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Quick Hits

True Conservative Dan Crenshaw enjoying some Celebrity Face Time
with likely murderess Carol Baskin,
December 9, 2021
Dan likes semi-celebrities
This was shortly after Danny branded the Freedom Caucus
as "grifters" who just wanted attention

More bad polling news for Brandon--left-leaning AP shows him at a fresh low for their poll, 43% approving, 56% disapproving.

And:

As of now, just 28% of Americans say they want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, including only 48% of Democrats.

He's not running, and everyone knows that -- we don't know if he'll even be existing for that election -- so this has no real-world impact, but it does tell you about people's Brandon Tolerance Level.

And:

Only about a quarter were very confident that Biden "has the mental capability to serve effectively as president" or "is healthy enough to serve effectively as president." Close to half are not confident in Biden's mental capability or health.

Drew Holden has a great thread on all the bluecheck activist "journalists" who uncritically amplified Nina Totenberg's claim that Gorsuch is waging germ warfare against the wise Latina. I mean, I amplified it too, but I'm openly an activist and not a journalist and also, I think it's funny.

Good thread though-- why do zero "journalists" check sources now? Wasn't that supposed to be the foundation of their craft and why you were supposed to believe them?

In an interview I think I'll post tomorrow, Walter Kirn points out that almost no "journalists" leave their computer screens or even pick up a phone any longer -- literally all their "journalism" is reading tweets and retweeting. A major journalistic activity might be sending an email or DM for comment on a hit piece they've finished writing.

Speaking of illegitimate elections -- those drop boxes the Wisconsin governor lawlessly ordered in 2020? And the open invitation to voter fraud that is "ballot harvesting"? Yeah, those were both illegal. A judge has banned their use in 2022.

A judge in the key battleground state of Wisconsin ruled Thursday that ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting violate state law and cannot be used in the upcoming midterm elections.
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren determined "there is no statutory authority" to allow for either practice, which became highly controversial in Wisconsin following the state's razor-thin outcome in the 2020 presidential election. President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump in the state by approximately 20,000 votes.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, which is under fire for allegedly bending and even openly violating state law to give Biden an edge, authorized the dramatic increase in the use of ballot drop boxes, but Judge Bohren held that the agency lacked lawful authority to do so.
The plaintiffs, voters represented by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), argued that state law allowed for only two methods of returning an absentee ballot: Through the mail or in person at the municipal clerk's office. Nowhere does it allow for a ballot to be dropped off in a drop box.
Likewise, Wisconsin law provides that no person "may receive a ballot from or give a ballot to a person other than the election official in charge." This, the plaintiffs argued, is a clear prohibition on ballot harvesting, the practice of third parties collecting absentee ballots from voters.

I wonder which blogger, apart from AllahPundit, will write this up at Hot Air.

Oh, I already know. It was Jazz Shaw.

Most perfect election in the history of the universe.

M&Ms will become "more inclusive;" the animated characters representing the candies will be given "nuanced personalities."

Candy is about to get more "inclusive," with the maker of M&M's announcing its famed characters are getting modern makeovers and will have more "nuanced personalities."
Mars, Incorporated, the company behind the colorful, candy-coated chocolates, announced Thursday a "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

What are the odds that two of the "nuanced personalities" turn out to be "gay" and "trans"?

Via Andrew Kerr of the DC Examiner, quoting the New York Times: Kathy Griffin once asked CNN's head and Chief Dwarf Jeff Zucker for a raise.

He was so offended that this zero-talent, who was lucky to have a job at all, was demanding a raise, that he fired her on the spot.

Later, he thought it over and rehired her... at a 20% pay cut.

Second look at Jeff Zucker?!

Christina Pushaw Crocodile
@ChristinaPushaw

@GovRonDeSantis just announced that @FLCaseyDeSantis completed her final chemo treatment yesterday and is doing well! Thanks everyone for your prayers

Thank you for being by my side from the beginning, but especially yesterday as we celebrated my FINAL Chemo Treatment together. I’m grateful, very humbled and blessed. pic.twitter.com/cl42YBb0fl
— Casey DeSantis (@FLCaseyDeSantis) January 20, 2022

Will Chamberlain was goofing on bloated nepot Jonah Goldberg and was surprised to hear about this story.

An old, old story. But a good one.

Jonah Goldberg's Fake Pulitzer Nomination Will Follow Him Forever

MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman clearly had a lot of fun debunking conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg's claim on his latest book jacket that he'd been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
By Adam Martin
MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman clearly had a lot of fun debunking conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg's claim on his latest book jacket that he'd been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize...
As Dedman gleefully explains, Goldberg did not actually receive a nomination, but merely entered the contest, which merely requires $50 and an entry form. Penguin, which published Goldberg's The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, says it will remove the claim. Goldberg, for his part, says he didn't make the claim in his National Review biography, which has been updated to exclude it (thank god for the cache!)....
But while Goldberg, Penguin, and National Review have sanitized the instances of his biography on which Dedman called him out, he's a prolific enough writer and commentator, with enough short bios on various websites and publications, that the notion he's a two-time Pulitzer nominee won't be easy to put to rest...

Dedman may have won his point, but Goldberg's been trading on the notion he was nominated for a Pulitzer for so long, it will follow him around online long after he's officially disavowed it.

That's nothing. The bloated jerkoff also claims credit for the "MacGuffinization of Politics," a much more prestigious honor.

BTW, he didn't claim to be nominated for a Pulitzer as some kind of wry joke or satire of the industry. No, he really tried to scam people and got caught.

This is what got Chamberlain goofing on this untalented mommy-rider: He attacked Josh Hammer for calling the useless cvck Orin Kerr the "David French of conservative jurisprudence."

And, for you persnickety grammar policers out there, you'll note this Pulitzer Prize-nominated author (TM) defended French while confusing the parts of speech.

Some of you may say, "But that's too minor an error to dunk on Jonah over."

But I'd respond: "Would Jonah dunk on a Twitter Enemy over that error?"

Checkmate. I say "Checkmate" to you, Sir.

NeverTrump distances, distances:

Julie Kelly is right; this cowardly cvck gasbag took about 13,000 words (run the wordcount yourself, I'm just eyeballing this wall of text) to tell you "I'm not voting for either person."

As usual. It's not biiiiiinary.

But of course telling conservatives not to vote for Trump is effectively campaigning for Biden, because conservative votes would tend to go to Trump.

And that's all these it's not biiiiiiinary guys do, campaign for Hillary, and then Biden, and then claim that ackshually, they wrote in Ronald Reagan or Liz Cheney or whatever so they technically didn't vote for Biden.

No, you didn't use your single vote for Biden. You instead used your influence to generate thousands and thousands of votes for Biden.

Cowards. Liars. Quislings.

Send them your money. They are men of highest honor and scruple and courage, and they are all Fighting For You.

Speaking of: David French launched, get this, yet another attack on Christian evangelicals, presupposed on the leftwing paranoias about their militancy.

Here's Jonah the Whale continuing to whine that Josh Hammer called some other quisling a David French (a noun, not an adjective, note):

Must be nice when your Democrat donors have arranged it nice for you so that this is your biggest worry of the day.

Must.

Be.

Nice.

Oh, and speaking of actual conservatives who really are fighting for you: Julie Kelly will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee, attempting to inform these useless tits about the gulag prisoners the Media Faction and their NeverTrump Renfields call the "insurrectionists."

lmao pic.twitter.com/Q8ygjOdlQR
— Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) January 20, 2022

This earring-wearing Real Journalist not only cites the length of Biden's press conference as proof of his greatness, and not only says that one of the few tough questions (about his senility) was a bad question which came from "a real jerk," but then announces that Biden committed no errors during it.

MSNBC Guest: "To go for an hour and 50 minutes, hour and 45 minutes, and not screw up—really demonstrably—not screw up really at all...I thought it was the best demonstration of the fact that the President's mind is perfectly fine." pic.twitter.com/yyoqe76OZe
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 19, 2022

They're the media -- trust them! They are brilliant, faultless analysts operating on the Plane of Genius and committed Truth-Tellers!

Accurate. pic.twitter.com/HSAYRBKhYv
— LibertyJ (@LibertyJen) January 15, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 06:42 PM

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 06:42 PM (arJlL)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)

3 That's a bold statement.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Looks like stuttering is contagious and there is an outbreak in DC, eh Joe, Ted, Dan?

Posted by: Bete at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (Ojki1)

5 Yeah baby!

Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (eFR3E)

6 A gay and trans M and M candy pieces.
What fresh Hell is this?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (URNdm)

7 Dan Crenshaw blows donkeys in Mexico.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (Zz0t1)

8 fixed?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (URNdm)

9 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (yQpMk)

10 AoS 2: The Emboldening

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (Zz0t1)

11 I love the dude bumping into the wall video.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (URNdm)

12 Walter Kirn points out that almost no "journalists" leave their computer screens or even pick up a phone any longer -- literally all their "journalism" is reading tweets and retweeting. A major journalistic activity might be sending an email or DM for comment on a hit piece they've finished writing.

They're making millions doing what they're doing now. Why the fuck should they change a thing?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:46 PM (Zz0t1)

13 He's not running, and everyone knows that -- we don't know if he'll even be existing for that election -- so this has no real-world impact, but it does tell you about people's Brandon Tolerance Level.
---
Well, he could be honest and tell the truth, but why start that now?

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (XHhHI)

14 Bold!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (llON8)

15

test

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (llON8)

16 How the hell can you follow those Twatter conversations? I have no idea what's going on.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (OalnH)

17 Oh, I already know. It was Jazz Shaw.

Is that the fat tranny from that show on that shit cable channel?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (Zz0t1)

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (u82oZ)

19 ok, so how do we fix the centering and such?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (llON8)

20 re the M&Ms, this is great. The yellow ones will be good at math. The red ones will operate casinos. The brown ones can dunk. And the orange ones got cheated out of the last US presidential elecion.

Posted by: Anotheranon at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (8Ze5j)

21 If Mars is so dedicated to diversity and inclusion then let's see them have one of their M&M's identify as a Reese's Pieces in an ad.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (xPl2J)

22 Will the M&M candy box come with a warning that you need to ask the candies pronouns before you eat them? I think I'll just eat " non woke " chocolate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (eh4B6)

23 One way Biden has exceeded my expectations is he is still alive.

Alas. I had 6 months and one day in the pool.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (u82oZ)

24 Pulitzer? Big deal.

I was once Time's Person of the Year and it didn't cost me squat.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (ZLI7S)

25 It's the Eye of the Tiger,
the thrill of the fight,
standing up to the challenge
of our rivals!

Posted by: Wondering if anyone will get the eyepatch joke at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (dNqv+)

26 This is fantastic and I am bookmarking it

https://tinyurl.com/yc2xtkba

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (puAGF)

27 >>> 20 re the M&Ms, this is great. The yellow ones will be good at math. The red ones will operate casinos. The brown ones can dunk. And the orange ones got cheated out of the last US presidential elecion.
Posted by: Anotheranon at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (8Ze5j)

I don't remember any purple or pink M&Ms, certainly not on the pic that was linked earlier.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (llON8)

28 >>>Oh, I already know. It was Jazz Shaw.

Shaw used to be great on Twitter. Now, not so much.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (VWp7G)

29 I'm feeling emboldened!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (+ldAm)

30 And can I add that Crenshaw can eat a big bag of navy seal dick?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (+ldAm)

31 I hope the Red M and M has a MAGA hat since they are being inclusive to make us all feel happy.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (coYBh)

32 I can't wait until they make semeM & M's

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at January 20, 2022 06:51 PM (LaNzR)

33 Dan Crenshaw blows donkeys in Mexico.
Posted by: Sponge

I caught that show!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:51 PM (mD/uy)

34 I used to really like Mark Levin but lately there are just so many special-pleader segments talking about The Holocaust and other bad shit that the Jews have endured that it's becoming unlistenable.

It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't care to be clubbed over the head with jewish-specific atrocities on talk radio.

Posted by: ballistic at January 20, 2022 06:51 PM (oXNqT)

35 >>>And can I add that Crenshaw can eat a big bag of navy seal dick?
Posted by: NALNAMSAM

In one sitting.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:51 PM (VWp7G)

36 I'm feeling emboldened!
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (+ldAm)

No, you aren't.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (ZSK0i)

37 Babylon Bee already a story about a trans M&M demanding to be called a Skittle.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (HmZuC)

38 And speaking of National Review:

https://tinyurl.com/4awy6bwt

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (URNdm)

39 How the hell can you follow those Twatter conversations? I have no idea what's going on.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

#metoo

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (mD/uy)

40 And MOUNDS don't have nuts.

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (786Ro)

41 Shaw used to be great on Twitter. Now, not so much.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (VWp7G)

Can say that for a lot of these assholes.

Still, I like to know where people really stand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (dNqv+)

42 I am sad about M&Ms...any word whether this inclusiveness, diversity travesty, and abuse of chocolate will affect peanut covered M&Ms ?

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (V13WU)

43 To hell with M & Ms.
From now on I'm only eating W & Ws.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (axyOa)

44 Tell me that someone with half a chance is running against the Pirate in the primaries...

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (CdZ4i)

45 Crenshaw better start looking for bit parts in B Pirate Movies. Butt Pirate movies.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (GYllL)

46 Now we've lost redc1c4?

Posted by: davidt36@hotmail.com at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (9sjiB)

47 On all the sportscasters and their companies backing out on going to China...apparently, it's partly b/c China was gonna enforce their Chinese lockdown policies on all foreigners who test positive for the virus while there...

Nothing like speaking highly of China on air while being horrified by China behind the scenes...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (exHjb)

48 Shucks. I like Ms &M.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (awmcV)

49 And speaking of National Review:

https://tinyurl.com/4awy6bwt
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (URNdm)

Wow. Who's wide-load McBigmouth?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (ZSK0i)

50 I want super-straight hyper-sexualized candy that looks like they're gonna go at it any moment, teenage candy, some fool left them alone, they've been making out, looking at each other, eyes burning with desire and ..... and then I eat them and destroy the moment.

Or, you know, just regular candy would be nice too.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (SXSmD)

51 >>>Can say that for a lot of these assholes.

Still, I like to know where people really stand.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Agreed. Let them show us who they are.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (VWp7G)

52 40 And MOUNDS don't have nuts.
Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (786Ro)

I hate coconut or a would make a joke about pillowy layers and nuts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (dNqv+)

53 >>>38 And speaking of National Review:

https://tinyurl.com/4awy6bwt
Posted by: Lizzy

lol i meant to link that all week but i either forget or think "too mean, I don't want ot make fun of heavy people"

Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (0G13K)

54 The inability to just say, you know, I'm not going to hang out with any of these Tiger King weirdos is jawdropping.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (3YVs3)

55 Wait that was wrong, chocolate covered peanut M&Ms, not peanut covered chocolate M&Ms. Was that dyslexia?

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (V13WU)

56 >>>And MOUNDS don't have nuts.

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 06:52 PM (786Ro)

Did somebody say mounds of nuts?

Posted by: Brian Tater at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (QYPq3)

57 >>>Wow. Who's wide-load McBigmouth?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

THE Kevin Williamson.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (VWp7G)

58 You know, this would have been the perfect moment for the M&M people to just SHUT THE FUCK UP

And they blew it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2022 06:55 PM (guGkK)

59 (oops, pay no attention to that nic)

Posted by: davidt at January 20, 2022 06:55 PM (9sjiB)

60 So National Review identifies as non binary? How will that appeal to more than NeverTrump?

But stunning and brave I guess to burn down the House you live in while inside.

Posted by: Bete at January 20, 2022 06:55 PM (Ojki1)

61 I want super-straight hyper-sexualized candy that looks like they're gonna go at it any moment, teenage candy, some fool left them alone, they've been making out, looking at each other, eyes burning with desire and ..... and then I eat them and destroy the moment.
Posted by: banana Dream

Blow-pops?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:55 PM (mD/uy)

62 How many people like M&Ms? When I want chocolate, they are insufficient and the candy shell just gets in the way.

Is it more of a kid candy? Sugar wrapped sugar?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 06:55 PM (dNqv+)

63 Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer filled with mouth breathing retards.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 20, 2022 06:55 PM (flINI)

64 THE Kevin Williamson.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (VWp7G)

I should have figured.

Perhaps I shall start calling him Captain Comorbidity.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (ZSK0i)

65 As of now, just 28% of Americans say they want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, including only 48% of Democrats.
====

About right for the man that got 81 million votes more than 25% more than anyone but President Trump.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (iDcra)

66 Who the fuck is that q-tip douchebag in the MSNBC clip saying the former vice president is perfectly fine?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (Zz0t1)

67 Oh, I already know. It was Jazz Shaw.

Tommy Lee Jones played him in JFK, right? An underrated performance.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (yQpMk)

68 there is something about Williamson, who claims to be some kind of rootin'-tootin' libertarian, demanding that one of the healthiest men in the world, with zero covid risk, get vaccinated to spare his obese ass the chance of infection

that's not very libertarian

that's kind of communist, isn't it?

Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (0G13K)

69 Oreo now has gay pride color stuffing. Something for Crenshaw to nibble on while he's learning to code.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (GYllL)

70 Now we've lost redc1c4?
Posted by: davidt36@hotmail.com at January 20, 2022 06:53 PM (9sjiB)
---
There are 18 2/3rds of a month left in the year.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (XHhHI)

71 >>>Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer filled with mouth breathing retards.
Posted by: Truck Monkey

Worse than Facebook, worse than TikTok, Worse than Instagram.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (VWp7G)

72 Melts in your mouth, not in your hand?

Posted by: Kamala at January 20, 2022 06:57 PM (9sjiB)

73 lol i meant to link that all week but i either forget or think "too mean, I don't want ot make fun of heavy people"
Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (0G13K)

Ok, what have you done with ace! YOU KILLED HIM AND TOOK HIS PLACE DIDN'T YOU, YOU BASTARD!!!! IS THAT YOU JONAH?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 06:57 PM (dNqv+)

74 Crenshaw has the eye of the tiger.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 20, 2022 06:57 PM (mdaT8)

75 71 >>>Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer filled with mouth breathing retards.

that's a lot of words to say "media scum"

Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:57 PM (0G13K)

76 I should have figured.

Perhaps I shall start calling him Captain Comorbidity.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (ZSK0i)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 06:57 PM (dNqv+)

77 >>>Crenshaw has the eye of the tiger.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

No, the tiger took it out.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:57 PM (VWp7G)

78 Peanut M&Ms are sublime. Plain are meh.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 06:58 PM (vrz2I)

79 The tiger has the eye of the Crenshaw.

Posted by: Rocky at January 20, 2022 06:58 PM (9sjiB)

80 >>>78 Peanut M&Ms are sublime. Plain are meh.

peanut are better but plain are good

why start trouble?

Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:58 PM (0G13K)

81 Worse than Facebook, worse than TikTok, Worse than Instagram.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (VWp7G)

___

YES!!

Posted by: Snapchat at January 20, 2022 06:59 PM (OalnH)

82 there is something about Williamson, who claims to be some kind of rootin'-tootin' libertarian, demanding that one of the healthiest men in the world, with zero covid risk, get vaccinated to spare his obese ass the chance of infection

that's not very libertarian

that's kind of communist, isn't it?

Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (0G13K)

Wait .. is Williamson behind that walrus?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 06:59 PM (yQpMk)

83 i hate when a piece of MnM shell breaks off and stabs into your gum between the teeth and won't come out

now i'm andy rooney

Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:59 PM (0G13K)

84 Plain M&Ms are good in a trail mix. With peanuts.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 06:59 PM (vrz2I)

85 Will M&M candies now feature tiny indefinite genitalia? How many genders will be represented?

I don't think that M&M knows what a quagmire they just walked into.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (guGkK)

86 66 Who the fuck is that q-tip douchebag in the MSNBC clip saying the former vice president is perfectly fine?

___

Max Boot. I think.

Posted by: Snapchat at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (OalnH)

87 that is a lot of content

>>>And MOUNDS don't have nuts.

it's right there in the jingle

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (geLO8)

88 @JackPosobiec 36m

BREAKING: ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (zWpOF)

89 Coming up, Gummi Bears with asymmetrical balls

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (786Ro)

90 >>>>Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer filled with mouth breathing retards.

Posted by: Truck Monkey

>>Worse than Facebook, worse than TikTok, Worse than Instagram.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (VWp7G)

Wooh thah mah wife

Posted by: Corky at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (QYPq3)

91 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

The horseshit just keeps getting happier and happier.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (Xrfse)

92 POS Crenshaw has no depth perception. He probably walks into walls and glass doors regularly. Keep an eye out for large lumps on his forehead.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (GYllL)

93 peanut are better but plain are good

why start trouble?
Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:58 PM (0G13K)

*nods knowingly*

Wants to debate random candy based conundrums?

Definitely Jonah.

It was the shelves, wasn't it? It was code ace was using to try to ask for help, wasn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (dNqv+)

94
peanut are better but plain are good

why start trouble?
Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:58 PM (0G13K)

Are you new here?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (Zz0t1)

95 M&Ms are highly simplistic characters. The "girl" M&M has fuller lips, high, thin eyebrows, and eyelashes.

That's how they convey, "girl."

I can't wait to see how they convey, "gay."

I'm sure it won't be stereotypical at all. *eyeroll*

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (AhhdW)

96 >.Plain M&Ms are good in a trail mix. With peanuts.

Posted by: f'd

depends on climate
Moab in June? not so much

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (geLO8)

97 Wall bigotry video is outstanding!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (5pTK/)

98 BREAKING: ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (zWpOF)

They just hang in hotel bars and watch tv like the rest of us anyhow.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (eoQWY)

99 FBI said no known motive for the terrorist who took four hostage in a Texas synagogue?

Gee, his last phone call provides ample details on his motive:

https://tinyurl.com/5y9eawzu

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (URNdm)

100 The horseshit just keeps getting happier and happier.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (Xrfse)

Keep digging, there's got to be a pony in there somewhere!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (guGkK)

101 I saw Dan Crenshaw Blows Donkeys open for Muddy Waters at the Quiet Night in Chicago in 72.

Posted by: dartist at January 20, 2022 07:02 PM (+ya+t)

102 I like the orange MnMs best

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:02 PM (geLO8)

103 FBI said no known motive for the terrorist who took four hostage in a Texas synagogue?

Gee, his last phone call provides ample details on his motive:

https://tinyurl.com/5y9eawzu
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (URNdm)

You going to trust the FBI or you own lying ears?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:02 PM (eoQWY)

104
I still vividly remember the day my parents came home with a big bag of Trail Mix, when "trail mix" was new.

It was filled all kinds of shit -- such as "Carob" covered raising. Carob is fake chocolate that tastes like the devil's dingleberries. And pretzels covered in white goo, they told us it was yogurt or something.

We wanted Real Sugar!

But, you know what? My parents were right to try to get us off the Big Sugar slave train.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:02 PM (3cHMA)

105 92 POS Crenshaw has no depth perception. He probably walks into walls and glass doors regularly. Keep an eye out for large lumps on his forehead.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (GYllL)

I always just used 'exercise bands' to cover up the results of rough gay sex.

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 20, 2022 07:02 PM (dNqv+)

106 i hate when a piece of MnM shell breaks off and stabs into your gum between the teeth and won't come out

now i'm andy rooney
Posted by: ace at January 20, 2022 06:59 PM (0G13K)

Was it Andy Rooney's last broadcast where he said he went back through his collection of broadcasts and couldn't find one time where he said "Did you ever wonder" which was the prime phrase in Joe Piscopo's imitation of him?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (Zz0t1)

107 I can't wait to see how they convey, "gay."

You can tell the gay one because it keeps mocking what the female one has on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (guGkK)

108 I have no brain at the moment, because I just got done doing my 2020 taxes (shut up! I procrastinate on taxes, OK?). But perhaps something has sprung from this cognitive depantsing -- I read the post, wrongly, as referencing "Bad News Brandon." Has anyone said that yet? It seems perfect.

Posted by: Splunge at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (PQ4Fz)

109 >>>BREAKING: ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Damn, we won't be able to listen to their hot takes in real time? I was really looking forward to another tranny life story.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (VWp7G)

110 While our Constitution and liberty were under attack, the Vichy collaborators at NRO said nothing. Now that their vaunted masters whom they supported with their abject silence and snarky invective is failing, they try to promote that relative silence as- courage or wisdom?

My family members who fought in Europe once told me that at war's end, the people terrorized by the Nazi's saved their most heinous retribution for the people who stood by and did nothing.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (kbvR/)

111 Almond M&Ms are best.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (mdaT8)

112 that's not very libertarian

Public libertarians, the libertarian movement etc. basically consists of people whose only objection to government coercion is (a) border enforcement; (b) drug laws; (c) sex. Throw in the occasional tantrum about law enforcement in general and you've covered the whole gamut of libertarian policy preferences. We used to just call people with these positions liberals, but that term became so tarnished that the same people (joined by big government Republicans who find Christianity icky) adopted the self-designation libertarian.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (3YVs3)

113 There are 18 2/3rds of a month left in the year.
Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:56 PM (XHhHI)

Great. Now the Earth's orbit is fucked.

Is there *anything* this mouthbreathing kiddie diddler can't mess up?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (6FeV1)

114 >>lol i meant to link that all week but i either forget or think "too mean, I don't want ot make fun of heavy people"

It's like a traffic pile-up -- you just can't not look.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (URNdm)

115 Are you new here?
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (Zz0t1)

ace has been on the blog for a while- at least as long as I have been coming here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (dNqv+)

116 Good evening, horde.

I've been working a lot of OT, and haven't even lurked for a few days. I'm sure you've all said your piece about OM, but, damn. Damn. I raise my glass in his memory.

Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (OX9vb)

117 I like the orange MnMs best
Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:02 PM (geLO

The feeling is mutual !

Posted by: Orange MnMs at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (V13WU)

118 "I mean, I amplified it too, but I'm openly an activist and not a journalist and also, I think it's funny."

Since when does being an open activist disqualify one from being a journalist?

Posted by: Grimmy at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (NCgXW)

119
I can't wait to see how they convey, "gay."

I'm sure it won't be stereotypical at all. *eyeroll*
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (AhhdW)

It will have a white creamy center dripping from it's mouth.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (Zz0t1)

120
Speaking of "heavy people"

We need a weekly Health & Wellness thread, wherein we can trade advice for staying healthy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (3cHMA)

121 I was nominated for Miss Universe, a Nobel Peace Prize and Employee of the Month.

Just for sending in a piece of chewing gum and four box tops!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (W2Pud)

122 If I gave a fuck about the Olympics I'd probably care about ESPN and NBC covering it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (OalnH)

123 ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics

It's ESPN, they may just not be able to afford air fare.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (kOpft)

124 >>>That's nothing. The bloated jerkoff also claims credit for the "MacGuffinization of Politics," a much more prestigious honor.

lol

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (SH2Zi)

125 POS Crenshaw has no depth perception. He probably walks into walls and glass doors regularly. Keep an eye out for large lumps on his forehead.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (GYllL)

Had a guy that was born with a cataract on one eye leaving him mostly blind in that eye. One of the best 3 point shooters on our team. The brain compensates.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (Zz0t1)

126 Does the Nobel Committee give out prizes for puns?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (guGkK)

127 >>You going to trust the FBI or you own lying ears?

Well, no, but rarely do we get such an obvious refutation of "the narrative" as that phone call.

Makes me want the details on the Pulse nightclub shooter's calls during the standoff.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (URNdm)

128 Kevin Williamson is a walking commorbidity. A very large one.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (kbvR/)

129 Is Spunkeye going to China this year?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (yQpMk)

130 Keep digging, there's got to be a pony in there somewhere!

Not for me. At this rate, I'll never get one.

Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (Xrfse)

131 Better keep Anderson Cooper away from the peanut M&Ms.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (FaJmP)

132 >>> 91 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

The horseshit just keeps getting happier and happier.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 07:00 PM (Xrfse)

Their "inclusion" excludes everyone sane, most recently those who elected to remain woofloo-"vaxx"-free.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (llON8)

133
FBI said no known motive for the terrorist who took four hostage in a Texas synagogue?

Gee, his last phone call provides ample details on his motive:

https://tinyurl.com/5y9eawzu
Posted by: Lizzy

Of fucking course!
Because the scumbag DOJ doesn't want to add it to their fake "hate crime" stats.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (3cHMA)

134 Moot point when they roll out Michael Obama or Mark Cuban.

Posted by: MikeN at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (IWStW)

135 ESPN used to send reporters to Olympics in the past ?? well, well

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (V13WU)

136 Non-inclusive Hubs Chocolate Covered Peanuts >> M and Ms.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (sVtYq)

137 I can't wait to see how they convey, "gay."

I'm sure it won't be stereotypical at all. *eyeroll*

*draws a dick on the blank side of an M&M*

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (kOpft)

138
Notice how those rotten cocksuckers at ADL or the other Jewish leftist org has nothing to say about it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:07 PM (3cHMA)

139 The same company that makes Twix makes M&Ms.

I buy knock off candy coated chocolate dipped peanuts now.

Yes, I buy boycott everything.

Posted by: fluffy at January 20, 2022 07:07 PM (UnQlg)

140 Close to half are not confident in Biden's mental capability or health.

The other half are lying because they know Republicans are everywhere, just waiting to pounce.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 07:07 PM (1fg6a)

141 And can I add that Crenshaw can eat a big bag of navy seal dick?
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (+ldAm)

My (conservative) son knew Crenshaw through service connection and was not impressed. Said he had some skeletons; I was skeptical but now I believe him. His weaselly ness about the Jan 6 political prisoners was cringeworthy.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 07:07 PM (Ed8Zd)

142 I think Dan Crenshaw sees himself as a future Speaker of the House, a kind of teetotal John Boehner (or is such a thing even physically possible?). He's nothing but a climber and a wanna-be permanent time-server - the last thing the GOP needs.

Posted by: Paco at January 20, 2022 07:07 PM (njExo)

143 Y'know that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the Nazi gets his hand branded with the red-hot headpiece of the staff of whatchamacallit?

Yeah. Crenshaw needs to be sporting a few inverse Budweisers across various of his person. One perfectly centered on the forehead would do nicely, as punishment, warning and point of derision.

At least Submariners, for the most part, still adhere to their "Silent Service" trademark, where SEALS seem to have gone full publicity whore. And you can tell that DELTA remain professional. Howso? You never hear nor read about DELTA, that's how.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (QzJWU)

144 Speaking of "heavy people"

We need a weekly Health & Wellness thread, wherein we can trade advice for staying healthy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (3cHMA)]

Moderate intake. Burn some calories. You're good.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (Zz0t1)

145 You going to trust the FBI or you own lying ears?

Well, no, but rarely do we get such an obvious refutation of "the narrative" as that phone call.

Makes me want the details on the Pulse nightclub shooter's calls during the standoff.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (URNdm)

The current 'narrative' is so clumsy that they don't know who the guy is, what race he is, how many there are, or what the demands are, but they KNOW it isn't islamic terrorism for sure.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (eoQWY)

146
Peanut M&M's?

Y'all wanna break your farking teeth??

Smarten up.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (3cHMA)

147 But hey, 50% off on contact lenses for life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (dNqv+)

148 I was nominated for Miss Universe, a Nobel Peace Prize and Employee of the Month.

Just for sending in a piece of chewing gum and four box tops!
Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm married to Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Tommy Flanagan at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (mD/uy)

149 I'm really not supposed to be eating sugar and the bastards bring home a dozen of those chocolate Krispy Kreme chocolate minis.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (kbvR/)

150 >>>We need a weekly Health & Wellness thread, wherein we can trade advice for staying healthy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

Vomiting. Lots and lots of vomiting.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (bkUtD)

151 Almond paste snickers were the best- for the short time they were available.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (cOCY2)

152 122 If I gave a fuck about the Olympics I'd probably care about ESPN and NBC covering it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (OalnH)

I remember caring about the Olympics, a lot. I'd record them, first on a VCR, then a Tivo, and spend my evenings watching. It was exciting. One year I bought an NBC raw feed package, three channels of Olympics. Slowly, over the years, the "and here is how this athlete overcame adversity to become..." stories started to encroach on the actual competition coverage. I like the Olympics, but I don't like remakes of Queen For a Day. Now I assume they're so woke I don't even bother.

Posted by: Splunge at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (PQ4Fz)

153
You might as well chew gravel.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (3cHMA)

154 I though the first rule of Seal Team was don't talk about Seal Team

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (geLO8)

155 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

You know what, I am pretty fucking comfortable at this point making a commitment to creating a world where hysterical people don't control public discourse and policy by running non-stop Calvinball witch hunts in every group and institution they can get their hands on. And I don't give a shit if this makes them feel excluded. They SHOULD be excluded, because they're assholes and everything they touch turns to shit.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (SdoX8)

156 I guess all these chocolate companies going woke will make it easier for me to resist my spirit animal, which is chocolate.

I still haven't forgiven Cadbury. Those mini eggs are the bomb and they've ruined it for me.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (wyw4S)

157 after China killed millions, infected the world with a virus that 3 years later is still affecting billions, we need to reward them with Olympic games. Many here do not care, but the games are a very big deal around the world. For an athlete to become an Olympic champion is it.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (V13WU)

158 Are you new here?
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (Zz0t1)

ace has been on the blog for a while- at least as long as I have been coming here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (dNqv+)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ACE'S BLOG

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (kOpft)

159 I was born before 1970 so I can't get the video to play.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (EZebt)

160 130 Not for me. At this rate, I'll never get one.
Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at January 20, 2022 07:05 PM (Xrfse)

Dad and I don't agree on much, but we agree on this: you really need to shut up, and stay under the radar. Got it?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (PQ4Fz)

161 >>You might as well chew gravel.

Where are you getting your peanut M&Ms from, Ukraine?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (ZLI7S)

162 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

Are there Covid camps in this brave new world?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (3YVs3)

163 I was nominated for Miss Universe, a Nobel Peace Prize and Employee of the Month.

Just for sending in a piece of chewing gum and four box tops!
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (W2Pud)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (Zz0t1)

164 158 Are you new here?
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (Zz0t1)

ace has been on the blog for a while- at least as long as I have been coming here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:03 PM (dNqv+)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ACE'S BLOG
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (kOpft)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE WAS JOKING!

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (dNqv+)

165
Also notice how the Democrats aren't pushing for DC "statehood" nor Puerto Rico.

Just another one of those juicy red-meat-election-year issues Democrats like when they're out of power, I guess.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (3cHMA)

166 Whoa! Kevin Williamson looks like he's wearing the first-prize pumpkin from the state fair - and it's too tight.

Posted by: Paco at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM (njExo)

167 Non-inclusive Hubs Chocolate Covered Peanuts >> M and Ms.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (sVtYq)
---------_

Oh man, those are good. Haven't had them in years.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM (wyw4S)

168 162 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

Are there Covid camps in this brave new world?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (3YVs3)

Nope. Just a lot of mass graves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM (dNqv+)

169 Here's a really really whacky theory to try on:

There's a Even Deeper Deep State embedded within the government-corporate-media complex, devoted to a Double Secret Reverse Cloward Piven Strategy. All this shit about Gay M'n'Ms, installing a drooling perverted criminal in the presidency, and playing the hokey-pokey with Putin in Eastern Europe is actually due to their clandestine efforts to completely implode totalitarian progressivism once and for all from the inside, out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM (6FeV1)

170
Crenshaw keeps M&Ms in his eye socket behind his eye patch.

And now the thread circle is complete:

AAAUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...

Posted by: naturalfake at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM (5NkmN)

171
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ACE'S BLOG
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (kOpft)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE WAS JOKING!
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (dNqv+)

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE I'M RETIRED AND DON'T NEED THIS SHIT ANYMORE.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (Zz0t1)

172 >>> 162 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

Are there Covid camps in this brave new world?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (3YVs3)

Well duh, they only want to include the people who *should* be included!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (llON8)

173 >>>I was born before 1970 so I can't get the video to play.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (EZebt)

Yeah, you're pretty much screwed, what with your latin education and math skills.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (QYPq3)

174 "global commitment to creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

Are there Covid camps in this brave new world?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (3YVs3)

where else would we include Covid camp inmates? Gotta be inclusive.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

175 >IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ACE'S BLOG
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 20, 2022 07:09 PM (kOpft)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE WAS JOKING!
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (dNqv+)

Mirror universe BEN ROTHLISBERGERS. Gotta be a rupture in the very fabric of space and time.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (gryET)

176 We need a weekly Health & Wellness thread, wherein we can trade advice for staying healthy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

I'll start....."Don't do anything unhealthy !"

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (arJlL)

177 Conspiracy theories as memes.

Or were conspiracy theories the first memes?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (dNqv+)

178 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (AhhdW)

179 Lol. The WSJ just printed an article: President Biden just Completed His First Year, Here's What He Accomplished".

More ass covering for Lettuce Brain's "stamina" empty headed remarks yesterdays.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:13 PM (kbvR/)

180 Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM

Whoa!

Posted by: Double Deep State Rainbow Hippie at January 20, 2022 07:13 PM (9sjiB)

181 Mirror universe BEN ROTHLISBERGERS. Gotta be a rupture in the very fabric of space and time.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (gryET)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I AM THINKING OF GROWING MY GOATEE OUT AGAIN!

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at January 20, 2022 07:13 PM (dNqv+)

182 Yeah, you're pretty much screwed, what with your latin education and math skills.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (QYPq3)

Quo Ipse Tandem, In Reel Life, patientia nostra?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

183 179 Lol. The WSJ just printed an article: President Biden just Completed His First Year, Here's What He Accomplished".

More ass covering for Lettuce Brain's "stamina" empty headed remarks yesterdays.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:13 PM (kbvR/)

Remember when we thought WSJ was on our side?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (dNqv+)

184 >178 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (AhhdW)

The CA legislature has a plan. They are going to double everyone's taxes. See, problem solved!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (gryET)

185 Crenshaw keeps M&Ms in his eye socket behind his eye patch.

And now the thread circle is complete:

AAAUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
Posted by: naturalfake at January 20, 2022 07:11 PM (5NkmN)

The mental picture of this is... disturbing.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (AiZBA)

186 >>> 136 Non-inclusive Hubs Chocolate Covered Peanuts >> M and Ms.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:06 PM (sVtYq)

https://www.hubspeanuts.com/ product/chocolate-peanuts

I might have to try these.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (llON8)

187 "No, you didn't use your single vote for Biden. You instead used your influence to generate thousands and thousands of votes for Biden."

You...you really think someone listened and voted...because of us? We do have influence!!!

Posted by: David French, Jonah Goldberg, et al at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (NCgXW)

188 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 P

In it is a $20 million grant to pay off loans for "health care" workers to go into the abortion business. I sh$t you not.
Moloch has taken over California.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (Ed8Zd)

189 Quo Ipse Tandem, In Reel Life, patientia nostra?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

Whoa whoa whoa. My last latin class was in 1993.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (dNqv+)

190
California?

You cannot get a U-Haul truck in California, right now. Booked for months.

It's been like this for a year, or more.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (3cHMA)

191 after China killed millions, infected the world with a virus that 3 years later is still affecting billions, we need to reward them with Olympic games. Many here do not care, but the games are a very big deal around the world.

Prediction: Beijing sets a new low for Olympics viewership

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (kOpft)

192 178 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (AhhdW)

Now that I've made my escape, I hope they pass that repellent thing. If you're on the road to Hell, might as well take the express train, and experience it that much sooner.

Posted by: Splunge at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (PQ4Fz)

193 Dan "the man" Crenshaw with a really narrow view of shit.

As always.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (BFigT)

194 I don't think there were pneumatic tires in the days of togas and aqueducts, but i'm sure some wag must have invented a neologism in Latin for the word "tire".

Iron, of course, already has a word in Latin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:16 PM (6FeV1)

195 "Remember when we thought WSJ was on our side?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (dNqv+)"

Their "news" page lost their mind a long time ago. Even the editorial page dunks on them.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:16 PM (kbvR/)

196 Julie Kelly -"You can try to claim the high road by saying "I wrote in Nikki Haley" all you want -- there were two choices"

This x 1000. I never will figure out how people can't see this. It's just plain old common sense.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 07:16 PM (NpAcC)

197 Anything chocolate needs to be frozen in my house.

Posted by: dartist at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (+ya+t)

198 Speaking of "heavy people"

We need a weekly Health & Wellness thread, wherein we can trade advice for staying healthy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 07:04 PM (3cHMA)]

Moderate intake. Burn some calories. You're good.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (Zz0t1)

Worst GAINZ thread ever.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (SH2Zi)

199 Quo Ipse Tandem, In Reel Life, patientia nostra?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

Whoa whoa whoa. My last latin class was in 1993.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (dNqv+)

Its the first line in Cicero's famous denunciation of Catiline, to drive him out of the city before he took it over.

"How long, Catiline, will you try our patience?"

many think that basically Chickpea kinda set Catiline up to a great extent. Sadly for him bigger fish rose later to overshadow his great achievement.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

200 >>We need a weekly Health & Wellness thread, wherein we can trade advice for staying healthy.

they have it
the cooking thread

Posted by: DB at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (geLO8)

201 Not for me. At this rate, I'll never get one.
Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby

For a bite at the apple, you'll be able to hire a freaking army of lawyers to plead your case.

Posted by: Some Rat at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (r1z5A)

202 Sic Gloria Transit

I didn't know Gloria was sick!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (1XLoS)

203 194 I don't think there were pneumatic tires in the days of togas and aqueducts, but i'm sure some wag must have invented a neologism in Latin for the word "tire".

Iron, of course, already has a word in Latin.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:16 PM (6FeV1)

Huh, I'll admit I never really have studied Roman wheel technology and development.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (dNqv+)

204
Worst GAINZ thread ever.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (SH2Zi)

But, accurate.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:18 PM (Zz0t1)

205 >>>Quo Ipse Tandem, In Reel Life, patientia nostra?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

Gotta ask my kids what that means.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 07:18 PM (QYPq3)

206 I thought it was the best demonstration of the fact that the President's mind is perfectly fine.

Brilliant. Really draws attention away from a subject you'd rather avoid.

"Joe Biden seems mentally fit to me, no matter what everybody else is saying!"

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 07:18 PM (BvZkh)

207 Live look at the average CA taxpayer as they slam into their new tax bills.

https://bit.ly/3fGHvOm

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:19 PM (AhhdW)

208 Anything chocolate needs to be frozen in my house.
Posted by: dartist at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (+ya+t)

I remember when the chocolate Easter bunnies were solid chocolate. Freezing them made them last forever....you could only scrape off a bit at a time with your teeth.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:19 PM (Zz0t1)

209 >>>Quo Ipse Tandem, In Reel Life, patientia nostra?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

Gotta ask my kids what that means.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 07:18 PM (QYPq3)

Translated in 199

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:19 PM (eoQWY)

210 When it comes to voting, this is one of the few areas where we depart, Ace.

My vote isn't owed to any man. It must be earned.

Your argument seems to be a false choice fallacy, and that's inherently dishonest. If I vote down-ticket, but refuse to vote for the guy (or his opponent) that you like, then it's the same thing as voting for his opponent?

Do you feel the same way about all the tens of millions who don't even bother to show up to vote at all? Would you WANT those tens of millions to show up to vote? Because I bet if they did, they've likely vote against you in a tidal wave of stupid. Just sayin'.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 20, 2022 07:19 PM (Zl0qV)

211 Live look at the average CA taxpayer as they slam into their new tax bills.

https://bit.ly/3fGHvOm
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:19 PM (AhhdW)

I've watched the moment of impact multiple times and can't tell where the body lands.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:19 PM (Zz0t1)

212 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Posted by: Bigus Dickus at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (mD/uy)

213 Huh, I'll admit I never really have studied Roman wheel technology and development.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (dNqv+)

The size of the space shuttle's booster rockets were based on the width of a Roman horse's ass.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (yQpMk)

214 Huh, I'll admit I never really have studied Roman wheel technology and development.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Meh, their high speed rail was a little better than Cali's...

Posted by: Some Rat at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (r1z5A)

215 I am hereby now boycotting M&Ms.

Henceforth, I shall buy only W&Ws.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (QzJWU)

216 11 I love the dude bumping into the wall video.
Posted by: Lizzy

It is clever and spot on. Also, I need to dig out my AC/DC, Highway to Hell CD. It's been a while since I've listened to it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (sAmhv)

217 194 I don't think there were pneumatic tires in the days of togas and aqueducts, but i'm sure some wag must have invented a neologism in Latin for the word "tire".

Iron, of course, already has a word in Latin.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:16 PM (6FeV1)

Huh, I'll admit I never really have studied Roman wheel technology and development.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (dNqv+)

I believe in the old days you shrunk a heated metal hoop around the outside of the wood wheel and that metal band was the "tire".

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (eoQWY)

218 184 >178 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (AhhdW)

The CA legislature has a plan. They are going to double everyone's taxes. See, problem solved!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 20, 2022 07:14 PM (gryET)

Not everyone's taxes. I'll bet illegals, minorities, people earning under $xx thousand dollars per year, people with disabilities, yada, yada, yada, will be exempted from any additional taxes for this purpose.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (AMIL/)

219 many think that basically Chickpea kinda set Catiline up to a great extent. Sadly for him bigger fish rose later to overshadow his great achievement.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

Ah Cataline. The sad thing is, Cicero was trying to gain the emergency powers to deal with Pompey in case he tried something after coming back from the east, laden with booty and at the head of experienced legions.

Caesar tried to get Cicero on his side, then said, ok, let's put you in time out. Oh what was that guy's name? The guy who Caesar allowed to be adopted as a pleb so he could stand for the Tribunate. Dammit. I hate forgetting minutiae.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (dNqv+)

220 Yeah there were metal tires. Also bamboo.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:22 PM (vrz2I)

221
It is clever and spot on. Also, I need to dig out my AC/DC, Highway to Hell CD. It's been a while since I've listened to it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (sAmhv)

There's an AC/DC cover band called Back in Black. They're pretty good. Lead singer does a decent job on the voices across the decades, even the 3 voices of Brian Johnson.

They have their own release for their actual band named Stripwired. Sounds like AC/DC, surprisingly enough......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (Zz0t1)

222 Roast some pine nuts and put them in 70% cocoa thats been melted. Let cool and enjoy.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (cOCY2)

223 Meh, their high speed rail was a little better than Cali's...
Posted by: Some Rat at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (r1z5A)

Makes sense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (dNqv+)

224 But, accurate.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:18 PM (Zz0t1)

Fair.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (SH2Zi)

225 My next plan is to be photographed laughing with Amy Schumer. Can you say "universal appeal?"

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (PQ4Fz)

226 I got mad at M&M's when they stopped labeling them Plain. Plain and Peanut, now they're Milk Chocolate and Peanut. It's just wrong. If it ain't broke don't fix it. I assume they got complaints from dummies who wondered why the Plain didn't have any nuts so they dumbed it down.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (mNhhD)

227 If you are British you keep your tyre in your booty.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (vrz2I)

228 Caesar tried to get Cicero on his side, then said, ok, let's put you in time out. Oh what was that guy's name? The guy who Caesar allowed to be adopted as a pleb so he could stand for the Tribunate. Dammit. I hate forgetting minutiae.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (dNqv+)

Clodius. He had a major hate on for Cicero because he denied him an alibi when he was in trouble for violating a Vestal Virgin.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (eoQWY)

229 My next plan is to be photographed laughing with Amy Schumer. Can you say "universal appeal?"
Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at January 20, 2022 07:23 PM (PQ4Fz)

See? I told you he sucks donkey cocks.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Rarely saw couples at chemo. Not unheard of though. I did have a "Chemo Buddy" though. We were just on the same schedule. She was a jewel and had two friends accompany her as well. She was the sales manager at Arnnaud's. She didn't make it in the end. I never had any problems.

Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (AmoqO)

231 Clodius Pulcher! (had to look it up)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (dNqv+)

232 What are the odds that two of the "nuanced personalities" turn out to be "gay" and "trans"?

Wasn't one already a cannibal.

IDK where that goes on the scale.

Posted by: DaveA at January 20, 2022 07:25 PM (FhXTo)

233 Clodius Pulcher! (had to look it up)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (dNqv+)

Such names these plebs have.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 07:25 PM (yQpMk)

234 Crenshaw better start looking for bit parts in B Pirate Movies. Butt Pirate movies.
===

Another Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and he is a shoe in as an Ompa Loompa.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 07:25 PM (iDcra)

235 Clodius. He had a major hate on for Cicero because he denied him an alibi when he was in trouble for violating a Vestal Virgin.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (eoQWY)

Which is hilarious considering Caesar's mother caught him trying to have a rendezvous with Caesar's wife during an all female religious ceremony.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:26 PM (dNqv+)

236 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (mNhhD)

237 Tranny candy. What a world.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (vrz2I)

238 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (AhhdW)

Get out while you can.

Posted by: Hints from Heloise at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (v0R5T)

239 https://www.hubspeanuts.com/ product/chocolate-peanuts

Hey, I wanted a snack, not an investment!

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (cPGH3)

240 > Rarely saw couples at chemo. Not unheard of though.

My wife came at first for moral support. It wasn't a big deal for me she wasn't there all the time.

I had a couple of big cancer related surgeries. She was there most of the time for those.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (AhhdW)

241
re the M&Ms, this is great. The yellow ones will be good at math. The red ones will operate casinos. The brown ones can dunk. And the orange ones got cheated out of the last US presidential elecion.
Posted by: Anotheranon

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man and when white will embrace what is right.

The Reverend Joseph Lowery, Inaugural Benediction
January 20, 2009

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (63Dwl)

242 Because of course Crenshaw would hang out with "That Bitch Carol Baskin(tm)".

Posted by: Liberty at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (0Z3fJ)

243 236 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.
Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (mNhhD)

Sweet Kali... no way am I looking. She probably looks like a deflated whoopie cushion.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (6FeV1)

244 Now that Gavin has achieved a solution to crime and homelessness, he is moving on to health care.

Healthy Justice or somesuch.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (EZebt)

245 Ah Cataline. The sad thing is, Cicero was trying to gain the emergency powers to deal with Pompey in case he tried something after coming back from the east, laden with booty and at the head of experienced legions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:21 PM (dNqv+)

Cicero was too lame to even go and fight Catliline, much less Pompey. In fact, he pretty much followed Pompey around on a leash when not trying to be invited into the "Best People" optimates. Like a new man like him had a chance there.

I think he just wanted a big win to cap off his consulate because he didn't really get how bad it would look when set up besides men with real wins. Same with his comical attempt to get a Triumph after he was forced to go out and leave Rome to govern a province.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (eoQWY)

246 236 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.
Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (mNhhD)

Hmmm, my finely tuned instincts sense a trap..

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (dNqv+)

247 >>It is clever and spot on. Also, I need to dig out my AC/DC, Highway to Hell CD. It's been a while since I've listened to it.

And for some reason, him looking like the dude from Fast Times at Ridgemont High adds to the nostalgia for non-social media times.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (URNdm)

248 Accurate.

pic.twitter.com/HSAYRBKhYv
___

This had me laughing 'cause it's so true.

#whyisitthere

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (RU4sa)

249 "Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare."

You go and report back what you see.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (vrz2I)

250 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.
Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (mNhhD)

Don't have an account, so I can only see one pic.

still a cow.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (Zz0t1)

251 Sic Gloria Transit

I didn't know Gloria was sick!
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Hiya Duke !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (arJlL)

252 A judge in the key battleground state of Wisconsin ruled Thursday that ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting violate state law and cannot be used in the upcoming midterm elections.
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren determined "there is no statutory authority" to allow for either practice, which became highly controversial in Wisconsin following the state's razor-thin outcome in the 2020 presidential election
*

At which point no one - absolutely no one - can claim that there were no illegal votes cast in the 2020 election, or that the margin was so small that it was insignificant.

"Legal" fraud was the main fraud. Millions of illegal votes were cast out in the open via the legislative requirements being subverted by judges and other non-legislative bodies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (5q92e)

253 Such names these plebs have.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 07:25 PM (yQpMk)

He was apparently a Pretty one (thats what Pulcher means)

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (eoQWY)

254 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.

This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!

https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (URNdm)

255 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.
Posted by: JuJuBee

I'm not falling for that!

Posted by: Some Rat at January 20, 2022 07:30 PM (r1z5A)

256 > Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.

Liposuction has its place for getting rid of stubborn pockets or shaping. Using it for weight loss is stupid. It's painful and you'll gain it right back if you don't change habits.

I know someone who even failed the stomach staple process. He managed to eat so poorly he still gained weight.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:30 PM (AhhdW)

257 I pretty much assumed the M&Ms must all be gay because if they have sex they'd literally be sticking it in the chocolate

Posted by: arminius256 at January 20, 2022 07:30 PM (Dpgtk)

258 And for some reason, him looking like the dude from Fast Times at Ridgemont High adds to the nostalgia for non-social media times.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (URNdm)

I thought he was the biker/stoner dude from the Breakfast Club for a bit.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:30 PM (eoQWY)

259 Oh, I get it. Amy Schumer thinks "liposuction" means "drinking your gravy smoothie through a straw".

Easy enough mistake to make.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:31 PM (6FeV1)

260 If you want to see the liberal faces of evil, read the comments on sweet Casey DeSantis' tweet, celebrating her final chemo treatment.

Liberals: loving, tolerant, kind, compassionate

NOT

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 07:31 PM (ptqGC)

261 What are the odds that two of the "nuanced personalities" turn out to be "gay" and "trans"?

Wasn't one already a cannibal.

IDK where that goes on the scale.
Posted by: DaveA

There's only one Cannibal - Cannibal Bob !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:31 PM (arJlL)

262 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod

*

That's like cutting off a leg and telling everyone you lost 40 pounds.

You didn't do a thing. You paid someone to cut part of your body out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:31 PM (5q92e)

263 This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!

https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (URNdm

You neglected to add the word "top" to your statement.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:31 PM (Zz0t1)

264 This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!

https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

Posted by: Lizzy

I'm pretty sure getting up from the dinner table was the hardest thing she even did.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:31 PM (mD/uy)

265 https://www.hubspeanuts.com/ product/chocolate-peanuts

Hey, I wanted a snack, not an investment!

--

LOL, yes, they're expensive. We usually only get them as a special treat at Christmas.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (sVtYq)

266 My wife came at first for moral support. It wasn't a big deal for me she wasn't there all the time.

I had a couple of big cancer related surgeries. She was there most of the time for those.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (AhhdW)

I've had two surgeries. Wife never left me alone in the hospital. Was there every day and night.

Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (AmoqO)

267
And for some reason, him looking like the dude from Fast Times at Ridgemont High adds to the nostalgia for non-social media times.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM

I thought he looked more like Judd Nelson's character from The Breakfast Club

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (DUIap)

268 > At which point no one - absolutely no one - can claim that there were no illegal votes cast in the 2020 election, or that the margin was so small that it was insignificant.

Eh, they'll still fall back on, "YOU HAVE NO PROOF ELECTION-CHANGING FRAUD TOOK PLACE."

It's religion.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (AhhdW)

269 >>I thought he was the biker/stoner dude from the Breakfast Club for a bit.

Doh! Yes, I was thinking of Judd Nelson!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (URNdm)

270 I just had liposuction and want you to know I now have a rockin' bod.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (v0R5T)

271 I think he just wanted a big win to cap off his consulate because he didn't really get how bad it would look when set up besides men with real wins. Same with his comical attempt to get a Triumph after he was forced to go out and leave Rome to govern a province.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (eoQWY)

Caesar is so often referred to as 'lucky' and I always tend to believe that is people trying to dismiss the man's once in a millennia ability. The thing was, he was so insanely 'lucky' almost all the time in his enemies, in knowing just how they would act, in doing what they did not expect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (dNqv+)

272 Hmmm, my finely tuned instincts sense a trap..

Don't click!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (Xrfse)

273 248 Accurate.

pic.twitter.com/HSAYRBKhYv
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This had me laughing 'cause it's so true.
#whyisitthere
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
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Is that the zipper generation?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (JVMtX)

274 It's a bit of work, but there are lots of homemade peanut and chocolate candies that will give you that fix.

I personally like the peanut butter and oatmeal no-bake cookies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (5q92e)

275 >>Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod.

What do they do with all that flubber they vacuum out?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (ZLI7S)

276 FBI said no known motive for the terrorist who took four hostage in a Texas synagogue?

Gee, his last phone call provides ample details on his motive:

https://tinyurl.com/5y9eawzu
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:01 PM (URNdm)

Geeze, the fucker has the exact stereotypical Paki accent that Peter Sellers used to do when acting the role of a Paki.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (P3gRi)

277 I just had liposuction and want you to know I now have a rockin' bod.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (v0R5T)

You now just have a surgically altered stretch marked hide, you hideous cuunt.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (Zz0t1)

278 It goes to boob jobs

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (2JoB8)

279 Amy is a Schumer. 'Nuff said.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (ptqGC)

280 This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!

https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

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That girl is a walking talking advert for mental illness. There is something very wrong with her.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (sVtYq)

281 " I just had liposuction and want you to know I now have a rockin' bod.
Posted by: Amy Schumer

Oh I get it now. It's a joke!

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (vrz2I)

282 >>> 279 Amy is a Schumer. 'Nuff said.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (ptqGC)

It's not a Schumah!

Posted by: Ahhhhnold at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (llON8)

283
What do they do with all that flubber they vacuum out?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (ZLI7S)

Jack in the Box deep fat fryers.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)

284 Nine year old hauled out of a NYC museum by two cops because she didn't have a vax card.

https://bit.ly/3AgSeIO

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:35 PM (AhhdW)

285 LOL, yes, they're expensive. We usually only get them as a special treat at Christmas.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (sVtYq)

How big are these cans?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:35 PM (dNqv+)

286 I've had two surgeries. Wife never left me alone in the hospital. Was there every day and night.
Posted by: Javems

She's a good woman!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:35 PM (mD/uy)

287 > What do they do with all that flubber they vacuum out?

Let's just say the Army won't be running out of soap for a while.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:36 PM (AhhdW)

288 Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.
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Don't do it if you want to sleep tonight. She probably gained 300 pounds, but she is in a bikini.

Posted by: dartist at January 20, 2022 07:36 PM (+ya+t)

289 How big are these cans?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Uh, wut?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:36 PM (mD/uy)

290 "How big are these cans?
Posted by: Aetius451AD "

It's hard to tell with pics or a grope.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:36 PM (vrz2I)

291 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Posted by: Bigus Dickus at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (mD/uy)
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People called "Romanes", they go, the 'ouse?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 20, 2022 07:36 PM (DnWKq)

292 264 This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!
https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

Posted by: Lizzy
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I had expectations of one thing or another but not that.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (JVMtX)

293 What do they do with all that flubber they vacuum out?
Posted by: JackStraw

You know that off-brand Italian sausage you can buy...?

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (cPGH3)

294 How big are these cans?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:35 PM (dNqv+)

Do you ever read your comment and immediately think of all the ways it can be made fun of?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (dNqv+)

295 So glad the Mexicans working in my neighbors yard are going to get free healthcare.
*looks online at real estate in Ecuador*

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (v0R5T)

296 258 And for some reason, him looking like the dude from Fast Times at Ridgemont High adds to the nostalgia for non-social media times.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (URNdm)

I thought he was the biker/stoner dude from the Breakfast Club for a bit.
Posted by: Oldcat

You're both right.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (sAmhv)

297 Chuck Schumer has a daughter who's a registered lobbyist for Amazon. The other hell spawn works for Facebook.

Perfect.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (ptqGC)

298 "Without" pics I mean.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:37 PM (vrz2I)

299 How many chocolate covered peanuts are in one of these $28 containers of same?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (dNqv+)

300 Nine-year-old hauled out of an NYC museum by two cops because she didn't have a vax card.

https://bit.ly/3AgSeIO
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Evil.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (RU4sa)

301 >>You neglected to add the word "top" to your statement.

Naw, she looks like a giant muffin with limbs.
Chubby, pasty limbs.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (URNdm)

302 257 I pretty much assumed the M&Ms must all be gay because if they have sex they'd literally be sticking it in the chocolate
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There are lots of non-queer ways to play with chocolate.

Posted by: Ciampino at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (qfLjt)

303 This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!

https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (URNdm)

Made me look. I forgive you.

Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (AmoqO)

304 > That girl is a walking talking advert for mental illness. There is something very wrong with her.

Lena Dunham's rich parents started sending her to high end NY Psychiatrists at the age of three.

I'm no Scientologist, but the girl is reasonably good proof Psychiatry is bullshit.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (AhhdW)

305 How many chocolate covered peanuts are in one of these $28 containers of same?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (dNqv+)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (cPGH3)

306 This lil' muffin wants you to know that she's tanned, rested and ready!

https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (URNdm)

You lie!

She's not tanned.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (ZSK0i)

307 294 How big are these cans?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:35 PM (dNqv+)

Do you ever read your comment and immediately think of all the ways it can be made fun of?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yes. Often. Consider it a learning experience.

Posted by: Puddleglum at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (sAmhv)

308 302 257 I pretty much assumed the M&Ms must all be gay because if they have sex they'd literally be sticking it in the chocolate
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There are lots of non-queer ways to play with chocolate.
Posted by: Ciampino at January 20, 2022 07:38 PM (qfLjt)

This cough medicine is making me loopy as fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (dNqv+)

309 I dunno. You want to dump on Crenshaw for his political stupidity. Have at it. He crossed that Rubicon and went to the Ivy League schools. He deserves to lose his race if the people decide so. But if you want to bag on him for his physical disabilities and service, you've lost me. There's not a lot of guys walking around who graduated BUD/S, have two Purple Hearts, Two Bronze Stars with V devices and and NCM with a V device and almost gave his life in AFG due to an VBIED. YMMV

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:40 PM (kbvR/)

310 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod

Fuck me, now I'm three inches again.

Posted by: Some German at January 20, 2022 07:40 PM (1fg6a)

311 It's go time, Brandon!

Posted by: Look, Fat! at January 20, 2022 07:40 PM (BOJAx)

312 There's not a lot of guys walking around who graduated BUD/S, have two Purple Hearts, Two Bronze Stars with V devices and and NCM with a V device and almost gave his life in AFG due to an VBIED. YMMV
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:40 PM (kbvR/)

Yeah, and von Richtoffen had a shitload of confirmed kills. What's your point?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:41 PM (6FeV1)

313 "How many chocolate covered peanuts are in one of these $28 containers of same?"

About 40. But you get really big cans.

Posted by: Big'uns Peanut Company at January 20, 2022 07:41 PM (vrz2I)

314 This cough medicine is making me loopy as fuck.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (dNqv+)

Uh, huh. Plausible deniability. How many hours shall we put you down for?

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:41 PM (cPGH3)

315 I don't want to dump Crenshaw for his political stupidity. I want him to be more and more visible as a tool of Soros and that group.

John McCain did something good once, too. That doesn't mean he gets an indefinite pass for being a traitor.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (5q92e)

316 I personally like the peanut butter and oatmeal no-bake cookies.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (5q92e)

Not only delicious and satisfying, but easy.

Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (OX9vb)

317 "Yeah, and von Richtoffen had a shitload of confirmed kills. What's your point?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:41 PM (6FeV1)"

My point is separate his service, physical disabilities and politics. Got it ?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (kbvR/)

318 Clodius. He had a major hate on for Cicero because he denied him an alibi when he was in trouble for violating a Vestal Virgin.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:24 PM (eoQWY)

Which is hilarious considering Caesar's mother caught him trying to have a rendezvous with Caesar's wife during an all female religious ceremony.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:26 PM (dNqv+)

Now what he was doing was just sacrilege, invading the ceremony and of course Caesar was high priest at the time. Caesar said the affair was not true, but divorced his wife anyway because "Caesar's wife must be beyond suspicion" - and presumably also not an idiot or dupe.

Caesar's mom was quite the lady, running an apartment block on the bad side of town where Caesar grew up, and knowing everyone and everything going on, and smart as a whip.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (eoQWY)

319 under

nood

I think

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (SXSmD)

320
You lie!

She's not tanned.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (ZSK0i)

She's not rested either. It takes a lot of effort to shovel that much food down your gullet.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (Zz0t1)

321 Iron, of course, already has a word in Latin.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:16 PM (6FeV1)

Tires existed. They were the iron hoops shrunk onto wagon wheels.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (P3gRi)

322 Yes, there is the rare and seldom seen undernood below.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:43 PM (Zz0t1)

323 This cough medicine is making me loopy as fuck.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (dNqv+)

Uh, huh. Plausible deniability. How many hours shall we put you down for?
Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:41 PM (cPGH3)

I have had a persistent cough tendency for some 25 years, I use cinnamon hard candy as 'medicine'. Works better than drugs or drops for me and others I've recommended it to.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (eoQWY)

324 What do they do with all that flubber they vacuum out?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 07:33 PM (ZLI7S)

I have long said that if they could make biodiesel from body fat, we'd all be skinny. They'd be paying us for our flubber.

Fuel crisis? Have some more cookies, and hook up to the port!

Posted by: April -- dash my lace wigs! at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (OX9vb)

325 Heh, Margot Cleveland posted about the M&Ms...

Peanut M&Ms will now be allowed to identify as Plain M&Ms without having to relinquish their nuts.

Posted by: Pony Tail at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (tzZq2)

326 "John McCain did something good once, too. That doesn't mean he gets an indefinite pass for being a traitor.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:42 PM (5q92e)"

John McCain was quite demonstrably a douchebag. Many vets also say he sold them out. That's their privilege. But he served and suffered for it. That doesn't excuse him being a total political tool and douche. It's just different.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (kbvR/)

327 > I dunno. You want to dump on Crenshaw for his political stupidity. Have at it. He crossed that Rubicon and went to the Ivy League schools. He deserves to lose his race if the people decide so. But if you want to bag on him for his physical disabilities and service, you've lost me.

Eh?

I've seen plenty of people make fun of the eyepatch, but if someone is bagging on him for his service, I missed it.

Personally I don't like the eyepatch teasing because the man earned it on a foreign battlefield. I'd rather make fun of him for being a red flag super fan or for lying about the reason he voted for the vaccination database legislation or for saying Jesus is a hero archetype, like Superman.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (AhhdW)

328 She's a good woman!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:35 PM (mD/uy)

The two surgeries were for cancer. I've had another four for back and heart. She was there for those as well. Definitely a good woman.

Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (AmoqO)

329 Nine-year-old hauled out of an NYC museum by two cops because she didn't have a vax card.

https://bit.ly/3AgSeIO
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WTF is wrong with these people? This is just sick and evil.

Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 07:45 PM (qpolg)

330 @DanCrenshaw

Let's get some truth on the record: @Liz_Cheney has a hell of a lot more backbone than most, & is a principled leader with a fierce intellect. She will continue to be a much needed leader in the conference, with my full support.

Yes, Eff this guy in particular.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:45 PM (GYllL)

331 My point is separate his service, physical disabilities and politics. Got it ?
Posted by: Marcus T

Not the way it works, Marcus. If you run on being the great white hope, you don't denigrate white folk. If you run on being the "great communicator," you don't hide.
He ran on being a war hero (type) and then crapped on American basic values.
He wants it both ways. Not today. Not now.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:46 PM (cPGH3)

332 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Posted by: Bigus Dickus at January 20, 2022 07:20 PM (mD/uy)
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People called "Romanes", they go, the 'ouse?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 20, 2022 07:36 PM (DnWKq)

As a Latin student, I was DYING when I saw that part of the movie.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:46 PM (eoQWY)

333 "Personally I don't like the eyepatch teasing because the man earned it on a foreign battlefield. I'd rather make fun of him for being a red flag super fan or for lying about the reason he voted for the vaccination database legislation or for saying Jesus is a hero archetype, like Superman.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (AhhdW)"

But then you'd actually be making a relevant, valid material political argument.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:46 PM (kbvR/)

334 As a Latin student, I was DYING when I saw that part of the movie.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:46 PM (eoQWY)
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I understand the John Cleese taught Latin at one point.

Wouldn't have wanted to be in his class.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 20, 2022 07:47 PM (DnWKq)

335 Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:40 PM (kbvR/)

Granted. However, you'd think he would have a better line to give someone who looked to him for help (I am talking about the J6 prisoners) than to say that doing or saying anything would only help him and not them. In reality, it is the opposite. They are already in jail and being abused physically and mentally. He's a free man, walking around.

Instead, he is acting as though being associated in any way would be poisonous to HIM.

I get what you are saying, but this seems wrong to me, in spite of what he's done in the past.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:48 PM (dNqv+)

336 I have had a persistent cough tendency for some 25 years, I use cinnamon hard candy as 'medicine'. Works better than drugs or drops for me and others I've recommended it to.
Posted by: Oldcat

I don't have throat problems, but I raise bees, and the anecdotal evidence of honey being good for soothing throats is pretty impressive.
Find a local source.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:49 PM (cPGH3)

337 All candy is crap... except for Pearsons Salted Nut Rolls.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 20, 2022 07:49 PM (flINI)

338 I understand the John Cleese taught Latin at one point.
Wouldn't have wanted to be in his class.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Just don't mention the war.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:49 PM (mD/uy)

339 Biden really proved something. He can be a nasty little creep for two hours straight.

Presidential.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (7X3UV)

340 Uh, huh. Plausible deniability. How many hours shall we put you down for?
Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:41 PM (cPGH3)

I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (dNqv+)

341 "I get what you are saying, but this seems wrong to me, in spite of what he's done in the past.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:48 PM (dNqv+)"

To be clear, what he said about the J6 prisoners was a complete abdication of leadership and his position.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (kbvR/)

342 https://tinyurl.com/27wdcpyz
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (URNdm)

You lie!
She's not tanned.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (ZSK0i)
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She's a walking advert for mental health asylums.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (JVMtX)

343 Stuckey's Pecan Log Rolls > Pearsons Salted Nut Rolls

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (GYllL)

344 LOL, yes, they're expensive. We usually only get them as a special treat at Christmas.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:32 PM (sVtYq)

How big are these cans?

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They're 20oz. But Hubs peanuts are big. And the chocolate is rich. You can't just plow through them like you can MandM's. They last longer than you'd think.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (sVtYq)

345 Undernood. Take the basement steps from the sidewalk.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (vrz2I)

346 >>What do they do with all that flubber they vacuum out?

Uh. . . never saw "Fight Club?"

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (URNdm)

347 Jonah is a lyin' shitweasel? AND a scumbucket?

Must be a day that ends in 'y'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (F0YaR)

348 I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (dNqv+)

Bob, over at NSA says about 1 1/2 days. Sound about right?

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:52 PM (cPGH3)

349 I have had a persistent cough tendency for some 25 years, I use cinnamon hard candy as 'medicine'. Works better than drugs or drops for me and others I've recommended it to.
Posted by: Oldcat

I don't have throat problems, but I raise bees, and the anecdotal evidence of honey being good for soothing throats is pretty impressive.
Find a local source.
Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:49 PM (cPGH3)

I've been trying to sneak it in, but drinking hot tea when the throat is irritated makes me cough more, eating does, talking does, .... the candy breaks the cycle and lasts longer than just when it is in the mouth, and harms nothing and lasts forever even in a coat pocket for next year.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:52 PM (eoQWY)

350 Those damned Jews that refuse to wear the yellow star so good people can avoid them proves how horrible they are.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 07:52 PM (PTDkx)

351 I'm all riled up now, so fuck it, here goes:

Who gives a flying fuck about Crenshaw's eyeball? "Ohhhh, precious warrior Gave His All Defending Our Country"

That's wonderful, and laudable, and great, and good.

But the second you try to parlay that into a career at the marble trough fucking people over and playing overlord with your new-found swamp creature buddies? Fuck you, fuck your medals, fuck your valor, and fuck your stupid eyeball. Military valor and sacrifice isn't some kind of down-payment on a lifetime career of filth and corruption.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (6FeV1)

352 I have no problem saying the moment someone shows me they've sold out and are trying to align the country closer to Soros and that bunch that I no longer give a sh*t about any past military service or why they're missing an eye.

Similar to the way I'm sure George Floyd gave his mom a nice Mother's Day card in 6th grade. I don't give a sh*t.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (5q92e)

353 That Kathy @#$% Griffen story is awesome.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (3TihK)

354 236 Amy Schumer just had liposuction and she wants you to know she now has a rockin' bod. Take a look at her Instagram or whatever to see the bikini pics if you dare.
Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (mNhhD)

Sweet Kali... no way am I looking. She probably looks like a deflated whoopie cushion.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:28 PM (6FeV1)

Nope. Wondering where the 'after' pics are at.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (Hh3y4)

355 Nine-year-old hauled out of an NYC museum by two cops because she didn't have a vax card.

https://bit.ly/3AgSeIO
___

WTF is wrong with these people? This is just sick and evil.
Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 07:45 PM (qpolg)

They are sick and evil, and the rulers there are pulling these sort out of the woodwork.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (eoQWY)

356 What's he doing hanging out with the Tiger King woman. That seems odd.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 07:54 PM (awmcV)

357 I will eat nothing with "log" as a descriptor

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (flINI)

358 There is nobody less nuanced than a marketing drone at a megacorp. Porn actors portray more complex people.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (4odx6)

359 Oldcat
All seriousness aside now... get some creamed, whipped or spun honey (which is neither creamed, whipped nor spun).
It stays on a spoon, is inert (won't go bad unless you contaminate it). Can be put on anything, without drip.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (cPGH3)

360 At which point no one - absolutely no one - can claim that there were no illegal votes cast in the 2020 election, or that the margin was so small that it was insignificant.

"Legal" fraud was the main fraud. Millions of illegal votes were cast out in the open via the legislative requirements being subverted by judges and other non-legislative bodies.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:29 PM (5q92e)

OOOPSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (CdZ4i)

361 UNDERNOOOOOD !!!

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (V13WU)

362 @DanCrenshaw

Let's get some truth on the record: @Liz_Cheney has a hell of a lot more backbone than most, & is a principled leader with a fierce intellect. She will continue to be a much needed leader in the conference, with my full support.

Yes, Eff this guy in particular.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:45 PM (GYllL)

Hopefully the responses in his twatter feed were relentless.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (Zz0t1)

363 So the guy lost an eye. Cry me a damn river.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 20, 2022 07:56 PM (Kuxsi)

364 I'm no Scientologist, but the girl is reasonably good proof Psychiatry is bullshit.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:39 PM (AhhdW)

Scientology is replacing Psychiatric bullshit with worse bullshit.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:56 PM (eoQWY)

365 What's he doing hanging out with the Tiger King woman. That seems odd.

*

I think that he was afraid if he tried to help any of the people who were being held indefinitely without charges for walking on the grass in D.C. that someone might think he was engaging in self-promotion, and he doesn't want to appear to be doing that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 07:56 PM (5q92e)

366
But the second you try to parlay that into a career at the marble trough fucking people over and playing overlord with your new-found swamp creature buddies? Fuck you, fuck your medals, fuck your valor, and fuck your stupid eyeball. Military valor and sacrifice isn't some kind of down-payment on a lifetime career of filth and corruption.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

You really shouldn't hold back. I agree.

Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 07:57 PM (qpolg)

367 Fuckin' Carol Baskin.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 07:57 PM (II3Gr)

368 355 Nine-year-old hauled out of an NYC museum by two cops because she didn't have a vax card.

https://bit.ly/3AgSeIO
___

WTF is wrong with these people? This is just sick and evil.
Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 07:45 PM (qpolg)

They are sick and evil, and the rulers there are pulling these sort out of the woodwork.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (eoQWY)

We are just following orders. You have no right to criticize us or the hard work we are doing to protect the public. That nine year old is lucky I didn't take a baton to his stupid ass.

Posted by: Hero In Blue at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (CdZ4i)

369 What's he doing hanging out with the Tiger King woman. That seems odd.

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Maybe he was looking for pussy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (FVME7)

370 Fuckin' Carol Baskin.
Posted by: Insomniac

Wow Insom, you really lowered your standards.

Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (qpolg)

371 But the second you try to parlay that into a career at the marble trough fucking people over and playing overlord with your new-found swamp creature buddies? Fuck you, fuck your medals, fuck your valor, and fuck your stupid eyeball. Military valor and sacrifice isn't some kind of down-payment on a lifetime career of filth and corruption.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Slow down. I write slow....
Beautiful.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:59 PM (cPGH3)

372 I was trying to remember who that Carol Baskin gal was. I was thinking ice cream at first. Then I realized, she's the Viper King gal.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 07:59 PM (CdZ4i)

373 Oldcat
All seriousness aside now... get some creamed, whipped or spun honey (which is neither creamed, whipped nor spun).
It stays on a spoon, is inert (won't go bad unless you contaminate it). Can be put on anything, without drip.
Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (cPGH3)

Honey is a preservative, so hopefully it will preserve me some. I will do so, thanks MkY

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 08:00 PM (eoQWY)

374 But the second you try to parlay that into a career at the marble trough fucking people over and playing overlord with your new-found swamp creature buddies? Fuck you, fuck your medals, fuck your valor, and fuck your stupid eyeball. Military valor and sacrifice isn't some kind of down-payment on a lifetime career of filth and corruption.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yes. When I was in (USMC) there were people there I wouldn't trust to run a lemonade stand. Military service is just that-service to the country. Nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (Hh3y4)

375 I like the Olympics, but I don't like remakes of Queen For a Day. Now I assume they're so woke I don't even bother.
Posted by: Splunge at January 20, 2022 07:08 PM (PQ4Fz)

Queen For a Day? Wow, Splunge is OLD.

Posted by: sal at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (bJKUl)

376 nood

nood

nood

... but it is an undernood so back and down.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (SXSmD)

377 372 I was trying to remember who that Carol Baskin gal was. I was thinking ice cream at first. Then I realized, she's the Viper King gal.
Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 07:59 PM (CdZ4i)

That's Carol Baskin-Robbins.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 08:02 PM (II3Gr)

378 191 after China killed millions, infected the world with a virus that 3 years later is still affecting billions, we need to reward them with Olympic games. Many here do not care, but the games are a very big deal around the world.

Prediction: Beijing sets a new low for Olympics viewership
Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (kOpft)

Not "we." The IOC did this. To be fair, the CPC were awarded the Games back in 2015. But to ALSO be fair, the IOC KNEW they were dealing with the devil. The did NOT HAVE to reward the CPC with these Games or those of 2008, but they went ahead and did it anyway. They learned nothing from 1936. Or 1968. Or 1980. Fuck, nevermind.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 08:02 PM (CdZ4i)

379 Wow Insom, you really lowered your standards.
Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (qpolg)

She's a tiger in the sack.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 08:02 PM (II3Gr)

380 As for how to depict a trans M+M character, they'll have the green one quip "I used to be red, you know".

Guaranteed.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 20, 2022 08:02 PM (OssQ4)

381 Ack ack! Ack ack!

Posted by: Whem Mars Bars Attack at January 20, 2022 08:02 PM (n/szn)

382 Military valor and sacrifice isn't some kind of down-payment on a lifetime career of filth and corruption.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

*

Poetry.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 08:03 PM (5q92e)

383 Geeking out with BattleBots on Discovery

Posted by: weirdflunky at January 20, 2022 08:04 PM (cknjq)

384 Later Tuesday on All Things Considered, [Totenberg] changed the word "asked" to "suggested," saying, "So Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form or other, suggested that the other justices mask up."

Exactly how did Roberts, in some form, ask or suggest that his colleagues cover up? Totenberg told me she hedged on this: "If I knew exactly how he communicated this I would say it. Instead I said 'in some form.'"

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Well, I hope that's perfectly clear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 08:04 PM (FVME7)

385 240 > Rarely saw couples at chemo. Not unheard of though.

My wife came at first for moral support. It wasn't a big deal for me she wasn't there all the time.

I had a couple of big cancer related surgeries. She was there most of the time for those.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:27 PM (AhhdW)

My spouse comes with me to every cancer appointment...he's a keeper...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 08:04 PM (exHjb)

386 the Squad has suddenly become schtum

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:05 PM (us2H3)

387 309 I dunno. You want to dump on Crenshaw for his political stupidity. Have at it. He crossed that Rubicon and went to the Ivy League schools. He deserves to lose his race if the people decide so. But if you want to bag on him for his physical disabilities and service, you've lost me. There's not a lot of guys walking around who graduated BUD/S, have two Purple Hearts, Two Bronze Stars with V devices and and NCM with a V device and almost gave his life in AFG due to an VBIED. YMMV
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 07:40 PM

Just like with McCain, I appreciate his service; in both cases, though I do appreciate their service to country, this cannot excuse their political screwups. Being a decorated veteran does not grant a free pass.

Posted by: Snake Spirit at January 20, 2022 08:06 PM (CdZ4i)

388 Curious to see Dan Crenshaw more het up about Ukraine and Russia then he is about Americans held as political prisoners in DC. Or is this one of those cases where this will help him politically and do nothing for the Ukrainians? Good to know he only shows concern when it will do him good with The Swamp.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at January 20, 2022 08:06 PM (SRmHu)

389 I had a couple of big cancer related surgeries. She was there most of the time for those.
Posted by: bonhomme

My spouse comes with me to every cancer appointment...he's a keeper...
Posted by: Nova local

Yep. My wife waits until she's sure I'll be okay once released from the ER or surgery before she yells at me. Love is grand.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 08:07 PM (mD/uy)

390 Ukraine is apparently where lots of D.C. politicians and their families launder sh*tloads of money and make their fortunes. It's why it's so important to them, and why you see such weird behavior regarding a country no American cares about.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (5q92e)

391 386 the Squad has suddenly become schtum
Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:05 PM (us2H3)

They just realized they're smack-dab in the middle of the WarMonger Party.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (6FeV1)

392 Queen For a Day? Wow, Splunge is OLD.
Posted by: sal

Jack Bailey was terrific as the Emcee. My Mom would cringe as much as the poor woman selected to be 'Queen'.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (mD/uy)

393 388 Curious to see Dan Crenshaw more het up about Ukraine and Russia then he is about Americans held as political prisoners in DC. Or is this one of those cases where this will help him politically and do nothing for the Ukrainians? Good to know he only shows concern when it will do him good with The Swamp.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at January 20, 2022 08:06 PM (SRmHu)

He just got all his accounts in Kyiv set up, like, last week, man! Give a brother a chance before you blow it all up, you know?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (6FeV1)

394
I'm in the nood, below this nood.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (3cHMA)

395 My spouse comes with me to every cancer appointment...he's a keeper...
Posted by: Nova local

Yep. My wife waits until she's sure I'll be okay once released from the ER or surgery before she yells at me. Love is grand.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 08:07 PM (mD/uy)

It's also why I now give DeSantis extra checkmarks for being their for his wife's chemo appts - that's where you're supposed to be as a spouse. That's what matters 1st. Your wife. His LT Gov could always let him know if he was needed, and he wasn't...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (exHjb)

396 "True Conservative Dan Crenshaw enjoying some Celebrity Face Time with likely murderess Carol Baskin"

Meh.

Posted by: Picture of John Wayne Gacy and Rosalynn Carternd at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (EughT)

397 396 "True Conservative Dan Crenshaw enjoying some Celebrity Face Time with likely murderess Carol Baskin"

Meh.
Posted by: Picture of John Wayne Gacy and Rosalynn Carternd at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (EughT)

Yurp.

Posted by: Picture of Hillary Clinton and basically any other politician at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (6FeV1)

398 How long does it take a new congresscritter to get the grift going?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (awmcV)

399 As Dedman gleefully explains, Goldberg did not actually receive a nomination, but merely entered the contest, which merely requires $50 and an entry form.

Mr. Ace Boss, you are IN

Posted by: Miklos does have a spare $50 at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (QzkSJ)

400 398 How long does it take a new congresscritter to get the grift going?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (awmcV)

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: (Obligatory) at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (6FeV1)

401 How long does it take a new congresscritter to get the grift going?
Posted by: N.L. Urker

I'm pretty sure that is covered in the first 15 minutes of the freshman orientation sessions.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 08:14 PM (mD/uy)

402 178 CA is pushing forward with their "single payer" initiative which is predicted to cost double their current budget by itself.

It has gained the Appropriations Committee's blessing.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 07:12 PM (AhhdW)

Expect a building boom of hospitals and clinics in AZ and NV, immediate opposite the CA state line.

Posted by: Snake Spirit at January 20, 2022 08:15 PM (CdZ4i)

403 Mentioned this before.

WAPO has a quote on it's masthead "democracy dies in darkness."

A far more accurate one is "journalism dies in the media."

Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (KATBx)

404 403 Mentioned this before.

WAPO has a quote on it's masthead "democracy dies in darkness."

A far more accurate one is "journalism dies in the media."
Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (KATBx)

democracy dies in darkness. Hmm. Sure.

Any prognosis on what happens to democracy when buried under an opaque avalanche of obfuscations, misdirections, and outright fabrications gussied up as "news"?

Does that count as "Darkness"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:18 PM (6FeV1)

405 Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

A Republic is a wolf and two sheep voting on what to have for dinner, and the result is the same.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:20 PM (6FeV1)

406 That bottom video is genius.

Also my son has an assignment on the Holocaust. I gave him two choices out of, I think 30, either look into what Oskar Schindler did or look into the Einsatzgruppen did.

Duality of man and all.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 20, 2022 08:24 PM (YglAn)

407 There's a Even Deeper Deep State embedded within the government-corporate-media complex, devoted to a Double Secret Reverse Cloward Piven Strategy. All this shit about Gay M'n'Ms, installing a drooling perverted criminal in the presidency, and playing the hokey-pokey with Putin in Eastern Europe is actually due to their clandestine efforts to completely implode totalitarian progressivism once and for all from the inside, out.

In other words, Q. With the explanation that there was never going to be a Trump led big mass arrest and media takeover to explain it to the public . "Enjoy The Show" meant, well, this right now. It would explain why the Super Duper Genius Cabal of billionaires and bureaucrats keep making average people unhappy and pushing really unpopular ideas like "eat bugs" and "accept pedos".

Posted by: Azjaeger at January 20, 2022 08:26 PM (3/XaG)

408 democracy dies in darkness. Hmm. Sure.

Any prognosis on what happens to democracy when buried under an opaque avalanche of obfuscations, misdirections, and outright fabrications gussied up as "news"?

Does that count as "Darkness"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:18 PM (6FeV1)

What is the difference between the Washington Post and, say, Neues Deutschland?

Posted by: Snake Spirit at January 20, 2022 08:26 PM (CdZ4i)

409 Who gives a flying fuck about Crenshaw's eyeball? "Ohhhh, precious warrior Gave His All Defending Our Country"

That's wonderful, and laudable, and great, and good.

But the second you try to parlay that into a career at the marble trough fucking people over and playing overlord with your new-found swamp creature buddies? Fuck you, fuck your medals, fuck your valor, and fuck your stupid eyeball. Military valor and sacrifice isn't some kind of down-payment on a lifetime career of filth and corruption.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM

That was AWESOME.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 20, 2022 08:27 PM (OssQ4)

410 Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (KATBx)

democracy dies in darkness. Hmm. Sure.

Any prognosis on what happens to democracy when buried under an opaque avalanche of obfuscations, misdirections, and outright fabrications gussied up as "news"?

Does that count as "Darkness"?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:18 PM (6FeV1)

Looks more like a brag than a threat.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2022 08:28 PM (47mFt)

411 Looks more like a brag than a threat.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2022 08:28 PM (47mFt)

Posts do tend to cast a shadow...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:30 PM (6FeV1)

412 How long can the typical congresscritter resist the call of the grift?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 08:31 PM (awmcV)

413 How long can the typical congresscritter resist the call of the grift?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 08:31 PM (awmcV)

Justin the Mash claims it's a matter of minutes before the grift walks right in the office.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 20, 2022 08:33 PM (47mFt)

Harbor Howdy Cafe

Eagles bickering.

Owls cooperating.

I don't think this is very funny. This poor innocent dog. Kind of makes me think of men and women.

Sometimes cats' preference for chaos works in dogs' favor.

Sharing.

Quokka is happy, as usual.

Friends.

More baby goats in pyjamas. I bet this would be a good image for going to sleep.

Saving a beached sea turtle.

Inman: Grandma packs a wallop.

Caught fish gets last licks.

After more than eight years of service, this TSA airport sniffer dog officially retired..

This is how they surprised him on his final bag search.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/sPyRzLee5U
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) January 19, 2022

This deer... wow.

Never knew deer could jump that high and far.. 😮

🎥 @WildLense_India pic.twitter.com/sBDzKY8Dfr
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) January 19, 2022

Leave no one behind.. pic.twitter.com/jxFQuQiCbE
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) January 19, 2022

Wait for it.. pic.twitter.com/Stzv8YFvEH
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) January 20, 2022

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:43 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Nobody will ever find this

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 07:43 PM (SXSmD)

3 And WTF?

Undernood? Really?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:43 PM (Zz0t1)

4 I tripped and found myself here.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (QYPq3)

5 Was pig hunting over the weekend and managed to see a bald eagle flying round.

Quite beautiful.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (Zz0t1)

6 I'm waiting for the side nood.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (LjjXd)

7 Our Nuts Are The Tits!

Posted by: Big'uns Peanut Company at January 20, 2022 07:44 PM (vrz2I)

8 Saving a beached sea turtle.

good man

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 07:47 PM (V13WU)

9 Sponge, did you see some? The ones around here have moved on.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:47 PM (cOCY2)

10 It is a undernood

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 07:48 PM (2JoB8)

11 The cafe is located in the basement tonight, different, I kind of like it.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 20, 2022 07:48 PM (a4EWo)

12 DDS!!, Hope you are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (cOCY2)

13 Quokka look like they could be a pet

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 07:50 PM (2JoB8)

14 Reindeer flight school

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (2JoB8)

15 Whales are big creatures.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (7G6ZP)

16 How did you manage this one ace? This spellcheck is getting a workout tonight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (dNqv+)

17 That deer.......wow.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Sponge, did you see some? The ones around here have moved on.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:47 PM (cOCY2)

One. Just one. It was beautiful.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:53 PM (Zz0t1)

19 People got lost.

Posted by: dartist at January 20, 2022 07:54 PM (+ya+t)

20 Hi Ben Had, I'm keeping the faith, I hope that you are well too. It is nice to think that the MoMe is not next year any more!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 20, 2022 07:54 PM (a4EWo)

21 Deer have serious ups.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (mdaT8)

22 It looks like that deer was surprised he could jump that high too.

Posted by: Bosk at January 20, 2022 07:55 PM (x6uUk)

23 People got lost.

gotta follow the light

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 07:56 PM (V13WU)

24 It's undernood because the timezone setting got fubar. The post was submitted Mountain time and the comments are Eastern.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Cafe is down under tonight.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 07:57 PM (NpAcC)

26 Cafe is down under tonight.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 07:57 PM (NpAcC)

Shit. Does that mean we're going to be put in camps now?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:57 PM (Zz0t1)

27 I was snorkeling in the BVI years ago and came upon a young sea turtle that was tangled with a plastic shopping bag that was preventing him from diving. He wasn't thrilled but he let me get the bag off of him and took off into the deep.

That was a cool moment.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (ZLI7S)

28 Sponge, my error- did you see any pigs?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (cOCY2)

29 But what if the turtle was trying to sun his belly some to get a little tan?

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (2JoB8)

30 Don's mess with a Canada goose:

https://tinyurl.com/2p97fr8j

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 07:59 PM (URNdm)

31 I'm sick of hearing all this crap about Dan Crenshaw. OK - he lost an eye. Big friggin' deal.

* makes wanking motion *

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 20, 2022 07:59 PM (Kuxsi)

32 Australia does have what looks like nice Happy Camps, way better than Nazis or Communists ones.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 08:00 PM (2JoB8)

33 From the above post:

Stuckey's Pecan Log Rolls > Pearsons Salted Nut Rolls
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 07:51 PM (GYllL)

If you ever have the chance try the dark chocolate bear claws from River Street sweets in Savannah do so. They are everything you like about pecan log rolls * a million. I only buy candy twice a year Christmas and Valentine's day and it's always from them. The bear claws are my fave. Their pralines are very good too. They are dangerously close to me, like down the street walking distance.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 08:00 PM (SXSmD)

34 31 I'm sick of hearing all this crap about Dan Crenshaw. OK - he lost an eye. Big friggin' deal.

* makes wanking motion *
Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 20, 2022 07:59 PM (Kuxsi)

Is she only left with the Stranger now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:00 PM (dNqv+)

35 Sponge, my error- did you see any pigs?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (cOCY2)

Oh yeah.....was just too far away and the wife's 3030 just couldn't touch em. The looked at me and laughed as they sauntered away.

I need to get my 6.5 sighted in.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:00 PM (Zz0t1)

36 Wow. He's the Reinaldo Nehemiah of deer.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (wyw4S)

37 Undernood is best nood, unless they are 90.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (u82oZ)

38 Shit. Does that mean we're going to be put in camps now?
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 07:57 PM (Zz0t1)
******
They'll give you a koala to pet.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (NpAcC)

39 The same people who insist there is no God and that natural selection caused everything around us will not hesitate to f*ck up an ecosystem by forcing a turtle back into the water after it attempts to remove itself from the environment so that its stronger and smarter relatives have a better chance at the food and habitat.

SCINCE!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (5q92e)

40 Their pralines are very good too. They are dangerously close to me, like down the street walking distance.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 08:00 PM (SXSmD)
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I've had their pralines and they are amazing. Very good thing I am considerably farther away than walking distance from them.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2022 08:02 PM (wyw4S)

41 {{{bluebell}}}

Every barbed wire fence around here is training deer to jump. Fence needs to be 8 feet tall to slow them down. Most fences are 6 feet tall.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:03 PM (u82oZ)

42 They are dangerously close to me, like down the street walking distance.

Careful how much go there, would hate to see that become waddling distance.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 08:03 PM (SchxB)

43 The littlest owl is going to die of starvation.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 08:03 PM (NpAcC)

44 That Quokka has Biden eyes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:03 PM (dNqv+)

45 Where else are you going to hear under nood and know what it is besides here.

Posted by: Infidel at January 20, 2022 08:04 PM (qpolg)

46 That tuxedo kitty reminds me of my Silas. Big white belly and asymmetric face.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:04 PM (F4b8f)

47 That was a cool moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 07:58 PM (ZLI7S)
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Aw. Some day you will go down to your beach and find that he has grown up and has swum all that way to find you and say thank you.

Quick, sell that idea to Disney and then you can retire.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2022 08:05 PM (wyw4S)

48 Ben Had

♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ Good evening! ♩ ♫ ♬ ♪

This year in Corsicana.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:05 PM (u82oZ)

49 Hi Salty!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 20, 2022 08:06 PM (a4EWo)

50 Hi Salty! Yes, I've seen deer around here jump fences too. But nothing like in that video.

Posted by: bluebell at January 20, 2022 08:06 PM (wyw4S)

51 That ball breaking fish or surprise anal otters...

It's a close call.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:07 PM (F0YaR)

52 No wonder the other owl is bigger, it gets all the food

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 08:07 PM (2JoB8)

53 >>Quick, sell that idea to Disney and then you can retire.

Nah. Disney will turn me, or the turtle, or both of us, into transsexuals and make a love story out of it.

It seemed like a nice little fella. I don't want to go down that road.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:07 PM (ZLI7S)

54 Hello Horde. Sitting at the airport waiting to get out of town for the weekend.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (D/hUK)

55 Debby Doberman Schultz

*Respectful tip of the hat*

I saw your trip back was memorable, but you were doing well. I trust that continues.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (u82oZ)

56 Eagles bickering.

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Don't give me none of that "branch looks better over here" crap!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (FVME7)

57 Good evening, dear Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (TdMsT)

58 Leave no one behind cats were awesome.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (NqZ29)

59 NaCly, dearest. I so look forward to it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (cOCY2)

60 JackStraw

When you were diving did you see turtles swimming around?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (u82oZ)

61 remove itself from the environment so that its stronger and smarter relatives have a better chance at the food and habitat.

SCINCE!

Nooooo. Global warming!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (F4b8f)

62 NaCly, dearest. I so look forward to it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (cOCY2)

Hope we can make it this year again......we should know in the next month or 2.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (Zz0t1)

63
Ace is subverting expectations, again.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 08:10 PM (3cHMA)

64 Jordan61, How's the Tai-Chi going?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 08:10 PM (cOCY2)

65 That deer has some serious Michael Jordan hangtime.

I think the deer's tongue was hanging out too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (F0YaR)

66 Hope we can make it this year again......we should know in the next month or 2.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:09 PM (Zz0t1)

I would really hate to have to hunt you down and drag you there...

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (D/hUK)

67 >>When you were diving did you see turtles swimming around?

Every once in a while. Not so many in PR but I did see them in the Virgin Islands somewhat frequently.

We see them up here when we go out to the Gulf Stream to fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (ZLI7S)

68 Deer got lucky with the slope down from the road. Probably unexpected, judging from the leg motion.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (u82oZ)

69 Hello Horde. Sitting at the airport waiting to get out of town for the weekend.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:08 PM (D/hUK)

Noice!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (Zz0t1)

70 Jordan61, How's the Tai-Chi going?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 08:10 PM (cOCY2)

I am very uncoordinated and bad at it! But I'm trying. I'm sure I look ridiculous.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (D/hUK)

71
I would really hate to have to hunt you down and drag you there...
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:11 PM (D/hUK)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:12 PM (Zz0t1)

72 Godspeed Jordan61

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (2JoB8)

73 Jordan61

Does the Airline club know you are a two-time Bacon Wench? They should comp you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (u82oZ)

74 Sponge, I need to email you . Will do so in the morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (cOCY2)

75 Does the Airline club know you are a two-time Bacon Wench? They should comp you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (u82oZ)

Ha! They would probably think I was nuts and drag me away. "Don't you know who I am?!"

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:15 PM (D/hUK)

76
SCINCE!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 08:01 PM (5q92e)

SOSIG!!!!

https://i.yt___.com/vi/tjA73slGtb4/maxresdefault.jpg

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:15 PM (Zz0t1)

77 crap.....

https://i.ytIMG.com/vi/tjA73slGtb4/maxresdefault.jpg

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:15 PM (Zz0t1)

78 Sponge, I need to email you . Will do so in the morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 08:13 PM (cOCY2)

I look forward to it.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (Zz0t1)

79 FFS, Sponge.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (D/hUK)

80 Back to work.

My sister is visiting soon. 5 days prep is not enough. But my bookcases are organized.

She has maid service once a week at her McMansion. She expects clean and organized.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (u82oZ)

81 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

Trifecta

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (786Ro)

82 She has maid service once a week at her McMansion. She expects clean and organized.

*

If she's not willing to clean her own damn house I don't know why she expects you to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 08:17 PM (5q92e)

83 FFS, Sponge.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:16 PM (D/hUK)

You expected something different?

It's me.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:18 PM (Zz0t1)

84 You expected something different?

It's me.......
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:18 PM (Zz0t1)

The margins on my shitty phone are all blown to hell.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:19 PM (D/hUK)

85 Glad I'm not the only one with a shitty phone.

Posted by: Infidel * RIP OM at January 20, 2022 08:19 PM (qpolg)

86
The margins on my shitty phone are all blown to hell.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:19 PM (D/hUK)

Oh.....oops. My bad. I forget about the phone users.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:20 PM (Zz0t1)

87 The margins on my shitty phone are all blown to hell.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:19 PM (D/hUK)

*fistbumps margins*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:20 PM (dNqv+)

88 There is literally a chick here wearing pajamas and crocs and she's wrapped in a blanket.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:21 PM (D/hUK)

89 88 There is literally a chick here wearing pajamas and crocs and she's wrapped in a blanket.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:21 PM (D/hUK)

So. You know our next question.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:22 PM (dNqv+)

90 88 There is literally a chick here wearing pajamas and crocs and she's wrapped in a blanket.
Posted by: Jordan61

Well I don't have crocs, but how did you know?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 08:23 PM (U2p+3)

91 So. You know our next question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:22 PM (dNqv+)

No, she's not hot. She looks kinda like Lena Dunham but with longer hair.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:23 PM (D/hUK)

92 The cafe is located in the basement tonight, different, I kind of like it.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 20, 2022 07:48 PM (a4EWo)

It's like a speakeasy

Posted by: Russkilitlover at January 20, 2022 08:24 PM (iyVGU)

93
They keep making phones skinnier and skinnier.
Aspect ratios are getting absurd.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 08:25 PM (3cHMA)

94 This mumbling, stumbling President is a clear and present danger to world peace: ...Dominic Green

ttps://is.gd/OGrYLk

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 08:25 PM (JVMtX)

95 No, she's not hot. She looks kinda like Lena Dunham but with longer hair.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:23 PM (D/hUK)

I'm
Right here, you know.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 08:26 PM (U2p+3)

96 Well I don't have crocs, but how did you know?
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 08:23 PM (U2p+3)

I've traveled with you, you don't look like you rolled over in bed and woke up at the airport.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:26 PM (D/hUK)

97 Later Tuesday on All Things Considered, [Totenberg] changed the word "asked" to "suggested," saying, "So Chief Justice John Roberts, understanding that, in some form or other, suggested that the other justices mask up."

Exactly how did Roberts, in some form, ask or suggest that his colleagues cover up? Totenberg told me she hedged on this: "If I knew exactly how he communicated this I would say it. Instead I said 'in some form.'"

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Well, I hope that's perfectly clear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 08:28 PM (FVME7)

98 I've traveled with you, you don't look like you rolled over in bed and woke up at the airport.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:26 PM (D/hUK)

I used to know people who drank like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 08:28 PM (ZMraq)

99 Also, you look nothing like Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:28 PM (D/hUK)

100 "It's time for the non-Jewish world to actively free itself from antisemitism. If you're not Jewish and you think Jews are centring themselves in cries about media bias, you don't have a clue what it feels like to watch mainstream media serve your enemies and jeopardise your security. You have no idea the act of courage and resistance that it is to walk into a synagogue in 2022 and pray. America tells itself it's a safe place to do that. That is a lie. This could have happened at any Jewish institution in this country. Why don't more people care?"

This is from an article linked over at Instapundit. I do not necessarily quibble over what she is saying, I just wonder if she ever wondered what it was like to be a conservative unvaxxed christian in today's day and age? She takes hate crimes as read, so I am assuming she is a pretty hard core leftist.

Name is Eve Barlow writing at 'Grazia'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:28 PM (dNqv+)

101 No, she's not hot. She looks kinda like Lena Dunham but with longer hair.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 08:23 PM (D/hUK)

Dammit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 08:29 PM (dNqv+)

102 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit reveals it will now ONLY feature ads from brands that are focused on advancing gender equality and women's empowerment
editor says the magazine is more than just swimsuit models

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 08:29 PM (JVMtX)

103 undernood!

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 08:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

104 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit reveals it will now ONLY feature ads from brands that are focused on advancing gender equality and women's empowerment
editor says the magazine is more than just swimsuit models
Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 08:29 PM (JVMtX)\

Sounds like the editor wants the retirement buy out that comes with a failed publication.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 08:30 PM (Ed8Zd)

105 102 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit reveals it will now ONLY feature ads from brands that are focused on advancing gender equality and women's empowerment
editor says the magazine is more than just swimsuit models
Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 08:29 PM (JVMtX)

We are now just a money laundering front.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated at January 20, 2022 08:31 PM (dNqv+)

106 11 The cafe is located in the basement tonight, different, I kind of like it.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 20, 2022 07:48 PM (a4EWo)

It appears the clock in Ace's posting system has time-shifted. A black hole must have passed close-by Ace's bunker and altered the local time-space continuum.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 08:32 PM (AMIL/)

107 Totenberg told me she hedged on this: "If I knew exactly how he communicated this I would say it. Instead I said 'in some form.'"
- Well, I hope that's perfectly clear.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
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In other words, she made the whole thing up.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 08:32 PM (JVMtX)

NBC News: "Conservative Activists" (Parents) Want the Schools (Government Agencies) to Disclose Their Lessons Plans (Government-Created Materials). But That's Bad.

The Media Faction is actually now arguing that the Government Has Privacy Rights and should be allowed to keep secrets from citizens.

They're literally arguing that parents should be forced -- by threat of violence -- to fund schools, but that schools should then conduct their business in secret, protected from parents' prying eyes.

This.

Cannot.

Last.

They fought critical race theory. Now they're focusing on 'curriculum transparency.'

Conservative activists want schools to post lesson plans online, but free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools.

Art caption:

Some conservative activists say the curriculum transparency effort is a potent strategic move to expose and root out progressive ideas from schools

So you're admitting conservatives are attempting to de-politicize the politicization already effected by your fellow progressives?

Oh, of course they're not admitting that; in any question like this, they immediately default to the claim that "the truth has a progressive bias." Progressivism belongs in the schools because progressive politics is The Science.

Lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation to require schools to post lists of all of their teaching materials online, including books, articles and videos. The governors of Arizona, Florida and Iowa, who have previously raised concerns about how teachers discuss racism's impact on politics and society, called for curriculum transparency laws in speeches to their legislatures this month.
"Florida law should provide parents with the right to review the curriculum used in their children's schools," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said in his State of the State address last week.

Horrors! Parents want control over -- or even a heads up about -- the schools they're legally required to fund and which their children are legally required to attend.

But the Government Has Rights!, we shall soon see.

...
"People are going to disagree on a lot of these issues," said Matt Beienburg, the Goldwater Institute's director of education policy. "Transparency is something I think that at least allows for that conversation to know what is being taught. Everybody should be able to rally around the fact that we shouldn't be teaching something in secret."
But teachers, their unions and free speech advocates say the proposals would excessively scrutinize daily classwork and would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism. Parents and legislators have already started campaigns to remove books dealing with race and gender, citing passages they find obscene, after they found out that the books were available in school libraries and classrooms.
"It's important we call this out," said Jon Friedman, the director of free expression and education at PEN America, a nonprofit group that promotes free speech. "It's a shift toward more neutral-sounding language, but it's something that is potentially just as censorious."

The only people in America who have full free speech rights are government workers during their government-paid jobs teaching your children in a venue your children are legally required to be present at.

You, on the other hand, do not have any free speech rights. You also do not have the right to show up at school board meetings to challenge the methods and materials used to indoctrinate your children.

But teachers, ah, the blessed teachers! Those for whom It's All About The Kids, as we've learned so many times over the past two years!

They have carte blanche to indoctrinate and groom your children as they will.

And how will that work out for them?

Well, according to a new Trafalgar Poll: Not great. Not great.

Republicans soar to a preposterous 13.5% lead on the generic Congressional ballot.

Of the 1,083 likely general election voters surveyed between 01/12/22 and 01/15/22, just 38.7 percent approved of Biden's performance and 59.2 percent disapproved. Nearly 50 percent of voters said they strongly disapprove of the job Biden is doing.
...
Trafalgar's party preference poll, conducted between 01/12/22 and 01/15/22, resulted in very ominous numbers for congressional Democrats.
...
Respondents said they preferred Republicans over Democrats 55.7 percent to 42.2 percent.

As a wise woman once said: "It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day."

Amen.

Alternate post title:
Fake News Says It's Good For Children To Keep "Secrets" With Adult Strangers
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

Posted by: Ace at 05:33 PM

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1 Nothing > Public Schools

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (QYPq3)

2 Well if they're public.....they should be public.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 05:34 PM (XvPQV)

3 Ridiculous

Posted by: Jim Moran at January 20, 2022 05:34 PM (URNdm)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:34 PM (Zz0t1)

5 "Parents have no standing or rights, but mostly rights. Next!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 05:34 PM (vdEuu)

6 Public schools are, for the most part, awful. It's not just big cities that start the indoctrination; it's everywhere.

Sure there are some good public schools, but most of the teachers are leftist acolytes who went to leftist colleges.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (bkUtD)

7 Some conservative activists say the curriculum transparency effort is a potent strategic move to expose and root out progressive ideas from schools

There's nothing wrong with this.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (Zz0t1)

8 "But teachers, their unions and free speech advocates say the proposals would excessively scrutinize daily classwork and would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism. "

They say that like it's a BAD thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (XvPQV)

9 Like Ukraine, I don't give a fuck about public schools. As the fallout from covid winds down, some governor is going to see fit to fire all the lazy teachers and yank their benefits. If that governor is Ron DeSantis, he might actually get my interest.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (Eqkqm)

10 >>>Well if they're public.....they should be public.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

This ^

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (bkUtD)

11
Didn't I see a story last week about a "teacher" who gave her student a vaccination without consent? Was that real?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (3cHMA)

12 Amanda Milisus is right. Nobody told me I'd have to live through the end of an empire.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (QYPq3)

13 free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools.

Actual Free Speech advocates have never had any problem with transparency and speech being open. These are "school union advocates"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (KZzsI)

14 I have one kid in a public school. The teacher sends the curriculum via email every month. Pretty detailed too.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (OalnH)

15 Didn't I see a story last week about a "teacher" who gave her student a vaccination without consent? Was that real?
Posted by: Soothsayer's
___

Yep, at her home.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (RU4sa)

16
Alternate post title:

Fake News Says It's Good For Children To Keep "Secrets" With Adult Strangers

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (3cHMA)

17 Hildabeast said it takes a village to raise a child, after stealing it away from the parents.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (2JoB8)

18 I now agree.

parents need cameras in their kids classrooms.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (Z32m1)

19 >>But teachers, their unions and free speech advocates say the proposals would excessively scrutinize daily classwork and would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THESE SAME PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT PROTECTING TEACHERS LOVE, LOVE, LOVES THAT OUR FREE SPEECH ON SOCIAL MEDIA IS SUPPRESSED.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (URNdm)

20 It is almost as if they have something to hide.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (ZMraq)

21 teachers should have to wear cameras just like cops

Posted by: nckate at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (z5Nun)

22 Ace, go look up what the Michigan Democrat posted (and then deleted) on Twitter about parents having input in public schools.

It's a hoot.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (llXky)

23 Outlaw the NEA, and a whole mess of school-centric political problems go away. They are an open and avowed communist indoctrination group. End them.

And whatever other "teachers union" might spring up in their stead, do this very same thing for them as for the schools themselves: Any taxpayer in the district is allowed to sit in on their union meetings, any time, no questions asked.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (6FeV1)

24 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
.@SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

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Biggest lie ever told?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (FVME7)

25 Note to future VA college students - take Oral Communication/Public Speaking at your local CC before going to college. Of all the required "core courses" so far, this one seems to be the utmost in leftist indoctrination. Which is a little surprising b/c you'd figure other core courses would be more likely for the indoctrination overkill, but I guess this one has no other course options except coming in with CC credit, and there's no AP course to bypass it, so here we are.

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (exHjb)

26
Alternate post title:

Telling Parents What Their Children Are Doing In School Is Problematic

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (3cHMA)

27 ""It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day."

I say that every morning before I take a dump.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (vrz2I)

28 Nothing > Public Schools
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (QYPq3)

Raised by wolves > Public Schools

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (Zz0t1)

29
I agree that people in the government have rights. They have a right to get on the train. They have a right to dig the canal. And they have a right to remain silent, on pain of the knout.

Those are the only rights I'll ever recognize for any of them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (4odx6)

30 Explain to me why those with no children in school should pay for public schools.

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (Wkoyp)

31 What y'all are missing is that purpose of government schooling has always been to get educations out parents' hands. This has been case since the days of Woodrow Wilson.
A lot of teachers and schools didn't go along with this.
And it's hard to hide the curriculum when you send the course agenda, its school books, and its assignments home with the kids.
But when was the last time you saw your kids textbooks?

Posted by: Harry_the_Horrible at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (QWOhf)

32 17 Hildabeast said it takes a village to raise a child, after stealing it away from the parents.

We home-schooled because we had seen the village and didn't want our daughter anywhere near it.

Posted by: Greyman27 at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (RKLPC)

33
@tomselliott
.@SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

...with an uncanny knack for extremely lucrative stock trading.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (3cHMA)

34 "Conservative activists want schools to post lesson plans online, but free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools."

That is truly an Orwellian sentence.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (bVYXr)

35 They want children to be products of the state, for the state. Let's not beat around the bush. There are not a few parents who are fine with that.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (6Je/Q)

36 "It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day."

This is about me, isn't it....

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (FaJmP)

37 17 Hildabeast said it takes a village to raise a child, after stealing it away from the parents.
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (2JoB

I believe the actual quotation was, "You have to raze a village to take a child".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (6FeV1)

38 Motorcyclist trying to get away from LAPD was killed today. It's not extremely graphic. Taken from a distance in the chopper and they cut away quickly. But you do see the crash so you've been warned. Bonus: anchorwoman trying to hold back laughter.
https://youtu.be/SwsttyjeJlQ

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (xPl2J)

39 I have one kid in a public school. The teacher sends the curriculum via email every month. Pretty detailed too.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (OalnH)
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I've got one kid left in school, which is my alma mater and while the quality of education has deteriorated, they are super-transparent about what the do. High Karen/Tiger Mom population who wants to know exactly what the little ones are doing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (llXky)

40 This is bananas.
Why the heck do would believe they can hide their curricula from parents?!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (URNdm)

41 But, but, but... without secret alone time with your kids we can't do whet we want.
- Pedophi... No that is Cultis... No, I mean "teachers".

Weird how I almost got that one wrong.
Twice.
Just so weird.

Posted by: ertdfg at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (I388C)

42
lol @ "free speech advocates"

That is so 1984.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (3cHMA)

43 "House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere
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Biggest lie ever told?"

That's a doozy unless you live in the alternate reality that is Nancy Pelosi's world.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (vrz2I)

44 James Lindsay, via New Discourses, had a new podcast on Critical Pedagogy. He's examining Marxian theorist Paulo Freire and his impact on gov't education in the US.

Quite interesting (if you are into this sort of thing, anyway).

https://tinyurl.com/jatnjnuc

Posted by: lizabth at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (L3Rsz)

45 They will post what they want us to see.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (F4b8f)

46 43 "House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

So it's opposites day....
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Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (TdaKq)

47 21 well, when everything locked down and kids were doing remote learning and there parents were home as well, there were a lot of eyes opened to the bs being taught.

Posted by: Dogbert at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (Z9HSN)

48 "The truth has a progressive bias"

I've heard this for years and it's as stupid now as it was when I first heard it.

There's not one progressive idea in the last 100 years that's ever remotely made any sense.

And we're currently at the "Men can have periods" phase of their mental illness.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (W3VUu)

49 James Lindsay is on Joe Rogan today.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (xPl2J)

50 "Censorship" of organizations goes by another name: control.

My wife was a public school teacher. She wasn't allowed to talk about Jesus any time she wanted to, even if it could have helped a kid. Since courts decided that authorities at school are like "Congress" making laws putting people under the authority of Churches, she knew that she didn't have a "right" to say what she wanted.

Now, curriculum is decided by administrators--even *further* up. If administrators can be "censored" in the curriculum, then any administrator that doesn't get his choice of textbooks is being "censored". Because the administration picks what this textbook says and not what that one says.

This is soooo stupid. And, I daresay bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (XHhHI)

51 This is bananas.
Why the heck do would believe they can hide their curricula from parents?!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (URNdm)
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Same reason they hid multiple instances of sexual assault.

Because they can.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (llXky)

52 CONSERVATIVES POUNCE

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (786Ro)

53 24 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
.@SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

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Biggest lie ever told?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (FVME7)
***

Hey! Come on! It takes a shitload of imagination to come up with new grifting ideas!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (axyOa)

54 You guys are smart. You know things that your parents don't know

-Groomer Gore

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (F4b8f)

55 As a homeschooler, I find it odd that parents want or need privacy. Since the beginning when my spouse and I started volunteer teaching homeschool kids, we've had a policy that parents can sit in the back or listen in on the computer at all times (depending whether we've been onsite or virtual) - partly so they can watch their own kids' behavior/effort and partly so they can know what's going on and incorporate it in other learning. Now, the only rule is they can't disrupt or answer the questions for the kids, but other than that, well, we hope they learn something...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (exHjb)

56 I know faculty in higher ed who want to make the syllabus a state secret as well. I don't get it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 05:42 PM (K5n5d)

57 Well, there's also the fact that parents might be stunned to find out how much of the lessons and curriculum are being run by various and sundry edutech companies that are building up literal permanent files on kids.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (GbPPJ)

58 Turns out the ivory tower is actually just bakelite.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (6FeV1)

59
As a wise woman once said: "It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day."

If she's been giving BJ's everyday I have no issue with the statement.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (dQvv7)

60 Stupid, lazy teachers didn't realize that by insisting on remote Zoom classes for the past 2 years they've invited parents into their classroom.

Reap what you have sown.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (URNdm)

61 This is bananas.
Why the heck do would believe they can hide their curricula from parents?!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (URNdm)

Its the people in the middle they are trying to keep ignorant, so they can dismiss parents as right wing activists or kooks and most will accept it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (eoQWY)

62 We were getting a bad rap, until teachers stepped up their game.

Posted by: Naughty Catholic Priests at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (FPuSC)

63 Why not, last week I saw the FBI pleading the fifth to prevent oversight from congress.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (YGkPn)

64 How is asking for lesson plans any more scandalous that looking up a course syllabus at any university?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (Wg1SU)

65 "It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day" - would be a good chemical brothers/lmfao confab, sample in a bit of camel's voice, lay down some rhythm, add some fun rhymes, and bob's your uncle.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (SXSmD)

66 Explain to me why those with no children in school should pay for public schools.

Well now I ask myself that everyday. My kids have been out of high school since 2002 and yet my property tax is still through the roof because the LSR7 just can never have enough fucking money. Another reason I want out of this bloodsucking county.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (nxdel)

67 >>Well, there's also the fact that parents might be stunned to find out how much of the lessons and curriculum are being run by various and sundry edutech companies that are building up literal permanent files on kids.

That sh#t is scary.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (URNdm)

68 "House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere"

Nay! In the history of mankind has there ever been a group of people so superior to the rest of humanity as to rise to the status of deities in Congress.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (vrz2I)

69 Say, did all the schools still make the kids take the annual standardized tests last year?

Or was that Covid-can't

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (Wkoyp)

70 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
.@SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

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Biggest lie ever told?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (FVME7)

I bet average House Dem iq is 88, even excluding famous tards Maxine Waters and Hank Johnson. VP Knees Up may crack 100 but I doubt it.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

71 As a wise woman once said: "It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day."

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You mean, like, The Wise Hyena: Sucking, Blowing, or Embracing the Power of AND?

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (vdEuu)

72 Public schools have been grooming their students for decades to be good little commies.

They may be kids, or not. They will grow up to be a threat.

That's a real bitch to resolve.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (BFigT)

73 So, I meant "Teachers want or need privacy" not parents...how is weekend brain kicking in on Thursday night? I still gotta get through Friday!

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (exHjb)

74 I thought there was once upon a time a big push to get parents involved in helping with their kid's homework.

I suppose that must be strengst verboten now, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (6FeV1)

75 That sh#t is scary.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (URNdm)

And nearly all on Chromebooks.

Alphabet knows all.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (GbPPJ)

76 >>>Stupid, lazy teachers didn't realize that by insisting on remote Zoom classes for the past 2 years they've invited parents into their classroom.

Reap what you have sown.

Posted by: Lizzy

During Covid, my two youngest were in laptops a few feet from us. We heard everything, but since my kids are in a pretty good school, nothing troubling came up.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (bkUtD)

77 I think I am beginning to understand Taliban means and methods.

Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (Ie4lc)

78 It seems insane that the Dems have chosen this hill to die on, but it makes sense when you consider that progressives largely live in a vacuum. They have constructed a bubble universe where everyone they speak to or watch on TV agrees with them. Anyone who challenges them are booted and banned. That's why they literally cannot fathom why people are upset about this. Nobody THEY know voted for Nixon.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (HmZuC)

79 I've got one kid left in school, which is my alma mater and while the quality of education has deteriorated, they are super-transparent about what the do. High Karen/Tiger Mom population who wants to know exactly what the little ones are doing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (llXky)

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Ours is a top 5% school in the state. Every parent is a Tiger Mom/Karen helicopter parent. My kid was upset once about a "bad" math test. The "bad" grade? 91. It's that kind of environment.

Another kid is at a charter school and there it's the same. No fucking around. Teachers don't put up with any bullshit and the principal is not afraid to expel students who aren't cutting it or don't want to be there. The goal is Stanford or bust, that's kind of the joke.

Point being there is still good education out there. My view is parents make the education system. If parents care, the education will be good. If they give no fucks, it will not be.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (OalnH)

80 We own your children

Posted by: John Dewey at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (qwO6y)

81 "The truth has a progressive bias"

I've heard this for years and it's as stupid now as it was when I first heard it.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (W3VUu)
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There is no such coherent thing as a "right" to the left's "left". And yet, the left are defined by advocacy or resistance to some 19th century writer's theory about how history was going to go--which has "never been tried".

They can't live in reality, because Marxism must take you away from reality to "dream" how things could otherwise be. From then on the wishful thinking, distorts all further perceptions of what IS.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (XHhHI)

82 It would be a lot easier if nobody knows anything about our nefarious plans and we are wiling to use violence of the state to make that happen.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (iDcra)

83 Schools have a right to turn the camera on in your kids bedroom whenever they want!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (F4b8f)

84 74 I thought there was once upon a time a big push to get parents involved in helping with their kid's homework.

I suppose that must be strengst verboten now, huh?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (6FeV1)

That's not equitable, or at least VA teachers said so...

Thus, reason #4375 Youngkin won

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (exHjb)

85 Greetings:

As the beneficiary of 13 years of Bronx Catholic education in the '50s and '60s, I shudder to think of what might well be going on inside those walls these misbegotten days.

Posted by: 11B40 at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (uuklp)

86 Is there a reporter who's not retarded and evil?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (awmcV)

87 I don't have kids but still put a lot of money into the public school.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (2JoB8)

88
But teachers, their unions and free speech advocates say the proposals would excessively scrutinize daily classwork and would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism.

Are they not proud to teach these things? Let your freak flag fly!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (63Dwl)

89 You almost have to homeschool. We had to over 10 years ago. It must be really bad now. Even private schools. YMMV.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (vrz2I)

90 Public schools have been grooming their students for decades to be good little commies.

They may be kids, or not. They will grow up to be a threat.

That's a real bitch to resolve.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 05:44 PM (BFigT)

Teachers might want to look into how next generations commies look back on last generation's commies. Trotsky got the axe, others get purged.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:48 PM (eoQWY)

91 >>>Are they not proud to teach these things? Let your freak flag fly!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Exactly. If you believe in the curriculum, what have you got to hide?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:48 PM (bkUtD)

92 81 "The truth has a progressive bias"

Say the same people who insist the media has a rightwing bias.

So what are they saying?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:48 PM (F4b8f)

93 It seems insane that the Dems have chosen this hill to die on

Who do you think controls the Democratic Party?

Posted by: The Teachers' Unions! at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (I2/tG)

94 Break the Teachers Unions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (lMmuq)

95 If anyone missed Fairfax's privilege bingo, Twitchy is your friend...it was so bad, Fairfax Schools had to admit they are changing it (although note, they are changing it, not deleting it and burning it to never be found and firing the ones who approved it...but it's Fairfax)...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (exHjb)

96 Alphabet knows all.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (GbPPJ)

Which means Facebook knows it too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (XvPQV)

97 Fake News Says It's Good For Children To Keep "Secrets" With Adult Strangers

...such as how often and where teachers touch them, and with what.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (KZzsI)

98 I don't have kids but still put a lot of money into the public school.
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (2JoB

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Yeah! Where's my refund? I'm in the same boat. I pay taxes to fund these things, but I don't see any direct benefit from it. Instead I hear stories about lazy and stupid teachers abusing kids for their own personal amusement.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (K5n5d)

99 It seems insane that the Dems have chosen this hill to die on, but it makes sense when you consider that progressives largely live in a vacuum.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (HmZuC)
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Also: They won't produce as many offspring. So if left to the natural trend traditionals will impart their values to their kids at a much greater rate than "progressives". So they need to intervene between parents and children.

To maintain their power base.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (XHhHI)

100 "It seems insane that the Dems have chosen this hill to die on"

Not when you understand where most of the Dem money comes from.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:50 PM (OalnH)

101 30 Explain to me why those with no children in school should pay for public schools.
Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (Wkoyp)

Perhaps the same reason those of us who put our children thru private schools have to pay for public also.....?

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 05:50 PM (Tj589)

102 knout.(?)
I'm not a dolt, but that's new?

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 05:50 PM (cPGH3)

103 We know how this goes. Next week, the "National Board of People That Don't Like You To Know What We Tell Your Kids" will be asked by Education Secretary to write a letter to Merrick Garland. Merrick then talks to the FBI.

Only bit of suspense is I'm not sure whether the FBI will have to create an all new "threat tag" or can cram this into one they already created to use for "People not interested in letting their children be raped by trannies."

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 20, 2022 05:50 PM (dYe5S)

104 57 Well, there's also the fact that parents might be stunned to find out how much of the lessons and curriculum are being run by various and sundry edutech companies that are building up literal permanent files on kids.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (GbPPJ)
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Giving them their very on computers made it so much easier.
_Very On Tech Inc

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (JVMtX)

105 Yeah! Where's my refund? I'm in the same boat. I pay taxes to fund these things, but I don't see any direct benefit from it. Instead I hear stories about lazy and stupid teachers abusing kids for their own personal amusement.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (K5n5d)

Part of funding schools even if you don't have kids is the funding of the next generation to work and support the senior safety net. Or that's the idea...

Of course, if you have the kids but don't use the schools, then I want to know why you don't get the refund...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (exHjb)

106 My son went to Catholic elementary school. When we moved and had to put him public schools he ran circles around the public school kids.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (njVMJ)

107 You almost have to homeschool. We had to over 10 years ago. It must be really bad now. Even private schools. YMMV.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (vrz2I)

CRT, globohomo/pedo grooming, teaching to the LCD, low quality/standards, covid hysterics and psychological abuse including distancing, masking, and vaccine mandates, and general leftist indoctrination. What's not to love?

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (SH2Zi)

108 30 Explain to me why those with no children in school should pay for public schools.
Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (Wkoyp)
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Same reason I never take public transportation but have to pay for it through taxes.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (OalnH)

109 One of the best things to come out of the lockdowns was zoom school, and parents hearing what schools are teaching.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (F4b8f)

110 would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism.

Are they not proud to teach these things? Let your freak flag fly!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (63Dwl)
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I think it's funny that now all of a sudden "potentially contentious materials" are a good thing.

What about kids who are triggered?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (llXky)

111 On topic

Roping off the unvaxxed kids.

https://twitter.com/mercola/status/
1484178095590367240

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (lCui1)

112 @SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

That should make Senate Democrats happy.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (SwCv8)

113 "would lead teachers to pre-emptively pull potentially contentious materials to avoid drawing criticism"

So it will have a chilling effect on the sex and communism lessons? Good!

Posted by: pj at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (G1dq6)

114 Also: They won't produce as many offspring. So if left to the natural trend traditionals will impart their values to their kids at a much greater rate than "progressives". So they need to intervene between parents and children.
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That's part and parcel of this insidious progressive poison. Leftists as a rule don't "go forth and multiply" by themselves. Instead, they have to spread their ideology through the spawn of their enemies' children. It's very evil, but effective.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (K5n5d)

115 >Yep, at her home.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (RU4sa)

I remember After School Specials warning me not to go home with the friendly teacher so we could do stuff away from my parents.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (usgok)

116 If we let the Federal government solely pay for schools and take away local taxes it would be far worse. I wonder if that has ever been pushed for? It's VERY Soviet, after all.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (6Je/Q)

117 free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools.
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An example of Progressive thought/action. Note that 'Censorship' is asserted, and treated as fact. Their argument proceeds from that 'fact', without a meaningful example of that 'Censorship'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (DMQdU)

118 I had a teacher tell me not to tell anyone our secret. And I will never ever tell. About her secret. And mine. Our secret.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (vrz2I)

119 MIT has a huge collection of practically all of their lectures online in a number of subjects and several other colleges do the same to a lesser degree and even the most run of the mill community college will post their syllabus online but apparently it's a bridge too far for some tattooed nitwit with a nose ring and a 1.9 GPA education degree to post her lesson plan for teaching history to your fifth grader.

Personally I think a lot of them are afraid of everyone finding out how dumb they actually are. I've run into some public school teachers over the years and I've yet to see one that impressed me with their intellect. Most of them teach straight from the textbook when they bother it all to teach. My 10th grade world history teacher back in the late seventies could go on for hours about the Peloponnesian Wars. I doubt there's a 10th grade world history teacher now that could find Iran on a globe.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (W3VUu)

120 s there a reporter who's not retarded and evil?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 05:47 PM (awmcV)

Sheryl Attkisson and the Project Veritas guy. Also Glenn Greenwald and Russell Brand (although he's more an opinion guy than reporter, but still worth watching most of the time).

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (Ed8Zd)

121 I'm so old that the reason the teachers unions hated home schooling was that the children wouldn't get properly socialized. I guess two years of masks, socialist distancing, and remote learning ended that argument.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (iDcra)

122 My son went to Catholic elementary school. When we moved and had to put him public schools he ran circles around the public school kids.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (njVMJ)
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My oldest daughter went to Catholic primary school but as she approached high school, there was no way we could afford even subsidized tuition, so we put her in public school for 7th Grade.

She was year ahead of her classmates.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (llXky)

123 114 Also: They won't produce as many offspring. So if left to the natural trend traditionals will impart their values to their kids at a much greater rate than "progressives". So they need to intervene between parents and children.
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That's part and parcel of this insidious progressive poison. Leftists as a rule don't "go forth and multiply" by themselves. Instead, they have to spread their ideology through the spawn of their enemies' children. It's very evil, but effective.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (K5n5d)

I would term it parasitic, but whatever.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (6Je/Q)

124 As a wise woman once said: "It is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day."

You sit down Kamala and the Wise Latina for a few drinks and you'll get a night full of Jack Handle's Deep Thoughts.

Posted by: WisRich at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (G0vdT)

125 I'm old enough to remember when parents were encouraged to be involved with their children's education.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (iydjf)

126 Team Red v Team Blue.

Team Red is going to win this round.

What are we going to do to make sure there are real effects coming from team red next year?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (BI2gR)

127 >>>I had a teacher tell me not to tell anyone our secret. And I will never ever tell. About her secret. And mine. Our secret.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (vrz2I)

If your teacher hasn't had the vaccine, it's okay to tell us about the secret between you two.

Posted by: MSNBC at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (QYPq3)

128 I remember After School Specials warning me not to go home with the friendly teacher so we could do stuff away from my parents.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (usgok)
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Now you don't go home with the teacher. She (they're mostly female) brings her sickness into the classroom for ALL the kids to enjoy!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (K5n5d)

129 My son went to Catholic elementary school. When we moved and had to put him public schools he ran circles around the public school kids.
Posted by: Regular joe at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (njVMJ)

Dad?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:54 PM (Zz0t1)

130 The NEA is a key political part of the Democrat coalition.

So yes, Democrat will defend this hill and die on it, because if they lose here, they could be rolled up on a lot of other places.

Conceptually, unionizing teachers is kind of a bad idea, despite several of my really good high school teachers defending it (oh, so many years ago in the 1970's).

In reality, it has become a truly terrible idea in its execution. Teaching children is no longer their priority. Defending the downward spiral of education and quality of teaching is.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:54 PM (vcOmj)

131 I pay federal income tax, state income tax, income tax to the town i work in, income tax to the township i live in and property taxes. In a deep red part of a red state.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:54 PM (F4b8f)

132 126 Team Red v Team Blue.

Team Red is going to win this round.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (BI2gR)

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We are so going to repeal Obamacare dude. I can't wait.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:54 PM (OalnH)

133 Oh, and the property tax is 2 parts- to the schools and to the county.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:54 PM (F4b8f)

134 An example of Progressive thought/action. Note that 'Censorship' is asserted, and treated as fact. Their argument proceeds from that 'fact', without a meaningful example of that 'Censorship'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (DMQdU)
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But the process of choosing curriculum *is* equal parts censorship and expression. The same way that not everything anybody wants can be in a lesson plan.

Nobody is ever going to go "HELL NO! THEY'RE NOT TEACHING MY KID DIVISION!!!" (Oh, wait, some people might object that division sounds "divisive"...we should call it something else.)

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (XHhHI)

135 Teacher Unions are to Dems what the CoC is to Reps. They say jump, they respective party asks how high.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (OalnH)

136 I'd like to see a comparison of high school curriculums from the 1950's vs today.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (Tj589)

137
I've paid taxes to my local school district for 30 years. My children went to private school except their final couple years. Easily have paid over $150,000 in school taxes in that time, maybe twice that if you adjust for inflation.

Sounds like a lot until you realize that's only going to pay the superintendents pension for a single year. I should have worked that fourth job for a couple of more years, then I wouldn't be complaining.

As the Prophet Houston (pbuh) said, the children are our future, you know.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (dQvv7)

138 I DO have kids, and neither is in public school (one homeschooled, one in private Montessori kinder). I definitely support the idea of tying funding to the kid.

I remember coming home grossed out by the explicit crap I was having to read in English class. Incest, pedophilia, bestiality, etc. My parents complained (I did not know that until years later) but were basically told they were rubes. I also complained to my teacher and was told I just didn't understand the beautiful symbolism in those scenes. Well, I didn't, and still don't, want to be the kind of person who reads an explicit description of a 35yo man waiting eagerly for a 9yo girl to have her first period so he can rape her and thinks "Gosh, what lovely symbolism!"

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (8548M)

139 free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools.
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An example of Progressive thought/action. Note that 'Censorship' is asserted, and treated as fact. Their argument proceeds from that 'fact', without a meaningful example of that 'Censorship'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 20, 2022 05:52 PM (DMQdU)

It isn't censorship if you shut yourself up in fear of losing your job for incompetence or evil. Its justice.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (eoQWY)

140 It's even worse when you pay school taxes and then have to pay again to educate your kids.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (vrz2I)

141 Maybe I'm missing something. Isn't there an existing source for lists of instructional materials? The students. Are none of the parents who have gotten deeply involved with the CRT asking their children to write-down the titles of written materials and videos used in their classes each day? Are children not permitted to take printed textbooks and handouts, or the electronic versions, out of school buildings? Are no parents asking their children to describe what they were taught in school that day, while recording the session on a phone or GoPro? This will not provide a list of materials to be used the next day, week, or month, but it's hard info that can be used to get a sense of where a given school or teacher is heading.

I support the efforts to mandate teaching materials transparency. Waiting for those laws to be passed should not be preventing parents from obtaining a lot of the info now from their children, then sharing the info with other parents, legislators, and friendly news media.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (AMIL/)

142
"If you have not done anything wrong, then what are you afraid of others knowing?"

It seems to me that I heard words to that effect, more or less, in another context recently.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (pNxlR)

143 Homeschooling parents have curriculum transparency.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (jYQlA)

144 I've been trying to come up with words to describe what I see happening on the left right now, and it's difficult. It's a weird situation; the power class is getting more and more strident about hanging on to their perks and privileges, but all of their actual supporters, their foot soldiers, are getting depressed and just dropping out. It's hard to prove because those that are leaving don't want to talk about it, they just quietly fade back into the woodwork.

But the entire Left is turning into an ersatz Potemkin Village - a large, ornate, impressive looking front with nothing at all standing behind it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (trdmm)

145 Sheryll Attkisson built cred talking about Enron, but blew it to be roped in by Lin Wood.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (44ww/)

146 Who do you think controls the Democratic Party?
Posted by: The Teachers' Unions! at January 20, 2022 05:49 PM (I2/tG)

We do!!
- The Stonecutters

https://youtu.be/dSpOjj4YD8c

Posted by: Doof at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (mZUr4)

147 "Lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation to require schools to post lists of all of their teaching materials online, including books, articles and videos."

That works for me. But I'd also like to see parents inspecting the crap their kids haul home from school in those big backpacks. Parents should inspect kids' homework, and should show an active interest in what their kids are learning, if for no other reason than encouragement. Don't need to pass a law to do that.

Posted by: gp Fails To Gain Function at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (qpX6U)

148
lol @ Chamber of Commerce

They didn't stand up for a single business during the "lockdown."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (3cHMA)

149 The NEA is a key political part of the Democrat coalition.
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Bill Bennett, Reagan's Secretary of Education, said that the NEA is the "heart and soul of the Democratic party".

Most of his resistance and back-biting came from there.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 05:57 PM (XHhHI)

150 I only have 1 family members in elementary school, I heard from a few others she hated virtual class and was doing all, but back in a school building has been doing outstanding, reading a lot. Ihave no doubt some kids Cando virtual but would guess they are the exception.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:57 PM (2JoB8)

151 Roping off the unvaxxed kids.
https://twitter.com/mercola/status/
1484178095590367240
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (lCui1)
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Those school admins deserve jail time. That's disgusting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (lMmuq)

152 106 My son went to Catholic elementary school. When we moved and had to put him public schools he ran circles around the public school kids.
Posted by: Regular joe at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (njVMJ)

I got pulled from Catholic elementary in 7th grade and put in public. I sat back and cruised for a good two years.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (Tj589)

153 Hillary said it takes a village, and dammit, it's going to take a fucking village whether you like it or not.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (wAnMi)

154 Who is their target here? I assume even leftists would be happy to have the opportunity to find out what their kids are learning.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (rF64X)

155 One positive thing happening in politics right now is that the Dems are having to fight their coalition. The teacher's unions have the whip hand, and so the Dems cannot say anything negative about them. But they also can't say that parents are bad - well they can, but they pay a price for it.

This is a thing that needs to get resolved. I don't think it can be papered over.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (9otr5)

156 "Bill Bennett, Reagan's Secretary of Education, said that the NEA is the "heart and soul of the Democratic party"."

'Educators' are the heart and soul of CPUSA.

Posted by: gp Fails To Gain Function at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (qpX6U)

157 154 Who is their target here? I assume even leftists would be happy to have the opportunity to find out what their kids are learning.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (rF64X)

They would. That's the thing. It's teacher's unions v everyone.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (9otr5)

158 For DECADES teachers and their unions said that students were underperforming because parents were not involved. Now they say that involved parents will destroy education.
CRY HARDER

Posted by: anon2020 at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (6n+8L)

159 The Department of Education breathes on, through Administrations of the Left and the Right. We hear talk of abolishing them - but only from the non politicians.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (6Je/Q)

160 Patriot and Trump supporter Pete Hegseth has a 5 part series on Fox Nation called the Miseducation of America (promo code Classroom) for your 90 day free trial.
Great for parents, grandparents or those that want to know how it all began and what we can do to change things.
Tucker is also doing a special on Fox Nation about Soros in a few weeks.

https://tinyurl.com/bdd2ukbb

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (NpAcC)

161 148
lol @ Chamber of Commerce

They didn't stand up for a single business during the "lockdown."
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (3cHMA)

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Maybe not a small business. But they did all they could to help Amazon, Walmart, Costco, etc. You noticed how their business was not interrupted for a second.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (OalnH)

162 Teaches unions have been toxic for decades. Even when I was in school. Long ago. Protection for bad teachers and bad policies and overspending on schools. Since at least the 1960s. Note i graduated hs in 1987.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (0OmEj)

163 I'm old enough to remember when parents were encouraged to be involved with their children's education.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 05:53 PM (iydjf)

Is the PTA even still a thing? I remember when the PTA meetings were advertised and people got mailers and there were posters at school reminding kids to remind their parents to come to the meeting this Friday.

Now? It's a trap!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (wAnMi)

164 I DO have kids, and neither is in public school (one homeschooled, one in private Montessori kinder). I definitely support the idea of tying funding to the kid.
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Mrs. Peel, I agree completely with you on that. Education would improve instantly.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (lMmuq)

165 Who is their target here? I assume even leftists would be happy to have the opportunity to find out what their kids are learning.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (rF64X)

Out here in CA, a bunch of rich liberals did find out that their kids were learning that crap in their private schools. They were kinda pissed off, too. Apparently they expected a real education instead of CRT.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (eoQWY)

166 125 I'm old enough to remember when parents were encouraged to be involved with their children's education.

I'm old enough to remember teachers complaining that parents weren't involved enough in their children's education, content to let them babysit the kids. Now it's the opposite, it seems.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (Wg1SU)

167 I once went to a school function at what was one of the top public high schools in the country at the time. My son went there. I forget what they called it, maybe parents day. You were given your child's schedule and went from classroom to classroom and met with their teachers. My son's civics teacher told us he would not make our kids good little Republicans even though he would like too. I think he had almost unanimous consent. These were "gifted" classes. The parents were almost all older.

Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (AmoqO)

168 So sad. My mother started teaching in a one room school house in Nebraska at 18 (yes, you could do that) and worked her way through a regional college. As a 6th grade elementary teacher she made sure parents knew what the syllabus contained and what was being taught. But then they were not hiding things back then.

Posted by: Deshar at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (/ZEzl)

169 150 I only have 1 family members in elementary school, I heard from a few others she hated virtual class and was doing all, but back in a school building has been doing outstanding, reading a lot. Ihave no doubt some kids Cando virtual but would guess they are the exception.

Flint, MI announced they will be doing virtual "learning" until further notice. I'm sure the kids were already doing great and now they will do even better!

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (rF64X)

170
@SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

Oh, that just blew the Kohn Scale of Stupidity clear out of the water.

Fine, "greatest collection", change my flat tire. I'll wait.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 06:01 PM (pNxlR)

171 The moral imperative of rooting out Leftism, Collectivism and Nihilism from every American institution is one of those unspoken penumbras in the Constitution or so I've heard.

Because without exposing, isolating and destroying those particular pathogens the American body of rights and it's identity will ultimately be killed.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at January 20, 2022 06:01 PM (I+ZWa)

172 I'd like to see a comparison of high school curriculums from the 1950's vs today.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (Tj589)

My mom graduated from a Seattle public high school in 1944. She had learned Latin, the classics, grammar (including how to diagram sentences), penmanship, shorthand, home ec, algebra, music theory, the violin, geometry, calculus, poetry, journalism, etc. She never went to college but her high school education was better than the education I got at the UW.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 06:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

173 That picture a week or 2 ago the teacher had little kids outside in freezing weather trying to read to them was horrifying

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (2JoB8)

174 Holy shit! What happened to redc1c4?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (Vxu+H)

175 They would. That's the thing. It's teacher's unions v everyone.
Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 05:59 PM (9otr5)
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If local Republicans all ran on one theme, "Break The Teachers Unions!", I am convinced they would draw votes from all parties. Any parent who watched their kids suffer these last two years would be tempted to support those candidates.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (lMmuq)

176 99 It seems insane that the Dems have chosen this hill to die on, but it makes sense when you consider that progressives largely live in a vacuum.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 20, 2022 05:45 PM (HmZuC)

It's not really that "Dems" have chosen this hill to die on; the real problem for them is that there is absolutely no leadership at all on top, no one to make choices or say "this really isn't a good idea". So what happens is that every vested interest group that's part of their coalition - in this case the Teachers Union and the Ed. Establishment - go nuclear whenever *their* personal grift and fiefdoms are challenged, and they drag the party into their fight with them, even if it's a stupid, destructive, battle that will damage all of them.

There's no one on the Left who can say "No!" to any of this, which is a big reason they are failing, and will continue to fail.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (trdmm)

177 173 That picture a week or 2 ago the teacher had little kids outside in freezing weather trying to read to them was horrifying
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (2JoB

Fairfax, too...did I mention I've always homeschooled?

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (exHjb)

178 167 I once went to a school function at what was one of the top public high schools in the country at the time. My son went there. I forget what they called it, maybe parents day. You were given your child's schedule and went from classroom to classroom and met with their teachers.

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My kid in charter school has that twice a year. It's in the gym of the school. Each teacher has a table and parents can go from teacher to teacher and discuss whatever is on your mind. And the principal has an "email me any time" policy and gets back to you within a day or two with an actual response, not some canned template bullshit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (OalnH)

179 Personally I think a lot of them are afraid of everyone finding out how dumb they actually are.

Lil' Miklos asks teacher-"Why is it called the Decathlon?"

Teacher-"I think because they do it every ten years."

Posted by: True Story from Miklosian Youth at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (QzkSJ)

180 That picture a week or 2 ago the teacher had little kids outside in freezing weather trying to read to them was horrifying
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (2JoB8

Wasn't that Switzerland or some shit where they made the nonGMO kids sit outside to take a test?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:03 PM (Zz0t1)

181 That picture a week or 2 ago the teacher had little kids outside in freezing weather trying to read to them was horrifying
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Some people need to come up missing, never to be heard from again.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 06:03 PM (iydjf)

182 I have a sneaking feeling that many ( I can't quantify it) teachers now despise children, if not outright hate them.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 06:03 PM (6Je/Q)

183 Hillary said it takes a village, and dammit, it's going to take a fucking village whether you like it or not.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 05:58 PM (wAnMi)
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She did a bait and switch because a village is everybody, and she only wants the Chief Council to decide, just like every Dem.

Schools used to be owned by "villages", now they are owned by the federal government through Title x bribes.

Fuck her disingenuousness, anyway.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:03 PM (XHhHI)

184 Holy shit! What happened to redc1c4?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (Vxu+H)

Moved on to much greener pastures.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:03 PM (Zz0t1)

185 Holy shit! What happened to redc1c4?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (Vxu+H)

So sad that we've lost another gray box friend

Posted by: Doof at January 20, 2022 06:04 PM (mZUr4)

186 "Lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation to require schools to post lists of all of their teaching materials online, including books, articles and videos."

That works for me.

Posted by: gp Fails To Gain Function at January 20, 2022 05:56 PM (qpX6U)

It's a good thing, but in the end, it is another government problem, government solution pair, where the solution is ripe for abuse. The solution does not address the base problem of the dominance of leftists and their organizations in the sphere of education. You are meant to surrender your child to the state for indoctrination. It is a band aid meant to prolong that dominance. We will need to revisit the same in a few years, just like VAERS was meant to track vaccine adverse events, and it appears to capture only 5-10% of the current cases, and of those, the information is highly politicized in favor of protecting the status quo.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 06:05 PM (SH2Zi)

187 Hey little girl, want some candy?

It's a secret. Don't tell your parents.

Posted by: MSDNCBSXiNNLSD at January 20, 2022 06:05 PM (llON8)

188 OT,
Has there been a single prominent leftie, obese or not, who has died from, or even with, Covid?
One?

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:05 PM (cPGH3)

189 I have a sneaking feeling that many ( I can't quantify it) teachers now despise children, if not outright hate them.
Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 06:03 PM (6Je/Q)
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Teachers have gotten great pensions and tend to retire early. Plus the field is mainly women, so young women.

Think about more recent generations. They almost certainly despise a child that remains with their parents' value systems.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:05 PM (XHhHI)

190 Your kids are the front line in the war with the left.

They're winning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 06:06 PM (BFigT)

191 Hey kids, it's totally normal for grown-ups you don't know to touch that.

Don't tell your parents.

Posted by: MSDNCBSXiNNLSD at January 20, 2022 06:07 PM (llON8)

192 There was an excellent book called The War on Boys. Written by a feminist.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 06:07 PM (6Je/Q)

193 My mom graduated from a Seattle public high school in 1944. She had learned Latin, the classics, grammar (including how to diagram sentences), penmanship, shorthand, home ec, algebra, music theory, the violin, geometry, calculus, poetry, journalism, etc. She never went to college but her high school education was better than the education I got at the UW.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 06:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

My fourth grader is starting to diagram sentences this year. Homeschool.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 06:07 PM (SH2Zi)

194 On schools: we obviously have the technology...
Have every classroom be streamed, live. Why not?
Absent kids (sick or such) get to see their buddies, and their bestest friends, and everyone gets to see what goes on in the classroom

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:07 PM (cPGH3)

195 NBC News: "Conservative Activists" (Parents) Want the Schools (Government Agencies) to Disclose Their Lessons Plans (Government-Created Materials). But That's Bad.

Wait, I can see a lesson plan on Khan Academy, but I can't see my school's lesson plan, because that's super duper top-secret?

Huh.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 06:07 PM (mdjgu)

196
Each teacher has a table and parents can go from teacher to teacher and discuss whatever is on your mind.

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"How do feel about being knouted? Wait, never mind. Don't answer that. It makes no difference."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (4odx6)

197 Moved on to much greener pastures.
Posted by: Sponge

May I inquire as to what prompted his unexpected relocation?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (Vxu+H)

198 Didn't I see a story last week about a "teacher" who gave her student a vaccination without consent? Was that real?
Posted by: Soothsayer's
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Yep, at her home.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (RU4sa)
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Is anyone going after her for practicing medicine without a license?

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (3TihK)

199 Each teacher has a table and parents can go from teacher to teacher and discuss whatever is on your mind.

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"How do feel about being knouted? Wait, never mind. Don't answer that. It makes no difference."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (4odx6)

lol

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (SH2Zi)

200 @SpeakerPelosi: House Democrats represent "the greatest collection of intellect, integrity, and imagination" anywhere

Someone needs to tell her she's confusing "integrity" with "integrated grift".

Posted by: Bert G at January 20, 2022 06:09 PM (OKNkY)

201 "Conservative activists want schools to post lesson plans online, but free speech advocates warn such policies could lead to more censorship in K-12 schools."

Wait I thought there was no slippery slope.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 20, 2022 06:09 PM (OssQ4)

202 Maybe parents want to know if their kids are playing 'privilege bingo' in the classroom.

https://tinyurl.com/2herkz8h

We definitely need cameras in the classroom where parents can access the class on their phones like they do for Daycare or Doggie Daycare.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 06:09 PM (NpAcC)

203 The solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

204 BabylonBee: Biden Outperforms Nation's Expectations For First Year By Still Being Alive

Posted by: SMOD at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (X5CsJ)

205 I once went to a school function at what was one of the top public high schools in the country at the time. My son went there. I forget what they called it, maybe parents day. You were given your child's schedule and went from classroom to classroom and met with their teachers...
Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 06:00 PM (AmoqO)

I don't know if I remember this happening during the day, but I do remember evening events when all the teachers and classes were open, and the parents went to each room to meet/greet with the teachers and the kids. Examples of where we were at as far as instruction at that point during the year, and what level we'd be finishing at. This was elementary. My High School did weekend events, which a blast as they'd work a fundraiser in there as well, sort of an educational carnival (private school).

I had a math teacher who was running a craps table shaking down the parents. Starting at a nickel, the stakes rose quickly. He taught parents (and kids) the basics of probabilities and statistics in 20 minutes. He made a few thousand dollars that weekend for the school.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (wAnMi)

206 As the beneficiary of 13 years of Bronx Catholic education in the '50s and '60s, I shudder to think of what might well be going on inside those walls these misbegotten days.
Posted by: 11B40 at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (uuklp)
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Hey! I went to HS in the Bronx. Whereabouts?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (0TVNF)

207 Posted by: True Story from Miklosian Youth at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM

Yeah....little RMBS learned very early that 95% of his teachers were dimmer than a penny candle.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (RkC6l)

208 >>> 198 Didn't I see a story last week about a "teacher" who gave her student a vaccination without consent? Was that real?
Posted by: Soothsayer's
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Yep, at her home.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:37 PM (RU4sa)
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Is anyone going after her for practicing medicine without a license?
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (3TihK)

CENSORSHIP! REEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: MSDNCBSXiNNLSD at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (llON8)

209 Hahaha! That's awesome!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (Vxu+H)

210 >>Also: They won't produce as many offspring. So if left to the natural trend traditionals will impart their values to their kids at a much greater rate than "progressives". So they need to intervene between parents and children.

One of the CA teachers who trains ither teachers on how to groom kids (she was caught facilitating a 12 year old student's sex change behind her parents' back):

"For those of you that are running or are thinking of running your own GSA or GSA-type club, always remember that youth are the drivers of change," Lori Caldeira offers. If you want to bring a new world into existence, it seems --a good place to start is with other people's kids."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (URNdm)

211 Yep, at her home.
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It's not a smoldering pile of ash?

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (iydjf)

212 link
https://tinyurl.com/yckm5dw2

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (URNdm)

213 My mom graduated from a Seattle public high school in 1944. She had learned Latin, the classics, grammar (including how to diagram sentences), penmanship, shorthand, home ec, algebra, music theory, the violin, geometry, calculus, poetry, journalism, etc. She never went to college but her high school education was better than the education I got at the UW.
Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 06:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

Exactly my point, LASue! I remember being in HS in the 70's and reading stories of HS kids in the 50's having to take Latin, etc and thinking 'what happened?' They have so dumbed down education and standards I fear we'll never recover.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:12 PM (Tj589)

214 173 That picture a week or 2 ago the teacher had little kids outside in freezing weather trying to read to them was horrifying
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:02 PM (2JoB

I saw a similar (or the same?) picture on the twatters and some psychos in the comments said it's no big deal because they used to have *recess* in cold weather.

Someone should make them sit down on the ground (no grass allowed!) outside in below freezing temps and tie them down so they can't move about for an hour. It's amazing how many people are ok with cruelty to children (and sick and other vulnerable people) because of muh Corona.

And the school district (Fairfax, NoVa, IIRC) was like, oh no, it wasn't a big deal. We were actually being nice because we were giving them a break from masking up.

Lots of folks need to be locked up.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:12 PM (rF64X)

215 All the ladies love a military man.

Posted by: Gen. Eric Republican, USAF ret at January 20, 2022 06:12 PM (yQpMk)

216 I saw a similar (or the same?) picture on the twatters and some psychos in the comments said it's no big deal because they used to have *recess* in cold weather.
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We weren't allowed to have recess if it was under a certain temperature.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 06:13 PM (iydjf)

217
May I inquire as to what prompted his unexpected relocation?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (Vxu+H)

I don't know if that info has been released as of yet. CBD might know as he has contact info for his neighbors.

I haven't seen anything about the cause.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:13 PM (Zz0t1)

218 "For those of you that are running or are thinking of running your own GSA or GSA-type club, always remember that youth are the drivers of change," Lori Caldeira offers. If you want to bring a new world into existence, it seems --a good place to start is with other people's kids."
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (URNdm)
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In the 90s, the President of NOW said that if they could get the children from toddler to first grade, "Nobody would need to believe in God" anymore.

They have wanted out kids for a long time now.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (XHhHI)

219 My nephew actually took Latin in the public high school here.

But I think that teacher is now gone due to entanglement with at least 1 female student.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (rF64X)

220 193 My mom graduated from a Seattle public high school in 1944. She had learned Latin, the classics, grammar (including how to diagram sentences), penmanship, shorthand, home ec, algebra, music theory, the violin, geometry, calculus, poetry, journalism, etc.

___

Other than penmanship, shorthand and journalism, my kids have done or will do all of that before graduating as well.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (OalnH)

221 Exactly my point, LASue! I remember being in HS in the 70's and reading stories of HS kids in the 50's having to take Latin, etc and thinking 'what happened?' They have so dumbed down education and standards I fear we'll never recover.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:12 PM (Tj589)

A high school education in the 40's and 50's was easily the equivalent of a baccalaureate today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (trdmm)

222
As an early adopter of technology I helped my wife commit her lesson plans to digital storage about three decades ago. It would only take a minute or two to mass email a weeks schedule to all the parents.

If they don't want you to see what is going on, it's because they don't want you to see what's going on.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (dQvv7)

223 The solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

*snort*

I would pay to see this.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (Ed8Zd)

224 "This will be our little secret, OK?"

Straight from one of those "very special episodes" of an after-school show in the 80s.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (II3Gr)

225 I saw a similar (or the same?) picture on the twatters and some psychos in the comments said it's no big deal because they used to have *recess* in cold weather.
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We weren't allowed to have recess if it was under a certain temperature.
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 06:13 PM (iydjf)

That's an ignorant claim. Recess is for playtime. Having a child sitting in a desk outside in the cold is COMPLETELY different. Anyone things the two situations are the same is too fucking stupid to breathe.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (Zz0t1)

226 Is anyone going after her for practicing medicine without a license?
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 20, 2022 06:08 PM (3TihK)

CENSORSHIP! REEEEEEEE!!!
Posted by: MSDNCBSXiNNLSD at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (llON

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Also sounds racist against the undocumented!!

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (XHhHI)

227 he solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

*snort*

I would pay to see this.
____________
I'd do it for free.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (BFigT)

228 That's an ignorant claim. Recess is for playtime. Having a child sitting in a desk outside in the cold is COMPLETELY different. Anyone things the two situations are the same is too fucking stupid to breathe
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Wholeheartedly agree.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (iydjf)

229 Local story. Now get me another mojito damnit.

Posted by: Betsy DeVos Sunning On The Poop Deck at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (GYllL)

230 203 The solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

Perfect! I was looking for a retirement gig.....

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (Tj589)

231
I would pay to see this.
Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (Ed8Zd)

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Hmmm...

*drafts bill to put YD in classrooms, shouting at fools for ample remuneration*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (4odx6)

232 Lori Caldeira offers. If you want to bring a new world into existence, it seems --a good place to start is with other people's kids."

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (URNdm)
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Now, that's a teacher who looks after the kids.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (JVMtX)

233 Someone should make them sit down on the ground (no grass allowed!) outside in below freezing temps and tie them down so they can't move about for an hour. It's amazing how many people are ok with cruelty to children (and sick and other vulnerable people) because of muh Corona.

Lots of folks need to be locked up.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:12 PM (rF64X)

I also recently saw several photos - different schools - of kids out in freezing and/or raining weather to eat their lunches, since the cafeteria was too damned dangerous for the kids. One post mentioned that they weren't allowed to play during recess, because they'd be breathing too heavily and that would promote the spread of death. So best they sit still and quietly outside to preserve oxygen. Like they're locked in a bank vault.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 06:16 PM (wAnMi)

234 I say, that John Carpenter and wrestler chap were right on. You put on the sunglasses, and the wall posters really do say OBEY.

Posted by: Rowdy Roddy McDowall at January 20, 2022 06:16 PM (zXHvT)

235 A high school education in the 40's and 50's was easily the equivalent of a baccalaureate today.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Honestly? A 6th grade Catholic education in the 60' and 70's had me cruise to a baccalaureate in the 70's.
Never did a lick of work in HS, nor College.
I failed my grade school teachers.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:16 PM (cPGH3)

236 206 As the beneficiary of 13 years of Bronx Catholic education in the '50s and '60s, I shudder to think of what might well be going on inside those walls these misbegotten days.
Posted by: 11B40 at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (uuklp)
~~~~~

Hey! I went to HS in the Bronx. Whereabouts?
Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (0TVNF)

Same here! Went to Bronx Science.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (mdjgu)

237 >>Exactly my point, LASue! I remember being in HS in the 70's and reading stories of HS kids in the 50's having to take Latin, etc and thinking 'what happened?' They have so dumbed down education and standards I fear we'll never recover.

I took Latin high school and it wasn't in the 50s.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (ZLI7S)

238 If they don't want you to see what is going on, it's because they don't want you to see what's going on.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (dQvv7)
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Yep. Learning management systems like Canvas even give parents an "observer" role in the course so the parents can really track 1) what's being taught in the content and 2) the student's performance. But you have to know how to use the tools as a teacher and as a parent.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (K5n5d)

239 We are not buttfucking you kids.

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (yrol0)

240 James Lindsay is on Joe Rogan today.
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 20, 2022 05:41 PM (xPl2J)

I don't like Lindsay and I dislike his whole demeanor, but I do appreciate his willingness to look reality in the face, and he makes valid points.
Still makes me grind my teeth, though.

*poor me*

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (ZMraq)

241 So yes sometime we butt fuck the kids.

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (yrol0)

242 Perfect! I was looking for a retirement gig.....
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (Tj589)

Folding chair, cooler with a 6 pack, chips and a sandwich - I'm in! I could do that all night long.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (wAnMi)

243 They asked for it!

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (yrol0)

244 129 Dad?

Sponge! My son, my son. Would thy God I'd died for thee!

Just going out for a pack of cigarettes. I'll be home soon. I promise.

Posted by: Regular joe at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (njVMJ)

245 Shitty education and left wing indoctrination is a but like the shortages for me. I keep hearing about them, but I have yet to experience them myself.

I'm not saying it's not out there, but maybe it's not quite as bad as we make it out to be. For every lunatic TikTok teacher there's probably a normal teacher who does a decent job. But we never hear about those ones, just the lunatics who stand out.

I dunno, for my kids who have been through the public school system for a few years, I can't really complain. Maybe I'm just lucky.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (OalnH)

246 Parents of public school children own the curriculum, they paid for it. They own the teachers, they pay for them.
Take control of your property. Take control of your school system.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (JVMtX)

247 This is all so bleak, time for a good lesson plan on North Korea.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 20, 2022 06:19 PM (a4EWo)

248 That's an ignorant claim. Recess is for playtime. Having a child sitting in a desk outside in the cold is COMPLETELY different. Anyone things the two situations are the same is too fucking stupid to breathe.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:15 PM (Zz0t1)

The children were sitting down on the *road* right in front of the building. On the *ground*. And some lunatics thought that was perfectly fine.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:19 PM (rF64X)

249 >>>We are not buttfucking you kids.

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (yrol0)

Look, Pal, I don't distinguish between you BF'ing the kids or you BF'ing your boyfriend and making the kids watch.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 06:19 PM (QYPq3)

250 The solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

*snort*

I would pay to see this.
Posted by: LASue

I would work cheap

Posted by: Miklos would be good at that at January 20, 2022 06:19 PM (QzkSJ)

251 I took Latin high school and it wasn't in the 50s.

Only Latin I ever heard in high school was "cannabis sativa".

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 06:19 PM (SchxB)

252 A high school education in the 40's and 50's was easily the equivalent of a baccalaureate today.
Posted by: Tom Servo
---
Back when he used to write his column James Taranto explained what happened. Congress outlawed employers giving IQ tests and colleges became this huge, expensive, indentured IQ test.

So since you were going to college, to get a good job, anyway, you had time to pick up what you were missing in high school.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (XHhHI)

253 250 The solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

*snort*

I would pay to see this.
Posted by: LASue

I would work cheap
Posted by: Miklos would be good at that at January 20, 2022 06:19 PM (QzkSJ)

Can I spit and then sip a beer?

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (yrol0)

254 Same here! Went to Bronx Science.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (mdjgu)
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Whoa! Smarty pants!

I went to Cardinal Spellman with the wise Latina.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (0TVNF)

255 Exactly my point, LASue! I remember being in HS in the 70's and reading stories of HS kids in the 50's having to take Latin, etc and thinking 'what happened?' They have so dumbed down education and standards I fear we'll never recover.

I took Latin high school and it wasn't in the 50s.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (ZLI7S)

Had 5 years of Latin at a public high school and junior high. Could also have taken Spanish, French or Russian.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (eoQWY)

256 >>>Take control of your property. Take control of your school system.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (JVMtX)

Save the cheerleader. Save the world.

Posted by: Heroes at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (QYPq3)

257 Recess???

Luxury.

We were allowed time from studying the 3 Rs to fetch more coal for the heater.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (axyOa)

258 Folding chair, cooler with a 6 pack, chips and a sandwich - I'm in! I could do that all night long.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (wAnMi)
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Put a shotgun across your lap and be SECURITY.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (JVMtX)

259 You like gladiator moves?

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (yrol0)

260 221. A high school education in the 40's and 50's was easily the equivalent of a baccalaureate today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (trdmm)

So what happened? Why did we let it get this way? Somebody has to start gathering this sort of comparison info and make a big, continuous on-going stink about it!

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (Tj589)

261 Parents of public school children own the curriculum, they paid for it. They own the teachers, they pay for them.
Take control of your property. Take control of your school system.
Posted by: Braenyard

ZOD for Superintendent of Education

Posted by: Miklosian Proposalizations LLP at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (QzkSJ)

262 more censorship in K-12 schools.

I still get a boner for Miss Teach.

Posted by: 8th grader at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (v0R5T)

263 I don't like Lindsay and I dislike his whole demeanor, but I do appreciate his willingness to look reality in the face, and he makes valid points.
Still makes me grind my teeth, though.

*poor me*
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 06:18 PM (ZMraq)

His podcasts are quite informative, if a bit dry and technical. But he's a little out of control on Twitter. Anyway, I appreciate his work.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (rF64X)

264 I may have been one the least effective SOE in history but, I did get to stab Orange Man in the back when I left.

Where's my damn drink!

Posted by: Betsy DeVos Sunning On The Poop Deck at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (GYllL)

265 You ever seen a grown man naked?

Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (yrol0)

266 I didn't take Latin in HS but it was available for those who wanted to. And it was many decades past the 50s.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (OalnH)

267 Same here! Went to Bronx Science.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (mdjgu)
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Was it settled?

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (XHhHI)

268 My schooling was in the mid 50's to '68. The three R's were what was taught. I chose Latin as my elective language in high school. Compared to what I have seen of the education kids are getting now I feel very lucky.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (cOCY2)

269 This.

Cannot.

Last.

It'll last. When was the last time you saw 100 "conservatives" taking a stand against ANYTHING? Stop the Steal" - nah I never saw more than 75.

Posted by: MikeN at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (S8t1E)

270 >>>You ever seen a grown man naked?
Posted by: School Bored

They only care about trannies getting naked.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (VWp7G)

271 We were allowed time from studying the 3 Rs to fetch more coal for the heater.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (axyOa)
(Obligatory)
You had coal?

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (cPGH3)

272 I have a better idea, get that grumpy old man a big red button and whenever the teacher spews some commie BS he can hit the button and tazer the idiot. *Then* how long would it take for them to all quit?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (llON8)

273 >>Only Latin I ever heard in high school was "cannabis sativa".

My Latin teacher had two Bruins tickets right behind the bench. She would give them out from time to time to a student who "outperformed expectation".

I set the bar low.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (ZLI7S)

274 Churning out illiterates is hard work. Innumerates, a little less so.

Posted by: klaftern at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (taPSh)

275 Can I spit and then sip a beer?
Posted by: School Bored

Yes.

The school must supply spittoon and beer.

It's in the ADA regs.

Posted by: Miklos did his homework at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (QzkSJ)

276 I took Latin high school and it wasn't in the 50s.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (ZLI7S)
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40s then?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (0TVNF)

277 It's not surprising governments feel this way. Parents are suddenly discovering that yes, they CAN vote for school board members. They never cared before. What, 5% of the electorate AT MOST turns up for school board elections and school bond issue elections? If that happens, why should they care?

But I will say this: keep packing school baord meetings, make their lives hell, by confronting them House of Commons Question Time style. About time.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (CdZ4i)

278 257 Recess???

Luxury.

We were allowed time from studying the 3 Rs to fetch more coal for the heater.
Posted by: Diogenes

If you were real lucky you got to wash down the blackboards with one of those 2ft long sponges.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (GYllL)

279 266 I didn't take Latin in HS but it was available for those who wanted to. And it was many decades past the 50s.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (OalnH)

In hoc signo Erection Maximus

Posted by: Constantine at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (yrol0)

280 Exactly my point, LASue! I remember being in HS in the 70's and reading stories of HS kids in the 50's having to take Latin, etc and thinking 'what happened?' They have so dumbed down education and standards I fear we'll never recover.

I took Latin high school and it wasn't in the 50s.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 06:17 PM (ZLI7S)

Latin? Pffft.
They teach us Greek now. Ms Furbottom says I'm almost fluent.

Posted by: MagicMane BriskMeow xey/xem at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (wAnMi)

281
If you were real lucky you got to wash down the blackboards with one of those 2ft long sponges.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (GYllL)

You leave my family out of this.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (Zz0t1)

282 Did you all walk 2 miles uphill both ways in 3 feet of now to school as well?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (OalnH)

283 he solution is to have a conservative old man sitting in the back of the classroom to yell "bullshit" every time the situation warrants.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 06:10 PM (F4b8f)

*snort*

I would pay to see this.
____________
I'd do it for free.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

for every 'bullshit', tallied that week for that school district, publicly beat the shit out of the school board, 1:1 for each 'bullshit'.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (IJES/)

284 I also recently saw several photos - different schools - of kids out in freezing and/or raining weather to eat their lunches, since the cafeteria was too damned dangerous for the kids. One post mentioned that they weren't allowed to play during recess, because they'd be breathing too heavily and that would promote the spread of death. So best they sit still and quietly outside to preserve oxygen. Like they're locked in a bank vault.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 06:16 PM (wAnMi)

It's not just that they are cruel. They are also intensely stupid.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (rF64X)

285 "You ever seen a grown man naked?
Posted by: School Bored "

You mean like without a mask?

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (vrz2I)

286 268 My schooling was in the mid 50's to '68. The three R's were what was taught. I chose Latin as my elective language in high school. Compared to what I have seen of the education kids are getting now I feel very lucky.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (cOCY2)

I damn near took Latin. To the HORROR of my very German mother, I decided instead on...German.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (CdZ4i)

287 I'm agreeing with Ace, no more dying this year

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (2JoB8)

288 >>> Only Latin I ever heard in high school was "cannabis sativa".
~~~~~

You never read the "Veni Vidi Vici" on the Camels pack?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (0TVNF)

289 Benny
@bennyjohnson

RIP Brandon Administration: 2021-2022
(TIME magazine's new cover.)

https://tinyurl.com/2p8f2vrk

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (NpAcC)

290 In hoc signo Erection Maximus
Posted by: Constantine at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (yrol0)

____

Not sure if I should say thank you, or challenge you to a duel.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (OalnH)

291 Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia to send Javelin antitank weapons and Stinger air-defense systems to Ukraine

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (JVMtX)

292 If you were real lucky you got to wash down the blackboards with one of those 2ft long sponges.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (GYllL)

I had to give a sub teach a sponge bath one day but thats another story!

Posted by: Constantine at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (yrol0)

293 >>>>>Exactly my point, LASue! I remember being in HS in the 70's and reading stories of HS kids in the 50's having to take Latin, etc and thinking 'what happened?' They have so dumbed down education and standards I fear we'll never recover.

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Our school allows kids to retake any test. And they don't get a different test with different questions. They get the same exact test. A direct consequence of No Child Left Behind. What did you think would happen if you threaten to fire administrators for their school failing?

Posted by: Turn Two at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (CoAjq)

294 Bill Ayers will be at the top of Hegseth's Special. Gotta be. He's a communist who worked to fundamentally reform education in the US.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (cRbt7)

295 You ever seen a grown man naked?
Posted by: School Bored at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (yrol0)

Yikes! My balls are gonna look like that some day?

Posted by: 8th grader at January 20, 2022 06:24 PM (v0R5T)

296 We just got high at school.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 06:25 PM (yQpMk)

297 We were allowed time from studying the 3 Rs to fetch more coal for the heater.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (axyOa)
(Obligatory)
You had coal?
Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:22 PM (cPGH3)

The older kids got the wood.
We had to dig to stay warm. If it got too cold we were down to studying the 2R's.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:25 PM (axyOa)

298 I also recently saw several photos - different schools - of kids out in freezing and/or raining weather to eat their lunches, since the cafeteria was too damned dangerous for the kids. One post mentioned that they weren't allowed to play during recess, because they'd be breathing too heavily and that would promote the spread of death. So best they sit still and quietly outside to preserve oxygen. Like they're locked in a bank vault.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January

But the Teacher's Lounge was packed!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 06:25 PM (W2Pud)

299 A high school education in the 40's and 50's was easily the equivalent of a baccalaureate today.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 06:14 PM (trdmm)

So what happened? Why did we let it get this way? Somebody has to start gathering this sort of comparison info and make a big, continuous on-going stink about it!
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (Tj589)

I'm not sure how, but somehow I think this ties in with the "everyone should go to college" mindset and easy gov't loan money to pay for it.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (Ed8Zd)

300 So Critical Race Theory is like The Great Replacement: is a conspiracy and a good thing, so shut up, peasant.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (nMx88)

301 I didn't take Latin in HS but it was available for those who wanted to. And it was many decades past the 50s.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:21 PM (OalnH)

In hoc signo Erection Maximus
Posted by: Constantine

Junior-ette took latin 1 & 2. now she's taking college calculus and is earning a high enough gpa to 'clep' out of it next fall when she starts her computer engineering curriculum. kid gets her smart from Smash, and her rat bastard meanness from me.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (IJES/)

302 We were allowed time from studying the 3 Rs to fetch more coal for the heater.
Posted by: Diogenes

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

Look at mister one percenter and his "heater." When we got cold our father made us run in place until one of us spontaneously combusted. Then we'd cook dinner over the fire.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (1XLoS)

303 257 Recess???

Luxury.

We were allowed time from studying the 3 Rs to fetch more coal for the heater.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (axyOa)

You had a heater? Luxury! We had to do fifteen minutes of jumping jacks every half-hour to try to stay warm.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (AMIL/)

304 We have raised a generation of idiots

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (JVMtX)

305 Vovlo let it roll
Audi let it be done
Fiat Fucking Italian Automotive Technology

Posted by: Constantine at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (yrol0)

306 My senior year I took Calculus, Finite Math, Law, Economics and French. And some other shit I don't remember but didn't care about since that was second semester. And by second semester I gave no fucks since college applications had already been submitted.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (OalnH)

307 Blundering Biden is sent out with a SCRIPT to read as White House scrambles to clear up mess caused by his press conference gaffe that was taken as a 'green-light' for Russian attack _DM

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (JVMtX)

308
It's not just that they are cruel. They are also intensely stupid.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (rF64X)

Yep. Looking back I can count the number of teachers I had who were actually smart on one hand. When you have teachers who send you to the eye doctor because "Horrors! That cow demon is writing letters FROM THE BOTTOM!!!" or "You don't know how to write cursive? We learned already. Too bad. Learn on your own." (From moving from a place which didn't teach it until third grade and instead taught it in second) it's not an indication that they are smart or ambitious.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (CdZ4i)

309 So what happened? Why did we let it get this way? Somebody has to start gathering this sort of comparison info and make a big, continuous on-going stink about it!
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at January 20, 2022 06:20 PM (Tj589)

I'm not sure how, but somehow I think this ties in with the "everyone should go to college" mindset and easy gov't loan money to pay for it.
Posted by: LASue

Griggs v Duke Power was a big part of it

Posted by: Miklos does so believe at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (QzkSJ)

310 Junior-ette took latin 1 & 2. now she's taking college calculus and is earning a high enough gpa to 'clep' out of it next fall when she starts her computer engineering curriculum. kid gets her smart from Smash, and her rat bastard meanness from me.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (IJES/)

I knew a gal got clep in high school. It was pretty bad.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (yrol0)

311 290 In hoc signo Erection Maximus
Posted by: Constantine at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (yrol0)

All honor to his name!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (axyOa)

312 "You ever seen a grown man naked?
Posted by: School Bored "

You mean like without a mask?
Posted by: f'd

how about gladiators? you like gladiator movies?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (IJES/)

313 >>>We have raised a generation of idiots

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:26 PM (JVMtX)

More like 3 or 4...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (QYPq3)

314 Gref

I remember being led to a fresh trench dug in Japan during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Lots of anxiety, and not learning. I can not remember 1st or 2nd Grade. At all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (u82oZ)

315 This is how liberals play It Take a Village.

Village: We think kids need silence in school.

Libs: SUPREME COURT, they're being RACIST!!! SLAP them down with the Constitution!!

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (XHhHI)

316 311 290 In hoc signo Erection Maximus
Posted by: Constantine at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (yrol0)

All honor to his name!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (axyOa)

King Robert Boneratheon

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (II3Gr)

317 Almost all the teachers here post the books they use and the course of study. That is, the curriculum being used to teach those books in outline form. They also post tests, quizzes and all points that make up the grades.

I don't see why this is a big deal unless you're hiding something.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (kbvR/)

318 31 What y'all are missing is that purpose of government schooling has always been to get educations out parents' hands. This has been case since the days of Woodrow Wilson.
A lot of teachers and schools didn't go along with this.
And it's hard to hide the curriculum when you send the course agenda, its school books, and its assignments home with the kids.
But when was the last time you saw your kids textbooks?
Posted by: Harry_the_Horrible at January 20, 2022 05:39 PM (QWOhf)

See Pierce vs Society of Sisters

Posted by: Fox2! at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (3FBAK)

319 282 Did you all walk 2 miles uphill both ways in 3 feet of now to school as well?

with wonderbread bags on my shoes to keep my feet dry.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (sGtp+)

320
I knew a gal got clep in high school. It was pretty bad.
Posted by: rhennigantx

did you have a smike afterwards?

*i lurve it when i get a typo like that one*

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (IJES/)

321 I'm agreeing with Ace, no more dying this year
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (2JoB

DC exempt...

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (wAnMi)

322 Blundering Biden is sent out with a SCRIPT to read as White House scrambles to clear up mess caused by his press conference gaffe that was taken as a 'green-light' for Russian attack _DM
Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:27 PM (JVMtX)

What I meant to say yesterday is the time is today to say what we meant yesterday.

Posted by: Joe's diaper at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (v0R5T)

323 So in 4th grade teacher hated me and sent me to 5th grade after roll.

In fifth grade I took fifth grade, for second time.

In 6th we moved and they taught from my 5th grade books.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (yrol0)

324 Aren't these the same kind of people who think it's fine for the federal gov't to surveil the citizenry because "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 06:30 PM (sVtYq)

325 Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain

Luxury! We had old San Francisco Chronicles and bailing wire.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:30 PM (u82oZ)

326 319 282 Did you all walk 2 miles uphill both ways in 3 feet of now to school as well?

That summer school was a bitch!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 06:30 PM (axyOa)

327 317 Almost all the teachers here post the books they use and the course of study. That is, the curriculum being used to teach those books in outline form. They also post tests, quizzes and all points that make up the grades.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (kbvR/)

___

Same here. I have a feeling this is an isolated thing in a handful of far left areas. In which case I kinda don't care.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:30 PM (OalnH)

328 320
I knew a gal got clep in high school. It was pretty bad.
Posted by: rhennigantx

did you have a smike afterwards?

*i lurve it when i get a typo like that one*
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (IJES/)

It wasnot a typo it was to be a joke!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 06:30 PM (yrol0)

329 Apropos of nothing whatsoever, Domino's boneless wings are awful. I kinda thought they'd given me bread dough by mistake.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2022 06:31 PM (1XLoS)

330 289 Benny
@bennyjohnson

RIP Brandon Administration: 2021-2022
(TIME magazine's new cover.)

https://tinyurl.com/2p8f2vrk

=====

Completely inaccurate. This picture has FJB located in the Oval Office, not that weird studio in the Old Executive Building. TIME isn't even trying anymore.

(hee-hee)

Posted by: Blind Roscoe McGee at January 20, 2022 06:31 PM (vted1)

331 6 "Public schools are, for the most part, awful. It's not just big cities that start the indoctrination; it's everywhere.

Sure there are some good public schools, but most of the teachers are leftist acolytes who went to leftist colleges."

Let's be honest... The fact that the people teaching your kids these days are crap has much less to do with their political views than the fact that they.just.aren't.smart...

Having seen what was required for someone to teach high school chemistry (and the subsequent results for those "teachers"), I lost all faith in our education system.

Posted by: prolix at January 20, 2022 06:31 PM (CBSgl)

332 But the Teacher's Lounge was packed!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 06:25 PM (W2Pud)

I did some substitute teaching when you could smoke in the teachers lounge. Not sure if they had an open bar, being a substitute and all.

Posted by: Mystery Man at January 20, 2022 06:31 PM (AmoqO)

333 AP English is nothing to clep about.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 06:31 PM (yQpMk)

334 Please CLEP!

Posted by: Dean Jeb! at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (II3Gr)

335 I can not remember 1st or 2nd Grade. At all.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

i remember duck and cover drills. i could see straight up the teacher's mini skirt. that's what i remember about those two grades, and why i sat up front. also when i learned the difference between panty lines and 'going commando' but i didn't know what going commando was called back then, only that i really really liked it.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (IJES/)

336 Ahh yes the promise of a GOP congress.

That'll fix it!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (NazZr)

337 Huh. First NBC Sports. Now ESPN --

@JackPosobiec
9m
BREAKING: ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (786Ro)

338 I saw Gal Got Clep open for The Go-Go's at Trees in '81.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (Zz0t1)

339 If NBC and ESPN can cover sportsball events remotely, why do they ever need to send people?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (OalnH)

340 OT - Last Post -

China wouldn't get their landing craft to reach the Taiwanese shore - let alone getting a column of soldiers through NK to attack with offensive fire power in S. Korea.

C'mon folks. Xi is locking his damn country down. Their day as the international manufacturing powerhouse is over, they are losing cheap stuff to other SE Asian countries and tough stuff is migrating back to the west.

Oh - and Russia has a third world economy with a deteriorating first world military. Not a damn thing they can do to us, even with generals like Milley around.

Can they take Ukraine, yes. Will it cost them more than they can afford to lose, also yes.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (V6xwG)

341 Apropos of nothing whatsoever, Domino's boneless wings are awful. I kinda thought they'd given me bread dough by mistake.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2022 06:31 PM (1XLoS)
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Boneless wings aren't.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (XHhHI)

342 I still have an elementary school report card that my parents had to sign.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (cOCY2)

343 CRT, globohomo/pedo grooming, teaching to the LCD, low quality/standards, covid hysterics and psychological abuse including distancing, masking, and vaccine mandates, and general leftist indoctrination. What's not to love?
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:51 PM (SH2Zi)

Don't forget gerbil worming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (P3gRi)

344 with wonderbread bags on my shoes to keep my feet dry.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 20, 2022 06:29 PM (sGtp+)

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

Plastic bags? Shoes? Musta been nice.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (1XLoS)

345 I used to teach Chemistry and Biology, for a short while, in Fairfax County. Got stories.

I would end public schools. I could not qualify to teach today, because I want real learning, not indoctrination.

Logic, problem solving, knowledge. This is not what education is today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (u82oZ)

346 131 I pay federal income tax, state income tax, income tax to the town i work in, income tax to the township i live in and property taxes. In a deep red part of a red state.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
---------
Same here.. At least with Uncle Sam and Uncle Hoosier I can get something back during tax time. County and Township, not so much.. fuckers.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (+ldAm)

347 342 I still have an elementary school report card that my parents had to sign.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (cOCY2)

Oh boy, so do I. It's not pretty.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (II3Gr)

348 True fact;
In grade school we either had to walk the mile and a half on roads, or go through the pasture with the mean bull.
On the road, there were often "dead skunks in the middle of the road" (Pryne reference).
We endeavored to persevere.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (cPGH3)

349 Small town North Dakota school- Latin/French/German and Spanish taught along with advanced math/chemistry. Outside recess. Oh yes. Twenty below? Get outside! I had German nuns for eight years, too.

Posted by: free tibet at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (UELks)

350 336 Ahh yes the promise of a GOP congress.

That'll fix it!
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (NazZr)

___

We are going to (checks notes) repeal Obamacare, build a border fence, overturn Roe v Wade and cut taxes for the middle class. But we can't do it without your $100 donation.
- GOP

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (OalnH)

351 Huh. First NBC Sports. Now ESPN --
@JackPosobiec
9m
BREAKING: ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics
Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (786Ro)
~~~~~

I'd love to think they're doing it in protest of China's human rights violations, but more likely their people are too afraid of the 'Rona.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (0TVNF)

352
It wasnot a typo it was to be a joke!
Posted by: rhennigantx

i know. took shameless advantage of one of my earlier typos today to leverage your correct typo joke.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (IJES/)

353 Don't forget gerbil worming.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (P3gRi)
---
Hmmmm....

Posted by: Richard Gere at January 20, 2022 06:35 PM (XHhHI)

354 gerbil worming
whirled peas

I envy wits who come up with these things.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:36 PM (cPGH3)

355 340 - I'm not into underestimating Russia. BUT...

They ARE very much the same country they were in the 19th Century in this sense. In the 19th Century, Russia relied on exports of wheat. Now? Oil, natural gas...They are all about exploiting natural resources and...that's it. They don't bother reinvesting that bounty in their country to bring about a more economically powerful Russia. It's too corrupt for that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (CdZ4i)

356 I can not remember 1st or 2nd Grade. At all.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
___

Can't say I remember much before the 3rd grade.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (RU4sa)

357 >>>I'd love to think they're doing it in protest of China's human rights violations, but more likely their people are too afraid of the 'Rona.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (0TVNF)

Or, you know... war.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (QYPq3)

358 Misinformation is not protected speech I hear. Teachers might be misinforming our kids! We should ban them for that.

Posted by: Hal Dall MD at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (11xNI)

359 gerbil worming
whirled peas

I envy wits who come up with these things.
Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:36 PM (cPGH3)

Didn't Meta Whirled Peas play for the Lakers for a time?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (Zz0t1)

360 BifBewalski

You have led a blessed life since 1st Grade. *Respect*

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (u82oZ)

361 Save those Wonderbread bags on your shoes for putting on the toilet seats when taking a number two.

Posted by: Hints from Heloise at January 20, 2022 06:37 PM (v0R5T)

362 I still have an elementary school report card that my parents had to sign.
Posted by: Ben Had

Ben Had - i thought they stopped using paper report cards in the 90s? you're telling me corsicana is THAT backwards?

insom - you mispelled stone carving..

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:38 PM (IJES/)

363 I thought the Three R's were Recon, Resistance and Release of TTP's

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:38 PM (kbvR/)

364 We are going to (checks notes) repeal Obamacare, build a border fence, overturn Roe v Wade and cut taxes for the middle class. But we can't do it without your $100 donation.
- GOP
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (OalnH

I don't pay the painter I contracted to paint the house til the job is done. Deliver, and you get money. Til then...

(I wish people would adopt that attitude. Could we get a better, more responsive party that way?)

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:38 PM (CdZ4i)

365 I still have an elementary school report card that my parents had to sign.
Posted by: Ben Had
___

Wow.

I don't have anything from my childhood.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 06:38 PM (RU4sa)

366 {{{SMH }}}

How are you doing these days? It is cold here, but it keeps the chiggers dead.

This year in Corsicana.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (u82oZ)

367 342 I still have an elementary school report card that my parents had to sign.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 06:33 PM (cOCY2)

I have a bunch of my Mom's report card. All A's. Dad's not so much. Hes escaped reform school in the 8th grade and never went back.

Posted by: Mystery Man at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (AmoqO)

368 The Media Faction is actually now arguing that the Government Has Privacy Rights and should be allowed to keep secrets from citizens.
---
Reich also wanted more "collective freedom"....

...which of course the government would orchestrate.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (XHhHI)

369
34,715.39 -313.26 (-0.89%)
At close: 04:55PM EST

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (7moj5)

370 Russia as a whole is a backwater. But Moscow and SPB have transformed themselves into modern cities in the past 10-15 years.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (OalnH)

371 Boy, some of you are old. Just sayin. What was it like before electricity?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (kbvR/)

372 >>> 337 Huh. First NBC Sports. Now ESPN --

@JackPosobiec
9m
BREAKING: ESPN Will Not Send Reporters to Beijing Olympics
Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 06:32 PM (786Ro)

Nothing to see here, move along....

Seriously, you'd think *this* would be a clue to the athletes not to go.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (llON8)

373 340 Black JEM - been to Taiwan and worked hand in hand with the Taiwanese MC and I can unequivocally say they are prepped for the CHICOMs to come rolling ashore and are willing to die while killing as many CHICOMs as they possibly can. But there is something that I can't get over and that's that they look at it from a defensive position instead of taking the offensive. We wait until these clowns come ashore before beating them back into oblivion. I'll say this, they have it planned down to losing every man, woman, and child who can fight but why not take the fight to them instead of waiting for it to knock at the door.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (+ldAm)

374 Me neither NaCly. I vaguely remember 3rd grade. I moved around so much most of my elementary education is a blur.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (nxdel)

375 According to the morons on Twitter and Reddit, the teachers have to keep their curriculum secret or else they won't be allowed to teach about slavery and the Civil War.

Has anyone in the last sixty years of public education not been taught about slavery and the Civil War?

I'm pretty sure the secret is out. School curriculums include those topics.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (AhhdW)

376 I'd love to think they're doing it in protest of China's human rights violations, but more likely their people are too afraid of the 'Rona.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:34 PM (0TVNF)

And I'll bet the Chinese are charging a fortune for press credentials.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (Q9lwr)

377 362 I still have an elementary school report card that my parents had to sign.
Posted by: Ben Had

Ben Had - i thought they stopped using paper report cards in the 90s? you're telling me corsicana is THAT backwards?

insom - you mispelled stone carving..
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:38 PM (IJES/)

To this day I have a progress report from an English teacher who wrote a screed on it that basically says "The problem I have with Cow Demon is that he reads too much."

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (CdZ4i)

378 Boy, some of you are old. Just sayin. What was it like before electricity?
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (kbvR/)

I've been meaning to ask how the invention of concrete changed their lives.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (Zz0t1)

379 Cold here also, Salty.
Got up to maybe 20F.
Down to 8 or 9 tonight.

We'll see regarding Corsicana.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (RU4sa)

380 314 Gref

I remember being led to a fresh trench dug in Japan during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Lots of anxiety, and not learning. I can not remember 1st or 2nd Grade. At all.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:28 PM (u82oZ)

Hello, good sir!
You had a FRESH trench? Luxury! We were forced into a used trench!

I cannot recall the Cuban Missile Crisis. I also cannot recall doing a Duck and Cover Drill in school. We lived a long way from any Russian first strike targets, throughout my grade school and Junior High days. The only time in all of my school years I got a bit worried about the Rooskies was in 1973 when Nixon went to DefCon 3 during the Yom Kippur War. I'll never forget my history teacher announcing that in class, in a solemn voice.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (AMIL/)

381 34,715.39 -313.26 (-0.89%)
At close: 04:55PM EST
Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (7moj5)

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OMG!!!!!!!

You know what this means? That over the past month this index is down - wait for it - 2%. And over the past year it's up *ONLY* 11%.

Might as well jump out a window and end the misery now.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:41 PM (OalnH)

382 Wow.

I don't have anything from my childhood.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy

I have school art. Projects. Odds and ends. Saving my kids' stuff for the same sort of thing.
Kinda fun.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:41 PM (cPGH3)

383
And I'll bet the Chinese are charging a fortune for press credentials.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (Q9lwr)

All in an effort to keep the truth from coming out.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:41 PM (Zz0t1)

384 I'd love to think they're doing it in protest of China's human rights violations, but more likely their people are too afraid of the 'Rona.

Maybe they just want to avoid the mandatory daily anal swabs for Americans covid containment policy.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 06:41 PM (kOpft)

385 I moved around so much most of my elementary education is a blur.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (nxdel)
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Same here.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 06:41 PM (RU4sa)

386 Parents and legislators have already started campaigns to remove books dealing with race and gender,

That one is laughable. Cancelling campaigns for books, songs, speech, clothing have been used by Leftists for decades. But now its "oh my, book burners!"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 06:41 PM (coYBh)

387
We'll see regarding Corsicana.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (RU4sa)

I should know in Feb or March if I'll be there this year.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 06:42 PM (Zz0t1)

388 According to the morons on Twitter and Reddit, the teachers have to keep their curriculum secret or else they won't be allowed to teach about slavery and the Civil War.
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That's their typical False Dichotomy.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 06:42 PM (XHhHI)

389 I have the 6th grade report card thst says, "Dagny is very bright but shows little tolerance for her peers. Her attitude is a problem."

My husband and children agree.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 20, 2022 06:42 PM (ySQBZ)

390 NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine

That offensive stuff is in silos around Minot and elsewhere. After we lose Guam and a CVBG or two.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:42 PM (u82oZ)

391 > Russia as a whole is a backwater. But Moscow and SPB have transformed themselves into modern cities in the past 10-15 years.

Outside of places like Westminster, Cambridge, and parts of London, England is practically third world.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 06:42 PM (AhhdW)

392 374 Me neither NaCly. I vaguely remember 3rd grade. I moved around so much most of my elementary education is a blur.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (nxdel)

Same here. Army brat. Seven schools in my first five grades.

Posted by: Mystery Man at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (AmoqO)

393 Might as well jump out a window and end the misery now.

Already tried that. All I did was tweak my knee a little. Maybe a single story house isn't the best for that sort of thing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (SchxB)

394 Also why does the Left hate Shakesphere so much? Why are those birds so angry?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (coYBh)

395 I have school art. Projects. Odds and ends. Saving my kids' stuff for the same sort of thing.
Kinda fun.
Posted by: MkY
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Moving a lot as a Navy brat, saving stuff wasn't a thing for my folks.

I have a few items from my kid's childhood, but not much, mostly photos.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (RU4sa)

396 What was it like before electricity?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (kbvR/)

What's it like picking up your teeth with broken fingers?

Posted by: Old Mean Bastard At The Bar at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (Q9lwr)

397 nood

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (arJlL)

398 Off

Posted by: Javems at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (AmoqO)

399 I'll say this, they have it planned down to losing every man, woman, and child who can fight but why not take the fight to them instead of waiting for it to knock at the door.

How many people think the point of the second amendment is going out in a blaze of glory alone in your home?

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (kOpft)

400 According to the morons on Twitter and Reddit, the teachers have to keep their curriculum secret or else they won't be allowed to teach about slavery and the Civil War.

Has anyone in the last sixty years of public education not been taught about slavery and the Civil War?

I'm pretty sure the secret is out. School curriculums include those topics.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (AhhdW)

My school in the 1970s had a good history program in US history and world history. I don't remember any issue with the ACW, and since I had been reading on it since a young age, I would have remembered.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (eoQWY)

401 I've been meaning to ask how the invention of concrete changed their lives.
Posted by: Sponge

i 'member the concrete wars. mixing sand and rocks i my co crete and sugar in the neighbor's..of course, bill qwantrill destroyed bofa without a by your leave.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (IJES/)

402 > Parents and legislators have already started campaigns to remove books dealing with race and gender

This is true. Although by, "dealing with race and gender" they mean promoting pre-teens sucking each other's dangles.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (AhhdW)

403 And I'll bet the Chinese are charging a fortune for press credentials.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2022 06:40 PM (Q9lwr)
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No doubt. And for visas too. Not sure how much it is now, but about 10 years ago they were already charging hundreds of dollars for a tourist visa. Probably thousands for the Olympics. Gotta make hay while the sun shines!

Posted by: IrishEi at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (0TVNF)

404 When my parents moved out of my childhood home they through it all out. Report cards, paintings, you name it. They asked me if I wanted any of it and I said no thanks. Just more junk to move around.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 06:44 PM (OalnH)

405 Boy, some of you are old. Just sayin. What was it like before electricity?
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Coleman type lanterns that hung on the wall and burned mantles.

Posted by: dartist at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (+ya+t)

406 SMH

I know you said last year was the last. But is one daughter still in Texas?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (u82oZ)

407 I have a 6th grade comment that I was a nice boy but hanging out with the wrong crowd. And yet here I am on AOS.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (coYBh)

408 In kindergarten, in Jewel45's hood, I walked about a mile home. Nobody thought a thing about it then.
On Halloween, my Mom dressed me as a mummy (my idea). She forgot little boys needed to pee.
On the way home from school, I peed my pants, and a big dog stole all my candy.
My Mom (sweetheart though she was) took a picture of me when I came home.
That kinda reinforces memories.

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:46 PM (cPGH3)

409 For my tens of thousands of tax $$ I should get some say. And I don't even have any kids in the system anymore.

*So shut up!*
-- Karen McKarenface

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:46 PM (mD/uy)

410 336 Ahh yes the promise of a GOP congress.

That'll fix it!

Common Core.

Posted by: Yeb at January 20, 2022 06:46 PM (GYllL)

411 Guy Mohawk

Nothing has changed, I see.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

412 I got good reports on my conduct until I whooped the kid running through our jump rope game with the jump rope.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (cOCY2)

413 Coleman type lanterns that hung on the wall and burned mantles.
Posted by: dartist

You had light?

Luxury!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (mD/uy)

414 Have specialschool for the teacher's children.

Secrets.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (VJydT)

415 "What's it like picking up your teeth with broken fingers?
Posted by: Old Mean Bastard At The Bar at January 20, 2022 06:43 PM (Q9lwr)"

I would imagine roughly the same as trying to drink after a throat punch.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (kbvR/)

416 I just remember my report cards usually had the comment "Need improvement".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (Xrfse)

417 Needs...sigh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 06:48 PM (Xrfse)

418 392 374 Me neither NaCly. I vaguely remember 3rd grade. I moved around so much most of my elementary education is a blur.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 06:39 PM (nxdel)

Same here. Army brat. Seven schools in my first five grades.

Three schools for me, but I remember my elementary school years well. I had a good third grade teacher. My fourth grade teacher was amazing. Won't crash the server talking about her. Both my fifth grade teachers were evil, especially the one who insisted I would not get past sixth grade unless I changed how I held a pen/pencil.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (CdZ4i)

419 Needs...sigh.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

"Needs improvement"
C+

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:49 PM (cPGH3)

420 >>416 I just remember my report cards usually had the comment "Need improvement".

My K-2 report card indicated at the bottom I didn't interact or play well with others.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (GYllL)

421 R 55.7%
D 44.2%

Yes that is a 13.5 point gap

BUT it means tat there are 30% more Rs than Ds.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 06:50 PM (iDcra)

422 I have a 6th grade comment that I was a nice boy but hanging out with the wrong crowd. ...
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 06:45 PM (coYBh)
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Me too, still hanging out with those guys. The teacher was right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 06:51 PM (EZebt)

423 BUT it means tat there are 30% more Rs than Ds.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious

"We have serious doubts about his ability to learn to spell and type."

Posted by: MkY at January 20, 2022 06:51 PM (cPGH3)

424 Supreme Court justices refuse to speed up challenge to Texas abortion law in 6-3 ruling. The case will remain with the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals_DM

No abortions after 6 weeks

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 06:54 PM (JVMtX)

425 clutch I mean just us

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 06:59 PM (2JoB8)

426 Almost all the teachers here post the books they use and the course of study. That is, the curriculum being used to teach those books in outline form. They also post tests, quizzes and all points that make up the grades.

I don't see why this is a big deal unless you're hiding something.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 06:28

Curriculum, yes. Standards and benchmarks, yes. Syllabi, yes.

Daily lesson plans, no. Answer keys to tests, NEVER.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 20, 2022 07:10 PM (fxCK2)

427 I should clarify: daily lesson plans in advance, no. We had that under a previous administrator, and some parents flipped out if ANYTHING changed over the course of a week. For example, good teachers shift gears if students aren't "getting" the material, but adding practices might change quiz dates.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 20, 2022 07:15 PM (fxCK2)

428 I damn near took Latin. To the HORROR of my very German mother, I decided instead on...German.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 20, 2022 06:23 PM (CdZ4i)

I took French in HS. Came in handy in later grades and in life experience. Oooh, la, la! Oh, wait....we're talking French, the language? Sorry. **scampers away remembering my French teacher**

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 20, 2022 07:49 PM (Zvtjl)

Gird. Your. Loins.: Rachel Maddow Claims That Biden Heroically Stood at the Podium for One Hour and Fifty Minutes to... Send a Powerful Signal to Vladimir Putin That He Was Strong And Had Stamina for the Long War Ahead

Remember when I said the only thing the left could find to praise in Biden's press conference was its duration? (Which wasn't even all that long?)

Well, Maddow decided to take the leftist meme of the night and go insane with it -- as usual -- and link it to MuhRussia -- as usual -- and claim that Biden stood there and took questions for a full 110 minutes just to send an unmistakable signal to Putin that he was ready for a push-up contest with nuclear missiles if Vladdy wanted one.

This isn't Trump's America anymore, Vlad! Poppa Biden's gonna show you how he took care of business with Corn-Pop!

"With all the talk about Putin and him talking about ... the question of whether Putin is going to invade Ukraine might ... be decided by which side of the bed Putin wakes up on -- and all this stuff about trying to get Putin's head. One part of me wondered if he was trying to sort of ape Putin's annual press conference thing where he does these sort of feats of strength. He does these feats of stamina showing how long that he can continue to go taking these questions. So that was part of it," Maddow said.

You all heard Biden give Putin the go-head for a "just the tip" "minor incursion" into Ukraine.

Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, saw Biden deliver a "Tear down this wall" challenge.

Sounds like Rachel's girding her own loins for a man for the first time in her life.

Speaking of overpromoted coozes: Kamala Harris. I will take Kamala Harris' side 100% non-ironically and say absolutely, the old white man who is her boss-puppet emphatically did not position her for success, because she had to go out on TV shows and explain whether Biden did or did not believe that the midterm elections would be illegitimate.

Because Kamala Harris didn't know the answer -- I mean, does Biden actually know what Biden thinks? Did Ron Klain tell him what Biden thinks? -- she had to do what Kamala always does, dodge the question by filling up the air with nonsensical babblings.

And when that doesn't work, she gets, what is the word?

Bitchy. She gets bitchy.

Which is what her nasty senile boss does, too.

Is President Biden really concerned that we may not have free and fair elections? -@SavannahGuthrie to @VP pic.twitter.com/pQmv6MLVb5
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 20, 2022

What?

On one hand, I concede that she's been put in a difficult situation by a feebleminded moron, but on the other hand, she dodges questions by babbling incoherently so often that you'd think she'd be better at it by now.

She's lifting from Kramer.

WATCH: Veep Thoughts With @KamalaHarris

"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."https://t.co/FbDCqU46Jp pic.twitter.com/Cld6rUOebB
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) January 17, 2022

Jen Psaki was also in a difficult spot, and so she decided, as Kalama Harris might say, that it was time to do what we have been doing, which was aggressively, bitchily lying.

She claimed repeatedly that Brandon did not say what he plainly said about the midterms being illegitimate if he wasn't allowed to rig them like he rigged the 2020 elections -- even after a reporter read back Brandon's words to her, verbatim.

Jen Psaki is almost at a loss for words when a reporter DIRECTLY quotes Joe Biden casting doubt on the integrity of future elections. pic.twitter.com/7tENsnD6Dm
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 20, 2022

Joe Concha
@JoeConchaTV
Here’s what Biden said yesterday: "The increase in the prospect of (future elections) being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these (voting) reforms passed." How else can this be interpreted?

It can be interpreted as "Orange Man Bad, 2020 Elections Perfect, seditious conspiracy to question them, 2022 elections... we'll see. We'll see."

Returning to Rachel Maddow's insensate claim that Brandon's press conference intimidated Putin rather than emboldening him: Weird, the State Department doesn't agree, because they lit up reporters' email to clean up Brandon's open invitation for a "minor incursion" in Ukraine.

CNN’s Dana Bash on Biden’s disastrous press conference: “Clean up on aisle State Department.” pic.twitter.com/2PzKaxafk6
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 19, 2022

The President of Ukraine sure didn't think that Brandon was challenging Putin to a Festivus Feats of Strength, either. He seemed to think that Brandon had all but clipped the barbed wire to help Putin start his invasion:

Was the plan always to supplement Brandon's Show of Force -- by merely standing and talking for almost two hours, you know, like you do at any cocktail party -- with an urgent WH press release that contradicted his statement that a minor incursion would be permitted?

John Hayward
@Doc_0

Biden's handlers do not understand the psychological impact of dispatching his flacks to insist the senile old man didn't say any of the things he clearly said in his dumpster fire press conference. They're on the verge of turning low poll numbers into national panic.

Yeah, I'm all out of F's to give about Ukraine. I don't like this corrupt country meddling in our elections on the Democrats' side as if we're some backwater third-world shithole.

We are that, of course, thanks to Obama and the left, but I don't like this pissant country taking advantage of our temporary embarrassment.

Posted by: Ace at 04:18 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (XvPQV)

2 He was able to stand up there so long because of the placebo effect.

Posted by: 496 at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (VJsqe)

3 And RIP to redc1c4....jeez, this year...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (XvPQV)

4 This whole decade so far, frankly...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (XvPQV)

5 I want to see Biden challenge Putin to a push up challenge.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (ESjRY)

6 So, when Trump regularly did this that meant he was a posturing fool who projected fake strength to lie to the people?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

7 Grid your lions!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (DnWKq)

8 Pre-lubed Ukraine for a "minor incursion."

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (II3Gr)

9 President Joe, I have heard you, and I agree to your terms - just the tip in Ukraine. Just like you gave just the tip to your Ashley.

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (ESjRY)

10 Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!

Posted by: Izzy Mandelbaum at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (QYPq3)

11 Woman who sits on her ass for a living thinks standing for not quite two hours is heroic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (XvPQV)

12 War?

Posted by: CN at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (ONvIw)

13 I can't wait for the legal challenges to Republican wins in November.

"No, it was the dirtiest election ever because Republicans won. Obviously."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

14 Finally the long national nightmare of not feeding the military industrial complex a meaningless war to boost the bottom line has come to an end. Norms restored!

Nevertrump inc.

Posted by: Bete at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (Ojki1)

15 So if Biden is a great president because he can stand for almost two hours, does that mean the girl that just pulled a double shift as cashier at the local Food Lion would be a better president?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

16 The dozens of Madcow viewers must have just been ecstatic.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (mD/uy)

17 "Veep Thoughts" is very funny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (DU+/6)

18 So what did it mean when he made a statement giving himself a clear time limit to end and then started became noticeably less mentally stable and coherent after passing that very definite cutoff that he'd accidentally passed over?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (5q92e)

19 The war will be over by Easter.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (wmDcS)

20 Any details about what happened to redc1c4 would be appreciated.

We were just talking with the man the other day, it feels like...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (XvPQV)

21 So because biden stood up vertically for almost two hours that means he is a tough guy and can stand up to putin?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (bVYXr)

22 So if Biden is a great president because he can stand for almost two hours, does that mean the girl that just pulled a double shift as cashier at the local Food Lion would be a better president?
Posted by: 18-1

Without a doubt! I'd take that chance.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (mD/uy)

23 Was the plan always to supplement Brandon's Show of Force -- by merely standing and talking for almost two hours, you know, like you do at any cocktail party -- with an urgent WH press release that contradicted his statement that a minor incursion would be permitted?
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Sadly, it probably was. Not this specifically, but I would not be surprised in the slightest if the WH comms office has a team of spin doctors on standby whenever they have to trundle the old dotard out into public so they can quickly produce and release corrections.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (DU+/6)

24 Today is like the newspaper correction that is 75% longer than initial article. Every single thing is being walked back.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (01vgK)

25 2016: You can't elected Trump - he'll start a bunch of wars.

2019: We are impeaching Trump because he didn't start ANY wars. What an asshole.

2022: War. HUH. What's it good for? HUH! Absolutely everything!

Posted by: The Left at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (ESjRY)

26 Like being able to stand behind a podium for 1:50 is going to impress a man who rides grizzly bears while shirtless and cavorts with miniature giraffes?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (m45I2)

27 I cannot spare this man. He stands.

Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (CTJwJ)

28 Biden's handlers do not understand the psychological impact of dispatching his flacks to insist the senile old man didn't say any of the things he clearly said in his dumpster fire press conference. They're on the verge of turning low poll numbers into national panic.
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This is routine. Biden says one thing then claims he didn't The stakes are much higher now than they were when he was stupidly shouting at Clarence Thomas, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (DU+/6)

29 25 2022: War. HUH. What's it good for? HUH! Absolutely everything!
Posted by: The Left at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (ESjRY)

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"Wait a second..."
-Code Pink

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

30 sorry, ukraine can eat a dick of their choosing. if russia comes at you, no americans should die to help stop it

Posted by: nckate at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (z5Nun)

31 Brace yerself, Rachel!!

Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (UHVv4)

32
"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."

_________

Oh, wow, man. That's, like, deep.

*takes another bong hit*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (/U27+)

33 Setting my 'phraser' to stunning and brave.

Posted by: micky at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (3byMq)

34 Any details about what happened to redc1c4 would be appreciated.

We were just talking with the man the other day, it feels like...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (XvPQV)

Oh no you just asked for details.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (NqZ29)

35 He pretty much greased up ukraine's asshole for Putin. The only thing left is for him to help him guide it in.*

*apologies to the ettes for the Jack Murphy like visuals.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (dNqv+)

36 It's long-standing practice for lefty totalitarian leaders to bloviate at very long length in front of a microphone.

Just saying.

Posted by: junior at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (XS82T)

37 28 This is routine. Biden says one thing then claims he didn't The stakes are much higher now than they were when he was stupidly shouting at Clarence Thomas, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (DU+/6)

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When your party flacks have no time to actually try to advance any narrative, needing to constantly walk back what the boss said because the boss is an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about.

Yeah...this will get better with Kamala in charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

38 "It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."

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About as much content as the sign in Bob Evans Restaurants: "Everybody is somebody at Bob Evans."

Posted by: Legion of Boom at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (01vgK)

39 I also give no fucks about Ukraine. Not one American life, not one American dollar should be spent to defend Ukraine. We have many problems and this isn't one of them.

Posted by: Revenant at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (T4RS9)

40 30 sorry, ukraine can eat a dick of their choosing. if russia comes at you, no americans should die to help stop it
Posted by: nckate at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (z5Nun)

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Disagreed - Hunter Biden has enriched himself at Ukraine's expense for years. He should be there fighting side-by-side with them.

Posted by: 496 at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (VJsqe)

41 Let's talk about minor incursions some more, guys.
- Hunter and Joe, looking at Ashley

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (5q92e)

42 So biden's great great great achievement was to stand for 2 hours?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (Irn0L)

43 is going to impress a man who rides grizzly bears while shirtless and cavorts with miniature giraffes?

This is totally false. I wear a shirt at work, what, do you think I have no manners?

Also while it is true I ride a bear to work, I only cavort with hot, nubile female gymnasts.

And let me say unlike your president, only the adult ones.

Posted by: V Putin at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (ESjRY)

44 17 "Veep Thoughts" is very funny.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (DU+/6)

It is, props to Ace.

Somehow the Veep TV show turned out to be prophesy...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (XvPQV)

45 The plan is to let Russia invade eastern Ukraine as a demonstration of force, then "negotiate" its withdrawal.

Only when the Russians don't play along and instead either a) take Kiev and install a puppet government, or b) simply carve off the eastern portion of the country, the Biden admin will flail and likely get us drawn further in. I could see the Russians shooting down US transports, with the US response resulting in an air and naval battle in either the Baltic or Black seas.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (wmDcS)

46 You need this war!

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (CTJwJ)

47 When your party flacks have no time to actually try to advance any narrative, needing to constantly walk back what the boss said because the boss is an idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about.

Yeah...this will get better with Kamala in charge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (LvTSG)
++++
It might. She's more competent than Biden. Not a lot more, but more. She's also super bitchy and arrogant, though, so she might not take direction any better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (DU+/6)

48 I fully and completely believe that the very long press conference was Biden trying to show he's stronk, like bull.

I don't believe it has anything to do with Putin. I think it's more likely he saw polls that were saying Americans think he's feeble and addled and he said, "God-damn it, I'll show them! I'll stand up there and answer questions until the reporters are begging for a break!"

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (AhhdW)

49 >>>This is routine. Biden says one thing then claims he didn't The stakes are much higher now than they were when he was stupidly shouting at Clarence Thomas, though.

Go back and read what I said! Plus, I'll also have you know that Clarence Thomas is my favorite member of the E-Street Band.

Posted by: Joey B at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (HmZuC)

50 Any word from Colonel Bearclaw about Biden selling Ukraine down the river?

Bueller? Anyone?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (mdjgu)

51
I also give no fucks about Ukraine. Not one American life, not one American dollar should be spent to defend Ukraine. We have many problems and this isn't one of them.
Posted by: Revenant at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (T4RS9)

________

You won't be saying that when the Red Army juggernaut is rolling into Uzbekistan.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (/U27+)

52 Loins gridded.

Willowed: Here's the link

https://tinyurl.com/2cpat4y6

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (IytoW)

We are gaining ground. They are back on their heels attempting to explain placebo effect to people can't even spell "placebo." I'll take it.

Last week, DARPA docs confirmed lab leak likelihood and that they suppressed use of potentially effective therapeutics HCQ and IVM. Yesterday, we learned of the 2018 Moderna patented sequence in the CCP-virus spike protein.

A shit storm is coming.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (SH2Zi)

53 Imagine if he had stood up for almost two hours AND was black.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (5q92e)

54 Just the spear-tip.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (UHVv4)

55 Yeah, of course, he stood strong. That's why the Ukraine president was pissed--'cause Biden drew a line in the sand.

Sure.

Is Maddow's wife Morgan Fairchild by any chance?

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (XHhHI)

56 The very definition of stronk.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (ZLI7S)

57 Why does Biden not care about a country that funnelled him lots of corrupt money? Probably because the political leadership supporting that corrupt money-funneling got thrown out by voters, and replaced with an administration that's been trying to investigate the corruption.

In short, the current president of the Ukraine could potentially end up exposing Biden's corruption. With the receipts.

Posted by: junior at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (XS82T)

58 Honestly, after reading Sean Davis' tweet, I'm rethinking my stance on Ukraine. Screw it, roll over them, Vlad.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (bkUtD)

59 The Kamala quote reminds me of Hoover's "Delta House has a long tradition of existence to itself and the community at large."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (DnWKq)

60 Not first. Read the content

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (SyXkh)

61 And batting T-ball questions
Some selected text
https://www.powerlineblog.com/
archives/2022/01/
a-senile-phantasmagoria.php

I commented during he wasn't making any intelligible sentences

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (2JoB8)

62 CLEANUP ON AISLE THREE

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

63 My hour has come round at last!!!!

HISSSSSSS

I'M FAT, FETID AND FAMILIAR!!!

YOU WANT ME

YOU NEED ME

Posted by: CHTILLARY at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (eN5F0)

64 Dear God, are they back to the whole "intimidating Putin" thing? They did this all through the Obama years every time he had to go over there.

It was stupid then with Obama and it's even dumber now considering Biden and the fact he's less sturdy than a dollar store tripod.

Putin is a man who I'm sure more than once in his life has had to take out a handkerchief and wipe blood off his shoes.

Anyone who thinks a politician, Democrat or Republican, is going to intimidate this guy, they really need to lay off the Marvel movies.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (W3VUu)

65 i don't include crack head and col bear claw as americans

Posted by: nckate at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (z5Nun)

66 Veep Throat.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (UHVv4)

67 A president as weak as Biden is basically telling Putin he can do what he wants.

We just cut and ran from the Taliban - and now does anyone think we will fight the Russians for real?

We lost something like...5K men in the WoT. What happens when we lose that many in a week?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (ESjRY)

68 *apologies to the ettes for the Jack Murphy like visuals.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (dNqv+)

Well I think we've heard a lot worse, but that's nice of you.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (Ez6QX)

69
Imagine if he had stood up for almost two hours AND was black.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (5q92e)

______

And a lesbian.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (/U27+)

70 Not comment 3, Biden's aisle.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

71
I'm pretty sure there's footage of Putin flying around on a freakin' hang-glider for longer than that presser. Leading the birds to freedom or whatever that stunt was.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (4odx6)

72 58 Honestly, after reading Sean Davis' tweet, I'm rethinking my stance on Ukraine. Screw it, roll over them, Vlad.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (bkUtD)

========

Leave Eastern Europe to the Eastern Europeans.

They hate use anyway for all of our foreign meddling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

73 No blood for the big guy's cut.

/Am I doing this right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (ESjRY)

74 Do these nitwits like Maddow not realize how condescending they sound?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (awmcV)

75 Hey kids, what time is it?

Posted by: KAMALA at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (786Ro)

76 Rachel Maddow Claims That Biden Heroically Stood at the Podium for One Hour and Fifty Minutes to... Send a Powerful Signal to Vladimir Putin That He Was Strong And Had Stamina for the Long War Ahead

Gentlemen! At Midnight Saturday we begin the Glorious Struggle to Recapture the Motherland and Free Out Russian Brothers and Sisters from the Evil Fascist Ukranians! I expect every Russian to do his duty!

Now go to your units! We have a small incursion to win!

Posted by: General Ivan Ivanov at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (Z32m1)

77 I'm ready to go and do the things that I need to do. And that ready, is now and later. And before.

And tomorrow.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (/9mpK)

78
It's like fucking BURISMA never existed.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (3cHMA)

79 Fuck Ukraine. Obama gave them platitudes, and Trump gave them weapons, and Ukraine responded by letting the impeachment clown show over their own corruption go on.

Enjoy getting what you agitated for, jackasses.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (Y7Ajm)

80 Harris. - "Figure out what gives your brain a tingle."

******

I'm going to guess electroshock therapy. What do I win?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (m45I2)

81 That's why the Ukraine president was pissed--'cause Biden drew a line in the sand.
==
Ukraine's President was pissed because Joe Biden treated him like Hunter treated the stripper prostitute of his bastard kid.

Posted by: But of course, what would you expect from a Biden anyway? at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (FOSUO)

82 At least Biden is fully consistent and non-contradictory. Like how Russia's control of the European energy supply doesn't matter until our energy policy should guard against it.

for example, everybody talks about how Russia has control over the energy supply that Europe absorbs. Well, guess what? That -- that money that they earn from that makes about 45 percent of the economy. I don't see that as a one-way street. They go ahead and cut it off -- it's like my mother used to say: "You bite your nose off to spite your face." It's not like they have all these wonderful choices out there.

{five minutes later}

And I think there's ways in which we can be of some value added in terms of the price of gas -- natural gas and the like -- to take the burden off of European countries that are now totally dependent on Russia. But it's going to be hard. It's going to be very hard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (DU+/6)

83 Liberals do realize that between long bouts of sleeping for 5 days, they were also trying to prep Lettuce Brain with pre selected questions that he read to pre selected reporters. I mean, did they not see him haphazardly flipping through his notes on the podium?

And where is he today? Is he still sleeping.

Remember the days of Trump standing up there for hours a few times a week? Good times.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (VpIIl)

84 We lost something like...5K men in the WoT. What happens when we lose that many in a week?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (ESjRY)
--

We'll call up the 109th Transgender Brigade as reinforcements. The power of our diversity will make our enemies tremble.

Posted by: Thoroughly Modern General Milley at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (T4RS9)

85 i may be wrong, but didn't PDJT give impromptu pressers of over an hour at times. like heading to the chopper, or after some kind of announcement?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (8D42x)

86 The NRA doing what they do best, screw their members.

This infuriates me.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=5H3Ojbxzr9o

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (GYllL)

87 Is there any proof that a black woman can stand up for almost two hours?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (5q92e)

88 When do we send in the 1st Battalion of openly ghey, non-binary trannies?

Posted by: I Mean at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (Z54n9)

89 When Republicans call Biden feeble it's the same as using the n-word.

Posted by: Your Illustrious Media at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (/9mpK)

90 Honestly, after reading Sean Davis' tweet, I'm rethinking my stance on Ukraine. Screw it, roll over them, Vlad.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (bkUtD)

========

Leave Eastern Europe to the Eastern Europeans.

They hate use anyway for all of our foreign meddling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

Well when we promise to defend their sovereignty in return for them giving up their nukes and we fuck them over...they ought to hate us. I hate us right now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (XvPQV)

91 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

92 JJ's Minor Incursion PS this morning was exquisite.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (SH2Zi)

93 Imagine going with "he stood for nearly 2 hours" as a sign his presidency is a success. Just think about that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (sVtYq)

94 I don't want what she's smoking.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

95 A shit storm is coming.

oh my god, we've got to get out of here!

Posted by: Ishmael at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (786Ro)

96
Rachel Maddow and Mayor Pete show you how much brain power it takes to be a Rhodes Scholar.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (/U27+)

97 I can't wait to see the confusion among left leaning LIVs when they learn that the Russians call the people currently running the Ukrainian government NAZIs.

This should make for some epic LOLs.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (ESjRY)

98 I wonder how the media is going to react when the Junta gets the US into a war the American public really doesn't want?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (5pTK/)

99 apologies to the ettes for the Jack Murphy-like visuals.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
___

Don't know how the guy is but thanks for the sentiment.

No need to explain who he is either.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (RU4sa)

100 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (arJlL)

101 Where is the wise counsel of native Ukrainian Lt. Col. Bearclaw when you need it???

Posted by: SteveOReno, I proudly self-identify as a Moron at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (2sCft)

102 Broke: "Trump doesn't have the temperament to be president!"

Woke: "Biden is a bipedal mammal."

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (W3VUu)

103 >>85 i may be wrong, but didn't PDJT give impromptu pressers of over an hour at times. like heading to the chopper, or after some kind of announcement?

Yes. Regularly.

His SOTU speeches were epic.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (GYllL)

104 Biden gets bitchy when he sundowns.

Kamala gets bitchy because she is a hothouse flower and cant take any heat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (EZebt)

105 Come on...!
The elections are going to be tots legit...in every race where a dem wins.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (axyOa)

106 Only when the Russians don't play along and instead either a) take Kiev and install a puppet government, or b) simply carve off the eastern portion of the country

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:25 PM (wmDcS)

The longer the Russians stay in Ukraine proper, the more "false flag" attacks against Russians in Ukraine will occur. However, Putin will certainly raze Kiev from Belarus to send a message: Russians are not to be fucked with.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (1aBdX)

107 WH transcript
https://www.whitehouse.gov/

https://tinyurl.com/4vbyh9v9

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (2JoB8)

108 90 Well when we promise to defend their sovereignty in return for them giving up their nukes and we fuck them over...they ought to hate us. I hate us right now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Did we make that agreement through treaty? Or was this the administrative state doing foreign policy with little, if any, input from the people?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

109 A shit storm is coming.

I AM THE SHIT STORM!

Posted by: Q at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (ESjRY)

110 Holy crap. From the ABC placebo link comment section:

"This virus is MUCH more contagious than polio and is about as risky statistically."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (5q92e)

111 70 Not comment 3, Biden's aisle.
Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

Is that like the third rail? Or Base?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (dNqv+)

112 Will Biden challenge Trump to a stand off?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (awmcV)

113 >>>Leave Eastern Europe to the Eastern Europeans.

They hate use anyway for all of our foreign meddling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think Poland and Hungary like us, but I see your point. Lord knows western Europe hates us. At least Trump anyway.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (bkUtD)

114 In that red dress Psaki looks like a crayon.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (m45I2)

115 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)

116
g'early afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (DUIap)

117 Heh when the local FNM was praising the marathon conference I only heard 52 minues not 1 hr 52. And for sundown I figured 52 minutes was marathon. Regardless it is just creepy listening to most FNMs talk about Joe. Other than being in english it could be North Korean broadcasters.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (3cGpq)

118 He does these feats of stamina

Right, Rachel. He's a regular hoot come Festivus.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (RkC6l)

119 Do these nitwits like Maddow not realize how condescending they sound?
==
She has the job, because like her mentor Keith O, she is incapable of self reflection, shame, prudential judgment or shutting up. She is literally a rabid bag of emotionalism.

Posted by: Thank you for asking at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (wkoKN)

120 I am so confused.
Not Biden confused, just confused.

Posted by: mpfs, History never repeats itself. Man always does... Voltaire at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (JQGck)

121 Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of a small incursion.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (ZLI7S)

122 And I think there's ways in which we can be of some value added in terms of the price of gas -- natural gas and the like -- to take the burden off of European countries that are now totally dependent on Russia. But it's going to be hard. It's going to be very hard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (DU+/6)
---
Whatever you think is the bad part of that, President Biden didn't say that.

Posted by: Jenn Hacki at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (XHhHI)

123 Was some of Biden's Speech Word Salad?

What do you expect from a Veg-O-Matic?
Shakespeare?

Are you surprised F. Joe didn't recite "The Gettysburgh Zip Code?"

C'mom Man!

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (Z32m1)

124 112 Will Biden challenge Trump to a stand off?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (awmcV)

Jumped to the bottom of the comments without reading the content just to make a joke about how Biden is transitioning from push up contests to standing contests and this is the last comment I see. Bah.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (KbCG3)

125
The purpose of Eastern Europe is to get run over by someone bigger and stronger.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (/U27+)

126
Sean Davis forgot to mention how biden pressured Ukraine to fire prosecutors.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (3cHMA)

127 I'm not afraid of Vlad Putin. I could take him, no problem.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (VMY76)

128 I wonder if there's anything Kamala can do for 1 hour and 52 minutes without a break?

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (786Ro)

129 Do these nitwits like Maddow not realize how condescending they sound?
---
She hasn't so far.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (XHhHI)

130 i may be wrong, but didn't PDJT give impromptu pressers of over an hour at times. like heading to the chopper, or after some kind of announcement?
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (8D42x)
++++
Yes, constantly. And two hours would have been short for one of his daily COVID press conferences.

But the "Biden's presser was longer than any Trump presser" us almost certainly a technical dodge meaning, "no scheduled press conference by the Trump White House for general remarks exceeded the duration of the this Biden press conference." And that might be true, I don't know. But Trump ran marathons with the press, constantly, in all venues.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (DU+/6)

131 Trump asked local election people to throw away ballots? Gee, I somehow missed that.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (Ed8Zd)

132 Remember that CHAZ/CHOP zone in Seattle? There was that failed rapper named Raz Simone that was their warlord that somehow avoided charges for distributing guns to others, even though it was on film. Well, now there are five women who claim Simone trafficked them.

https://bit.ly/3FTE41G

Summer of Love, baby!

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (AhhdW)

133 Puff sleeves look good on no woman. Especially Raggedy Jen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (sVtYq)

134 Whatever you think is the bad part of that, President Biden didn't say that.
Posted by: Jenn Hacki at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (XHhHI)
++++
That's a copy-and-paste from the official transcript on whitehouse.gov. Be better, Discount Pippi Longstockings.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (DU+/6)

135 Did we make that agreement through treaty? Or was this the administrative state doing foreign policy with little, if any, input from the people?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

A 'memorandum', specifically the Budapest Momorandum on Security Assurances 1994.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (XvPQV)

136 Now everything's ruined........

- Faith No More

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

137 gah, can't spell, clearly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (XvPQV)

138 Joe Biden is, was and always will be pure shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (a5d7/)

139 How it started: I'll bring decorum and intelligence back to the White House

How its going: When I said the Russians could invade Ukraine I didn't mean they could invade Ukraine. Also, when I promised to defend them from Russia I meant that I actually wouldn't defend them from Russia, but I'd work on some really tough sanctions. Also, I did not shit in my pants, that was some one, probably Donald Trump

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (ESjRY)

140 No one may care about my views in retirement, but I for one am glad Ukraine is ready to fight Russia.

That battle will give America more time to send tanks and other armor to Germany, to protect us.

Posted by: Angela Merkle at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (VMY76)

141 So I guess eating lezbo pussy makes you stupid?

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (3saut)

142 Isn't Rachel Maddow's viewership numbers in the same shitter as Joy Reid's?

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (W3VUu)

143 Brandon's press conference intimidated Putin rather than emboldening him:

I might guess that Putin was amused.

So, I must have missed something in the coverage of all this, but has Putin actually given anyone a reason to believe he intends to invade Ukraine? Even a bullshitty excuse?

I just wonder if there's anything to any of this aside from DC's need for a narrative.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (kOpft)

144 I just realized what it is:

Watching this asshole trying to president, to the degree he is still a rational conscious actor, is like watching someone try to play Madden who doesn't actually know how the sport of football is played.

They've watched it, and rooted for it, and they own a jersey, but they don't really know anything about the game itself. They're just trying to hook up with the chicks at their buddies' house who do watch football.

Biden has been a detached grifting nonentity for his entire career. He is to presidenting what the drunk old lunatic at Applebee's ranting about how the quarterback sucks is to being an NFL champion.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (6FeV1)

145 Someone needs to show Maddow the closed-fisted beatdown punch-a-thon.

Sorry wingnuts. Everyone knows the "closed-fisted beatdown punch-a-thon" is merely a colloquial idiomatic way of saying politely change the channel when she appears on TV.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (/9mpK)

146 Remember that CHAZ/CHOP zone in Seattle? There was that failed rapper named Raz Simone that was their warlord that somehow avoided charges for distributing guns to others, even though it was on film. Well, now there are five women who claim Simone trafficked them.

https://bit.ly/3FTE41G

Summer of Love, baby!
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (AhhdW)

The love of a CHAZ isn't like the love of a square...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (XvPQV)

147 >>>John Hayward - They're on the verge of turning low poll numbers into national panic.

He's right. It craters American's confidence and security and itemboldens our geopolitical rivals. But this is the bed that they made for themselves, and I am LMAO that SCOAMF thought that this third term would somehow be any better for him than if he was the TOTUS.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (SH2Zi)

148 Biden Heroically Stood at the Podium for One Hour and Fifty Minutes
.......

the diaper being full within the first 30 minutes shows his dogged perseverance.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

149 I watched about 35 seconds of that NBC interview of Kumswala and had to stop. She has to blink every 2 seconds. Is there a fan blowing on her? She got DED?

There's an issue there and it's annoying as fuck.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (Zz0t1)

150 115 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)

You want:
https://tinyurl.com/ysud56mp

You'll get:
https://tinyurl.com/474v6bk6

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (dNqv+)

151 135 Did we make that agreement through treaty? Or was this the administrative state doing foreign policy with little, if any, input from the people?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

A 'memorandum', specifically the Budapest Momorandum on Security Assurances 1994.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:33 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Next time, get a treaty. Sorry. But when you make policy like this, it can be easily reversed later. Gotta take that into account. Treaties are shaky enough as it is.

I think it'll be a good thing if the world decides that it can't turn to America for defense all the time. It may be a hard lesson for them to learn, but they should learn it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

152 A "minor incursion" into Liechtenstein would indistinguishable from a "full invasion".

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (XHhHI)

153 I'm guessing that Kamala would appear to be smarter if she read the subject briefs which she apparently refuses to read.I don't understand why she doesn't do that unless it's just laziness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (0Cmrx)

154
re: the Placebo Effect bullshit

In the bodybuilding community, they have a thing called Bro-Science, in which muscleheads share their dubious medical and nutrition knowledge with each other.

We are now at the point of "Broscience" practiced and dispensed by Fake News.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (3cHMA)

155 putin shoots actual tigers. biden stands unaided for two hours. i mean, holy fuck, biden mos def

Posted by: nckate at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (z5Nun)

156 I'm not afraid of Vlad Putin. I could take him, no problem.

Well, I guess there is a tradition of Hobbits taking down dark lords. And I guess Reich could travel to Mount Doom with Oswald Patton and James Carville to complete the cast?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (ESjRY)

157
Nothing like freshly laundered money.

Posted by: DaveA at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (FhXTo)

158 Does anyone agree that THIS version of Joe Biden is probably safer to have around than the lucid one?

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (/9mpK)

159 That battle will give America more time to send tanks and other armor to Germany, to protect us.
Posted by: Angela Merkle at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (VMY76)
---------------

Shut up and sharpen some more sticks for your soldiers. If sticks are good enough to practice with, they're good enough to fight with.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (5pTK/)

160 We assess there is little danger to Germany and France from a Russian takeover of Ukraine. So ... green light!

Posted by: Central Intelligence Agency at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (VMY76)

161 Brandon's press conference intimidated Putin rather than emboldening him:

I might guess that Putin was amused.

==

He's probably still incapacitated from laughing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (sVtYq)

162 If you deducted the time Slow Joe spent grasping for words, staring into space, looking at his hands, and squinting at the ceiling, the presser was about 28 minutes long.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (Ed8Zd)

163 Posted by: Shooter McGavin at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (3saut)

Aetius451AD, case in point.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (Ez6QX)

164 I can't wait for Medea whatshername and Code Pink:Women For Peace to get all fired up again.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (GYllL)

165 >>>Well, now there are five women who claim Simone trafficked them.

Everyone knows that trafficking is just a physical metaphor for public rebuke.

Posted by: Simone at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (SH2Zi)

166
You want:
https://tinyurl.com/ysud56mp

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (dNqv+)

Don't mind if I do......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

167 Standing for two hours is a pretty low bar. That's the Democrats new test of stamina?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (VpIIl)

168 The love of a CHAZ isn't like the love of a square...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (XvPQV)

Remember SpokesTits? Wonder what happened to her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (dNqv+)

169 Doesn't Messnbc have even lower ratings than the Commie news network?

Posted by: Behind the Green Peanut M&M at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (vrz2I)

170 Sounds like Rachel's girding her own loins for a man for the first time in her life.

---------

Out: The Transformation of Water into Wine.
In: The Transformation of Maddow from into Woman.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (OoffT)

171 I'm not afraid of Vlad Putin. I could take him, no problem.

Well, I guess there is a tradition of Hobbits taking down dark lords. And I guess Reich could travel to Mount Doom with Oswald Patton and James Carville to complete the cast?
Posted by: 18-1
==
So Carville goes into the volcano? Yeah, I'd Prolly watch that.

Posted by: Mary Maitlan at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (8DHGa)

172 I wish that "reporter" had asked Kamala knees Harris to name exactly which prime ministers and heads of foreign countries have questioned her about America's voting laws.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (Ed8Zd)

173 So, I must have missed something in the coverage of all this, but has Putin actually given anyone a reason to believe he intends to invade Ukraine? Even a bullshitty excuse?

I just wonder if there's anything to any of this aside from DC's need for a narrative.
Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (kOpft)

There isn't much coverage in the US about it, of course. Check out J E Dyer's blog and CDR Salamander's comments on his blog

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (XvPQV)

174 Leave Eastern Europe to the Eastern Europeans.

They hate use anyway for all of our foreign meddling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

Read Bloodlands. Germany and Russia did their best to Destroy Eastern Europe from 1917 to 1989.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (Z32m1)

175 Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of a small incursion.
Posted by: JackStraw

Look it's just not enough to be a smartass anymore.
We expect more for our entertainment NFT.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=HGwQqxDWE2M

Posted by: DaveA at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (FhXTo)

176 Standing for two hours is a pretty low bar. That's the Democrats new test of stamina?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (VpIIl)

I stood for two hours yesterday but no one could tell.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (/9mpK)

177 I thought MadCow was "retiring." I also thought Psaki was going to bag it at the end of last year... is it this year?

Whatever, don't give a shit about either of 'em.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (BFigT)

178 The only reason Russia hasn't invaded Ukraine yet is that they don't really know who's in charge over here.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (v0R5T)

179 It is what I said here at the HQ last night when it was over.

It was staged to show he can stand through a two-hour standup routine, this, not for its content, but simply for its video. Turn off the audio. Just watch him stand there and blab.

It was to show the doubters that he ain't doddering. And to fire up his hard base that he's tough.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 20, 2022 04:37 PM (KiBMU)

180 You'll get:
https://tinyurl.com/474v6bk6
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (dNqv+)

I wouldn't call her fuckable, but I could see it if the alternative was castration.

Now Madeline Albright- go ahead and kill me instead.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (Eqkqm)

181 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)

You'll get:
https://tinyurl.com/474v6bk6
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (dNqv+)

I'm hoping for this.
https://youtu.be/vfhBX8hxCIU

Are you a big-tittied bellydancer based in Kiev? Are you worried about ending up the war bride to some vodka-soaked Russian sergeant? Want the chance to come to the land of opportunity? Then the Ukrainian Bellydancer Rescue is here for you. Call UBR today!

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (wmDcS)

182 I can't wait for Medea whatshername and Code Pink:Women For Peace to get all fired up again.

Remember when Obama got elected and the left collectively gave Cindy Sheehan a backhand?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (ESjRY)

183 Ukraine "invested in" F**ked in the cranium, FJB.

Fukranians can piss up a rope. You bought the ticket. Enjoy the ride.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (WmGrA)

184 Madcow - Brandon's back stronk like bull, brain smart like chicken!

Posted by: Old Blue at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (VNmG1)

185
Rachel Maddow and Mayor Pete show you how much brain power it takes to be a Rhodes Scholar.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Which one of them bas breast fed a human infant?

Ha! Trick question! Neither one!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (pNxlR)

186
Rachel Maddow Claims That Biden Heroically Stood at the Podium for One Hour and Fifty Minutes to... Send a Powerful Signal to Vladimir Putin That He Was Strong And Had Stamina for the Long War Ahead

----

Crusty old delusional lesbian says what?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (BK2mM)

187 Next test of stamina for Brandon. Going three hours without taking a piss.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (VpIIl)

188 >>>He's right. It craters American's confidence and security and itemboldens our geopolitical rivals. But this is the bed that they made for themselves, and I am LMAO that SCOAMF thought that this third term would somehow be any better for him than if he was the TOTUS.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner

Considering this White House and our work military, does anyone not think we're ripe for an outside invasion>

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (VWp7G)

189 "She's lifting from Kramer."

We'd be infinitely better off under a Costanza/Kramer administration.

Posted by: Bitter Truth at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (JCZqz)

190 163 Posted by: Shooter McGavin at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (3saut)

Aetius451AD, case in point.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (Ez6QX)

Ouch. *rubs arm* Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (dNqv+)

191 Why don't we trade putin, nyc for the Ukraine?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (Irn0L)

192
So what's it gonna be, this Summer?

More fake race riots?
A retiring Justice?
A new pointless war?
A new fake variant?
Lies about jobs being "saved" by the fake infrastructure bill?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (3cHMA)

193 Out: At least 45 years of age and a natural born citizen.
In: Can stand for 90 minutes.

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (9zcxd)

194 Biden is Izzy Mandelbaum to Putin's Jerry

Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (786Ro)

195 > This virus is MUCH more contagious than polio and is about as risky statistically.

The fuck? Most Americans have never met someone with Polio, so they can say stoopid things like this.

Polio is awful. I met a guy in Canada who had Polio. Not only was one leg several inches shorter than the other, he was a broken man.

He couldn't read more than a few sentences at a time because he would get massive headaches. That happened because his skull was malformed and focusing his eyes was a great strain on him.

He had a child's ribcage with adult sized organs.

He was hopelessly addicted to opioids because he was in constant pain.

Polio is absolutely NOTHING like Covid.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (AhhdW)

196 191 Why don't we trade putin, nyc for the Ukraine?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (Irn0L)

And And And we can throw in NJ

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM (Irn0L)

197 So Carville goes into the volcano? Yeah, I'd Prolly watch that.

Why not all 3?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM (ESjRY)

198
I might guess that Putin was amused.

==

He's probably still incapacitated from laughing.
==
he's preparing for his meeting with Xi, in which they carve up the world and set new boundaries.

Posted by: Change my mind at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM (QCZTg)

199 I had a bad feeling when Publius hadn't heard from redc1c4 for some time. Who relayed the news?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM (Mzdiz)

200
He does these feats of stamina showing how long that he can continue to go taking these questions. So that was part of it," Maddow said.

------

Perverted communist deviant sell-out mutant says what?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM (BK2mM)

201 But the "Biden's presser was longer than any Trump presser" us almost certainly a technical dodge meaning, "no scheduled press conference by the Trump White House for general remarks exceeded the duration of the this Biden press conference." And that might be true, I don't know. But Trump ran marathons with the press, constantly, in all venues.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM

They wanted to counter Trump's AZ rally. They failed.

Posted by: Bert G at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM (OKNkY)

202 I might guess that Putin was amused.

==

He's probably still incapacitated from laughing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (sVtYq)

Posted by: Putin at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (SH2Zi)

203 So Carville goes into the volcano? Yeah, I'd Prolly watch that.

Why not all 3?
==
Spoiler, gollum goes in. Just gollum.

Posted by: Not Joe Bob Briggs but . . . at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (FOSUO)

204 I would love for an interviewer to hand Kamala an unmarked map of Europe and ask her to identify Ukraine on the map.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (W3VUu)

205 Out: Great Game politics
In: Retarded Game politics

Posted by: Minuteman at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (LaNzR)

206 Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (ufFY8)

207
This virus is MUCH more contagious than polio and is about as risky statistically.

________

Big Iron Lung plots its comeback.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (/U27+)

208 The Biden Doctrine:

Just the tip.

Posted by: underpants at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (/Mn6w)

209 You're the Soothsayer Soothsayer you tell us. I predict all of the above.

Posted by: Behind the Green Sausage at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (vrz2I)

210 I might guess that Putin was amused.

==

He's probably still incapacitated from laughing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:36 PM (sVtYq)

Fear not, Americans. I merely mean to publicly rebuke Ukraine.

Posted by: Putin at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (SH2Zi)

211 Yeah, I'm all out of F's to give about Ukraine. I don't like this corrupt country meddling in our elections on the Democrats' side as if we're some backwater third-world shithole.

We are that, of course, thanks to Obama and the left, but I don't like this pissant country taking advantage of our temporary embarrassment.

Posted by: Ace

I'm sure every where that develops nukes (or has them placed in their country) will feel complete trust in the USA and give them up after President full-pants stood in a dirty diaper for 2 hours and threw Ukraine to Russia.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (CCwsu)

212 Are you a big-tittied bellydancer based in Kiev? Are you worried about ending up the war bride to some vodka-soaked Russian sergeant? Want the chance to come to the land of opportunity? Then the Ukrainian Bellydancer Rescue is here for you. Call UBR today!

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (wmDcS)

Dear Lord, I hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Thankfully: mute button.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:40 PM (dNqv+)

213 he's preparing for his meeting with Xi, in which they carve up the world and set new boundaries.

NO NO Chairman Xi YOU have to take San Francisco - I already agreed to take all those freaks in the Netherlands with their wooden shoes.

Posted by: Vlad Putin, tough negotiator at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (ESjRY)

214 I'm guessing that Kamala would appear to be smarter if she read the subject briefs which she apparently refuses to read.I don't understand why she doesn't do that unless it's just laziness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (0Cmrx)

She's lazy and she's dumb. And she's mean when cornered.

Trifecta.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (Ed8Zd)

215 Which one of them bas breast fed a human infant?

Ha! Trick question! Neither one!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (pNxlR)
==============
But, really, we know which one tried to do so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (VMY76)

216
I predict all of the above.
Posted by: Behind the Green Sausage

Me too.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (3cHMA)

217 Who knew kids standing in line for 6 hours to get the new Air Jordans are more qualified to be President than Mr. 97 Minutes Logged Under Friendly Media Banter?

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (9zcxd)

218 Polio is absolutely NOTHING like Covid.
Posted by: bonhomme

I have had both and can confirm that.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (WmGrA)

219 Next test of stamina for Brandon. Going three hours without taking a piss.
Posted by: Marcus T
==
Ha ha. Of course there is literally no way he appeared in public not wearing depends.

Well played.

Posted by: Of course, right? at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (wkoKN)

220 Didn't Biden and Putin have a talk not too long ago? Methinks the time to be tough was then. Putin seems oddly empowered since that conversation.

But, I mean, a meandering two-hour press conference is essentially the same thing as directly telling someone to knock it off or else.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (KbCG3)

221
Standing for two hours is a pretty low bar. That's the Democrats new test of stamina?
Posted by: Marcus T

You failed to note Lt. Colonel Bearclaw's routinely performed burpee sets cracked off in groups of one hundred at a time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (pNxlR)

222
Next time, get a treaty. Sorry. But when you make policy like this, it can be easily reversed later. Gotta take that into account. Treaties are shaky enough as it is."

speaking of that - looked how we got roped into the Paris accords.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (trdmm)

223 >>Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)

Just have them check the tire irons and Makarov's at the door and you'll be fine.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (GYllL)

224 So Carville goes into the volcano? Yeah, I'd Prolly watch that.

So wait...do I get an extra breakfast out of all this, because if so I'm totally down with throwing that other guy in the volcano

Posted by: Patton Oswald at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (ESjRY)

225 "Yeah, I'm all out of F's to give about Ukraine. "

Welcome to the dark side Ace. I'm all out of fucks to give about any country not called the USA. I'm done being the world's policeman.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (OalnH)

226 There's a homeless guy I can see from my window at work. He literally stands there mumbling all day.

I'm guessing he has the same stamina as Brandon. Same drugs, too.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (VpIIl)

227 US Army Guerrilla Warfare Exercise To Target "Freedom Fighters" (ZH)

"They could tell these soldiers they're battling the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, North Koreans or other foreign enemies but instead they have them training to kill 'freedom fighters' with 'Liberty' flags," writes Menahan.

https://tinyurl.com/2bvp5zk7

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (Wg1SU)

228 If everyone who stands for 2 hours is a hero, then everyone that's ever been at a DMV on a Saturday is a hero.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:43 PM (OalnH)

229
_________

Oh, wow, man. That's, like, deep.

*takes another bong hit*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (/U27+)

even Ogre thinks this is utter dogshit and vapid rumblings of a grade a moron, and not the good kind of moron.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 04:43 PM (8D42x)

230 I'm guessing that Kamala would appear to be smarter if she read the subject briefs which she apparently refuses to read.I don't understand why she doesn't do that unless it's just laziness.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 04:35 PM (0Cmrx)

She's lazy and she's dumb. And she's mean when cornered.

Trifecta.
==
I'm gonna blow your minds. I think she was reading that goobly gook off a prompter. Watch her eyes very closely. And at one point she looks off camera very quickly. she was being fed what to say.

Posted by: they aren't letting her freestyle at January 20, 2022 04:43 PM (9xyjo)

231 Welcome to the dark side Ace. I'm all out of fucks to give about any country not called the USA. I'm done being the world's policeman.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (OalnH)

I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (dNqv+)

232 I'm done being the world's policeman.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (OalnH)

Amen.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (Mzdiz)

233 Channeling Denis Hopper- The 20s are gonna make the 70s look like the 50s.

Posted by: Dogbert at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (Z9HSN)

234 Can we rescue Olga Kurylenko before the Ruskies invade?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (LQjWA)

235 226 There's a homeless guy I can see from my window at work. He literally stands there mumbling all day.

___

Heh. I wonder if we work in the same building. There's a guy out front that shows up around 11 and screams about Jesus saving you for 2-3 hours. Then leaves. Not sure if he's homeless but he's batshit crazy, that's for sure.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (OalnH)

236 "You failed to note Lt. Colonel Bearclaw's routinely performed burpee sets cracked off in groups of one hundred at a time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM (pNxlR) "

That fat bag of shit couldn't even pass the AFT. That's pathetic.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (VpIIl)

237 "merely standing and talking for almost two hours, you know, like you do at any cocktail party"

Back when I was a cocktail party maven, I would employ a variety of postures and positions, but standing was rarely among them.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (qpX6U)

238 198
he's preparing for his meeting with Xi, in which they carve up the world and set new boundaries.
Posted by: Change my mind at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM

If Putin invades Ukraine and China simultaneously invades Taiwan, what does the US do? Two front war? Massive trade disruption from China, while Europe freezes from Russia cutting off gas supplies?

Posted by: Bitter Truth at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (JCZqz)

239 And at one point she looks off camera very quickly. she was being fed what to say.

[Cackles]

You know having words put in my mouth are much better then the other things people have been putting there.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (ESjRY)

240 Considering this White House and our work military, does anyone not think we're ripe for an outside invasion>

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (VWp7G)

Like across the southern border? Realistically, there is more to gain with less risk in other theaters than INCONUS.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (SH2Zi)

241
All the Shithole Countries had a true friend in the White House -- Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, etc.

And none of them stood by President Trump when he needed them.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (3cHMA)

242 The only good thing to come out of China:

https://youtu.be/LaJFyRWDG5Y

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

243 237 "merely standing and talking for almost two hours, you know, like you do at any cocktail party"

Back when I was a cocktail party maven, I would employ a variety of postures and positions, but standing was rarely among them.
Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (qpX6U)

*blink*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (dNqv+)

244 Volcano might spit Carville out. Have to toss a couple of virjns in there to distract it.

Posted by: Behind the Iron Sausage at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (vrz2I)

245 I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (dNqv+)

How many American lives are you willing to sacrifice? Under this president?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)

246 I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (dNqv+)
================
Michael Anton wrote a sad little essay saying it doesn't matter, because China's military can kick our ass.

His view, not mine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (VMY76)

247 I would say, the US has an obligation to protect Ukraine from the treaty we were part of to have Ukraine give up its nukes.

I'm afraid though that US credibility is repeated flushed down the toilet by Democrats every single time when the US is called upon. (see Vietnam 1975, etc.). Any country that enters into a treaty with the US better have it's eyes wide open.

Perhaps that's what Ukraine was trying to buy loyalty from the Dems and Biden, but I guess this only adds to the betrayal. Biden seems ok with Putin taking a bigger bite out of Ukraine. Putin probably doesn't want the whole thing, it would be more than weak and poor Russia could handle anyways. He'll just take a piece at a time whenever a Dem is president (Obama, Biden)

Sorry Ukraine, the horse has left the barn and galloped off a cliff. May God have mercy on you and on us all.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (fs1hN)

248 If you really want to see Brandon crack, have a reporter ask a tough question and when he starts to raise his voice say "Don't raise your voice to me, Mr. President. I'm not one of your fucked up kids, you old drunk."

He'd stammer for 5 minutes after yelling for the secret service before stroking out.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (7F9te)

249
It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day.

No matter where you're going, there you are!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (pNxlR)

250 The only good thing to come out of China:

https://youtu.be/LaJFyRWDG5Y
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

That was not Gong Li

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (XvPQV)

251 yeah, to be honest, since America is a force of evil now...maybe the Ukes will be better off under Putin.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (ZZK0E)

252 "They could tell these soldiers they're battling the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, North Koreans or other foreign enemies but instead they have them training to kill 'freedom fighters' with 'Liberty' flags," writes Menahan.

https://tinyurl.com/2bvp5zk7
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at January 20, 2022 04:42 PM (Wg1SU)

*sigh*

Robin Sage has been going on for decades. Nothing in this is new. And the military doesn't use real world opponents in their scenarios for practical as well as political reasons.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (wmDcS)

253 >>>I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Agreed, but no one in this administration would go for it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (VWp7G)

254 I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (dNqv+)

__

Ok then let Taiwan pay for it. You want our protection? Cool. $100B a year. Same with Japan, S. Korea, and every other country that decided they didn't need a military because Sugar Daddy America would take care of it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (OalnH)

255 John Kerry may have 3 Purple Hearts but he never stood for 97 minutes behind a lectern!

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (9zcxd)

256 and, you know, since the Ukes fucked with Trump and made Vindeman a liberal folk hero (guest spot on Larry David show)...double fuck 'em.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (ZZK0E)

257 Next test of stamina for Brandon. Going three hours without taking a piss.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (VpIIl)
.......

I'm guessing the catheter drains directly into the diaper.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (v0R5T)

258 Somebody should tell Hacki-Psacki that a woman with her hair color has no business wearing a dress that shade of red.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (dfRN6)

259 217 Who knew kids standing in line for 6 hours to get the new Air Jordans are more qualified to be President than Mr. 97 Minutes Logged Under Friendly Media Banter?
Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 04:41 PM

Hillary! was our most successful Secretary of State ever because she racked up so many frequent flier miles!

Posted by: Bitter Truth at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (JCZqz)

260 My hour has come round at last!!!!

HISSSSSSS

I'M FAT, FETID AND FAMILIAR!!!

YOU WANT ME

YOU NEED ME
Posted by: CHTILLARY at January 20, 2022

***
*Applause*

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (txdEq)

261 >>>Well, now there are five women who claim Simone trafficked them.

The complaint from a woman with the "stage name" "Pearl".

Posted by: mikethemoose at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (T/vhV)

262 Zippy the Fucking Pinhead is more qualified to run this country than anyone in this retarded monkey administration.

Stupid fucks.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (qIMsq)

263
That was not Gong Li
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:46 PM (XvPQV)

*DDG search*

Huh....I stand corrected. One of a couple things, then.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

264 he's preparing for his meeting with Xi, in which they carve up the world and set new boundaries.
Posted by: Change my mind at January 20, 2022 04:39 PM

If Putin invades Ukraine and China simultaneously invades Taiwan, what does the US do? Two front war? Massive trade disruption from China, while Europe freezes from Russia cutting off gas supplies?
==
effectively nothing. They only thing that might delay this is the Chinese Olympics, but they may wait until they can hold our athletes hostage. Putin is getting collateral from Xi for the russian athletes before he sends them. Watch and lern.

Posted by: Hillbilly Strategos at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (st1eJ)

265 Considering this White House and our work military, does anyone not think we're ripe for an outside invasion>

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (VWp7G)

No one has the capability. The trend over the past fifty years has been small, more professionally trained forces rather than massive armies. If anyone wanted to invade, they'd need years to build up the manpower, as well as logistic capabilities.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (wmDcS)

266 fucking fash Branch Covidians...no booze stores for unvaxxed in Canada?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (ZZK0E)

267 I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (dNqv+)

Unlke Ukraine, Taiwan is an advanced country that isn't run by evil pedophiles or total retards. That said, if they didn't get nuclear knowledge from Donald Trump I am out of fucks to give. No one can care more about a country than the people who actually live in it.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (Eqkqm)

268 Hillary! was our most successful Secretary of State ever because she racked up so many frequent flier miles!

And I faced down the Russians too. The White Russians.

Hic.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (ESjRY)

269 And RIP to redc1c4....jeez, this year

******

What?????

Posted by: Sassy at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (xSICi)

270 "His view, not mine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (VMY76) "

LOL. Their J 10's would be dropping from the skies like dead flies. Their J 20 is a piece of shit. Wee would be Harpooning every boat that tried to cross the straight. In a total war situation, it wouldn't even be fair.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:48 PM (VpIIl)

271
You know having words put in my mouth are much better then the other things people have been putting there.
Posted by: Kamala Harris

Doesn't matter -- you spit out either one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:48 PM (pNxlR)

272 Do you guys seriously want to go to war over Ukraine or Taiwan? Cuz I sure as fuck don't.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:48 PM (OalnH)

273 If Putin invades Ukraine and China simultaneously invades Taiwan, what does the US do? Two front war? Massive trade disruption from China, while Europe freezes from Russia cutting off gas supplies?

Posted by: Bitter Truth at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (JCZqz)

If? I think it is a near certainty at this point. Middle of election cycle, stuck with braindead and a cocksucking dimwit, woke military. The really bad part of it is that I wouldn't put it past the American left to secretly push for it and a half-hearted military engagement if only to seize war powers. Outside invasion worries? Why? We are our own worst enemy.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:48 PM (SH2Zi)

274 from the last thread, who was the lutz dunce who said Biden was calm. Come on, man, he's the guy who wrote the thing giving more money than anyone ever gave, you know...the people.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (ZZK0E)

275 But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed

Posted by: Kamala Psaki at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (63Dwl)

276 How many American lives are you willing to sacrifice? Under this president?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)

I know the argument Miley. I know the reasons. Doesn't change what I think is right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (dNqv+)

277
How many American lives are you willing to sacrifice? Under this president?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)

I'd say that if they nuked most of the major West Coast cities it'd be a high price, but I'd be willing to pay it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (trdmm)

278
The complaint from a woman with the "stage name" "Pearl".
Posted by: mikethemoose at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM (T/vhV)

He gave her a necklace.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

279
Notice the Democrats aren't spending a single minute "fighting" to delete Student Loan debt.

Odd, eh?

It's almost as if they want to run on Student Loan Debt in perpetuity.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (3cHMA)

280 "I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense."

Worthy of defense? Could be.
Defensible? Probably not.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (qpX6U)

281 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.
Posted by: Insomniac

Just have them check the tire irons and Makarov's at the door and you'll be fine.
Posted by: Capital Eff

And make sure you don't close both eyes after you fall asleep. Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (mD/uy)

282 Can we rescue Olga Kurylenko before the Ruskies invade?
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (LQjWA)
........

Dibs!

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (v0R5T)

283 Wee would be Harpooning every boat that tried to cross the straight. In a total war situation, it wouldn't even be fair.

Lt Smith, why are we not firing our missiles?

Sorry Captain, but no way am I talking with that bitch Lisa in the CiC. She cheated with my boyfriend. I know it!

/Chinese missiles hit

Posted by: Scene from a future warzone at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (ESjRY)

284 We will see next year how long his annual press conference is.

Posted by: bang_a_gong at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (g71+Y)

285 It's almost as if they want to run on Student Loan Debt in perpetuity.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (3cHMA)

___

I know right?

Posted by: Republicans who will never ban abortion but will run on it forever at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (OalnH)

286 If FDR had stood for 110 minutes, maybe we never would have been attacked by the Japanese.
Ever think of that, wise guys?

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (FJYfm)

287 I dunno. I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (dNqv+)

How many American lives are you willing to sacrifice? Under this president?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at January 20, 2022 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)
================
We don't operate in a vacuum. The Pacific is a powder keg, and Japan says they'll probably go to war to protect Taiwan. That will pull in the Aussies, and many other countries. India is already practically fighting China, and Vietnam is too. The Philippines tries to lay low but they'd quickly get invaded I'm sure, because of their value as a staging area.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (VMY76)

288 Mr Gorbachev, tear down this... you know.... the the barrier... the thing!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (hvxWS)

289 Transportation Pete and his ghey husband are still working on the breastfeeding, but given the lack of weight gain lately, Pete's doctor is going to start him on supplemental formula.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (m45I2)

290 If it means stopping a real shooting war between two medium to big sized countries with modern weapons, you would have thought a real man, a real president, could have lasted at least a full two hours.

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (dYe5S)

291 "Do you guys seriously want to go to war over Ukraine or Taiwan? Cuz I sure as fuck don't.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:48 PM (OalnH)"

Me neither.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (qpX6U)

292 Returning to Rachel Maddow's insensate claim that Brandon's press conference intimidated Putin
-------------

She must be on drugs. I bet Putin almost wet himself laughing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (YqDXo)

293 >>Do you guys seriously want to go to war over Ukraine or Taiwan? Cuz I sure as fuck don't.

Unfair question. I don't know anyone who wants to go to war for any reason. But sometimes we have to.

The question is does the takeover of Ukraine or Taiwan but our enemies warrant our getting involved?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (ZLI7S)

294 There is no formal, or informal treaty, agreement, handshake, etc. between the US and the Ukraine that implies we'll "protect them."

Period.

The only formal thing going on between the US and the Ukraine are the interest payments to "The Big Guy."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (BFigT)

295 Biden as President is a clear and present danger to world peace.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (VMY76)

296 "John Hayward
@Doc_0
Biden's handlers do not understand the psychological impact of dispatching his flacks to insist the senile old man didn't say any of the things he clearly said in his dumpster fire press conference. They're on the verge of turning low poll numbers into national panic."

Heading for single digits, baby! Joey Blutarsky. 0 point 0.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (uvufr)

297 "Remember when I said the only thing the left could find to praise in Biden's press conference was its duration? (Which wasn't even all that long?)"

OK. I decided to try and find out whether Biden's press conference really was the longest in presidential history. I'm having trouble finding a database that has this information. The closest I'm getting is this

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

The American Presidency Project at UCSB. They don't time them, but they have a lot of useful info. Where is the MSM getting this stat from?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (mdjgu)

298 110 Holy crap. From the ABC placebo link comment section:

"This virus is MUCH more contagious than polio and is about as risky statistically."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (5q92e)

It's not just wrong, it's obscenely, disgustingly, insultingly, offensively wrong. Fuck these people.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (II3Gr)

299 Letting Russia get away with taking Crimea was a huge tactical mistake. The Euro Trash were the first to fold on that because it wasn't that close. All it did was encourage actions such as what we are seeing in Ukraine.

I have no particular love for Ukraine. But to let Russia invade or use UC means to take the country over is a mistake we would regret. There has to be a price for such action because it eventually leads to a conflict we will care about. But don't take my word for it, look at history. The Russians will keep pushing until there is a price to pay.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (VpIIl)

300 Notice the Democrats aren't spending a single minute "fighting" to delete Student Loan debt.

Odd, eh?

It's almost as if they want to run on Student Loan Debt in perpetuity.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (3cHMA)

Solid strategy. It's what we do on immigration. And abortion. And health care. And...

Posted by: GOPe at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (FJYfm)

301 "This virus is MUCH more contagious than polio and is about as risky statistically."

The fuck? Most Americans have never met someone with Polio, so they can say stoopid things like this.

Polio is awful. I met a guy in Canada who had Polio. Not only was one leg several inches shorter than the other, he was a broken man. ... Polio is absolutely NOTHING like Covid.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:38 PM (AhhdW)

My mentor in utility commercial support had polio. He was tiny, and had to use two canes to walk. He was always upbeat, even if he was in pain.

The entire department was going to Brunch and celebrate one Sunday, and his leg just spontaneously fractured. He didn't fall before hand, it just freaking broke. That is polio, and Thank God for Drs Salk and Sabin. He was a good man.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (Z32m1)

302
"Yeah, I'm all out of F's to give about Ukraine. "

The only 'out' I'll give them is handing over the dirt on Joe and his crime family on a silver platter. Barring that, they can eat shit.

Joe and family shook them down for millions with '1 weird trick' you have to see to believe. Let's see it.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (dQvv7)

303 We don't operate in a vacuum. The Pacific is a powder keg, and Japan says they'll probably go to war to protect Taiwan. That will pull in the Aussies, and many other countries. India is already practically fighting China, and Vietnam is too. The Philippines tries to lay low but they'd quickly get invaded I'm sure, because of their value as a staging area.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 04:50 PM (VMY76)

__

Even if all that happens....SO FUCKING WHAT?
Let them fight each other. No more World's policeman.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (OalnH)

304 Considering this White House and our woke military, does anyone not think we're ripe for an outside invasion
---
Why?
Name one thing the world's dictators are not getting for free from Biden right now?

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (9zcxd)

305 272 I hear you, just remember that outside China, Taiwan does the remaining bulk of chip production. We need to get back to do doing more chip fab here, but who knows if and when that happens.

Posted by: Dogbert at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (Z9HSN)

306 The man who rides brown bears topless while battling sabertooth tigers with lasers, is intimidated by an old man who managed to grip a podium for 2 hours and not visibly soil himself.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (hvxWS)

307
...and obamacare

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (3cHMA)

308 That will pull in the Aussies, and many other countries"

Australia will send in their Shrieking Karen Brigade, guaranteed to instill terror in all who have to hear them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (trdmm)

309 It's almost as if they want to run on Student Loan Debt in perpetuity.
==
Hey its not like we defunded NPR or repealed O care. What is it you think we do here?

Posted by: GOPe - uniparty at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (st1eJ)

310 Taiwan will fall without a shot fired. The same incompetence that has run the United States is even worse among Taiwanese leadership.

Posted by: Slapweasel at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (Ckg4U)

311 264
effectively nothing. They only thing that might delay this is the Chinese Olympics, but they may wait until they can hold our athletes hostage. Putin is getting collateral from Xi for the russian athletes before he sends them. Watch and lern.
Posted by: Hillbilly Strategos at January 20, 2022 04:47 PM

If this happens, and Biden blinks and does nothing, I want to see some old-timey style political cartoons with a Russian Bear and Chinese panda spit-roasting and Uncle Sam with Biden's face.

Posted by: Bitter Truth at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (JCZqz)

312 242 The only good thing to come out of China:

https://youtu.be/LaJFyRWDG5Y
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:44 PM (Zz0t1)

That's pretty cool. The hook with the baritone sax is infectious.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (II3Gr)

313 The Russians will keep pushing until there is a price to pay.

I'm more worried about the 3,000 despots I have one mile away, then the bear riding one 3,000 miles away (well, ok 5,000 miles away)

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (ESjRY)

314 It's not just wrong, it's obscenely, disgustingly, insultingly, offensively wrong. Fuck these people.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (II3Gr)

Agreed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (dNqv+)

315 Remember, where ever you go, there you are.

-- Dr. Buckaroo Bonzai

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (SXSmD)

316 The question is does the takeover of Ukraine or Taiwan but our enemies warrant our getting involved?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (ZLI7S)

__

Not just no. But hell no.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (OalnH)

317 Nobody wants to invade the US. Too many illegals.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (hvxWS)

318 Did the Ukraine give millions to Biden as a condition of receiving US foreign aid? Or was it their money before we, the US taxpayers, gave it to them?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (jTmQV)

319
That's pretty cool. The hook with the baritone sax is infectious.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (II3Gr)

Right?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)

320 >>>Any details about what happened to redc1c4 would be appreciated.

We were just talking with the man the other day, it feels like...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (XvPQV)

======

I asked last night, but didn't see a response. Does anyone have any information on Brother Northernlurker? Last comment I could find was from Dec. 11, 2021 in the Pet Thread. But it was a rudimentary search, so maybe he's been here more recently?

Posted by: Turn Two at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (CoAjq)

321 Taiwan will fall without a shot fired. The same incompetence that has run the United States is even worse among Taiwanese leadership.
Posted by: Slapweasel at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (Ckg4U)

A: good to see you, man
B: you're scaring me, if that's so

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

322
I'll add S Korea to the list of shithole "democracies" I give no shits about.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (3cHMA)

323 LOL. Their J 10's would be dropping from the skies like dead flies. Their J 20 is a piece of shit. Wee would be Harpooning every boat that tried to cross the straight. In a total war situation, it wouldn't even be fair.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:48 PM (VpIIl)

Unfair all right- to America. Entering a war of industrial production with the people our CEOs of Merit outsourced industrial production to would be iffy in the best of times. Considering how much influence the CCP has over most of Congress, never mind the millions of Chinese throughout the country, you would need one fuck of a plan to win.

Donald Trump might have pulled it off, but no one else.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (Eqkqm)

324 Lot's of CHICOM trolls and supporters in here today, I see.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:54 PM (VpIIl)

325 "The question is does the takeover of Ukraine or Taiwan [by] our enemies warrant our getting involved?"

Another question is: what are the prospects for 'success' in either venture? I'd say they are low.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 04:54 PM (qpX6U)

326 Clown worl.. USA gets more and more makeup everyday.

THis unfucking believable.

FUCK JOE BIDEN AND THE WAR HE IS BRINGING

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 04:54 PM (iDcra)

327 Taiwan will fall without a shot fired. The same incompetence that has run the United States is even worse among Taiwanese leadership.
Posted by: Slapweasel at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (Ckg4U)

China already stole the elections there and have a Red friendly regime in place.

They're fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

328 305 272 I hear you, just remember that outside China, Taiwan does the remaining bulk of chip production. We need to get back to do doing more chip fab here, but who knows if and when that happens.
Posted by: Dogbert at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (Z9HSN)

This as well. I saw something where Intel or one of the chip manufacturers was opening a new plant in... New Mexico? Arizona? I DID NOT see anything about rare earth mines though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:54 PM (dNqv+)

329 Reasons we won't do jack shit for Taiwan:

The Democrats were put into power by China
The media is controlled by China
Everything we buy is made by China
We're broke
We don't have the stomach for the loss of life
We don't give a shit about freedom vs communism
The only war games we are practicing are against Americans

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 04:54 PM (7F9te)

330 >>Even if all that happens....SO FUCKING WHAT?
Let them fight each other. No more World's policeman.

Then you have to accept the consequences of China taking over the South China Sea, one of the most strategic bodies of water for both military and commercial needs.

Something like 40% of all world trade transits the waterway. If you think we have supply chain issue now quadruple them if China plays master blaster there.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (ZLI7S)

331 Notice the Democrats aren't spending a single minute "fighting" to delete Student Loan debt.

Odd, eh?
It's almost as if they want to run on Student Loan Debt in perpetuity.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:49 PM (3cHMA)

Solid strategy. It's what we do on immigration. And abortion. And health care. And...
Posted by: GOPe at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (FJYfm)

Damn that Donald Trump for abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax! That grift was worth millions of dollars in donations every year!

Posted by: Grifting GOPe Congress Critters. at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (Z32m1)

332 How many nukes from Iran would FJB consider a minor incursion? Would he provide a list of cities he would find acceptable to obliterate? Jerusalem is a hard no but Tel Aviv? We can talk about it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (hvxWS)

333
Does anyone have any information on Brother Northernlurker?
Posted by: Turn Two

He's around, and fine.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (3cHMA)

334 Nobody wants to invade the US. Too many illegals.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (hvxWS)

If we invade, we could get our people back. But maybe then they'd just go somewhere else.

Posted by: Mexico at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (FJYfm)

335 Even if all that happens....SO FUCKING WHAT?
Let them fight each other. No more World's policeman.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (OalnH)
================
Exactly right!!!

Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (VMY76)

336 Great moments in nonsensical Democrat platitudes, vapid division:

"It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."

"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

"The future - that's where we're going."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

337 Damn that Donald Trump for abolishing the Alternative Minimum Tax! That grift was worth millions of dollars in donations every year!
Posted by: Grifting GOPe Congress Critters. at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (Z32m1)

___

I'm still here!!
- Death tax

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (OalnH)

338 Biden stands at podium
Fists clenched
When the walls fell

Biden....STRONK!!!

Probably more significant sign of strength than Washington crossing the Delaware.

And now, Joe Biden and other feats of strength....coming soon to a podium...somewhere...

I mean, it's almost like Festivus.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (vcOmj)

339 Remember, where ever you go, there you are.

-- Dr. Buckaroo Bonzai
Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (SXSmD)

Act like wherever you are, that's the place to be.

- Damone

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

340
Also notice how hard the Democrats are Not "fighting" to raise the Min Wage.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (3cHMA)

341 The plan is to postpone student loan payments until the Pubs get power back. Then the payments will resume because of the evil Republicans.

Posted by: Night of the Iron Sausage at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (vrz2I)

342 It's not just wrong, it's obscenely, disgustingly, insultingly, offensively wrong. Fuck these people.
==
Bruce Jenner is a woman.

And killing an innocent baby in the womb isnt murder.

They are waging a war on truth. Total war.

Posted by: It is of a piece at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (wkoKN)

343 >Oh no you just asked for details.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (NqZ29)

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (M4Vn/)

344 "Donald Trump might have pulled it off, but no one else.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (Eqkqm) "

We still have the same military capabilities that Trump helped restore. We also have re-positioned our forces to prepare for such a scenario. What CiNC will do with that capability is the only question mark. Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (VpIIl)

345 335 Even if all that happens....SO FUCKING WHAT?
Let them fight each other. No more World's policeman.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (OalnH)
================
Exactly right!!!
Posted by: Neville Chamberlain at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (VMY76)

____

Yawn.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (OalnH)

346 Returning to Rachel Maddow's insensate claim that Brandon's press conference intimidated Putin
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She must be on drugs. I bet Putin almost wet himself laughing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay GuevarA
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NOW THAT'S A LIE. VLAD DID ACTUALLY LAUGH SO HARD SOME PEE CAME OUT.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (iDcra)

347 Jerusalem is a hard no but Tel Aviv? We can talk about it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM (hvxWS)
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We are proud to announce the opening of the "Tel Aviv Nuclear Test Area"

Posted by: Iranian Military at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (VMY76)

348 From Wikipedia
"On December 5, 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Britain and the United States signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state. The four parties signed the memorandum, containing a preamble and six paragraphs. The memorandum reads as follows:"

Plenty of wiggle room in the text that follows. But there is an agreement.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (fs1hN)

349 I don't think we have a formal obligation to defend Ukraine, but we do have with Taiwan.

So, let Europe deal with Ukraine/Russia, and we fuck up China if they try anything.

Smart money should be pulling out of China already

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (ufFY8)

350 341 The plan is to postpone student loan payments until the Pubs get power back. Then the payments will resume because of the evil Republicans.
Posted by: Night of the Iron Sausage at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (vrz2I)

and since none of the whiny students were voting repub anyways, no one will care.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (trdmm)

351 340
Also notice how hard the Democrats are Not "fighting" to raise the Min Wage.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (3cHMA)

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TBF they kinda don't have to. States are doing it on their own. Even red states have been raising it. And with the labor market the way it is, the market has raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour in a lot of places.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (OalnH)

352 Day 3 of the war with China: Protests in all major cities as there are no new iPhones available to buy with Obamaphone funds

Day 7 of the war with China: Protests in all major US cities as Biden considers banning "peaceful" travel of Chinese "civilians" to the United States

Day 15 of the war with China: Cases of a strange new respiratory disease in many major American cities. Biden calls any ties to the Chinese peace ambassadors that have just come over are racist.

Day 72 of the war with China: Several rightwing legislators arrested for voting against new Chinese born Secretary of Defense, Zhang Youxia, based on his ethnic origin.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (ESjRY)

353 Sitting here and found my prayer list. Two of the people on it have died

this is starting out to be a very shitty year.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (nxdel)

354 Australia will just punish them by cutting off all exports of vegemite.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (v0R5T)

355 Yawn.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (OalnH)
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Tired of the lessons of recent history? Lets talk doggies and sandwiches!

Posted by: Jonah Goldbrick at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (VMY76)

356 Even if all that happens....SO FUCKING WHAT?
Let them fight each other. No more World's policeman.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:52 PM (OalnH)
================
Exactly right!!!
Posted by: Neville Chamberlain
==
Its not like England was prepared to fight and Chamberlain held them back. That thing was going to happen no matter what Chamberlain did.

Posted by: timing is also a consideration at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (0ofk6)

357 Plenty of wiggle room in the text that follows. But there is an agreement.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (fs1hN)

Treaty ratified by the Senate? uh... no.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (oHd/0)

358 To be clear, I don't want any US troops deployed in harms way regarding Ukraine, especially under our current leadership (civilian and military).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (fs1hN)

359 The Russians will keep pushing until there is a price to pay.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:51 PM (VpIIl)

Russia were happy with a Russian-friendly Leader, until we had him removed, for what are likely Soros' and Friends' financial motivations. We poked the bear, and we should not be shocked at what transpired. If Russia was poking around in Mexico, I would fully support military intervention in Mexico to protect American interests.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (SH2Zi)

360 >>> 342 It's not just wrong, it's obscenely, disgustingly, insultingly, offensively wrong. Fuck these people.
==
Bruce Jenner is a woman.

And killing an innocent baby in the womb isnt murder.

They are waging a war on truth. Total war.
Posted by: It is of a piece at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (wkoKN)

*tee hee*

Posted by: Stan at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (llON8)

361 >>>Day 72 of the war with China: Several rightwing legislators arrested for voting against new Chinese born Secretary of Defense, Zhang Youxia, based on his ethnic origin.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (ESjRY)

Sooo, you've seen the script to The Tomorrow War II, then.

Posted by: Chris Pratt at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (QYPq3)

362 The "message makers" are trying to equate polio to COVID. The reason why is to get the kids vaxed. My BIL's mother was a polio vax "Guinea pig". My BIL thinks she and her parents are heroes for having her get that jab.

So the media will be trying to equate the 2 diseases so that everyone with kids will think it is the same danger.

Posted by: Sassy at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (xSICi)

363 OT, but I was thinking about OregonMuse and saw this posting:

882 As an ex-Air Force TAC Command Chess champion, I would like to offer my services to provide a weekly Chess thread.

I always enjoyed Oregon Muse's offerings and as he was a neighbor had a many times delayed plan to sit and play a game.
Which I mention as a warning to all; do not put off those opportunities that could be your favored memories.
Posted by: TSgt Ciz at January 20, 2022 01:57 PM (TsIaP)

Unfortunately, I've had two very, very, very close friends pass away last year, and I put off opportunities to see them because I thought they would always be around.

This is a reminder that this just isn't so.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (mdjgu)

364 "and since none of the whiny students were voting repub anyways, no one will care.
Posted by: Tom Servo "

It will give the kids something else to peacefully protest about.

Posted by: Night of the Green Sausage at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (vrz2I)

365 338 Biden stands at podium
Fists clenched
When the walls fell
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 04:55 PM

Biden, facing Corn Pop, chain in hand.
High, like Hunter on a bender.
Hiding in Vermont bunker when the walls fell.

Posted by: Darmok at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (JCZqz)

366 So, OT, but is Biden's performance yesterday why NBC announced all their "media talent" pretty much won't be in China for the Olympics today? They are sending one announcer for a few days and then bringing him back for the Super Bowl...and everyone else is staying stateside.

Is this b/c behind the scenes, they know Biden won't help?

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (exHjb)

367
I wonder if there's anything Kamala can do for 1 hour and 52 minutes without a break?
Posted by: Hands at January 20, 2022 04:32 PM (786Ro)

Without a breath....

Posted by: Willie Brown at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (n+4am)

368 I don't think we have a formal obligation to defend Ukraine, but we do have with Taiwan.

So, let Europe deal with Ukraine/Russia, and we fuck up China if they try anything.

Smart money should be pulling out of China already
==
Well the Biden administration is preparing to send them a rather large tranche of hostages. . .

Posted by: Olympics!!! at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (0ofk6)

369 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)

Me too- insert name of any country

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (NqZ29)

370 MIA are tricky unless your here 24/7
Brother Northernlurker has been around within the week I am fairly sure, weekend maybe.
Brought up Duke has been missing but hopefully will show up any day.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (2JoB8)

371 355 Yawn.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (OalnH)
=================
Tired of the lessons of recent history? Lets talk doggies and sandwiches!
Posted by: Jonah Goldbrick at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (VMY76)

__

No, I'm tired of bullshit like we have to protect the Philippines and Vietnam, because REASONS. Too many of you watch too many Tom Clancy movies and still think it's 1983.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:01 PM (OalnH)

372 War with China over Taiwan?

Does the US still have or ever had Prize laws on the books about the Navy and CG sharing of Prize Money from captured belligerent ships?

If so, some Seamen First Class in LA and Long Beach are going to millionaires if war happens.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:01 PM (Z32m1)

373

Come on all of you big strong men. Uncle Sam needs your help again.

Posted by: Country Jose and the fish tacos at January 20, 2022 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

374 Before you die off you should sent a last gasp message, or as said by someone a zombie ----

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (2JoB8)

375 o, OT, but is Biden's performance yesterday why NBC announced all their "media talent" pretty much won't be in China for the Olympics today? They are sending one announcer for a few days and then bringing him back for the Super Bowl...and everyone else is staying stateside.

Is this b/c behind the scenes, they know Biden won't help?
==
the Olympics is a hostage exchange. Its an op. It will be the reason why the US does nothing over Taiwan.
Just like they did with ambassador stevens but it got screwed up. These idiots always do the same shit.

Posted by: Olympics!!! at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (QCZTg)

376 I still think Taiwan is worthy of defense.

Computer chips are nice to have.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (kOpft)

377 357 Plenty of wiggle room in the text that follows. But there is an agreement.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 04:57 PM (fs1hN)

Treaty ratified by the Senate? uh... no.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (oHd/0)

Yup. NATO went through the Senate. This did not.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (mdjgu)

378 Me too- insert name of any country
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (NqZ29)

===========
Afghanistan

Posted by: you asked for it at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (Z32m1)

379 320 Aren't NothernLurker and NR Lurker ( or a nic close to that the same person?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (RZSup)

380 "Russia were happy with a Russian-friendly Leader, until we had him removed, for what are likely Soros' and Friends' financial motivations. We poked the bear, and we should not be shocked at what transpired. If Russia was poking around in Mexico, I would fully support military intervention in Mexico to protect American interests.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (SH2Zi) "

You think that all of the Russian offensive actions stopped during Trump? lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (VpIIl)

381 Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (VpIIl)

Ze Germans thought the same, and with considerably more justification. America can win if everyone else is using wargame rules to let the US military take full advantage of all their gadgets with a relatively united population. The Chinese have gone out of their way to minimize the potential of everything from GPS on down. If they don't buckle under the first military response- and they won't- then they can start by pushing the US forces in Korea into the sea.

Look, there is nothing wrong with supporting the home team, but the mongoloid leaders in Washington didn't see the Russian buildup in Belarus. Tech is good, but it can't replace brains.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (Eqkqm)

382 MIA are tricky unless your here 24/7
Brother Northernlurker has been around within the week I am fairly sure, weekend maybe.
Brought up Duke has been missing but hopefully will show up any day.
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (2JoB8
I'm right here.
Just sniffles and sneezing

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (awmcV)

383 352
Day 72 of the war with China: Several rightwing legislators arrested for voting against new Chinese born Secretary of Defense, Zhang Youxia, based on his ethnic origin.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM

Lol. Like we'd last 72 days under this administration.

Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (JCZqz)

384 This show of strength by Biden is a masterstroke.

It strikes at the historical Russian insularity and fear of invasion.

It says to Putin remember how Stalin collapsed in the first days of the German invasion.

It says to Putin You are no Stalin.

Posted by: TC at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (yu5nA)

385 The man who rides brown bears topless while battling sabertooth tigers with lasers, is intimidated by an old man who managed to grip a podium for 2 hours and not visibly soil himself.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Biden at the podium, it's a Festivus miracle.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (vcOmj)

386 The thing that infuriates me more and more is we had unarguably the most effective, pro-American President in more than a generation and now we have this retarded meat puppet who's clearly not going to make it to 2024, whereby this Junta is going to try to slipstream some other monstrosity behind the resolute desk.

And that presupposes these assholes don't start a nuclear shooting war.

I f**king hate these people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (1EFK+)

387
The little voice in my head is telling me all this bullshit is setting the table for an invasion of...

Syria.

These fuckfaces have a hard-on for Syria, for some reason.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (3cHMA)

388 Computer chips are nice to have.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (kOpft)

Is it easier to make your own chip factories or conduct a war?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (7F9te)

389 Moscow mitch mcdonnell says blacks vote as much as real ameriKKKans.

Posted by: raimondo at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (d5caZ)

390 Lol. Like we'd last 72 days under this administration.

So the joke is that Zhang Youxia is one of the leaders of the Chinese military.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (ESjRY)

391 23 Was the plan always to supplement Brandon's Show of Force -- by merely standing and talking for almost two hours, you know, like you do at any cocktail party -- with an urgent WH press release that contradicted his statement that a minor incursion would be permitted?
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If we need a WH press to correct or contradict what the Sponge-Brain says in a speech, then who is actually making policy? Is it unelected flunkies in the WH and environs?

Posted by: Ciampino at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (qfLjt)

392 Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:56 PM (VpIIl)

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If the threat is non compliance with tranny dictates, then I agree. If the threat is, you know, war and stuff.....doubtful.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (OalnH)

393 I don't think any American should go to the Olympics

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (RZSup)

394 386 The thing that infuriates me more and more is we had unarguably the most effective, pro-American President in more than a generation and now we have this retarded meat puppet who's clearly not going to make it to 2024, whereby this Junta is going to try to slipstream some other monstrosity behind the resolute desk.

And that presupposes these assholes don't start a nuclear shooting war.

I f**king hate these people.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (1EFK+)

========

To be fair, Trump did say pussy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (LvTSG)

395 "It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."
--------

I feel more like I do today then I did yesterday.

Posted by: 60's doper at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (pbStR)

396 "No, I'm tired of bullshit like we have to protect the Philippines and Vietnam, because REASONS. Too many of you watch too many Tom Clancy movies and still think it's 1983."

Many still think it's 1945. That was the last war we actually won outright. We are no longer the nation we were back then.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (qpX6U)

397 Me too- insert name of any country
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (NqZ29)

===========
Afghanistan
Posted by: you asked for it at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (Z32m1)

What do you have against young and nubile Afghani women? ( okay now starting to sound creepy instead of snarky)

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:05 PM (NqZ29)

398 Sounds like Rachel's girding her own loins for a man for the first time in her life.

no, ~~she's~~ its not. that ugly thang ha gotta be a wanna be tai lady boy cimplete with stubby inadequate peepee and atrophied testicles.

*this seems odly specific*

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 05:05 PM (IJES/)

399 See you need to keep track of every comment, losing a tree in this Forrest is easy.
Still looking for Duke though

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:05 PM (2JoB8)

400 No, I'm tired of bullshit like we have to protect the Philippines and Vietnam, because REASONS. Too many of you watch too many Tom Clancy movies and still think it's 1983.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:01 PM (OalnH)
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You talk a lot. Are actual treaties then to be ignored? If Australia or Japan calls on us, do we ignore them?

No one wants war, least of all me. But China might, and their vote counts more than mine.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:05 PM (VMY76)

401 AoS Style Guide: Avoid using the words 'loins' and 'Maddow' in the same post, as these words together are known to cause testicular retraction.

Posted by: motionview (prep train organize) at January 20, 2022 05:06 PM (aKOI+)

402 Is it easier to make your own chip factories or conduct a war?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (7F9te)

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Bingo. I can sort of buy the argument that we need to defend Taiwan cuz freedom or whatever. But to spend trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives to have cheap computer chips? Are you fucking kidding me?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:06 PM (OalnH)

403 Day 72 of the war with China: Several rightwing legislators arrested for voting against new Chinese born Secretary of Defense, Zhang Youxia, based on his ethnic origin.

Posted by: 18-1

I don't understand the opposition. He checked "no" to the question "Do you hold any allegiance to your country of birth" on the application form.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:06 PM (hvxWS)

404 388 Computer chips are nice to have.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (kOpft)

Is it easier to make your own chip factories or conduct a war?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (7F9te)

It might be easier to conduct a war. If you break ground on a chip factory today - this very day - you won't get the first chip out of it for at least three years. That's, of course, assuming that you have all the chip-making machinery readily available right now, which you might not.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 05:06 PM (mdjgu)

405 You think that all of the Russian offensive actions stopped during Trump? lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (VpIIl)

Slayed that strawman with aplomb. Give yourself a pat on the back.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:06 PM (SH2Zi)

406 You talk a lot. Are actual treaties then to be ignored? If Australia or Japan calls on us, do we ignore them?

___

Again. I give no fucks. No more world's policeman. Period.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (OalnH)

407 Ukraine is has a population of ~44M. So, ~22M men, say 1/3 military age.

But Ukraine's army is nowhere near +7M in size ... so not sure why I should care about them when an easy 6 million or so dudes are just standing literally right there in the path of the Russians and not doing anything about it.

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (dYe5S)

408 Should see tomorrow from Pixy if he can tell when someone last posted. Not that I want to bombard about this or that person just is it possible in a emergency.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (2JoB8)

409 "Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face."

What if General Milley phones China and warns them of our attack? Did he not say he would do that?

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (qpX6U)

410 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)
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Hero.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (llXky)

411 I saw Hard-on For Syria at the theatre last weekend.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (v0R5T)

412 The thing that infuriates me more and more is we had unarguably the most effective, pro-American President in more than a generation and now we have this retarded meat puppet who's clearly not going to make it to 2024, whereby this Junta is going to try to slipstream some other monstrosity behind the resolute desk.

And that presupposes these assholes don't start a nuclear shooting war.

I f**king hate these people.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 05:03 PM (1EFK+)

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To be fair, Trump did say pussy.
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O and the mean tweets!! Don't forget the mean tweets!

Posted by: Karen, searching for the box wine at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (JjYMO)

413 Just to make everyone feel REALLY old:

1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1970 and 1918.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (AhhdW)

414 Why would anyone start an actual war with US now when they can get most of what they want just by standing for 121 minutes?

Posted by: DaveA at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (FhXTo)

415 389 Moscow mitch mcdonnell says blacks vote as much as real ameriKKKans.
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What the heck does that mean?
Do you have a link for that?

Posted by: Ciampino at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (qfLjt)

416 Computer chips are nice to have.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:02 PM (kOpft)

Is it easier to make your own chip factories or conduct a war?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (7F9te)

Wars are profitable.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

417 We have to win hearts and minds! Ukrainians are natural Americans. I am a compassionate conservative!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (hvxWS)

418 Well, guess what? That -- that money that they earn from that makes about 45 percent of the economy. I don't see that as a one-way street. They go ahead and

{five minutes later}

countries that are now totally dependent on Russia. But it's going to be hard. It's going to be very hard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:29 PM (DU+/6)

Due to our random sanctions on Russia over the last 10-20 years Russia has developed internal means to build almost everything, and the relation with China means he has at least 1 trade partner, and India is talking to them as well.

Even if that hadn't been true, Europe's need for Russian gas is far worse for them than not being able to sell it. And the notion that gas exports are half the Russian GDP is absurd.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (eoQWY)

419 Hahahahahaha

NBC just announced they aren't sending announcers to the Winter Olympics.

It might be watchable!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (W2Pud)

420 I think this whole worry over world wars is insane. When Trump was President we started no wars, we were withdrawing troops home in an orderly way, and we were clearly at peace with the warlords in places like Russia and China.

Now, in only one fucking year, the world is a mess. Like elections, elections steals have consequences.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (VMY76)

421 Many still think it's 1945. That was the last war we actually won outright. We are no longer the nation we were back then.
Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (qpX6U)

That stirring victory in Grenada is already forgotten? And we overwhelmed the opposition in Waco.

Posted by: Mexico at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (FJYfm)

422 413 Just to make everyone feel REALLY old:

1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1970 and 1918.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (AhhdW)

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This does not make me feel old for I do not remember 1970. It was practically a full generation before my time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

423 "I don't think any American should go to the Olympics
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

I don't think anybody should,

Posted by: Night of the Green Hotel at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (vrz2I)

424 Treaty ratified by the Senate? uh... no.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (oHd/0)

Valid point, I'm assuming not ratified. I'm pointing out the US executive branch makes agreements, then break them. Whoops, you trusted us.

Yes, Ukraine should have pushed for ratification before signing. Our executive branch needs to follow the Constitution and submit for ratification.

Again, I'm not arguing for sending troops to protect Ukraine. I blame Biden for being such a weak leader and for the smug idiots who voted for a "functioning adult" plus all the people printing extra ballots at 3am.
Crappy situation, I feel sorry for the Ukranians,

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (fs1hN)

425 Duke was here about a week ago. He said his wife requested a divorce which threw him for a loop as they were looking at houses, so I imagine he's caught up with that very difficult situation

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (RZSup)

426 Year 0 is as close to 2022 BC as to today. Feel old yet?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (hvxWS)

427 China makes more chips than Taiwan by the way, 24% to 21% of worldwide output. Going to war with China will fuck our access to more chips than letting China have Taiwan.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (OalnH)

428 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

You want young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

You'll settle for some nice woman who can cook and doesn't look like a babushka.

You'll get a gender fluid Afghani dancing boy with a heroin habit, anger issues, and a penchant for always carrying a knife.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (ESjRY)

429 > Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.

I saw Gen Milley's testimony before Congress. I'm not confident you're right.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (AhhdW)

430 Tired of the lessons of recent history? Lets talk doggies and sandwiches!
Posted by: Jonah Goldbrick at January 20, 2022 04:58 PM (VMY76)

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right? can't we discuss whether pierogis are a sandwich?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (ZZK0E)

431 This does not make me feel old for I do not remember 1970. It was practically a full generation before my time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

Me neither. I wasn't born yet.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (Ez6QX)

432 What the heck does that mean?
Do you have a link for that?
Posted by: Ciampino at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (qfLjt)

rainman's programming seems to have gone a bit wonky lately. He slides between almost reasonable and Mary Cloggenstein. I suspect skullduggery.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (dNqv+)

433 "It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day."
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I feel more like I do today then I did yesterday.
........

The hurrier I go the behinder I get.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (v0R5T)

434 Are actual treaties then to be ignored?

i wanna see whether or not the turks violate the montreau convention by allowing the baltic fleet into the black sea.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (IJES/)

435 423 I agree with you but I'm sure we will as Will other countries.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (RZSup)

436 The Russians begin their military drills on 2/10. The Olympics start on 2/11, and the next full moon is 2/16. Should be a fun week.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (HmZuC)

437 423 "I don't think any American should go to the Olympics
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

I agree, but it looks like they will be so they should be quarantined for 10 days when they return

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (TdaKq)

438 And even if China takes Taiwan, those chips will still be made. The entire reason for going to war to save our chip access is a great fallacy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (OalnH)

439 Is this b/c behind the scenes, they know Biden won't help?

China was just telling people yesterday not to forget where they are lest they think free speech will be a thing during the olympics.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (kOpft)

440 The Russkies and Ukraine situation is significantly different than the Chinese-Taiwan situation.
But then again, there are similarities.

In Europe, a lot of NATO and EU countries want to make nice with Ivan (like Germany). Other countries, not so much (like Poland).
The alliance is split on the issue. I don't know what or how we would deploy troops there, besides the ones already in Poland. It could be a bad meatgrinder for us to get involved on the ground.

Taiwan has it's detractors, but Japan has invested a lot of money INTO Taiwan to make stuff for Japan. Japan is also alarmed at what China is doing strategically (overall) in Asia. Add Australia, India, S. Korea (which is also divided on the issue and is pretty close physically to China).
If Taiwan falls to the PRC, a lot of dominoes in the Pacific will start falling.
If Russia bites off part of Ukraine or installs a puppet government there, I honestly don't think much really changes.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (vcOmj)

441 Duke was here about a week ago. He said his wife requested a divorce which threw him for a loop as they were looking at houses, so I imagine he's caught up with that very difficult situation
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (RZSup)

Oh wow, I missed that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (Ez6QX)

442 No better sign that we are in a pandemic as bad as Polio then sending all the world's athletes to ground zero to pick up some new strains of the disease to bring home.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (ESjRY)

443 "Is it easier to make your own chip factories or conduct a war?"

That's a non-sequitur. It assumes that Taiwan's chip fabs would survive a war. Are we talking WAR WAR, or a minor incursion?

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (qpX6U)

444 "Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face."

What if General Milley phones China and warns them of our attack? Did he not say he would do that?

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (qpX6U)

This theoretical world in which our military is allowed to conduct total war is a pipe dream. It's a useless hypothetical.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (SH2Zi)

445 Sounds like Rachel's grinding her own loins for a man for the first time in her life.

hmmmm

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (JVMtX)

446 are char siu bao's a taco? the answer may surprise you.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (ZZK0E)

447 I don't think any American should go to the Olympics
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:04 PM (RZSup)

I don't think anyone should go to China, period. If they actually do have the Olympics, every athlete there will come home with some new virus that will superspread it's ass everywhere and will further decimate the world economy. They will take over without firing a shot.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

448 To be clear, I don't want any US troops deployed in harms way regarding Ukraine, especially under our current leadership (civilian and military).
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 04:59 PM (fs1hN)

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We should be sending them thousands of Javelin and other Anti-Tank missiles! Maybe SAMS too!

Oh, That's Right! F. Joe Biden reinstated Obama's Ban on Lethal Military Aid to Ukraine!

I guess NATO will have to send troops instead! Who has battle ready, deployable troops? The US!!! We will fly US Troops 6,000 miles to fight in Ukraine, because the Germans, French, and all the other Western European sad sacks cannot move a battalion 200 miles outside their borders, or even 200 miles inside their borders.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (Z32m1)

449 "she's been put in a difficult situation by a feebleminded moron"

You mean Biden or herself?

Posted by: GWB at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (A2G/3)

450 Ah, remember that time where we went to WW3 with North Korea and China because of drumpf's DANGEROUS Twitter rhetoric? Good times.

Posted by: Citizen Freeman at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (FPuSC)

451 427 China makes more chips than Taiwan by the way, 24% to 21% of worldwide output. Going to war with China will fuck our access to more chips than letting China have Taiwan.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (OalnH)

Realpolitik uber alles, comrade.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (dNqv+)

452 It might be easier to conduct a war. If you break ground on a chip factory today - this very day - you won't get the first chip out of it for at least three years. That's, of course, assuming that you have all the chip-making machinery readily available right now, which you might not.

It took 21 years and $10 trillion to lose to goat fuckers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (7F9te)

453 1970 and 2022 are as far apart as 1970 and 1918.
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I was a one-year-old in 1970...

Not that I remember that.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (RU4sa)

454 is chewing gum spaghetti?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (ZZK0E)

455 This does not make me feel old for I do not remember 1970. It was practically a full generation before my time.
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I have had moods last longer than you have been alive.

Posted by: Its cute tho, such a fresh face!! let me smell your hair at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (8DHGa)

456 China makes more chips than Taiwan by the way, 24% to 21% of worldwide output. Going to war with China will fuck our access to more chips than letting China have Taiwan.
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Again, not a smart take. Those chip factories are in many cases Taiwanese owned and managed. They use Taiwanese technology. They would close in short order if Taiwan decided to walk away.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (VMY76)

457 As much as I hate the "world's policeman" image, it is (in some ways) necessary for the US. It may not matter today if Russia takes Ukraine, and China Taiwan, but ever nation that is absorbed into hostile powers will bite us in the ass in the future. Maybe militarily, maybe economically, but if hostile nations gobble up one small nation after another, and we don't expand our sphere of influence, it's not a good thing. We pay with lives now, or many more lived later.

It was the lesson I thought we took away from WW2. Large conflicts will inevitably arise unless someone (the US) is so overwhelmingly powerful that no one dares to start anything. It mostly worked. As Team America said, we have the responsibility because we have the power.

Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

458 See you need to keep track of every comment, losing a tree in this Forrest is easy.
Still looking for Duke though
Posted by: Skip

He commented in an earlier thread today.

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (arJlL)

459 Duke was here about a week ago. He said his wife requested a divorce which threw him for a loop as they were looking at houses, so I imagine he's caught up with that very difficult situation

Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that. Didn't he just move to MO though? Was he just renting?

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (nxdel)

460 I don't think anyone should go to China, period. If they actually do have the Olympics, every athlete there will come home with some new virus that will superspread it's ass everywhere and will further decimate the world economy. They will take over without firing a shot.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Sponge gets it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (Ez6QX)

461 If Putin says that transwomen are not real women, our military will crush him. Nothing gets our military in a fighting mood more than anti trans bigotry! We will not tolerate your intolerance!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (hvxWS)

462 Me neither. I wasn't born yet.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (Ez6QX)

You're just a baby!

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (SH2Zi)

463 I might guess that Putin was amused.

So, I must have missed something in the coverage of all this, but has Putin actually given anyone a reason to believe he intends to invade Ukraine? Even a bullshitty excuse?

I just wonder if there's anything to any of this aside from DC's need for a narrative.
Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (kOpft)

Not that I have heard, this came out from western sources only. The negotiations with the US and EU over Ukraine's situation are that Ukraine should complete the Minsk agreement and have bilateral discussions with the breakaway countries to settle borders. Ukraine seems to want Russia pulled into that, which Russia doesn't want but they do want it settled.

Westerners seem to be dicking around, but not giving Ukraine EU membership or Nato membership that they want.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (eoQWY)

464 Given the totalitarian way that Europe has reacted to Covid, and the Green Energy idiocy, I don't think any of Europe is worth saving anymore. If the Russians don't run it, the muzzies will. It's not worth it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (trdmm)

465 >>>"Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face."

LOL, Gordon Chang has been talking about a Chinese EMP attack for five years now. We're completely unprepared for such a thing, because no one in government takes it seriously.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (bkUtD)

466 It might be easier to conduct a war. If you break ground on a chip factory today - this very day - you won't get the first chip out of it for at least three years. That's, of course, assuming that you have all the chip-making machinery readily available right now, which you might not.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
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You couldn't get all the approvals and permits in three years.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (iDcra)

467 You'll get a gender fluid Afghani dancing boy with a heroin habit, anger issues, and a penchant for always carrying a knife.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (ESjRY)
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No, he'll get a Slavic Madeline Albright.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (llXky)

468 char siu bao's a taco?
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No.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (RU4sa)

469 So Maddow's taking a swipe at FDR?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (KAi1n)

470 441 Duke was here about a week ago. He said his wife requested a divorce which threw him for a loop as they were looking at houses, so I imagine he's caught up with that very difficult situation
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (RZSup)

Oh wow, I missed that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (Ez6QX)
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So, she didn't want to leave IL.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (JVMtX)

471 This does not make me feel old for I do not remember 1970. It was practically a full generation before my time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 05:08 PM (LvTSG)

Me neither. I wasn't born yet.
Posted by: Jordan61

*sigh*

you're both standing on my lawn.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (IJES/)

472 You're just a baby!
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (SH2Zi)

You're the same age as me, silly.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (Ez6QX)

473 Nothing gets our military in a fighting mood more than anti trans bigotry! We will not tolerate your intolerance!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (hvxWS)

What are they gonna do? Hit them with their purses ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (TdaKq)

474 is duke aka Martini Farmer?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (trdmm)

475
It might be easier to conduct a war. If you break ground on a chip factory today - this very day - you won't get the first chip out of it for at least three years. That's, of course, assuming that you have all the chip-making machinery readily available right now, which you might not.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

How long were we in Afghanistan?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (63Dwl)

476 Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.
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No, it is not.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (RU4sa)

477 It was the lesson I thought we took away from WW2. Large conflicts will inevitably arise unless someone (the US) is so overwhelmingly powerful that no one dares to start anything. It mostly worked. As Team America said, we have the responsibility because we have the power.
Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (JCZqz)

We don't have that power anymore. We can only kill people at random now.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (eoQWY)

478 "Biden" today:

One year ago, we started to write an American story of hope, not fear.
Of unity, not division.
Of light, not darkness.

Biden last month:

We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated -- for themselves, their families and the hospitals they'll soon overwhelm.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (AhhdW)

479 427 China makes more chips than Taiwan by the way, 24% to 21% of worldwide output. Going to war with China will fuck our access to more chips than letting China have Taiwan.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (OalnH)

While war is a useless strategy, Chinese chips are still years and years behind Korea and Taiwan's tech. The chips that business really needs aren't made in China.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (mdjgu)

480 Taiwans chip edge is the newest cutting edge fabrication. Mainland only makes the older generation stuff.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (hvxWS)

481 just because the fbi can put 20 swat ... er guys who wear swat tactical gear...into the living room of a guy who posted a mean tweet and hold his family at gunpoint for 5 hours doesn't mean we can protect taiwan.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (ZZK0E)

482 Fen I saw that and haven't seen a comment since, hence I am worried

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (2JoB8)

483 I understand Ukraine but If we ignore Taiwan then we might as well withdraw from every ally treaty we have and bring home every military asset and wait for the bad guys take over the rest of the world.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (NqZ29)

484 I was a one-year-old in 1970...

Not that I remember that.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM (RU4sa)

I believe the proper response is, "I was in junior high, dickhead."

Posted by: Agent Johnson at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (FJYfm)

485 "LOL, Gordon Chang has been talking about a Chinese EMP attack for five years now. We're completely unprepared for such a thing, because no one in government takes it seriously."

You'd also have cyberattack, and ASAT attack. If it turns into a real war, there will be nukes.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (qpX6U)

486
Sponge gets it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (Ez6QX)

WOOT!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

487 You're just a baby!
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (SH2Zi)

You're the same age as me, silly.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (Ez6QX)

Then we are both young, spring chickens.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (SH2Zi)

488 478 "Biden" today:

One year ago, we started to write an American story of hope, not fear.
Of unity, not division.
Of light, not darkness

Good lord.....He sure screwed that up...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (TdaKq)

489 My stance on the point of helping Taiwan vs having chips is that we need to be prepared for chip shortages. I do not want to risk American lives just to have a new iPhone either. Just that the reality is our country is sadly not prepared for this reality, and it was easy to see coming for over a decade.

Posted by: Dogbert at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (Z9HSN)

490 Wait! You're thinking something negative about President Biden right now, aren't you?

STOP IT!! Stop thinking that! Whatever you're thinking, he didn't say that and it's not true!

Posted by: Jenn Hacki at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (XHhHI)

491 So, I must have missed something in the coverage of all this, but has Putin actually given anyone a reason to believe he intends to invade Ukraine? Even a bullshitty excuse?

I just wonder if there's anything to any of this aside from DC's need for a narrative.
Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (kOpft)
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Putin has gathered forces on the Ukrainian border. You hear people say "he has massed thousands of troops," but don't think this is Operation Bagration or anything like that. Russia today would be hard-pressed to man a continuous front from Leningrad to the Black Sea. Their army is a lot smaller than people think.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (llXky)

492
you're both standing on my lawn.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (IJES/)

heh, I feel ya. I remember wondering why the number "69" was a big deal; when the year changed to 69 all the older guys with motorcycles were going out on school playing fields and doing burnouts on the grass, making big "69's" on everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (trdmm)

493 Weakness invites aggression. Always. I often wonder if Chinese trolls post here, like we used to get Russian trolls when Putin took Crimea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (VMY76)

494 No better sign that we are in a pandemic as bad as Polio then sending all the world's athletes to ground zero to pick up some new strains of the disease to bring home.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (ESjRY)

Ask the Canucks. They (and we?) participated in some multi country Military Athletic Games in the Wuhan China area in the Fall of 2019. Many athletes complained they picked up some weird, debilitating respiratory infection over there. Don't worry, all the militaries investigated the issue by shutting down all inquiries and silencing everyone. Nothing to see there!

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (Z32m1)

495 I believe the proper response is, "I was in junior high, dickhead."
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Junior high wasn't until the early 80s.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (RU4sa)

496 Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.
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No, it is not.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (RU4sa)

Who can beat us?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (NqZ29)

497 It might be easier to conduct a war. If you break ground on a chip factory today - this very day - you won't get the first chip out of it for at least three years. That's, of course, assuming that you have all the chip-making machinery readily available right now, which you might not.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

How long were we in Afghanistan?
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But but but, look at how much money we made on that war? All the new territory and resources and wonderful new friends and allies!!

Posted by: Oops Oopsies at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (sXXre)

498 LOL, Gordon Chang has been talking about a Chinese EMP attack for five years now. We're completely unprepared for such a thing, because no one in government takes it seriously.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (bkUtD)

I have heard a lot of back and forth on whether an emp would be as damaging as we theorize. publius would probably be better to speak on it, but from what I have seen, even incidental shielding would be ok against an emp. NOT an expert.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (dNqv+)

499 That's, of course, assuming that you have all the chip-making machinery readily available right now, which you might not.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
===

You couldn't get all the approvals and permits in three years.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (iDcra)
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If you're talking about TWSC they're opening shop in TX.
Permits will be fast tracked if not already done.
Since they've bought the land assume they have the permits.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (JVMtX)

500 This theoretical world in which our military is allowed to conduct total war is a pipe dream. It's a useless hypothetical.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (SH2Zi)

If they did, the first move would be to sack most of the useless assholes we have, like we did in the 1930s before WWII. Few survived to screw up in actual combat.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

501 Biden made history yesterday. 1st US President to authorize a Russian military attack.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (Y5qcH)

502 @452

>>It took 21 years and $10 trillion to lose to goat fuckers.

Well the US taxpayer lost, I on the other hand got a string of pol-la-ponies, a mansion and yacht out of the deal.
--
Typical MIC Consultant

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (rvWXA)

503 It took 21 years and $10 trillion to lose to goat fuckers.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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With 13 dead and $85 billion in equipment cherry on top.

Lesco Brandon

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (iDcra)

504 484 I was a one-year-old in 1970...

I was in My third year of College.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (TdaKq)

505 It is a well-known historical fact that Hitler couldn't stand for longer than 90 minutes.
Biden is better than Hitler.

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (T8QNX)

506 If it turns into a real war, there will be nukes.

Oh no, China nuked San Fran, Seattle, and LA. That's terrible. Any chance they can reach NYC?

Posted by: Obligatory at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (ESjRY)

507 Who can beat us?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (NqZ29)

ourselves. we aren't serious about anything.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (eoQWY)

508 448 because the Germans, French, and all the other Western European sad sacks cannot move a battalion 200 miles outside their borders, or even 200 miles inside their borders.
Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:11 PM

Such outrageous slander! Of course we can move our troops as needed! However, if the Russians invade on a Friday, we may have to wait until Thesday at the earliest to start movement, assuming the Russians keep providing natural gas to generate electricity for our public transportation.

We can't actually fight more than 20 hours per month, either, or we start paying overtime. And no more than 30 hours of work a week, max, with 5 days of leave earned every month.

Posted by: European NATO allies at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (JCZqz)

509 464 Given the totalitarian way that Europe has reacted to Covid, and the Green Energy idiocy, I don't think any of Europe is worth saving anymore. If the Russians don't run it, the muzzies will. It's not worth it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (trdmm)

____

This!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (OalnH)

510 Who can beat us?
==
The president, Us Congress, The media

all without firing a shot.

Posted by: its the people behind you soldier at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (8DHGa)

511 How effective is it really, to say that Biden is so strong, standing for questioning for nearly two hours? Oooh, Scranton Joe is back baby, watch out Corn Putin! Doesn't that tell everyone that you think one of Biden's liabilities is that he is seen as weak? Why would you think that? Oh, that's right, because even you can see that he is weak.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (fs1hN)

512 I understand Ukraine but If we ignore Taiwan then we might as well withdraw from every ally treaty we have and bring home every military asset and wait for the bad guys take over the rest of the world.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (NqZ29)
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This isn't about just us. Other countries have a stake as well. Japan is stepping up because Taiwan is in their friggin' front yard.

India is also looking at ways to undercut China.

Smart diplomacy would be leveraging this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (llXky)

513 499 this is good news. I hope more companies are preparing for this eventualit.

Posted by: Dogbert at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (Z9HSN)

514 Their army is a lot smaller than people think.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (llXky)

the biggest thing they lost when they lost control of all of the 'Stans is the cannon fodder conscripts they used to stock their armies with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (trdmm)

515 "My stance on the point of helping Taiwan vs having chips is that we need to be prepared for chip shortages. "

Absolutely. We MUST reshore strategic industries! Until we show any real determination to do THAT, we haven't the determination to WIN a WAR.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (qpX6U)

516 You're just a baby!
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (SH2Zi)

You're the same age as me, silly.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:13 PM (Ez6QX)

I'm listening......

Posted by: Joey Prepubescent Nipple Tweaker at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

517 Bingo. I can sort of buy the argument that we need to defend Taiwan cuz freedom or whatever. But to spend trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives to have cheap computer chips? Are you fucking kidding me?

I'm not kidding. Have you given any thought to how much of everyday life depends on computer chips? The enslavement of Taiwan is not going to be without repercussions.

Besides, we should be looking for opportunities to bloody ChiCom noses. The last two years have left a lot of scores to settle.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (kOpft)

518 Just sell Putin some more uranium mines

Posted by: Sec. of *hic* (former) at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (QzkSJ)

519 >>>Their army is a lot smaller than people think.

They announced a few days ago they were bringing troops from their Far East to participate in the drills scheduled for next month.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (HmZuC)

520 489 My stance on the point of helping Taiwan vs having chips is that we need to be prepared for chip shortages. I do not want to risk American lives just to have a new iPhone either. Just that the reality is our country is sadly not prepared for this reality, and it was easy to see coming for over a decade.

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it's not 1991. I'm ready to start chanting "No Blood for Iphones..." or whatever would be catchy.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (ZZK0E)

521 Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face.

We are a year away from having a full up division capable of fighting in a mid-intensity near-peer conflict. 20 years of losing to goat herders and knocking down doors does not prepare you for full scale combined arms operations.
Consider that the current crop of Battalion Commanders and Brigade Commander know nothing of combined arms operations. Nothing. All they know is low intensity conflict in an Afghanistan environment.
Can they train up? Sure! But it will take a year and a shit load of money. It would also help if most of the 4 stars were retired.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (axyOa)

522 It's not about chips. It's about our implied protection of Taiwan for over 60 years.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (NqZ29)

523 Biden made history yesterday. 1st US President to authorize a Russian military attack.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

*cough!*

Posted by: FDR at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (DMQdU)

524 WOOT!
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

You're so easy to please.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (Ez6QX)

525 >>>Oh no, China nuked San Fran, Seattle, and LA. That's terrible. Any chance they can reach NYC?

Posted by: Obligatory at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (ESjRY)

You think we waste nuclear weapons on those cities? Hahahaha, they already gone.

Posted by: China at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (QYPq3)

526 500 This theoretical world in which our military is allowed to conduct total war is a pipe dream. It's a useless hypothetical.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (SH2Zi)

If they did, the first move would be to sack most of the useless assholes we have, like we did in the 1930s before WWII. Few survived to screw up in actual combat.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (eoQWY)
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We have the material we don't have the leadership.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (JVMtX)

527 But it was a rudimentary search, so maybe he's been here more recently?
Posted by: Turn Two at January 20, 2022 04:53 PM (CoAjq)

Seems I've seem here since the first of the year.

Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (hOMhY)

528 If we're gonna be the world's cop can we at least charge for protection? 5% of GDP if you want us to give a fuck about you. Pay up or you're on your own.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (OalnH)

529 Rachel, Rachel, Rachel...

Your brawny hero Joe leaned forward and rested his arms (meaning some of his upper body weight) on the podium for some of the time yesterday. He was not standing tall for two hours continuously.

We've seen Joe stand at/lean on a podium for two hours how many times in the past three years? How many times for one hour? One data point of nearly two hours doesn't mean much in a period of three years. And how do know he wasn't totally exhausted and unable to do much of anything for several hours or more after his stand/lean performance?

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (AMIL/)

530 If it turns into a real war, there will be nukes.

Oh no, China nuked San Fran, Seattle, and LA. That's terrible. Any chance they can reach NYC?
==
the dragon's tail swept a third of the stars from the sky

dragon = china

stars = US states on our flag

Posted by: Get Your Nightmare Fuel!!! Come and Get IT!! at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (FOSUO)

531 410 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 04:31 PM (II3Gr)
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Hero.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (llXky)

No, no, no. I'm just trying to do my part to alleviate suffering in this world.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (II3Gr)

532
You're so easy to please.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (Ez6QX)

You have no idea.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)

533 How many shrimp can Brandon hoover up at that two-hour cocktail party? Without choking on them, that is.

Posted by: JuJuBee at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (mNhhD)

534 A potential takeover of Taiwan by China is so much bigger than losing chip production it's silly to pretend that is the only reason we would consider getting involved.

If we decide that we no longer want to be the world's sole super power and just become a larger European country then we need to accept everything that comes with it and that means a greatly reduced way of life. We many conclude that's what we want but we should be honest about what it means.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (ZLI7S)

535 Who can beat us?

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM (NqZ29)
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Iran
Lebanon
Somalia
Afghanistan

Am I leaving anyone else out?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (llXky)

536 Putin has gathered forces on the Ukrainian border. You hear people say "he has massed thousands of troops," but don't think this is Operation Bagration or anything like that. Russia today would be hard-pressed to man a continuous front from Leningrad to the Black Sea. Their army is a lot smaller than people think.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (llXky)

But Putin's Nuclear Arsenal is almost as big as it used to be. If Russia and NATO (read US) start blundering around killing each other, some one might decide to bluff with nukes. and get their bluff called.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (Z32m1)

537 Given the totalitarian way that Europe has reacted to Covid, and the Green Energy idiocy, I don't think any of Europe is worth saving anymore. If the Russians don't run it, the muzzies will. It's not worth it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

But..but...they PROMISED!!!

Posted by: Poland, 1939/2022 at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (QzkSJ)

538 Putin has gathered forces on the Ukrainian border. You hear people say "he has massed thousands of troops," but don't think this is Operation Bagration or anything like that. Russia today would be hard-pressed to man a continuous front from Leningrad to the Black Sea. Their army is a lot smaller than people think.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:15 PM (llXky)

he did that because the Ukranians moved into disputed lands last spring, and the USN and UK were going to have a fun time with a crisis spying on the Russians. However, they Russians got there before the boats did, and Turkey refused to let them in.

So the Ukrainian army spent the last year sitting in the mud.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

539 Wiki says that the Ukraine has an army of 60K. Out of 7M available men.

So...obviously they take their security seriously.

Russia weighs in at 850K by comparison.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (ESjRY)

540
I just want to go on record to state that I think the USA should not waste one life to protect Ukraine from Russia. It is a corrupt cesspool, weak, and interfered in our affairs to support the Dems.

However, I WILL be playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 approximately 1 year after its release on pc to give the developers time to fix the bugs.

Posted by: Sapwolf at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (etPhZ)

541 Why do you assume if China takes over Tawian those chips will no longer be made? You think China will blow up the factories after taking over or something? The entire premise is ridiculous.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (OalnH)

542 You think we waste nuclear weapons on those cities? Hahahaha, they already gone.
Posted by: China at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (QYPq3)

Well... you can nuke west Texas. Might get a prairie dog or two...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (dNqv+)

543 No, no, no. I'm just trying to do my part to alleviate suffering in this world.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (II3Gr)
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Your sacrifice is admirable. Remember to hydrate. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (llXky)

544 Smart diplomacy would be leveraging this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (llXky)

Agree 100%

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (NqZ29)

545 The way modern America 2.0 conducts wars is to find a 3rd world shithole full of people who hate us and are completely foreign to our way of life, slaughter a bunch of them in a one sided conflict and then give 1-2 million of them visas to come here permanently because they need asylum or whatever.

So, get ready for a bunch of Russians and even more Chinese living here.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (ZZK0E)

546 ---
Iran
Lebanon
Somalia
Afghanistan

Am I leaving anyone else out?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (llXky)

Madagascar.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

547 489 My stance on the point of helping Taiwan vs having chips is that we need to be prepared for chip shortages. I do not want to risk American lives just to have a new iPhone either. Just that the reality is our country is sadly not prepared for this reality, and it was easy to see coming for over a decade.

-----

But its not just iPhones. Its cars, appliances, televisions, radios, home security, business security, airplanes buses, heavy equipment....

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (Ed8Zd)

548 "Oh no, China nuked San Fran, Seattle, and LA. That's terrible. Any chance they can reach NYC?"

If only one nuclear weapon detonated in a US city, the whole country would shit its pants. Store shelves and gas pumps across the nation would be bare within one day. All services and utilities would begin to seize up. Roving bands of murderers would own the streets (even more than we have now.)

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (qpX6U)

549 496 Our military is still capable of defeating most threats we face...

Who can beat us?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:16 PM

This thread has addressed both points accurately. If fully unleashed (minus nukes), the US military can absolutely destroy any other military on the planet.

The odds of our political leaders approving such action, minus a Pearl Harbor-type event, is near 0.

Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (JCZqz)

550 Am I leaving anyone else out?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (llXky)

____

Mexican cartels probably.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:21 PM (OalnH)

551 Am I leaving anyone else out?

A-hem. And don't you dare fill this EBT card late. Or else!

Posted by: Some Spherical Guatemalan on the dole at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (ESjRY)

552 So if Biden is a great president because he can stand for almost two hours, does that mean the girl that just pulled a double shift as cashier at the local Food Lion would be a better president?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

Well I can see what inflation has done to increase the prices of all our inventory. Maybe if we had lower gas prices like a few years ago then prices wouldn't be so high. But hey, I'm just a dumbass chick working at Food Lion.

Posted by: Food Lion checkout chick at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (RAodA)

553 Reading Sundowner transcript, about Putin

But think about what he has. He has eight time zones, a burning tundra that will not freeze again naturally,

Somehow I think the Siberian tundra isn't going to stop freezing anytime soon

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (2JoB8)

554 The US isn't in a position to fight in East Europe or the South China Sea at the same time.

Pick one. Or don't.

IMO we'd lose in either case. Bigly.

As far as the Ukraine is concerned half the population identify as Russian. OK... y'all can figure that one out.

As far as Taiwan is concerned their government is corrupt like ours and infested with Chinese operatives... like ours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (BFigT)

555 Just want to make clear my home is open as a safe haven for young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

Posted by: Insomniac

FUN FACT

The westernmost part of Ukraine was once part of Hungary. There are still hundreds of thousands of Hungarian speakers there.

Posted by: Miklosian Translation and Matchmaking Services S.r.o.o. at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (QzkSJ)

556 We are a year away from having a full up division capable of fighting in a mid-intensity near-peer conflict. 20 years of losing to goat herders and knocking down doors does not prepare you for full scale combined arms operations.
Consider that the current crop of Battalion Commanders and Brigade Commander know nothing of combined arms operations. Nothing. All they know is low intensity conflict in an Afghanistan environment.
Can they train up? Sure! But it will take a year and a shit load of money. It would also help if most of the 4 stars were retired.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (axyOa)

^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS!!!!!!!

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (Z32m1)

557 But Putin's Nuclear Arsenal is almost as big as it used to be. If Russia and NATO (read US) start blundering around killing each other, some one might decide to bluff with nukes. and get their bluff called.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (Z32m1)
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Second look at Twilight: 2000?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (llXky)

558 It's sad and hilarious that if Russia were to nuke the US, they almost certainly would not target DC. That place is the source of our greatest disfunction, our greatest weakness as it is, and everyone knows it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (6FeV1)

559 464 Given the totalitarian way that Europe has reacted to Covid, and the Green Energy idiocy, I don't think any of Europe is worth saving anymore. If the Russians don't run it, the muzzies will. It's not worth it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (trdmm)
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Eastern Europe is worth saving, western europe 50-50.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (iDcra)

560 Smart diplomacy would be leveraging this.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:17 PM (llXky)

Our diplomacy was never smart even when the State wasn't full of idiots.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (eoQWY)

561 "I do the doo doo that I do" - FJB

Posted by: azjaeger at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (CDJid)

562 If only one nuclear weapon detonated in a US city, the whole country would shit its pants. Store shelves and gas pumps across the nation would be bare within one day. All services and utilities would begin to seize up. Roving bands of murderers would own the streets (even more than we have now.)
___

I truly believe that our current PTB would love nothing more than for that to happen, so they can have absolute power via martial law.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (RU4sa)

563 528 If we're gonna be the world's cop can we at least charge for protection? 5% of GDP if you want us to give a fuck about you. Pay up or you're on your own.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant
----

You've been talking to Trump, haven't you?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (JVMtX)

564
LOL, Gordon Chang has been talking about a Chinese EMP attack for five years now. We're completely unprepared for such a thing, because no one in government takes it seriously.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:12 P

I've read that to secure our electric grid from such an attack would cost every household a one time charge of 25 dollars. I'm willing to secure my household and a bunch of my neighbors at that price. I'd suggest our leaders don't care but I think the truth is that they don't give a flying fvck.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (dQvv7)

565 Loins and Rachel Maddow in the same headline.

As an emetic it can't be beat!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (Q9lwr)

566 I'll have you know I have earned many feats of strength in World of Warcraft that are every bit as impressive as Biden standing in one place sundowning on national TV:

A Legendary Campaign
It's Over 9000!
Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros

and many others!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (KZzsI)

567 The Russian Wrong Pronoun Brigades will probably be pretty fun to watch, tho.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (6FeV1)

568 "I'm not kidding. Have you given any thought to how much of everyday life depends on computer chips? The enslavement of Taiwan is not going to be without repercussion"

If PRC wants to destroy Taiwan chip fabs, how can we possibly stop them?

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (qpX6U)

569 539 Wiki says that the Ukraine has an army of 60K. Out of 7M available men.

So...obviously they take their security seriously.

Russia weighs in at 850K by comparison.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM

I believe Ukraine may also be the poorest nation, per capita, in Europe, which may have something to do with this.

Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (JCZqz)

570 Why do you assume if China takes over Tawian those chips will no longer be made? You think China will blow up the factories after taking over or something? The entire premise is ridiculous.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (OalnH)
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see 456

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (VMY76)

571 Yeah he came off very very strong.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (ytSiK)

572 it's not 1991. I'm ready to start chanting "No Blood for Iphones..." or whatever would be catchy.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (ZZK0E)

It's not just about iPhones any more

Chain saws now need to be connected to a laptop in order to be tuned.

Now do cars, washing machines, refrigerators..

No longer a need for EMPs. .

Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (hOMhY)

573 470 441 Duke was here about a week ago. He said his wife requested a divorce which threw him for a loop as they were looking at houses, so I imagine he's caught up with that very difficult situation
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (RZSup)

Oh wow, I missed that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 05:10 PM (Ez6QX)

Shit, totally missed that too. Damn that sucks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (II3Gr)

574 Because Kamala Harris didn't know the answer ...

She'll need to find out by reading it in the newpaper, like Barcky.

Posted by: Flyover at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (Rbu5d)

575 My stance on the point of helping Taiwan vs having chips is that we need to be prepared for chip shortages. I do not want to risk American lives just to have a new iPhone either. Just that the reality is our country is sadly not prepared for this reality, and it was easy to see coming for over a decade.
Posted by: Dogbert

It's not just computer microchips. It's a lot of things. Our position in the Pacific will be significantly weaker IF China takes Taiwan. This has been a point of discussion for about 70 years now, since the CCP took over and made China the PRC. There have been a TON of skirmishes between Taiwan and China over the years, each has shot down the other's airplanes, etc.
The single biggest thing we could do would be to put some fast attack subs in the Taiwan straits and sink whatever China sends over to Taiwan, should the fighting start.
I contend that China wants to take Taiwan intact, and not wreck the place. At some point, Taiwan is expected to give in. After all, people in leadership in China not only read Sun Tzu, they memorize passages from his book.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (vcOmj)

576 I guess I don't care about Ukraine. It's pretty far down my list.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (vrz2I)

577 Iran
Lebanon
Somalia
Afghanistan

Am I leaving anyone else out?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:19 PM (llXky)

Deciding to not engage is not getting beat. That's politics.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (NqZ29)

578 I truly believe that our current PTB would love nothing more than for that to happen, so they can have absolute power via martial law.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:23 PM (RU4sa)

This. But we might stop hearing about trannies for 5 minutes. *makes weighing motion*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (dNqv+)

579 Reaching out to my trapline and hearing that for the Ukraine, most of the people in the region don't give a damn what Putin does as long as he keeps it local. His short-term goal? Likely a land bridge from the Donbass region to the Crimea. The population is still Russian friendly, they are pissed with their current situation being stuck between two war zones, crappy economy, and corruption everywhere.
And he can achieve this reasonably cheaply. His army has been training heavily in Hybrid warfare...they can win it.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (axyOa)

580 Hey Ukraine. Maybe you shouldn't have torpedoed Trump.

As for siding with the democrats, I suggest you remember this line from Animal House: "You fucked up. You trusted us (democrats)"

Posted by: Chuck C at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (EughT)

581 LOL, Gordon Chang has been talking about a Chinese EMP attack for five years now. We're completely unprepared for such a thing, because no one in government takes it seriously.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 05:12 PM (bkUtD)

I've been reading the One Second After trilogy from time to time to calculate my odds of survival if this were to happen.

Since I'm near a (smaller) city and about a thousand miles away from anybody such as family I can count on, and the land here isn't the best for growing stuff...my odds are pretty damn slim, even if I survive the riots and marauders that'll spawn about 2 weeks into such an attack.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (Rl7KJ)

582 but we should be honest about what it means.

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kowtow

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (JVMtX)

583 539 Wiki says that the Ukraine has an army of 60K. Out of 7M available men.

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Ukraine's population is 44M. So .14% of their population is military. By comparison ours is something like 0.5%. So remind me again why our ration is 3X as high as theirs? Why are we spending a fortune on our military to protect them while they spend 1/3 as much (relatively speaking)? And why is it our problem?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (OalnH)

584 young, nubile, Ukrainian refugee women.

Now we're talkin'. No yellow, Dad! Fuck Taiwan.

Posted by: Hunter B. at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (CTJwJ)

585 As far as Taiwan is concerned their government is corrupt like ours and infested with Chinese operatives... like ours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM (BFigT)
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Not as corrupt as the PRC, though. Taiwan's military is legit and they seem to be well aware of the fact almost their entire political class will be lined up and shot if they lose.

Beijing will be taking a poke at a hornet's nest and China has ZERO operational experience of amphibious operations.

It would be like if the US decided to make it's first amphibious assault of WW II against Omaha Beach.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (llXky)

586 is army has been training heavily in Hybrid warfare...they can win it.
Posted by: Diogenes

Attack Prius'sssss?

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (vd8XM)

587 China's not nuking S.F. Where do you think authentic chop suey comes from?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

588 RIP, redc1c4.

May his memory be eternal.

Posted by: Flyover at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (Rbu5d)

589 576 I guess I don't care about Ukraine. It's pretty far down my list.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (vrz2I)

Yeah, Ukraine/Russia is one corrupt bastard government against Russia.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (dNqv+)

590 >>>370 MIA are tricky unless your here 24/7
Brother Northernlurker has been around within the week I am fairly sure, weekend maybe.
Brought up Duke has been missing but hopefully will show up any day.
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:00 PM (2JoB

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I should have said Brother Northernlurker is not to be confused with N.L. Urker.

Posted by: Turn Two at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (CoAjq)

591 I believe Ukraine may also be the poorest nation, per capita, in Europe, which may have something to do with this.

Georgia, equally poor, but with about 1/10 the population has 37K soldiers - so per capita about 5 times as many soldiers.

I suspect that Ukraine believes paying off Biden was a better choice then building a military and is about to find out the ROI on that one was not good

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (ESjRY)

592 see 456
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (VMY76)

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LOL. China makes more chips than Taiwan. Like I said your entire premise is ridiculous.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:27 PM (OalnH)

593 After all, people in leadership in China not only read Sun Tzu, they memorize passages from his book.
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Meanwhile, the leadership in the US reads twitter, the NYT, and the WP.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 05:27 PM (RU4sa)

594 LOL... M and M's are now woke......Rainbow color weren't enough.....They changed them to be more welcoming to everyone.....Barf time

Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:27 PM (TdaKq)

595 I believe Ukraine may also be the poorest nation, per capita, in Europe, which may have something to do with this.
Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:24 PM (JCZqz)

Ukraine is a billiard table with a swamp on the north side. Even in WWII neither side could defend it for long - each retired pretty much to the far side as fast as they could to more defendable terrain.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

596 We've got our own corrupt bastard government to worry about.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (vrz2I)

597 How has Kazakhstan disappeared from the news? I remember them being a big deal last week.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (BvZkh)

598 Who can beat us?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

White supremists

Posted by: 7man at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (qwO6y)

599 Why do you assume if China takes over Tawian those chips will no longer be made? You think China will blow up the factories after taking over or something? The entire premise is ridiculous.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (OalnH)

I think the Taiwanese have threatened to destroy them if they are invaded. it doesn't take a lot to destroy their ability to make those delicate little super clean chips. Hell, a firefight inside the building would probably fuck up production for months? Add a few fires and intelligent sabotage? Complete Rebuilding might be faster.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (Z32m1)

600 Deciding to not engage is not getting beat. That's politics.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:25 PM (NqZ29)
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Iran: Overran embassy, took hostages, Operation Eagle Claw was a disaster.
Lebanon: Moved in troops with unloaded rifles, barracks blown up, withdrawal.
Somalia: Humanitarian mission creep. Black Hawk Down, retreat.
Afghanistan: Nuff said.

Yeah, we're on a real winning streak.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (llXky)

601 It would be like if the US decided to make it's first amphibious assault of WW II against Omaha Beach.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (llXky)

I wouldn't put it past Taiwan to nuke any invasion fleet. They have little to lose.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (eoQWY)

602 "They changed them to be more welcoming to everyone.....Barf time
Posted by: It's me donna"

Is there a Flesh colored one?

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (vrz2I)

603 597 How has Kazakhstan disappeared from the news? I remember them being a big deal last week.
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (BvZkh)

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Remember a couple of years ago we were thiiiiiiiis close to WW3 with Iran? And that lasted for about 48 hours until the next shiny object came along to focus on.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (OalnH)

604 Insomniac it was a willowed comment, I just tend not to ditch threads so fast that saw it.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (2JoB8)

605 So the Ukrainian army spent the last year sitting in the mud.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

Ukraine army... 500,000. Been trained by the West for a couple years now, but US training is now based on Counter insurgency.

Russians in area... 100,000 combat troops, most drafted for only 1 year of service.

This sure ain't Desert Storm material.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (oHd/0)

606 594 LOL... M and M's are now woke......Rainbow color weren't enough.....They changed them to be more welcoming to everyone.....Barf time
Posted by: It's me donna at January 20, 2022 05:27 PM (TdaKq)

They'll be peanut M and M's, but packaged as regular M and M's, because they "identify" as not having nuts.

Peanut allergy folks who might die are just transphobic bigots.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (6FeV1)

607 How about "off-white"?

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (vrz2I)

608 Chinese manufactured chips will have a little something extra.

A Chinese back door.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (JVMtX)

609 It would be like if the US decided to make it's first amphibious assault of WW II against Omaha Beach.

I suspect a secondary goal of any Chinese war is to get rid of some of the excess young men so...getting a lot people killed while winning is likely not a problem for them.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (ESjRY)

610 This motherless whore is so stupid she can't even manage to deal with a subservient press. Ridiculous. At least the old man can blame the fact that he's a billion years old.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (4odx6)

611 441 Duke was here about a week ago. He said his wife requested a divorce which threw him for a loop as they were looking at houses, so I imagine he's caught up with that very difficult situation
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (RZSup)

Yes, I saw that. I had no idea what to say in response so I said nothing. I liked the way he presented it though; sort of matter of fact. I hope he knows we're thinking about him.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 05:30 PM (Ed8Zd)

612 I think the Taiwanese have threatened to destroy them if they are invaded. it doesn't take a lot to destroy their ability to make those delicate little super clean chips. Hell, a firefight inside the building would probably fuck up production for months? Add a few fires and intelligent sabotage? Complete Rebuilding might be faster.
Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (Z32m1)

The fact that the chipmakers who make them would be dead in the fighting, fleeing, or in labor camps might throw a crimp in the process as well.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:30 PM (eoQWY)

613
A Chinese back door.

I have to tell you, I still can't walk straight after I got one of those.

Oh the things I do for my country.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 20, 2022 05:30 PM (ESjRY)

614 "As far as Taiwan is concerned their government is corrupt like ours and infested with Chinese operatives... like ours."

If it's the chip fabs we're worried about, yes, they are probably full of PRC agents and potential saboteurs. Chip fabs are fragile.

If the Bay of Pigs succeeded, maybe I'd believe the USA could do something useful to save Taiwan.

Posted by: gp Extends His Arms, Retracts His Nipples at January 20, 2022 05:30 PM (qpX6U)

615 Iran: Overran embassy, took hostages, Operation Eagle Claw was a disaster.
Lebanon: Moved in troops with unloaded rifles, barracks blown up, withdrawal.
Somalia: Humanitarian mission creep. Black Hawk Down, retreat.
Afghanistan: Nuff said.

Yeah, we're on a real winning streak.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (llXky)

Desert Storm, STOP right now, you're winning too much!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2022 05:30 PM (oHd/0)

616 I think the Taiwanese have threatened to destroy them if they are invaded. it doesn't take a lot to destroy their ability to make those delicate little super clean chips. Hell, a firefight inside the building would probably fuck up production for months? Add a few fires and intelligent sabotage? Complete Rebuilding might be faster.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (Z32m1)
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The whole country is fortified. They have underground airfields.

A few weeks ago Taiwan said they had enough missiles to close *all* of the mainland's ports with enough left over to target power plants.

These people do not sound like they are kidding.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (llXky)

617 .getting a lot people killed while winning is likely not a problem for them.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (ESjRY)
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agree completely

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (lMmuq)

618 Why do you assume if China takes over Tawian those chips will no longer be made? You think China will blow up the factories after taking over or something? The entire premise is ridiculous.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:20 PM

The Taiwanese might be the ones sabotaging the factories.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (EughT)

619 Why do you assume if China takes over Tawian those chips will no longer be made? You think China will blow up the factories after taking over or something? The entire premise is ridiculous.

Taiwan might, as they've been talking about it as a way to deny the ChiComs any value in the conquest.

They would be right to do so.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (kOpft)

620 556
Consider that the current crop of Battalion Commanders and Brigade Commander know nothing of combined arms operations. Nothing. All they know is low intensity conflict in an Afghanistan environment.
Can they train up? Sure! But it will take a year and a shit load of money. It would also help if most of the 4 stars were retired.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:18 PM (axyOa)

^^^^^^^^^^^
THIS!!!!!!!
Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 05:22 PM

Uh...this is nonsense. You know what the Army Advanced Operations course is? A school all Army officers (Major-Lieutenant Colonel) take if they want a shot at promotion to Colonel. It a serious of exercises where the students take various staff jobs in different phases of an operation to defend Ukraine from a fictional nation's conventional invasion using Russian equipment and doctrine, starting with mobilization in the US, movement to theater, defending an attack, and finally counter attacking.

Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (JCZqz)

621 "A Chinese back door."

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (vrz2I)

622 >>How has Kazakhstan disappeared from the news? I remember them being a big deal last week.

Once Kazakhstan arrested Hunter's former business partner for helping lead the attempted government overthrow it ceased to be important news.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (ZLI7S)

623 is army has been training heavily in Hybrid warfare...they can win it.
Posted by: Diogenes

Attack Prius'sssss?
Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2022 05:26 PM (vd8XM)

Snort!
Somewhere I saw a video of a Prius with a (I think) 20mm cannon on it. The recoil would send the car flying backwards. Hilarious.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (axyOa)

624 I said slowly reading transcript of the slobber fest, they all so far are we love you Mr president so what do you say about ....

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (2JoB8)

625 How has Kazakhstan disappeared from the news? I remember them being a big deal last week.
Posted by: t-bird

Yeah, it is still a big deal. The Russians blame the US for the chaos going on there, and they are a paranoid lot, after all.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (vcOmj)

626 The whole country is fortified. They have underground airfields.

A few weeks ago Taiwan said they had enough missiles to close *all* of the mainland's ports with enough left over to target power plants.

These people do not sound like they are kidding.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (llXky)

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Then why do they need us?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (OalnH)

627 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:28 PM (llXky)

Again. Those were not military results. Those are political results.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (NqZ29)

628 To be sure, I think Xi is bluffing and will not attack Taiwan.

But if I am wrong and he does, the world has a big problem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (lMmuq)

629 I believe Ukraine may also be the poorest nation, per capita, in Europe, which may have something to do with this.

I think Bulgaria is worse off but yeah.

And if you think every phone China makes (all of them) isn't built with a backdoor they can tap into, I got a bridge to sell you

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (KZzsI)

630 Don't the Russians have awe-inspiring helicopters and ass-kicking artillery?

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (KAi1n)

631 I suspect a secondary goal of any Chinese war is to get rid of some of the excess young men so...getting a lot people killed while winning is likely not a problem for them.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 05:29 PM (ESjRY)
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They don't have 'excess' young men, they have a shortage of women.

Their birth rate has collapsed. They still recruit by conscription and are worried that 15 percent of otherwise healthy males have fapped themselves into uselessness.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (llXky)

632 Nood - NBC news sez that publishing materials used in schools to teach teh kidz is bad.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (Rl7KJ)

633 Nood

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 05:34 PM (SH2Zi)

634 Taiwan might, as they've been talking about it as a way to deny the ChiComs any value in the conquest.

They would be right to do so.
Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (kOpft)

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Say that does happen. Tawiwan produces 80% of the world's chips. So there will be a shortage, short term. But China produces 25% and I'm pretty sure they could ramp up production pretty quickly to meet the demand.

Even so, a chip shortage for a few months is not enough of a reason to go to war with China. Sorry. I can wait a few months for my new iphone 15 or whatever number we're at right now.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:34 PM (OalnH)

635 Uh...this is nonsense. You know what the Army Advanced Operations course is? A school all Army officers (Major-Lieutenant Colonel) take if they want a shot at promotion to Colonel. It a serious of exercises where the students take various staff jobs in different phases of an operation to defend Ukraine from a fictional nation's conventional invasion using Russian equipment and doctrine, starting with mobilization in the US, movement to theater, defending an attack, and finally counter attacking.
Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (JCZqz)

Yeah, well I remember in the 1970s the "Reforger" plan was that the US Army would just land at Frankfurt airport, about 30 miles from the front line if the USSR invaded. You can imagine what the Russians could have done to a bunch of Jumbo Jets full of troops.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (eoQWY)

636 Taiwan produces 20%, not 80%. Meant to say, 80% of the supply will still be there.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (OalnH)

637 Hey! I had an EMP in my pants! No kidding. Had to go to shielded diapers. My word as a Biteum.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (vrz2I)

638 We had a President sign a treaty that we would preserve the borders of the Ukraine (against Russia).
But he was a Democrat (Bill Clinton); so the Democrats are sure that doesn't count.
Yet again (Obama and now Biden).
Lesson:
Never trust a Democrat, they're certain oaths and treaties are of no value.
I already knew that; watching Reagan and GHW Bush make "deals" with them.
But it's nice to give big examples to everyone, I guess.

Posted by: ertdfg at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (I388C)

639
The funny thing is, I remember when all these selfsame people used to have fun along with everyone else, pointing and laughing at Brandon when he was VP.

And now, when he's *SOMEHOW* dumber than ever before, they all have to talk about how He Is An Inspiration To Us All.

I seriously think when you're in the media there's a day when you wake up and your dick is just gone.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (4odx6)

640 A few weeks ago Taiwan said they had enough missiles to close *all* of the mainland's ports with enough left over to target power plants.

These people do not sound like they are kidding.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at
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They sound like adults.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (JVMtX)

641 Again. Those were not military results. Those are political results.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 05:32 PM (NqZ29)
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Really? The crashed helos in Iran weren't military? The dead Marines weren't military?

Do explain this strange distinction you're making.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:35 PM (llXky)

642 Their birth rate has collapsed. They still recruit by conscription and are worried that 15 percent of otherwise healthy males have fapped themselves into uselessness.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (llXky)

Kids aren't getting married because that means twice as many parents to take care of in old age.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (eoQWY)

643 Something to cheer you up: Pookette is currently practicing the song she's playing for piano festival in six weeks, a hilarious piece about a crab scuttling around and pinching things.

Posted by: pookysgirl, piano mom at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (XKZwp)

644 Desert Storm, STOP right now, you're winning too much!
Posted by: Romeo13

I think certain people in our government and out saw how effective the US Army, Air Force and Marines were in Desert Storm, and have been working assiduously ever since to hobble the armed forces.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (vcOmj)

645 Uh...this is nonsense. You know what the Army Advanced Operations course is? A school all Army officers (Major-Lieutenant Colonel) take if they want a shot at promotion to Colonel. It a serious of exercises where the students take various staff jobs in different phases of an operation to defend Ukraine from a fictional nation's conventional invasion using Russian equipment and doctrine, starting with mobilization in the US, movement to theater, defending an attack, and finally counter attacking.
Posted by: Anon Military Moron at January 20, 2022 05:31 PM (JCZqz)
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I understand that. I used to be a guest lecturer at the Army CGSC, and an OC for BCTP.
My point is no one had done it...in real time...on the ground. The NTC used to do this but converted to a full time LIC training program. It will take a year to reset the NTC OPFOR, and then run Battalions and Brigade through there to remember how to fight as a combined arms team.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (axyOa)

646 A Chinese back door.

Rosebud.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions for front sticks at January 20, 2022 05:36 PM (Qv0Mi)

647 What the US military used to do, compared what it IS doing are now two totally different things.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (BFigT)

648 LOL. China makes more chips than Taiwan. Like I said your entire premise is ridiculous.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 05:27 PM (OalnH)
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China is the physical location of Taiwanese chip plants. As a broad generalization the Chinese have zero ability to run those plants or maintain them. What is ridiculous is your semi-hysterical pro-China rants. You need to understand the difference between plant location and management capacity. Its basic.

But again, the larger point is unhinged posts, like yours, only lead to bigger problems. Trump managed the Pacific incredibly well, I thought, better than any recent president, and his policy was the exact opposite in every respect of what you advocate here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:40 PM (lMmuq)

649 Say that does happen. Tawiwan produces 80% of the world's chips. So there will be a shortage, short term. But China produces 25% and I'm pretty sure they could ramp up production pretty quickly to meet the demand.

We shouldn't buy anything produced in China.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (kOpft)

650 Taiwan Semi is building plants in the US. In addition, they are helping Intel build plants. They sell manufacturing equipment to AMD and Micron. It's a race against time to relocate Taiwanese chip-making technology to the US. Thanks to Trump, that is happening. But we need more time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (lMmuq)

651 I understand that. I used to be a guest lecturer at the Army CGSC, and an OC for BCTP.
My point is no one had done it...in real time...on the ground. The NTC used to do this but converted to a full time LIC training program. It will take a year to reset the NTC OPFOR, and then run Battalions and Brigade through there to remember how to fight as a combined arms team.
Posted by: Diogenes

Too true, and I am by no means knowledgeable about this. There was a guy I knew once who was a non-com out at NTC, and that was basically what he said.
A lot of the lower level enlisted will have no training for this at all. Some of the older NCO's and officers may remember what to do. I mean, they're not senile and forgetful.
But training has always been the edge for the US military. Since Reagan was President, training has been a by-word for being prepared.
The Russian army is full of 1-2 year conscripts. They might look good against Ukraine.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 05:43 PM (vcOmj)

652 We had a President sign a treaty that we would preserve the borders of the Ukraine (against Russia).
But he was a Democrat (Bill Clinton); so the Democrats are sure that doesn't count.
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Is there a treaty? I thought not, but my recollection on the subject may be poor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (lMmuq)

653 pookysgirl I hope you get a video of it to save

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (2JoB8)

654 180 Now Madeline Albright- go ahead and kill me instead.

And take your time if you want...

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 20, 2022 05:55 PM (2cGsn)

655 We had a President sign a treaty that we would preserve the borders of the Ukraine (against Russia).
But he was a Democrat (Bill Clinton); so the Democrats are sure that doesn't count.
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Is there a treaty? I thought not, but my recollection on the subject may be poor.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 05:46 PM (lMmuq)

Not a treaty, not ratified by the senate, and doesn't obligate aid. Russia was one of the states signing the Budapest memorandum so it wasn't specifically against them either.

At most it calls for consultation in the event of Ukraine's borders being violated, and to make a request for aid to the UN security council if a nuclear threat is made against them (how about them Russian and Chinese vetoes).

Ukraine considers it a treaty, since to admit otherwise would mean they got cajoled out of their nukes, but obviously since we never ratified it as a treaty in the Senate it cannot be a binding treaty with us.

In practice it's another lesson for countries to not trust us diplomatically and to never enter a NPT if they aren't already allied with a nuclear power.

Posted by: Sjg at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (gDSJf)

656 427 China makes more chips than Taiwan by the way, 24% to 21% of worldwide output. Going to war with China will fuck our access to more chips than letting China have Taiwan.
----
They may make more but of which types and for what uses?
Also how is the quality and reliability?
It reminds me of the pronouncements that more women are graduating college than men. But ..... what degrees are they coming out with in comparison to the men? Women Studies, Black Studies, Sociology, Underwater Basket-weaving?
Where are all the women graduating in STEM? Also a great number of women STEM grads are in Biological Sciences, not easy but the softest STEM one can find.

Posted by: Ciampino at January 20, 2022 06:47 PM (qfLjt)

Ugly Dwarf Robert Reich: Democrats Should Give Sinema "the Backs of Their Hands"

The Party of Women, y'all.

Former Democratic Labor Secretary Robert Reich became the latest figure on the left to viciously attack Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., over her filibuster stance, suggesting Senate Democrats should assault her for it.
"Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand," he wrote in a now-deleted tweet on Thursday. "Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands."
...
"No big deal," tweeted radio host Larry O'Connor. "Just Democrat/Socialist icon [Robert Reich] encouraging violence against a female senator who didn't vote the way he wanted."

A malignant communist dwarf with barely-repressed anger issues against women?

I shan't believe it! I simply shannot!

Update: Robert Reich has now acknowledged fault.

He acknowledged that this is all the fault of the conservative media, for "wildly misinterpreting" his statement.

Robert Reich
@RBReich
Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.

Why didn't you say it about Manchin then, Miguelito Loveless?

Last week, Jonathan Turley was perplexed -- remember how the media used to love "mavericks" like John McCain -- or Mitt Romney -- Republicans who defied their party to vote with the other party?

How come the leftwing media isn't celebrating two mavericks, Joe Manchin and especially the unconventional Kirsten Sinema?

I mean, you can't get more mavericky than Kirsten Sinema.

And yet the media hates them.

Liberal commentators this week went after Sinema with sputtering, blind fury, many mocking that she became emotional as she described the anger and divisions in the country.
...
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, who previously called for burning down the Republican Party, tweeted, "Sinema is effectively asking the authors of Jim Crow and vote-rigging to give their permission for her to stop it. This is worse than incoherent or cowardice. It's a moral disgrace. Ask the segregationists for permission to vote for Civil Rights Act?"
So, senators voicing the same position recently held by Democrats such as Biden, Obama and Schumer are now "segregationists"?
...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) [was once hailed as a brave maverick] he voted to convict then-President Trump in his second impeachment trial; liberal commentators showered him with praise. In 2020, Stephen Colbert heralded Romney as "a ray of hope" who spoke the truth and was "willing to put up with whatever the blowback for this decision is."
...
Yet, according to the Liberal pundits, Sinema is no Romney. She had the audacity to stand on principle rather than politics....
Sinema's speech was denounced by those who insist that bipartisanship is a "myth" in the age of rage. She is, according to MSNBC's Nina Turner, a "soulless coward" for seeking common ground and compromise. She is hated precisely because she did not hate enough. She did not hate Republicans so blindly as to declare them modern Bull Connors like Biden did or to call the filibuster "a relic of Jim Crow."

So, why does the media celebrate "mavericks" like McCain, Romney, Cheney, and Kinzinger, and condemn mavericks like Manchin and Sinema to hell?

I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.

Can you?

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

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1 sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

2 So, is every Democratic office holder going to be asked if they agree with this sentiment?

That's how this works, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

3 2nd again...

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at January 20, 2022 03:26 PM (CKevK)

4 And I'm booted from twatter for far less.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (wAnMi)

5 Small world.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (44ww/)

6 When did you stop beating your wife?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (bVYXr)

7 War on Women apparently is still a thing I guess.

Posted by: Bete at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (Ojki1)

8 3 2nd again...
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at January 20, 2022 03:26 PM (CKevK)

========

2nd again is a form of third, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

9 You know that sponge in the aquarium filter that cleans the fish poop? That's media.

Posted by: DaveA at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (FhXTo)

10 Violins against wymen

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (lCui1)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

12 Hasn't this little fuck succumbed to scabies yet?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (wAnMi)

13 I shan't believe it! I simply shannot!

The Deuce you say!!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (ZSK0i)

14 Choice of words ...

... was short-sighted.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (44ww/)

15 You know that sponge in the aquarium filter that cleans the fish poop? That's media.
Posted by: DaveA at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (FhXTo)

Hey. Screw you, buddy.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

16 He'll need a ladder.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (II3Gr)

17 Sometimes you just gotta take your beating.

Posted by: Fatlock at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (786Ro)

18 Willowed, but this is important:
621 Ok, if we're doing nics.
Mine is red for Republican, red state, who lives in a mostly red neighborhood and who dressed up as Red Riding Hood a lot for Halloween that it became a nickname.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (NpAcC)

Redhead?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (dNqv+)

19 Jennifer Rubin is nothing bit a whore.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (eGTCV)

20 "Why is this ugly little troll hitting me in the back of my knee with the back of his hand?"

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (W3VUu)

21 Willowed.

Search for JAG_Docs_pt1 or go to the vertias website.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 03:25 PM (eQvlh)

Find and read - Smoking Gun: Moderna Patented 'Man Made' SARS-CoV2 Gene Sequence in 2018

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (SH2Zi)

22 I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.

Particularly since the average woman could beat the crap out of me.

Posted by: Robert The Dwarf! at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (I2/tG)

23 Robert Reich is extremely tall when he stands on his wallet that he accumulated from a lifelong love affair of being on the grift.

Posted by: jeff at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (nf4HY)

24
Robert Reich
@RBReich
Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.

You, sir, are what's known in the industry as a 'lying sack of shit.'

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Rick James - "What did the five fingers say to the face?"
Charlie Murphy - "Huh?"
Rick James - "SLAP!" *TWHACK!* "I'm Rick James, bitch!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (YIVH2)

26 17 Sometimes you just gotta take your beating.
Posted by: Fatlock at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (786Ro)

Take your swing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (dNqv+)

27 Back of the Hand I'd rebuke. Binders of Women is violence. No wonder Dem Women are completely insane.

Posted by: Bete at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (Ojki1)

28 I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.

Can you?

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

Unscrupulous real estate developers.

It's ALWAYS unscrupulous real estate developers.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (dfRN6)

29 Ah, advocating violence against women. The R's could run with this.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 03:29 PM (6Je/Q)

30 Can you picture Reich trying to bitch-slap either of the Senators?

They'd punt him.

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (kOpft)

31 Give Sinema "the Backs of Their Hands"
.......

You mean like a spanking?

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (v0R5T)

32 Reich wants to beat up women.

I demand every democrat be forced to renounce Shrimpy Dwarf.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (Ed8Zd)

33 Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse

You are the Loofah that Rachel Welch always needed, but never got.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (u82oZ)

34 >> "Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands."

W
T
F
?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (URNdm)

35 Thousand Millimeter Reich pipes up?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (HKLhM)

36 What we need is a Robert Reissssshhhhhhuh/AtC cage match.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (II3Gr)

37 >>>I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.

Can you?

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

Commoh Aith, thith ith eathy.

Posted by: Corky at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (QYPq3)

38 Robert Reich: Democrats Should Give Sinema "the Backs of Their Hands"

What good is slapping her knee going to do?

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (l0Lgi)

39 Jennifer Rubin is nothing bit a whore.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:28 PM (eGTCV)

I bit a whore once. It got me in trouble.

Posted by: Marv Albert at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

40 wth

Slapping. Spanking uses the front of the hand, or so I heard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (u82oZ)

41 I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.

Can you?

Raggy!
Ruman Remmorhoid?
Ruh-roh!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (wAnMi)

42 Sizing Sinema up, Reich would get curb stomped.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (6Je/Q)

43 The phrase "bitch slap" implies that the bitch is the slappee, not the slapper.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (6FeV1)

44 1,000 Quatloos on the Empress

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (HKLhM)

45 To the Mystery Machine!

Posted by: steevy at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (CYnTg)

46 Insomniac -

My money is on AtC. By a lot.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (u82oZ)

47 sure-back of the hand is a rebuke just like getting punched in the face is a rebuke.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 03:31 PM (Ed8Zd)

48 Wut?! Wut's the problem? Women love the rough stuff!!!!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (st1eJ)

49 Usually, the race card is the last to be played, then comes beating the women, so I guess that is good news.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (5kI0z)

50 Alluding to violence is equivalent to the destruction of all civilization. Time to start over.

Posted by: klaftern at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (taPSh)

51 I'm picturing Kyrsten Senima somewhere at a campaign stop with the palm of her hand on Reich's forehead while he's swinging wildly with his chubby little arms.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (W3VUu)

52 >>You mean like a spanking?

A b$tchslap, as if from an angry pimp or abusive boyfriend.

This is an incredibly crude tweet.

Has Reich been suspended from twitter for threatening to harm, encouraging harm, of a US Senator?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (URNdm)

53 I'm not sure Reich could reach high enough to slap Sinema. He could fit in a thimble.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (0chEi)

54 2 So, is every Democratic office holder going to be asked if they agree with this sentiment?

That's how this works, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:26 PM (LvTSG)

You must be new here.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (9otr5)

55 I've got something to give her...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (8D42x)

56 I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.
.......

It's a conundrum.
An enigma, no less.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

57 Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media.

He misspelled "accurately condemned"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (KZzsI)

58 We know what you meant, tough guy.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (/9mpK)

59 Anna Puma

Hope your return to work was grand.

Going back to work myself. Have fun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (u82oZ)

60 51 I'm picturing Kyrsten Senima somewhere at a campaign stop with the palm of her hand on Reich's forehead while he's swinging wildly with his chubby little arms.
Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (W3VUu)

=========

Which pair of boots is she wearing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

61
You are the Loofah that Rachel Welch always needed, but never got.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at January 20, 2022 03:30 PM (u82oZ)

Story of my life. Apparently wanted somewhere while I was somewhere else.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Sinema has boots taller than Robert Reich.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (m45I2)

63 What a knee slapper

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (CjHGv)

64 I was misinterpreted in a way that only should happen to Republicans.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (pbStR)

65 Whatever happened to celebrating diversity?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (sWM8x)

66 "It's just this damn war in the Ukraine and that son of a bitch Trump!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (6FeV1)

67 53 I'm not sure Reich could reach high enough to slap Sinema. He could fit in a thimble.

***

With enough room left for his personality.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (W3VUu)

68 A dwarf, a tater, and a tentacle-phile walk into a bar...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (llON8)

69 So, why does the media celebrate "mavericks" like McCain, Romney, Cheney, and Kinzinger, and condemn mavericks like Manchin and Sinema to hell?

I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.
Can you?
++++
For the same reason that when Republicans jump on board to push through a piece of Dem legislation it is "bipartisanship" but when Democrats side with Republicans to block a piece of Dem legislation, it's treason that should be cured with Robert Reich's pimp hand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (DU+/6)

70 The party of Jefferson Davis, George Wallace, and Ike Turner.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (/6kZi)

71 It's Projection all the way down....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (PiwSw)

72 62 Sinema has boots taller than Robert Reich.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (m45I2)

And boobies he can't reach.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM (MkuC5)

73 Has he backtracked to "I meant 'turn our backs to'!" yet??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (UHVv4)

74 I saw the new thread called as "n--d dwarf" and assumed it would be Fauci.

Expectation status: subverted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (DU+/6)

75 Stand behind your tweets. Oh wait if you do that no one will be able to see you. Well played.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (/9mpK)

76 "Back of my hand" is such an Irish thing to say.
I never knew Robert Reich was Irish

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (ZMraq)

77 > "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke.

Yes, a physical rebuke, in the form of a backhanded slap.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (AhhdW)

78 >>>I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.

I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids.

Posted by: Romney in a Manchin Mask at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (SH2Zi)

79 Why didn't the malignant dwarf simply say she should be rebuked rather than use a stupid metaphor?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (eGTCV)

80 LOL. Baseball Cvck just wrote a lengthy article explaining that just because the National Google Review spent the last election campaign denouncing Trump as Satan and explaining that Trump was the Second Coming of Adolph Hitler didn't mean that they actually wanted anyone to vote for Biden.

Heaven forfend! NGR didn't want Biden to win, they merely wanted Trump to lose. That's completely different!

Don't you dare claim that National Google Review or its writers bear any responsibility for the election of Biden!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (I2/tG)

81 He's just mad that Sen Sinema must tower over him, as most women would.

Posted by: Snake Spirit at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (CdZ4i)

82 I'm picturing Kyrsten Senima somewhere at a campaign stop with the palm of her hand on Reich's forehead while he's swinging wildly with his chubby little arms.
Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (W3VUu)
++++
That's a raucously funny visual.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (DU+/6)

83 Yeah, 'back of the hand' was just as misinterpreted as 'lined up against the wall' was, right dipshit?

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

84 I'd pay to see reich tarred and feathered. Not a figure of speech. 500 deg. tar. And goose down.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (0OmEj)

85 74 I saw the new thread called as "n--d dwarf" and assumed it would be Fauci.

Expectation status: subverted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (DU+/6)

Bridget the Midget would've been better though.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (II3Gr)

86 You want a ladder? Let me see a note from your mom...

Posted by: The Janitor at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (pbStR)

87 The phrase "bitch slap" implies that the bitch is the slappee, not the slapper.

I learned it from the card game based on Werewolf: The Apocalypse, so some of the context may have been missing.

The artwork was my second favorite after Torn Asunder (You rip some fool in half).

Posted by: Methos at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (kOpft)

88 What a liar! Everybody knows what "back of the hand " means.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (9wRBr)

89 Here's your tell:

I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.

An unnecessary modifier.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (m45I2)

90 But Trump said p*ssy!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (ptqGC)

91 74 I saw the new thread called as "n--d dwarf" and assumed it would be Fauci.

Expectation status: subverted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (DU+/6)

Better than Last Jedi.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (dNqv+)

92 As an AZ constituent of Sinema's, I take great offense at the feral garden gnome's insult of, and instigation of violence against, my senator.

He should be drawn and quartered, assuming there's enough of the little maggot to divide into quarters.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (k4dH2)

93 It will remain one of life's great mysteries.

Posted by: WisRich at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (G0vdT)

94 And to think some folks say that Robert Reich didn't learn anything at all from Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (W3VUu)

95 Baseball Cvck just wrote a lengthy article explaining that just because the National Google Review spent the last election campaign denouncing Trump as Satan and explaining that Trump was the Second Coming of Adolph Hitler didn't mean that they actually wanted anyone to vote for Biden. ...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (I2/tG)
++++
This is a dodge and not even a sophisticated one. NR might not have endorsed Biden, but their brigade of Low-T NeverTrump pussies all did so individually.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (DU+/6)

96 Would someone tell this halfling-halfling to stfu?

Posted by: Bilbo Baggins at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (QYPq3)

97 74 I saw the new thread called as "n--d dwarf" and assumed it would be Fauci.

Expectation status: subverted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (DU+/6)

===========

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4Ss5bK-ws

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)

98 Milton Friedman > > > Robert Reich

Posted by: Dwarf Professors Compared! at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (I2/tG)

99 Reich wants to beat up women.
........

Bruce Jenner will kick his ass.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

100 Jen Rubin is suggesting that the *Repubs* are the party of Jim Crow and vote-rigging? How divorced from reality can one get?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (txdEq)

101 7 War on Women apparently is still a thing I guess.
Posted by: Bete at January 20, 2022 03:27 PM (Ojki1)

The Dems in 2012 demanded we exchange a fictional "war on women" for a REAL war on absolutely every U.S. citizen.

Posted by: Snake Spirit at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (CdZ4i)

102 The demoncrats care about abusing women. Look at what is normal for them.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (ytSiK)

103 Remind me again how many Senators we have?

Posted by: Max Power at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (Hucnr)

104
Senior Democratic advisor calls for violence against women.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (/U27+)

105 "Keepin a strong pimp hand" is an idiom for rebuke.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (SXSmD)

106 He's 4' 11"

I could take him.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (ptqGC)

107 I want to live in the world in which Sinema corners this little shit and punts him into the next zip code. The PayPerView would generate billions.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (zWpOF)

108 Wow, Begala, Carville, now Reich. The old bench is really coming up from the basement all of a sudden.

Posted by: Ktgreat at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (AD3JT)

109 Better than Last Jedi.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (dNqv+)
++++
So is a hemorrhoid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (DU+/6)

110 >>and explaining that Trump was the Second Coming of Adolph Hitler didn't mean that they actually wanted anyone to vote for Biden.

LOLGF.
Copying Ben Shapiro's "non-binary choice" shtick is 'not a good look,' as the kidz say.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (URNdm)

111 It's a conundrum.
An enigma, no less.
Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

Wrapped in a puzzle cloaked in a poser surrounded by a thin minty mystery. Mmmm.

Now 30% smaller for twice the price.
Let's Go Brandon!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (wAnMi)

112 108 It's like Satan expectorated.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (MkuC5)

113 108 Wow, Begala, Carville, now Reich. The old bench is really coming up from the basement all of a sudden.
Posted by: Ktgreat at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (AD3JT)

The roaches are scurrying out from under the fridge.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (II3Gr)

114 106 He's 4' 11"

I imagine he has a head the size of a pumpkin.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (eGTCV)

115 I'm old enough to remember when Sarah Palin shot Gabby Giffords with even more remote (i.e., nonexistent) allusions to violence.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (SH2Zi)

116 Wow, Begala, Carville, now Reich. The old bench is really coming up from the basement all of a sudden.
==
It is ALIVE!!!

Posted by: CHTILLARY at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (FOSUO)

117 A backhanded slap/blow is not necessarily anti-woman, more contemptuous in general. Like smacking another man that way to challenge him to a duel.

Since she is the challenged party, she gets to choose the weapons.

*psst* Kristen, challenge him to run the 200m hurdles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (dNqv+)

118 While Trump was president Jen Rubin spent her days crying and sucking the jelly out of jelly donuts

Posted by: steevy at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (CYnTg)

119 So, he's saying he's a card carrying member of the Slapaho tribe then.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

120 Yeah, 'back of the hand' was just as misinterpreted as 'lined up against the wall' was, right dipshit?
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

as long as it wasn't meant as "forced to kneel at the lip of a trench" I suppose it isn't that bad

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (ZMraq)

121 It is boggling that the fate of the Republic and the lives of millions hangs on will of two people, both from the party that hates Americans.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (yQpMk)

122 last thread, someone mentioned woke idiots running Mars wanted to redesign their M&Ms and... they look pretty much the same.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4dx4x9

Ony change: orange has hands in a different position, green is not trying to look seductive, and they are arranged in a different order now.

Oooh. Big change

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)

123 Don't you love how quickly they get all educated on you to shut you up...?

Great. Now go stick your idiom up your diazeugma, you three foot clitic.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (/9mpK)

124 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4Ss5bK-ws
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (LvTSG)
++++
That's pretty mean. And accurate. That round-headed goblin likely ended his career, though, so at least there's that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)

125 A dwarf, a Munchkin and Robert Reich walk ~~into[/ss] under a bar.~~

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (m45I2)

126 >>He's 4' 11"
I could take him.

Barely 4'11". I walked past him in DC and did a double-take because it was such a tiny man in a suit -- and then realized who he was.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (URNdm)

127 Manlets always talk big

Posted by: brak at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (I4hmj)

128 I still like 'dorsum' better than 'back of hand.'

Posted by: gp Embraces The Suck at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (qpX6U)

129 Reich would need the Dem senators to slap her for him because he would not be able to reach her face.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (rF64X)

130 Whatever happened to Mary Matalin?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (ptqGC)

131 tag fail!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (m45I2)

132 124 That's pretty mean. And accurate. That round-headed goblin likely ended his career, though, so at least there's that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (DU+/6)

=========

He's already finished filming Knives Out 2, part of a deal with Netflix that made him about $400 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (LvTSG)

133 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (arJlL)

134 He's 4' 11"

I could take him.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (ptqGC)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

135 Why didn't the malignant dwarf simply say she should be rebuked rather than use a stupid metaphor?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:34 PM (eGTCV)

Because he meant what he said. He only walked it back after people gave him shit for it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (Ez6QX)

136 Heaven forfend! NGR didn't want Biden to win, they merely wanted Trump to lose. That's completely different!

***

So now they're back to trying to f*** the chicken named "This election is not a binary choice!".

They really are intellectually bankrupt.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (W3VUu)

137 Bruce Jenner will kick his ass.
___

He's not a woman.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (RU4sa)

138 He's already finished filming Knives Out 2, part of a deal with Netflix that made him about $400 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (LvTSG)
++++
I stand corrected.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (DU+/6)

139 President Dunning Kruger is out wandering in the rose garden wondering what he was supposed to remember about Robert Reich.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (aoFfE)

140 VOTE RIGHT OR I'LL SHOW YOU MY MIGHTY PIMP HAND, BITCHES!

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (DU+/6)

141 103 Remind me again how many Senators we have?
Posted by: Max Power at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (Hucnr)

Uhhhh...500?

Posted by: Most public HS grads at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (CdZ4i)

142 Wow, Begala, Carville, now Reich. The old bench is really coming up from the basement all of a sudden.

The Democratic Party is a pack of fossils hoping to be saved by a skinny fake Mexican lunatic and a fruity idiot ex-mayor.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (KZzsI)

143 Thanks for giving me permission, Senile Joe!

https://twitter.com/sovietvisuals
/status/1483698237416509443

Posted by: Vladmir Vladmirovich Putin! at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (I2/tG)

144 82 I'm picturing Kyrsten Senima somewhere at a campaign stop with the palm of her hand on Reich's forehead while he's swinging wildly with his chubby little arms.
Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (W3VUu)
++++
That's a raucously funny visual.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

With Yakkety Sax loudly playing in the background.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (0chEi)

145 Reich wants to beat up women.
.......

The midget chick on 90 Day Fiance will kick his ass.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

146 "Tire iron to the head" being an idiom for Gomer Pyle saying "shame, shame shame."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (63Dwl)

147 So, why does the media celebrate "mavericks" like McCain, Romney, Cheney, and Kinzinger, and condemn mavericks like Manchin and Sinema to hell?

I can't figure this Groovy Mystery out.

Can you?

To quote some dead old white English dude, it is indeed "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".

If only Brian would offer a "Tater's Take(tm)" on this.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (a3Q+t)

148 Jen Rubin is suggesting that the *Repubs* are the party of Jim Crow and vote-rigging? How divorced from reality can one get?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (txdEq)

She hasn't lost her marbles. They are just infected with rabies.

Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math ~~Queen~~ King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (rF64X)

149 Robert Reich, changes his pitch up.

Smack My Bitch Up

https://youtu.be/4bfrTHAlkz0

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (SH2Zi)

150 Does this mean we get to see Sinema naked?

Posted by: Weasel at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (0IeYL)

151 Remind me again how many Senators we have?
Posted by: Max Power at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (Hucnr)
++++
Two per state, so 114.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President of the United States at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (DU+/6)

152 127 Manlets always talk big
Posted by: brak at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (I4hmj)

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_dL_IMPP4

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (PiwSw)

153 While Trump was president Jen Rubin spent her days crying and sucking the jelly out of jelly donuts
Posted by: steevy at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (CYnTg)

that's hot

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (ZMraq)

154 I haven't seen it mentioned, and here it hardly needs to be, but. Bull Conner, George Wallace were both Democrats in high standing.
Along with such luminaries as Lester Maddox, LBJ, Bobby Byrd, FDR and Woody Wilson.
The KKK was the Party militia and, given the FIB's infiltration of it, will be again once BLM and antifa run their course.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (HMWox)

155
Why didn't you say it about Manchin then, Miguelito Loveless?

Nice callback to CBS' "Wild, Wild West"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (pNxlR)

156 Willowed, re: our screen names: My sometimes alternate nic, Nosmo King, stems from when I was an intern, presenting patient histories to the attending physician. We stopped outside an empty patient room and I began by saying "This next patient is..." at which point I realized the room was empty. I read the sign on the door (No Smoking) and quickly ad libbed, "...Nosmo King"
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022

***
I seem to recall a '90s (?) PSA about stopping the cigarette habit that punned on The Great and Powerful Oz, i.e., "Noz Mo King," or something like that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (txdEq)

157 OF COURSE it's stupid to harp on a guy using a common expression who clearly didn't mean actual physical violence... that's the entire freaking point!!! That's precisely what we mean by "Your Rules". This is the world that was made for us by monsters. Let us joyfully make the monsters live up (down?) to their own monstrosity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (6FeV1)

158 Barely 4'11". I walked past him in DC and did a double-take because it was such a tiny man in a suit -- and then realized who he was.
___

So he's a puntable size.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (RU4sa)

159 Barely 4'11". I walked past him in DC and did a double-take because it was such a tiny man in a suit -- and then realized who he was.

He can always find employment walking around with a tray of sweetmeats on his head.

Posted by: Louis XIII at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (ZsR3z)

160 >>That round-headed goblin likely ended his career, though, so at least there's that

Sadly, no. He's making multiple "Knives Out" movies because the first one was such a hit (with idiots).

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (URNdm)

161 My money is on Synema against any Democrat in the US Senate.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (Z32m1)

162 What a liar! Everybody knows what "back of the hand " means.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (9wRBr)

What?
Next you'll be saying that "Just the tip" has nothing to do with compensating a waiter.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (wAnMi)

163 It was just a joke. Don't get your panties in a twist. Look what you made me do.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (vN+oL)

164 You have to give Miguelito Loveless credit. For a little guy he was constantly causing problems for James West and Artemis Gordon.

Now he exceeded my expectations.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (ZLI7S)

165 >>So he's a puntable size.

Oh yeah!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (URNdm)

166 Here's your tell:

I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.

Did you know his little heart goes at 300 bpm? It's true.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (AytXr)

167 "You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square."

--Thousand Millimeter Reich

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (sOXXq)

168 Miguelito Loveless was taller, smarter, and a better actor than Reich.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (LjjXd)

169 Here's your tell:

I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.

An unnecessary modifier.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (m45I2)

Heh no shit. Remember how OJ was "100% Not Guilty".

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (/9mpK)

170 *psst* Kristen, challenge him to run the 200m hurdles.

She's taller than 3rd Reich, but no way she has 200+ meter vertical jump.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (SchxB)

171 It's easy to figure out.
Leftist are mad because Sinema and Manchin are practicing maverick without a license (the media issues maverick licenses).

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (0QpRu)

172 >>> 142 Wow, Begala, Carville, now Reich. The old bench is really coming up from the basement all of a sudden.

The Democratic Party is a pack of fossils hoping to be saved by a skinny fake Mexican lunatic and a fruity idiot ex-mayor.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (KZzsI)

Somebody and Buttplug? I guess you mean Betoa but the first fake Mexican I thought of was Mrs Arec Baldwin.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (llON8)

173 tag fail!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (m45I2)

Ace trained, I take it.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

174 He should be drawn and quartered, assuming there's enough of the little maggot to divide into quarters.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:35 PM (k4dH2)

probably only enough to amount to eighths, not quarters...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (8D42x)

175 100 Jen Rubin is suggesting that the *Repubs* are the party of Jim Crow and vote-rigging? How divorced from reality can one get?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Those 5 boxes of wine a day isn't doing her any favors.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 20, 2022 03:41 PM (0chEi)

176 Whatever happened to Mary Matalin?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (ptqGC)

Piano Jazz was cancelled

Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (ZMraq)

177 107 I want to live in the world in which Sinema corners this little shit and punts him into the next zip code. The PayPerView would generate billions.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 20, 2022 03:36 PM (zWpOF)

That would be funny as hell. I wonder how many people know just how short that evil Robert Reich is?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (CdZ4i)

178 It was just a joke. Don't get your panties in a twist. Look what you made me do.
Posted by: Robert Reich

I'm sorry if you misunderstood me. And I was hacked.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (AytXr)

179 Tiny man syndrome. He's pathetic in more ways than we know.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (0OmEj)

180 Please. None of these people are Maverick.

Posted by: James Garner at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (FJYfm)

181 My browser home page news windows is screaming that Trumps former press secretary( photo of someone I don't recognize) told the Jan. 6 inquisition that Trump held secret meetings in the days leading up to Jan. 6.

Oooohhh!

Posted by: Jen the original at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (YuT7H)

182 He would have never said anything about hitting a woman if it weren't for Trump and this damned lack of any wars he started.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (KZzsI)

183 You know what you tell a sitting senator with two black eyes?

Nothing she has already been told twice.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (iDcra)

184 While Trump was president Jen Rubin spent her days crying and sucking the jelly out of jelly donuts
Posted by: steevy at January 20, 2022 03:37 PM (CYnTg)

I will rebuke the crap out that c_ _t!

Posted by: Tater at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (SH2Zi)

185 I'm firmly convinced at this point that Jen Rubin is so off her rocker that she's probably at the "storing her urine in jars chronologically" phase.

The woman is not well. She doesn't sound like it and she sure as hell doesn't look like it. She looks like she could get weekly rates to haunt a house.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (W3VUu)

186 "Robert Reich @RBReich Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media."

This explanation comes up short. Does he actually believe anyone buys this garbage?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (mD/uy)

187 Ouch Robert quit hitting me on the knee!

Posted by: Kristen Synema at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (coYBh)

188 Hey, remember when Trump said he wanted to show Liz Cheney the back of his hand and put her in line and then the press came to his defense when he explained that it didn't mean what y'all thought it meant?

No, me neither.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (DU+/6)

189 I'm not seeing anything wrong here.

Posted by: Keith Ellison at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (AWaLo)

190 *psst* Kristen, challenge him to run the 200m hurdles.

He'd just run under them.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (a3Q+t)

191 And I was hacked.

"Just like my work computer!"
--Friedman, hiding his child porn folders

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (KZzsI)

192 He's not a woman.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (RU4sa)
.........

Another Groovy Mystery.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

193 Has anyone ever seen Robert Reich and Linda Hunt in the same room, ever?

Neither have I. Just sayin'

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (QYPq3)

194 Because he meant what he said. He only walked it back after people gave him shit for it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 03:39 PM (Ez6QX)

Sort of thing flies all the time with his lefty buddies, how could he possibly know better?

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (/9mpK)

195 They are mavericks only when they vote with democrats.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (dP3gR)

196 Rrrrrrrreich seems to think he's Tyrion Lannister.

Posted by: Bert G at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (Qb4SJ)

197 *psst* Kristen, challenge him to run the 200m hurdles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Sort of like that corgi (?) the other night. He'd hit his forehead on every one.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (AytXr)

198 A group picture with Robert Reich in it: Tribeca Film Festival:

https://is.gd/2PBpWP

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (mdjgu)

199 Robert Reich got "pounced" upon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (EZebt)

200 162-Thanks, cc. I laughed

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (9wRBr)

201 Well Jenny Rubin does know all there is to know about "incoherent or cowardice."

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (iDcra)

202 If Sinema needs a spanking, I'm available.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (jsWA8)

203 Nothing, we already told Sinema twice!

Posted by: Just the Robert Reich Punchline at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (/9mpK)

204 Tiny man syndrome. He's pathetic in more ways than we know.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still

"Hi little f*ck!"

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (mD/uy)

205 >>> 181 My browser home page news windows is screaming that Trumps former press secretary( photo of someone I don't recognize) told the Jan. 6 inquisition that Trump held secret meetings in the days leading up to Jan. 6.

Oooohhh!
Posted by: Jen the original at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (YuT7H)

NO presidents EVER had ANY secret meetings until OrangeManBad in early January 2021!!!

Posted by: MSDNC at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (llON8)

206
He'll need a ladder.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker.

Cut the guy a break -- he's tired of being mistaken for Herve Villechaize. You try living with complete strangers walking up to you, pointing skyward, and exclaiming, "The plane! The plane!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (pNxlR)

207 "Robert Reich @RBReich Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media."

This explanation comes up short.
================
It'll grow on you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (VMY76)

208 Nice callback to CBS' "Wild, Wild West"!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (pNxlR)

I've been watching the series on YT - somebody is posting in fairly decent HR. With the passage of time, I'm completely on board with this guy TBH. He was screwed out of California by the government, and wants to blow up DC and every politician with it. What's not to like?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (wAnMi)

209 At what point do Manchin and Sinema leave the party?

Called racists and physically harassed and threatened by their base and colleagues.

Posted by: I Mean at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (Z0UZu)

210
Senatrix Sinema would make Reich her little bitch. She'd having him whining, "Thank you ma'am, may have another?"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (Mzdiz)

211 Does he actually believe anyone buys this garbage?

Doesn't matter if anyone does or not (nobody does). It just matters that he offered an explanation/non-apology and the matter is permanently settled

Like how Obama kept getting nailed and just had to say "this isn't the x I knew" and everyone in the press wiped their hands and Moved On.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (KZzsI)

212 I hope Tater is short. I really want him to be.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (ptqGC)

213 176 Whatever happened to Mary Matalin?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (ptqGC)

Piano Jazz was cancelled
Posted by: Kindltot at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (ZMraq)

I get that reference.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (dfRN6)

214 Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM

Bull Connor wasn't just some piss ant Southern Sheriff.

Sheriff Bull Connor was a member in good standing of the Democrat National Committee.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (Z32m1)

215 Somebody and Buttplug? I guess you mean Betoa but the first fake Mexican I thought of was Mrs Arec Baldwin.

I thought she was a fake Spaniard?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (SchxB)

216 I would say this Robert Reich thing has legs but who can tell with that guy?

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (/9mpK)

217 198 A group picture with Robert Reich in it: Tribeca Film Festival:

https://is.gd/2PBpWP
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (mdjgu)

Bobby, Bobby, that's what phone books are for, my man.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who's not RR's PR maven at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (PiwSw)

218 Now I'm craving a donut.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (6FeV1)

219 This explanation comes up short.

ISWYDT

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (yQpMk)

220 >> I'm not seeing anything wrong here.
Posted by: Keith Ellison

I know, right?

Posted by: Jim Moran at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (URNdm)

221 This explanation comes up short.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM

Let's not microaggress the vertically-challenged members of The Horde. That's not who we are.

#BeBetter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (a3Q+t)

222 "Robert Reich @RBReich Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women."

Could someone please refresh my memory? Members of what political party routinely say that "Words Matter" and "Speech is Violence?" Is it the Green Party? Surely it's not the Adults-in-the Room, Professional-Political-Operatives Democrat Party.

(And don't call me Shirley!)

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (AMIL/)

223 219 This explanation comes up short.

ISWYDT
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (yQpMk)

Too little too late.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who's not RR's PR maven at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (PiwSw)

224 Bull Conner

Bull Conner was on the Democratic National Committee when he turned his police dogs loose on the civil rights marchers.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (I2/tG)

225 Nice callback to CBS' "Wild, Wild West"!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (pNxlR)

That's the one with Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and a giant mechanical spider, right?

Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (Rl7KJ)

226 A group picture with Robert Reich in it: Tribeca Film Festival:

https://is.gd/2PBpWP
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (mdjgu)
++++
He should ask DeNiro to refer him to DeNiro's lifts guy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (DU+/6)

227 Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media

The boilerplate for stupid commies saying and doing stupid commie things.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (Xrfse)

228 72 62 Sinema has boots taller than Robert Reich.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (m45I2)

And boobies he can't reach.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at January 20, 2022 03:33 PM

Thank goodness Pelosi's sag down far enough for me to fondle!

Posted by: Robert The Dwarf at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (JCZqz)

229 When did you stop beating your wife?
Posted by: Mister Scott

it's not spouse abuse if it's self defense.
*sweeps back mullet*
- some redneck in a pit stained wife beater t-shirt, with a half finished budweiser can in his hand and a smike hanging out the side of his mouth.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (IJES/)

230 Ouch Robert quit hitting me on the knee!
Posted by: Kristen Synema at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (coYBh)
........

That's what those thigh boots are for, Sugar Tits.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

231 Has anyone ever seen Robert Reich and Linda Hunt in the same room, ever?

Neither have I. Just sayin'
Posted by: In Reel Life

He's a friend of Linda's brother Mike

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (vd8XM)

232 Wife has high fever and down for the count.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (2JoB8)

233 He should ask DeNiro to refer him to DeNiro's lifts guy.
___

Or just buy some stilts.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (RU4sa)

234 Doesn't matter if anyone does or not (nobody does). It just matters that he offered an explanation/non-apology and the matter is permanently settled

**

I bowl like mentally retarded children! Hahaha!
- President Obama

You misunderstood the nuance of my statement regarding the perseverance of children with special needs, racists.
- President Obama the next day

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (5q92e)

235
Trumps former press secretary( photo of someone I don't recognize) told the Jan. 6 inquisition that Trump held secret meetings in the days leading up to Jan. 6.

"Yes, Grand Inquisitor, the dates were May 16, June 3, and August 29, as I recall."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (pNxlR)

236 224 Bull Conner

Bull Conner was on the Democratic National Committee when he turned his police dogs loose on the civil rights marchers.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (I2/tG)

==========

And the next day, all Democrats were disgusted and left the party while all Republicans were enthralled and joined up.

It's science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (LvTSG)

237 You don't abuse 'em once in a while, they'll shit all over ya.

I don't mean that you walk around morning to night whacking 'em upside the head like someone from the other side, but you gotta terrorize 'em once in a while just to keep 'em in line.

Posted by: Paulie at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (YGkPn)

238 Lately it seems that any Democrat regime must have:

1. A black person as Surgeon General

2. A malignant dwarf

3. An ignorant press person to tell lies to the complicit media and call conservative media names.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (eQvlh)

239 Yesterday was the 1st time in American history that a US President authorized a Russian military strike.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (UuD2k)

240 Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.
----------------------

Duly note he didn't apologize to Sinema.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (/9mpK)

241 That's the one with Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and a giant mechanical spider, right?

That goes in my mind with Highlander 2 as "movies that never happened"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (KZzsI)

242 He's already finished filming Knives Out 2, part of a deal with Netflix that made him about $400 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022

***
Carville, you mean? The few times I've seen him in dramatic productions, he's come across as a pretty decent actor. A born villain for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (txdEq)

243 190 *psst* Kristen, challenge him to run the 200m hurdles.

He'd just run under them.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 20, 2022 03:43 PM (a3Q+t)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (dNqv+)

244 A malignant communist dwarf...

Robert Reich or Joseph Gobbles?

Posted by: Archer at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (gmo/4)

245 budweiser can in his hand and a smike hanging out the side of his mouth.
Posted by: BifBewalski on

Smikes are out of season now

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (vd8XM)

246
I think this was what herr biden was referring to when he incoherently mentioned something about "president-senators." Manchin and Sinema being their own "presidents" on account they were holding up the biden agenda.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (zu30u)

247 "Robert Reich @RBReich Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media."
________________

Misinterpreted by being interpreted in the way it has traditionally been interpreted for centuries?

Yeah, those damn conservatives, reading the shit Reich writes and assuming that it means what it says. How dare they???

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (k4dH2)

248 He deleted the Tweet when he realized he couldnt reach her face with his hand.

Posted by: SlaveDog at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (W5M9H)

249 This smiling bikini blonde knows what he said and what it means and is grateful (for many reasons, neigh for *countless* reasons) that she will never meet Robert Reich or his smelly pimp hand:
https://is.gd/x1sACg

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (DU+/6)

250 There's a clock on Sinema's stove!

Posted by: Just the Robert Reich Punchline at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (/9mpK)

251
He's a friend of Linda's brother Mike
Posted by: Bruce

ISWYDT

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (pNxlR)

252 That's the one with Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and a giant mechanical spider, right?
Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (Rl7KJ)

Driven by Kenneth Branagh. I think that's right after Emma Thompson dumped him and he lost his mind.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 20, 2022 03:47 PM (dfRN6)

253 You misunderstood the nuance of my statement regarding the perseverance of children with special needs, racists.
- President Obama the next day

"OK that's a wrap, story is over, next topic"
--Legacy Media

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (KZzsI)

254 Reich is also the guy who threw a very public fit when someone proposed building some middle-class housing near his stately mansion in Berkeley.

It will destroy the character of the neighborhood!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (I2/tG)

255 Donald J Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand, Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands.

What would the reaction have been?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (F4b8f)

256 Wow, Begala, Carville, now Reich. The old bench is really coming up from the basement all of a sudden.
Posted by: Ktgreat

Many years ago, I was traveling by air, and was in the United Airlines concourse at O'Hare International.
Carville was there, and stalking around. At one point, I was standing about 5 feet away from him in a book store.
He is actually pretty tall (6 ft 3 or 4) and had on a nice black 3 piece suit. But he is weird looking. He looks weirder on TV than in real life, but he is still weird looking. And he looks angry all the time.
Later, I saw him stomping away with a big bucket of peanuts to munch on.

Top. Men. of the Democrat Party.
Top. Men.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (vcOmj)

257 Potential downstream disaster here - Sinema and Manchin are solid votes for nearl every disastrous Dem idea, and they just helped their electoral prospects.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (aTO4e)

258 255 Donald J Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand, Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands.

What would the reaction have been?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (F4b8f)

========

"That's such a mean tweet!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (LvTSG)

259 This explanation comes up short.

ISWYDT
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM (yQpMk)

Too little too late.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who's not RR's PR maven at January 20, 2022 03:45 PM

There are those who think little of Mr. Reich.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (RkC6l)

260 Wait! I thought Romney was just like Hitler in 2012. Even worse maybe.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (MxEKc)

261 >>>I hope Tater is short. I really want him to be.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (ptqGC)

Only when he's standing. On his back, he's like 6'2"

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (QYPq3)

262 The sister of one of the Marines "blown up" (Joe's words) at the Kabul airport, is suing Alec Baldwin for claiming she was a rioter at the Capitol.

Sue him. Sue like the wind.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (ptqGC)

263 Isn't Paul Krugman also dwarfish?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (eGTCV)

264 James Carvill has done more for the perpetuation of the "Lizard aliens run the government" theories than anything else in history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (KZzsI)

265 At what point do Manchin and Sinema leave the party?

Called racists and physically harassed and threatened by their base and colleagues.

Posted by: I Mean at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (Z0UZu)

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

Outside of Washington D fucking C, NYFC, Philly, Boston, Chicago, LA and Frisco, Manchin and Sinema are the Democrat Party.

I think they are hoping to pick up the sane pieces of the Democrat Socialist Worker Party in 4-6 years.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (Z32m1)

266 She's been harassed by their SA while trying to take a dump, I doubt this little dwarf's impotent gas venting is going to trouble her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (dNqv+)

267 Isn't Paul Krugman also dwarfish?

He appears to have short eyes at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (KZzsI)

268 A group picture with Robert Reich in it: Tribeca Film Festival:

https://is.gd/2PBpWP
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 03:44 PM (mdjgu)
........

He should take up wrestling. In Mexico.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

269 Ever seen a liberal accept responsibility for their bad behavior? Neither have I.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (Xrfse)

270 i sent that bitch out for smokes and she brought back smikes!

-some redneck

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (IJES/)

271 Kyrsten Sinema needs Nancy Sinatra's boots

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (2JoB8)

272 Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand, Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands.

What would the reaction have been?
____________

Rand Paul might have objected. The others probably would have snickered or just kept walking.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (k4dH2)

273 That's the one with Will Smith, Kevin Kline, and a giant mechanical spider, right?
Posted by: Thrawn at January 20, 2022

***
Kline as master of disguise Artemus Gordon: pretty good. The giant mechanical spider: over the top, but rather like the original series. Will Smith . . .

. . . what were you dweebs thinking? This film is a good example of modern H'wood taking a really good vintage property and making fun of it. And then wondering why no one went to see it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (txdEq)

274 Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (ZLI7S)

275 Gosh, a Weinstein Mini-Me loves using violence against women. What a shock.

Say, maybe we can make these shitheads sit through hours of unwatchable diversity training? How about it, Robert, maybe you can do whatever you need to be a decent human and leave us out of it?

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (Eqkqm)

276
He deleted the Tweet when he realized he couldnt reach her face with his hand.
Posted by: SlaveDog

At least, not without the stool he uses to stand to pee in regular flush toilets. His phobia about using urinals is legendary -- "I am petrified of those ceramic waterfalls!" he has been heard publicly to say more than once.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (pNxlR)

277 257 Potential downstream disaster here - Sinema and Manchin are solid votes for nearl every disastrous Dem idea, and they just helped their electoral prospects.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (aTO4e)

========

Manchin for sure. He's most likely not going to have to worry about re-election. Any primary fight will be a joke, and any general election argument that he's a rubber stamp for the Biden agenda has a very public example of where he's not. Sure, he's rubber stamping every judge, but he stopped BBB.

Sinema, though...she's not the political institution in AZ that Manchin is in AZ. A well funded progressive challenger in the primary could possibly knock her out. She'd probably win the general were she to make it through the primary, but that primary fight that's surely coming is going to be tough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

278 He should take up wrestling. In Mexico.
Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

A Luchadorito?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who's not RR's PR maven at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (PiwSw)

279 263 Isn't Paul Krugman also dwarfish?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:49 PM (eGTCV)

More like oafish

Posted by: Roy at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (Ti+Tv)

280 Only when he's standing. On his back, he's like 6'2"
Posted by: In Reel Life

Lol

Posted by: Bruce at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (vd8XM)

281 I lathered her with me shillelagh for she trod on the tails of me coat!

Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (UHVv4)

282 "Sinema is effectively asking the authors of Jim Crow and vote-rigging to give their permission for her to stop it. This is worse than incoherent or cowardice. It's a moral disgrace. Ask the segregationists for permission to vote for Civil Rights Act?"
+++
So, senators voicing the same position recently held by Democrats such as Biden, Obama and Schumer are now "segregationists

+++
And the party pushing actual segregation via CRT gets Rubins full support.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (Ed8Zd)

283 Isn't Paul Krugman also dwarfish?

****

No, he's just a mental midget.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (W3VUu)

284 Austria has officially mandated the clot shot for adults 18 years old plus. Thousands in fines for disobedience.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (AhhdW)

285 just be happy it isn't smeat

-dennis hopper as Deacon in the movie dances with dolphins

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (IJES/)

286 My money is on Synema against any Democrat in the US Senate.
Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 03:40 PM (Z32m1)

How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (8D42x)

287 Other than TV round tables, I wonder how many AA's Jennifer Rubin interacts with?

Jim Crow. It's all they have. *spit

Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (hOMhY)

288 Let me round up Shaggy and Velma and I'll meet you back at the Mystery Machine!

Posted by: Sam Adams at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (VDbGO)

289 "I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media. 'Back of the hand' is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women."

What a cowardly liar.

First of all, the Democratic senators are already rebuking Sinema. So there is no need for Reich to say "should have."

Secondly, in context, he was talking about the Republican senators (physically) shaking her hand. So in context, this was not about a metaphorical rebuke. It was literally about senators' using their actual hands.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (iSmWY)

290 The trading of insults between Will Smith and Kenneth Brannagh would get Brannagh canceled these days in a heartbeat.

Selma Hayek's ass checks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (dNqv+)

291 So, we're to pretend now that getting outraged by choice of words and/or idiomatic expressions is just something Bad Conservative media does and isn't actually ~90% of the way towards getting an ethnic studies degree from Harvard.

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (dYe5S)

292
Sinema? I'd hit it...

~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (K2SnJ)

293 264 James Carvill has done more for the perpetuation of the "Lizard aliens run the government" theories than anything else in history.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

What am I. Machine cut fowl digestive organ?

Posted by: Mark Zuckerberg at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (YGkPn)

294 Reich is also the guy who threw a very public fit when someone proposed building some middle-class housing near his stately mansion in Berkeley.

It will destroy the character of the neighborhood!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (I2/tG)

I'd think the advantage of living in a Malibu Barbie Dreamhome is you could put it anyplace you want.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (wAnMi)

295 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (IytoW)

296 Ahh. Another member of the party of peacemakers making peace and spreading joy to others.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (dTWx7)

297 Wife has high fever and down for the count.
Posted by: Skip

Prayers up, bud !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (arJlL)

298 Sinema, though...she's not the political institution in AZ that Manchin is in AZ.
__________________

WV.

Nobody in AZ gives a shit about Manchin.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (k4dH2)

299 there's a line Burt Reynolds delivers in The End to a very short warder at the psych hospital: "You're squat. Nobody likes squat. Short is okay, but not squat."

(Been a lot of years since I saw the film on HBO)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (txdEq)

300 Shut yor gob, ya fookin' drab, or I'll have yor guts as me garters!

Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (UHVv4)

301 Is Jenny Rubin still officially a conservative?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (eGTCV)

302 298 Sinema, though...she's not the political institution in AZ that Manchin is in AZ.
__________________

WV.

Nobody in AZ gives a shit about Manchin.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (k4dH2)

=======

Obvious typo is obvious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (LvTSG)

303
Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.
Posted by: JackStraw

"I ain't wearin' no ching-chong chinaman mask!"

-- Mad Maxine (Dimmer than usual)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (pNxlR)

304 Austria has officially mandated the clot shot for adults 18 years old plus. Thousands in fines for disobedience.

Wait until they set up the camps.

Posted by: I Speak Austrian! at January 20, 2022 03:53 PM (I2/tG)

305 Selma Hayek's ass checks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM

*sigh*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (RkC6l)

306 my nickname is what has always been for me on the interwebs since my first account on the Yahoo back in 1994.
I-no-game was my euchre handle... I've used it as my sign on ever since and have yet to run into another.

Posted by: Inogame at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (53oGX)

307 Sinema, though...she's not the political institution in AZ that Manchin is in AZ. A well funded progressive challenger in the primary could possibly knock her out. She'd probably win the general were she to make it through the primary, but that primary fight that's surely coming is going to be tough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (Ed8Zd)

308 295 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (IytoW)

This is fucking bizarre. So after denying that there were any and not reporting on same, they are now saying they are all in your head?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (dNqv+)

309 >>>Austria has officially mandated the clot shot for adults 18 years old plus. Thousands in fines for disobedience.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (AhhdW)

They didn't get memo that said, "Uh, hey guys, everything has been lie so far, and uh, it's all starting to drop today and tomorrow so, uh, yeah, uh, probably should distance yourselves. Kthanks."

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (QYPq3)

310 The love and tolerance of the democrat-communist party knows no bounds.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (iDcra)

311 I am aghast at how Bobby Hitlertime (Robert Reich) is defaming dwarves.

I like dwarves. in most games, dwarves are forthright warriors against the Dark. They hew giant cities out of the hearts of mountains, and have enormous, braided beards. They often are paladins.

Now, Bobby Hitlertime isn't a true dwarf. I thought he might be a gnome, but he isn't as good-natured as a gnome. Perhaps a svirfneblin. perhaps...

But Polliwog mentioned that he most fit the behavior of thieving leprechauns - the ones that accuse you who have bought your OWN FREAKING CEREAL of stealing his.

Thus, my conclusion - Robert Reich is a leprechaun.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (nC+QA)

312 62 Sinema has boots taller than Robert Reich.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 03:32 PM (m45I2)

----------

Not to mention bigger balls as well.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (bIt+P)

313 Robert Reich has to bring a stepstool to a glory hole

Posted by: Madman at January 20, 2022 03:54 PM (2cfUo)

314 Top. Men. of the Democrat Party.
Top. Men.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 03:48 PM (vcOmj)

Diversity is their strength.

Posted by: Tater at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (SH2Zi)

315 Whenever I see Reich, I picture an angry toddler of a man squeaking to his buddies who are far far ahead of him - "Hey guys, wait up!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (mD/uy)

316 >> How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Wesson oil. And throw in Lauren Boebert and the other one that's sort of hot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (Mzdiz)

317 186 "Robert Reich @RBReich Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media."

This explanation comes up short. Does he actually believe anyone buys this garbage?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 03:42 PM (mD/uy)

Does anyone other than DOCTOR Jill believe Joe's attempt today to clean up the pile of Biden Crap he left in Aisle Minor Incursion yesterday?

If a President cannot clearly state his official diplomatic position about a potential war situation, in real time, to his own public, it is beyond belief. Maybe he did state his real position and the clean-up words are fake? Does Joe know the difference?

Top. Men.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (AMIL/)

318 He should take up wrestling. In Mexico.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM

If he likes flying, I know of some bars that might be interested in his services.

Posted by: Bert G at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (Qb4SJ)

319 Shit, skip. Prayers on the ascent.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (/9mpK)

320 "At what point do Manchin and Sinema leave the party?

Those Dem caucus meetings must be really awkward for them getting slapped and milkshaked.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (MxEKc)

321 Holy shit, redc1c4 is dead???

We were just talking with him...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (XvPQV)

322 Why yesh, Robert, you need to shlap the ladiesh once in a while to keep them in line.

https://youtu.be/oo0d1zTAFKA

Posted by: Sean Connery at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (JCZqz)

323 Reich is also the guy who threw a very public fit when someone proposed building some middle-class housing near his stately mansion in Berkeley.

***

He's still bitter over the fact that no matter what he does, Herve Villechaize still got more strange tail than he ever will.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (W3VUu)

324
Shut yor gob, ya fookin' drab, or I'll have yor guts as me garters!
Posted by: Roberto O'Reich

"They're always stealin' me Lucky Charms!" Right, 'Berto?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (pNxlR)

325 A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

Posted by: LASue
===

With what AZ has recently sent as senators, NO.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (iDcra)

326 "Is Jenny Rubin still officially a conservative?"

Yes.

Posted by: "Moderate" Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:56 PM (iSmWY)

327 A group picture with Robert Reich in it: Tribeca Film Festival:
https://is.gd/2PBpWP
Posted by: Darrell Harris

That honestly looks like a photoshop. All joking aside, height is a barrier. He's done well for himself.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 03:56 PM (CTJwJ)

328 >>> 274 Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (ZLI7S)

#STOPASIANHATE

Posted by: This... is XiNN at January 20, 2022 03:56 PM (llON8)

329 >Austria has officially mandated the clot shot for adults 18 years old plus. Thousands in fines for disobedience.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 03:51 PM (AhhdW)

Something so good it has to be forced on you at the point of a gun.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at January 20, 2022 03:56 PM (/Nl5q)

330 Why yesh, Robert, you need to shlap the ladiesh once in a while to keep them in line.

https://youtu.be/oo0d1zTAFKA
Posted by: Sean Connery at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (JCZqz)
++++
Oh man, he'd be so canceled today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (DU+/6)

331 Is this true?

Nancy Pelosi distributed fake N95 masks to congresscritters?

https://bit.ly/33T9nfJ

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (AhhdW)

332 The placebo gave me myocarditis.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (coYBh)

333 What am I. Machine cut fowl digestive organ?
Posted by: Mark Zuckerberg

Zuck gives off more an uncanny valley android driven by a tiny alien in his head vibe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (KZzsI)

334 Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.
Posted by: JackStraw

remember Pelosi back in February - March 2020, when Trump had already set up the Cofic task Force and stopped travel from China?

"Come on down to Chinatown! We're all safe- everything is safe here! Prove to that buffoon Trump that you aren't a racist like him! We're all sciency! Nothing to fear here!"

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (Ed8Zd)

335 A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

MAGA Rep or Jeff Flake type? We've done one of those.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (SchxB)

336 Now in Quebec, no booze or pot for the unvaccinated....

Posted by: steevy at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (CYnTg)

337 Like Joe Biden, I am so eloquent that no one understands me.

Posted by: Robert Micropenis Reich at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (dTWx7)

338 i miss rush.....the way he would pronounce reiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisch

Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (CqHIp)

339 332 The placebo gave me myocarditis.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (coYBh)

Funny how everyone's specific psychosomatic side effect is exactly the same.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (dNqv+)

340 "Something so good it has to be forced on you at the point of a gun.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen "

Just like communism.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (MxEKc)

341 She is still a lefty -but coward? NFW

Posted by: Glenn John at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (LilNs)

342
Whenever I see Reich, I picture an angry toddler of a man squeaking to his buddies who are far far ahead of him - "Hey guys, wait up!!"
Posted by: Tonypete

Randy, Ralphie's little brother in "A Christmas Story"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (pNxlR)

343 Psaki needs a Shriner's fez and one of those little cars so she can follow Joe around like the Shriners follow the elephants at parades.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (ZLI7S)

344 Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (ZLI7S)
++++
Hilarious. You'd think that they'd be more careful. You can be sure she could have gotten real ones. She probably has the power to disrupt an actual shipment of them to hospitals and just have them stolen out of a truck for her schemes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (DU+/6)

345 I'll slap her heinie.

Posted by: Behind the Green M&M at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (vrz2I)

346
and the other one that's sort of hot.

Posted by: publius
_____________________

This is about me, isn't it?

~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (K2SnJ)

347 Last night I deleted a tweet because it was widely misinterpreted and distorted by conservative media.
---
Weird how that only happens on the "right", it's not at all like people construing Jesse Watters' "kill shot" comment as a physical act rather than verbal!

It's not like distorting Michelle Bachman's comment years ago "armed and dangerous with information" as just "armed and dangerous".

At least the interpretation of "back of the hand" didn't omit any words you actually said.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (XHhHI)

348 328 >>> 274 Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (ZLI7S)

Turns out they were used coffee filters somebody stapled a rubber band to

Posted by: Madman at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (2cfUo)

349 335 A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

MAGA Rep or Jeff Flake type? We've done one of those.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (SchxB)

=========

After the cascade of failures the GOPe visited upon the party in AZ over the past decade, I do wonder if they'll be able to rig the primary as effectively as they have before.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (LvTSG)

350 Actually, Pelosi distributing ineffective Chinese knockoffs does have a certain poetry to it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, who's not RR's PR maven at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (PiwSw)

351 Holy shit, redc1c4 is dead???

We were just talking with him...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (XvPQV)

Fucking hell.

Only thing I know is him, Tami, and OM are without a doubt in a better place than we are.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (NazZr)

352 295 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
_______________

Wait, so does this mean that the thousands of people who dropped dead after getting the jab aren't really dead? Just a bunch of hypochondriacs that were unfortunately cremated and buried prematurely?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (k4dH2)

353
If you want to have fun with any CovidKarens you know, casually drop this new study making the round, "you know, study shows flies can maybe transmit Covid".

They've know that flies can be a mechanical vector for various pathogens, and tried it with the Coof virus. They didn't get any culturable virus transmitted, but did get pieces of it. Which, if such a fly landed on you, might make you pop positive on a ridiculously high cycle PCR run.

Don't tell Karen that, though, just freak her out about flies transmitting it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (Mzdiz)

354 "He's still bitter over the fact that no matter what he does, Herve Villechaize still got more strange tail than he ever will."

Robert Reich shot his father in the crapper with a crossbow.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (iSmWY)

355 320 "At what point do Manchin and Sinema leave the party?

Those Dem caucus meetings must be really awkward for them getting slapped and milkshaked.
Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (MxEKc)

Never - they could never win a Repub primary in their states (especially Manchin - WV is too red), but they'll likely win enough crossover votes from Repubs to always get reelected...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (exHjb)

356 He meant that they should curtsey.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (KAi1n)

357 ...turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China....

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (ZLI7S)
---
You're being redundant.

Posted by: Axeman at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (XHhHI)

358 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
Posted by: bicentennialguy

This is fucking bizarre. So after denying that there were any and not reporting on same, they are now saying they are all in your head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

There are over 21,000 reported dead on VAERS (the official government site) related to Covid19 vaccines. And over 1 million "incidents". It is not easy to log into and report on VAERS, and it is thought that these numbers may only be 5-10% of the actual numbers.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (vcOmj)

359 Latest company to go woke? M&Ms. But with a twist. They're exactly the same. Maybe they identify as woke.

https://bit.ly/3GPl4CG

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (FVME7)

360 I banged my knee on the dresser last night. Or, so I think. It might be that Reich snuck in and pimp-slapped me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (4odx6)

361 Whatever happened to Mary Matalin?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (ptqGC)

Snake bite.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (eQvlh)

362 If the placebo induced conditions last more than 4 hours, see your physician immediately.

Posted by: Zombie Bob Dole at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (GYllL)

363
Like Joe Biden, I am so eloquent that no one understands me.
Posted by: Robert Micropenis Reich

The Coof really put a crimp in your revenue stream once saloons and bars closed and your lucrative side job in dwarf bowling vanished, didn't it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (pNxlR)

364 Robert Reich shot his father in the crapper with a crossbow.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM

What was his father doing in the crapper with a crossbow?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (RkC6l)

365 A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

Ahem.

Posted by: Martha "I am become political death" McSally at January 20, 2022 04:00 PM (yQpMk)

366 Holy shit, redc1c4 is dead???

We were just talking with him...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (XvPQV)

Fuck. R.I.P, friend.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (SH2Zi)

367 "Back of the hand" is an idiom for rebuke. I wholeheartedly condemn violence against women.
--------

Where in our history do we show the backs of our hands?

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (JVMtX)

368 >>361 Whatever happened to Mary Matalin?

Posted by: Jane D'oh

Withered up and blown away?

Posted by: Zombie Bob Dole at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (GYllL)

369 Wish like at the forum one could look up last comment, take it there are ways but no idea how.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (2JoB8)

370 I just meant I'd beat some fookin sense into 'er.

It's a fookin turn o phrase, ya fookin coonts!

Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (UHVv4)

371 Imagine the surprised looks on the faces of all these male soccer players in Europe that have dropped dead over the last year after getting the shot finding out that it's just a placebo effect.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (W3VUu)

372 i miss rush.....the way he would pronounce reiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisch

He had a gift for finding some aspect of a person, not an insulting or cruel one, but memorable and accurate, to emphasize and lampoon. He laughed at them all and they hated him for it. They tried to destroy him in a thousand ways and it always failed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (KZzsI)

373 I'm very sorry to hear of redc1c4's passing.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (AhhdW)

374 >>> 352 295 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
_______________

Wait, so does this mean that the thousands of people who dropped dead after getting the jab aren't really dead? Just a bunch of hypochondriacs that were unfortunately cremated and buried prematurely?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (k4dH2)

They're just pining for the fjords.

Posted by: Pfizer CEO at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (llON8)

375 How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Wesson oil. And throw in Lauren Boebert and the other one that's sort of hot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (Mzdiz)
.........

Finally something coming out of DC I might watch.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

376 The guy from the cleaning service who picks up our trash and vacuums out offices just stopped by and mentioned he's going to the CVS nearby this afternoon for . . . his booster. "It's required, after all."

I didn't say anything. I hope he doesn't keel over or get sick in any way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:02 PM (txdEq)

377 If you are allergic to placebo do not take placebo.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at January 20, 2022 04:02 PM (QYPq3)

378 Funny how everyone's specific psychosomatic side effect is exactly the same.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (dNqv+)

AGW causes childhood strokes and other psychosomatic effects, too.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:02 PM (SH2Zi)

379 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (IytoW)
++++
Placebos can have real side effects - like making Nicolas Cage have a meltdown at a pharmacy:
https://youtu.be/HM6X_wdZJaE

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:02 PM (DU+/6)

380 Placebo Domingo has a great voice.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, getting serious about lurking at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (eGTCV)

381 red was a daily commenter at Legalinsurrection.com as well, always good points made.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (2JoB8)

382 They're exactly the same. Maybe they identify as woke.

Yeah I am guessing the ads are going to be insufferable now. But hey after that Halloween ad, I'm sure Mars is doing gangbusters in sales.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (KZzsI)

383 232 Wife has high fever and down for the count.
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 03:46 PM (2JoB

Skip, prayers for Mrs Skip

You have her on the protocol?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (JNttU)

384 Damn, Ace -- you should have been a casting director.

Robert Reich as Miguelito Loveless might have saved that 1999 Wild Wild West steampunk attempt at a movie (or so I'd heard, having not watched it).

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (bIt+P)

385 336 Now in Quebec, no booze or pot for the unvaccinated....

That will either start the revolution or bring back crime like during prohibition.

Posted by: Archer at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (IecRS)

386 Wait, so does this mean that the thousands of people who dropped dead after getting the jab aren't really dead? Just a bunch of hypochondriacs that were unfortunately cremated and buried prematurely?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (k4dH2)

They're not fooling anyone.

Posted by: Cart Guy at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (SH2Zi)

387 >>How's about Sinema v ~~Gabbard~~ Noem naked jello wrestling for lulz?

More captivating.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (GYllL)

388 How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Wesson oil. And throw in Lauren Boebert and the other one that's sort of hot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022

***
I'd prefer Julianne Hough vs. Christina Aguilera. Or Kim Iversen vs. Britney Spears.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (txdEq)

389 Placebo Domingo has a great voice.

He was a pretty lousy umpire, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (KZzsI)

390 Robert Reich shot his father in the crapper with a crossbow.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (iSmWY)

Robert Reich is a huge union guy though.

I believe he is the president of the lollipop guild.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (NqZ29)

391 Well, they finally cracked to code on why people keep getting sick and keep dying unexpectedly from the Covid vaccine.

It's the placebo effect.

That's right. They're not dead, they just think they're dead.

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (9zcxd)

392
And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls. Competition is a wonderful thing, leading to excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wJGjNzrM-pU

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (Mzdiz)

393 That honestly looks like a photoshop. All joking aside, height is a barrier. He's done well for himself.
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 03:56 PM (CTJwJ)

He really has. On a personal level, it's nice to see that he did well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (mdjgu)

394 >>>side job in dwarf bowling vanished, didn't it?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
------------------

The Sicilian Troll vs the Reich.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (JVMtX)

395 "How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?"

Sinema and Gabbard vs Nadler. You can't look away.

Posted by: Behind the Green M&M at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (vrz2I)

396 No, the little shit chose to juxtapose the handshake with a hand slap.

If he wanted to communicate something other than a physical threat, he could have said, "While the Republicans commended Senator Sinema, Democrats should have rebuked her."

No, he liked the image of someone striking her. It was his clever, clever choice.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (hKi6n)

397 Imagine the surprised looks on the faces of all these male soccer players in Europe that have dropped dead over the last year after getting the shot finding out that it's just a placebo effect.
Posted by: Azathoth

Maybe they were just stunned.

Yeah, what a sick joke our so-called "Media" is.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (vcOmj)

398 It's Enrico Palazzo!

Posted by: InCali at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (DzWiX)

399 or so I'd heard, having not watched it

Its as bad as you heard. Hard to believe so much talent can be so bad. I thought the Maverick movie was a huge disappointment as well despite all the talent.

I watched a movie last night called Parker (from 2013) with a ton of talent in it and it was pretty lame, too. Sad when that happens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (KZzsI)

400 Only thing I know is him, Tami, and OM are without a doubt in a better place than we are.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (NazZr)

Well the way it's supposed to go is that all the good people are taken up into heaven before Armaggedon. Only a few believers are left behind to endure the AntiChrist and all that.

I'm of mixed emotions on which side of that I want to be. Of course that won't be a choice I'll have to make . .

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (eQvlh)

401
old, busted: Murder Hornets
new hotmess: Covid Flies

Posted by: Hands - I have no idea at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (786Ro)

402 Ha. The new N95 masks that Pelosi sent to every House member turn out to be cheap knockoffs that don't meet specs, come from China and the accompanying instructions on how to properly wear them are in Chinese.

The best and brightest.
Posted by: JackStraw

Hahahaha, once again the conspiracy theorists nailed this one. Add to that they've probably been sitting on these things for weeks/months (400M units just don't "appear") until covid numbers started to drop and they'd get credit for magically ending the pandemic.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (wAnMi)

403
Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
Posted by: bicentennialguy

"placebo effect"?

Boy, gotta hand it to Scientism -- their emanations and penumbras beat real Science's nine ways from Sunday!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) [/s at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (pNxlR)

404 Sinema stood firm after a bunch of thugs followed her into the bathroom and a sawed off loser like Reich thinks he can intimidate Sinema?

Alrighty then.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (5pTK/)

405 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (IytoW)

I guess I have been misunderstanding what the placebo effect was for a long time now.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (Ez6QX)

406 Kate Upton and Christina Hendricks.

We're gonna need more jello.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (dNqv+)

407 Loveless was also on a Star Trek episode.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (63Dwl)

408 352 295 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
_______________

Wait, so does this mean that the thousands of people who dropped dead after getting the jab aren't really dead? Just a bunch of hypochondriacs that were unfortunately cremated and buried prematurely?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 03:59 PM (k4dH2)

They're not officially dead, because they did not die with or from COVID.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (AMIL/)

409 Hmm....

Valerian 4K UHD on sale for $5...

Tempting...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

410 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wJGjNzrM-pU

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 04:04 PM (Mzdiz)
--------------

Doesn't go to Chile.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (JVMtX)

411 I only know a couple ettes, but I have no doubt they could kick Reich's ass from here to yonder.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (axyOa)

412 It's a NOCEBO effect not a placebo effect.

When you make up bullshit lies it's always good to have new jargon to name it so it looks all sciency and stuff.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (eQvlh)

413 If it just an idiom and he was using it in that sense, why would he need to delete it?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (m45I2)

414 Kate Upton and Christina Hendricks.

We're gonna need more jello.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM

Bunk.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (RkC6l)

415 A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

Posted by: LASue
===

With what AZ has recently sent as senators, NO.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (iDcra)
=============================

If the AZ Republicans keep running Martha McSally, they will keep losing. That person is 0-2. She has lost BOTH AZ Senate seats.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (Z32m1)

416 No, she takes some vitamins but not the D and Zinc, gets fair fresh vitamin C like I do.

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (2JoB8)

417 So, just hit me... this Supreme Court decision that Executive Privilege does not survive past your Presidency, means we can go back and look at Obama's shenanigans... like what he knew about Hill sending classified docs and such. Or the meetings where they set up the Russian Hoax.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (oHd/0)

418 remember Pelosi back in February - March 2020, when Trump had already set up the Cofic task Force and stopped travel from China?

"Come on down to Chinatown! We're all safe- everything is safe here! Prove to that buffoon Trump that you aren't a racist like him! We're all sciency! Nothing to fear here!"

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 03:57 PM (Ed8Zd)

I've always thought the "hug a chinamen" campaign was part of the op. Get the thing good and spreading. But I'm funny that way.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (/9mpK)

419 And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls. Competition is a wonderful thing, leading to excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wJGjNzrM-pU
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022

***
Saved. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (txdEq)

420 Krysten Sinema has stools bigger that Robert Reich.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (a5d7/)

421 A super lefty challenger should lose to the republican candidate. So, win-win?

Posted by: LASue
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With what AZ has recently sent as senators, NO.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (iDcra)]]]

I guess you're right- she's probably better for us than the traitor McCain was.

Posted by: LASue at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (Ed8Zd)

422 Hahahaha, once again the conspiracy theorists nailed this one. Add to that they've probably been sitting on these things for weeks/months (400M units just don't "appear") until covid numbers started to drop and they'd get credit for magically ending the pandemic.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at January 20, 2022 04:05 PM (wAnMi)
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They'd better not be from that program. That program is looting out of the National Strategic Stockpile. If these masks came from that program, that means they came from the Stockpile and it's been filled with counterfeits...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (DU+/6)

423 1. There are no side effects to the vaccine
2. Okay there may be some side effects to the vaccine
3. The side effects to the vaccine people are experiencing are a placebo effect.
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (W3VUu)

424 If the AZ Republicans keep running Martha McSally, they will keep losing. That person is 0-2. She has lost BOTH AZ Senate seats.
Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (Z32m1)

Best of five series though...

Posted by: Inogame at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (53oGX)

425 406 Kate Upton and Christina Hendricks.

We're gonna need more jello.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (dNqv+)

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Related:

https://tinyurl.com/ykshhdjb

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (LvTSG)

426 378 Funny how everyone's specific psychosomatic side effect is exactly the same.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 03:58 PM (dNqv+)

AGW causes childhood strokes and other psychosomatic effects, too.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:02 PM (SH2Zi)

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The gaslighting will never end ... until they finally run out of gas and lighting, but mostly lighting.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (bIt+P)

427 If there's anything that stays in lock step more than Democrats, it's gotta' be the media. The brain bleeder's oratory disaster is being lauded by all as "great." But I still get a sense that the junta is not sufficiently happy with the results.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (BFigT)

428 If it just an idiom and he was using it in that sense, why would he need to delete it?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (m45I2)

That damn conservative media! Who is that exactly, by the way?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (Ez6QX)

429 Kate Upton and Christina Hendricks.

I could be the John Candy in that match

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (KZzsI)

430 >>And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls.

I went to a mining trade show in northern Chile a few years ago. All kinds of huge mining gear, trucks, drilling rigs, etc. And almost every booth was staffed by smoking hot women in impossibly tight clothes.

Most of the men were taking turns getting pictures with the women and completely ignoring all the products.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

431 Skip should go on protocol, jic.

Posted by: runner at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (dP3gR)

432 He's an angry elf.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (625EN)

433 295 Now ABC News is spreading the propaganda that most vaccine reactions are just placebo effect. It's all in your mind, you crazies!
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 03:52 PM (IytoW)

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Remember - it's not a lie if you believe it.

Posted by: 496 at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (VJsqe)

434 The midget is right that it is an idiom but where does he think that idiom originated? Psychopaths. All of them.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (NqZ29)

435 409 Hmm....

Valerian 4K UHD on sale for $5...

Tempting...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

Amazing visuals. Horrible acting. Terrible casting. Androgynous male and female leads.

NOT tempting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (dNqv+)

436 Hmm....

Valerian 4K UHD on sale for $5...

Tempting...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

works great, except for the little bullet hole in the center of the screen!

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (Z32m1)

437 The video of the Chris Cuomo testimony that got him canned from CNN just got released by the DA.

https://bit.ly/3rAwNP9

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:09 PM (AhhdW)

438 Anyone made the joke yet about Spinal Tap's Stonehenge being crushed by Robert Reich?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 20, 2022 04:09 PM (KbCG3)

439 If the AZ Republicans keep running Martha McSally, they will keep losing. That person is 0-2. She has lost BOTH AZ Senate seats.

______________

McSally was my congressperson, and she sucks. She's also a terrible fund-raiser, so she's more reliant than most on the party apparatus, meaning she does as she's told -- which is one of the reasons why she sucks.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 04:09 PM (k4dH2)

440 I've always thought the "hug a chinamen" campaign was part of the op. Get the thing good and spreading. But I'm funny that way.
======

You're not the only one.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (IytoW)

441 malignant communist dwarf

- I like that

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (sJHOI)

442 Sorry, the AG, not the DA.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (AhhdW)

443 That will either start the revolution or bring back crime like during prohibition.

Posted by: Archer at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (IecRS)

Much less violently and more politely. The Canadian way.

Posted by: TC at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (yu5nA)

444 Its not the tip sweetie, its a placebo effect.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (coYBh)

445 Try it with Manchin you sexist little prick.

Posted by: dude1394 at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (3exmE)

446 Doesn't go to Chile.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022

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You might need to remove the space, the "%20", or copy and paste the two lines together in the URL field.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (txdEq)

447 Related:

https://tinyurl.com/ykshhdjb
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (LvTSG)

Hmmm, Alexandra Daddario and someone with an impressive amount of movement. Who is the blonde?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (dNqv+)

448 How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Wesson oil. And throw in Lauren Boebert and the other one that's sort of hot.
Posted by: publius,

******

Make it chocolate pudding and throw inn John Candy in his long johns. Now we're talking!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (m45I2)

449 "Add to that they've probably been sitting on these things for weeks/months (400M units just don't "appear") until covid numbers started to drop "

Laughably I heard on the radio they were pulled from our strategic reserve (just like petroleum!) So supposedly we have billions of these things stockpiled in govt warehouses? The news is just gets weirder every day.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (MxEKc)

450 Hmmm, Alexandra Daddario and someone with an impressive amount of movement. Who is the blonde?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (dNqv+)

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Kate Upton. Hence, the "related".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (LvTSG)

451 If the AZ Republicans keep running Martha McSally, they will keep losing. That person is 0-2. She has lost BOTH AZ Senate seats.

Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (Z32m1)

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Only severely conservative Doug Ducey can save us now!

/Brnovich inspires little confidence considering he's done zero about the proven voter fraud; I do love Kari Lake and hope they don't steal the Governor's mansion from her.

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (bIt+P)

452 444 Its not the tip sweetie, its a placebo effect.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (coYBh)

placebo incursion

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (dNqv+)

453 380 Placebo Domingo has a great voice.

Autotune

Posted by: Madman at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (2cfUo)

454 I'm going to be honest, I'm not getting the vapors over Reich's comments. If someone said about McCain, "Every Republican outta slug that sonofabitch" after he voted against the Obamacare repeal, we'd think nothing of it. Sinema wants to play in in the Boy's League, so she doesn't get special treatment for being a girl.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (wmDcS)

455 Romeo 13 of a plane load of cash going to Iran

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (2JoB8)

456
Everyone loves my "Weatherismo" policies, even to this day.

Posted by: Augusto P. at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (4odx6)

457 And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls.

I went to a mining trade show in northern Chile a few years ago. All kinds of huge mining gear, trucks, drilling rigs, etc. And almost every booth was staffed by smoking hot women in impossibly tight clothes.

Most of the men were taking turns getting pictures with the women and completely ignoring all the products.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

We will fix that!

Posted by: National Association of Grumpy Gargantuan Emasculating Ma'ams at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Z32m1)

458 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Ez6QX)

459 So, just hit me... this Supreme Court decision that Executive Privilege does not survive past your Presidency, means we can go back and look at Obama's shenanigans...

--

No, that would be rayciss.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (sVtYq)

460 Kate Upton. Hence, the "related".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (LvTSG)

You had my attention. Now you have my interest.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (dNqv+)

461 454 I'm going to be honest, I'm not getting the vapors over Reich's comments. If someone said about McCain, "Every Republican outta slug that sonofabitch" after he voted against the Obamacare repeal, we'd think nothing of it. Sinema wants to play in in the Boy's League, so she doesn't get special treatment for being a girl.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (wmDcS)

=========

It's the stupid hypocrisy game. We all engage in it, and it only works when the other side crawls away, which Reich did.

So, score a meaningless point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

462 He's an angry elf.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (625EN)

lol

Posted by: Cart Guy at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (SH2Zi)

463 So here's the question:

Is a fake N95 respirator more dangerous restriction-wise than a real/certified one?

Because those are the only choices.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (5q92e)

464 454 I'm going to be honest, I'm not getting the vapors over Reich's comments. If someone said about McCain, "Every Republican outta slug that sonofabitch" after he voted against the Obamacare repeal, we'd think nothing of it. Sinema wants to play in in the Boy's League, so she doesn't get special treatment for being a girl.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (wmDcS)

I only care because, fuck him it's WAR.

Posted by: Inogame at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (53oGX)

465 447 Related:

https://tinyurl.com/ykshhdjb
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (LvTSG)

***

That reminds me, we're out of milk.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (W3VUu)

466 I'm really starting to like Sinema. We don't agree on much - except maybe her hooker boots - but she fights.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (VWp7G)

467 Sinema wants to play in in the Boy's League, so she doesn't get special treatment for being a girl.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (wmDcS)

Any stick will do to beat a dog.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (yQpMk)

468 How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Ez6QX)

Forget it. They are on a roll.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (SH2Zi)

469 Whoops, deleted the second choice accidentally. Less protective if you were wondering.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (5q92e)

470 Sinema stood firm after a bunch of thugs followed her into the bathroom and a sawed off loser like Reich thinks he can intimidate Sinema?
-----------------------------------------
They just meant the idiom of tearin er fookin head off and shittin down er neck. That's all, ya stoopid fook!!

Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (UHVv4)

471 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?
====

Who the hell knows. That was their headline. I don't have the fortitude to wade completely into the bullshit.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (IytoW)

472 We all know Trump lied to our Presdent of Color.. What are we going top do about this major problem? This is the biggest problim facing are country right now and we must be act !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (5NUsf)

473 Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (wmDcS)

I have never for one minute pretended I hold the Communists to the same standard as others.

AFAIC, they can do no right.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (4odx6)

474 458 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Ez6QX)

Dear Jordan, words do not mean what words mean anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (dNqv+)

475 If the AZ Republicans keep running Martha McSally, they will keep losing. That person is 0-2. She has lost BOTH AZ Senate seats.
Posted by: rd at January 20, 2022 04:07 PM (Z32m1)

McSally has at least $10 million in unspent campaign funds in her coffers. I don't think she's going away, unfortunately.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (mdjgu)

476 If it just an idiom and he was using it in that sense, why would he need to delete it?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:06 PM (m45I2)

He didn't delete it. That's just the placebo effect.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (/9mpK)

477 A group picture with Robert Reich in it: Tribeca Film Festival:

https://is.gd/2PBpWP

--

Wow, he really is short!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (sVtYq)

478 How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Wesson oil. And throw in Lauren Boebert and the other one that's sort of hot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (Mzdiz)

we can make it a battle royal:

Sinema, Gabbard, Boebert, MTG, and Palin in wesson ...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (8D42x)

479 How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Ez6QX)

Dear Jordan, words do not mean what words mean anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (dNqv+)

Or maybe they're trying to tell us something about the v*ccine.

Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (/9mpK)

480 Make it chocolate pudding and throw inn John Candy in his long johns. Now we're talking!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (m45I2)

Zombie John Candy would just stink up the place.

Posted by: Zombie John Candy at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (Z32m1)

481 Well the way it's supposed to go is that all the good people are taken up into heaven before Armaggedon. Only a few believers are left behind to endure the AntiChrist and all that.
___

Nope.

Not how it works.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (RU4sa)

482 471 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?
====

Who the hell knows. That was their headline. I don't have the fortitude to wade completely into the bullshit.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (IytoW)

It can't be placebo - placebo is, by definition, an always positive effect.

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (exHjb)

483 I finally looked at the Tribeca picture.

How does he not have a keychain coming out of his head?

Posted by: Azathoth at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (W3VUu)

484 Little Robert gotta keep his pimp hand strong.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (CEwvo)

485 Also name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (5q92e)

486 ***
You might need to remove the space, the "%20", or copy and paste the two lines together in the URL field.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:10 PM (txdEq)
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Thanks.

a note - tinyurl, bitly, https://is.gd/
- I'm sure there are others

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (JVMtX)

487 423 1. There are no side effects to the vaccine
2. Okay there may be some side effects to the vaccine
3. The side effects to the vaccine people are experiencing are a placebo effect.
4. Those who experience side effects need a mandatory psych evaluation.
5. Those that experience side effects are are attempting insurrection by spreading disinformation.
6. Those experiencing side effects will be placed in special medical/psychological field hospitals or "camps" for their own protection.

Posted by: mikethemoose at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (T/vhV)

488 I have never seen The Layover, although it stars two of the women I consider most desirable right now. I fear its a terrible stupid movie that would lessen my liking of both.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:15 PM (KZzsI)

489 474 458 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?
Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Ez6QX)

Dear Jordan, words do not mean what words mean anymore.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (dNqv+)

Sometimes, I think the CDC is hoping the placebo effect works with people that are vaxxed and boosted; 'your symptoms won't be as bad if you've been vaxxed'.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (mdjgu)

490 And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls. Competition is a wonderful thing, leading to excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wJGjNzrM-pU
Posted by: publius

Holy cow!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (mD/uy)

491 Who the hell knows. That was their headline. I don't have the fortitude to wade completely into the bullshit.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:13 PM (IytoW)
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I'm not going to, either, but I'll take a guess at it.

"Reports of vaccine side-effects are exacerbated because of wide-scale misinformation in anti-vax online communities and in the conservative media. People who get information from these questionable sources are more likely to report vaccine side effects, which indicates that many vaccine side effects are likely related to the "placebo effect" where people in drug trials report side effects even though they have not been given the drug. Widespread misinformation campaigns make people exposed to those campaigns susceptible to phantom effects that do not occur in the wider population."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (DU+/6)

492 Sinema, Gabbard, Boebert, MTG, and Palin in wesson ...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (8D42x)

I really need to learn silk screening so I can make up "Gabbard / Sinema in '69!" campaign shirts.

As for the battle royale, my money is on Boebert. She's a Rifle girl, which means she's likely thrown down against a drunken barrel racer at 2am on some back road. Palin likely has as well, but has the disadvantage of age.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (wmDcS)

493 484 Little Robert gotta keep his pimp hand strong.

He'd have to stand on a milk crate to smack a bitch

Posted by: Madman at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (2cfUo)

494 Look, I just wanna smack my bitch up. Is that so wrong?

Sometimes broads need a little backhand to stop them from getting hysterical you know?

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (ESjRY)

495 I'm watching a Brit house hunting show with a very tall, attractive blonde realtor. Her legs are longer than Reich.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, resolved to lurking at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (awmcV)

496 Here's the link

https://tinyurl.com/2cpat4y6

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (IytoW)

497 "Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?

Posted by: Jordan61"

The CDC and Webster have just updated their definition of placebo effect.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (MxEKc)

498 Placebo effect would be getting the Covid vax, and then not getting any viral illness at all for a long period - that you believed it protected you from illness, and it did...more than what it was designed to protect you for (which, for this example, would only be Covid)...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (exHjb)

499 462 He's an angry elf.

Posted by: 29Victor at January 20, 2022 04:08 PM (625EN)

lol
Posted by: Cart Guy at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (SH2Zi)

Ok, something funny from Rekeita's stream last night. So Rekeita has a canadian attorney on his streams a lot. Runkle of the Bailey. The joke is he has long silver hair, so the chat calls him Legolas or other Tolkien elven names.

Last night Rekeita was doing a stream because Law and Crime struck his channel with a cease and desist due to copyright and he was getting superchats expressing support (he stream was mostly him dumping on L&C.) Runkle sends a superchat: 'And you'll have my bow!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (dNqv+)

500 Related:

https://tinyurl.com/ykshhdjb
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

**

WTF? How did you get a video of my blonde wife?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (5q92e)

501 I'm going to be honest, I'm not getting the vapors over Reich's comments. If someone said about McCain, "Every Republican outta slug that sonofabitch" after he voted against the Obamacare repeal, we'd think nothing of it. Sinema wants to play in in the Boy's League, so she doesn't get special treatment for being a girl.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 20, 2022 04:11 PM (wmDcS)

The "in fairness." The Left don't play that way.

Posted by: TC at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (yu5nA)

502 I'm going to be honest, I'm not getting the vapors over Reich's comments.
.......

I'm just digging all the short jokes.

Posted by: wth at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (v0R5T)

503 >>>Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:12 PM (Ez6QX)

Have you learned NOTHING?! Keep your mouth shut and take the jab or you get the back of the hand.

Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (QYPq3)

504 Well the way it's supposed to go is that all the good people are taken up into heaven before Armaggedon. Only a few believers are left behind to endure the AntiChrist and all that.

That's one interpretation, yeah. There are a lot of guesses and systems made up, but honestly nobody knows and everyone is just trying to see the future. Which God told us not to worry about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (KZzsI)

505 I'm all too happy these Democrat "mavericks" decided to go down this path, but if I'm being intellectually honest, I'm not really sure it benefits them the way they think it does. They don't get the media praise, which is about the only thing Republicans get when they buck their base.

So the media hates them, plus the liberal activists, plus the liberal donors. Which means they get a bruising primary battle.

I love blue on blue violence.

Posted by: Blago at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (PwNLq)

506 The gop isnt stupid enough to run my McSally again. Is it?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (CEwvo)

507 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?

**

Yeah, I'm not sure you want to establish "everyone knows you get really sick from the vaxxine" as the standard.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are single use at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (5q92e)

508 Or maybe they're trying to tell us something about the v*ccine.
Posted by: ... at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (/9mpK)
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They are crawfishing away from all of the negative side affects.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (JVMtX)

509 458 Doesn't the placebo effect mean you got a placebo but your body reacts as if you got the actual medication? How TF does that apply to vaccine reactions?
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The placebo effect works because you believed you took something that was going to help you, even if you really just got a sugar pill or a saline injection, or whatever.

The media is apparently claiming that the people who had adverse reactions or died after getting the jab only did so because they believed something bad would happen if they took the jab.

IOW, that myocarditis is all in your head!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (k4dH2)

510 How's about Sinema v Gabbard naked jello wrestling for lulz?

Wesson oil. And throw in Lauren Boebert and the other one that's sort of hot.
Posted by: publius,

we can make it a battle royal:
Sinema, Gabbard, Boebert, MTG, and Palin in wesson ...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Naked coed Twister ftw.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (mD/uy)

511 Brace yerself, Mary Clogginstein!

Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (UHVv4)

512 nood

something, something clever

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (XvPQV)

513 Is Jenny Rubin still officially a conservative?

When she ordered those business cards, it was cheaper to get the box of 5000. So yeah, until she can go to another 4000 or so restaurants with those "drop your card to win a free lunch" fishbowls.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (nfrXX)

514 Have you learned NOTHING?! Keep your mouth shut and take the jab or you get the back of the hand.
Posted by: Robert Reich at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (QYPq3)

I will take neither, and you will like it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (Ez6QX)

515 McSally has at least $10 million in unspent campaign funds in her coffers. I don't think she's going away, unfortunately.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 04:14 PM (mdjgu)

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Mc Sally is a popular time tested political LOSER. Maybe she can team up with Eugene Mc Carthy?

Posted by: Zombie John Candy at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (Z32m1)

516 Fuck Reich with Hunters syphilis infected dick

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (CEwvo)

517 Wow, he really is short!

Nah, it just a placebo effect from the miniaturization ray.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (coYBh)

518 It can't be placebo - placebo is, by definition, an always positive effect.
Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022

***
The word, from the Latin, means "I please," not "OMG I'm Gonna Die!!!" So, yeah, positive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (txdEq)

519 And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls. Competition is a wonderful thing, leading to excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wJGjNzrM-pU
Posted by: publius

Holy cow!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM

Damn. Is Ozzy Man aware of this? Yanet Garcia has some competition.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (RkC6l)

520 498 Placebo effect would be getting the Covid vax, and then not getting any viral illness at all for a long period - that you believed it protected you from illness, and it did...more than what it was designed to protect you for (which, for this example, would only be Covid)...
Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (exHjb)

This is the "alternate placebo effect", one which is slightly different that "you got the totally fake pill, so nothing should happen" one we know...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (exHjb)

521 "Sinema is effectively asking the authors of Jim Crow and vote-rigging to give their permission for her to stop it. This is worse than incoherent or cowardice. It's a moral disgrace. Ask the segregationists for permission to vote for Civil Rights Act?"

Whaaaat??? The authors of Jim Crow were ALL Democrats, the vote rigging was ALL Democrats, Wallace was a Democrat, Bull Conners was a Democrat, Segregationists were ALL Democrats, ALL of the votes against Civil Rights laws were Democrats. MLK voted for the Republicans, was KILLED by Democrats. Lincoln was the 1st Republican President and was KILLED by Democrats.The very FEW Democrats that voted along with the Repubs were BASHED as hard as you are now bashing Sinema.

Posted by: birddog at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (uAI4S)

522 Holy shit, redc1c4 is dead???

We were just talking with him...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at January 20, 2022 03:55 PM (XvPQV)

Fuck. R.I.P, friend.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:01 PM (SH2Zi)

Saw that this AM. True?

Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (hOMhY)

523 Peter Dinklage is just another Hollywood lefty but I found it funny he was the lead singer in a fairly successful punk rock band.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (NqZ29)

524 >>>Placebo Domingo has a great voice.

He was a pretty lousy umpire, though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:03 PM (KZzsI)

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Strike?

Posted by: Turn Two at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (CoAjq)

525 Soccer players are dropping like flies due to a placebo.

Science says so.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (CEwvo)

526 504 Well the way it's supposed to go is that all the good people are taken up into heaven before Armaggedon. Only a few believers are left behind to endure the AntiChrist and all that.

That's one interpretation, yeah. There are a lot of guesses and systems made up, but honestly nobody knows and everyone is just trying to see the future. Which God told us not to worry about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 04:17 PM (KZzsI)
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And then one day SURPRISE

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (JVMtX)

527 Actually the only mask that is effective is one that is rubber or flexible plastic of some sort and that has special filters that can be changed out every so often.

And even those are truly the best as they do not filter the exhaust which means you are still spreading any germs you breathe out.

Really the only mask that provides protection for you and all around you are a full face mask that has it's own air supply.

I've been waiting for some entrepreneur to come up with a Stormtrooper face mask with real filters and voice amplifier, night vision lenses and a separate air supply. Even paying the license fee I would think you could make millions with all the helicopter Karens out there freaking out over their kids being around hoi polloi unmasked barbarians.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (eQvlh)

528 Remember that CHAZ/CHOP zone in Seattle? There was that failed rapper named Raz Simone that was their warlord that somehow avoided charges for distributing guns to others, even though it was on film. Well, now there are five women who claim Simone trafficked them.

https://bit.ly/3FTE41G

Summer of Love, baby!

Posted by: bonhomme at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (AhhdW)

529 Mc Sally is a popular time tested political LOSER. Maybe she can team up with Eugene Mc Carthy?
Posted by: Zombie John Candy at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (Z32m1)

And Jeff Flake.

Sad to say. I think Sinema is better than either of those two.

Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (hOMhY)

530 Liberals were cheering this morning at market open. "Brandon's speech reversed losses of the last two days".

Yeah, no. Dow down -313 and the bloodbath is continuing in after market hours. We've almost erased all this years gains and we're getting back into Oct 2021 territory...

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (VpIIl)

531 Yanet Garcia has an onlyfans. You can find leaks.

...I've heard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (dNqv+)

532 Saw that this AM. True?
Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (hOMhY)
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Ace confirmed.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:22 PM (JVMtX)

533 Here's the link

https://tinyurl.com/2cpat4y6

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM (IytoW)

We are gaining ground. They are back on their heels attempting to explain placebo effect to people can't even spell "placebo." I'll take it.

Last week, DARPA docs confirmed lab leak likelihood and that they suppressed use of potentially effective therapeutics HCQ and IVM. Yesterday, we learned of the 2018 Moderna patented sequence in the CCP-virus spike protein.

A shit storm is coming.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, mourner at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (SH2Zi)

534 I bet he can kick himself in the forehead like WeeMan.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (Zz0t1)

535 hi guys! well I was a little sad to see the earlier post wherein I guess I diverge from our host a bit on vaccine efficacy. I am twice-moderna'd and have had autoimmune struggles, serious allergic reactions that have sent me to the hospital, recurrent rashes that are hard to clear, and sudden-onset arthritis.

all this for a vaccine that apparently doesn't even prevent you getting COVID! neat.

so, to me best case the shots are a wash. but honestly in my heart I know I'm not alone. it's not a wash, not at all.

if you have time, go thru this substack by El Gato Malo, with help from Joel Smalley, who got ahold of un-redacted data from Alberta:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/
p/alberta-gets-caught-palming-cards

it's a bit of a long thing and there are links to previous substacks. but it is all starting to become clear that this grand medical experiment on all of us has been a massive fail.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (j9HX3)

536 In a second statement Reich apologized to Sinema and cited the "stress of Johnson and this damn war" for his lapse.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 20, 2022 04:23 PM (YAIlb)

537 And just for fun, it's nice to see that Chilean weather girls are hot on the heels of Mexican weather girls. Competition is a wonderful thing, leading to excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wJGjNzrM-pU
Posted by: publius

Holy cow!
Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 04:16 PM

Damn. Is Ozzy Man aware of this? Yanet Garcia has some competition.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (RkC6l)

i miss Chile. there were some very nice visits there...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (8D42x)

538
Saw that this AM. True?
Posted by: Golfman at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (hOMhY)

Sidebar says so.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

539 530 Liberals were cheering this morning at market open. "Brandon's speech reversed losses of the last two days".

Yeah, no. Dow down -313 and the bloodbath is continuing in after market hours. ...
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 04:21 PM (VpIIl)
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Dicey

Posted by: Braenyard at January 20, 2022 04:24 PM (JVMtX)

540 >>>I've been waiting for some entrepreneur to come up with a Stormtrooper face mask with real filters and voice amplifier, night vision lenses and a separate air supply. Even paying the license fee I would think you could make millions with all the helicopter Karens out there freaking out over their kids being around hoi polloi unmasked barbarians.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 04:20 PM (eQvlh)

======

One of my Covid nurses wore a full headgear type contraption. You could hear small fans operating inside, presumably filtering air in and out.

Posted by: Turn Two at January 20, 2022 04:26 PM (CoAjq)

541 This is why the Democrats always lose!

Because they have these horrible liberal purity tests and won't rally around their own party!

If you are a Democrat, you should still support Manchin and Sinema, or else your just handing the election to the fascists!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (7F9te)

542 If the AZ Republicans keep running Martha McSally, they will keep losing. That person is 0-2. She has lost BOTH AZ Senate seats.
Posted by: rd

If the Repulsives send Ducey up against Kelly it'll be 50/50 what we get: a fool or a rino.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 20, 2022 04:27 PM (CCwsu)

543 Ony change: orange has hands in a different position, green is not trying to look seductive, and they are arranged in a different order now.

Oooh. Big change
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 20, 2022 03:38 PM (KZzsI)

The big change is that the marketing firm who did the work got a huge check for a half-day's actual work.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 20, 2022 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

544 Moron Public Service Announcement:

There will be no dying allowed. No Passing away. No Going home. No Going to a Better Place.

None of that until Ace says it's okay.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 20, 2022 04:30 PM (eQvlh)

545 Horde-mind! I see Warai already made my joke. Gotta be quick.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 20, 2022 04:34 PM (YAIlb)

546 271 Kyrsten Sinema needs Nancy Sinatra's boots
Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2022 03:50 PM (2JoB

Except she prefers socks.

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 05:07 PM (CdZ4i)

547 511 Brace yerself, Mary Clogginstein!
Posted by: Roberto O'Reich at January 20, 2022 04:18 PM (UHVv4)

Are you my long lost brother?

Posted by: Beto Pancho O'Rourke at January 20, 2022 05:09 PM (CdZ4i)

548 Tyrion Lannister treated his women better. Except the one he strangled. Robert the III Reich may have just watched that episode.

Posted by: The Rains of Castamere at January 20, 2022 05:33 PM (fUm2i)

549 Scrappy Doo always barks worse than he bites.

Posted by: Shaggy, to the unmasked criminal, at the end of the show at January 20, 2022 05:38 PM (fUm2i)

550 Why didn't you say it about Manchin then, Miguelito Loveless?
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I have the entire collection of the Wild Wild West on DVD. It comes in a cheesy collector's box that's pretty flimsy, but I do love that old show.

I never realized who ridiculously short Robert Conrad was until he was the bad guy in a Columbo episode.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 20, 2022 05:57 PM (Zl0qV)

551 I've got something to give Robert Reich, too. And, given his vertically challenged self, he doesn't even have to get on his knees to take it.

I'm sure nobody will misinterpret the common idiom there.

Posted by: John Milton's Ghost at January 20, 2022 06:06 PM (PTYkn)

552 521 "Sinema is effectively asking the authors of Jim Crow and vote-rigging to give their permission for her to stop it. This is worse than incoherent or cowardice. It's a moral disgrace. Ask the segregationists for permission to vote for Civil Rights Act?"

Whaaaat??? The authors of Jim Crow were ALL Democrats, the vote rigging was ALL Democrats, Wallace was a Democrat, Bull Conners was a Democrat, Segregationists were ALL Democrats, ALL of the votes against Civil Rights laws were Democrats. MLK voted for the Republicans, was KILLED by Democrats. Lincoln was the 1st Republican President and was KILLED by Democrats.The very FEW Democrats that voted along with the Repubs were BASHED as hard as you are now bashing Sinema.
Posted by: birddog at January 20, 2022 04:19 PM (uAI4S)

You expect Leftists to honestly report/interpret history?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 20, 2022 06:11 PM (CdZ4i)

Biden Claims That He's Greatly Overperformed Expectations, and The Media Actually Bothers Asking the Public: Do You Agree?

Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.

This was just an absolutely bizarre claim from Biden, during an evening of bizarre claims.

I know Trump really innovated and disrupted in the field of puffery -- "People are always telling me, you've done a really great job on trade, they can't believe what a great job we're doing" -- but at least those claims had some ba