But that Ralph Waldo Emerson is indecipherable to me. The words are in English, but it's just a mish-mash.
Posted by: Chris M at March 15, 2020 04:29 PM (6XZdO)
He was a Masshole.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 15, 2020 04:33 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 04:34 PM (Lqy/e)
371 OANN just had an article about Russia pioneering the use of geo-domes to cover homes and yards. Results in significant reduction in heating cost.
"Every Home A Chernobyl Reactor #4, Comrades!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 15, 2020 04:34 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 04:36 PM (Lqy/e)
Nike has announced it will be closing its U.S. brick and mortar locations along with other international stores while governments try and flatten the curve on the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 04:38 PM (aKsyK)
Nike has announced it will be closing its U.S. brick and mortar locations along with other international stores while governments try and flatten the curve on the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 15, 2020 04:38 PM (aKsyK)
At least have SooperGenius LeBaron come by to rake the lawns and sweep the sidewalks -- why should he get off scot-free?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 15, 2020 04:41 PM (pNxlR)
Aaannd Jabba the Pritzker just did the same in Illinois. By this time tomorrow he'll probably have locked down the entire state, banned gatherings of more than three people, placed anyone who sneezes under quarantine and reinstated the death penalty for TP hoarding....
Posted by: Secret Square at March 15, 2020 04:44 PM (9WuX0)
Then, back to business as usual.
Posted by: Mutnodjmet at March 15, 2020 04:45 PM (sPJyv)
I just sighed and kept my mouth shut.
Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 15, 2020 04:45 PM (T09ml)
"...Only an Abraham Lincoln takes risks of that sort with a nation. But this is not because the ordinary politician is wiser; it is because the ordinary politician does not realize the latent force of idealism, all the stronger with the decay of the religions which gave it other outlets, ready in the world of to-day for any leader with the courage to use it..."
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 15, 2020 04:46 PM (9H6Sq)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious
+++++
Well, some of them have also proven to be very, very good at slaughtering their own citizens.
Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 15, 2020 04:47 PM (T09ml)
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at March 15, 2020 03:24 PM (d9Cw3)
This.
Beautifully stated.
Posted by: Ladyl at March 15, 20
This exactly!! The other lesson is about "the hill to die on" is another lie they told and we accepted. Like everything else they say it's opposite of true.The reality is that as we stand up for ourselves, they fall down!
Posted by: Chillin the most at March 15, 2020 04:53 PM (lonOK)
https://bit.ly/3d1hLtz
We live in an entire nation of Cornhulios.
Pure, unmitigated idiocy describes this situation perfectly.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton, a law abiding citizen at March 15, 2020 04:55 PM (Do5/p)
One of my coworkers was blabbering about that, so I told him: "Right on, because if you test okay at the doctor's this afternoon, and you go to the movies tonight, and the snack bar kid sneezes in your popcorn... you're still protected! I don't know how that works, but I wish Biden would fucking explain it to Trump!"
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 15, 2020 04:58 PM (9H6Sq)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 15, 2020 05:03 PM (G/6B6)
You know....that one.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
+++++
You mean the one started by Sister Mary Margaret Panzer when he was in first grade?
Posted by: Mr. Trashbag, Shoggoth and Eater Of Toes at March 15, 2020 05:06 PM (T09ml)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 15, 2020 05:06 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 15, 2020 05:08 PM (hIzQK)
Such diversity.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2020 05:17 PM (46ycI)
This may be entirely to nerdish for the horde, but there are comparisons to Trump and the Halo main character Master Chief. The AI Cortana in the game states that she chose Master Chief out of all the other Spartans only because he was lucky, that things always went his way. This is Trump. He is the luckiest SOB I've ever seen. He seems to step in the shit over and over but comes out smelling like a rose. I'll take lucky on my side every time.
Posted by: Fletch at March 15, 2020 05:19 PM (1QcH1)
Yesterday was 700.
Posted by: I MADE POOR FOOD CHOICES YESTERDAY at March 15, 2020 05:19 PM (AXS9h)
Any context to this? If you are attempting to merely inform, you are going about it all wrong.
Posted by: Getcha Pull at March 15, 2020 05:32 PM (aR6C/)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2020 05:34 PM (46ycI)
I can already hear the excuses team flatline is preparing. "It wasn't the usual debate scene" (as if that wouldn't have made it even worse).
I hope Bernie just lets him talk endlessly.
If I were breadline, that is exactly how I would approach tonight.
Posted by: Getcha Pull at March 15, 2020 05:37 PM (aR6C/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 15, 2020 05:37 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2020 05:39 PM (46ycI)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 15, 2020 05:39 PM (46ycI)
What's Bernie's solution going to be; give the virus healthcare?Biden wont even know he's on TV
Posted by: Getcha Pull at March 15, 2020 05:43 PM (aR6C/)
Posted by: Roland Hirsch at March 15, 2020 06:09 PM (oMkPq)
We had a glorious week of eating out every night, not a single meal at a
chain or franchise, every one a favorite, owned by a family. Had a loverly brunch with the Spartans, and tonight we dine in Hell. Going out now for the extra-large prime rib for two, by the lakefront. Then
the lights go out.
Getting the race car ready for the big one, with Fred Astaire.
We took chances: we knew we took them.
Things have turned out badly.
For God's sake, take care of our people.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 15, 2020 06:12 PM (8IOEj)
Fucking idiot
Posted by: Clown car administration at March 15, 2020 06:25 PM (9xT0z)
If the election were next week, I think Trump would lose. That's why I'm not much interested in discussing his second term.
We all know that Biden is a demented, doddering POS. And we all USED TO KNOW that he would be the toughest DEM out there to beat in 2020. He still is, imo.
Posted by: mnw at March 15, 2020 06:39 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at March 15, 2020 06:50 PM (98cJm)
Posted by: mnw at March 15, 2020 06:54 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: rhomboid at March 15, 2020 03:29 PM (El6T/)
My thoughts EXACTLY. Thank you.
Posted by: ... at March 15, 2020 06:59 PM (uEbPt)
Fucking idiot
Posted by: Clown car administration at March 15, 2020 06:25 PM (9xT0z)
You mean he fired a nest of incompetent Obama fellators, and expanded America's military reach.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 15, 2020 07:11 PM (miJU3)
Posted by: Kurt at March 15, 2020 07:12 PM (YLI2d)
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