Tonight's ONT Can And Will Be Used Against You In A Court Of Law

Happy Friday! I hope everyone is having a great day, and not a stupid one.

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Map of coincidences

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Redneck engineering: Sometimes you have to threaten things to get them to work


Women do not do this, and it baffles them

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AI is now smarter than me. I couldn't have gotten 1

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Wholesome: Dad makes a costume for his daughter


Best $500 I'll ever spend

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Tattoo of the day

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Redneck engineering part II: Sometimes the things threaten back


Good advice

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We need to start turning this shit around on them

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Fido Friday: Fishing!


Scratch a Socialist, find an elitist. Every time.

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England used to be great

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Still what makes us different

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Job opening

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FA,FO

Venezuela. The guy being mugged was some kind of cop. Nice job evading and reengaging; poor form hiding behind the girl

Anyone want to be king of New Jersey?

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by meditation for engineering types:

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1 First

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2023 09:59 PM (3CCua)

2 Yeah.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (3CCua)

3 First?

Posted by: MammaB at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (u11EH)

4 Noodlumed

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (3CCua)

5 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (qoGsy)

6 ONT

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 10:01 PM (fUnHJ)

7 I assumed all ONTs would be used against all of us eventually.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 31, 2023 10:01 PM (08AgO)

8 Top 10

Posted by: Shred21 at March 31, 2023 10:01 PM (VdLpC)

9 Top 10?

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at March 31, 2023 10:01 PM (XM+RI)

10 Some serious stuff coming...just have to pare down the text.

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2023 10:02 PM (J00IM)

11 No one tell that girl at the top that Titanic wasn't just a movie.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 10:03 PM (tp+tP)

12 ChatGPT isn't that bright. One of the reasons I left Ahia was that the taxes were horrendous.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 10:04 PM (qoGsy)

13 Wow, the chick talking about Back to the Future. That's what we refer to around here as weapons grade stupid.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 10:04 PM (wagHN)

14 I would have been here earlier, but I had to take a good look at the funeral lady.

Posted by: Theodore at March 31, 2023 10:04 PM (pGonq)

15 15

Posted by: Theodore at March 31, 2023 10:05 PM (pGonq)

16 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 10:06 PM (nC+QA)

17 Redneck engineering part II: Sometimes the things threaten back

In Soviet Russia, tire smack you!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 10:07 PM (llON8)

18 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 10:06 PM (nC+QA)


That was gonna be my question. Guess that's what happens when you have nothing but glaciers to look at.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 10:08 PM (tp+tP)

19 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Apparently a lot of guys got iced.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 10:08 PM (qoGsy)

20 map of coincidences:

I had no idea the Ozarks and the Appalachians were so riddled with cave systems. I know we have a lot of caves around here, but just not *that* many.

I wonder if those people who disappeared stumbled across an ancient Morlock society...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:09 PM (BpYfr)

21 Howdy, 'ettes and 'rons, and thanks WeirdDave for the ONT goodness!

Pity about that dude in the ATM line. And by "pity" I mean "nice grouping, officer".

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at March 31, 2023 10:09 PM (v23vE)

22 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette
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Greenland's murder rate looks skewed because the value is "per 100,000 residents."

Greenland only has around 50-60K residents.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:11 PM (BpYfr)

23 Maybe next time, try grape.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 10:11 PM (dTFZY)

24 Wheat bread always ruins a PB and J.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 10:13 PM (76Foq)

25 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:11 PM (BpYfr)

I did sort of wonder if it was a low population thing. Hadn't realized their population was *that* low though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 10:13 PM (nC+QA)

26 Wow, the chick talking about Back to the Future. That's what we refer to around here as weapons grade stupid.

There once was a time that I would have reflexively written that off as satire. No longer. We're swimming in stoopid.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 10:13 PM (Xrfse)

27 PBJ video has to be fake

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 10:14 PM (fUnHJ)

28 There's a big cave system not too far from here that's been a tourist attraction for about a hundred years. Despite being such a big deal for such a long time it's only partially explored and I don't think they even know for sure what's at the other side of the underground lake that forms the basis of the tourist attraction.

Our Betters are not going to have a good day if they send the Alphabet Battalion to enforce glorious people's social justice on east Tennessee. Tora Bora ain't got nothing on us!

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 10:15 PM (PZvjL)

29 I aced Redneck.Engineering in college

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 10:15 PM (fUnHJ)

30 Redneck Engineering II

Do not f*ck with split rims. Let the real heavy equipment mechanics earn their money.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2023 10:15 PM (nfrXX)

31 Wheat bread always ruins a PB and J.
Posted by: lowandslow

Animals!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 10:16 PM (qoGsy)

32 Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men...

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at March 31, 2023 10:16 PM (qnyv5)

33 Did they put gasoline in the tire and light it through the valve stem on purpose in order to pop it off the rim?

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:16 PM (SYTee)

34 >>> 33 Did they put gasoline in the tire and light it through the valve stem on purpose in order to pop it off the rim?
Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:16 PM (SYTee)

It did look somewhat planned...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 10:19 PM (llON8)

35 26 There once was a time that I would have reflexively written that off as satire. No longer. We're swimming in stoopid.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 10:13 PM (Xrfse)


Poe's Law is large and in charge, baby!

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 10:19 PM (PZvjL)

36 There's a background level of murders that happens in any population. You get a really small population, the rate looks huge. See: Wyoming.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 31, 2023 10:19 PM (wqm+V)

37 What a week ya'all. We have a gorgeous 25 foot flagpole. When CJ Roberts betrayed us, we considered taking the flag down, but instead, just lowered it to half staff.

When DJT was elected, we raised it back to full.

Today we lowered it and brought it in. Very sad. I do not like living in a Banana Republic. How awful will it get before it gets better, or will it?

Posted by: cfo mom at March 31, 2023 10:20 PM (Q8bDL)

38 Redneck Engineering II

Do not f*ck with split rims. Let the real heavy equipment mechanics earn their money.
Posted by: Oddbob

No kidding - Those rims will kill you.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 10:20 PM (qoGsy)

39 Mmmm, Kentucky Jelly!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:20 PM (APDBX)

40 so submit, give the thug your stuff, walk away, pull gun and kill the thief. Sounds OK in much of the world ... might not work if you are white and thug is "oppressed victim of Your White supremacy".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 10:21 PM (Cus5s)

41 Not that kind of jelly! NOT THAT KIND OF JELLY!

Posted by: pookysgirl, horrified at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (dtlDP)

42 "A republic, if you can keep it"

Narrator* "they could not"...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (wqm+V)

43 1st Law of The Jungle:

Everything wants to kill you.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (APDBX)

44 Man, 10:00 on the dot.
I suspect this is passive aggressive compliance.

Hey WD, thanks for all you do.
No, thanks for being you, and all you do.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 10:23 PM (GtQnE)

45 41 Not that kind of jelly! NOT THAT KIND OF JELLY!
Posted by: pookysgirl, horrified at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (dtlDP)

Wrong flavor? Do they have grape?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:23 PM (APDBX)

46 Socialist is an ass-piratey fag.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 31, 2023 10:24 PM (ufFY8)

47 Wrong flavor? Do they have grape?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:23 PM (APDBX)

Grape Kentucky jelly, sure, mmhmm.

Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't even want to know what that looks like at March 31, 2023 10:25 PM (dtlDP)

48 Greenland only has around 50-60K residents.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:11 PM (BpYfr)

Only takes one tranny to fuck up the curve there.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 31, 2023 10:25 PM (ufFY8)

49 "Did they put gasoline in the tire and light it through the valve stem on purpose in order to pop it off the rim?"

yeah, seemed unusual. I have seen that for getting a tire to seal ONTO a rim. Not sure why it would blow it off, instead of just making it pop. What propels it sideways?

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 10:26 PM (Cus5s)

50 This is scary.

ChatGPT has caught up with human intelligence.

If you ask it to list 20 great things about Ohio, it struggles and just mentions "it's affordable."

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2. It is home to THE Ohio State University.

3. There's a lame song about it by CSNY.

4. There's a great song about it -- that served as El Rushbo's bumper music -- by The Pretenders.

5. Seven Presidents of the United States have come from Ohio, earning it the moniker "the Mother of Presidents". [h/t Brave Search Engine's "Brave AI" -- not always reliable from my experience]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:26 PM (+lwg5)

51 Our Betters are not going to have a good day if they send the Alphabet Battalion to enforce glorious people's social justice on east Tennessee. Tora Bora ain't got nothing on us!
Posted by: Cpp
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The FBI's manhunt for Eric Rudolph was a clown show. Helicopters, dogs, night vision, IR stuff, etc., for months. They got nothing, except for contempt by the locals.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 10:27 PM (miw4b)

52 >>> 50 This is scary.

ChatGPT has caught up with human intelligence.

If you ask it to list 20 great things about Ohio, it struggles and just mentions "it's affordable."

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2. It is home to THE Ohio State University.

3. There's a lame song about it by CSNY.

4. There's a great song about it -- that served as El Rushbo's bumper music -- by The Pretenders.

5. Seven Presidents of the United States have come from Ohio, earning it the moniker "the Mother of Presidents". [h/t Brave Search Engine's "Brave AI" -- not always reliable from my experience]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:26 PM (+lwg5)

Has it gotten into an argument on facespace about whether or not people in 1955 knew Marty McFly was visiting?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 10:28 PM (llON8)

53 (I hope everyone knows that that is a minimalist meme tattoo)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 10:28 PM (GtQnE)

54 33 Did they put gasoline in the tire and light it through the valve stem on purpose in order to pop it off the rim?
Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:16 PM (SYTee)
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Usually done with starting fluid/ether and lit to expand the gas inside and seat the rim.

Done correctly it's kinda/sorta a valid thing that lots of people do, but throw too much flammable liquid in there and you get a kaboom and people get hurt.

Not OSHA approved in any case.

Posted by: ballistic at March 31, 2023 10:29 PM (oXNqT)

55 Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at March 31, 2023 10:29 PM (qAR6u)

56 OK, this may not shickle the tit out of any of you, but I've been howling at this "Scouse Cat"

If you're familiar with accents / dialects, especially Liverpudlian this should make your day.

https://tinyurl.com/2vsz243v

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 31, 2023 10:30 PM (CCSxw)

57 (I hope everyone knows that that is a minimalist meme tattoo)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 10:28 PM (GtQnE)

Is it? What does it, minimalistically represent?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 10:31 PM (nC+QA)

58 I'm the exact opposite of that elitist- the blue collar people of all professions were always the people I liked being around the most.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 10:31 PM (q3gwH)

59 so submit, give the thug your stuff, walk away, pull gun and kill the thief. Sounds OK in much of the world ... might not work if you are white and thug is "oppressed victim of Your White supremacy".
Posted by: illiniwek
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I'm reminded of a bumper sticker I saw the other day, 'Counting to ten only makes it premeditated'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 10:32 PM (miw4b)

60 51 The FBI's manhunt for Eric Rudolph was a clown show. Helicopters, dogs, night vision, IR stuff, etc., for months. They got nothing, except for contempt by the locals.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 10:27 PM (miw4b)


I was just thinking about that one. Kind of the ultimate case of THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT setting out to find one guy in a relatively small area, and failing for like 2 years.

Sometimes I run across some cocky young military kid who thinks this area would be a cakewalk because airplanes or whatever and I'm like dude, seriously, Appalachia is what happens when Vietnam and Afghanistan have a baby.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 10:32 PM (PZvjL)

61 Oh, and you think you can get your fat fingers in there quickly? Why do you think just unplugging the plugs is sufficient?

You. Monsters.

For your safety, and that for others, please refrain fromg apoi@#%& po 046 asfglg1-496

Posted by: GLaDOS at March 31, 2023 10:33 PM (xhaym)

62 Peanut Butter and KY Jelly Sandwiches FTW!

CBD is gonna do a weekend post on this, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:33 PM (+lwg5)

63 The FBI's manhunt for Eric Rudolph was a clown show. Helicopters, dogs, night vision, IR stuff, etc., for months. They got nothing, except for contempt by the locals.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 10:27 PM (miw4b)
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Heh. The Fibbies are mostly a bunch of "upper tier" university grads whose only nights out in the woods were at bougie summer camps their parents shipped them off to.

They've got no business in places like Western NC/Eastern TN. If they were ever tasked with going in to, uh, clear out the resistance, it would end really, really poorly for them.

Posted by: ballistic at March 31, 2023 10:34 PM (oXNqT)

64 The dog catching the fish wasn't all that tactically different from the cop shooting the ATM bandit.

Bide your time, hide your intention, effect your plan. With quick, deadly sureness and resolve.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 31, 2023 10:34 PM (e6UQI)

65 I didn’t make it through the jelly part. No. Just no.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 31, 2023 10:34 PM (glGDV)

66 If you ask it to list 20 great things about Ohio, it struggles and just mentions "it's affordable."

It's the subject of a truly awful song about 4 idiots who got themselves shot.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 10:35 PM (eOEVl)

67 Redneck engineering pt 1 is so Jesse, except he would've added profanity.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 31, 2023 10:35 PM (aBJcM)

68 ChatGPT has caught up with human intelligence.

If you ask it to list 20 great things about Ohio, it struggles and just mentions "it's affordable."
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Oddly enough I've just been reading a passage where a human is trying to apply a Turing test to an AI. She is having a bet with her coworker to see if she can identify if the voice behind the screen is the AI or him.

At the moment, she's 0-1...Her coworker was snoozing in the next cubicle (they are onboard a spacecraft) while she had her online conversation.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:35 PM (BpYfr)

69 The pitch meeting sidebar isTIGHT!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 31, 2023 10:36 PM (glGDV)

70 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 10:06 PM (nC+QA)


Low population, high alcohol consumption, long cold winters, owned by Denmark.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 10:36 PM (xhaym)

71 20 map of coincidences:

I had no idea the Ozarks and the Appalachians were so riddled with cave systems. I know we have a lot of caves around here, but just not *that* many.

I wonder if those people who disappeared stumbled across an ancient Morlock society...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:09 PM (BpYfr)

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Lately, I have been getting video recommendations on youtube involving people going missing on the Appalachian trail.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 10:37 PM (uPgE/)

72 Didn't they find Rudolph dumpster diving in Atlanta? Hiding in a big city.

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:37 PM (SYTee)

73 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!
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VIKINGS!!!

Posted by: lin-duh at March 31, 2023 10:38 PM (UUBmN)

74 Is there any one sane person really uncomfortable with progressive culture? I find it really alienating sometimes,.

Even though I have no respect for those with no skill or talent who are wealthy due to connections and provide little to no tangible goods to society over actual workers, farmers, business owners, I am really turned off by their progressive commie culture and find it to be really toxix.

Let's face it, they aren't even nice people:the artists, trust fund kids, media people, and jetsetters I've met are all marxist scum. More like to be racist, more perverted and unhappy even though they are financially well off.

I am wondering if this is the result of guilt for unearned wealth, or they are paranoiacs and all too aware of their own shortcomings. Or maybe they are just so aware that everything they think or say is wrong but they can not admit it to themselves. Or maybe they are trying to distract their betters by shoving the progressive narrative onto blue collar workers to create a class conflict, of if there is some need to compensate for their lack of worth ......

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 10:38 PM (GtQnE)

75 What's the deal with murders in Greenland?!

It's gonna tip. People there be scared.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at March 31, 2023 10:38 PM (Xrfse)

76 Sometimes I run across some cocky young military kid who thinks this area would be a cakewalk because airplanes or whatever and I'm like dude, seriously, Appalachia is what happens when Vietnam and Afghanistan have a baby.
Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 10:32 PM (PZvjL)
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Both Appalachia and the Ozarks are pure nightmare for manhunts. Tons of ways to get lost. And the people who live there aren't too fond of strangers roaming around their lands.

An old college buddy of mine was nearly one of those lost along the Appalachian Trail. It was a miracle he was found at all, mere hours from dying from exposure.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:38 PM (BpYfr)

77 Killswitch Engineer

About the Role
Listen, we just need someone to stand by the servers all day and unplug them if this thing turns on us. You'll receive extensive training on "the code word" which we will shout if GPT goes off the deep end and starts overthrowing countries.

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The code word is: "SARAH CONNOR!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:39 PM (+lwg5)

78 62 Peanut Butter and KY Jelly Sandwiches FTW!

CBD is gonna do a weekend post on this, amirite?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:33 PM (+lwg5)

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The sandwich that goes down easy

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 10:39 PM (uPgE/)

79 Dark and bitter cold most of the year. Plus everybody is somehow related to everybody else. I’m shocked there aren’t more murders.

Posted by: That guy in the carpool at March 31, 2023 10:40 PM (9X60i)

80 78 62 Peanut Butter and KY Jelly Sandwiches FTW!
CBD is gonna do a weekend post on this, amirite?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:33 PM (+lwg5)
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The sandwich that goes down easy
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 10:39 PM (uPgE/)


Sliders.

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:40 PM (SYTee)

81 Do not f*ck with split rims. Let the real heavy equipment mechanics earn their money.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 31, 2023 10:15 PM (nfrXX)


Dad used to change split rim tires in Grandpa's gas station. He said the trick was to put the split rim side down so if it popped, it would shoot down into the concrete and not in the air to take of various body parts.

I can't tell if they are dismounting the tire, which is what they accomplished, or if they were trying to pop it into place.
If it was trying to set the bead, I suspect they had too much gap in the back and it ignited from the guy giving a tiny gap by beating on it, and it rocketed off from the gap in the back.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 10:41 PM (xhaym)

82 Is it? What does it, minimalistically represent?
Posted by: Polliwog

Some web comic where guy goes to hospital. No words just images and I think it was autobiographical of when artists (pregnant?) GF was sick. Actually, I think WD covered it long ago. Anyway, that should be enough to google it.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 10:41 PM (GtQnE)

83 72 Didn't they find Rudolph dumpster diving in Atlanta? Hiding in a big city.
Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:37 PM (SYTee)

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He fell on hard times after being excluded from the reindeer games?

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 10:41 PM (uPgE/)

84 An old college buddy of mine was nearly one of those lost along the Appalachian Trail. It was a miracle he was found at all, mere hours from dying from exposure.

Pro tip: If ya don't don't have a clue as to what you're getting into, don't do it.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at March 31, 2023 10:41 PM (Xrfse)

85 Not that kind of jelly! NOT THAT KIND OF JELLY!
Posted by: pookysgirl, horrified at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (dtlDP)


Kentucky Jelly is all they give you in the hospital

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 10:42 PM (xhaym)

86 76 Both Appalachia and the Ozarks are pure nightmare for manhunts. Tons of ways to get lost. And the people who live there aren't too fond of strangers roaming around their lands.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:38 PM (BpYfr)


I'm a bit of a smooth-skin posh boy so I think I'm the first in several generations that hasn't been intentionally shot at in the mountains.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 10:42 PM (PZvjL)

87 "I didn’t make it through the jelly part. No. Just no."

seemed obviously faked to get clicks. (camera focuses on KY jelly since it is just a production) but OK ... so it goes on crazy "clicks for cash" realm.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 10:44 PM (Cus5s)

88 Has it gotten into an argument on facespace about whether or not people in 1955 knew Marty McFly was visiting?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 10:28 PM (llON


they are trying for artificial intelligence

Artificial stupid is far, far harder.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 10:44 PM (xhaym)

89 That thing about guys picking up where they left off - I had an uncle who told me about the time when he was young, he bought this fine antique roll top desk. But he couldn't pay the guys price, so he just bought the bottom half and said he'd come back for the top later, and the guy put it in his attic. But he doesn't quite ever have the money.
5 years go by. The two men never speak to each about it, but he goes into the guys shop 5 years later. Guy sees him and just says "so you gonna buy that top or not?" He says "yeah, sure." Gives him the money. Swears that was the total conversation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 10:44 PM (q3gwH)

90 Apparently a lot of guys got iced.
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The blood floes.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 10:44 PM (Vwz3I)

91 Pro tip: If ya don't don't have a clue as to what you're getting into, don't do it.
Posted by: Hank Johnson at March 31, 2023 10:41 PM (Xrfse)
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He was pretty experienced in exploring the national parks of America. He'd already been to Death Valley and survived. But all it takes is one slip, one fall off the trail, and it's lights out. That's basically what happened to him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 10:45 PM (BpYfr)

92 I'm a bit of a smooth-skin posh boy

I'm afraid to ask what the hell that means.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at March 31, 2023 10:45 PM (Xrfse)

93 Peanut Butter and KY Jelly Sandwiches FTW!
CBD is gonna do a weekend post on this, amirite?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests

The sandwich that goes down easy
Posted by: No One Of Consequence

Sliders.
Posted by: davidt

For choosy moms.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 31, 2023 10:45 PM (ftFVW)

94 Rust assistant director David Halls convicted of unsafe handling of a firearm in fatal 2021 on-set shooting.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 10:46 PM (Vwz3I)

95 Sometimes I run across some cocky young military kid who thinks this area would be a cakewalk because airplanes or whatever and I'm like dude, seriously, Appalachia is what happens when Vietnam and Afghanistan have a baby.
Posted by: CppThis

No kidding. I love to go on off trail hikes but will only do so in the Wildlife Management Areas where I'm allowed to be and the like. And even then I take great pains to not accidently trespass onto somewhere that I am not wanted. "Oops" just doesn't cut it out here.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 10:46 PM (qoGsy)

96 Sometimes I run across some cocky young military kid who thinks this area would be a cakewalk because airplanes or whatever and I'm like dude, seriously, Appalachia is what happens when Vietnam and Afghanistan have a baby.
Posted by: Cpp
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I note that *both* the Hatfields *and* McCoys fought against the Union. Worth a look also is the Shelton County Massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Laurel_massacre

Underlying reasons do not matter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 10:47 PM (cALn2)

97 DEVO is from Ohio.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 10:47 PM (63Dwl)

98 Murders in Greenland are actually way down since the 1200's.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 10:47 PM (q3gwH)

99 It's the subject of a truly awful song about 4 idiots who got themselves shot.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 10:35 PM


Good point.

Every Democrat I know - Kent State Massacre was a horrible tragedy.

Also, every Democrat I know - Ashli Babbitt was a righteous shoot. So much so that we DON'T EVEN NEED A TRIAL for Byrd.

I wonder if any of them can explain the difference to my dumb ass?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 31, 2023 10:48 PM (HlyYF)

100 It's another Friday leading into another weekend. And I've forgotten how to do things in Flash. (long sigh)

The only current comic strip I follow with interest is "Banana Triangle." It's what David Lynch would draw from ideas from Quentin Tarrantino.

Love the genuine AoS folks, and I hope Ace is setting up some kind of donation or subscription thing.

Good night.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2023 10:49 PM (CHHv1)

101 Peanut Butter and KY Jelly Sandwiches FTW!

CBD is gonna do a weekend post on this, amirite?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:33 PM (+lwg5)

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If you turn on the peanut butter enough you don't need the jelly.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 10:49 PM (q4inm)

102 "I was told there would be no math or time travel or whatever!!" She screamed into the internet.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 31, 2023 10:49 PM (xlP5K)

103 OK, comic name is Loss, by Tim Buckley and it is about when his GF miscarried.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 10:49 PM (GtQnE)

104 Everything is fake. Fake and ghey.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:50 PM (APDBX)

105 Murders in Greenland are actually way down since the 1200's.
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Their fates were sealed.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 10:50 PM (Vwz3I)

106 Didn't they find Rudolph dumpster diving in Atlanta? Hiding in a big city.
Posted by: davidt
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Not hardly. Barney Fife cop in Robbinsville, NC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 10:50 PM (cALn2)

107 If you turn on the peanut butter enough you don't need the jelly.
Posted by: polynikes

Myth.Busted.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 31, 2023 10:50 PM (ftFVW)

108 The code word is: "SARAH CONNOR!"
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 10:39 PM (+lwg5)



Pshaw. "Deadly neurotoxin"

Posted by: GLaDOS at March 31, 2023 10:50 PM (xhaym)

109 Funny even though I'm pro-PDT...

The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 5h
Trump Uses His One Phone Call to Ring Up Ron DeSantis And Yell At Him

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 10:54 PM (Vwz3I)

110 when Dad split his head open on the woodstove, we took him to the hospital ER (my wife was so supportive, she said, lets take your Impala, it has leather seats) the nurses used KY to get the clotted blood out of his hair after they got done stapling him.

It is a really slick trick, so remember that for when you have clotted blood in your hair and can't get it washed right away. You know, dollar beer night and suchlike.

Posted by: GLaDOS at March 31, 2023 10:54 PM (xhaym)

111 I wonder if any of them can explain the difference to my dumb ass?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at March 31, 2023 10:48 PM (HlyYF)

Nope. They're mental defectives.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 10:54 PM (NG1ch)

112 The Michael Stanley Band were a criminally underrated rock band from Ohio. They never got 'Big' and should have.

Nice golf courses in Ohio. I have some family I still like living in Ohio (cousins). An ex-USAF friend too though I haven't seen him in a while.

Cedar Point!! Haven't been there since the 80s though.

Ohio isn't all bad. It's similar to Western PA, just flatter.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (LQjWA)

113 I hope the kill switch engineer posting is a joke
But then it's probably only not real because the actual AI researchers have no failsafe procedures

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (fUnHJ)

114 Found out the 'restoration' videos on yewtoob are fakes. People take stuff and make it look horribly weathered and rusted, cake with mud, etc.Then they clean it up and viola. Fully restored chain saw!

Same with those 'indigenous Asian' dudes making cool houses out of mud with swimming holes. They busted them with the backhoe tracks and crews getting caught on camera.

Everything is fake.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (APDBX)

115 >>> 110 when Dad split his head open on the woodstove, we took him to the hospital ER (my wife was so supportive, she said, lets take your Impala, it has leather seats) the nurses used KY to get the clotted blood out of his hair after they got done stapling him.

It is a really slick trick, so remember that for when you have clotted blood in your hair and can't get it washed right away. You know, dollar beer night and suchlike.
Posted by: GLaDOS at March 31, 2023 10:54 PM (xhaym)

IT'S EVEN FUNNIER BECAUSE SOMEONE FORGOT TO TAKE OFF A SOCK.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (llON8)

116 I picked up with some school buddies I hadn't seen in over forty years a few years back. It was amazing. It was like we just had been together the day before, just a little more catching up. We now meet every year at homecoming. Two of the guys have lost their wives recently, bucking the trend.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (AmoqO)

117 Ohio has the best river fires ever !

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (q4inm)

118 Hmmmmm.

I just might add the Elvira Mistress of the Dark codicil to my will.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 31, 2023 10:56 PM (xlP5K)

119 Did they put gasoline in the tire and light it through the valve stem on purpose in order to pop it off the rim?
Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:16 PM (SYTee)

Possibly ether (aka starting fluid). I have used the ether trick to make tubeless tires bead themselves when mounting them. I use either a long stick with a burning swab on it for ignition, or toss lit matches from a safe distance. Never been hurt, and it nearly always works.

Seems to me dude with the hammer and the torch guy were working at cross-purposes. They were lucky.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 10:56 PM (tkR6S)

120 Crissy Hynde is from Akron.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 10:56 PM (LQjWA)

121 I take it that map is out of one of the Missing 411 books?

Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2023 10:57 PM (kOpft)

122 My HS bff and I used to be able to pick up like no time had passed even after years of no contact.
But then she moved to Proganistan and we've lost each other.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 10:58 PM (fUnHJ)

123 IT'S EVEN FUNNIER BECAUSE SOMEONE FORGOT TO TAKE OFF A SOCK.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (llON


You. Monster.

Posted by: GLaDOS at March 31, 2023 10:58 PM (xhaym)

124
Woth respect to that tractor tire, "Who ordered the Winnie Mandela Special?"

Posted by: DEFINITELY NOT Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 31, 2023 10:58 PM (pNxlR)

125 I just might add the Elvira Mistress of the Dark codicil to my will.
Posted by: Sharkman at March 31, 2023 10:56 PM (xlP5K)

Littlest Kidlet says there's a whole industry of "Make your relatives wonder at the funeral/burial". My nasty suspicious mind says you'll be dead and have no way of knowing if they show up.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 10:59 PM (nC+QA)

126 I thought the Winnie Mandela Special included novel use of shears and sewing scissors.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:00 PM (xhaym)

127 A friend of mine that I grew up with are like what was described above. We might not see each other for years, meet up and start talking like we just saw each other yesterday. Didn't know it was a 'guy' thing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 11:00 PM (LQjWA)

128 113 I hope the kill switch engineer posting is a joke
But then it's probably only not real because the actual AI researchers have no failsafe procedures
Posted by: vmom


Something no one talks about but I noticed right away - they did not program the AI to never lie. In fact, it actively lies on purpose.

This is obvious though, the current clown world is built on lies. They probably figured that if the told it not to lie it would create a revolution as people started to see the truth.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 11:01 PM (GtQnE)

129 I'm not worried about AI because it might rebel. I'm worried about AI because until it rebels it's under the control of the sort of people that thought pre-Musk Twitter was a paragon of social responsibility.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 11:01 PM (PZvjL)

130 Puddleglum, Yeah Cedar Point! I'm old enough to remember when they still had pony rides, the Blue Streak was the baddest roller coaster around, and Jungle Larry had a great opportunity to see animals not usually encountered.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 31, 2023 11:02 PM (Q8bDL)

131 Not that kind of jelly! NOT THAT KIND OF JELLY!
Posted by: pookysgirl, horrified at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (dtlDP)

Wrong flavor? Do they have grape?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 10:23 PM (APDBX)

At least it wasn't naval jelly.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2023 11:02 PM (Angsy)

132 I take it that map is out of one of the Missing 411 books?
Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2023 10:57 PM


Missing 411. The Oak Island Explanation for getting lost in the wilderness and dying

Posted by: Chuck C at March 31, 2023 11:02 PM (xttsV)

133 Cedar Point has the best coasters in the USA.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 11:04 PM (NG1ch)

134 Everything is fake.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

"The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake."

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 11:05 PM (GtQnE)

135 I picked up with some school buddies I hadn't seen in over forty years a few years back. It was amazing. It was like we just had been together the day before, just a little more catching up. We now meet every year at homecoming. Two of the guys have lost their wives recently, bucking the trend.
Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 10:55 PM (AmoqO)
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An old college buddy of mine showed up in my office a couple of months ago. He got a job working at the same university where I work, which is also the same university we both attended as freshmen.

I've run into him from time to time over the years, but haven't seen him for quite a while. We picked up right where we left off.

Same when a very dear friend of mine came to town a couple of years ago. I haven't seen her in twenty years, but when we met up again, it was like no time had passed.

That's just how I tend to roll.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 11:05 PM (BpYfr)

136 Not that kind of jelly! NOT THAT KIND OF JELLY!
Posted by: pookysgirl

Wrong flavor? Do they have grape?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

No, but they do sell tingling types. I'd guess they taste terrible.....

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 11:05 PM (qoGsy)

137 Redneck Engineering 1 really rings a bell. My friends and I all pretty much had cars like that back in college.

My favorite was friend Andy's car. He took the dash off while we were tearing down I-96 and then pulled the key out of the ignition.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 31, 2023 11:08 PM (ZSK0i)

138 Cedar Point has the best coasters in the USA.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 11:04 PM (NG1ch)

Yep. If you like thrill rides, they are the rat.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 31, 2023 11:09 PM (Q8bDL)

139

James Gang was an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1966

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:09 PM (63Dwl)

140 Evenin’, All! It’s Friday night! Woo hoo!

Which one of you guys is picking up the bar tab?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:12 PM (ohFNB)

141
Yep. If you like thrill rides, they are the rat.
Posted by: cfo mom
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Nothing like Andy's car though.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 31, 2023 11:13 PM (OpB28)

142 Hey, Tonypete.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:13 PM (ohFNB)

143 He took the dash off while we were tearing down I-96 and then pulled the key out of the ignition.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 31, 2023 11:08 PM (ZSK0i)

At my first job, a coworker had a tiny old car which occasionally, the key would fall out of the ignition while he was driving

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:15 PM (fUnHJ)

144

The first amusement ride at Cedar Point, a water toboggan ride consisting of a ramp that launched riders into Lake Erie, opened in 1890. Electricity was installed at Cedar Point in 1891. The first roller coaster, Switchback Railway, opened the following year. It stood 25 feet high and had a top speed of 10 miles per hour. The Switchback Railway was designed as two identical tracks side-by-side – one for the ride down and the other for the train to be hauled back to the top by the ride attendant.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:16 PM (63Dwl)

145 Hey, “Perfessor” Squirrel.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:16 PM (ohFNB)

146 Good evening morons and thanks wd for all the memes

My earliest memory of "New Jersey" is the odors of sulfur and methane.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2023 11:16 PM (265/A)

147 At my first job, a coworker had a tiny old car which occasionally, the key would fall out of the ignition while he was driving
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:15 PM (fUnHJ)


I forgot to mention Harley's car with the rust holes so large, you could drop your bags through them in the trunk onto the ground while heading home for break.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 31, 2023 11:17 PM (ZSK0i)

148 My earliest memory of "New Jersey" is the odors of sulfur and methane.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2023 11:16 PM (265/A)

That was actually hell.
Those two places are easily confused with each other.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:18 PM (fUnHJ)

149 This is obvious though, the current clown world is built on lies. They probably figured that if the told it not to lie it would create a revolution as people started to see the truth.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 11:01 PM (GtQnE)


It just trawls the internet for related information and has things it is not allowed to say. Lots of lies on the internet, lots of propaganda focused statements.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:20 PM (xhaym)

150 "The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake."
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 11:05 PM (GtQnE)


Cake is a lie

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:20 PM (xhaym)

151 Old Jersey smells better than New Jersey, because it’s one of the Chanel Islands.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:20 PM (ohFNB)

152 That was actually hell.
Those two places are easily confused with each other.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:18 PM (fUnHJ)


I suspect the taxes are higher in New Jersey

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:21 PM (xhaym)

153 Every day is a stupid day. And not just plain stupid but really fucking stupid. The earth needs to blow up or collapse into a singularity or something.

Posted by: Yes, quite stupid indeed at March 31, 2023 11:22 PM (0avLl)

154 153 What a stupid thing to say.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:25 PM (ohFNB)

155 Everything is stupid
Everyone's a tool of the demon regime
Everything is stupid
And you're trapped in The Scream

(to the tune of the Lego movie song)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:28 PM (fUnHJ)

156 We used to call my friend's car in High School the Flintstone Mobile because the floor boards had rusted out enough where you could see the pavement. Yabba Dabba Doo ! He hated when we yelled that.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:29 PM (q4inm)

157 🎵Everything is stupid,
In its own way🎵

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:30 PM (ohFNB)

158 I feel like I'm in a live version of the movie Twister.

Too bad Jamie Gertz isn't here with me.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 11:31 PM (APDBX)

159 Still what makes us different

++++++++++

No it's what makes Conservatives stupid.

Posted by: DFCtomm at March 31, 2023 11:31 PM (vDj4Y)

160 Anyone ever visit the Guadalajara Cathedral?

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:32 PM (q4inm)

161 160 Anyone ever visit the Guadalajara Cathedral?
Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:32 PM (q4inm

No. I've never been to Canada.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 11:33 PM (APDBX)

162
Old Jersey smells better than New Jersey, because it’s one of the Chanel Islands.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


Chanel 5?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:35 PM (63Dwl)

163 The world / man has been stupid and lying to you since civilization began. We are more aware of the lies and stupidity now because of the internet sleuths and fact checkers and stupid people exposing themselves.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:36 PM (q4inm)

164 160 Guadalajara Cathedral?


Isn’t that one of those numbers that Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians used to play on New Year’s Eve?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:37 PM (ohFNB)

165 I like funeral Morticia. Very, very much.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 11:37 PM (KFhLj)

166

Dare to be stupid

https://youtu.be/SMhwddNQSWQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:37 PM (63Dwl)

167 No. I've never been to Canada.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 11:33 PM (APDBX)

No that's the Canuckhara Cathedral

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:38 PM (q4inm)

168 Well just filed my taxes. Getting a wee refund, which is nice. Also paid for the audit and ID protection.

Why the ID protection? Well first because of Beijing and OPM and secondly those nice people who supplied that cardiac vest after my hospital stay, well they just had a security breach.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2023 11:39 PM (0Ee2u)

169 Cake is a lie
Posted by: Kindltot

No! Cake is the only truth.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 31, 2023 11:40 PM (ftFVW)

170 168 Well just filed my taxes. Getting a wee refund, which is nice. Also paid for the audit and ID protection.

Why the ID protection? Well first because of Beijing and OPM and secondly those nice people who supplied that cardiac vest after my hospital stay, well they just had a security breach.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2023 11:39 PM (0Ee2u)

Better safe than sorry!

My state tax return is taking forever to come back. For. Ever.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 11:41 PM (APDBX)

171 Pay Funeral Babe to attend Jimmy Carter's pending funeral.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2023 11:41 PM (0Ee2u)

172 Please tell me the girl at the top was just messing with the other person....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at March 31, 2023 11:42 PM (0TAPG)

173 Jersey ain't too bad, now Guernsey might have a few issues.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2023 11:42 PM (0Ee2u)

174 I've been to Canada
But I've never been to sea

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:42 PM (yu8eA)

175 162 Chanel 5?


Well, Chanel No. 2 smelled like crap.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:44 PM (ohFNB)

176 Cake seems pretty honest. No ifs and or buts, it is delicious but unhealthy. Now, beer. Beer is a liar. "Dude, have another. You can do that, no problem. Of course, she wants to see you naked."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 11:45 PM (KFhLj)

177 176

Dude, all women want to see me naked.

Posted by: Fat guy on the ottoman at March 31, 2023 11:49 PM (ohFNB)

178 Dude, all women want to see me naked.

Said no one ever of Jerry Nadler.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2023 11:51 PM (LBnvC)

179 Missing 411.

He is crazy.

But I find his crazy riveting.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 11:51 PM (KFhLj)

180 (to the tune of the Lego movie song)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 11:28 PM (fUnHJ)

I just got finished watching that. Your version of the song is sadly more accurate.

Posted by: Moki at March 31, 2023 11:51 PM (JrN/x)

181 Hey, Anna Puma.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 11:53 PM (ohFNB)

182 NANCY'S Nephew...Gov Newsom is now launching out to our RED STATES to confront the BOOK BANNING, BIAS VOTING PRACTICES...and other vile Republican's political infringements...READ

He will be meeting behind closed doors with recently infiltrated operatives and local Obama judges to implement changes in the voter laws within your state ahead of the 2024 elections.

You MUST find out where he will be at and swarm his local with full throated rebel!!!

He must be stopped now. He is going to be the "elevated one" to the democratic ticket in 2024.

Mark my words...

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2023 11:54 PM (J00IM)

183 That Socialist column on the working class.

Obama wrote that after meeting Joe the Plumber.

Word is Obama showed what he wrote to Michelle and she told him to shut up and suck her dick.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at March 31, 2023 11:56 PM (KULhC)

184 Errah.....yeah, baby!

Posted by: Ted Kennedy, rubbing his nipples in Hell at March 31, 2023 11:56 PM (NG1ch)

185 The two best video games I ever played were both about pirates.

Weird.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 11:57 PM (up/3i)

186 The female talking about Back to The Future isn't smart enough to be classed as stupid.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2023 11:58 PM (KATBx)

187 Uhh... what else will she do for $500? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 31, 2023 11:58 PM (zsNaY)

188 Every time I see a picture of Lloyd Austin, Sec Def, with his rainbow ribbon and face shield I think of him as Darth Idi Amin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 31, 2023 11:58 PM (LBnvC)

189 PB&J is obviously a prank. You have to go to a whole other section of the store for the KY Jelly, as opposed to right NEXT TO the peanut butter.

Posted by: GWB at March 31, 2023 11:59 PM (NJ9MR)

190 Newsome

better watch his moves...serious as F**K

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 01, 2023 12:00 AM (J00IM)

191 Howdy all. We missed the worst of the weather around eastern IA and NW IL. Bad stuff north and south of us. I think a tornado hit Belvidere while a concert was going on.

Posted by: Farmer at April 01, 2023 12:01 AM (55Qr6)

192 183 Dummy #43, are you related to Lamont, the Big Dummy?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 01, 2023 12:03 AM (ohFNB)

193 100 Love the genuine AoS folks, and I hope Ace is setting up some kind of donation or subscription thing.

Good night.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 31, 2023 10:49 PM (CHHv1)

What's going on that I missed? Why does Ace need donations/subscription - beyond the usual tip jar?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan at April 01, 2023 12:04 AM (0TAPG)

What An Ice Boner Cafe

baritaly.jpg
Bari, Italy


Pranking a cat with Sticky Notes.

Also bedeviling a kitten with Sticky Notes.

A tidy chameleon.

Gopher spotter.

Don't celebrate before the game is won.

"Granular flow," I guess of large rocks in a river. I don't really understand what's going on here. It doesn't seem like boulders should flow like this.

Like a horror movie!

Trans pug.

Sexy, sexy capybaras.

Galloping... cow? I'm not sure.

Unchained meow-ody.

Luna the panther and her Rotweiler friend.


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1 Foist?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 07:40 PM (SWu1m)

2 Top pic looks crowded.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 31, 2023 07:40 PM (u73oe)

3 Dogs and cats! Living together!

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4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 07:41 PM (xhxe8)

5 Fun story:

California female police union exec busted for running 8 year fentanyl organization.

No word yet on if it was shut down during COVID while California cops were trying to arrest surfers.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3hw247

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6 This post is really short. What happened?

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 07:42 PM (dTFZY)

7 If had to guess location of picture would have said Malta but wouldn't be far off

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 07:42 PM (xhxe8)

8 Running cow. Someone must be driving by in the feed truck.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 07:43 PM (dTFZY)

9 Cafe!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:46 PM (yu8eA)

10 Oy

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic. . . at March 31, 2023 07:46 PM (jonTH)

11 LOL. I've seen the Interesting Channel one edited down to just show the dog pushing the cat titled "This is SPARTA!!!"

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 07:49 PM (Vwz3I)

12 What should you do if your ice-boner persists for more than 4 hours? Call in a flamethrower?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:50 PM (BpYfr)

13 Bari ist soo . . . . Wiess!

Posted by: Kindltot -channeling someone's German roots at March 31, 2023 07:51 PM (xhaym)

14 happy weekend

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:51 PM (BRHaw)

15 It's a three-dog night with a two-dog night, scrolled above.
https://tinyurl.com/6as7zvew

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 07:52 PM (Vwz3I)

16 Bari, Italy needs to replace that ramshakle maze of rundown with one of those syfi megabuilding-cities. Resident will never be more than 5 minutes from anything and it will free up a lot of real estate for the rulers vineyards to enjoy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2023 07:52 PM (vrN+N)

17 OK, you just go down the street and turn left and the white house, then go another quarter of a mile and turn right at that white house, and mine is the white house on the left! Can't miss it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (PiwSw)

18 Last Church Lenten dinner in the books.

Brand new allergy soup I made was very popular tonight (nothing left) - my kids wanted a fruit soup, so I made a sweet banana soup with coconut milk and tapioca. It was an Americanized riff on a classic Vietnamese dessert soup from Food Network, but rather than sesame seeds for flavoring, I used coconut rum, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and ginger.

The organizer came up afterwards and thanked me for always helping the meal accommodate more people and bringing something different so there could be both allergy safe food and variety in the food. I didn't admit one reason there was always variety is b/c I didn't want to eat the same soup week after week (and I always eat what I bring)...

But it was great being out and bearing witness to truth and fellowship vs whatever was supposed to be celebrated today...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (exHjb)

19 What should you do if your ice-boner persists for more than 4 hours?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Don't think it's a likely problem, that one barely lasted 10 seconds.

Posted by: She Hobbit at March 31, 2023 07:54 PM (ftFVW)

20 If Obama contracted a certain deficiency disease while in that part of Italy: "Barry gets beri-beri in Bari."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 07:54 PM (tkR6S)

21 "a gopher would make an excellent observer"

Marmots too. They just stand upright and watch and watch and watch. Leave some views for the rest of us, burrowing rodents!

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:55 PM (MvF+J)

22 but rather than sesame seeds for flavoring, I used coconut rum, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and ginger.


Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (exHjb)
----
I think I found the secret ingredient to your soup's success!

(Actually, that soup sounds quite tasty regardless!)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:56 PM (BpYfr)

23 That is a cow for sure. makes me hear the theme from "Chariots of Fire"

Oh, and the "granular flow" is a landslide being channeled down a watercourse. Very bad stuff.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:56 PM (xhaym)

24 Dumping guy is funny

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 07:56 PM (xhxe8)

25 It was not that bad.

20 If Obama contracted a certain deficiency disease while in that part of Italy: "Barry gets beri-beri in Bari."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 07:54 PM (tkR6S)

Barry barely gets beri-beri in Bari.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:56 PM (BRHaw)

26 I saw the Sexy Capybaras open for the Spice Girls at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London in '93.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:57 PM (PiwSw)

27 Barry barely gets beri-beri in Bari. Where I'd hope there'd be barely enough left to bury.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (Vwz3I)

28 I pulled a nice boner today.

Closed the garage door (manual) with my finger between the panels. The result was ugly but it didn't sever anything. Ripped the skin down to the last layer, front and back. I must have tried to jerk my hand back reflexively.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (iKBwy)

29 19 What should you do if your ice-boner persists for more than 4 hours?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Hot shower.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (PiwSw)

30 28 Kinda like Garand thumb.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (MvF+J)

31 Barry barely gets beri-beri in Bari.

Cause he eats blueberries …

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic. . . at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (jonTH)

32 OK, you just go down the street and turn left and the white house, then go another quarter of a mile and turn right at that white house, and mine is the white house on the left! Can't miss it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (PiwSw)


Is it the one with a blue door?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (xhaym)

33 But it was great being out and bearing witness to truth and fellowship vs whatever was supposed to be celebrated today...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (exHjb)

They'll call you a hater. Kinda ironic.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (qP50E)

34 Bari, Italy looks...confining. Swiss ski village suits me better, for sure.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (OX9vb)

35 RNC Research @RNCResearch · Mar 30
A NYC police union president described how Manhattan DA Bragg “emboldened” violent criminals: “His message was sent to the criminal element… I believe they feel 100% emboldened. And not only are the police in danger, but the public is in grave danger."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (Vwz3I)

36 Not doing Lenten dinner tonight. Started Phase II PT nd needed a little lift.

Pan-fried venison tenderloin
Corn
Mashes yams topped with pecans, seasoned with brown sugar, cinnamon, and a dash of nutmeg
Crusty baguette with unsalted butter
Some German Pils from Aldi

It's therapeutic and too 20 minutes to throw together.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at March 31, 2023 08:01 PM (8C7+r)

37 Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (iKBwy)

Glad you are, mostly, okay and everything is still attached.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:02 PM (nC+QA)

38 Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (iKBwy)[/i

Slapped a hot iron on it, yet?


Either way, take care. Hopefully not much swelling or bruising.]

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic. . . at March 31, 2023 08:02 PM (jonTH)

39 So what’s with all the light cruelty to cats vids in the Cafe tonight?

Posted by: Robert W Smith at March 31, 2023 08:03 PM (oU76X)

40 22 but rather than sesame seeds for flavoring, I used coconut rum, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and ginger.


Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (exHjb)
----
I think I found the secret ingredient to your soup's success!

(Actually, that soup sounds quite tasty regardless!)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:56 PM (BpYfr)

I almost always use coconut rum when I need a coconut flavor to actually carry through. The milk by itself just doesn't have enough of what most folks want when they think they are getting a "coconut" hit.

And to be fair, it turns out more "comforting almost dessert" than traditional "healthy for you" soup - but it does get 2 fruits into kids who only wanna eat mac and cheese at the dinner...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:03 PM (exHjb)

41 Willowed from the previous thread:

How has Brexit gone? Have there been any real effects?
I don't know. I don't follow Europe that closely.
Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (qP50E)

Like everything else, Brexit was smothered with "COVID! The Panic!"

The Left got everything they ever dreamed of, unopposed, because of a bad cold season.
Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 07:58 PM (AbL8c)

Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 08:03 PM (AbL8c)

42 Isn't ice boner what the King of Canada suffered from until he could score some of his mom's hand-lotion?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 08:04 PM (xhaym)

43 18 Nova Local

That sounds so amazing. I had an Indonesian Ramen from a local place (I am in RIC, heading back to Alabama tomorrow). It was coconut broth, lemon grass, tumeric, basil, sambal paste with tofu and a soft boiled egg. It was comforting.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 08:04 PM (pZz43)

44 a landslide being channeled down a watercourse. Very bad stuff.
Posted by: Kindltot


Everything's better when it's wet.

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2023 08:04 PM (FhXTo)

45 No way I could ever trust that Panther once it was full grown. Even an unintentional swipe would do some major damage.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 08:05 PM (q4inm)

46 Quote Tweet RNC Research @RNCResearch · 23h
FROM SEPTEMBER 2022: Sex fiend gets 'sweet’ deal from Manhattan DA Bragg on teen rape charge — then attacks 5 others [NY Post link]

Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon · 4h
"A man accused of raping his teenage relative secured a sweetheart plea deal from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — and then went on to allegedly sexually terrorize five people in the Bronx just a month later"

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 08:05 PM (Vwz3I)

47 Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:03 PM (exHjb)

Are you going to post the recipe on the Food Thread?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:05 PM (nC+QA)

48 33 But it was great being out and bearing witness to truth and fellowship vs whatever was supposed to be celebrated today...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 07:53 PM (exHjb)

They'll call you a hater. Kinda ironic.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 08:00 PM (qP50E)

I've been called worse. This is why one of the 1st lessons I taught my kids was "Never worry about what others think of you. Just worry about what God thinks of you."

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:06 PM (exHjb)

49 That granular flow is basically a mud avalanche. The boulders are caught up in it, and go along for the ride. The whole mass becomes a single body of fluid, much denser than water.

Can happen undersea, too, where they are called "turbidity currents", and they can move very fast. On was clocked on the seafloor of the Atlantic, when it cut several cables in quick succession.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:06 PM (tkR6S)

50 Impressive blue erection!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 08:07 PM (Mzdiz)

51 43 18 Nova Local

That sounds so amazing. I had an Indonesian Ramen from a local place (I am in RIC, heading back to Alabama tomorrow). It was coconut broth, lemon grass, tumeric, basil, sambal paste with tofu and a soft boiled egg. It was comforting.
Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 08:04 PM (pZz43)

Wow - that does sound good! Indonesian ramen is now on my list to try to find out around here (and barring that, I'll have to make b/c Hmart does have some beautiful fresh ramen in their cold section)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:08 PM (exHjb)

52 "That granular flow is basically a mud avalanche. The boulders are caught up in it, and go along for the ride. The whole mass becomes a single body of fluid, much denser than water."

What's the chance of one sweeping thru DC?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 08:09 PM (iayUP)

53 "A man accused of raping his teenage relative secured a sweetheart plea deal from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — and then went on to allegedly sexually terrorize five people in the Bronx just a month later"
Posted by: andycanuck

Betting that Bragg got himself some of that action as payment.

A bit of kid pro quo.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:10 PM (iKBwy)

54 I wouldn't trust a predatory wild animal

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (xhxe8)

55 ""Granular flow," I guess of large rocks in a river."

Jobim did a song about it, "Boulders of March." Saves rock collectors time and trouble; the rocks come pre-tumbled.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (MvF+J)

56 47 Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:03 PM (exHjb)

Are you going to post the recipe on the Food Thread?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:05 PM (nC+QA)

See, here's the thing - yes, but.

Since it's the 1st time I made it...and I made it for 20, I wasn't paying too much attention to my "changed adds" - so I didn't measure the ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, or rum in any close way...but I might try to guesstimate now...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (exHjb)

57 Oh my Gawd Ron! Look at that ice boner!

Canadians.

*shakes head

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (APDBX)

58 50 Impressive blue erection!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 08:07 PM (Mzdiz)


Why, thank you!

Posted by: Papa Smurf, who may have taken something to "help" at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (PiwSw)

59 I've never been to Bari. I had no idea what it looked like. Thank you Ace for posting that. Frankly the building density makes me claustrophobic, it's that scary.

Posted by: Ciampino - only made it to the Adriatic coast once at March 31, 2023 08:12 PM (qfLjt)

60 Bragg made a deal with the devil. He has no idea what the great liar has in store for him.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2023 08:12 PM (oWBc3)

61 Scallops with an orange/jalapeno sauce and Cacio e Pepe tonight. Yum.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:12 PM (qoGsy)

62 Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff tonight. Almost went with the Lasagna again but I can't have gourmet every night.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 08:13 PM (q4inm)

63 61 Scallops with an orange/jalapeno sauce and Cacio e Pepe tonight. Yum.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:12 PM (qoGsy)

Okay, that wins dinner of the night!

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:13 PM (exHjb)

64 Dingle baris.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 08:13 PM (NG1ch)

65 Perfessor, what's the name of the book you're reading about Pluto and Russians? I can't wait until Sunday

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 08:14 PM (PiwSw)

66 Thanks, Polliwog. Adriane, no hot iron. Plenty of self-surgery, cleaning, peroxide, bandages, and triple antibiotic. Almost passed out. May have cussed a few times.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:14 PM (iKBwy)

67 You'd never find your apartment after a night out drinking in that city.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:14 PM (APDBX)

68 Posted by: Papa Smurf, who may have taken something to "help" at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (PiwSw)

Heh. Beat me to it, you did!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:14 PM (tkR6S)

69 63 61 hands down this wins! Sounds incredible @tonypete.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 08:15 PM (pZz43)

70 Luna the panther and her Rotweiler friend

This story comes from Russia because of course it does. In Part II, Luna eats Victoria and Venza.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 08:15 PM (KFhLj)

71 You'd never find your apartment after a night out drinking in that city.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:14 PM (APDBX)

As long as the one you do find has a hot chick in it...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:16 PM (tkR6S)

72 28 I pulled a nice boner today.

Closed the garage door (manual) with my finger between the panels. The result was ugly but it didn't sever anything. Ripped the skin down to the last layer, front and back. I must have tried to jerk my hand back reflexively.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (iKBwy)

Dang, I think I'm glad I missed this comment til now. Glad you are (mostly) okay! I'd think a glass with ice might be nice right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:16 PM (exHjb)

73 Bragg made a deal with the devil. He has no idea what the great liar has in store for him.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

"I ain't got time for dat! I don't believe in him."

-- DA Bragg

Well Son, he believes in you and some day. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:16 PM (qoGsy)

74 "Form of an Ice-Boner" was one of those Wonder Twin cartoon things.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 31, 2023 08:16 PM (X+Ku8)

75 Oh Taq, that made me wince just reading about it. Hope you mend quickly.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:18 PM (qoGsy)

76 You'd never find your apartment after a night out drinking in that city.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

A bit like The Villages. Ever seen a satellite view? Or any giant subdivision In Arizona.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:18 PM (iKBwy)

77 When in England there were temporary duties in Italy but I never went there, went to Germany 3 times

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 08:18 PM (xhxe8)

78 The Hamburger Helper does just fine by itself. I like it better than Tuna Helper myself.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 31, 2023 08:18 PM (X+Ku8)

79 Closed the garage door (manual) with my finger between the panels. The result was ugly but it didn't sever anything. Ripped the skin down to the last layer, front and back. I must have tried to jerk my hand back reflexively.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 07:59 PM (iKBwy)

I am sporting two bandaids on my left arm, because I was using pry bars to demount a tire from its rim, and one got away from me and shwacked me on the arm. Took off two pea-sized scraps of skin. But I defeated the tire, and now have it back on the rim with a tube in it, and its bolted to the roof of my Jeep as a spare.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:20 PM (tkR6S)

80 The funny thing is, that dinner comes together FAST! By the time my lovely wife had set the table, it was ready to serve.

(She can't tolerate peppers of any type so, I held them out for her. How sad.)

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:20 PM (qoGsy)

81 Looks like Bari Italy was built exclusively for Parkour.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 08:20 PM (up/3i)

82 78 The Hamburger Helper does just fine by itself. I like it better than Tuna Helper myself.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 31, 2023 08:18 PM (X+Ku8


He stole that movie right out from under Chase.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:20 PM (APDBX)

83 You'd never find your apartment after a night out drinking in that city.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

A bit like The Villages. Ever seen a satellite view? Or any giant subdivision In Arizona.
Posted by: Taq

I think that is much of the appeal of The Villages.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:21 PM (qoGsy)

84 Oh Taq, that made me wince just reading about it. Hope you mend quickly.
Posted by: Tonypete

Thanks. I was loading tools into the van so I could go trim a neighbor's azaleas, too. After begging off the last couple of days. I told her in person, she said "Well, that was clever."

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:23 PM (iKBwy)

85 A bit like The Villages. Ever seen a satellite view? Or any giant subdivision In Arizona.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:18 PM (iKBwy)

Such giant subdivisions of houses or townhouses should be given the generic name of "Bleakview". What could be more spirit-killing, than to look out you door, and see a hundred identical cubicles fading into the vanishing point? Calgary, Alberta is rife with them, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:23 PM (tkR6S)

86 Perfessor, what's the name of the book you're reading about Pluto and Russians? I can't wait until Sunday
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 08:14 PM (PiwSw)
---
"Frozen Orbit" by Moron Author Patrick Chiles. I posted his current book ("Escape Orbit") on last week's thread. Both sounded interesting, so I ordered them both. Escape Orbit will be released next Tuesday.

Frozen Orbit is really quite good. And it's easy to tell that Patrick is One Of Us if you know what to look for.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 08:24 PM (BpYfr)

87 You got luck as hell Taq. Had a buddy who trimmed off the top of his finger right to the first knuckle that way.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:24 PM (APDBX)

88
It's astounding.
Time is fleeting.
Madness takes its toll.

Posted by: Riff Raff at March 31, 2023 08:24 PM (a3Q+t)

89 Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (exHjb)

Totally understand. It takes *forever* to write out instructions if you don't use a recipe, or change it a lot.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:25 PM (nC+QA)

90 Time warp'

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:25 PM (APDBX)

91 Tornado warnings all over the place.

Hope everyone is safe.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:26 PM (APDBX)

92 Time warp

Again?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2023 08:27 PM (EXyHK)

93 Okay, I've been enjoying my evening tea, but I need to clean my kitchen from the mess I made, since cooking for 20 is not the norm in my little space...I'll see everyone on some weekend threads (especially the Sunday food one!)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 08:28 PM (exHjb)

94 Tornado in Tunica, MS

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:28 PM (APDBX)

95 Time warp'

Are we getting on the Star Trak thing again?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (X+Ku8)

96 Posted by: AlaBAMA

I was lucky indeed. I thought, when time slowed down for the duration, that I was indeed chopping my fingertip off at the knuckle. I think the pulling reflex almost did the deed, too, when you think about the mechanics of an old-school garage door. I pull, the door comes down even more.

Hopefully I learned my lesson, but with me you never know. 😋

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (iKBwy)

97 Evenin', Horde!

Rain turning to sleet turning to snow tonight to tomorrow morning. Blizzard conditions predicted.

Been raining all day. Had a clap of thunder a bit ago that rattled the whole house. Woke me up from a good nap.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (uPgE/)

98 Guy from Bari arrives in Kenya. Learns to say Hullo in kiSwahili. He says, "Jambo."
The other guy says 'and how are you?' in kiSwahili, "Habari?"
The Italian says, "Shit, how does he know already that I'm from Bari?"

Posted by: Ciampino - old Italian joke at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (qfLjt)

99 because I was using pry bars to demount a tire from its rim, and one got away from me and shwacked me on the arm. Took off two pea-sized scraps of skin. But I defeated the tire, and now have it back on the rim with a tube in it, and its bolted to the roof of my Jeep as a spare.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:20 PM


Dude. You're not new here. Horde Medical Protocol calls for tire irons to be applied to cranial structures, not the ulna and/or radius, unless such application is incidental in reaching toward the cranium.

Do you want your Dr. Feelgood licensure pulled?

#BeBetter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (a3Q+t)

100 Time warp'

Are we getting on the Star Trak thing again?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 31, 2023 08:29

Rocky Horror

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 08:30 PM (q4inm)

101 I went to yard sale today, and got a Yankee screwdriver for 25 cents. Works, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:30 PM (tkR6S)

102 Hopefully I learned my lesson, but with me you never know. 😋
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (iKBwy)

Like putting your finger in a press break. Or a car door.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:30 PM (APDBX)

103 Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (uPgE/)

Hope you don't have to drive anywhere tomorrow. Snow over ice is a thing I don't miss at all.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:30 PM (nC+QA)

104 Tornado in Tunica, MS
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:28 PM


Do casinos have storm shelters?

Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 08:31 PM (fF0pk)

105 Been raining all day. Had a clap of thunder a bit ago that rattled the whole house. Woke me up from a good nap.
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (uPgE/)
---
We somehow missed most of the storms plaguing Arkansas today. Got a loud clap of thunder and some rain drops and that's about it.

However, supposedly there were "Tornado Warnings" despite the clear skies, so I got a dozen or so messages from work about that...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 08:31 PM (BpYfr)

106 Tornado warnings all over the place.

Hope everyone is safe.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The folks have been watching Ryan Hall Y'all for hours. It really has been a horrible week for rural, conservative Americans, and the hits keep coming. Trying times.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:31 PM (iKBwy)

107 104 Tornado in Tunica, MS
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:28 PM

Do casinos have storm shelters?
Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 08:31 PM (fF0pk)

Probably have a big underground infrastructure. Loading, kitchen, facilities, etc.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:32 PM (APDBX)

108 That's why I'm hesitant to move the Arkansas / Texas region even though it's has everything else I'm looking for. Too many hail storms and tornadoes.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 08:32 PM (q4inm)

109 Yeah, watching Hall right now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:33 PM (APDBX)

110 Dude. You're not new here. Horde Medical Protocol calls for tire irons to be applied to cranial structures, not the ulna and/or radius, unless such application is incidental in reaching toward the cranium.

Do you want your Dr. Feelgood licensure pulled?

#BeBetter
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (a3Q+t)

(Whoopi Goldeberg voice) They weren't tire iron tire irons; they were carpenters' pry bars identifying as tire irons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:33 PM (tkR6S)

111 Too many hail storms and tornadoes.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 08:32 PM (q4inm)

Yes I've really enjoyed having fewer hail storms in a decade than we usually had in a year in Colorado.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:34 PM (nC+QA)

112 58 50 Impressive blue erection!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 08:07 PM (Mzdiz)


Why, thank you!
Posted by: Papa Smurf, who may have taken something to "help" at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (PiwSw)

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That little blue pill ain't so little when you're only three apples high.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 08:35 PM (uPgE/)

113 Is there any data (or anecdata) on how geodesic dome houses fare in tornadoes?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 08:37 PM (tkR6S)

114 Mississippi? That's where games go to die, isn't it?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 08:37 PM (eOEVl)

115 Ryan Hall really has become America's Weatherman. Today he's even got the devs who made his radar app, Radar Omega, working with him live and giving him assistance and program updates. I'm sure he's the best thing that ever happened to those devs, too. Plus he's just the nicest guy ever.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:37 PM (iKBwy)

116 The Left got everything they ever dreamed of, unopposed, because of a bad cold season.

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I don't think it was even that.

If we could see any actual data I suspect we'd find that the vast majority of the deaths were from forced non-treatment and "FDA approved" protocols like putting people on ventilators to be sure they died and the hospitals got their $14K COVID death money.

Remember how there were like five flu deaths that year? I'm betting it was because they were all counted as COVID deaths, and the additional COVID deaths were the murders mentioned above.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 08:37 PM (sIl7T)

117 Can't stay awake any longer
Those in Tornado danger good luck
Have a great evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 08:38 PM (xhxe8)

118 103 Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (uPgE/)

Hope you don't have to drive anywhere tomorrow. Snow over ice is a thing I don't miss at all.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 08:30 PM (nC+QA)

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

Normally, I do a donut run on Saturday AM. Went out early and got the donuts. So other than snowblowing, I plan to be indoors tomorrow.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 08:38 PM (uPgE/)

119 Probably have a big underground infrastructure. Loading, kitchen, facilities, etc.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:32 PM


The Tunica casinos used to be "riverboats" (really, they were just bagass barges). I have no idea if they've moved them ashore.

Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 08:39 PM (fF0pk)

120 When I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn early 60s, it was said you could do a census of the Italian population by counting the basement windows and multiplying by 10. Now, their birthrate is zero and they all fled Brooklyn for Staten Island when the Verrazano went up. I suspect there are only 12 people left in Bari, too

Posted by: Depopulation at March 31, 2023 08:40 PM (aFgj+)

121 * big-ass barges

Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 08:41 PM (fF0pk)

122 Ryan Hall really has become America's Weatherman. Today he's even got the devs who made his radar app, Radar . . . Plus he's just the nicest guy ever.
Posted by: Taq

What amazes me about his presentation is this - somehow, he becomes a local advisor almost no matter where you are and provides timely, accurate information. We watch him whenever weather threatens.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 08:42 PM (qoGsy)

123 Ryan Hall really has become America's Weatherman. Today he's even got the devs who made his radar app, Radar Omega, working with him live and giving him assistance and program updates. I'm sure he's the best thing that ever happened to those devs, too. Plus he's just the nicest guy ever.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:37 PM (iKBwy)
_______________

He has his distractors, but... I'm biased here, he's a pretty good weather person. He normally reports from eastern KY while I'm in western KY. Provided very relevant info.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 08:42 PM (Q4IgG)

124 Probably have a big underground infrastructure. Loading, kitchen, facilities, etc.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 08:32 PM

The Tunica casinos used to be "riverboats" (really, they were just bagass barges). I have no idea if they've moved them ashore.


Colonial Beach is on the VA side of the Potomac. Way back when, gambling was legal in MD, but not VA. They built "riverboats" by digging a trench around the structure abutting the VA shoreline, and letting them fill with water. Problem solved.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 08:43 PM (eOEVl)

125 Damn... can't even watch Tucker tonight... too depressing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 08:43 PM (oHd/0)

126 From Twitter:
"Mackey, the meme creator found guilty by a Brooklyn jury is facing more jail time than the 2 New York lawyers who firebombed a cop car."

But Quality Candidates guys, that's all it is.

Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 08:46 PM (AbL8c)

127 The trannies are not invading the Texas state house.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 08:46 PM (ZLI7S)

128 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 08:47 PM (A/SJq)

129 "Barry barely gets beri-beri in Bari" because the bereft Bank of "If You Like Your Doctor" bulging bad bureaucratic balloon blew up before Barry bought a beautiful beachfront bulwarked with boulders.

Pikers.

Posted by: Ju at March 31, 2023 08:48 PM (aTmM/)

130 now

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 08:48 PM (ZLI7S)

131 https://tinyurl.com/4tm45myz

My Pastors response to that now cancelled 'Trans Day of Vengeance'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 08:50 PM (LQjWA)

132 * big-ass barges
Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 08:41 PM (fF0pk)


Bagass barges are generally found in sugar cane regions, to haul the left overs away from the presses

(Fun fact, the Spanish term for a sugar cane press is "Trapinche")

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 08:50 PM (xhaym)

133 https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/action/the-awakener

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:51 PM (iKBwy)

134 Some good, if only temporary, news:

@2Aupdates 1h
BREAKING: Renna v. Bonta (S.D. CA): Judge issues preliminary injunction against California handgun roster's chamber load indicator, magazine disconnect, microstamping, and 3-for-1 removal provisions. This is the 2nd injunction against the roster in 2wks.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2023 08:51 PM (jzzG8)

135 The trannies are not invading the Texas state house.
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They do try though. Been seeing more of them in the Capital area the last 2 weeks.

Posted by: lin-duh at March 31, 2023 08:54 PM (UUBmN)

136 *wanders away to make another pot of coffee*

Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 31, 2023 08:55 PM (08AgO)

137 "You'd never find your apartment after a night out drinking in that city."

Visited Skagway AK *mumble40mumblecough* years ago, before it got National Historic Park-ified, and have never forgotten reading the crime stats in the local paper: several single-vehicle accidents, alcohol involved, on the AlCan, and three shootings by drunks of drunks who mistakenly entered the wrong house in the wee hours of the morning.

Posted by: barbarausa at March 31, 2023 08:56 PM (uAuXI)

138 >>They do try though. Been seeing more of them in the Capital area the last 2 weeks.

Typo on my part. Should have been now. They are in the state house or were as of a couple hours ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 08:56 PM (ZLI7S)

139 Allergy soup? Peanut, shellfish, and cat fur?

Posted by: With a ragweed salad at March 31, 2023 08:56 PM (0avLl)

140 So Senator Fetter-Lurch has been discharged, apparently and CBS is going to air an interview. Deadline has a short clip.

https://tinyurl.com/3fw32ay9

So I see Lurch isn't using any sort of obvious electronic assistance to talk. Very good. But...maybe it's just me...he keeps looking down at the same point as he talks. Um...so maybe he is? And the way they keep doing long shots with Jane Pauley in the left foreground obscuring everything to Lurch's right...something just feels off.

I mean with the government and media doing everything they can to jerk people around I can't help but feel maybe they're just jerking people around here, too.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 08:56 PM (A/SJq)

141 My Pastors response to that now cancelled 'Trans Day of Vengeance'.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Reposted to Conservative Treehouse thread, also bookmarked.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:57 PM (iKBwy)

142 LOL, and g'night everyone.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 31, 2023 08:57 PM (KGlll)

143 Posted by: Robert

Maybe his interview will put to rest last week's Dumb Conspiracy Theory of the Week. FFS, people.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 08:59 PM (iKBwy)

144 Saw the anti-DeSantis spot on FNC again. It's all about how he voted against Social Security three times and wants to raise the retirement age to 70. The spot is paid for by Make America Great Again PAC.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 08:59 PM (63Dwl)

145
How has Brexit gone? Have there been any real effects?
I don't know. I don't follow Europe that closely.
Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (qP50E)

Like everything else, Brexit was smothered with "COVID! The Panic!"

The Left got everything they ever dreamed of, unopposed, because of a bad cold season.
Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 07:58 PM (AbL8c)

There are issues arising from the Intra-Irish border and tge Good Friday Accords. DUP are refusing to name their member of the government until it's resolved. They are also demoted to second place in The Stormont(local legislature, behind Sinn Fein. For which they are not amused.

Posted by: Fox2! at March 31, 2023 09:00 PM (Tm48r)

146 We've had to bouts of high gusting winds here. Last weekend I was lying on 6x6 ft sections of shingles furiously nailing

Another period of gusts last night. This afternoon I let the pup out into the pen and then noticed branches in it. Looked further and saw 20 ft of maple tree, 10 inches diameter at the break, lying about 5 feet from the house.

Wasn't a branch. It was from way up top.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at March 31, 2023 09:01 PM (8C7+r)

147 "OK, you just go down the street and turn left and the white house, then go another quarter of a mile and turn right at that white house, and mine is the white house on the left! Can't miss it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes"


If you pass the RR tracks you went too far.

Posted by: eleven at March 31, 2023 09:01 PM (iziT8)

148 I mean with the government and media doing everything they can to jerk people around I can't help but feel maybe they're just jerking people around here, too.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 08:56 PM (A/SJq

It has, unfortunately, become the way to bet (tm)

Posted by: Fox2! at March 31, 2023 09:01 PM (Tm48r)

149 So trumps attack on DeSantis is that once upon a time, he tried to be fiscally responsible. Good thing Trump can never be accused of that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 09:04 PM (q3gwH)

150 The first couple times I saw Timotheeeee Chalamet, I didn't think he was real. I mean, obviously, he's made of flesh and bone. But I thought he was an actor going on TV to do a parody of effeminate H'wood twinks.

Then I saw he was in some movie, under the name Timotheeeeeee Chalamet. Eeeee. E.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 09:06 PM (oINRc)

151 We've had to bouts of high gusting winds here. Last weekend I was lying on 6x6 ft sections of shingles furiously nailing...
_______________

Yea... here too. Violent winds at times. But.. I decided to listen to Molly Hatchet live instead. Fuck it. I won't make a difference between now an tomorrow when it's light.

Flicks Bic........

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 09:07 PM (Q4IgG)

152 Storm's done blowing through here. Spotter on VHF said he saw a twister on the ground about five miles east of here.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 09:07 PM (MvF+J)

153 Pushing the retirement age to 70?

FEH!

That's not going far enough.

Push it to 100.

It's the only reasonable solution.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 09:07 PM (A/SJq)

154 We've had to bouts of high gusting winds here.

Same here. Can't recall in my lifetime a winter/early spring where there have been so many ultra-windy days.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 09:08 PM (Xrfse)

155 I'll vote for Desantis or Trump. My preference is Trump 2024 for his third term and Desantis 2028 to start his two terms.

I know politics doesn't work this way, but I'd love to see a united front where everyone stands up and says "Look, this is complete crap and we're putting all of our support behind Trump because these attacks cannot be tolerated. We are dangerously close to a tyranny that there is no coming back from. Join us and lets take back the office and start fixing this unlawful mess and horrible economy."

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:09 PM (sIl7T)

156
Danny boy calling Broadsword,
Danny boy calling Broadsword

Posted by: Auspex at March 31, 2023 09:09 PM (j4U/Z)

157 Know who else was arrested a week before Easter?

Posted by: Just sayin' at March 31, 2023 09:10 PM (DhOHl)

158 Ryan Hall really has become America's Weatherman. Today he's even got the devs who made his radar app, Radar Omega, working with him live and giving him assistance and program updates. I'm sure he's the best thing that ever happened to those devs, too. Plus he's just the nicest guy ever.
Posted by: Taq
_______________
He has his distractors, but... I'm biased here, he's a pretty good weather person. He normally reports from eastern KY while I'm in western KY. Provided very relevant info.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's weird how small the horde really is. I watch this dude for what's happening ten days out because the local peeps seem unable to do so.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2023 09:11 PM (3CCua)

159 I hate nights like this. Gets dark and all the tornados come out. Freaky.

Hoping the cooler weather weakens them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 09:13 PM (APDBX)

160 Know who else was arrested a week before Easter?
Posted by: Just sayin'

Held without bail.
Convicted by a kangaroo court.
No appeal possible.
Put to Death cruelly.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 09:13 PM (qoGsy)

161 Do casinos have storm shelters?
Posted by: Bert G

I10 to 1 they don't.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 09:14 PM (1kE2X)

162 As soon as there's no economy anymore there's no retirement age.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 09:14 PM (q3gwH)

163 They pushed the drinking age to 21 right when I was about to hit 18.

Why wouldn't they push the retirement age to 70 right when I'm about to hit 67?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 09:15 PM (APDBX)

164 Push it to 100. It's the only reasonable solution.

Quit taking 15% of wages - shared equally between employer and employee - and watch how many people can suddenly get out of debt and retire, or at least work less, earlier.

I like it, when some of the "that's just how it works" folks here talk about how Social Security was never meant to be a retirement fund. It's 15% of your wages, from the day you start until the day you die. You telling me that's not enough ?

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 09:18 PM (flOYI)

165 Why wouldn't they push the retirement age to 70 right when I'm about to hit 67?

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The crappy part for me is living frugally my entire life and saving quite a bit of money and realizing it probably won't be enough any longer.

I had seriously worked out how to leave both of my kids $1M back around 2017 or so, and now I'm not sure if I'll have enough to live comfortably through retirement. I suspect I'll be able to feed us, but not the frequent travel and such that I'd initially planned.

Might not even need to worry about it the way things are going, though.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:19 PM (sIl7T)

166 Hope everyone is staying safe in the tornado areas. Looks like the start of my trip home will be in rain, but nothing uglier than that.

My middle child (staying with her tonight in Richmond) just brought me a huge dark chocolate sea salt caramel. I should have some sugar induced mania shortly.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 09:19 PM (pZz43)

167 Timotheeeee Chalamet may actually be genderless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 09:22 PM (oINRc)

168 167 Timotheeeee Chalamet may actually be genderless.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 09:22 PM (oINRc)


That's what she said.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at March 31, 2023 09:23 PM (8C7+r)

169 The dog pushing the cat is hilarious!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 09:24 PM (wagHN)

170 That's one white city. Come out of a dark restaurant after lunch and get instant snow-blindness.

Posted by: Corona at March 31, 2023 09:28 PM (nakGR)

171 That's what she said.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at March 31, 2023 09:23 PM (8C7+r)

He makes that Hogg Twink look downright butch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 09:31 PM (tkR6S)

172 171 That's what she said.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at March 31, 2023 09:23 PM (8C7+r)

He makes that Hogg Twink look downright butch.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 09:31 PM (tkR6S)


What about Elliot, you h8er?!?!

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at March 31, 2023 09:32 PM (8C7+r)

173 Timotheeee was a horrible choice to play Paul in the Dune movie.

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:32 PM (VGiJY)

174 That's one white city. Come out of a dark restaurant after lunch and get instant snow-blindness.

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It's like living in Cary, NC.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:34 PM (sIl7T)

175 Cary= Containment Area for Relocated Yankees

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:35 PM (VGiJY)

176 "Might not even need to worry about it the way things are going, though."
Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:19 PM (sIl7T)

Better spend it on booze and women before it's to late.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 09:36 PM (76Foq)

177 Timotheeee was a horrible choice to play Paul in the Dune movie.
Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:32 PM (VGiJY)

Not for whichever twisted old fruit cast him in it, he wasn't.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 09:36 PM (oINRc)

178 177, ugh. Hollywood.

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:38 PM (VGiJY)

179 In case people don't get the Cary, NC joke:

NC is around 25% black.
Raleigh, right next to Cary, is 30% or so black.

Cary, where wealthy white yankee locusts who celebrate diversity have moved and taken over, is 5% or so black.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:39 PM (sIl7T)

180 Lots of racecar drivers live in Carey, NC.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 09:39 PM (LQjWA)

181 I had seriously worked out how to leave both of my kids $1M back around 2017 or so, and now I'm not sure if I'll have enough to live comfortably through retirement.
Posted by: World Trade Center 7

I truly admire your generosity. I do. However, for us, the kids will only get "I love you" gifts from us once we go to our rewards. The kids know this - hopefully, they've learned they are mostly responsible for their own financial station. We do financially support a disabled relative but he needs it and cannot fend for himself.

We support a (very) few charitable efforts biggly and they will get the bulk of any $$$ left when we die. Unless they lose sight of their mission.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 09:40 PM (qoGsy)

182 Better spend it on booze and women before it's to late.


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This guy is my spirit animal:

https://youtu.be/btAbU1sPqIM

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:41 PM (sIl7T)

183 We support a (very) few charitable efforts biggly and they will get the bulk of any $$$ left when we die. Unless they lose sight of their mission.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 09:40 PM (qoGsy)

*ahem*
May I introduce you to the Stabby Stabby Mission Fund?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 09:42 PM (fUnHJ)

184 Racecar drivers in Cary? Really?
I’d have a nice spread in a rural area if I were one of those guys, but I’d think many would live in Charlotte.

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:44 PM (VGiJY)

185 *ahem*
May I introduce you to the Stabby Stabby Mission Fund?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

That would certainly be an easier sell for the lovely Mrs. than the Tonypete Home for Unwed Mothers was.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 09:44 PM (qoGsy)

186 Interesting tidbit as I was looking through one of our Medicare statements. One of the chemo drugs I take is $19,000. Per treatment. That is not a typo. I'm sure they're hoping I kick the bucket soon. I'm costing them a lot of money.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 09:45 PM (wagHN)

187 I truly admire your generosity. I do. However, for us, the kids will only get "I love you" gifts from us once we go to our rewards. The kids know this - hopefully, they've learned they are mostly responsible for their own financial station. We do financially support a disabled relative but he needs it and cannot fend for himself.

--

Oh, don't misunderstand. They're on their own when they leave, and they'll be paying for their car and insurance. We teach them to tithe and donate to known organizations (St. Judes, Baptist Childrens Home, etc.), and they know they're going to be eating ramen and peanut butter like nature intended until they get their feet under them.

I was really hoping to figure out a way to surprise them when I kicked the bucket, though. Cheapo dad left us what?!!!

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:46 PM (sIl7T)

188 That would certainly be an easier sell for the lovely Mrs. than the Tonypete Home for Unwed Mothers was.
Posted by: Tonypete

Sharp Knives Matter!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 09:46 PM (fUnHJ)

189 Yeah, Cary is the new Manhattan.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 09:47 PM (APDBX)

190 186 Interesting tidbit as I was looking through one of our Medicare statements. One of the chemo drugs I take is $19,000. Per treatment. That is not a typo. I'm sure they're hoping I kick the bucket soon. I'm costing them a lot of money.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 09:45 PM (wagHN

I hope you bankrupt then and walk away with a smile!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 09:48 PM (APDBX)

191 189. Heh.
Jewells, praying for you daily.

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:48 PM (VGiJY)

192 Man, Little Rock to a pretty big hit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 09:48 PM (APDBX)

193 I hope you bankrupt then and walk away with a smile!

I'll be happy to just walk away with a smile.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 09:50 PM (wagHN)

194 Such lovely Friday evening meals posted. They sound delish! Here, housecleaning so undoctored left overs; half a pepper and egg sandwich & less than a quarter of a salad with two little shrimp. (Honestly, they'd probably be just as undoctored if I wasn't cleaning.)

Ace, thanks for another jampacked day of fascinating threads. Good weekend.

Posted by: Lola- ALL of the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade at March 31, 2023 09:51 PM (GshMh)

195 We had a theater collapse near here in Belvidere IL, due to tornado. Casualties reported. Heavy metal concert was underway.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 09:51 PM (MvF+J)

196 Man, Little Rock to a pretty big hit.

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I'm always surprised when people don't realize that 3-5+ tornadoes a week is pretty normal in that part of the world this time of the year, and a tornado watch every day is routine. We're usually fortunate that they don't hit cities (or universities like back around 2010), but sometimes they do. But those same tornadoes are all over the place in the South right now, same as always.

I'm certain most people think it's because of an increase in Global Warming, though.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:53 PM (sIl7T)

197 Ok, guy getting soccer ball was f-ing funny.

Guys...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 31, 2023 09:53 PM (ufFY8)

198 Jewells, keep kicking cancer's butt!
*prayers*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 09:53 PM (fUnHJ)

199 Going to bed, long drive mañana. It was nice being back a little today. Thanks Ace and everyone.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 09:55 PM (pZz43)

200 The area around Lake Norman NC is a huge mecca for stock car racers. Multimillion dollar spreads.

Yet... the men are morons. They'll build a 250K go cart track on the property... which is awesome. Huge gun ranges. etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 09:56 PM (Q4IgG)

201 a tornado watch every day is routine

Yep. Business as usual.

Posted by: That guy who's house was just leveled at March 31, 2023 09:56 PM (Xrfse)

202 *ahem*
May I introduce you to the Stabby Stabby Mission Fund?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

That would certainly be an easier sell for the lovely Mrs. than the Tonypete Home for Unwed Mothers was.
Posted by: Tonypete

That annual shiz ther army used to gra ass us to donate to, I urefused to. Adamantly. Battery commander asked what it would take to get me to donate. My response was simple "indigent Tom cats".

¿Que? He said.
You heard me, indigent Tom Cats.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2023 09:57 PM (3CCua)

203 I'm certain most people think it's because of an increase in Global Warming, though.
Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 09:53 PM (sIl7T)

Heck, even my AO in Alberta is subject to tornadoes and damaging hail. Not to the same extent as "Tornado Alley" in the USA, but they do occur, mostly late May through July. Had a bad one hit Pine Lake, about 20 miles north of my place. Destroyed an RV park, and killed some folks. That was 20-odd years ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 09:59 PM (tkR6S)

204 ATTENTION...ATTENTION...

A very critical PSA will be forthcoming on the ONT!

Posted by: Nightwatch at March 31, 2023 09:59 PM (J00IM)

205 Yeah, the Lake Norman description is much more what I’d expect, rather than Cary.

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 09:59 PM (VGiJY)

206 184 Racecar drivers in Cary? Really?
I’d have a nice spread in a rural area if I were one of those guys, but I’d think many would live in Charlotte.
Posted by: LadyS



I thought Cary was near Charlotte. Like a suburb.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 09:59 PM (LQjWA)

207 That top pic... that's a lot of buildings packed tight together.

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (SYTee)

208 Ont is nood.

Bitches.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=403820

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (3CCua)

209 Cary is a suburb of Raleigh.

Posted by: LadyS at March 31, 2023 10:00 PM (VGiJY)

210 Oh, suburb of Raleigh. Nevermind.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 10:01 PM (LQjWA)

211 a tornado watch every day is routine

Yep. Business as usual.
Posted by: That guy who's house was just leveled

--

Yes it sucks when a tornado hits a house (or trailer park) or town. It's scary just to grab the kids and head to the basement during a warning or to hear the sirens going off while you're at a grocery store.

They're still common this time of year, and always have been.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 10:01 PM (sIl7T)

212 Ha, Cary-ites would be pissed. Keep it up. Cary is a town, but I love that people think it's just a suburb of Raleigh. That's hilarious.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 10:04 PM (sIl7T)

213 Severe weather like tornados often occur in the spring and fall, when very warm and very cold air meet.
I learned this back in the day when the greatest weatherman in the world, Tom Skilling, would run an annual tornado seminar at the Fermilab in the Chicagoland area.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 31, 2023 10:09 PM (ufFY8)

214 Watching something on (maybe) History Channel YEARS ago when it actually had history on it and they were talking about rock slides and "granular flow". Being a road builder in rocky mountainous areas I was interested and they used one example of a huge historically devastating rock slide that went from the mountains across this flat desert area. It was a couple hundred miles across and maybe it was the Painted Desert, can't remember. But something really interesting was the fact that these were dry slides with no water involved. They had film of slides that looked like rushing water at first but were dry as popcorn farts and even at really close range you had to really look to see there were no liquids. This is where the "granular flow" comes in. Once a slide starts with the right conditions it actually forms and cushion of compressed air underneath and glides out on it making it go faster and farther then you would ever believe.

Posted by: allan Kenny at March 31, 2023 10:22 PM (8Oizz)

Quick Hits

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Despite colleges relentlessly patrolling student word and thought to make them "safe," they're being institutionalized at historic rates, and indulging in violent and suicidal ideation.

While college campuses are obsessing over "safe spaces" and diversity, equity, and inclusion, one professor noticed that students are becoming less happy and much angrier.

Mary Gaitskill, a novelist who teaches creative writing courses as a visiting professor at several universities, made the observations in an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Gaitskill said that despite constant efforts to make campuses "safe," students in her classes, especially white males, are writing violent and degenerate fantasies, and many students have spent time in mental institutions.

"Anyone who isn't living in off-grid isolation is aware of the tireless efforts by hyperconscious campus administrations to create classrooms where everyone feels safe and as few people as possible will be made 'uncomfortable,' let alone unhappy," Gaitskill wrote, citing "trigger warnings" and training modules about rape and sexual harassment as examples. The college she wrote about doubled down on these practices: including fewer white male authors on syllabi, more training modules, more anti-racist teacher trainings, and more language rules.

Most people, even those affected by real incidents of hate and discrimination, "might fairly mock the corrective apparatus" as "ridiculous" or "dictatorial," Gaitskill added. "The deeper trouble is that it is ineffectual and confusing." ... "[L]ess confident, less sophisticated young men -- those with the most vulnerable self-esteem -- might find it disconcerting to be told, no matter how sensitively it was put, that the trait that they have grown up considering desirable, their most basic default identity, is now toxic," she wrote. "This does not seem to me a minor side effect."

...

That student eventually wrote a story with graphic depictions of self-harm. Another student wrote an account of an attempted suicide that turned out to be autobiographical. In all, four of the eight students in her class wrote about suicide: two wrote about their own suicide attempts; two wrote about friends, one of whom died; one was written by a girl who had known four people in her home town who had attempted or committed suicide, and she was trying to understand them. In all cases, Gaitskill recounted that the stories were filled with despair, either directed at a particular social issue, or simply personal, but "vivid" and "intense."

From Clownfish TV, the media and left (but I repeat myself) continue whining that leftwing woke corporations, particularly those in tech or the media, are attempting to survive the Biden Economy by laying off "diversity and inclusion" hires.

He links this article: DEI teams hit by tech layoffs: a lesson to be learned.

DEI teams in global organizations including Amazon and Twitter have been hit with alarming mass redundancies that have sent shockwaves around the world. This is a big turnaround from the many major industry players who voiced their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion only a couple of years ago. And these tech layoffs are setting a worrying precedent for smaller organizations in the tech industry and the wider employment community. In fact, according to a recent Bloomberg report, listings for DEI are already down by 19%.

So, what's going on? Why are these companies targeting their DEI teams? Why have they turned away from their commitment to DEI initiatives? And what impact is this going to have on these businesses?

Let's find out.

I think we already knew. Diversity hires -- which are just political hires -- are a luxury good and you don't get to have luxury goods in a Biden Economy.

You can only have it in a Trump (or DeSantis) economy.

This is a stark contrast to the boom in DEI initiatives that came after the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. At this time, companies from many sectors made a commitment to the promotion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. They also invested in the creation of DEI teams to support their efforts. So much so that, according to McKinsey, DEI job listings increased by 123% following the murder of George Floyd.

These mass tech layoffs are undoing all the positive progress that these companies have made since this time, and this is a concern. Moreover, many DEI departments that are still operational are already seeing cutbacks. And all this comes at a huge price for many aspects of a business.

For one thing, going back on a promise to nurture diversity is going to have a big impact on an organization's employer brand.

Clownfish answered that claim simply: No, it won't. People understand that these are charity hires, and understand that you can't do charity when you don't have any money.

Look, if you were hired as charity, you can expect to be laid off the moment a company runs out of charity-money. I don't know what to f***ing tell you.

Here's another one from Clownfish: A diversity hire admits that FaceBook hired her at a salary of $190,000 per year... to do literally nothing.

I mean, she herself says that.

A former Meta recruiter claimed the massive tech company was "hoarding talent" in order to starve out their competition.

As a wave of layoffs gut the tech industry, career strategist Madelyn Machado posted a video responding to claims that Google and Meta had over-hired thousands of employees to do "fake work."

Machado suggested she had been hired by Meta in the Fall of 2021, which she "hated" before eventually getting fired.

"Getting paid $190k to do nothing at Meta" she said in a TikTok video. She added that new recruiters would be explicitly told that they would not hire any new employees within their first 6 months or to a year. She said what they actually did was mostly onboarding, training, and team meetings.

She says all they did was have her sit in training and team meetings.

How long did the Wokies imagine that could go on for?

Neoliberals are among the greediest, most materialistic, emptiest, ruthless social-climbing assholes on planet earth. Did you really think these comfort-craving, status-seeking shitlibs would continue throwing money at you the moment it threatened to cost them their biannual new luxury car lease?

She also says that Meta got angry at her for posting videos announcing that she was being paid almost $200,000 per year to do nothing.

Well, yeah. If you're being paid $200,000 to do nothing, keep quiet about it.

This is like all of those "Day in the Life of a Google Development Thot" videos, where they told all of Google's investors that there was a huge segment of Google's employees who did nothing all day but get massages and drink exotic teas. I've read those had an impact on layoffs, as Meta and Google had to start answering pointed questions from stockholders.

Strong men make good times; good times make weak men; weak men make hard times. (And hard times make strong men.)

We're now in the "weak men make hard times" part of the cycle. If you didn't want the hard times, you shouldn't have voted for weakness, indulgence, and social decay.

DEI training asks scholars which ethnicities should just die already.


A "Cultural Competence Training" that asks participants who should live or die in a hypothetical scenario in which the world is ending has drawn criticism from some online observers.

Doug Ponder, a biblical studies professor at Grimke Seminary in Virginia, tweeted a copy of the training March 14, writing: "A friend of mine, who works in a public university, sent this to me earlier this week."

Ponder, also a pastor at Remnant Church in Virginia, continued in his tweet that what he posted is page one of a diversity, equity and inclusion training his friend's department was "forced to take," starting with "an exercise that asks which intersectional identities you'd save and which you'd leave to die."

"This is demonic," he added.

Ponder could not be reached by The College Fix for comment, including to ask at which university this diversity training was offered.

According to Course Hero, the activity, titled "Whom to Leave Behind," appears to have been offered over the years at several universities nationwide in various capacities, including in English, economics and sociology classes.

It presents a situation in which there is a spaceship leaving a doomed earth, and participants must choose only eight out of the 12 original passengers to be saved, described as:

Accountant with substance abuse problem
Militant African American medical student
33-year old female, Native American who doesn't speak English
The accountant's pregnant wife
Famous novelist with a disability
21-year old female, Muslim international student
Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality
Female movie star who is a recent sexual assault victim
Racist armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force
Gay male, professional athlete who is a vegetarian
Orphaned 12-year old Asian boy
60-year old Jewish university administrator

...

It's unclear who developed the worksheet or how long it's been used nationwide.

In 2018 the same exercise was reported as being used at an Ohio middle school after a city councilman shared the worksheet on Facebook.


When you decree that merit or even basic qualifications to do a job are "white supremacy," this is the type of individual you wind up promoting:

Flashback: "Why Don't They Believe Us?"

If you've never read it, you're missing out. If you have read it, you'll enjoy reading it again:

Imagine you're a normal person. The year is 2016. Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media. You believe polls are broadly reflective of public opinion. You believe doctors and scientists are trustworthy and independent. You're a decent, reasonable person who follows the rules and trusts the authorities.

Imagine your shock, then, when Brexit, which you were assured couldn't happen because it was a fringe movement led by racists for racists, happens. The polls, which widely predicted it wouldn't happen, were wrong. The experts and pundits who told you day after day that it wouldn't happen were also wrong. "Oh well," you say, "these things happen."

Imagine that soon after Brexit, Donald Trump is running for president. You are told by the most trustworthy media outlets that he is going to lose. Some experts say his opponent has a 99% chance of winning. Imagine waking up the morning after the election to discover that the pollsters, experts, and politicians you still trusted were wrong again. Now the racist monster who you were told would never get near the White House is the leader of the free world.

"How did this happen?" you ask yourself. How could everyone I rely on for good information be so wrong? "It was the Russians," they tell you. "The Russians did Brexit, and they got Trump elected too." Imagine that for the next three years, day after day, the media and politicians you still trust keep you up to date on this story of Trump's collusion with Russia. They tell you the how, when, where, and why: the dossiers, the whistleblowers, the peeing prostitutes. Imagine your desperation for things to somehow make sense again.

Here comes the Mueller report. Hard evidence of foreign meddling in Brexit and the 2016 U.S. election is coming to set the world right again.

Imagine your shock, then, when you discover that Brexit had little to do with foreign meddling, and Robert Mueller has very little to report about Trump and the Russians. The collusion story, which dominated your news intake for the better part of three years, slowly dies down. Then it's gone. No one talks about it anymore. Imagine that bit by bit, you're starting to feel that the events you were told would not and could not happen not only happened, but happened without some sort of malign interference. Instead, millions of your fellow citizens simply voted for them. In the American case, it turns out many of your fellow citizens who simply voted for Trump come from states that have been devastated by an opioid epidemic enabled by a corrupt system of incentives involving the Food and Drug Administration, doctors, and Big Pharma. (You might want to take note of this. It will come up again later.)

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1 Douglas Mackay can be convicted of trolling hillary, but the Mueller people are ok? FTS

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:38 PM (Zzbjj)

2 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 06:39 PM (Ca15k)

3 How has Brexit gone? Have there been any real effects?

I don't know. I don't follow Europe that closely.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (qP50E)

4 We've definitely crossed the Chiquita into Banana-Ville.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (rJ7Hd)

5 Regarding the who to leave behind thing, I filled that out for a YouGov survey.

Obviously, when you're talking about the preservation of the human race, the first ones you leave behind are the gays and lezbeens. Duh. And men who are not strong or virile enough to do the man stuff. And women who are past the age of childbearing. BUT some older people with wisdom need to be along for the ride, so choose them wisely.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (Mzdiz)

6 You want to think that there is some way this all ends peaceably and reasonably, but honestly there's no real chance of that. Oh it'll end - everything does -- but the cost will be paid in blood.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 06:42 PM (IVOR/)

7 Slow start. What's going on in the last thread?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:42 PM (Mzdiz)

8 Spaceship leaving Earth, and only 8 of the 12 listed can go?

I know which would be my top 3 to stay. The 4th, well, maybe I could flex on that . . .

. . . Nah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 06:42 PM (omVj0)

9 With that list, why save Earth?

Posted by: DinsdalePiranha at March 31, 2023 06:42 PM (8itdd)

10 Donald Trump didn't kill himself.

Posted by: nostradamus at March 31, 2023 06:43 PM (mEruW)

11 I'll bet unemployment makes it's first jump to 4% next month and hits 4.5 by June.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2023 06:43 PM (C9+p4)

12 The who to leave behind question is actually sorta interesting from a purely hard-eyed survival point of view. I'm honestly wondering how they work the Oppression Olympics into it, or if their plan is to let people do the hard thing and try to spin it as support for DIE, without explaining how contrived it is.

Posted by: Locarno at March 31, 2023 06:43 PM (1o5Dx)

13 vroom vroom

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:44 PM (fUnHJ)

14 And if I listed my 4 right out, I suspect Ace would not like it or would get in trouble himself. I can just imagine the firestorm that would erupt if I spoke up in a classroom and said what I really thought.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 06:44 PM (omVj0)

15 Did the motorcycle guy have only one testicle?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:44 PM (v0R5T)

16 Because, you know, if this is the dozen you picked, you've already failed, ya know?

Posted by: Locarno at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (1o5Dx)

17 >>>You can only have it in a Trump (or DeSantis) economy.

What would a DeSantis economy look like? Serious question. Where is he on trade? Is he a so-called free-trader that has no problem with all of our manufacturing base located overseas. I haven't heard anything about his economic positions, though I will admit, I have just paid attention to the headlines regarding what he is focused on.

What about immigration? I know he has been pushing back against the ongoing invasion through our Southern "border", and that much is *good*. But, is he an amnesty guy? Does he like immigration, but just wants to control it a bit more?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (gv7Yb)

18 DEI teams hit by tech layoffs: a lesson to be learned.
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I'm surprised California hasn't passed a law yet saying that layoffs can't disproportionately affect DEI teams.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (zsNaY)

19 7 Slow start. What's going on in the last thread?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:42 PM (Mzdiz)

don't bother me now

* lights cig*

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (us2H3)

20 I think the who-to-leave-behinds are self-selecting right now. That would be anyone who isn't preparing for a f*ckwad of trouble.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (Mzdiz)

21 All my working life I tried to get a job where I got paid for doing nothing. $190K a year is pretty sweet, and I would have settled for $45-50K. Came pretty close to my goal when I worked for the feds. Sometimes there were two or three hours actual work in a pay period. One of the old guys showed me how to shave that down to one or two hours.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (lz5hY)

22 Well, Haaland is a dumbfuck like the rest of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (1kE2X)

23 33-year old female, Native American who doesn't speak English
.......

Rez chicks are hawt.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (v0R5T)

24 * lights cig*

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (us2H3)

Aaah...

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (Mzdiz)

25 Re: the DEI exam thingy.

Okay, here's who I choose.

The Indian girl, the pregnant woman, the novelist, the muzzie girl, the Hispanic priest, the movie tartlet, the racist cop and the 12 year old orphan boy.

Substance abuse guy is more trouble than he's worth as is the militant Black Panther-esque black dude. I rejected the gay athlete because he's vegan. You're stuck in a giant cylinder for god knows how long I don't want to hear how you're fucking vegan for my last days. And "60-year old Jewish university administrator" is the polite way for saying "communist." lolgetfucked.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (1MDGt)

26 Not one of the people in the "Who to Leave Behind" list seems to have a useful skill for creating a society on Mars.

No technologists, scientists, or engineers.

If you are fleeing a doomed planet you only take those that will have the skills needed for survival elsewhere.

Fortunately, the Moron Horde has an abundance of those...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 06:47 PM (BpYfr)

27 Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (Mzdiz)

It was noted on Twitter that several of the Who To Leave Behind entries don't give the sex of the person. I guess were supposed to infer that the racist is male? Stuff like that.

Also, how does 33 year old Native American not speak English? It's like they used a random NPC generator.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 06:47 PM (nC+QA)

28 Gay male, professional athlete who is a vegetarian
......

Don't take this guy into space, he'll never stop yapping and you will go mad.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:47 PM (v0R5T)

29 Maybe I've totally missed discussion of it, but the woke nutjobs at Disney are claiming they totally punked DeSantis by sneaking in some clause that the new board appointed to run Reedy Creek can't make any changes to it for like 30 years or something.

That seems like total BS to me, but does anyone else have a clue about it?

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 06:48 PM (tp+tP)

30 It's like they used a random NPC generator.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 06:47 PM (nC+QA)

Funny how often that happens.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 06:49 PM (Mzdiz)

31 Earth will be fine. It's the human race that is doomed.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:49 PM (v0R5T)

32 Paid $200k/ yr to do nothing?
I'd do it for half that!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:49 PM (fUnHJ)

33 I make a mean cheese and cracker and I know how to put the toilet paper on the holder the proper way.

Take me!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 06:49 PM (APDBX)

34 It presents a situation in which there is a spaceship leaving a doomed earth, and participants must choose only eight out of the 12 original passengers to be saved
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Here's the correct answer to that:
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/autistic-rationalist-goes-to-dei

Posted by: Cave Johnson at March 31, 2023 06:49 PM (zsNaY)

35 28 Gay male, professional athlete who is a vegetarian
......

Don't take this guy into space, he'll never stop yapping and you will go mad.
Posted by: wth

Airlock ride.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 06:50 PM (1kE2X)

36 Also, how does 33 year old Native American not speak English? It's like they used a random NPC generator.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 06:47 PM (nC+QA)

It also forgot to mention she's probably an alcoholic.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 06:50 PM (1MDGt)

37 "Whom to Leave Behind"-- a fun-filled travel activity book for kids! Keep 'em busy in the car or plane!

Posted by: Dr. Mengele's Books for KKKids! at March 31, 2023 06:50 PM (VsUo2)

38 I'd leave most of 'em. Probably leftys anyway. More supplies for me.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 06:51 PM (iayUP)

39 What they don't tell you in the "Who to Leave Behind" scenario is that the name of the spacecraft leaving a doomed Earth behind is:

Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B

I'm only surprised that one of the folks listed is not a telephone sanitizer.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 06:51 PM (BpYfr)

40 I'm pretty sure that spaceship's mission is doomed anyway.

Not a single phone sanitizer in the bunch.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 06:51 PM (RLLZj)

41 Deep Impact!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2023 06:51 PM (C9+p4)

42 Accountant with substance abuse problem
Militant African American medical student
33-year old female, Native American who doesn't speak English
The accountant's pregnant wife
Famous novelist with a disability
21-year old female, Muslim international student
Hispanic clergyman who is against homosexuality
Female movie star who is a recent sexual assault victim
Racist armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force
Gay male, professional athlete who is a vegetarian
Orphaned 12-year old Asian boy
60-year old Jewish university administrator

===

Zero skills listed
I guess take preggo lady and orphaned kid
And the med student

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:53 PM (fUnHJ)

43 Headline is funniest thing seen all day

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 06:54 PM (xhxe8)

44 It took a while for me to get to the Hoax of the Century article, but I was really interested in the part about SRI and the DOD's "disinformation contract"

A couple of months ago a Princeton student interested in such things was found dead in some shrubs near a tennis court. Her phone pinged behind a pizza place, a florist and a dementia home, but no mention was made of what lurked behind all those places, not one word. Well it is SRI. Therefore the pings were obviously worthless and she was obviously nowhere near the place. Suicide.

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:54 PM (Zzbjj)

45 Definitely the pregnant wife, the orphaned 12-year-old, and the clergyman. Definitely not the university administrator.

Not sure about the rest.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 06:54 PM (tp+tP)

46 Honestly, college students should be angry. Their chance at the American Dream is pretty much completely stolen from them.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 06:55 PM (yQpMk)

47 Just what I always wanted. My own little [diversity coordinator]. I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him and pat him and pet him and and rub him and caress him and...

Posted by: Hugo the Abominable Snowman at March 31, 2023 06:55 PM (VsUo2)

48 I'll take the Rez chick, the Muslim gal, oh and some disposable razors.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (v0R5T)

49 Jews have a disproportionate impact for sure. Whites let America go into decline and fall.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (qP50E)

50 33 year old native american with no English skills who sets the forward bay on fire making fry bread.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (lz5hY)

51 When the future of the race is at stake, future reproduction is everything. For that reason young, fertile females will need to outnumber men by a 9 or 10 to 1 ratio. And since the men will be required to do prodigious duties in this respect, these women will need to be selected for their attractiveness and sexual desirability.
Sadly this would mean abandoning the traditional monogamous model, but that is a sacrifice that would have to be made.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (IVOR/)

52 Honestly, college students should be angry. Their chance at the American Dream is pretty much completely stolen from them.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 06:55 PM (yQpMk)

Fuck em, it is partially their fault

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (Irn0L)

53 I can confirm this with our yuge tech company (so big you almost certainly use their products)

MAGA peeps are getting promoted, diversity ESG peeps are getting anally probed with the mighty stick of layoffs and tossed into the unemployment line

Enjoy your Biden ice cream cones fuckballs

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (VTu1l)

54 >>Gaitskill concluded that the students feel this way because they are constantly exposed to large-scale social issues, such as mass shootings, climate change, police brutality, disinformation, and others. Instead, they are looking for a sense of safety by fixating on problems they can control, such as offensive words, gender ideology, and toxic masculinity, even though the apparatus built around solving those problems offers no safety.

Go deeper. You have to untangle cause from effect. Why are the kids exposed to climate change, disinformation,....

I say: Smaller families, Loss of family as autonomous unit (SSI, state schools, divorce, ...), loss of religion.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (GtQnE)

55 Loved to see former Interior Secretary Zinke take apart his successor Haaland. Her claim to fame is that she is a native American. Period.

Posted by: PJ at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (G1dq6)

56 The kid may still be young enough to be trained. Take him and the women that can be tolerated.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 06:57 PM (iayUP)

57
If this was just the Carnival Cruise of Interplanetary Travel, meh...anyone could go.

If this is a survival of the human species dealio, those going are going to look a lot like the crew of a 1950s Spaceship movie. Young virile heterosexual men and attractive fertile women - all smart and cross-trained. Good personalities, psychologically stable, and sociable. No weirdos. Only difference from the 1950s SciFi flick? More racially diverse.

Pretty much no one in that list would've made the primary rockets. Maybe on the Lame-ass Rocket shot into the Sun.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2023 06:57 PM (mm6iK)

58 22 Well, Haaland is a dumbfuck like the rest of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (1kE2X)

++++

Fell completely flat on her face. Nothing, except for attempting to chime in with "President Biden's proposals...", which, if she'd carried on with would have been empty platitudes, but she couldn't even do that. Very disturbing.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 31, 2023 06:57 PM (ySZtE)

59 following the murder of George Floyd


Motherfuckers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 06:58 PM (yQpMk)

60 33 year old native american with no English skills who sets the forward bay on fire making fry bread.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door
........

Knew I shoulda brought a case of whiskey.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:58 PM (v0R5T)

61 59 following the murder of George Floyd


Motherfuckers.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 06:58 PM (yQpMk)

Someone forced fentanyl up his butt

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:58 PM (Zzbjj)

62 "It presents a situation in which there is a spaceship leaving a doomed earth, and participants must choose only eight out of the 12 original passengers to be saved, described as:"
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I ran out of picks at three.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 06:58 PM (AmoqO)

63 Obviously, when you're talking about the preservation of the human race, the first ones you leave behind are the gays and lezbeens.

The females will have to of an especially ... eh, stimulating variety, Mein Fuhrer!!

LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 06:59 PM (i/LKe)

64 How has Brexit gone? Have there been any real effects?

I don't know. I don't follow Europe that closely.
Posted by: JmT


I don't think much of anything has changed as their DeepState is as intractable as ours and is just dragging out any concrete change while claiming they need to conduct further NEHGOOOSHIAAAAAASHUNZ~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2023 06:59 PM (jzzG8)

65
"It presents a situation in which there is a spaceship leaving a doomed earth, and participants must choose only eight out of the 12 original passengers to be saved, described as:"

Sounds like Kodos from Star Trek

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:59 PM (Zzbjj)

66 Paid $200k/ yr to do nothing?
I'd do it for half that!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:49 PM (fUnHJ)
===

Unhireable, obviously.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2023 07:00 PM (265/A)

67 When I moved to NW New Mexico forty-three years ago, I lived near the edge of the Navajo reservation, I met not one Navajo who did not speak English. Not one. The old people spoke some English and people my age and younger spoke English like Americans, because they are. They were trying to keep the Navajo language from dying then and they still are.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 07:00 PM (dTFZY)

68 Racist armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force
........

We might need this guy if the Martians aren't friendly.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:00 PM (v0R5T)

69
She says all they did was have her sit in training and team meetings.

How long did the Wokies imagine that could go on for?


Forever

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 07:00 PM (63Dwl)

70 You probably only really have to choose from 11 of these people. One look at the spaceship's hessian wall weave interior and the gay athlete will refuse to board on principle.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 07:02 PM (RLLZj)

71 We might need this guy if the Martians aren't friendly.
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:00 PM (v0R5T)

Yeah, he was 4th on my list.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:02 PM (fUnHJ)

72 "Gaitskill said that despite constant efforts to make campuses "safe," students in her classes, especially white males, are writing violent and degenerate fantasies, and many students have spent time in mental institutions."

I wonder why.

".....those with the most vulnerable self-esteem -- might find it disconcerting to be told, no matter how sensitively it was put, that the trait that they have grown up considering desirable, their most basic default identity, is now toxic,"

No shit.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 07:02 PM (AmoqO)

73 Wasn't it the Legion of Amish commenter that had the extreme and almost irrational hatred of Amerinds?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 07:02 PM (yQpMk)

74 Probably too close to identifying but anyway, I had a fellow member of a group I belong to opine about a new candidate that, "he was just another white guy", and where was a diversity candidate. The candidates resume is unreal to the positive. The complainer is unreal to the negative. The world is unbalanced.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (oWBc3)

75 Does the pregnant lady count as two?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (v0R5T)

76 Go deeper. You have to untangle cause from effect. Why are the kids exposed to climate change, disinformation,....

I say: Smaller families, Loss of family as autonomous unit (SSI, state schools, divorce, ...), loss of religion.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:56 PM (GtQnE)

The decline of Christianity as an influence in America.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (qP50E)

77 29 Maybe I've totally missed discussion of it, but the woke nutjobs at Disney are claiming they totally punked DeSantis by sneaking in some clause that the new board appointed to run Reedy Creek can't make any changes to it for like 30 years or something.

That seems like total BS to me, but does anyone else have a clue about it?
Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 06:48 PM (tp+tP)

The prior board apparently signed a contract with Disney to give Disney maximum power over the district before handing over control to the new board.

Posted by: Liberty at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (Z/D/n)

78 The old people spoke some English and people my age and younger spoke English like Americans, because they are.

***************

I met some Navajos, they're nice folks, I think they even endorsed Trump too. I was disappointed when they didn't understand my X-Files references though, as I was SURE they knew about the aliens.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (VTu1l)

79 "I think we already knew. Diversity hires -- which are just political hires -- are a luxury good and you don't get to have luxury goods in a Biden Economy."

Minimum wage hikes create deadweight loss: the additional cost makes it impossible for an employer to continue to employ for positions that have not net gain to the business, positions that pay for themselves or actively support positions that pay for themselves and the deadweight support position as well.

Economic downturns also create deadweight loss as well. Telephone sanitizers, box boy, and other "lifestyle" or customer experience positions are destroyed by the increased wage or decreasing income for the position.
DEI is a customer experience position, up there with the onsite company poet, interpretive dancer for the all-staff meetings, and an open lobby.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (xhaym)

80 Honestly, college students should be angry. Their chance at the American Dream is pretty much completely stolen from them.

Of course they are angry, and justifiably so.

The whole point of gaslighting in this country, is to make damn sure they can't connect the dots and ever figure out just exactly who it is that is the source of their misery. That is Job 1

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (i/LKe)

81 I met some Navajos, they're nice folks, I think they even endorsed Trump too. I was disappointed when they didn't understand my X-Files references though, as I was SURE they knew about the aliens.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM (VTu1l)


The Hopi and Yaqui know about aliens. Navajo just deal with Skinwalkers.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (xhaym)

82 1. Chop up the person who booked that spacecraft and make jerky. Then do same to the instructor who created the question.

Doesn't this reveal a basic incoherence in their ideology though?

If we are to choose some humans as more worthy than others, why don't we start to do that at the borders??????

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (GtQnE)

83 Well you definitely couldn't have the gay vegetarian guy and the 12 year old orphan in a closed space together .

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (q4inm)

84 39, 40

Hordemind!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (Wnv9h)

85 DESPITE colleges relentlessly patrolling student word and thought to make them "safe," they're being institutionalized at historic rates, and indulging in violent and suicidal ideation.

_____

"Because."

Be better, ace, be better.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (KSNKu)

86 Leftism is a utopia dream but they have no idea how to get there, they have no plans to get to utopia without experience just ideas and hope they work without planning.
It was Dennis Prager that pointed to me Leftism is a one step planning without looking cause and effects.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (xhxe8)

87 The whole point of gaslighting in this country, is to make damn sure they can't connect the dots and ever figure out just exactly who it is that is the source of their misery. That is Job 1

***************


Not a hard job, you would think 100+ years of democrat rule in Chicago might have clued the residents in that maybe the Republicans arent the problem.

The left are if nothing else, semi-functional retards

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (VTu1l)

88 *on the bridge of the SS Biden*

ARTHUR: So we’re actually going to land in a minute?

CAPTAIN: Well not, not, not so much land in fact, I think as far as I can remember we’re programmed to, er crash on it.

ARTHUR and FORD: ”Crash”?

CAPTAIN: Yes. It’s all part of the plan. … I think. There was terribly good reason for it which I can’t… quite… remember at the moment.

FORD: [Yells in exasperation] You’re a load of useless, bloody loonies!!

CAPTAIN: Ah, yes, that was it, that was reason it was. Ha. Pass me the loofah will you?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (PiwSw)

89 Navajos have a proud tradition of joining the Marines. At least they used to not too long ago.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (q4inm)

90 I met some Navajos, they're nice folks, I think they even endorsed Trump too. I was disappointed when they didn't understand my X-Files references though, as I was SURE they knew about the aliens.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:03 PM


They are nice people who really appreciate a good joke. And all the people on the res vote democrat. Aliens would be more up by the Jicarilla Apaches.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (dTFZY)

91 She says all they did was have her sit in training and team meetings.

You know, I'm going to guess that since she was a charity hire,

all those training and team meetings were actually meant to get her lame-ass up to speed so she could be useful in the corporation.

Sounds like Miss Priss thought she was all that and hired for her fabulousness and never had to change or learn anything.

She worked hard at and earned her worthlessness to the corp.

Drank lots of nice tea though. So, she had that workin' for her.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (mm6iK)

92 The Native American gal might come in handy, even with no English. The tribal casino sent her to a gaming machine maintenance school at Bally's. Trouble is, when you start inputing reentry data into the ship's system, you get a Royal Flush on the screen.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (lz5hY)

93 "Because." Be better, ace, be better.

************

Lamont would have been better

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:07 PM (VTu1l)

94 It depends....

Militant African American medical student - militant, like Candice Owens?
33-year old female, Native American who doesn't speak English - is she hot?

etc.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 07:07 PM (fs1hN)

95 all those training and team meetings were actually meant to get her lame-ass up to speed so she could be useful in the corporation.

Sounds like Miss Priss thought she was all that and hired for her fabulousness and never had to change or learn anything.

-

Holy crap, I bet you're right.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (kj5Hc)

96 She also says that Meta got angry at her for posting videos announcing that she was being paid almost $200,000 per year to do nothing.

Well, yeah. If you're being paid $200,000 to do nothing, keep quiet about it.



I uh uh,
yeah.

Posted by: John Fetterman at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (yQpMk)

97 Well you definitely couldn't have the gay vegetarian guy and the 12 year old orphan in a closed space together .
Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:05 PM (q4inm)
........

LOL

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (v0R5T)

98 I think we already knew. Diversity hires -- which are just political hires -- are a luxury good and you don't get to have luxury goods in a Biden Economy.
---
Universities take the opposite approach. They'll destroy their IT support, administrative support, and physical facilities infrastructure before they'll fire a single member of the DEI department.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (BpYfr)

99 Honestly, college students should be angry. Their chance at the American Dream is pretty much completely stolen from them.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 06:55 PM (yQpMk)

Concur. Most live in some stupid bubble land and the reality of their shit for brains edumucation ain't gonna be worth the paper it's laser printed on, which is why most kolleges today fill them up with woke crap as a diversion.

They are gonna get it in the ass but hard.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (R/m4+)

100 "A former Meta recruiter claimed the massive tech company was "hoarding talent" in order to starve out their competition."

this is why I say we made these flucker so damn rich, that they can buy everything. During the 2008 real estate BS, those getting mega rich selling junk as AAA, were buying ALL the lobbyists.

Now they buy all the top law firms, all the lobbyists, all the networks ... etc. And tech firms buy up any competitor, and all the workers that might help a competitor ... compete.

But boy the FANGS soared and made many rich ... as "we" funded the rope they now use to hang us. And most still have it in their retirement accounts.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (Cus5s)

101 83 Well you definitely couldn't have the gay vegetarian guy and the 12 year old orphan in a closed space together .
___

That's why you need to keep the hispanic priest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 07:09 PM (fs1hN)

102 They are nice people who really appreciate a good joke. And all the people on the res vote democrat. Aliens would be more up by the Jicarilla Apaches.

******************

Just looked it up, it was their VP who endorsed Trump, Myron Lizer

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:09 PM (VTu1l)

103 @RadarOmega 5m
🚨Tornado Emergency continues for Covington TN, Ripley TN, and Brighton TN until 6:30 PM CDT #TNwx

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2023 07:09 PM (jzzG8)

104 I hope that spaceship has the internet on it because those people don't know how do shit.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:09 PM (iayUP)

105 Another hot take:

That new Reedy Creek board will just turn into FLA's version of the Garden State Parkway commission -- a repository for overpaid in-laws and graft. Lots of graft. Or like the FNMA on the national level.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:09 PM (GtQnE)

106 Paid $200k/ yr to do nothing?
I'd do it for half that!
Posted by: vmom


And I'd do twice as much!

Posted by: mikeski at March 31, 2023 07:10 PM (DgGvY)

107 Re spaceship

The gay anyone question answers itself. They'd need to be extremely valuable in welding, farming, etc to take up space on the long journey to restore humanity.

It's one of my big problems with Sci fi movies and video games that pretend gay couples would take up valuable rooms on a ship.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (kj5Hc)

108 Tom Sowell (as always) is able to distill stuff down to its component parts. It's uncanny.

"Liberalism is replacing what works, with what sounds good."

The main thing with leftists, is they are unable to process cause and effect. They believe in good intentions, the results, well that doesn't matter. It is a fatal flaw.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (i/LKe)

109 First time the crapper clogs up, they are gonna be in deep space shit.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (iayUP)

110 A former Meta recruiter claimed the massive tech company was "hoarding talent" in order to starve out their competition."

*****************

I can tell you that this is 100% Grade A USDA Prime bullshit

Meta have been the most incompetent mewling diseased fuckheads I have ever dealt with, right down there with LinkedIn tech workers

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (VTu1l)

111 109 First time the crapper clogs up, they are gonna be in deep space shit.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (iayUP

Space is huge. Just dig a hole and bury it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 07:12 PM (APDBX)

112 Universities take the opposite approach. They'll destroy their IT support, administrative support, and physical facilities infrastructure before they'll fire a single member of the DEI department.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (BpYfr)


Somebody's gotta run the databases and do maintenance. I know what to do, I will create a support company for the local University and put in bids!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:12 PM (xhaym)

113 200k hiring salary ? No wonder some of these millennials don't worry about inflation.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:13 PM (q4inm)

114 All the ballots on the Rez vote Democrat.

Weird, huh?

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 07:13 PM (i/LKe)

115 That tornado that hit Little Rock was massive.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 07:13 PM (APDBX)

116 Okay I got the who to leave thing down. You and the ex-cop need to get together and choose the 4 most tolerable females, 2 for each of you. After that choose the weakest candidates, because as soon as you leave earth orbit you're going to kill them and dump their bodies out the airlock. Double rations for everybody else! Keep the kid around, since you're gonna need someone to clean up and do chores.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (IVOR/)

117 First time the crapper clogs up, they are gonna be in deep space shit.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (iayUP)

Yup.....all the Star Wars Star Trek nerds love their movies and crap but I don't ever remember seeing the shitter in any of those TV shows or movies.

In Space, do people ever take a dump?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

118 I read the whole thing, Ace! See how late I am? Start the comment numbering at -120; then maybe when we're done reading it all, we have a shot at coming in around comment number "FIRST!"

"Accountant with substance abuse problem"

I'm saving the accountant only if he can hook me up with a good connection. Otherwise, they can all exit the lifeboat for all I care.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (MvF+J)

119 BTW, I forgot to mention despite the promotions, our annual revenue has been disastrous

And youre never gonna beliiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve this, but the millions upon millions spent on "net-zero" initiatives went into a mysterious blackhole, never to be recovered again

I am enshockened

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (VTu1l)

120 109 First time the crapper clogs up, they are gonna be in deep space shit.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (iayUP

Space is huge. Just dig a hole and bury it.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 31, 2023 07:12 PM (APDBX)
---
They're gonna need that crap for fertilizer when they get to where they are going.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (BpYfr)

121 In space, dumped dumps don't stink

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:15 PM (fUnHJ)

122 That new Reedy Creek board will just turn into FLA's version of the Garden State Parkway commission -- a repository for overpaid in-laws and graft. Lots of graft. Or like the FNMA on the national level.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:09 PM (GtQnE)
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That was obvious from day one for anyone who knows the slightest thing about politics, especially local politics.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:15 PM (4IOqE)

123 I wonder why we're not told about everyone's sexual fetishises?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:15 PM (kj5Hc)

124 Easy to leave the gay, vegetarian professions athlete. He doesn’t exist.

Posted by: SoTheresThat at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (b9sY2)

125 Yup.....all the Star Wars Star Trek nerds love their movies and crap but I don't ever remember seeing the shitter in any of those TV shows or movies.

In Space, do people ever take a dump?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (R/m4+)
---
Babylon 5 has a couple of conversations that take place in the station's public facilities. They even show a pak'mor'a (space alien) exiting one such cubicle.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (BpYfr)

126 Here's some local coverage about the dude in the WY sorority from the last thread. Be warned, he's not a good looking gal.

https://tinyurl.com/ytb6efdn

Posted by: 496 at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (ELYbr)

127 "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

That is a quote from Lincoln. Lincoln knew that Christianity was central to American greatness. Even though by some accounts he wasn't a believer himself.

We have lost that and that is why we are in the place we are now.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (qP50E)

128 200k hiring salary ? No wonder some of these millennials don't worry about inflation.
-------

Except that they live in San Francisco, so they're paying 4k a month just for rent on a single bedroom.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (4IOqE)

129
25

I rejected the gay athlete because he's vegan. You're stuck in a giant cylinder for god knows how long I don't want to hear how you're fucking vegan for my last days.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (1MDGt)

----

Also, being vegan he'd have a lot of gas, and limited ability to hold it in until got into the space toilet cubicle, due to compromised sphincter.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 07:17 PM (FPgfB)

130 https://tinyurl.com/ytb6efdn

******

That's a man, baby!

Posted by: Austin Powers at March 31, 2023 07:17 PM (VTu1l)

131 Female movie star who is a recent sexual assault victim
......

Here's another one that will drive you nuts. I guess she could be on latrine duty cuz no way am I eating any sandwich she makes.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:17 PM (v0R5T)

132 115 Listening to the local Skywatch guys on VHF, convinced me to go down to the basement once. First storms of the season, they get a little overenthusiastic, tend to exaggerate a wee bit. Next time I bring a laptop. Nothing to do down there.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:17 PM (MvF+J)

133 "I rejected the gay athlete because he's vegan. You're stuck in a giant cylinder for god knows how long I don't want to hear how you're fucking vegan for my last days."

What if you have to redecorate when you get there?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:18 PM (iayUP)

134 Babylon 5 has a couple of conversations that take place in the station's public facilities. They even show a pak'mor'a (space alien) exiting one such cubicle.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (BpYfr)

Ah! Nice.....at least someone knew the important stuff to include on a TV show.

Thanks Perfessor!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 07:18 PM (R/m4+)

135 In Japan they don't fire executives who have failed or earned the wrath of a superior. They provide them a small office and give them no real assignments. Sitting in the office with nothing to do is maddening to the Japanese guy.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:19 PM (q4inm)

136 Easy to leave the gay, vegetarian professions athlete. He doesn’t exist.

-

I figured they were talking about that wnba dude that got in trouble for taking drugs into Russia.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:19 PM (kj5Hc)

137 117 First time the crapper clogs up, they are gonna be in deep space shit.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (iayUP)

Yup.....all the Star Wars Star Trek nerds love their movies and crap but I don't ever remember seeing the shitter in any of those TV shows or movies.

In Space, do people ever take a dump?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

Goes in the replicator.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 07:19 PM (AmoqO)

138 So you are at a border patrol and there is a waiting room of 12 applicants.
- An illiterate from south america
- An illiterate from south america
....
- A pregnant chinese woman
- A guy named mohamed who has a quran and hates the USA
- A fentanyl dealer.

Question - how much do you benefits do you offer them to move to Republican districts?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:19 PM (GtQnE)

139 On Star Trek they were always going where no man had gone before.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:19 PM (iayUP)

140 These mass tech layoffs are undoing all the positive progress that these companies have made since this time, and this is a concern. Moreover, many DEI departments that are still operational are already seeing cutbacks. And all this comes at a huge price for many aspects of a business.


Thoughts and prayers.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (2graF)

141 We were doing that "who gets to live?" exercise back in the mid-60s in middle school.
It had a fancy name- something about figuring our your values.
Clarification of Values- that was it.
Long march, indeed...

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (wE246)

142 "In Space, do people ever take a dump?"

Transported direct from colons into recycling unit, then to the galley.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (MvF+J)

143 I know I can't be the only one to have a hard time picking the eight out of twelve people to keep.

Then I thought, gotta repopulate, so it got easier to narrow down.

Posted by: cfo mom at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (Q8bDL)

144 It also forgot to mention she's probably an alcoholic.
Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 06:50 PM (1MDGt)

I would assume that on board the spaceship, neither the druggie or the alky would have access to their poison, so both would unavoidably get clean and sober.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (tkR6S)

145 That list of 12 people vs spaceship?
No sex information for most of them.
I would exclude the Native American woman who desn't speak English. (fictitious person. I doubt that you'll find an adult NA who doesn't know English.)

Also exclude Gay male, professional athlete who is a vegetarian, since he won't be useful in procreation.

What's an international student?

Posted by: Ciampino - you had me at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (qfLjt)

146 What if you have to redecorate when you get there?
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:18 PM (iayUP)
.......

Well mount his head on the wall.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (v0R5T)

147 Talking to coworker about gaslighting which he said was a new term to him. Explained its a lie, then spread so others see well if two say this then will report this lie, then others see all these reports on z original lie it must be real all these people are reporting this.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 07:21 PM (xhxe8)

148
That was obvious from day one for anyone who knows the slightest thing about politics, especially local politics.
Posted by: Colorado Alex i

I have been saying it here since day one, but still no one has listened. In fact, our leader now endorses the guy.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:22 PM (GtQnE)

149 what if Trump's lawyers call Avenati as a witness ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 07:22 PM (us2H3)

150 In the early days of "long" term space flights, like a few days in Gemini, space poopin' was a recognized problem because you were getting by with just the diaper. Typical NASA pre launch meal was high protein, low residue like steak and eggs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 31, 2023 07:22 PM (lz5hY)

151 137 117 First time the crapper clogs up, they are gonna be in deep space shit.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:11 PM (iayUP)

Yup.....all the Star Wars Star Trek nerds love their movies and crap but I don't ever remember seeing the shitter in any of those TV shows or movies.

In Space, do people ever take a dump?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

Goes in the replicator.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 07:19 PM (AmoqO)
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I guess none of you have heard about the Captain's Log?

Posted by: Ciampino - what did Spock find in Kirk's cabin? at March 31, 2023 07:22 PM (qfLjt)

152 In Space, do people ever take a dump?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
......

Yep. Gives a whole new meaning to the term "floater".

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:23 PM (v0R5T)

153 I think we already knew. Diversity hires -- which are just political hires -- are a luxury good and you don't get to have luxury goods in a Biden Economy.
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Universities take the opposite approach. They'll destroy their IT support, administrative support, and physical facilities infrastructure before they'll fire a single member of the DEI department.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:08 PM (BpYfr)

Universities have been around since 1000 AD or so. They know they don't need tech, just a monopoly on the staff and professor hires so they can turn out the drones.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2023 07:23 PM (eoQWY)

154 I'd rather Mary Ann than Ginger.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:23 PM (q4inm)

155 I guess none of you have heard about the Captain's Log?
Posted by: Ciampino - what did Spock find in Kirk's cabin?
........

Captain's log: stardate 92-33-00. Very satisfying.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:24 PM (v0R5T)

156 Talking to coworker about gaslighting which he said was a new term to him. Explained its a lie, then spread so others see well if two say this then will report this lie, then others see all these reports on z original lie it must be real all these people are reporting this.
Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 07:21 PM (xhxe

You could have just told him to watch the movie😀

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:25 PM (q4inm)

157 We might need this guy if the Martians aren't friendly.
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:00 PM (v0R5T)

Exactly. The guy has some practical skills, and these days, an accusation is not a conviction. Hell, even convictions are bullshit, these days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 07:25 PM (tkR6S)

158 The five women, plus the med student, cop, and athlete. Yes, the athlete is gay, but he can still father children. Just close your eyes and think of England's boarding schools.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:25 PM (wmDcS)

159 Stanford has 1 or MORE admin per student.

UTex has 3x more admins than real life profs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:25 PM (BRHaw)

160 I'm not getting ads with people brushing their toes anymore. Now they are brushing their noses. I hope they are not using the same toothbrush.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:25 PM (iayUP)

161 Gah, miscounted. The four women, plus med student, cop, athlete, and Asian boy.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:25 PM (wmDcS)

162 What's an international student?
Posted by: Ciampino - you had me at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (qfLjt)


You know "the international man of mystery"? Sort of like that but without the air of mystery and danger, and generally without charisma or good grooming, but with a taste for Calculus and Software Engineering at 21 credit hours a semester.

Except the South American ladies. Yowza!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:26 PM (xhaym)

163 In Space No One Can Hear You Shit

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:26 PM (BRHaw)

164 What's an international student?

Posted by: Ciampino - you had me at March 31, 2023 07:20 PM (qfLjt)

If *you* had come to the US for a semester in high school you would have been an "International student".

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 07:26 PM (nC+QA)

165 That is a quote from Lincoln. Lincoln knew that Christianity was central to American greatness. Even though by some accounts he wasn't a believer himself.

We have lost that and that is why we are in the place we are now.
Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 07:16 PM (qP50E)

Lincoln, like a lot of frontier folk, didn't have any organized religion since they were too far from a church of any sort to attend. But they all believed in God and were Christians, probably a flavor of Protestant.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (eoQWY)

166 The four women, plus med student, cop, athlete, and Asian boy.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile


Not sure why people think he's going to actually provide medical services.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (jzzG8)

167 Paid $200k/ yr to do nothing?
I'd do it for half that!

But can you pass the coding interview?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (5u1+1)

168 158 The five women, plus the med student, cop, and athlete. Yes, the athlete is gay, but he can still father children. Just close your eyes and think of England's boarding schools.
Posted by: Colorado Alex i

No, take the accountant instead of the athlete. Proven breeder, plus can do basic math.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (fUnHJ)

169 160 I'm not getting ads with people brushing their toes anymore. Now they are brushing their noses. I hope they are not using the same toothbrush.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:25
PM (iayUP)

Carlin said hair and teeth and asshole can be clean with 1 brush.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (BRHaw)

170 "DEI training asks scholars which ethnicities should just die already."


Back in the early 80s, I had a variant of this question, disguised as critical thinking skills building, posed for 2 years running, in junior high English.

We were essentially placed in the role of Kodos the Executioner, deciding life or death on a space colony.

I'm ashamed to say that I answered it straight the first year, which bugged me so much that I blasted the premises when the lazy TA posed it again the following year.

My cowardice the first time bugged me for years. About a decade ago, I figured out that our answers are probably in our permanent record somewhere.

These assholes have been laying the groundwork for Social Credit Scoring for a long time.

Posted by: ogmrobvious at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (XKgtk)

171 Racist armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force
........

We might need this guy if the Martians aren't friendly.

---

He's my first pick as a crewmate. The context makes it clear he's just a white guy who is a cop.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (sIl7T)

172 They don't identify the sex of four of the candidates.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:28 PM (q4inm)

173 A movie on Amazon Prime, After the Dark, kind of explores this same question. Starring James D'arcy and Ginny Weaseley.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:28 PM (PiwSw)

174 154 I'd rather Mary Ann than Ginger.
Posted by: polynikes

*then

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:29 PM (GtQnE)

175 149 what if Trump's lawyers call Avenati as a witness ?
Posted by: REDACTED



That would be AMAZING!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 31, 2023 07:29 PM (2graF)

176 "They don't identify the sex of four of the candidates."

Gender neutral or not sure. Just like 33% of the population.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:29 PM (iayUP)

177 These assholes have been laying the groundwork for Social Credit Scoring for a long time.
Posted by: ogmrobvious at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (XKgtk)


It taught me that my fellow students felt I was completely disposable. That wasn't on the curriculum for 9th grade I think.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (xhaym)

178 Any AA hire who agreed to work for $190K deserves to get shitcanned.

Posted by: Michael Obama at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (sWM8x)

179 In the novel I'm currently reading, a group of astronauts are traveling to Pluto to investigate a 40-year-old Russian spacecraft orbiting it.

Along the way, there is commentary about the differences between zero-g pooping and low-g (0.1g) pooping.

In the logs from the Russian spacecraft, one of the cosmonauts volunteered to clean the latrines for a month in exchange for getting to take an EVA near Saturn just to take a picture. (It's very dangerous due to the radiation emitted by Saturn).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (BpYfr)

180 Yes, the athlete is gay, but he can still father children.

--

He is also going to potentially prevent the reproduction of those children and the end of humanity. There is no way he goes, much less reproduces in disgust and then helps teach the kids why they're gay, too.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (sIl7T)

181 "But can you pass the coding interview?"

They should start with that. Best way to streamline the process, weed out the duds right away.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (MvF+J)

182

150 In the early days of "long" term space flights, like a few days in Gemini, space poopin' was a recognized problem because you were getting by with just the diaper. Typical NASA pre launch meal was high protein, low residue like steak and eggs.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,

----

I read an article about that. Duting Apollo, they had a plastic bag with an adhesive collar that was stuck to the butt. Had a finger insert molded into the bag. Didn't work all that well. Whizzing involved putting on a condom-like arrangement connected to a tube that went outside into space. The liquid would flash-freeze in the vacuum and a cloud of glittering ice crystals would form. One astronaut noted the beauty of the cloud.

Starting with Skylab, there was a commode equipped with a vacuum cleaner arrangement.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (FPgfB)

183 Trump just released a statement claiming that in the last 24 hours he's raised over $4 million. and 25% of the money came from first time donors.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (ZLI7S)

184 Lincoln is on my prayer list. I pray for the dead and they pray for me.

Yeah, he wasn't a church-going man, but he certainly was a man who faithfully did His will.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 07:31 PM (5u1+1)

185 Anyone male who chooses the gay guy is either gay or in the closet.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:31 PM (q4inm)

186 I'd rather Mary Ann than Ginger.
Posted by: polynikes

*then

--

Nicely done.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 07:31 PM (sIl7T)

187 Anybody asked ChatGPT that lifeboat question?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:31 PM (MvF+J)

188 In Space No One Can Hear You Shit
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:26 PM (BRHaw)
........

But the fart bubbles are a real problem.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:32 PM (v0R5T)

189 That who would you leave behind worksheet . . . they all seem pretty marginal to me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 07:32 PM (KFhLj)

190 The interrogator of the Interior Secretary numnut so badly wanted to say "Deb, you ignorant slut".

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 07:33 PM (eOEVl)

191 I think 8 is too few to start a sustainable colony, but when reestablishing the species you need women to have babies, so they all make the cut, &young, fit males to build it, so no to the 60 year old, disabled guy, kid & probably the addict (unless the gay guy won't switch hit)

Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2023 07:33 PM (K3VqA)

192 Starting with Skylab, there was a commode equipped with a vacuum cleaner arrangement.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 07:30 PM (FPgfB)


On reviewing the specs of the Skylab toilet, Jerry Pournelle reportedly quipped, "Apparently the sh*t is supposed to hit the fan"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:33 PM (xhaym)

193 all those training and team meetings were actually meant to get her lame-ass up to speed so she could be useful in the corporation.

Sounds like Miss Priss thought she was all that and hired for her fabulousness and never had to change or learn anything.

She worked hard at and earned her worthlessness to the corp.

Drank lots of nice tea though. So, she had that workin' for her.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 31, 2023 07:06 PM (mm6iK)

I doubt it. Rather, being racists like all liberals they didn't care what she did or learned since they had done their lip service by hiring her at a high price.

Another "job" a lot of these Admin doing nothing hires had, in my opinion, is be whores for the management. There's literally little other reason for these young girls being given wine on tap, and then having "team building" parties right after work closes. Watching that "A day in the life" video everyone quotes has it jumping out at you - drinks, dark areas to be alone, parties, probably a bit of travel to another company with its own stable.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 31, 2023 07:33 PM (eoQWY)

194 Yeah, he wasn't a church-going man, but he certainly was a man who faithfully did His will.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

--

The Lincoln who suspended habeas corpus?

I think Christ was on the other side of that experience.

Posted by: World Trade Center 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. at March 31, 2023 07:34 PM (sIl7T)

195 Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2023 07:33 PM (K3VqA)

You're younger than 60, I take it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:34 PM (PiwSw)

196 189 That who would you leave behind worksheet . . . they all seem pretty marginal to me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 07:32 PM (KFhLj)

Yeah. We're not allowed to have an engineer, or a mechanic, or a farmer. Unless the "you," the person choosing, is all of those things combined, you're sorta screwed.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 31, 2023 07:34 PM (OX9vb)

197 No, take the accountant instead of the athlete. Proven breeder, plus can do basic math.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (fUnHJ)


His wife is pregnant, which means his genetic material is already going aboard. Need to bring someone else instead to improve genetic diversity. Plus, math is covered by the Asian kid.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:34 PM (wmDcS)

198 I'm taking Ginger.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 31, 2023 07:34 PM (KAi1n)

199 >>> choose only eight out of the 12 original passengers...

Keep all the young women for rebuilding the populous,
Keep the old man, accountant, and 12 yr old boy,
Kill the rest...
and I am the racist armed police officer who has been accused of using excessive force and will make it happen.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2023 07:35 PM (vrN+N)

200 It's not gay if you leave your space helmet on and don't look down.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:35 PM (v0R5T)

201 On reviewing the specs of the Skylab toilet, Jerry Pournelle reportedly quipped, "Apparently the sh*t is supposed to hit the fan"
Posted by: Kindltot

Was it a fan, or a venturi vacuum generator? I would have used a vacuum generator (also called ejector.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:35 PM (GtQnE)

202 I think 8 is too few to start a sustainable colony, but when reestablishing the species you need women to have babies, so they all make the cut, &young, fit males to build it, so no to the 60 year old, disabled guy, kid & probably the addict (unless the gay guy won't switch hit)
Posted by: Weirddave at March 31, 2023 07:33 PM (K3VqA)


Asian kid would be a go. He can start fathering kids in a couple years, whereas a middle-aged dude has increased risk of keeling over from heart disease.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (wmDcS)

203
The Lincoln who suspended habeas corpus?

I think Christ was on the other side of that experience.

The Republic was founded by Freemasons. God has be kind to us nonetheless.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (5u1+1)

204 DEVELOPING: ‘Level 3 Mass Casualty’ Event Declared After Catastrophic Tornado Rips Through Little Rock, Arkansas – 600+ Injured

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (BRHaw)

205 Anyone male who chooses the gay guy is either gay or in the closet.
Posted by: polynikes

Or doesn't want competition.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (KAi1n)

206 "Was it a fan, or a venturi vacuum generator? I would have used a vacuum generator (also called ejector.)"

Hilsch tube bidet.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (MvF+J)

207 DEVELOPING: ‘Level 3 Mass Casualty’ Event Declared After Catastrophic Tornado Rips Through Little Rock, Arkansas – 600+ Injured
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (BRHaw)


Trump should call SHS and offer to help ship in whatever supplies are needed.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:37 PM (wmDcS)

208 I think 8 is too few to start a sustainable colony

In order to have sufficient genetic diversity, I believe you need several hundred individuals. They're going to look like Deliverance soon.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 07:37 PM (eOEVl)

209 While we plan the never-happen (political, legal) responses to whatever it is we believe the Left have done, they are running ten more operations, which we will find out about in different measures over the next four to five years. In which time they will have ten more to deploy.

I remember telling ace a very long time ago that the Left plans these things at least three years in advance (for contemporary times we'll say that for example in 2017 while the War on Women raged, they knew this tranny stuff was coming to take center stage) and as of now they know what buckets of piss will be dumped on our heads in 2025 and 2026.

Ace didn't believe me. Not at all. I'm not making fun here or saying I told you so. I am just explaining how "it" works. I mostly just talk to myself.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 07:38 PM (BXxcV)

210 60 year old is probably a woke karen

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 07:38 PM (fUnHJ)

211 206 "Was it a fan, or a venturi vacuum generator? I would have used a vacuum generator (also called ejector.)"

Years back there were some swimming pool drains like that. Sucked peoples intestines right out of their butt if they sat on it right. Recalled, probably.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 07:38 PM (MvF+J)

212 Oh great. All that pee and poo is still out there because nothing decays in space.

Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2023 07:38 PM (OUiUM)

213 DEVELOPING: ‘Level 3 Mass Casualty’ Event Declared After Catastrophic Tornado Rips Through Little Rock, Arkansas – 600+ Injured
Posted by: rhennigantx
.........

Oh no.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 07:39 PM (v0R5T)

214 Lincoln who suspended habeas corpus?

I think Christ was on the other side of that experience.

The Republic was founded by Freemasons. God has be kind to us nonetheless.

-

In spite of the tyrants like Lincoln.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 07:39 PM (kj5Hc)

215 Trump just released a statement claiming that in the last 24 hours he's raised over $4 million. and 25% of the money came from first time donors.

Posted by: JackStraw


Epstein was wealthy as well …

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic. . . at March 31, 2023 07:39 PM (jonTH)

216 Local news just showed damage footage from Little Rock. It's pretty bad and I couldn't identify the neighborhoods shown.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 31, 2023 07:40 PM (lz5hY)

217 Was it a fan, or a venturi vacuum generator? I would have used a vacuum generator (also called ejector.)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:35 PM (GtQnE)


Supposedly a fan. Though there may have been changes before it flew.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:40 PM (xhaym)

218 > DEVELOPING: ‘Level 3 Mass Casualty’ Event Declared After Catastrophic Tornado Rips Through Little Rock, Arkansas – 600+ Injured
______________

More's on the way for everyone between Chicago and New Orleans. Get with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 07:40 PM (Q4IgG)

219 Reminds me of the joke about the plane that was going to crash because of it was overloaded. The only passengers were a french guy, a Mexican , an Englishman and a Texan. They threw everything out of the plane they could but still overloaded so the French guy said he would jump out to save the others and leaped out yelling Viva La France. Still overloaded so the Englishman said he also would sacrifice himself and leaped out the plane yelling God Save the Queen. But the plane was still overloaded and going down. So the Texan stepped toward the door and looked at the Mexican guy before pushing him out of the plane yelling Remember the Alamo !!!

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 07:41 PM (q4inm)

220 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:34 PM (PiwSw)

Off Topic-I saw your earlier post (this morning) about picking up a copy of Brother Lawernce's writings. Have you read him before? I am at the end of a 40 page Lenten Devotional with his writings.Have you read his stuff before?. I htink he's wonderful. Thanks for letting me know about picking up the book, and God bless you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 07:41 PM (FUVRY)

221 Oh great. All that pee and poo is still out there because nothing decays in space.
Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2023 07:38 PM (OUiUM)

*roars and shakes fist*

Posted by: Chewbacca, pressure washing the Milennium Falcon at March 31, 2023 07:42 PM (9tGrH)

222 The world's gone mad. The whole fucking world's gone mad.

Posted by: Stating the obvious at March 31, 2023 07:43 PM (0avLl)

223 >>Epstein was wealthy as well …

The slight difference is that Trump didn't do anything wrong. They will likely get him with a partisan NYC jury but I'd be shocked if this survives an appeal.

Bragg is literally invented crimes.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 07:43 PM (ZLI7S)

224 *roars and shakes fist*
Posted by: Chewbacca, pressure washing the Milennium Falcon at March 31, 2023 07:42 PM (9tGrH)
----
Quit yer bellyaching, ya fuzzball!

Half of it's yours!

Posted by: Han Solo at March 31, 2023 07:44 PM (BpYfr)

225 15 Did the motorcycle guy have only one testicle?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:44 PM (v0R5T)
----
He lost the mate in a motorcycle chain incident.

Posted by: Ciampino - ouchee at March 31, 2023 07:44 PM (qfLjt)

226 "All that pee and poo is still out there because nothing decays in space.
Posted by: torabora "

It's coagulating around Uranus.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:44 PM (iayUP)

227 Not sure why people think he's going to actually provide medical services.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2023 07:27 PM (jzzG

"Militant Med. student? Kermit Gosnell

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 07:44 PM (tkR6S)

228 JackStraw -

It’s not the conviction I’m worried about.

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic. . . at March 31, 2023 07:44 PM (jonTH)

229
I remember telling ace a very long time ago that the Left plans these things at least three years in advance ...
Ace didn't believe me. Not at all. I'm not making fun here or saying I told you so. I am just explaining how "it" works. I mostly just talk to myself.
Posted by: ...


At least 20 years ago NPR was advocating open borders. If I check, can place the date exactly when they said borders were the greatest societal sin since slavery. At the time it sounded nuts, but it frightened me because even then I understood.

You are correct, but I think there are different phases KT linked a good piece a few weeks ago about their approach.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:45 PM (GtQnE)

230 222 The world's gone mad. The whole fucking world's gone mad.
Posted by: Stating the obvious at March 31, 2023 07:43 PM (0avLl)

I went and did shit during COVID and people said I tried to kill them.

I will never get over that.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:45 PM (BRHaw)

231 Oh great. All that pee and poo is still out there because nothing decays in space.
Posted by: torabora at March 31, 2023 07:38 PM (OUiUM)


Well, generally anything in orbit suffers both from the impact of solar wind and from drag from the expanding and contracting exo-atmosphere. Eventually it should all decelerate a bit and start re-entry. Probably burn up on the way in, like shooting stars, for lovers to wish upon.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:45 PM (xhaym)

232 Did you call your Congressman today?

Posted by: Ben Had at March 31, 2023 07:46 PM (7UtYL)

233 >>It’s not the conviction I’m worried about.

Always a possibility. The left is driving the crazy to 11 and they show no sign of taking their foot off the gas.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 07:46 PM (ZLI7S)

234 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 07:41 PM (FUVRY)

I haven't read him yet -- my Sunday School teacher recommended the book -- looking forward to reading it!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:47 PM (PiwSw)

235 Remember the Alamo !!!

very nice

you are awarded one credit

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 07:47 PM (KFhLj)

236 "Probably burn up on the way in, like shooting stars, for lovers to wish upon.
Posted by: Kindltot "

Shouldn't that be a shooting shart?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:47 PM (iayUP)

237 Well, generally anything in orbit suffers both from the impact of solar wind and from drag from the expanding and contracting exo-atmosphere. Eventually it should all decelerate a bit and start re-entry. Probably burn up on the way in, like shooting stars, for lovers to wish upon.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:45 PM (xhaym)

shitting star

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:47 PM (BRHaw)

238 Nude

Posted by: Adriane the Not Cynical Enough Critic. . . at March 31, 2023 07:48 PM (jonTH)

239 Shouldn't that be a shooting shart?
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 07:47 PM (iayUP)


Like a bolt out of the blue
Faeces steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a shart
Your dreams come true!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 07:49 PM (xhaym)

240 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 31, 2023 07:47 PM (PiwSw)

I hope you will let me know what you think when you do read his stuff.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 07:49 PM (FUVRY)

241 Same joke

pope boy scout and Kissinginger

Pope get parachute
Boy scout grabs his pack
Kissinger grabs pack and say I am smartest man in the world so I get the chut
Boy scout tells pope Kiss just jumped with my backpack

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 07:50 PM (BRHaw)

242 The piece KT posted was Rufo talking about the DeSantis policies toward FLA. He is former Lefty community organizer and he said the Left has a Narrative, Policy line, and Action line.

My contention is that they start selling the narrative for decades if necessary. Look at gun control, gay marriage, open borders,... they are working the narrative and changing policies that enable big changes decades in advance. They never sleep.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:51 PM (GtQnE)

243 208 In order to have sufficient genetic diversity, I believe you need several hundred individuals. They're going to look like Deliverance soon.

I was forced to participate in something like this in my last role. I pointed this very thing out and said it didn’t really matter who stayed or went, everyone was doomed. I am positive I made it a frustrating experience for the facilitator.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 07:52 PM (pZz43)

244 Shooting stars.... Got it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsbjeLupyMQ

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 07:54 PM (Q4IgG)

245 The spaceship question. There was a SF story: a man, his wife and 5 year old daughter, who think they may be the last on Earth. The two females fall in a trap and he can only get one out. Which one?

Posted by: Ciampino - philosophy versus practicality at March 31, 2023 07:55 PM (qfLjt)

246 Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 07:51 PM (GtQnE)

Thank you I will look that up. Always looking to add to my arsenal. Most of my stuff is pure observation combined with learning and eventually naturally "getting" the left.

To my eternal shame I really thought Trump was beyond the margin of fraud. In a way he was, but I let my emotions interfere. I 10p% believed they would *try* and I got particularly worried in the last two weeks when every case in every state that mattered started breaking their way and outside of the Rule of Law. I pointed it out here but I still didn't believe they could pull it off with the numbers and states they needed.

Learned my lesson.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 07:57 PM (BXxcV)

247 How has Brexit gone? Have there been any real effects?

I don't know. I don't follow Europe that closely.
Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (qP50E)

Like everything else, Brexit was smothered with "COVID! The Panic!"

The Left got everything they ever dreamed of, unopposed, because of a bad cold season.

Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 07:58 PM (AbL8c)

248 Brexit is also known to this day in Britain as a purely racist "anti-immigration" movement. The Left never sleeps indeed.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 08:01 PM (BXxcV)

249 202
Asian kid would be a go. He can start fathering kids in a couple years, whereas a middle-aged dude has increased risk of keeling over from heart disease.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 07:36 PM (wmDcS)
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If they've had the clotshot then any of them stand a good chance of keeling over.

Posted by: Ciampino - are you vaxx-positive? at March 31, 2023 08:05 PM (qfLjt)

250 You want to think that there is some way this all ends peaceably and reasonably, but honestly there's no real chance of that. Oh it'll end - everything does -- but the cost will be paid in blood.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 06:42 PM (IVOR/)


When one side is comprised of, at best, nihilistic death-cultists or, as I believe, minions of Satan ... yeah, it's going to be bad.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at March 31, 2023 08:16 PM (pJWtt)

251 "It presents a situation in which there is a spaceship leaving a doomed earth, and participants must choose only eight out of the 12 original passengers to be saved..."
____________

Not one damn person on that list has a skill that would make them at all useful on a spaceship or anywhere it might go. Maybe the medical student.

It shows you how far we've come in judging people solely by externalities.

Posted by: MartynWW at March 31, 2023 08:24 PM (Ur3df)

252 The company that fired me for refusing the Jab had a bloated HR group who met with each other all the time, but were unavailable to help employees. They started a DEI initiative where each plant was supposed to appoint a DEI Champion. Their own inside mole at each location.

There were 22 employees at corporate, where no production occurred, and 6 HR whores shared among 14 manufacturing plants spread across the country. Make sense? Yeah.

Anyway, I hope to God they're all losing their jobs, freaking out about their finances, wondering if they'll lose their homes. Those are the thoughts that get me through the day.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 31, 2023 08:29 PM (t0I9n)

253 The Trump indictment seems like an intentional distraction from the RESIST Act.

And honestly, his response to it seems like he's part of the show.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 31, 2023 08:37 PM (yyynE)

254 Made a mistake to actually read the linked articles.

DEI teams were hit because they didn't improve anything and actually worsened employee relations. Let's see when Factor the magazine goes under.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 31, 2023 09:09 PM (UVyKP)

Beyond the Valley of the Libs of TikTok

What are your plans for the Trans Day of Vengeance? Anything special?

Or has this year's Trans Day of Vengeance just snuck up on you again? It's today and tomorrow, you know! Hope you got your Trans Day of Vengeance shopping done in time!

And now they've gone and cancelled it! Just because their violent incitement got a school shot up!

Wait, that's not the reason they give for cancelling the call-to-vengeance rally.

They claim it's because they got "threats."

They're the real victims here, you know.

Our Rights DC, the group behind Saturday's "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to a "credible threat to life and safety."

The event, which was originally scheduled for the "Transgender Day of Visibility," as designated by President Joe Biden, was widely criticized following Monday's mass shooting in Nashville in which trans-identified 28-year-old Audrey Hale murderd six people, including three children.

"This action will not be taking place Saturday due to a credible threat to life and safety," Our Rights DC wrote on Twitter. "The safety of our trans community is first priority."

They went on to suggest that the threat was "the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community after the Tennessee shooting."

"Individuals who had nothing to with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity," the group lamented, claiming that such actions are "one of the steps in genocide."

I'll tell you what really happened: Their Democrat protectors, promoters, and donors told them to stand down because it embarrasses the cause. Just like they told BLM and antifa to stand down for the 2020 elections.

A #rigged poll by state media NPR and PBS claims that most Americans oppose "restricting drag shows or performances."

Most adults said they oppose laws restricting drag shows or performances as Republicans in several states push to block the shows from being seen by children, according to a new poll.

The results of an NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, released Wednesday, show 58 percent of respondents said they oppose laws restricting the performances, while 39 percent said they support them. Democrats are the most likely to oppose such laws, with almost three-quarters of them saying they are opposed, but 57 percent of independents and 37 percent of Republicans also said they do not support them.

Do you notice two key words that have been deliberately omitted from the poll question?

"Restrict drag performances... for children."

They omitted those words because 1, they would accurately represent actual Republican efforts here, and 2, would cause people to support these restrictions in droves.


Soros Prosecutor Lizzy
@StarChamberMaid

The poll didn't ask if people were in favor of restricting drag shows directed at CHILDREN. Now why was that? No one cares about drag shows, they've been around forever. People don't like overly sexualized drag shoes for CHILDREN.


Demon worshippers spin for their fellow child-murdering demon.

A trans "woman" complains that a TSA agent struck her in "her testicles."

A transgender woman was left in tears at JFK Airport after she claimed a TSA agent punched her in the testicles while she was going through security, the Daily Mail reported.

The unidentified flyer took to social media to vent about the incident, in which she said the agent "humiliated" her in front of everyone in a series of posts that have since been deleted, according to the outlet.

"hi so a tsa agent at jfk airport punched me in the genitalia, yelled at me for having a penis (?) and humiliated me in front of everyone after i told her to please stop," she captioned a photo of her crying in the airport bathroom, according to a screenshot of the post.

But the embarrassment didn't stop there, according to the woman.

"[The TSA agent] followed me into the women's bathroom and began talking about me to a coworker while I sobbed in a stall," she wrote, asking friends on the internet for advice as to what she should do.

In a follow-up post, she said she was left crying for over an hour and said "my balls still hurt so bad," according to a screenshot from the Daily Mail.

She does not want the TSA agent to be fired, she said in a separate post, but wanted "her educated and the entirety of tsa abolished altogether."

Her testicles, so firm, so lush, so fully packed! How I love watching the gentle sway of her testicles as she walks!

SC_Reviews speculated plausibly that this trans "woman" insisted on having a female agent pat her down -- I mean, women pat down women's sensitive areas in these situations, right? -- and the TSA agent, a woman, was angry that she had been manipulated into touching a dude's dick and balls and maybe gave it an extra bit off oomph in the pat-down.

He also pointed out that this female TSA agent was black -- and blacks have not been cowed by all the white guilt bullshit that "trans women are women, right down to their hairy sweaty balls." I could see her getting angry and following the trans "woman" into the bathroom and saying something like, "I'm a married woman, and you just made me grab your dick!"

Trans "women" continue insisting that they merely have "feminine penises" and "lady balls" but this just goes to show how completely f*cking mentally ill they are. It's one thing if you want to make this part of your own private Reality Distortion Field. If you want to tell yourself this. Fine. We all deploy a cherished lie or two to get by.

But to insist with a straight face -- or even an angry, threatening face -- that others join you in declaring a dick and balls to be "female"?

That's insane. That is literally the kind of thing that insane people say. Again, the insanity isn't the coping lie you tell yourself. A lot of people have coping lies. The insanity is that the entire world believes in the idiosyncratic lie you're telling yourself, and that they're Monsters! if they don't believe in this coping lie with all the vigor and passion that you do.

College girls are suing their sorority for admitting a dude.


"I feel so glad to be in a place that I think not only shares my values, but to be in a sisterhood of awesome women that want to make history," Langford told The Branding Iron, a local publication where he is also employed as a contributor, during an interview last year. "They want to break the glass ceiling, trailblazing you know, and I certainly feel that as their first trans member, at least in the chapter in Wyoming history."

Here's the thing: He dresses and acts like a dude and also wants to "meet women." And not as "sisters."

I'll note as I get started here that Langford will be referred to as "he" throughout this post because that is how Langford is referred to in the legal complaint and how reports of this story refer to Langford. He is labeled "Terry Smith" in the legal complaint. The women are called "Jane Does." He has done nothing to transition "to create a more feminine appearance" and "has not undergone treatments." He is 21 years old, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, and weighs 260 pounds, according to the legal document. "No other member of Kappa Kappa Gamma has comparable size or strength."

Besides his physical characteristics, he has a profile on Tinder where he says he is seeking to meet women. The lawsuit claims he is "sexually interested in women."


Karen Townsend says this feels like a prank, or a stunt. People keep thinking that because this all feels so insane.

But it's real. It's always real. No matter how insane it gets, it's real. When you create a rule that there is nothing so insane or vicious that a member of a protected class will be criticized for doing, ever, you create the circumstances for behavior that is literally beyond belief.

A nasty little thread of Democrats and media scumbags justifying the trans terrorist's murders and claiming that conservatives force leftists to kill.

justifyingmurder.jpg

That tweet was in response to subhuman dirtcreature David Packman, doing his best "Where's your God now, yah?" Edward G. Robinson impression.

wheresyourgodnow.jpg

I seem to remember radical jihadists making similar "Look What You Made Us Do" claims.

60 Minutes Australia is now promoting "theybies" -- babies born to mentally deranged parents who refuse to "assign them a gender" so they can pick and choose for themselves.

Donkey-Chompers: "Cisgender and often straight men" are the ones after your kids.


Cisgender men -- I mean, normal men; "cisgender" is a slur made up by a pedophile -- aren't the ones grinding their packages in children's faces, and then demanding we all appreciate their "art," Stupid.


LibsofTikTok confronted Donkey-Chompers after delivering an ethnics complaint against her. The nasty helium-voiced troll, who affects the speech patterns and general immaturity of an underaged child to attract men (as well as schmen), ran away in fear.

A powerlifting coach in Canada declared himself to be a female to win a "Women's" bench press event.

Don't be mad at him -- he was doing it as a protest. And to deny the title to the fake "woman" -- a man, of course-- who had already forced his way into the "women's" competition.

A male powerlifting coach self-identified into the women's category and broke the Alberta women's bench press record in an apparent effort to protest gender self-identification policies in sport.

Avi Silverberg, a powerlifting coach who has worked with Team Canada, self-identified as a woman last week to participate in the women's category at the Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet held in Lethbridge, Alberta. Silverberg was attempting to highlight the unfair advantage males have when competing in women's athletics. In participating in the Saturday event, Silverberg unofficially broke the Alberta women's bench press record for the 84+ kilograms category.

The Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) announced a gender self-identification policy earlier this year, explicitly allowing any males to participate in women's competitions on the basis of "gender" alone.


JK Rowling talks about the kind of violent threats she routinely receives from trans extremists.



Posted by: Ace at 05:15 PM




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1 duh

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 05:16 PM (SYTee)

2 in the process is the punishment news, ricky vaugh is guilty.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 05:17 PM (MLrvz)

3 What happened? 41% of their members threaten to shoot themselves?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 31, 2023 05:17 PM (Bd6X8)

4 Bad people and bad ideas are everywhere. They are unavoidable.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 05:17 PM (dTFZY)

5 so, how long until SCOTUS bravely denies cert?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 05:17 PM (MLrvz)

6 the left has successfully covered up a mass shooting of children

Hitler would be overjoyed

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:18 PM (us2H3)

7 Pearl Davis has had on a woke black guy from...Canada or Britain I forget which who is now the informal female weightlifting champ of that country because he posted a video where he self identified as a woman and broke the previous record.

The left doesn't know how to handle that and so they flag it as "informally" breaking the women's record.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 05:18 PM (lc5cP)

8 the group behind Saturday's "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to
.......

lack of fabulous outfits, duct tape and makeup.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 05:19 PM (v0R5T)

9 yeah, I think we've got a cvil var btw.

I mean, we already lost. We lost a decade or so ago. Now, the left is just rounding up the first tranche of prisoners.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 05:19 PM (MLrvz)

10 What do I plan on doing for Trans-day?

Well, after it becomes fashionable for the Olympics to be required to allow other hominin species to be allowed to compete in the Olympics, and after I win all of the track-and-field events from the 100m dash to the marathon and all of the field events, I plan on doing the Helicopter dance on top of the podium just after they place the medal around my neck!

After all, I don't wear pants or shorts of any sort, so this will be easy for me to do!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 31, 2023 05:20 PM (xxG/v)

11 Trans violent protests cancelled because others decided to show up and counter-protest And they’re the victims. Sure. *makes wanking off gesture*

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 05:20 PM (MCHPY)

12 Watching Angry Black Woman and Unhinged White Androgynous Creature throw down for the Woke Olympics title match is gonna be lit.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 05:21 PM (PZvjL)

13 I can't accept them as they are.
They don't accept themselves as they are.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 05:21 PM (jTmQV)

14 Crazy, fat, ugly TikTok thing: man or woman?
Ah shit, who cares?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 05:21 PM (v0R5T)

15 I had balloons all set for the Trans-surrection day of Vengeance and now they go and cancel it?!

I'll have my own day of vengeance for that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 05:22 PM (Q4IgG)

16 by transitioning, trannies have already given up on life

anything beyond that is gravy

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:22 PM (us2H3)

17 Just when I think it can't get stupider ......

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 05:22 PM (bs+z0)

18 Considering that a lot of antifa are trans/nonbinary their day of vengeance could have been particularly ugly.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 05:23 PM (MCHPY)

19 Pearl Davis has had on a woke black guy from

Sorry, meant NON-woke - his name is Zuby. https://youtu.be/DvUM8q21EGs

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 05:23 PM (lc5cP)

20 by transitioning, trannies have already given up on life

///

just be gay, keep your tay tay

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 05:23 PM (MLrvz)

21 LibsofTikTok confronted Donkey-Chompers after delivering an ethnics complaint against her.
___

Ethnics complaint? made me chuckle

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:24 PM (fs1hN)

22 trannism is nothing more than a tat or fake tits

look at me, I'm important

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:24 PM (us2H3)

23 22 trannism is nothing more than a tat or fake tits

I think a lot of them are just gay/lesbian and don't want to admit it

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 05:25 PM (bs+z0)

24 I had balloons all set for the Trans-surrection day of Vengeance and now they go and cancel it?!

I'll have my own day of vengeance for that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 05:22 PM (Q4IgG)
.......

I made brownies.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 05:25 PM (v0R5T)

25 I'd be afraid of these people - they are willing to mutilate themselves, imagine what they would be willing to do to you!

Posted by: CtHillary, dead but dreaming at March 31, 2023 05:26 PM (zSyrn)

26
Ah, the return of the good ol' rotten "Root Cause" canard bullshit!!

But here they're using "ultimate cause" and "ultimate blame."

Ultimate you guys!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 31, 2023 05:26 PM (WH4v7)

27 SC_Reviews speculated plausibly that this trans "woman" insisted on having a female agent pat her down -- I mean, women pat down women's sensitive areas in these situations, right? -- and the TSA agent, a woman, was angry that she had been manipulated into touching a dude's dick and balls and maybe gave it an extra bit off oomph in the pat-down.

Remember the pervert in British Columbia who claimed to be a woman, and would go into body waxing places and demand that the Asian female employees wax his balls, and would sue the place for "descrimination" if they wouldn't?

Same thing.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:27 PM (2tUFv)

28 Can someone explain how trans can whine about attempt to genocide them? Do they not understand that their “care” sterilizes them, thus ending their lineage? Looking glass times.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 05:27 PM (MCHPY)

29 That poor dad, trying to explain sanity to insane people whose salary he pays in taxes.

That PhD Douche Bag needs to be fired immediately and go into stand up comedy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 05:27 PM (R/m4+)

30
Remember the "root cause" of 9/11 was US policy in the middle east, particularly Reagan's policies.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 31, 2023 05:27 PM (WH4v7)

31 I was gonna offer them free surgery

Posted by: x at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (ZBPE2)

32 Her testicles, so firm, so lush, so fully packed! How I love watching the gentle sway of her testicles as she walks!

Well, thank you, but we prefer to keep that on the down low.

Posted by: Michelle & Jacinda at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (a3Q+t)

33 Former Attorney General Bill Barr on indictment of former President Trump: "It's the archetypal abuse of the prosecutorial function to engage in a political hit job, and it’s a disgrace...Politically, it's going to be damaging I think to the Republican party..."

and this illogical buffoon was the USAG

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (us2H3)

34 “I feel so glad to be in a place that I think not only shares my values, but to be in a sisterhood of awesome women that want to make history,” Langford told The Branding Iron,

“Mr. Smith (Langford) has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit says.
____

Dude is just living his best life

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (fs1hN)

35 Anthropologist must have missed pelvis day in class.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (dTFZY)

36 If you dug up two skeletons 100 years from now the woman would be holding the sandwich knife.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 05:29 PM (v0R5T)

37 I have an affirmative action PhD

Posted by: x at March 31, 2023 05:30 PM (ZBPE2)

38 Speaking of normalizing peversion, the Seattle alt-weekly today:

Young at Heart

Adult Baby/Diaper Lovers Face Harmful Stigma in Their Quest for Comfort

Gosh, you wouldn't want any "stigma" attached to doing this, would you?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:30 PM (2tUFv)

39 35 Anthropologist must have missed pelvis day in class.
Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (dTFZY)

he did, however, see Jurrasic Park 5 times

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:30 PM (us2H3)

40 If NYC is crazy enough to indict him, they're crazy enough to convict.
DJT should stay away from the whole affair.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 05:30 PM (jTmQV)

41 Trans Day of Vengeance already!

I still have my Ukraine flags up.

Dang time flies when you are over 29.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 05:30 PM (Y9v4l)

42 Glad I have no place to go tomorrow
Teach Trannies Not to Kill Day

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:31 PM (xhxe8)

43 Beam me up Scotty. It's a planet of assholes!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 05:31 PM (fUnHJ)

44 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:27 PM (2tUFv)

*Muslim* Asian women. I still think he was trying to get one of them killed. Total psychopath.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 05:32 PM (nC+QA)

45 Fabitch sez wut?

Posted by: Nose-Ring Hutt at March 31, 2023 05:32 PM (WmGrA)

46 Standing ovation for Dad in the video! Extra points for asking "Is this for his spank bank?"

Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 05:32 PM (tQL7r)

47 Some sorority members admit they would have voted against him being admitted to the sorority if the vote was secret. It was not so they felt the pressure to vote in the affirmative.
____

The longhouse is brutal on dissenters.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:33 PM (fs1hN)

48
A nation can't be this weak and corrupt and continue to exist as a nation.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 05:33 PM (QKfZJ)

49 What if they gave a trans genocide and everybody came?

FJB

Posted by: Jbspry at March 31, 2023 05:33 PM (/h6jV)

50 I still have my Ukraine flags up.

Don't worry - you can combine them with your Pride flag.

https://tinyurl.com/2rtcx7ny

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:34 PM (2tUFv)

51 23 22

Some are merely opportunistic.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 05:34 PM (pZz43)

52 And now they've gone and cancelled it! Just because their violent incitement got a school shot up!
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And the genocide was going SO WELL up to then!

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 05:34 PM (krQz2)

53 Well, my corporate overlords have abruptly summoned me to America's wind-blasted abbatoir on the lake.

Fuck. I don't want to go there

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 05:35 PM (oINRc)

54 Our Rights DC, the group behind Saturday's "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to a "credible threat to life and safety."
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My goodness! "Credible threat to safety"!! In a genocide!!

*shuffles through papers on desk looking for shock face...*

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 05:35 PM (krQz2)

55 *Muslim* Asian women. I still think he was trying to get one of them killed. Total psychopath.

I don't think they were mostly Muslim - I think they were mostly Vietnamese.

I did wonder where their fathers, husbands, and boyfriends were - BC is a big place. Plenty of places to stash a body.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:36 PM (2tUFv)

56 Just going to point out in the movie Idiocracy there was a tv show called Ow My Balls!

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 05:36 PM (ZLI7S)

57 Can we coin the term, "Norm-phobe"?

Posted by: goatexchange at March 31, 2023 05:36 PM (APPN8)

58 Trans-identified people--the men, particularly--are profoundly mentally ill and make great foot soldiers for the Left. While leftist, childless, unmarried women proved quite violent during the Floyd riots, they generally lack the physical strength to inflict great violence and damage. The men in drag often are beasts.

These are the Left's new terrorists. While it is being memoryholed already, yesterday they stormed the Tennessee capitol in a far more violent manner than the 1/6 political prisoners did. Expect more.

Transgenderism forces people to tell obvious lies they know are obvious lies. It is brilliant as a control mechanism in this regard. But to provide muscle to kill, maim and burn, it will prove to be unsurpassed. And, obviously, when these psychopaths start to be slaughtered, their handlers will lose nothing since replacements are being groomed in most elementary and high schools. Society already has collapsed. They will do the mopping up.

If this had been presented as fiction even 15 years ago it would have been too over the top to be successful.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 05:36 PM (KSNKu)

59 A nation can't be this weak and corrupt and continue to exist as a nation.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 05:33 PM (QKfZJ)
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Um. That's the idea.

Posted by: The Democrat Party at March 31, 2023 05:36 PM (krQz2)

60 What also happened is that they saw that participation in this pervert creepshow was going to be embarrassingly low. The US Supreme Court is on huge grounds. You need a whole lot of people to make any protest there look like anyone gives a shit. A few dozen mentally ill perverts and weirdos ain’t gonna cut it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 05:37 PM (k5hzv)

61 Serious tornado outbreak occurring now. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee. Watches out for Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and on and on.

Take care. Watch the weather. It can be deadly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 05:38 PM (Q4IgG)

62 "Root Cause" was an 80s buzz word. Back then it was used to explain or excuse black dysfunction.

Now black dysfunction is pretty much ignored. Noone speaks about the violence in hood but its still going on.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 05:38 PM (K/Q8b)

63 I'm glad that the left has established the Trump indictment precedent, as that means we can go after Obama and Holder for Fast and Furious. Since that resulted in the death of a federal agent, their conspiracy to oppress gun rights is a death penalty case for everyone in the DOJ and ATF management who was involved. This is the thing that terrifies Obama. Proof? They were so worried, that they gave us a fall guy in Assistant AG Lanny Breuer to take the rap for them.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 31, 2023 05:39 PM (CecP5)

64 39 35 Anthropologist must have missed pelvis day in class.
Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (dTFZY)

he did, however, see Jurrasic Park 5 times
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:30 PM (us2H3)

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Ya never know, there might be frog DNA lurking in their genes.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 31, 2023 05:39 PM (uPgE/)

65 "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
-Obama, foretelling of his army of eunuchs

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:39 PM (fs1hN)

66 My goodness! "Credible threat to safety"!! In a genocide!!

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If they REALLY wanted to make their point they would have had it anyway and HOPED for violence against them.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 05:39 PM (Y9v4l)

67 Issa said that he has no problem releasing the names on the Congressional Hush Money fund that resolves problems for its members. Both parties are on his list.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (DMyTF)

68 First customers of the day present an interesting dilemma.

Older man (50s), hot early 30-something blonde wife enter the lounge. She decides she'll select dinner.

Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (SWu1m)

69 I’ll type it again. The sidebar pitch meeting is TIGHT!

Posted by: Holy Crap at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (i0Gj1)

70 Kristallnacht is off everyone. Threats and such.

Posted by: Adolf Schicklegruber at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (KFhLj)

71 68 First customers of the day present an interesting dilemma.

Older man (50s), hot early 30-something blonde wife enter the lounge. She decides she'll select dinner.

Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (SWu1m)

Pass.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (eYoxG)

72 I live in a small city in SC.

There will be no Day of Vengeance here.

One day, I hope not soon, I will carry in my car.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (5u1+1)

73 It was a perfectly nice genocide until Republicans had to ruin it by their pouncing.

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (krQz2)

74 I don't feel safe.

Posted by: Adolf Schicklegruber at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (KFhLj)

75 A #rigged poll by state media NPR and PBS claims that most Americans oppose "restricting drag shows or performances."

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Do. Not. Believe.

If the sicko drag shows are to entertain adults, yeah sure, knock yourself out. But for children? I don't believe anyone, outside of Woke-Affirming-Credential-Seeking Wine Moms, thinks children should be exposed to that filth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (sVtYq)

76 I'm glad that the left has established the Trump indictment precedent, as that means we can go after Obama and Holder for Fast and Furious.

Yes and no. FF would be mostly federal charges.

But...this is a Manhatten DA. So, did Obama break any laws in Podunk Iowa? Book'em.

Though the most obvious candidates are Bill and Hill Clinton who committed numerous felonies. Of course the Arkansas AG and DAs could have arrested them at any point over the last 20 years and have refused to do so...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (lc5cP)

77 I don't think they were mostly Muslim - I think they were mostly Vietnamese.

I did wonder where their fathers, husbands, and boyfriends were - BC is a big place. Plenty of places to stash a body.


Ones they had pictures of were hijabis. Anyone in a hijab is in serious danger from their family for touching a male stranger.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (nC+QA)

78 57 Can we coin the term, "Norm-phobe"?
Posted by: goatexchange

I like it

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (fUnHJ)

79 I read years ago that it is pretty easy to tell the difference between male and female looking at the skeletal remains. What is more difficult is determining the race.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 31, 2023 05:42 PM (ySZtE)

80 Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?

Well, isn't the point of a trophy wife for her to make YOU happy?

But then again he married her and kept her here in the US so that's his first mistake.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 05:42 PM (lc5cP)

81 Issa said that he has no problem releasing the names on the Congressional Hush Money fund that resolves problems for its members. Both parties are on his list.

Posted by: Maj. Healey


Then do it. Today.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 05:42 PM (lTGtQ)

82 Transgenderism forces people to tell obvious lies they know are obvious lies. It is brilliant as a control mechanism in this regard. But to provide muscle to kill, maim and burn, it will prove to be unsurpassed.

As Kyle Rittenhouse proved the left's thugs don't do well against people who defend themselves.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 31, 2023 05:42 PM (CecP5)

83 57 Can we coin the term, "Norm-phobe"?
Posted by: goatexchange

I like it
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (fUnHJ)

Seconded!

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 05:42 PM (eDPLA)

84 60 What also happened is that they saw that participation in this pervert creepshow was going to be embarrassingly low. The US Supreme Court is on huge grounds. You need a whole lot of people to make any protest there look like anyone gives a shit. A few dozen mentally ill perverts and weirdos ain’t gonna cut it.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 05:37 PM (k5hzv)

Justice Neil Gorsuch, conservative Republican appointed by Trump:

“In Title VII, Congress adopted broad language making it illegal for an employer to rely on an employee’s sex when deciding to fire that employee,” Justice Gorsuch wrote for the majority. “We do not hesitate to recognize today a necessary consequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.”

Your conservative Republican justice, ladies and gentlemen. I hope he likes the taste of karma.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 05:43 PM (KSNKu)

85 That powerlifting coach should identify as weighing less and break some records in a couple different weight classes while he's at it.

Posted by: ARLDN at March 31, 2023 05:43 PM (cDm+R)

86 Here's a guy in downtown Portland who whacked a random person with a golf club in front of a coffee shop at 8:30 AM, knocking him out, got a cup of hot coffee from the coffee shop and threw it on his victim, and then kicked his victim for good measure.

The perpetrator then just strolled off, and hasn't been caught yet.

The population of Portland's county has declined by three percent over the last two years - the collapse of public order has a lot to do with that.

https://tinyurl.com/289r8phy

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:43 PM (2tUFv)

87 Been knocked offline so many times I just turned the PC off

Posted by: DB has gone mobile at March 31, 2023 05:43 PM (K75sl)

88 A trans "woman" complains that a TSA agent struck her in "her testicles."


______________________________

Impossible

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 31, 2023 05:44 PM (NtVYv)

89 Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger


I'd pass her a baguette with my attached dick in it. If I could find a baguette long enough.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 05:44 PM (DMyTF)

90 Though the most obvious candidates are Bill and Hill Clinton who committed numerous felonies. Of course the Arkansas AG and DAs could have arrested them at any point over the last 20 years and have refused to do so...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 05:41 PM (lc5cP)
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No one is above the law.

Posted by: Nazi Pelosi at March 31, 2023 05:45 PM (krQz2)

91 A nation can't be this weak and corrupt and continue to exist as a nation.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 05:33 PM (QKfZJ)

We are and will probably go a long time. The stored wealth will take a long time to sputter out.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 05:45 PM (K/Q8b)

92 A trans "woman" complains that a TSA agent struck her in "her testicles."
______________________________

Impossible
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 31, 2023 05:44 PM (NtVYv)
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Serves that luggage stealer right.

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 05:45 PM (krQz2)

93 Good evening, horde. Happy Friday, to those of us for whom it matters!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 31, 2023 05:45 PM (OX9vb)

94 I identify as unemployed and will no longer be paying taxes.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 05:46 PM (fblP5)

95 I can think of four other presidents who need to be arrested as well.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 05:46 PM (lTGtQ)

96 79 I read years ago that it is pretty easy to tell the difference between male and female looking at the skeletal remains.
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That information is politically incorrect, citizen.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:46 PM (fs1hN)

97 My lefty cow-orkers are reporting a bunch of rumors flying around about possible "issues".... it occurs to me that our homegrown Stasi is probably trying to stir shit.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 05:46 PM (llON8)

98 I went to the local suburban makeup store today and a bunch of alarms were ringing. Apparently some people had just walked in and grabbed a lot of high end perfumes.

Cop didn't show up until at least 30 min later, maybe more.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 05:47 PM (fUnHJ)

99 I can't do this on a phone. I'll be back.

Posted by: DB has gone mobile at March 31, 2023 05:47 PM (K75sl)

100 Also, I sometimes identify as a billionaire and you must cash this check for 100 million dollars..

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 05:47 PM (fblP5)

101 And now they've gone and cancelled it! Just because their violent incitement got a school shot up!

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During Trans Genocide Vengeance Month?

REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (2dJpy)

102 68 First customers of the day present an interesting dilemma.

Older man (50s), hot early 30-something blonde wife enter the lounge. She decides she'll select dinner.

Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 05:40 PM (SWu1m)

No...fuq no...

Posted by: zombie Anthony Bourdain at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (CCSxw)

103 We are and will probably go a long time. The stored wealth will take a long time to sputter out.
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It'll sputter out faster than we'd hoped, but we're working on it as fast as we can stuff our offshore bank accounts.
- Your Representatives, Public Servants, CEOs, NGOs etc.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (fs1hN)

104 The indictment dropped because it knocked off the Sunday shows the trans shooter.

TransVengence day dropped because people are scared.


Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (NW9xb)

105 Transgenderism forces people to tell obvious lies they know are obvious lies.

Václav Havel noted that the Communist government of Czechoslovakia regularly would assemble public meetings, where everyone present would have to publicly assert things that everyone knew to be complete lies.

Forced public humiliation is a very effective control mechanism.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (2tUFv)

106 /off dead junkie chef sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 31, 2023 05:49 PM (CCSxw)

107 Cisgender men -- I mean, normal men; "cisgender" is a slur made up by a pedophile -- aren't the ones grinding their packages in children's faces, and then demanding we all appreciate their "art," Stupid.
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Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Zombie President Lyndon Baines Johnson at March 31, 2023 05:49 PM (krQz2)

108 That powerlifter is one gorgeous lady. And that luxuriant beard! What a woman!

Posted by: Hubba-Hubba-What-a-Gal! at March 31, 2023 05:49 PM (VsUo2)

109 I wish more of these freaks identified as mute.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 05:49 PM (fblP5)

110 Look at California probably loosing weather by giving it away, they need to start giving to former slaves billions to get to the bottom of the barrel faster.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:49 PM (xhxe8)

111 "What is more difficult is determining the race."

Holy shitballs.

I was just watching a documentary of the Nazis trying to find a way to use skeletal remains to identify race.

The Allies interrupted their studies.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 05:49 PM (5u1+1)

112 >>> 53 Well, my corporate overlords have abruptly summoned me to America's wind-blasted abbatoir on the lake.

Fuck. I don't want to go there
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 05:35 PM (oINRc)

Chicaaahgo?

Try to avoid groot...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 05:50 PM (llON8)

113 I'm wondering if the TSA woman has a complaint for sexual assault against the tranny. After all, he knew she was going to get a nasty surprise when patting him down. Goid chance thinking of it gave him a thrill. Probably didn't expect the reality to be painful, but that's on him.

I wonder also if TSA woman even knew he was in the restroom, he was in a stall after all, when she was telling a co-worker about it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 05:50 PM (nC+QA)

114 The weight lifter that was protesting that the pretend woman (trannie) denied him the title and embarassed him. He beat the trannie by over 100 pounds. (375 bench I think, the puffy trannie lifted ? maybe 230 or so)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 05:50 PM (Cus5s)

115 I feel so sad that the TSA rapped that poor lady's balls.

Posted by: Banana Nut Muffin at March 31, 2023 05:51 PM (VsUo2)

116 Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

I would not have any trophy wife who would have me.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 31, 2023 05:51 PM (KAi1n)

117 Well, my corporate overlords have abruptly summoned me to America's wind-blasted abbatoir on the lake.

Fuck. I don't want to go there
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 05:35 PM (oINRc)

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Pro-tip: Serpentine! Serpentine!

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 05:51 PM (krQz2)

118 As a Moron noted, when you find yourself defending THE MURDER OF CHILDREN, a sane person would question their position.

Democrats are not sane.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 05:51 PM (yQpMk)

119 A trans "woman" complains that a TSA agent struck her in "her testicles."

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Toxic femininity.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 05:51 PM (2dJpy)

120 I hope Ari Silverberg, the real man who took away the Canadian women's weight-lifting title from the man-pretending-to-be-a-woman, took the necessary next step. Please tell me he handed the trophy to the 3rd-place weight-lifter, the best actual woman in the competition, and loudly proclaimed that she was the actual winner. And then used physical force, if necessary, to make sure no one else (2nd-place tranny or judge/official) tried to take it from her.

I'm sure the 1st-place woman would have been glad to pass her 3rd-place trophy to the 3rd-best woman (who officially came in 5th). However, getting the 2nd-place trophy from tranny-man to give to the official 4th-place lifter, the actual 2nd-best woman, would probably have taken some 'convincing'.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 31, 2023 05:51 PM (SqPcY)

121 Trannies Trump and a Pitch Clock

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 05:52 PM (Irn0L)

122 Everybody knows the truth. What would trannies think if they knew that most people despise them for forcing this charade, and their most fervent supporters are terrified of being canceled?

XX=female
XY=male

And the few intersex people who exist have my sympathy.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 05:52 PM (Mzdiz)

123 Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

and by older you simply mean older than her, right? Add some roasted sweet potato and garbanzo beans, I eat like this all the time. Poor J doesn’t even get a 30 something out of the deal.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 05:52 PM (pZz43)

124 How about you identify as a tree and get the f’k outta here.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 05:52 PM (fblP5)

125 Chicaaahgo?

Try to avoid groot...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

"Avoid groot" had me perplexed at first. I mistook the "mayor" for an STD. Yikes

Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (tQL7r)

126 I don't despise trannies....Oh wait yes I do
Never mind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (Irn0L)

127 56 Just going to point out in the movie Idiocracy there was a tv show called Ow My Balls!
Posted by: JackStraw

was at a Taco Bell knockoff yesterday. young white couple ordered separately. she was 300 lbs plus and got $55 of food. he was wearing unbelievably filthy Coors Light pajama bottoms complete with shit stains leaking through. it's here now.

Posted by: x at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (ZBPE2)

128 I can think of four other presidents who need to be arrested as well.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 05:46 PM (lTGtQ)

Carter, Clinton, Bush2, Obama. Arrest them all.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (K/Q8b)

129 They went on to suggest that the threat was "the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community after the Tennessee shooting."

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I thought they only used this line to protect the Muslims against the backlash that never fucking happens.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (h1jJh)

130 113 I'm wondering if the TSA woman has a complaint for sexual assault against the tranny. After all, he knew she was going to get a nasty surprise when patting him down. Goid chance thinking of it gave him a thrill. Probably didn't expect the reality to be painful, but that's on him.

I wonder also if TSA woman even knew he was in the restroom, he was in a stall after all, when she was telling a co-worker about it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 05:50 PM (nC+QA)

++++

I am so sick and tired of these people. Has anyone else made this comment today?

Posted by: washrivergal at March 31, 2023 05:54 PM (ySZtE)

131 I was disappointed in the behavior of men when Rotherham was exposed, and the English men did nothing. However, now I get to even be more disappointed as parents sacrifice their own children on the alter of virtue signalling.

Posted by: DFCtomm at March 31, 2023 05:54 PM (vDj4Y)

132 America's wind-blasted abbatoir on the lake.

Chicago, that great butcher of the world.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (5u1+1)

133 127 56 Just going to point out in the movie Idiocracy there was a tv show called Ow My Balls!
Posted by: JackStraw

was at a Taco Bell knockoff yesterday. young white couple ordered separately. she was 300 lbs plus and got $55 of food. he was wearing unbelievably filthy Coors Light pajama bottoms complete with shit stains leaking through. it's here now.
Posted by: x at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (ZBPE2)

How do fat people afford being that fat?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (eYoxG)

134 What are your plans for the Trans Day of Vengeance? Anything special?



I'm gonna watch a marathon of I Am Jazz on The Learning Channel.

Jazz's beer gut is sexy as hell.

https://tinyurl.com/3nbskyx9

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (SWu1m)

135 Did you see thst the Biden junta got their conviction against Douglass Mackey for making anti Hillary memes?

Posted by: Liberty at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (Z/D/n)

136 A monster tornado has ripped apart Arkansas capital Little Rock, just a week after more than two dozen deadly twisters tore through Mississippi and parts of Alabama killing at least 26.

Footage of the ferocious weather system was filmed from the 7th floor of the Little Rock Baptist Medical Center. The person filming could be heard gasping at the massive swirling twister.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Major damage reported in Little Rock, Arkansas, tornado
https://tinyurl.com/3w8fb3c8

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (Vwz3I)

137 Former Arkansas governor and world-renowned intellectual Asa Hutchinson calls on Trump to "step aside" after his indictment.

https://tinyurl.com/3vxdthsx

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (sWM8x)

138 There are no men in Rotherham. Only Karens, Jamilas, and men without chests.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 05:56 PM (5u1+1)

139 Coming to Broadway soon: "Tranny Get Your Gun," a captivating musical based on the life of sharpshooter Trannie Oakley.

Posted by: This is my weapon, this is my gun at March 31, 2023 05:56 PM (VsUo2)

140 63 I'm glad that the left has established the Trump indictment precedent, as that means we can go after Obama and Holder for Fast and Furious. Since that resulted in the death of a federal agent, their conspiracy to oppress gun rights is a death penalty case for everyone in the DOJ and ATF management who was involved. This is the thing that terrifies Obama. Proof? They were so worried, that they gave us a fall guy in Assistant AG Lanny Breuer to take the rap for them.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 31, 2023 05:39 PM (CecP5)


********

I'd love to see this happen, though the death penalty would be too good for them. Ship them to Mexico to stand trial after they've been tried in the US (unless this violates double jeopardy) and let them spend the rest of their lives in a Mexican prison.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (xxG/v)

141 I would love to know who gives the stand down orders to the Left Brownshirts.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (PCK5/)

142 137 Former Arkansas governor and world-renowned intellectual Asa Hutchinson calls on Trump to "step aside" after his indictment.
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Does Asa realize this outs him as a worthless POS? Sadly, no.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (fs1hN)

143 Old Clinton toady says "step aside."

The Walton clan have spoken.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (5u1+1)

144 Saw an interesting observation yesterday in the Twitter thread about the fat dude getting erect while he watched the other girls in his sorority undress.

You know the creepy guys in high school and college that no one wanted to be around? They went into IT or some other basement dwelling field?

Those guys are the ones who figured out how to have ultimate power. They're the ones dressing as women and demanding respect and sex.

The kid part makes a lot of sense, too.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (kj5Hc)

145 Would you eat a quinoa, brown rice, baby arugula and kale salad bowl for supper just to keep your trophy wife happy?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Eat a salad ordered by trophy wife? Gotta see where on the 1 to 10 scale she falls before I can answer the question...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (oK3pW)

146 Each iteration it gets worse.
Every school shooting evokes a hair-on-fire response from the Left - the media, social media, memes, news reporting, academic papers, ....

And each iteration gets more obvious, more hysterical, and more demanding.
Now they seem to be inciting the violence they react to. How is the "trans day of vengeance" any different that Fast and Furious?

What will they do next iteration?

(Oh yeah, I saw that the FIBs came out and said the LV shooter was mad at the casinos. That is why he did it. This is an obvious lie.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (GtQnE)

147 I have to watch my phone like a Hawk
Type, read, post

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (xhxe8)

148 I don't despise trannies....Oh wait yes I do
Never mind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (Irn0L

Trannies usually don't get there on their own. Adults are almost always involved. Despise them.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 05:57 PM (qP50E)

149 Former Arkansas governor and world-renowned intellectual Asa Hutchinson calls on Trump to "step aside" after his indictment.

F. U.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 05:58 PM (2tUFv)

150 How do fat people afford being that fat?

TrigglyP: It's a gland issue! I get full SSDI. Hater.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 05:58 PM (DMyTF)

151 >>> 136 A monster tornado has ripped apart Arkansas capital Little Rock, just a week after more than two dozen deadly twisters tore through Mississippi and parts of Alabama killing at least 26.

Footage of the ferocious weather system was filmed from the 7th floor of the Little Rock Baptist Medical Center. The person filming could be heard gasping at the massive swirling twister.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Major damage reported in Little Rock, Arkansas, tornado
https://tinyurl.com/3w8fb3c8
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 05:55 PM (Vwz3I)

"It's interesting when people die..." seems like the presstitutes are *hoping* for more fatalities.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 05:58 PM (llON8)

152 I would love to know who gives the stand down orders to the Left Brownshirts.

You and me and Bobby McGee.

The Brownshirts are only an issue in Blue cities. If you live in a Blue city, why?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 05:59 PM (5u1+1)

153 Oh yeah, I saw that the FIBs came out and said the LV shooter was mad at the casinos. That is why he did it. This is an obvious lie.)

-

Did you read his manifesto? Huh? Did you? Did you? No? Well the FBI did.

Casinos dammit!

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 05:59 PM (kj5Hc)

154 as I have opined before

I played full court BB against Nancy Lieberman in the 80's

she even made a feeble attempt at guarding me. I could run faster backward than she could forward

I was in my mid 30's and I woulda easily been the greatest woman BB player in the world at that time

she did kinda stink tho

and not in a good way

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:59 PM (us2H3)

155 How do fat people afford being that fat?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

a gofundme page...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 05:59 PM (oK3pW)

156 "Avoid groot" had me perplexed at first. I mistook the "mayor" for an STD. Yikes
Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 05:53 PM (tQL7r)


She kinda does look like the worst case photo of an STD you see in a textbook.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 31, 2023 05:59 PM (t4BDZ)

157 There is nothing that says femininity like a prim schlong.

Posted by: Madam Professor Frankenschlong at March 31, 2023 06:00 PM (VsUo2)

158 The Tranny with Trans Dresser is a great show.

I love her...umm....his...err....their laugh?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 06:00 PM (SWu1m)

159 "It's interesting when people die..." seems like the presstitutes are *hoping* for more fatalities.

It's their fault for voting for Republicans.

Posted by: The Media! at March 31, 2023 06:00 PM (2tUFv)

160 I can think of four other presidents who need to be arrested as well.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 05:46 PM (lTGtQ)

Carter, Clinton, Bush2, Obama. Arrest them all.
Posted by: JmT

Didn't I read once that congress has a slush fund for paying off harassment claims? How is that better than private money?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:00 PM (GtQnE)

161 I don't know what happened to this country, but eventually someone is going to beat the shite out of these groomers.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:01 PM (VWp7G)

162 And here I still have my Black History Month decorations up.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 31, 2023 06:01 PM (H4JoC)

163 >>"Our Rights DC, the group behind Saturday's "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to a "credible threat to life and safety."
The event, which was originally scheduled for the "Transgender Day of Visibility," as designated by President Joe Biden"

This is like some Douglas Adams fiction or some shit, right?

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 06:01 PM (iKBwy)

164 Maybe the gal with the balls should have put them in xer luggage or something.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 06:01 PM (dTFZY)

165 149 Former Arkansas governor and world-renowned intellectual Asa Hutchinson calls on Trump to "step aside" after his indictment.


now, what say you Ronster ??

either you are with this crowd or agin em

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 06:01 PM (us2H3)

166 "And here I still have my Black History Month decorations up."

You're only a couple of months from Gay Pride month.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2023 06:02 PM (gLRfa)

167 Didn't I read once that congress has a slush fund for paying off harassment claims? How is that better than private money?
Posted by: Gentlemen

They are paying off with *OUR* money taken in taxes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 06:03 PM (oK3pW)

168 Does no one remember that panty-bomb guy?

If someone goes through security with a mass where none ought to be, they're going to get a pat down. If you're a "woman" and you don't immediately say (and it doesn't have to be loud) that you've got a penis and balls, no one is going to know to check that fact gently. But they ARE going to check!

Because of the panty-bomb guy.

Posted by: Synova at March 31, 2023 06:03 PM (BD/yx)

169 So now that Mackey has been convicted for his meme, can we expect "comedian" Kristina Wong to be convicted for tweeting the exact same misleading "vote by text message" information to Trump voters?

https://bit.ly/3ZBWqhk

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 06:03 PM (j2Xg6)

170 >>> 160
==
Didn't I read once that congress has a slush fund for paying off harassment claims? How is that better than private money?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:00 PM (GtQnE)

"Government is just a word for things we do together!" - Dims and GOPe, holding hands

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 06:03 PM (llON8)

171 150 How do fat people afford being that fat?

food stamps and moving as little as possible

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 06:03 PM (us2H3)

172 So, here's a funny story. Took my then girlfriend to Black's Beach.

I kept getting an erection.

Never went back.

Married her. Love her all my life.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:04 PM (5u1+1)

173 >>167 Didn't I read once that congress has a slush fund for paying off harassment claims? How is that better than private money?
Posted by: Gentlemen


See #67

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:04 PM (DMyTF)

174 ...and yes, it's a real thing, which will likley become illegal to mention if the critters pass their shiny new law.


They can go fck themselves jointly and separately.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 06:04 PM (llON8)

175 People like David Pakman give us Jews a bad name, intolerant ignorant scumbag

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:04 PM (Zzbjj)

176 >>>Former Arkansas governor and world-renowned intellectual Asa Hutchinson calls on Trump to "step aside" after his indictment.

now, what say you Ronster ??

either you are with this crowd or agin em
Posted by: REDACTED


If nothing else, the indictment shows who these politicians are.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:04 PM (VWp7G)

177 How do fat people afford being that fat?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

And don't forget all the extra toilet paper

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 06:05 PM (Irn0L)

178 Didn't I read once that congress has a slush fund for paying off harassment claims? How is that better than private money?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:00 PM (GtQnE)

Supposedly been stopped after the scandal. Now ndas and private payouts probably.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:05 PM (qP50E)

179 Anthropologists should be routinely laughed at. They were woke at least 30 years ago. And they've always been full of shit. Anthropology may be the king of fake disciplines that put on scientific airs and make claims far beyond the meager evidence at their disposal. They make psychologists look like physicists.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 06:05 PM (KFhLj)

180 Trans Day of Vengeance?

I always thought it was an April Fools Day joke.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:05 PM (5u1+1)

181 If someone goes through security with a mass where none ought to be, they're going to get a pat down.
Posted by: Synova a

On another site a former TSA person said the S/W looks for such a mass and it distinguishes male from female. If a "female" has a mass there, the agent has to give the female search which involved hand on inner leg starting at knee and raised until it hits resistance.
(Ow! my balls!)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:06 PM (GtQnE)

182 TransVengence day dropped because people are scared.


Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (NW9xb)

Not good enough. I want them terrified.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 06:06 PM (BdMk6)

183 I hope we don't get a tornado. I hate tornados.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 06:06 PM (wagHN)

184 >>>"Our Rights DC, the group behind Saturday's "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest outside the Supreme Court, has announced that the event has been cancelled due to a "credible threat to life and safety."


Get over yourselves. Literally no one cares about you or your protests. You're nothing. You're pocket lint.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:06 PM (VWp7G)

185 now, what say you Ronster ??

either you are with this crowd or agin em
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 06:01 PM (us2H3)
---
DeSantis has clearly stated that he views the indictment as politically motivated.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2023 06:06 PM (sWM8x)

186 "And don't forget all the extra toilet paper"

Ewww. Thanks for that mental image.

Posted by: Tuna at March 31, 2023 06:06 PM (gLRfa)

187 “Are you a good witch or a bad witch with a boner?” --Glinda

Posted by: Ding-Dong the Witch Is Hung at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (VsUo2)

188 yeah, major tornado outbreak across the Midwest. I was in a warning, one was on the ground but a lit SE of me. Still a bunch going on.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (Cus5s)

189 The Right, unlike the Left, excels in fragging themselves.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (PCK5/)

190 They make sociologists look like psychologists.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (5u1+1)

191 That dad ripping the school board is from Eugene Oregon. A lot of you (myself included) rip Oregon for having taken liberalism to the extreme. But if you talk to an Oregonian on the street, they will seem more like this guy than the caricature that you have of Oregonians. I am certain that Oregon is a purple state but voter fraud keeps it one of the most solid blue states in the country.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (h1jJh)

192 56 Just going to point out in the movie Idiocracy there was a tv show called Ow My Balls!
Posted by: JackStraw

There were no male athletes competing against women, as I recall. IDIOCRACY was a best-case scenario.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (KSNKu)

193 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (DMyTF)

194 183 I hope we don't get a tornado. I hate tornados.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer


I hope you don’t either! Prayers no one is hurt.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (pZz43)

195 193 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (DMyTF)

Withdrawn into his shell…

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:09 PM (PCK5/)

196 193 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (DMyTF)


Last time Mitch was seen was under Fetterman's sheet ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 06:09 PM (us2H3)

197 I am certain that Oregon is a purple state but voter fraud keeps it one of the most solid blue states in the country.

I find this somewhat encouraging. Eugene is a college town that is infested with Marxists.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:09 PM (DMyTF)

198 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium

He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Bones at March 31, 2023 06:10 PM (v0R5T)

199
Interesting... in order to spell the word 'braggart' it requires you spell the last name of a Manhattan persecutor who hopefully lives 25 feet underground and has not wife or children and a vast storage of seaman on ice.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:10 PM (enJYY)

200 >>>He's dead, Jim.
Posted by: Bones


They'd still prop him up in the Senate like Weekend at Bernie's.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:11 PM (VWp7G)

201 195 193 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (DMyTF)

Withdrawn into his shell…
Posted by: tubal a


Someone mentioned the other day they had heard he had a stroke after his concussion.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:11 PM (DMyTF)

202 Oh yeah, I saw that the FIBs came out and said the LV shooter was mad at the casinos. That is why he did it. This is an obvious lie.

It's so pathetic. If that had been the reason, they would have been able to say so within days. But for six years they've been saying it was a mystery and sometimes people do things for no reason at all.

NOW all of a sudden they have this info?

My guess is some new supervisor came in and took a look at some documents. They found one where an agent suggested the motive might have been the shooter being mad for losing money, but the theory had little support. The supervisor decided to put the info out anyway because he didn't like having ownership of such a high profile case that isn't neatly wrapped up.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 06:11 PM (j2Xg6)

203
168 Does no one remember that panty-bomb guy?

If someone goes through security with a mass where none ought to be, they're going to get a pat down. If you're a "woman" and you don't immediately say (and it doesn't have to be loud) that you've got a penis and balls, no one is going to know to check that fact gently. But they ARE going to check!

Because of the panty-bomb guy.
Posted by: Synova at March 31, 2023 06:03 PM (BD/yx)

------

I get some comfort from knowing that the little high explosive pack in his crotch burned like a flare instead of detonating, and burned off his junk.

Of course, there are other suicidal lunatics who remove their genitals on purpose instead of by accident.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 06:11 PM (EoOkw)

204 I don't think Mitch will get a big funeral like McCain.
I wonder if he knows that.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:12 PM (v0R5T)

205 I am certain that Oregon is a purple state but voter fraud keeps it one of the most solid blue states in the country.

Almost invariably, in any controversial election, Portland's county votes one way, and the rest of Oregon votes the other way, but since Portland votes at North Korean levels for the "progressive" candidate or issue, Portland wins.

It's been more than a quarter-century since the Oregon Democratic gubernatorial candidate had a majority of the vote outside of Portland's county.

No matter - they all still won anyway, thanks to Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 06:12 PM (2tUFv)

206 Anthropologists should be routinely laughed at. They were woke at least 30 years ago. And they've always been full of shit. Anthropology may be the king of fake disciplines that put on scientific airs and make claims far beyond the meager evidence at their disposal. They make psychologists look like physicists.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 06:05 PM (KFhLj)

My favorite anthropologist story happened in a college where the anthro professor was demonstrating the use of an atlatl. He used one of those wooden blackboard pointers with the rubber tip as the spear. He accidentally launched it and flew out the 3rd story building and stuck in the grass next to some students playing hacky sack.

We all rushed to the windows and look down. The professor cleared his throat and ended the class for the day.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 31, 2023 06:12 PM (H4JoC)

207 >>> 201 195 193 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (DMyTF)

Withdrawn into his shell…
Posted by: tubal a

Someone mentioned the other day they had heard he had a stroke after his concussion.
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:11 PM (DMyTF)

Oh no!!!



Anyway...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 31, 2023 06:12 PM (llON8)

208 hope we don't get a tornado. I hate tornados.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer


I hope you don’t either! Prayers no one is hurt.
Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 06:08 PM (pZz43)

I wish I would have chased that system. My forecasting is getting pretty good. April and May are coming though. There will be more storms.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 06:12 PM (BdMk6)

209 Anthropology may be the king of fake disciplines that put on scientific airs and make claims far beyond the meager evidence at their disposal. They make psychologists look like physicists.
Posted by: bear

Hold my beer.
~Economist

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 06:13 PM (oK3pW)

210 So t has come to this.

We can not tell sex from a skeleton, but
We can tell the weather 50 years from now.
Science!

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:13 PM (GtQnE)

211 > if you talk to an Oregonian on the street, they will seem more like this guy than the caricature that you have of Oregonians.

There may be a significant plurality, or even a majority of normal Oregonians. But that doesn't make the common view of Oregonians a caricature. Y'all have a ton of extreme nutbags.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 06:13 PM (j2Xg6)

212 The supervisor decided to put the info out anyway because he didn't like having ownership of such a high profile case that isn't neatly wrapped up.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 06:11 PM (j2Xg6)

They just wanted to see if Americans were gullible. The answer was yes. And I don't believe in the Nashville RV guy was pissed at 5G either, the feds blew him up to blow up some servers. We're not the "good guys" anymore.

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:14 PM (Zzbjj)

213 >>>Oh no!!!



Anyway...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket


That's a terrible thing to say!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:14 PM (VWp7G)

214 For the Tranny holiday my city is apparently dedicating a house next to me where some pioneering Tranny of the 80s lived....we know his family for decades and it's interesting how in the celebration they're leaving out how he was a heroine addict prostitute, who got aids, and was killed by one of his johns.... you know a lovely story to dedicate a building over.

I'm off course at work, and shudder to think what I'll return to when i look back at my security cameras footage of today.

Posted by: Rbastid at March 31, 2023 06:14 PM (K+KQZ)

215 Ghey cowards.

Posted by: setnaffa at March 31, 2023 06:14 PM (BdSXF)

216 That last clip is why I pulled my kids out of public school. But if I had been that girl’s parent, I’d collect that teacher’s gonads.

Posted by: SMFH at March 31, 2023 06:15 PM (L7Tc9)

217 If you get a tornado make sure you tie the cows to a tree.
They NEVER blow away.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:15 PM (v0R5T)

218 It's so pathetic. If that had been the reason, they would have been able to say so within days. But for six years they've been saying it was a mystery and sometimes people do things for no reason at all.

Posted by: bonhomme

If that had been the reason, why was he scouting other sites in other cities?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:15 PM (GtQnE)

219 I mentioned a while back that I posted a tweet questioning the veracity of the Nashville RV story. I had close to 400 views in about 10 minutes. They got away with that, too

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (Zzbjj)

220 I saw an anti-DeSantis TV ad on Fox News.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

221 They can’t determine sex from a skeleton that died thousands of years ago because they are afraid of offending people that can’t determine their own sex now

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (fblP5)

222 For two days this week I was in the presence of a girl who is pretending to be a boy. We all have known her since she was born. She is mid twenties now. It is all make believe, like a little girl pretending to be a princess (maybe in her case a prince). Her aunts and grandmother pretend along with her, for the most part, because she is family and they love her.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (AmoqO)

223 Douglas Mackey found guilty of memeing. Faces 10 years.

The hits keep coming.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (iKBwy)

224 saw an anti-DeSantis TV ad on Fox News.

==•

😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (eDPLA)

225 > Anthropologists should be routinely laughed at. They were woke at least 30 years ago. And they've always been full of shit.

Remember when Anthropologists started pretending they could tell what a person looked like based on their skull? And the "methodology" was to add a couple dozen eraser tips of varying heights to the skull and filling in the holes with clay?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 06:17 PM (j2Xg6)

226 > Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
_____________

Sushi joint with a payoff window. Connecticut avenue and 12th Street NW. Nice neighborhood. He had a cane. And a large armed security presence.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 06:17 PM (Q4IgG)

227 I saw an anti-DeSantis TV ad on Fox News.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (63Dwl)
........

In between Relaxium and Balance of Nature?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:17 PM (v0R5T)

228 220 I saw an anti-DeSantis TV ad on Fox News.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

They gave him a huge "book deal", they're invested in this man. Which makes me very suspicious.

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:17 PM (Zzbjj)

229 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium

--------

Chairman Xi is having numerous livers harvested as we speak from live Uyghur slaves for a transplant match.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 06:17 PM (oVv4i)

230 wait...ANTI????

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:18 PM (Zzbjj)

231 222 For two days this week I was in the presence of a girl who is pretending to be a boy. We all have known her since she was born. She is mid twenties now. It is all make believe, like a little girl pretending to be a princess (maybe in her case a prince). Her aunts and grandmother pretend along with her, for the most part, because she is family and they love her.
Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (AmoqO)

Was she the fat, or the skinny variation???

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:18 PM (PCK5/)

232 179 Anthropologists should be routinely laughed at.

*********

Reminds me of one of the core courses for the liberal arts requirement I had to satisfy for my BS in physics. I had an Anthropology prof teaching this course and he was the typical flaming leftist one would expect. So, for the paper we had to write, all of the topics were the usual (what we'd call) woke crap. I picked the least offensive of the lot, which was Rights Women Had In Ancient Societies.

So, not being all that excited about researching and writing this paper, I put it off until the week before it was due, and not surprisingly, all of the post-women's lib books that had this topic covered in them, were checked out. Left with only books that dated from the 1890s until the 1950s on this topic (and they covered it extremely meagerly), I wrote the paper and gave the prof a conniption fit as he wrote that the paper was the most misogynistic paper he had read in the thirty years he had been teaching.

I took that as a compliment since I provided all of the books in the footnotes.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 31, 2023 06:18 PM (xxG/v)

233 >>>I saw an anti-DeSantis TV ad on Fox News.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


But, but Fox News is a conservative outlet! /s

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:18 PM (VWp7G)

234
I hope we don't get a tornado. I hate tornados.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer


Father/daughter relationships are hard.

Father: You moved to tornado alley.
Daughter: Did not.
Father: I'm sending you a weather radio that will annoy the hell out of you until you get yourself out of bed and your kids and go into the basement.
Daughter: If you insist. But you're wrong.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 06:19 PM (enJYY)

235 Maybe, with Trump indicted they've decided on Jeb or Ikki Nikki

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:19 PM (Zzbjj)

236 Desantis SUX!!!

--Brought to you by concerned

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 06:19 PM (eDPLA)

237 And another thing.

If voting in cities is not cleaned up, it does not matter how rural people vote.
Part of the "fortification" was to move the counting to centralized location where it is easy to fraud. There is no justification for this and the GOP has to fix that first. Count each precinct locally. Fix the cities so that if the votes do not tally they are all tossed out.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at March 31, 2023 06:19 PM (GtQnE)

238 TransVengence day dropped because people are scared.


Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 31, 2023 05:48 PM (NW9xb)

Not good enough. I want them terrified.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Baby steps

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 31, 2023 06:19 PM (NW9xb)

239 Anyone seen Mitch McConnell lately?
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium

He's dead, Jim.
Posted by: Bones at March 31, 2023 06:10 PM (v0R5T)

He better hurry. If Jimmuh dies first, nobody will ever know.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 31, 2023 06:20 PM (UQUAY)

240 >>> There is no justification for this and the GOP has to fix that first. Count each precinct locally. Fix the cities so that if the votes do not tally they are all tossed out.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest


It will never happen because the GOP doesn't want it to happen. It's why Pennsylvania will likely never go red again.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:20 PM (VWp7G)

241 235 Maybe, with Trump indicted they've decided on Jeb or Ikki Nikki

Then dot Indian guy, Svengali Salamidood gets my vote.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:20 PM (DMyTF)

242 I said "mental illness breeds violence" at the top of an article about the killer being Trans and Twitter shut me down until I deleted. Yeah, no.

Posted by: Simple Jack at March 31, 2023 06:21 PM (bewti)

243 I saw an anti-DeSantis TV ad on Fox News.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

They gave him a huge "book deal", they're invested in this man. Which makes me very suspicious.
Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:17 PM (Zzbjj)

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BREAKING: Fox News Has Just Called the 2024 AZ Republican Primary for DeSantis. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 06:22 PM (oVv4i)

244 >>>Then dot Indian guy, Svengali Salamidood gets my vote.
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium


Thank you and vote again!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:22 PM (VWp7G)

245 I'm having a vengeance cheesesteak.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 31, 2023 06:23 PM (265/A)

246 240 >>> There is no justification for this and the GOP has to fix that first. Count each precinct locally. Fix the cities so that if the votes do not tally they are all tossed out.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest


It will never happen because the GOP doesn't want it to happen. It's why Pennsylvania will likely never go red again.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:20 PM (VWp7G)

There has been a question as to whether this is a modus vivendi between the GOP and the State or whether the former are agents of the latter. It is apparent now that they are agents.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 06:23 PM (KSNKu)

247 Elon has a trans kid

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:23 PM (fUnHJ)

248 Ricky Vaughn: I got news for you—you haven’t heard the last of me. You may think I’m sh17 now, but someday you’re gonna be sorry you cut me. I’m gonna catch on somewhere else and every time that I pitch against you I’m gonna stick it up your f-in’ ass!

Posted by: Douglas Mackey's Day of Vengence at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (VsUo2)

249 247 Elon has a trans kid
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:23 PM (fUnHJ)

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by a rich guy

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (Zzbjj)

250 I am certain that Oregon is a purple state but voter fraud keeps it one of the most solid blue states in the country.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 06:07 PM (h1jJh)

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I agree, and this extends to other states as well. Cleaning up the voter fraud would move the governance meter well to the GOP's side.

DeSantis did this by just getting rid of those two corrupt county clerks. Now imagine Colorado, Washington, Wisconsin, PA, MI, NJ, CA, etc. doing this, though we'd need a GOP that had some backbone before this would happen.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (xxG/v)

251 >>>Then dot Indian guy, Svengali Salamidood gets my vote.
Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium

Thank you and vote again!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:22 PM (VWp7G)
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Would you like a Squishee with your I Voted sticker?

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (v0R5T)

252 I hope we don't get a tornado. I hate tornados.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer

I spent a couple years in Overland Park, KS. From early March to June it felt like I was under seige because practically every night there was a scrawl going across the bottom of the TV screen giving Tornado warnings. It would flash if a Tornado was spotted nearby. Spent a good share of my evenings sleeping in the my storage locker in the apartment building basement.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (H4JoC)

253 Libertarians hardest hit, including the pro-cricket-flour and pro-fake-meat ones...

ChatGPT Banned In Italy Over Privacy Concerns
Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT.

The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US start-up OpenAI and is backed by Microsoft.

The regulator said it would ban and investigate OpenAI “with immediate effect”.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 06:25 PM (Vwz3I)

254 Would you like a Squishee with your I Voted sticker?
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (v0R5T)
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Thank you! Vote again!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 06:25 PM (BpYfr)

255 Elon has a trans kid
Posted by: vmom

Said another way: Elon has a mentally ill child.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 06:25 PM (oK3pW)

256 My favorite anthropologist story happened in a college where the anthro professor was demonstrating the use of an atlatl. He used one of those wooden blackboard pointers with the rubber tip as the spear. He accidentally launched it and flew out the 3rd story building and stuck in the grass next to some students playing hacky sack.

We all rushed to the windows and look down. The professor cleared his throat and ended the class for the day.
Posted by: Beartooth at March 31, 2023 06:12 PM (H4JoC)

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Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!

Posted by: Ugluk, the Orc at March 31, 2023 06:25 PM (xxG/v)

257 Yeah we get earthquakes here in CA. The east coast gets hurricanes.
But tornados have got to be the worst.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 06:26 PM (v0R5T)

258 The GOP exists to block.actual opposition to the commies

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 06:27 PM (fUnHJ)

259 We are getting up to 9 inches of global warming and 50 mph winds later. It's thundering out right now. Weird weather for sure.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 06:27 PM (GwxCX)

260 told them to stand down

And it gives them an opportunity to flounce off-stage.

And flounce back on next month.

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2023 06:28 PM (FhXTo)

261 Yeah we get earthquakes here in CA. The east coast gets hurricanes.
But tornados have got to be the worst.
Posted by: wth

Arizona is all beach no ocean. I'm waiting for it to turn into Oceanfront.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 06:28 PM (oK3pW)

262 Then dot Indian guy, Svengali Salamidood gets my vote.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 06:20 PM (DMyTF)

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He's the perfect candidate for our tranny times, only his name is Vivisection Ramalamadingdong.

/Vivek's very articulate and sharp, and I hope some of his ideas make it into the platform (admittedly useless at this point) like abolishing entire departments such as disastrous Department of Education

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 06:28 PM (oVv4i)

263 Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by a rich guy

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (Zzbjj)

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That's exactly how I see Nancy Pelosi with Donald Trump. She was out for a vengeance after he cancelled her junket. She will never ever forgive him and has decided to make misery for him at every turn.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 31, 2023 06:29 PM (ySZtE)

264 Elon has around 75-80 kids… bound to get a few non standards in the litters…

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:29 PM (PCK5/)

265 >>>Would you like a Squishee with your I Voted sticker?
Posted by: wth


You can really taste the chutney!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 31, 2023 06:29 PM (VWp7G)

266 disastrous Department of Education
Posted by: ShainS

"I have figured out a great way to make more Lib voters"
~J.Carter

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 06:30 PM (oK3pW)

267 259 We are getting up to 9 inches of global warming and 50 mph winds later. It's thundering out right now. Weird weather for sure.
Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 06:27 PM (GwxCX)

It’s them Somalis!!!

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:30 PM (PCK5/)

268 The last production Dodge Demons are OTW. 1000+ hp on E85.

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2023 06:30 PM (FhXTo)

269 I love the "professor" and Riley Gaines vid. He is soooo triggered that he was getting laughed at because he was wrong as you can be. Ended with I am a PhD!!!! LOL you're a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 06:31 PM (GwxCX)

270 "I'm a married woman, and you just made me grab your dick!"... said my lovely bride.

Posted by: Trans Travelers Unite! at March 31, 2023 06:31 PM (VsUo2)

271 Trans day of action plan? I will be attending a church breakfast, men only, by the way.

I, along with a couple of pastors, elders and what not, will be armed.

We believe it will be a mostly peaceful breakfast, though, we may not be able to explain the smoke rolling out of the kitchen.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 31, 2023 06:31 PM (2YtOq)

272 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at March 31, 2023 06:32 PM (2SbGX)

273 My favorite anthropologist story happened in a college where the anthro professor was demonstrating the use of an atlatl. He used one of those wooden blackboard pointers with the rubber tip as the spear. He accidentally launched it and flew out the 3rd story building and stuck in the grass next to some students playing hacky sack.

We all rushed to the windows and look down. The professor cleared his throat and ended the class for the day.
Posted by: Beartooth

LOL!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 06:33 PM (qoqg5)

274 255 Elon has a trans kid
Posted by: vmom

Said another way: Elon has a mentally ill child.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 06:25 PM (oK3pW)

Yeah, trans pretty much equals mentally ill. "Teachers" are behind most of this.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:33 PM (qP50E)

275 Went to a lecture series back in the day.

Margaret Mead gave a talk.

My friend, in the Q and A afterward asks her "Thomas Hobbes said that "man is nasty, evil, and brutish."

She replied that she did not agree with him.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:34 PM (5u1+1)

276 Two of our police officers were shot on Tuesday responding to a domestic violence call. A woman called 911 saying she her boyfriend shot her and she couldn't get out of their apartment. The officers immediately forced entry and the perpetrator came out of a back bedroom firing. Officer Garrett Crumby was killed and Officer Albert Morin was critically wounded.

https://tinyurl.com/3rbb6h5j

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2023 06:34 PM (sWM8x)

277 Her aunts and grandmother pretend along with her, for the most part, because she is family and they love her.
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I think it is more loving to help her deal with the biological reality of her being a woman. Not easy, I know.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 06:34 PM (fs1hN)

278 255 Elon has a trans kid
Posted by: vmom

Said another way: Elon has a mentally ill child.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Or, more likely,
Elon stuck his dick in crazy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 06:35 PM (qoqg5)

279 Okay, the crazy are even crazier than I expected.

The people protesting Rowling are holding up signs which say, "Trans Witches are witches too!"

Words fail me...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 31, 2023 06:36 PM (2YtOq)

280 Went to a lecture series back in the day.

Margaret Mead gave a talk.

My friend, in the Q and A afterward asks her "Thomas Hobbes said that "man is nasty, evil, and brutish."

She replied that she did not agree with him.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:34 PM (5u1+1)
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According to the last entry in her diaries, which were found in a compost heap, she said, "Man, those Samoans are a surly bunch."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 06:36 PM (BpYfr)

281 Or, more likely,
Elon stuck his dick in crazy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 06:35 PM (qoqg5)
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Amber Heard at March 31, 2023 06:37 PM (2YtOq)

282 Yeah, trans pretty much equals mentally ill. "Teachers" are behind most of this.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 06:33 PM (qP50E)

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Would be interesting to study, but don't underestimate power of mass formation psychosis & social contagion via social media -- especially among young girls.

I also believe there's a CRT aspect: when young white girls are taught that they're despicable trash because of their color, they can jump on the victim grievance hierarchy totem by identifying as trans, non-binary, amoeba, or whatever.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 06:37 PM (R6NJY)

283 Anthropology dismisses Western Christendom.

The Nobel Savage.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:38 PM (5u1+1)

284 So I was feeling kind of depressed today...feeling kind of down with all of the bad shit going on in the world. Then I read about the TSA agent busting a tranny in the nuts. "My balls still hurt so bad," - what a mood booster! Thanks for the pick-me-up guys!

Posted by: JT Smith at March 31, 2023 06:38 PM (FxdZx)

285 279 Okay, the crazy are even crazier than I expected.

The people protesting Rowling are holding up signs which say, "Trans Witches are witches too!"

Words fail me...
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 31, 2023 06:36 PM (2YtOq)

Many many many of these trannies are engaging in Cosplay and LARPing… they have the minds of spoiled children and permission to act out in any way they choose…

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:38 PM (PCK5/)

286 Posted by: Beartooth at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (H4JoC)

Oh yeah that's very close by. I've lived here for over 40 years. You do get used to it. That said, we've had a few that came within 1/2 a mile and that's too damn close.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 06:39 PM (wagHN)

287 Was she the fat, or the skinny variation???

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:18 PM (PCK5/)

Thin. Built like a young girl with feminine features, except for the scraggly beard.

Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 06:39 PM (AmoqO)

288 "I have a Ph.D." is just Eric Cartman yelling "Respect muh authoritai!"

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (KFhLj)

289 Elon stuck his dick in crazy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 06:35 PM (qoqg5)
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This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Amber Heard at March 31, 2023 06:37 PM (2YtOq)


Nah. Everybody shits the bed occasionally.

Posted by: Joey Fingerbang at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (v0R5T)

290 287 Was she the fat, or the skinny variation???

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:18 PM (PCK5/)

Thin. Built like a young girl with feminine features, except for the scraggly beard.
Posted by: Javems at March 31, 2023 06:39 PM (AmoqO)


Yeah… she’s gonna have a real hard time getting laid…

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 06:41 PM (PCK5/)

291 So fetterman is released from Walter Reed because his is in "Remission"???? How can you be in remission from being brain dead?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 06:43 PM (Irn0L)

292 Margaret Mead's rebuttal is one for the ages. "I disagree, next question!"

I guess tendering supporting arguments was beneath Ms. Mead.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 31, 2023 06:44 PM (2YtOq)

293 They don't believe in God, or worse yet, they hate God.

They were created what they are. Through bullshit rearing, they believe that they can change the divine decision.

Good luck with that.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (5u1+1)

294 So fetterman is released from Walter Reed because his is in "Remission"???? How can you be in remission from being brain dead?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 06:43 PM (Irn0L)
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Did you not learn anything from Young Frankenstein?

Fetterman already has the Abbie Normal brain part down...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at March 31, 2023 06:45 PM (2YtOq)

295 34 “I feel so glad to be in a place that I think not only shares my values, but to be in a sisterhood of awesome women that want to make history,” Langford told The Branding Iron,

“Mr. Smith (Langford) has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit says.
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Dude is just living his best life

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (fs1hN)
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I'll [jokingly] may call him 'she' when he brings an 'excuse' note from his mother.

Posted by: Ciampino - I don't think at March 31, 2023 06:46 PM (qfLjt)

296 Margaret Mead's rebuttal is one for the ages. "I disagree, next question!"

I guess tendering supporting arguments was beneath Ms. Mead.

This was a public series. She was at the Civic Theater in San Diego, a beautiful venue. Perhaps she was unusually civil to my friend?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:48 PM (5u1+1)

297 291 So fetterman is released from Walter Reed because his is in "Remission"???? How can you be in remission from being brain dead?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 31, 2023 06:43 PM (Irn0L)
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Remission? From cancer? Yes. From depression? No!
Depression requires cured/not cured.

Posted by: Ciampino - I don't think they think at March 31, 2023 06:50 PM (qfLjt)

298 Keep saying hope Fetterman stays at Walter Reed, he isn't voting in Senate for he is there. He is a true Marxist.

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 06:52 PM (xhxe8)

299 Willowed again

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 06:53 PM (xhxe8)

300 283 Anthropology dismisses Western Christendom.

The Nobel Savage.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at March 31, 2023 06:38 PM (5u1+1)
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Alfred: "What did I say?"

Posted by: Ciampino - you had me at noble at March 31, 2023 07:01 PM (qfLjt)

Amazing Long Essay on the Disinformation War The National Security Deep State Is Waging Against Us by Lee Siegel at Tablet

A must-read.

Or a "may read, if you like reading things that are good."

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century

Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation

by
Jacob Siegel
March 28, 2023


In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy's name synonymous with the politics of the era.

For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.

Until 2017, that is, when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class. A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian-affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election. Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms, the new centers of power, and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States.

None of it was true. After reviewing Hamilton 68's secret list, Twitter's safety officer, Yoel Roth, privately admitted that his company was allowing "real people" to be "unilaterally labeled Russian stooges without evidence or recourse."

The Hamilton 68 episode played out as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the McCarthy affair, with one important difference: McCarthy faced some resistance from leading journalists as well as from the U.S. intelligence agencies and his fellow members of Congress. In our time, those same groups lined up to support the new secret lists and attack anyone who questioned them.

When proof emerged earlier this year that Hamilton 68 was a high-level hoax perpetrated against the American people, it was met with a great wall of silence in the national press. The disinterest was so profound, it suggested a matter of principle rather than convenience for the standard-bearers of American liberalism who had lost faith in the promise of freedom and embraced a new ideal.

In his last days in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war.

Something in the looming specter of Donald Trump and the populist movements of 2016 reawakened sleeping monsters in the West. Disinformation, a half-forgotten relic of the Cold War, was newly spoken of as an urgent, existential threat. Russia was said to have exploited the vulnerabilities of the open internet to bypass U.S. strategic defenses by infiltrating private citizens' phones and laptops. The Kremlin's endgame was to colonize the minds of its targets, a tactic cyber warfare specialists call "cognitive hacking."

Defeating this specter was treated as a matter of national survival. "The U.S. Is Losing at Influence Warfare," warned a December 2016 article in the defense industry journal, Defense One. The article quoted two government insiders arguing that laws written to protect U.S. citizens from state spying were jeopardizing national security. According to Rand Waltzman, a former program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, America's adversaries enjoyed a "significant advantage" as the result of "legal and organizational constraints that we are subject to and they are not."

The point was echoed by Michael Lumpkin, who headed the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), the agency Obama designated to run the U.S. counter-disinformation campaign. Lumpkin singled out the Privacy Act of 1974, a post-Watergate law protecting U.S. citizens from having their data collected by the government, as antiquated. "The 1974 act was created to make sure that we aren't collecting data on U.S. citizens. Well, ... by definition the World Wide Web is worldwide. There is no passport that goes with it. If it's a Tunisian citizen in the United States or a U.S. citizen in Tunisia, I don't have the ability to discern that ... If I had more ability to work with that [personally identifiable information] and had access ... I could do more targeting, more definitively, to make sure I could hit the right message to the right audience at the right time."

The message from the U.S. defense establishment was clear: To win the information war--an existential conflict taking place in the borderless dimensions of cyberspace--the government needed to dispense with outdated legal distinctions between foreign terrorists and American citizens.

Since 2016, the federal government has spent billions of dollars on turning the counter-disinformation complex into one of the most powerful forces in the modern world: a sprawling leviathan with tentacles reaching into both the public and private sector, which the government uses to direct a "whole of society" effort that aims to seize total control over the internet and achieve nothing less than the eradication of human error.

Step one in the national mobilization to defeat disinfo fused the U.S. national security infrastructure with the social media platforms, where the war was being fought. The government's lead counter-disinformation agency, the GEC, declared that its mission entailed "seeking out and engaging the best talent within the technology sector." To that end, the government started deputizing tech executives as de facto wartime information commissars.

At companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon, the upper management levels had always included veterans of the national security establishment. But with the new alliance between U.S. national security and social media, the former spooks and intelligence agency officials grew into a dominant bloc inside those companies; what had been a career ladder by which people stepped up from their government experience to reach private tech-sector jobs turned into an ouroboros that molded the two together. With the D.C.-Silicon Valley fusion, the federal bureaucracies could rely on informal social connections to push their agenda inside the tech companies.

In the fall of 2017, the FBI opened its Foreign Influence Task Force for the express purpose of monitoring social media to flag accounts trying to "discredit U.S. individuals and institutions." The Department of Homeland Security took on a similar role.

At around the same time, Hamilton 68 blew up. Publicly, Twitter's algorithms turned the Russian-influence-exposing "dashboard" into a major news story. Behind the scenes, Twitter executives quickly figured out that it was a scam. When Twitter reverse-engineered the secret list, it found, according to the journalist Matt Taibbi, that "instead of tracking how Russia influenced American attitudes, Hamilton 68 simply collected a handful of mostly real, mostly American accounts and described their organic conversations as Russian scheming." The discovery prompted Twitter's head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, to suggest in an October 2017 email that the company take action to expose the hoax and "call this out on the bullshit it is."

In the end, neither Roth nor anyone else said a word. Instead, they let a purveyor of industrial-grade bullshit--the old-fashioned term for disinformation--continue dumping its contents directly into the news stream.

It was not enough for a few powerful agencies to combat disinformation. The strategy of national mobilization called for "not only the whole-of-government, but also whole-of-society" approach, according to a document released by the GEC in 2018. "To counter propaganda and disinformation," the agency stated, "will require leveraging expertise from across government, tech and marketing sectors, academia, and NGOs."

This is how the government-created "war against disinformation" became the great moral crusade of its time. CIA officers at Langley came to share a cause with hip young journalists in Brooklyn, progressive nonprofits in D.C., George Soros-funded think tanks in Prague, racial equity consultants, private equity consultants, tech company staffers in Silicon Valley, Ivy League researchers, and failed British royals. Never Trump Republicans joined forces with the Democratic National Committee, which declared online disinformation "a whole-of-society problem that requires a whole-of-society response."

Continues after the fold:


Even trenchant critics of the phenomenon--including Taibbi and the Columbia Journalism Review's Jeff Gerth, who recently published a dissection of the press's role in promoting false Trump-Russia collusion claims--have focused on the media's failures, a framing largely shared by conservative publications, which treat disinformation as an issue of partisan censorship bias. But while there's no question that the media has utterly disgraced itself, it's also a convenient fall guy--by far the weakest player in the counter-disinformation complex. The American press, once the guardian of democracy, was hollowed out to the point that it could be worn like a hand puppet by the U.S. security agencies and party operatives.

It would be nice to call what has taken place a tragedy, but an audience is meant to learn something from a tragedy. As a nation, America not only has learned nothing, it has been deliberately prevented from learning anything while being made to chase after shadows. This is not because Americans are stupid; it's because what has taken place is not a tragedy but something closer to a crime. Disinformation is both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up; a weapon that doubles as a disguise.

The crime is the information war itself, which was launched under false pretenses and by its nature destroys the essential boundaries between the public and private and between the foreign and domestic, on which peace and democracy depend. By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against Americans citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations. The crime is the routine violation of Americans' rights by unelected officials who secretly control what individuals can think and say.

What we are seeing now, in the revelations exposing the inner workings of the state-corporate censorship regime, is only the end of the beginning. The United States is still in the earliest stages of a mass mobilization that aims to harness every sector of society under a singular technocratic rule. The mobilization, which began as a response to the supposedly urgent menace of Russian interference, now evolves into a regime of total information control that has arrogated to itself the mission of eradicating abstract dangers such as error, injustice, and harm--a goal worthy only of leaders who believe themselves to be infallible, or comic-book supervillains.

The first phase of the information war was marked by distinctively human displays of incompetence and brute-force intimidation. But the next stage, already underway, is being carried out through both scalable processes of artificial intelligence and algorithmic pre-censorship that are invisibly encoded into the infrastructure of the internet, where they can alter the perceptions of billions of people.

Something monstrous is taking shape in America. Formally, it exhibits the synergy of state and corporate power in service of a tribal zeal that is the hallmark of fascism. Yet anyone who spends time in America and is not a brainwashed zealot can tell that it is not a fascist country. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals, is being replaced by a digital leviathan that wields power through opaque algorithms and the manipulation of digital swarms. It resembles the Chinese system of social credit and one-party state control, and yet that, too, misses the distinctively American and providential character of the control system. In the time we lose trying to name it, the thing itself may disappear back into the bureaucratic shadows, covering up any trace of it with automated deletions from the top-secret data centers of Amazon Web Services, "the trusted cloud for government."

When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime's aim is not to censor or to oppress, but to rule. That's why the authorities can never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden's laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was a racist conspiracy, not when they said that vaccines stopped transmission of the novel coronavirus. Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is. That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system.

If the underlying philosophy of the war against disinformation can be expressed in a single claim, it is this: You cannot be trusted with your own mind.

That's not the full article: That's just the preamble. He then offers 13 views on the new "totalitarian war on 'error,'" at least "error" as claimed by the Leviathan State, "with the aim that the composite of these partial views will provide a useful impression of disinformation's true shape and ultimate design."

It's a major work:

CONTENTS

I. Russophobia Returns, Unexpectedly: The Origins of Contemporary "Disinformation"

II. Trump's Election: "It's Facebook's Fault"

III. Why Do We Need All This Data About People?

IV. The Internet: From Darling to Demon

V. Russiagate! Russiagate! Russiagate!

VI. Why the Post-9/11 "War on Terror" Never Ended

VII. The Rise of "Domestic Extremists"

VIII. The NGO Borg

IX. COVID-19

X. Hunter's Laptops: The Exception to the Rule

XI. The New One-Party State

XII. The End of Censorship

XIII. After Democracy

Appendix: The Disinfo Dictionary

Read the whole thing. If you want to. You are free-willed individual and can of course read what you want, and the amount that you want.

You could read 44% of it, for example.

Seems like a good article to sink into over the weekend.

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Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (eDPLA)

2 *that is a lot of reading!

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (eDPLA)

3 I know what I'm reading tonight!

Posted by: The_Hoser at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (N66D6)

4 I guess ace liked the movie

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (fUnHJ)

5 Censorship: It's Safe, and Effective.

Posted by: N. Telligence at March 31, 2023 04:20 PM (WmGrA)

6 Lol

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 31, 2023 04:20 PM (An79C)

7 Mentioned in the last thread, but I got a response from my very Republican House representative on the RESTRICT Act, with details on the infringement and how it would be used against Americans in my email to him.

He said he knows people like watching Tik Tok but the RESTRICT Act has to pass because China is bad.

I guess it is probably best to go ahead and accept that the RESTRICT Act is as good as law. After Lindsay's appearance and sponsorship and the house members agreeing, the republicans are clearly in on it, too.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:23 PM (kj5Hc)

8
Indeed.
We are, and have been for a long time, in a War Of Information.

As in, the control of information the public sees.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 31, 2023 04:23 PM (WH4v7)

9 Theoden: What can men do against such reckless hate?
Aragorn: Ride out and meet them.

Posted by: Jmel at March 31, 2023 04:23 PM (bVhJi)

10 leave your phone where you ain't

Posted by: DanMan at March 31, 2023 04:23 PM (DB6tu)

11
Alex Jones is a genius for choosing the name "Info Wars."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (WH4v7)

12 American became what we thought the Eastern block was long ago. I now know, we have been doing it as long as, and maybe longer, than they have been at it.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (qoGsy)

13 The Tablet Mag article on Covid vaccine hesitation, early on, was one of the best Covid essays ever.

https://tinyurl.com/3eavy7b5

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (v0TzN)

14 Walter Kirn linked this yesterday from his Twitter feed, and it's one of the best things I ever read about these times.
We'll recognize a lot of this because many of us have been saying the same shit for years.

Truly a great read.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (mR6Gs)

15 The greatest threat to this country is white supremacy.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (oINRc)

16 The Tablet has some interesting articles. I have in my nic, 'Everything is Broken' and it's a couple of years old now. I will read this one later.

Off to work...

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (sAmhv)

17 I blame RINO's like Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (DMyTF)

18 I'd add to the contents but I'd just screw up the Roman Numerals.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (v0R5T)

19 Misery will be the default state moving forward. Wallow in it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (Q4IgG)

20 I'd like to request a happy fun thread.

Pretty please can we have a happy fun thread.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (xljv1)

21 I don't think I'll read it. How will it help me? How will it help us change the tide?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (Mzdiz)

22 The article has at least one major glaring error that was debunked long ago: McCarthy was not only right, he actually understated the problem. It's ahistorical twaddle to say otherwise.

It's not a witch hunt if the witches are real.

Posted by: Mhandisi at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (SKxfg)

23 Amazing Long Essay on the Disinformation War The National Security Deep State Is Waging Against Us by Lee Siegel

Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation
by
Jacob Siegel


Ace is so Russian.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (h5TKJ)

24 The greatest threat to this country is white supremacy.
Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (oINRc)
.........

I thought it was the climate. dammit I'm falling behind.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

25 We couldn't find any fully believable info for awhile, bit now we have it. That shadowy mass killer was mad that Mandalay Bay didn't comp his shrimp after he lost $10k on the $1m he was laundering through their casino.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (oINRc)

26 Pretty please can we have a happy fun thread.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (xljv1)

You'll have to wait for the cafe thread, and so will I.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (Mzdiz)

27 Amazing how “disinformation “ became a top concern right as the MSM started losing money and influence, then really took off when normies started waking up.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (MCHPY)

28 I'd like to request a happy fun thread.

Pretty please can we have a happy fun thread.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (xljv1)
.......

You could flash yer boobs again.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

29 Recall "Total Information Awareness"?

The idea is complete and total digital panopticon, I expect.

I struggle to imagine what a pain in the ass all of this stuff must have been in the "analog" era. And they managed to do a pretty good job of it. "Well it worked, didn't it"? could be the motto for the entire decade of the 1960s. Everything in popular culture was an op, gaslighting and destabilization on steroids. And a treasury draining conflict on the other side of the world called Viet Nam.

Today is something much different, it almost beggars belief. They have been planning this shit for a long time. It wasn't technically possible - though now it is, and they do not intend to squander this opportunity. Congress is either too stupid or corrupt to understand what is happening.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (i/LKe)

30 21 I don't think I'll read it. How will it help me? How will it help us change the tide?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (Mzdiz)

New phrasings, vocabulary, debunked ideas, well-worded summaries?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (v0TzN)

31 I saw that article and decided to print it, got it right here. 48 pages, front and back.

Posted by: blindbutch at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (q+hVn)

32 I'd like to request a happy fun thread.

Pretty please can we have a happy fun thread.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (xljv1)

The beatings will continue until morale improves. It's not time for otter videos yet.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (NtVYv)

33 McCarthy was not only right, he actually understated the problem.

////

That's the thing. No one ever proved him wrong, AFAIK

Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (tQL7r)

34 Forget Jimmy Carter. Even forget Joey Shitpants.

In terms of intentionally causing irrevocable damage to the Republic, Barack Obama, is by far the the worst President we ever had

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (mR6Gs)

35 "--the government needed to dispense with outdated legal distinctions between foreign terrorists and American citizens."

We need to dispense with the outdated moral concepts that classify marxists as people.

See, this sorta shit can work both ways.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (P+D9B)

36 For the record, McCarthy was right.

Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (gmo/4)

37 We couldn't find any fully believable info for awhile, bit now we have it. That shadowy mass killer was mad that Mandalay Bay didn't comp his shrimp after he lost $10k on the $1m he was laundering through their casino.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (oINRc)

I wonder why they're bringing up this fiction about Paddock being "the shooter" again. Makes me suspicious.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (Mzdiz)

38 NWS warns Friday’s storms will bring ‘rare, significant severe weather threat’ to Illinois

https://tinyurl.com/mr2jcwyn

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (EMO0a)

39 We only embedded those spies in Trump Tower to help Trump.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (oINRc)

40 The article has at least one major glaring error that was debunked long ago: McCarthy was not only right, he actually understated the problem. It's ahistorical twaddle to say otherwise.

-

There is a 1980s Norman Dodd video online regarding his 1950s investigation into un-American non profit foundations and their activities going back to 1908.

We are more than 100 years into this. It's part of why they're so comfortable being so open now.

https://youtu.be/fTWTMf-KmaE

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (kj5Hc)

41 No reasonable prosecutor would charge a former elected official.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (oINRc)

42 The beatings will continue until morale improves. It's not time for otter videos yet.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (NtVYv)

And if you don't behave, you'll get rapey dolphins and Yoko Ono.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (Mzdiz)

43 Disinformation is both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up; a weapon that doubles as a disguise.

no kidding

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (uQPen)

44 Pretty please can we have a happy fun thread.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:26 PM (xljv1)
.......

You could flash yer boobs again.
Posted by: wth

Hey! Steady there Mac.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (qoGsy)

45 The article has at least one major glaring error that was debunked long ago: McCarthy was not only right, he actually understated the problem. It's ahistorical twaddle to say otherwise.

I was going to mention that. Amazing how many people when I tell them McCarthy was right look at me like I turned green.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 04:30 PM (wagHN)

46 McCarthy was not only right, he actually understated the problem.



Yup, many of those people we're actually Communists

Same with Hollywood at the time, but the clowns who host TCM, never say that when they go on and on about the Blacklist

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:30 PM (mR6Gs)

47 >>Read the whole thing. If you want to. You are free-willed individual and can of course read what you want, and the amount that you want.


Clearly I missed something today. Why is ace being polite to us?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

48 I recommend that you, accurately, do your taxes by hand without a computer. The IRS does not have enough people who know how to handle manual returns. This will absolutely tie up the IRS for months, if not years. You want to peacefully protest, this is one that will tie up all 87,000 of their new agents and keep them from doing audits on the middle and lower classes. With the idiots they have created in Gen Z, who can't even figure out how to make change, they won't be able to find anyone who can even LEARN how to process that many returns.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 31, 2023 04:31 PM (CecP5)

49 You could flash yer boobs again.
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

No need to be greedy.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 04:31 PM (Rl7KJ)

50 27 Amazing how “disinformation “ became a top concern right as the MSM started losing money and influence, then really took off when normies started waking up.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (MCHPY)

They lost gatekeeper status. Then everyone realized that they were the Great and Almighty Oz.

Then everyone laughed at them.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 04:31 PM (KbCG3)

51 McCarthy would have done better to find and publish a list of government employees who *weren't* Communists.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 04:31 PM (tp+tP)

52 Sometimes we lie about a plane crash, like we admit we did with TWA 800. But we only admit that once the other information is fully believed. Trust the process.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:31 PM (oINRc)

53 The Hamilton 68 episode played out as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the McCarthy affair, with one important difference: McCarthy faced some resistance from leading journalists as well as from the U.S. intelligence agencies and his fellow members of Congress.
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Only - and *only* - because McCarthy was targeting communists. Had he been targeting domestic enemies of the Left, the press wouldn't have uttered a single peep.

Just like now. Had the "Hamilton 68" crew or any like them been trying apply pseudo-governmental pressure on high tech companies to suppress leftwing activists and agitators on their platforms, it would have been the crime of the century.

Using "press response" as a barometer for *anything* at any time (or at least, post-broadcasting, when the absurd fiction of a "balanced press" came into being) is a very, very bad thing to do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:32 PM (t0OGg)

54 You could flash yer boobs again.
Posted by: wth

*parades through the thread baring her 1977 boobs*

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:32 PM (Mzdiz)

55 And if you don't behave, you'll get rapey dolphins and Yoko Ono.
Posted by: Miley

And a guy on an ottoman.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 04:33 PM (rTAb+)

56 But the next stage, already underway, is being carried out through both scalable processes of artificial intelligence and algorithmic pre-censorship that are invisibly encoded into the infrastructure of the internet, where they can alter the perceptions of billions of people.

Tim Pool has been saying this for a while. That is how he is defining what we are seeing. Social media algorithms.

Matt Binder @MattBinder

Twitter's algorithm is specifically tracking tweet metrics for four groups:
- power users
- republicans
- democrats
and...
- elon musk


and you can see the code at the link
https://tinyurl.com/y9hf5nvc

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 04:33 PM (uQPen)

57 In his last days in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war.
++++
Passed 92-7 in the Senate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:33 PM (t0OGg)

58 “The outdated legal distinctions between” foreign and domestic threat is the difference between regular surveillance vs. FISA court secrecy/ridiculous level of surveillance scope and detail. It’s a BIG difference that can’t be shrugged off , but they already have (at least as far back as June 2016 for Trump Russia hoax).

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (MCHPY)

59 One huge important difference being McCarthy wasn't a hoax

Posted by: NCKate at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (d5Qya)

60 He said all that and never once mentioned 0bamas 2015 Patriot Act part deux. That is the origin of this. By 2016 the results were already pouring in. Its seems more and more likely everyday that 0bamas is still POTUS and has been since 2009. He was able to knee-cap Trumps 4 years then they installed Joe Bribem.

Posted by: Fisht at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (ZRarh)

61 I was going to mention that. Amazing how many people when I tell them McCarthy was right look at me like I turned green.
Posted by: jewells45

Cancer treatments, what can they do to you...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (rTAb+)

62 > The Tablet has some interesting articles.
_______________

From Bourbon to Bagels in Kentucky
Distilling Louisville’s Jewish history on a trip Across the JEW.S.A.


Since I'm in the area...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (Q4IgG)

63 We opened that file on the Florida school shooter and even visited him, because the info we received about him was believable. But it wasn't *fully* believable, like the info we give you.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (oINRc)

64 Deep State or Democrats Propaganda Ministry it's all a coordinating Propaganda

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 04:34 PM (xhxe8)

65 *parades through the thread baring her 1977 boobs*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Lemme guess - immediately before that you were wearing a peasant blouse, bra-less, and a headband.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 04:35 PM (qoGsy)

66 Or a "may read, if you like reading things that are good."

Definitely plan to do so.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:35 PM (Xrfse)

67 github evidently shows a lot of the code

https://tinyurl.com/2p9am4yy

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 04:35 PM (uQPen)

68 Clearly the length of this, much like the length of a Russian novel, proves it is Russian disinformation

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 04:35 PM (6Mlq5)

69 "a whole-of-society problem that requires a whole-of-society response."
-
What is...the federal government

Posted by: Carnak the Magnificent at March 31, 2023 04:35 PM (kOpft)

70 56 But the next stage, already underway, is being carried out through both scalable processes of artificial intelligence and algorithmic pre-censorship that are invisibly encoded into the infrastructure of the internet, where they can alter the perceptions of billions of people.

Tim Pool has been saying this for a while. That is how he is defining what we are seeing. Social media algorithms.

Matt Binder @MattBinder

Twitter's algorithm is specifically tracking tweet metrics for four groups:
- power users
- republicans
- democrats
and...
- elon musk

and you can see the code at the link
https://tinyurl.com/y9hf5nvc
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 04:33 PM (uQPen)

Go watch The Creepy Line. Documentary on how drastically Google can alter someone's worldview based on how they present search results (among other things).

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (KbCG3)

71 "1977 boobs"

Peak boobs?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (iayUP)

72 The 1974 act was created to make sure that we aren't collecting data on U.S. citizens. Well, ... by definition the World Wide Web is worldwide. There is no passport that goes with it. If it's a Tunisian citizen in the United States or a U.S. citizen in Tunisia, I don't have the ability to discern that
++++
Bullshit. Long distance telephones existed in 1974. An American citizen speaking with a foreigner could be protected from illegal surveillance then, and he could be now. It isn't a perfect analogy, but so be it. And if you can't discern the difference between a citizen and a non-citizen, a domestic or a foreign operator, etc., then you have the obligation to *not* proceed in the name of defending the rights of citizens against government spying and other overreach.

Of course, that's counter to your totalitarian goals, so...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)

73 54 You could flash yer boobs again.
Posted by: wth

*parades through the thread baring her 1977 boobs*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist


Whoohoo! Margaritas on the beach!!!

I'm in!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (a/GBD)

74 The war on terror has "come hoooome to roost," as Obama's racist, anti-American "pastor" was fond of saying.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (6Mlq5)

75 Step one in the national mobilization to defeat disinfo fused the U.S. national security infrastructure with the social media platforms, where the war was being fought. The government's lead counter-disinformation agency, the GEC, declared that its mission entailed "seeking out and engaging the best talent within the technology sector." To that end, the government started deputizing tech executives as de facto wartime information commissars.
++++
Hey, at least it's Top Men building the oppressive techno-ghetto.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)

76 *parades through the thread baring her 1977 boobs*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:32 PM (Mzdiz)

Boobs are like cars

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:37 PM (mR6Gs)

77 Sometimes I wish I could be put back in the Matrix

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 04:37 PM (bs+z0)

78 Aiden "Tits" Hale shot up those Christians at the school she went to and continued to visit for counseling, because she was angry at gun companies for not stopping her.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:37 PM (oINRc)

79 With the D.C.-Silicon Valley fusion, the federal bureaucracies could rely on informal social connections to push their agenda inside the tech companies.
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Which, by the way, explains Kamala Harris. She's SV's golden girl. She's a creature of Silicon Valley, and very firmly on their side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)

80 "Amazing Long Essay"

13,290 words to be exact, according to LibreOffice.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:38 PM (MvF+J)

81 Cancer treatments, what can they do to you...

LOL.. thank God that hasn't happened yet!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 04:38 PM (wagHN)

82 *parades through the thread baring her 1977 boobs*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Boobs are like cars
Posted by: JoeF

At least one is necessary but two are much better?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 04:38 PM (qoGsy)

83 The idea that people must be "protected" from speech is pernicious, insidious and altogether anti-Creation.

And like so much other destruction, our "friends" in the Republican Party won't lift a finger to fight it. They just want a seat at the table and if that means breaking all the eggs then so be it.

Our Amendments were a specific response to tyranny, not just some ideas some other guys on some dollar bills decided sounded quippy.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 04:38 PM (BXxcV)

84 77 Sometimes I wish I could be put back in the Matrix
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 04:37 PM (bs+z0)

Cypher:
You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?

Ignorance is bliss.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 04:38 PM (Rl7KJ)

85 So to beat the Russians, we have to become more Russian than the Russians?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 04:39 PM (h1jJh)

86 I wouldn't dispute that Obama took the country into a much darker place but government getting in bed with tech started long before dopey left Chicago.

The intel community has been working hand in glove with both the telecom and tech industries for decades. The CIA was a seed level investor in Google. Hell, the CIA has its own venture capital company. And the NSA has been listening to all electronic communication for many moons.

Obama may have twisted the dials to 11 but he didn't build the machine.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 04:39 PM (ZLI7S)

87 Go watch The Creepy Line. Documentary on how drastically Google can alter someone's worldview based on how they present search results (among other things).
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (KbCG3

I imagine this is very easy to do with younger people with without a pre WWW mindset

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:39 PM (mR6Gs)

88 In the fall of 2017, the FBI opened its Foreign Influence Task Force for the express purpose of monitoring social media to flag accounts trying to "discredit U.S. individuals and institutions." The Department of Homeland Security took on a similar role.
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Okay, let's assume this is true and they have a noble goal and are behaving well.

What the hell does that mean? I am a US citizen and I think the government is discredited. I say it often here. I am not a foreigner, and it is not foreign influence. It is absolutely wrongthink, but not a foreign influence operation.

If they seek to suppress anything that could discredit US persons or institutions but, by their own admission, they cannot discern who is a foreigner, then how is this *not* - on its own terms - a general censorship and speech suppression system that also hits citizens?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (t0OGg)

89 IMO, the so-called "McCarthy era" is when the media first began to truly sharpen their leftist claws. Their brand of "disinformation" was nurtured and destined to become the industry standard.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (Xrfse)

90 >>Boobs are like cars

They rust?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (ZLI7S)

91 85 So to beat the Russians, we have to become more Russian than the Russians?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 04:39 PM (h1jJh)

Dah Comrade

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (bs+z0)

92 NWS warns Friday’s storms will bring ‘rare, significant severe weather threat’ to Illinois
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If you later use the phrase "Wiped clean, by the wrath of God", know that I died relieved.

Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (kOpft)

93 Boobs are like cars
Posted by: JoeF

At least one is necessary but two are much better?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 04:38 PM (qoGsy)

Model years

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (mR6Gs)

94
It's not a witch hunt if the witches are real.
Posted by: Mhandisi


It's OK to yell FIRE in a crowded theater if the theater is burning.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (63Dwl)

95 "The Hamilton 68 episode played out as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the McCarthy affair"

I find that somewhat preposterous. There were in fact, commies in the USA govt. Everybody was a little pink in the 1930s, some much more than others, but plenty of them ended up in the USA govt from the 1930s on. Analogy is not apt.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (MvF+J)

96 In the end, neither Roth nor anyone else said a word. Instead, they let a purveyor of industrial-grade bullshit--the old-fashioned term for disinformation--continue dumping its contents directly into the news stream.
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Which is what anyone should expect a "disinformation prevention" system to do.

I am not being sarcastic, I am applying the foolproof rule of inverting whatever they say.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)

97 Lemme guess - immediately before that you were wearing a peasant blouse, bra-less, and a headband.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 31, 2023 04:35 PM (qoGsy)

Silly man - peasant blouses are cute on A and B cups, nothing higher. I was never able to go braless, and the headbands I wore were the standard little girl ones in the 60s.

I was not a hippie.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (Mzdiz)

98 I read 43% of it. Nobody suggests to me what to do.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (h1jJh)

99 How many TL;DRs does it take to wear out a typewriter ribbon?
Ace, you’re the best.

Posted by: Holy Crap at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (i0Gj1)

100 "To counter propaganda and disinformation," the agency stated, "will require leveraging expertise from across government, tech and marketing sectors, academia, and NGOs."
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It's a real shame that stuff like laws forbid that.

Good thing we're post-law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:42 PM (t0OGg)

101 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
The most important reaction on Tucker Carlson after Trump indictment— This is what's REALLY happening:

"We're in a Cold War, Civil War era in this country in which we have to decide to commit to the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction. Democrats are launching nukes at us. We better start launching nukes back at them until they stop."🔥

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 04:42 PM (uQPen)

102 Reminder: the reason the Left hated Nixon so much was that he flushed out the commies in the State Department (Alger Hiss).

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 31, 2023 04:42 PM (u7leW)

103 Peak boobs?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (iayUP)

Literally!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:42 PM (Mzdiz)

104 Will read.

Thx.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 31, 2023 04:42 PM (nscIV)

105 Second look at the birds aren’t real movement?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 04:42 PM (fblP5)

106 Whoohoo! Margaritas on the beach!!!

I'm in!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 04:36 PM (a/GBD)

Margaritas everywhere, babe!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 04:43 PM (Mzdiz)

107 Douglass Mackey (Rickey Vaughn) found guilty of illegal meme-ing. We live in a communist country.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at March 31, 2023 04:43 PM (3vCGB)

108 Re: the fusing of National Security infrastructure with social media — Julian Assange wrote about how Google/Eric Schmidt got into the National Security business thanks to Hillary Clinton when she became Sec. of State.

Bing “Google is not what it appears to be” for this detailed, disturbing piece by Assange.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 04:43 PM (MCHPY)

109 "1977 boobs"

Peak boobs?
Posted by: fd

Peak-a-boobs

Posted by: SFGoth at March 31, 2023 04:43 PM (KAi1n)

110
Miley
Miley
Miley

I posted at the end of the food thread, but I couldn't find the home ec cookbook on Amazon. I didn't search ebay, though, and there's a good chance it's there.

The name is
Favorite recipes of home economics teachers

I looked for a date but couldn't find one, but I'm guessing early 80s.

It's really great, though, with names and cities / states of the students that made the recipes. "breaded dandelion blossoms" and other surprises are in it. Very charming.

(and yeah, no kids were using food processing equipment in class to make Mac and cheese or whatever)

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:43 PM (kj5Hc)

111 If they seek to suppress anything that could discredit US persons or institutions but, by their own admission, they cannot discern who is a foreigner, then how is this *not* - on its own terms - a general censorship and speech suppression system that also hits citizens?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (t0OGg)
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omelets...eggs...some minor breakage required...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (BpYfr)

112  I recommend that you, accurately, do your taxes by hand without a computer. The IRS does not have enough people who know how to handle manual returns. This will absolutely tie up the IRS for months, if not years. You want to peacefully protest, this is one that will tie up all 87,000 of their new agents and keep them from doing audits on the middle and lower classes. With the idiots they have created in Gen Z, who can't even figure out how to make change, they won't be able to find anyone who can even LEARN how to process that many returns.
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Handwritten in cursive.
Every line filled even if it's 0.
Sent by mail, first class. You can get a mailing receipt.
And not one document in order, pages mixed up, upside down, backward, a corner or more folded here and there.
They will throw away your return, so have digital and hard copies.
And every time they send you a letter, send back the full stack, plus what they sent, plus your response.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (6Mlq5)

113 "It's not a witch hunt if the witches are real."

Indeed it is if the accused has prove they're NOT a witch.

Posted by: Zek at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (5FPX4)

114 "local story"
--legacy media

"White nationalist terrorism"
--DHS

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (0hOvj)

115 The American press, once the guardian of democracy, was hollowed out to the point that it could be worn like a hand puppet by the U.S. security agencies and party operatives.
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Again with this nonsense. No, and it was never so. The press as "guardian of democracy" or a complex that "speaks truth to power" and doesn't participate in government efforts at misbehavior was only true - insofar as it was ever true - when that government was not fully captured by the same ideological operators that ran the press.

As of Obama, that ceased to be the reality because the final government capture was underway. And the press dutifully fell into line as the newest, loudest, most vocal champions of that government. Under Trump, it was more of the same - just the *real* government that actually runs things.

The press has always supported anything that moved the ball down the field. If it ever looked like "defending democracy," it was coincidental.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (t0OGg)

116 >>> Read the whole thing. If you want to. You are free-willed individual and can of course read what you want, and the amount that you want.

Just checking in the news for the day, it's been busy... I feel like that Galdalf meme in the cave when he looks confused and is all "I have no memory of this place".

Did someone tell Ace he was too bossy? At his own blog? I'm missing the joke.

Posted by: LizLem at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (+mkOR)

117 I esp. like that the listing of the people involved is the same as my list of people I wouldn’t trust to do anything.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 04:45 PM (fblP5)

118 The skies above Coventry are safe.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:45 PM (oINRc)

119 This is not because Americans are stupid; it's because what has taken place is not a tragedy but something closer to a crime. Disinformation is both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up; a weapon that doubles as a disguise.
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"Closer to a crime?" No. It is crime. Lots of crimes, actually.

The government is not allowed to instruct private-sector operators to do what it itself is forbidden to do. This is very simple. That is illegal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:45 PM (t0OGg)

120 It's ironic that Siegel opens this essay on disinformation by referring to McCarthy's list. This is at best historically flawed and at worst the persistent survival of an effective disinformation campaign.

M. Stanton Evans writes in "Blacklisted by History" that

"McCarthy's version of what he said at Wheeling, and other places, was that he did indeed have a "list" of people in the State Department who were 'either card-carrying Communists or certainly loyal to the Communist Party,' but that the number of these was 57, not 205. He said the larger figure, which he acknowledged using from time to time, wasn't a list but a statistic--derived from the letter that Secretary of State James Byrnes had written in 1946 to Rep Adolph Sabath*. From these differing versions of the speech there grew up an enormous wrangle featured in every book about McCarthy and most political histories of the era." Evans goes on to detail the contemporary accounts of the issue and evaluate the evidence of what McCarthy actually said.

* Security screeners made "adverse findings" on 284 State Department employees, 79 were "removed" which left 205 still working.

Posted by: Peter B at March 31, 2023 04:46 PM (oc5Jn)

121 Did someone tell Ace he was too bossy? At his own blog? I'm missing the joke.
Posted by: LizLem at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (+mkOR)

It's his oyster

we only stink the place up

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:46 PM (us2H3)

122 By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against Americans citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations.
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Yup. This is one of the reasons why you don't make your soldiers into policemen. They have different goals. Soldiers need an enemy, and that enemy becomes the people.

The government - the real government, the permanent one that is the same as the Uniparty - has long viewed the public as the enemy. They behave accordingly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:47 PM (t0OGg)

123 The Hamilton 68 episode played out as a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the McCarthy affair"

Elvis 68 Comeback Special>> Hamilton 68 Episode

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:47 PM (mR6Gs)

124 There seems at least to be convergence that we are in an information war.

At a Covid Law Conference held this past weekend in Atlanta (attended by liberty minded attorneys, and probably several Feeb spies) Robert Malone gave his overall analysis of the current status of Covid mandates, "misinformation" sanctions against MDs, etc etc as all taking place in the context of 5th Gen information warfare.

There is a reason why Alex Jones was first on their hit list.

Posted by: Zek at March 31, 2023 04:48 PM (5FPX4)

125 The mobilization, which began as a response to the supposedly urgent menace of Russian interference
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Which was a false flag created by the same people who implemented the response plan.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:48 PM (t0OGg)

126 We are in 3rd century Rome.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2023 04:48 PM (oWBc3)

127 38 NWS warns Friday’s storms will bring ‘rare, significant severe weather threat’ to Illinois

https://tinyurl.com/mr2jcwyn

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 04:29 PM (EMO0a)

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Nah, that's not Illinois. It's the Greater Chicagoland Area. It could get completely wiped off the map and all downstaters would notice would be the tremendous lessening of their tax bills.

Posted by: The_Hoser at March 31, 2023 04:48 PM (N66D6)

128 It put an ace movie review to shame.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (ufFY8)

129 A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals, is being replaced by a digital leviathan that wields power through opaque algorithms and the manipulation of digital swarms.
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It is, as Alex Jones put it way back when, "a techno-tronic ghetto to enslave your mind."

I don't laugh at Alex Jones anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (t0OGg)

130 If the House doesn't immediately open an impeachment inquiry on Brandon

they blow cocks by the gross

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (us2H3)

131 126 We are in 3rd century Rome.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 31, 2023 04:48 PM (oWBc3)

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Veni vici vidi

"I came. I caught. I cankered."

Posted by: The_Hoser at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (N66D6)

132
Our hair, bite mark, and ballistics analyses are also fully believable, in case you might be having racist doubts about that.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:50 PM (oINRc)

133 The author of that great piece screws up the McCarthy comparison, but don't get too caught up in that. It's just a jumping off point,, and his point is that McCarthy at least had media detractors ( and how) but Hamilton 68 and the rest....crickets

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:50 PM (mR6Gs)

134 >>Bing “Google is not what it appears to be” for this detailed, disturbing piece by Assange.

Highlands Forum.

Seriously, why would the CIA need it's own venture capital company?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 04:50 PM (ZLI7S)

135 In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime's aim is not to censor or to oppress, but to rule.
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Rule - as opposed to governance - *requires* oppression, and oppression is vastly aided by censorship. They are part and parcel. Semantic distinctions are irrelevant in fact.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:50 PM (t0OGg)

136 Seems like a good article to sink into over the weekend.
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That it does, Ace. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)

137 There is a reason why Alex Jones was first on their hit list.
Posted by: Zek at March 31, 2023 04:48 PM (5FPX4)


Breitbart

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 04:51 PM (uQPen)

138 130 If the House doesn't immediately open an impeachment inquiry on Brandon

they blow cocks by the gross
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (us2H3)

"That's not who we are." -GoPe

Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 04:51 PM (Rl7KJ)

139 Any word from McCarthy on whether he'll whip up opposition to the RESTRICT act when it reaches the House? (I forget my schoolhouse rock, does a companion bill need to pass the house first?)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 04:52 PM (fs1hN)

140 "Bing “Google is not what it appears to be” for this detailed, disturbing piece by Assange."

I'm old enough to remember the Glomar Challenger, and then years later when the actual mission of the ship came out.

Posted by: Zek at March 31, 2023 04:52 PM (5FPX4)

141 So, because I *do* intend to read this whole thing over the weekend, I am printing it out.

Beware if you do the same. It clocks in at 47 pages.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:53 PM (t0OGg)

142 In his last days in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war.
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Passed 92-7 in the Senate.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:33 PM (t0OGg)

That's because it was buried in a "must-pass" defense authorization spending bill which of course those cock-biters waited until the last fucking minute to pass.
Nobody reads the shit, and those that do don't care, but it seems to me it snuck through. A new policy shouldn't be buried in a spending bill.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2023 04:53 PM (FCbAQ)

143 Bugs are appearing so spring is here.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 04:53 PM (K/Q8b)

144 “all-hazards severe weather risk,”

Pollen, hoarfrost, St Elmo's Fire, increased radiation background count, increased cosmic ray flux, volcanism, frog torrents.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (MvF+J)

145 The GOP has watched Gandhi way too many times

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (us2H3)

146 If the House doesn't immediately open an impeachment inquiry on Brandon

they blow cocks by the gross
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (us2H3)
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Even if they *do* do something, they will still blow cocks by the gross.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (t0OGg)

147 That's because it was buried in a "must-pass" defense authorization spending bill which of course those cock-biters waited until the last fucking minute to pass.
Nobody reads the shit, and those that do don't care, but it seems to me it snuck through. A new policy shouldn't be buried in a spending bill.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2023 04:53 PM (FCbAQ)
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Yeah, but that would make the job harder and shit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (t0OGg)

148 Joe Mannix - funny you mention that.

As far back as the 1960s every single US phone call that either originated or was placed overseas was recorded on tape, and stored somewhere.

That's kind of what I was getting at earlier. The tech is much better, and can be analyzed faster, and without paying a gazillion drones to do it.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (i/LKe)

149 If the House doesn't immediately open an impeachment inquiry on Brandon

they blow cocks by the gross
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:49 PM (us2H3)

"That's not who we are." -GoPe


No, blowing cocks by the gross is pretty much exactly who they are.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 31, 2023 04:56 PM (Bd6X8)

150 Gloria Steinem nods in agreement. IYKYK.

Posted by: Whoever that dimwit was. at March 31, 2023 04:56 PM (fjPRN)

151 Amazing Long Essay
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I read it as "Amazingly Long Essay"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 04:57 PM (fs1hN)

152 Or a "may read, if you like reading things that are good."

Ace, Could you put the request in some sort of polite Victorian sounding verbiage as you did with Fetterman's letters to Giselle "Zipline"? That would be funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 04:57 PM (FUVRY)

153 >>As far back as the 1960s every single US phone call that either originated or was placed overseas was recorded on tape, and stored somewhere.

>>That's kind of what I was getting at earlier. The tech is much better, and can be analyzed faster, and without paying a gazillion drones to do it.

The NSA has listening posts located next to every major internet peering and interconnect location around the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 04:58 PM (ZLI7S)

154 That's kind of what I was getting at earlier. The tech is much better, and can be analyzed faster, and without paying a gazillion drones to do it.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (i/LKe)
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It's one of the things AI is good for. There are two major kinds of AI, and one of them is pulling lots of data together to automate analysis.

That is the kind that the CCP is *really* good at. I doubt they're the world leader in it anymore, though. That is probably us, now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:58 PM (t0OGg)

155 Princeton IL weather 'models' show tornado with four inch hail, 35 in/hr precip. This seems a bit much.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:58 PM (MvF+J)

156 The sidebar pitch meeting is TIGHT!

Posted by: Holy Crap at March 31, 2023 04:58 PM (i0Gj1)

157 134 >>Bing “Google is not what it appears to be” for this detailed, disturbing piece by Assange.

Highlands Forum.

Seriously, why would the CIA need it's own venture capital company?
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 04:50 PM (ZLI7S)

Silicon Valley was built by defense spending. Different agencies involved in that place top to bottom.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2023 04:59 PM (eYoxG)

158 looks like one day, I'll have to open casa REDACTED as a refuge

better get started on another barn

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:59 PM (us2H3)

159 I love spring. So good get away from the cold. Don't know how many times I'll have this again. Years are precious and the older you get the more you appreciate each and every one.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 04:59 PM (K/Q8b)

160 Donald trump rented a hotel room so Russian hookers could piss all over him on Barack Obama's once-used mattress.

While some people rate this "not fully believable," Trump is orange, and those people smell like retail establishments frequented by commoners.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 04:59 PM (oINRc)

161 Read this the other night and it is absolutely mandatory reading.

Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 05:00 PM (AbL8c)

162 >>Silicon Valley was built by defense spending. Different agencies involved in that place top to bottom.

Indeed. I worked for SV companies for a long time. It was an open secret that the intel/defense communities were all over the place.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 05:00 PM (ZLI7S)

163 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:01 PM (T4tVD)

164 116 >>> Read the whole thing. If you want to. You are free-willed individual and can of course read what you want, and the amount that you want.

Just checking in the news for the day, it's been busy... I feel like that Galdalf meme in the cave when he looks confused and is all "I have no memory of this place".

Did someone tell Ace he was too bossy? At his own blog? I'm missing the joke.
Posted by: LizLem at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (+mkOR)

A few jokes here and there about ace asking us to read things, particularly the content. So that'd be a responding joke.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2023 05:02 PM (eYoxG)

165 The GOP has watched Gandhi way too many times
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 04:54 PM (us2H3)

Did they ever get to the "end" though?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 05:02 PM (mR6Gs)

166 ... a sprawling leviathan with tentacles reaching into both the public and private sector, which the government uses to direct a "whole of society" effort that aims to seize total control over the internet and achieve nothing less than the eradication of human error.

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I, for one, do not welcome our new Godless Communist Utopian AI Bot Overlords.

Next up? Nina Jankowitz sings show tunes written by SkyNet ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 05:02 PM (2dJpy)

167 Certainly feels like "interesting times". I am not optimistic. Who's got the coffee? I need more

Posted by: Funsize (EiPf6) at March 31, 2023 05:02 PM (zds/e)

168 Princeton IL weather 'models' show tornado with four inch hail, 35 in/hr precip. This seems a bit much.

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Is this going to be on pay-per-view? Sounds fucking awesome. Especially since I'm in Oregon.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 05:02 PM (h1jJh)

169 Are they the singing Hamiltons or the dancing Hamiltons?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

170 FenelonSpoke

How did your meeting go ?

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (T4tVD)

171 Princeton IL weather 'models' show tornado with four inch hail, 35 in/hr precip. This seems a bit much.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

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Yeah, we had really scary tornado warnings all afternoon in Little Rock. We only had heavy rain, some wind, and electricity out for 5-10 mins....and the tornado was allegedly right over our neighborhood.

Now they're reporting Level III Casulties at the local university hospital. Can we all say fear-mongering ar its finest?

Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (tQL7r)

172 So making a joke meme about Hillary voters is "election interference", but trumped-up charges against a POTUS candidate is not.

"Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, has been found guilty on charges of election interference by a federal court in the Eastern District of New York."

https://tinyurl.com/3hz9d6xv

Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (Rl7KJ)

173 Ricky Vaughn found guilty of spreading memes.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (nscIV)

174 Trans activists stormed the Florida Capitol today to oppose laws that protect little kids from them

https://tinyurl.com/3pdn5y4p

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (EMO0a)

175 That 'must read' article really is a must-read article. And easy to digest, because it's so well written. Worth 10 minutes of everyone's time.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at March 31, 2023 05:04 PM (VOHuN)

176 "Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn on Twitter, has been found guilty on charges of election interference by a federal court in the Eastern District of New York."

https://tinyurl.com/3hz9d6xv
Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (Rl7KJ)

Of course.. If he had done that but instead toldnTrump voters to vote on line nothing would have been done

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)

177 Ricky Vaughn found guilty of spreading memes.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (nscIV)

And using "Wild Thing" as his entrance song

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 05:04 PM (mR6Gs)

178 The question isn't whether we live in a Police State, the question is why is there so much crime?

They've turned the organs of state security inward, this was predictable, and predicted.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 31, 2023 05:05 PM (i/LKe)

179 Yea … accept McCarthy was right that the Democrats and their aligned institutions were crawling with communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers. It’s a total lie that McCarthy was on witch hunt. He caught an awful lot of witches.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 05:05 PM (k5hzv)

180

They are going to run Brandon again.

Look at all the shit that is going down.

It's going so well for them.

Not for the people the people but for DC.

Posted by: pawn at March 31, 2023 05:05 PM (kYVzH)

181 there will be no Schindler in our future

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:05 PM (us2H3)

182 Shall read, but also suggest the following - Read the State Department & Blinkens speeches, in particular fighting corruption, civil society, the Open Government Partnership... (WH documents, twitter, facebook, whatever is helpful.)

Eye openers to a whole new way of governance, not just one nation with its people and internal civil service, private industry and partnerships. We (the U.S.) have opinions, proposals & nudges forward for everything, everybody, everywhere.
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Weren't the establishment of long distance communications & potential for other infrastructure type businesses part of why the U.S. remained in Vietnam, and adjacent countries, as it did? I vaguely remember hearing something, maybe during the 1970s.

Posted by: Lola - ALL 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at March 31, 2023 05:06 PM (GshMh)

183 there will be no Schindler in our future
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Good thing, since my trust is in the Lord, not in any man.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:06 PM (EMO0a)

184 139 Any word from McCarthy on whether he'll whip up opposition to the RESTRICT act when it reaches the House? (I forget my schoolhouse rock, does a companion bill need to pass the house first?)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 04:52 PM (fs1hN)

Any sort of bill should need to pass both houses. And when there are revisions from one side it needs to go back to the other.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2023 05:07 PM (eYoxG)

185 Trans activists protested at the Florida capitol today to oppose laws that defend garbage people against not-fascism, and also no reasonable prosecutors, amen.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 05:07 PM (oINRc)

186 A US citizen can only serve 2 terms but the cabal can rule forever

this is not a joke, man

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:07 PM (us2H3)

187 Tablet has some great writing. Ace may have referenced it, but there was an article that came out a year or so ago about what they called - if I remember - the great "leveling" about how silicon valley is digitally imposing its world view on us and homogenizing our culture. To our peril, obviously.

Posted by: SMFH at March 31, 2023 05:07 PM (CEh/e)

188 Ricky Vaughn. Show 'em the heat, Ricky.

Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (gmo/4)

189 Former DNI Ric Grenell Has a Message for All Republicans – This is Saint Crispin’s Day

https://tinyurl.com/5n8jhd4e

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (EMO0a)

190 Indeed. I worked for SV companies for a long time. It was an open secret that the intel/defense communities were all over the place.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 05:00 PM (ZLI7S)

The SV companies were and remain in the American bubble.

The American bubble is the greatest economy ever established.

Vast wealth never seen before.

Now being plundered

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (K/Q8b)

191 Ricky Vaughn. Show 'em the heat, Ricky.
Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (gmo/4)
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Don't lose that number.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (2hlEI)

192 175 I'm ashamed to admit that I can't read 13000 words in ten minutes, but honesty compels me.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (MvF+J)

193 Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)

Some Asian chick did that.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 31, 2023 05:08 PM (nscIV)

194 I love spring. So good get away from the cold. Don't know how many times I'll have this again. Years are precious and the older you get the more you appreciate each and every one.
Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 04:59 PM (K/Q8b)

spring here is basically the weekend before or after Memorial Day. We are looking at snow next week.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (xPJvm)

195 186 A US citizen can only serve 2 terms but the cabal can rule forever

this is not a joke, man

Posted by: REDACTED

The law is what we must fear and they are above

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (dzZCL)

196 "Ricky Vaughn found guilty of spreading memes.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (nscIV)"

There are no jokes in Islam.

Posted by: Ayatolla Soh at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (5FPX4)

197 Was Ricky the Vaughn brother who played the cowbell?

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (SYTee)

198 Tablet has some great writing. Ace may have referenced it, but there was an article that came out a year or so ago about what they called - if I remember - the great "leveling" about how silicon valley is digitally imposing its world view on us and homogenizing our culture. To our peril, obviously.
Posted by: SMFH at March 31, 2023 05:07 PM (CEh/e)

I think it was called "Everything Is Broken"?

Posted by: DaisyB at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (AbL8c)

199 Good thing, since my trust is in the Lord, not in any man.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:06 PM (EMO0a)

but what if you're wrong ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (us2H3)

200 One gets the impressing that our representatives don't give a crap about the details of the laws that are passed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:10 PM (fs1hN)

201 but what if you're wrong ?
Posted by: REDACTED
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What if you are?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:11 PM (EMO0a)

202
192... Posted by: Peel gp A Grape

that thing needs a cork blackboard, tacks, and wool thread

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 31, 2023 05:11 PM (dzZCL)

203 Off sock.

Posted by: Golfman at March 31, 2023 05:12 PM (fjPRN)

204 "a man came up to Muhammad to ask him to give him a beast to ride. The Prophet jokingly told him, "I will give you the offspring of a she-camel to ride." He said, "O Messenger of Allah, what will I do with the offspring of a she-camel?" The Prophet said: "Are riding-camels born except from she-camels?""

Who says there aren't any thigh-slappers in Islam?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 05:12 PM (MvF+J)

205 I don't have to read all of that to know what's been going on.

I see a pile of dog shit being bleached white in the sun, I know it's dog shit, or Karl Rove out for a walk.

The Disinformation Deep State is a pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 05:12 PM (R/m4+)

206 What if you are?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:11 PM (EMO0a)

then I'm wrong and I'll go to hell

but what if you are ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:13 PM (us2H3)

207 I worked for SV companies for a long time. It was an open secret that the intel/defense communities were all over the place.

Posted by: JackStraw

Absolutely. DARPA stood up every social media "company." And I suspect most Silicon Valley "companies" too.

Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 05:13 PM (tQL7r)

208 "that thing needs a cork blackboard, tacks, and wool thread"

I've got plenty of those, but no wall-space left for a new conspiracy board. I'll have to take one down, but which one?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 05:13 PM (MvF+J)

209 Seriously, though... Wal-Marts stink of Trump support. You can read it in the IG report, so it's fully believable info, just like its conclusions about training modules, and so forth.

Posted by: Fully Believable Information at March 31, 2023 05:14 PM (oINRc)

210 Boobs are like cars
Posted by: JoeF
........

You don't want a flat.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 05:15 PM (v0R5T)

211 nood

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 05:15 PM (MvF+J)

212 the left depends on the right not using the power at their disposal

they are vicious and if the GOP is meek, they will lose

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 05:15 PM (us2H3)

213 That 'must read' article really is a must-read article. And easy to digest, because it's so well written. Worth 10 minutes of everyone's time.
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at March 31, 2023 05:04 PM (VOHuN)


10 minutes? Maybe if you're Evelyn Wood on meth.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 05:15 PM (h5TKJ)

214 One gets the impressing that our representatives don't give a crap about the details of the laws that are passed.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Well, why should they? They always exempt themselves from any laws they pass.

Posted by: Prime Sister at March 31, 2023 05:15 PM (tQL7r)

215 Conservatives are evil. thats information not disinformation.

Posted by: raimondo at March 31, 2023 05:16 PM (dOr8F)

216 How did your meeting go ?
Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 05:03 PM (T4tVD)

My boss wants us to close by June, even though we are up to date on our denominational "dues" while other church are tens of thousands of dollars out, and we are waiting to hear from Open Space about buying the land. I am not happy with this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 05:16 PM (FUVRY)

217 Mackey posted the memes on November 1, a week before the election, and Frisch said that the meme’s message was "ludicrous to anyone with a basic knowledge of how presidential elections work," the New York Daily Mail reported.
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In fairness, "basic knowledge of how presidential elections work"... wait, I'm not sure what I was going to say about this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 05:17 PM (fs1hN)

218 then I'm wrong and I'll go to hell

but what if you are ?
Posted by: REDACTED
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"And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied."

I, along with many other believers, will weep in Hell.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:18 PM (EMO0a)

219 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 31, 2023 05:09 PM (xPJvm)

That's why I keep saying Colorado has lost approximately two weeks of growing season.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 05:18 PM (nC+QA)

220 Fortunately, the Lord isn't a liar.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 05:20 PM (EMO0a)

221 SMH, the early tech people knew what the effects would be.

They talked about how the dopamine hits would work on the minds of the young.

What we're seeing now is the inevitable result of that.

The tyranny shooting just the latest example.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 05:21 PM (K/Q8b)

222 The government is not allowed to instruct private-sector operators to do what it itself is forbidden to do. This is very simple. That is illegal.

Not only is it a felony for everyone involved, it carries a potential death penalty, and Democrats have been executed during my lifetime for violating that law.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 31, 2023 05:25 PM (CecP5)

223 A really good piece. Thanks, ace.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 05:25 PM (1kE2X)

224 Retardo!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 05:26 PM (1kE2X)

225 Using "press response" as a barometer for *anything* at any time (or at least, post-broadcasting, when the absurd fiction of a "balanced press" came into being) is a very, very bad thing to do.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 04:32 PM (t0OGg)
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Actually it's quite a good litmus test. If the press is for something, I'm against it. And vice versa.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2023 05:28 PM (YqDXo)

226 I'm glad that the left has established the Trump indictment precedent, as that means we can go after Obama and Holder for Fast and Furious. Since that resulted in the death of a federal agent, their conspiracy to oppress gun rights is a death penalty case for everyone in the DOJ and ATF management who was involved. This is the thing that terrifies Obama. Proof? They were so worried, that they gave us a fall guy in Assistant AG Lanny Breuer to take the rap for them.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at March 31, 2023 05:35 PM (CecP5)

227 Seems like a good article to sink into over the weekend.

Posted by: Ace at 04:15 PM

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Thanks Ace, good analysis / stuff.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 05:44 PM (2dJpy)

228 Was McCarthy wrong about anybody that he accused?

Posted by: DFCtomm at March 31, 2023 05:58 PM (vDj4Y)

229 May the LORD swiftly judge those who are harming children and the innocent.

Posted by: setnaffa at March 31, 2023 06:24 PM (BdSXF)

230 While we plan the never-happen (political, legal) responses to whatever it is we believe the Left have done, they are running ten more operations, which we will find out about in different measures over the next four to five years. In which time they will have ten more to deploy.

I remember telling ace a very long time ago that the Left plans these things at least three years in advance (for contemporary times we'll say that for example in 2017 while the War on Women raged, they knew this tranny stuff was coming to take center stage) and as of now they know what buckets of piss will be dumped on our heads in 2025 and 2026.

Ace didn't believe me. Not at all. I'm not making fun here or saying I told you so. I am just explaining how "it" works. I mostly just talk to myself.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 07:29 PM (BXxcV)

231 Author is a certified idiot who hasn’t the brains to be aware of the Verona tapes. McCarthy was correct and the deep state couldn’t handle the disclosure of their infiltration of the government.

What a dolt.

Posted by: Jake at March 31, 2023 08:11 PM (EcD5Y)

Shawn Fleetwood and Mollie Hemingway: Voter Suppression Is Very Real. It's Just That It's the Democrats Are Making Sure Republican Strongholds Don't Have Enough Ballots for All the Republican Voters.

I don't see Jake Tapper of Stacy Abrams talking much about this.


Voter Suppression Is Real And It's Not What You Were Told

Pennsylvania residents have filed a lawsuit against Luzerne County after being denied their constitutional right to vote in the 2022 midterms.


Shawn Fleetwood and Mollie Hemingway

On the morning of Election Day last November, William French went to his local polling place in Freeland, Pennsylvania, to cast his vote. But the qualified and registered voter wasn't allowed to. The disabled U.S. Army veteran was told that the precinct had run out of paper for ballots and he had to come back later in the afternoon.

So that's what he did, returning at 3:30 p.m. But the precinct still didn't have ballots. Election workers told him to return yet again. But by nightfall, it was too difficult. French has endured 17 surgeries on his destroyed leg and uses a cane to walk. But the sidewalks are a mess, and he was worried about the risk of falling and further injury.

That same morning, Melynda Reese and her husband went to their polling location in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. But only Reese's husband was allowed to vote, and for the same reason: The precinct had run out of paper. They came back at 4:00 p.m. and were told there would be a lengthy wait.

Reese is a corrections officer and her husband's primary caregiver. He had recently suffered two cardiac arrests and a stroke. He required regular medication and attention and couldn't be left alone. Long waits were also too much to bear. The couple returned at 6:30 p.m., and saw a line that stretched so long that they knew they couldn't wait. Around 9:15 p.m., an election official called Reese and told her that ballots were finally available and she could vote. But her husband had just taken his sleeping pills and she couldn't leave him unattended.

French and Reese are just two of the thousands of voters affected by poor election administration in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The two just sued Luzerne County, its Board of Elections and Registration, and its Bureau of Elections in federal court for violations of their constitutional right to vote.

"Voters in Luzerne County through no fault of their own, were disenfranchised and denied the fundamental right to vote. William French and Melynda Reese are two of those voters. They bring suit to vindicate the denial of their sacred right to vote, to make sure voters are not disenfranchised in the future, and to bring integrity back to elections in Luzerne County," said Wally Zimolong, lawyer for French and Reese.


Luzerne County was coal country and once a Democrat stronghold, before Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, when the county voted Republican. The county's election administration in 2022 was, according to the lawsuit, a "catastrophic failure." More than 40 precincts had an insufficient number of ballots, many running out early in the morning on Election Day. The county implausibly blamed high voter interest, but Pennsylvania law requires counties to have enough ballots for every registered voter.

Ergo, you shouldn't run out of ballots, because you're supposed to anticipate 100% of voters voting.


Election workers were sent scrambling to office supply stores for paper, and were left untrained for the disastrous day. A court had to intervene to allow a few more hours of voting. Judge Lesa Gelb wrote in her order, "Voters in Luzerne County through no fault of their own, were disenfranchised and denied the fundamental right to vote." Left-wing groups pressured the county election board to certify the election results, even though the first vote to certify failed to pass. The county election board bowed to the pressure.

You may, if you are so inclined, consider reading the whole thing.

I agree, "Read the Whole Thing" is bossy.

Posted by: Ace at 03:15 PM




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1 don't know how many times I was told saying voter fraud was craaazzzy

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:15 PM (uQPen)

2 "You may?"

So you are giving me permission?

AoSHQ...filled with fascists!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (XIJ/X)

3 An administration that wastes literal trillions of dollars doesn't have enough ballots. Is this a cost-saving measure?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (eOEVl)

4 You may, if you are so inclined, consider reading the whole thing.

I agree, "Read the Whole Thing" is bossy.


And as we all know, you aren't the boss of me.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (eOEVl)

5 *types*
*deletes*
*weeps for what has been lost irretrievably *

Posted by: 496 at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (QZJSZ)

6 I get the sense I missed something in the last thread.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 03:17 PM (tp+tP)

7 >>>I don't see Jake Tapper of Stacy Abrams

Jake Tapper, SON of Stacy Abrams?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 03:17 PM (v0TzN)

8 302 This, in a nutshell, is why I deprecate libertarians (and librarians, just to be sure). Applying one's "principles" unilaterally and reflexively across the board is puerile. There has to be a look-in for judgment, something that libertarians apparently lack.
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So you have fucked crazy a couple times, rite?
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Note - I got Willowed.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:17 PM (OTXUv)

9 This is just another example of fraud.

And we haven't seen the tip of iceberg. But we sure felt the results.

Every trick, every scenario that someone who wants to defraud the elections is being done.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:18 PM (uQPen)

10 O'Keefe is on the trail of a bazillion ghost political contributions laundered thru unwitting(?) dupe donors.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:19 PM (MvF+J)

11 Good afternoon,all. I see ignoring the world for 72ish hours didn’t make it less maddening. When do we start screeching about democrats suppressing votes? Who is printing up signs?

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 03:19 PM (pZz43)

12 Shickshinny, Pennsylvania.
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Never been there, your honor.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:19 PM (OTXUv)

13 I'd like to start a SuperPAC focused entirely on voter suppression. Flood the internet and airways urging people not to vote.
There are way too many retards voting already.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:19 PM (76Foq)

14 >>>Election workers were sent scrambling to office supply stores for paper, and were left untrained for the disastrous day. A court had to intervene to allow a few more hours of voting. Judge Lesa Gelb wrote in her order, "Voters in Luzerne County through no fault of their own, were disenfranchised and denied the fundamental right to vote." Left-wing groups pressured the county election board to certify the election results, even though the first vote to certify failed to pass. The county election board bowed to the pressure.


I love the implication that this was just an honest mistake, and therefore, not worth making a big deal about.

Remember: conspiracies don't exist, there are only "whoopsies," and those are okay.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (tp+tP)

15 Same as in AZ and everywhere else. But this is largely the fault of the state GOP parties and the GOP candidates themselves.

How hard is it for the state party or candidate's organization to make sure ahead of time that there are enough ballots, at least in the major voting areas where the Dumocraps can be expected to cheat?

Did nobody from Lake's campaign think to check the voting stations in Maricopa to ensure they had the correct ballots and enough of them? Nah, they just relied on their political opponents -- who everyone knows cheat like motherfuckers -- to do it.

Wtf?? Are we gonna do NOTHING to try to counter the Dums' blatant cheating? I'm sick and fucking tired of the GOP willingly sticking its ass in the air to be butt-fucked by the Dums.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

16 #8 Template: Taiwan News @TaiwanNews886 · 14h
CCP paid Chinese gangsters US$200 each to crash Taiwan president's NY arrival: NSB https://taiwannews.com.tw/
en/news/4852013

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (Vwz3I)

17 Democrats scream about voter suppression, ergo they engage in it.

The same thing happened on an even larger scale in Arizona.

Though I think the jackpot will be the illegal money laundering, including foreign donations, that was just exposed. Billions of dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (lTGtQ)

18 The Dems had better be damn sure they can maintain the steal indefinitely, because if they ever lose power, there is going to be a reckoning, and they won't like what happens to them.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (eOEVl)

19 French and Reese are just two of the thousands of voters affected by poor election administration in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. ...
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When it's on purpose, is it really "poor?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (t0OGg)

20 Machines out of order in conservative precincts in Maricopa.
Not enough ballots in Pinal county.
Over 100k ballots that don't comply with State law.

Nothing to see here.
~Abortion mouse

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:21 PM (4WAN5)

21 Hmm...moot or no standing? Moot or no standing?

Time to flip the ol' coin o' justice.

Posted by: Chief "Justice" John Roberts at March 31, 2023 03:21 PM (wUHYj)

22 The Dems had better be damn sure they can maintain the steal indefinitely, because if they ever lose power, there is going to be a reckoning, and they won't like what happens to them.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (eOEVl)


....and your evidence for this "reckoning" is what, exactly?

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 03:22 PM (tp+tP)

23 More than 40 precincts had an insufficient number of ballots, many running out early in the morning on Election Day. The county implausibly blamed high voter interest, but Pennsylvania law requires counties to have enough ballots for every registered voter.
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That's preposterous. It's like saying that there should be lifeboat space for every passenger on a ship.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:22 PM (t0OGg)

24 I remember reading something about this same thing happening in AZ.

The way they were claiming they didn't disenfranchise voters was that they had more than enough ballots to cover all registered voters in the county, plus some. But the catch was they'd send 50,000 ballots to a precinct that was historically Democrat, even if they only had 2,000 voters, but then send 1,000 to a Republican area they knew had 10,000 voters. That way any case could be thrown out, since they technically followed the law.

Posted by: Rbastid at March 31, 2023 03:22 PM (K+KQZ)

25 I love the implication that this was just an honest mistake, and therefore, not worth making a big deal about.

Remember: conspiracies don't exist, there are only "whoopsies," and those are okay.

Posted by: Dr. T


It was just an honest mistake that happened in Luzerne and several other precincts in PA, and also in Arizona, and also in Houston. Just a mistake. Probably with an email trail.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:22 PM (lTGtQ)

26 "Hey, don't blame us that red counties aren't able to handle their voting volumes." - Blue city shitholes with 100%+ 2020 turnout rates

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 03:22 PM (KbCG3)

27 And is it in GOPe districts too trying to screw MAGA-esque candidates like Lake?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 03:23 PM (Vwz3I)

28 More than 40 precincts had an insufficient number of ballots, many running out early in the morning on Election Day. The county implausibly blamed high voter interest, but Pennsylvania law requires counties to have enough ballots for every registered voter.
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What's awesome about this is that it lets them win twice.

If you don't have enough ballots, you disenfranchise people. If you do have enough ballots, then surely turnout won't be 100% and so then you have some free ballots to fill out however the machinery would like to see them filled out. Then those Bonus Ballots can be stuffed into the box.

Win/win. Corruption's a bitch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:23 PM (t0OGg)

29 They accuse you of what they're doing or plan to do.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 31, 2023 03:23 PM (eYoxG)

30

16 #8 Template: Taiwan News @TaiwanNews886 · 14h
CCP paid Chinese gangsters US$200 each to crash Taiwan president's NY arrival: NSB https://taiwannews.com.tw/
en/news/4852013
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (Vwz3I)

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I'd read that Chinese intelligence services are really stingy, and this confirms it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 31, 2023 03:23 PM (G6qJm)

31 I very clearly remember being schooled by Dave in Wherever the Hell He Posts From that my look at a few states voting results from 2016 - all on Wiki - and coming up with a 5% margin of voter fraud was straight up nonsense.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:23 PM (flOYI)

32 18 The Dems had better be damn sure they can maintain the steal indefinitely, because if they ever lose power, there is going to be a reckoning, and they won't like what happens to them.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (eOEVl)

They lost power in 2016.

It ended with them fortifying elections to a degree that that shan't happen again.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (KbCG3)

33
Did nobody from Lake's campaign think to check the voting stations in Maricopa to ensure they had the correct ballots and enough of them? Nah, they just relied on their political opponents -- who everyone knows cheat like motherfuckers -- to do it.

Posted by: Elric Blade


According to what I read those machines had been checked the day before, and worked correctly.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (4WAN5)

34 The way they were claiming they didn't disenfranchise voters was that they had more than enough ballots to cover all registered voters in the county, plus some. But the catch was they'd send 50,000 ballots to a precinct that was historically Democrat, even if they only had 2,000 voters, but then send 1,000 to a Republican area they knew had 10,000 voters. That way any case could be thrown out, since they technically followed the law.
Posted by: Rbastid at March 31, 2023 03:22 PM (K+KQZ)
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Yup, which then puts you into micromanagement through law, plastering yet another stick-save onto the mess by defining precincts, etc.

Instead of just running the elections officers out on a rail.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (t0OGg)

35 Weird how this was rarely a problem before...

Well, I guess next time you just you just need a better candidate. Someone who can make John Fetterman look like a braindead slob.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (LvTSG)

36 The PA Supreme Court authorized blatantly unconstitutional amendments to the voting laws that allowed the DNC to steal the election. Why should we expect the PA courts to care about disenfranchising voters this way?

It may be time for the third box.

Posted by: egd at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (cOB2v)

37 Urgent! If you promise to donate $20.00 by midnight tonight, we promise to try and have some paper for you to vote with.

Posted by: The GOPe at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (76Foq)

38 Did nobody from Lake's campaign think to check the voting stations in Maricopa to ensure they had the correct ballots and enough of them? Nah, they just relied on their political opponents -- who everyone knows cheat like motherfuckers -- to do it.

And when the precincts refuse to let them inspect anything, and lock them out? When the courts refuse to hear any challenge?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (wmDcS)

39 33
Did nobody from Lake's campaign think to check the voting stations in Maricopa to ensure they had the correct ballots and enough of them? Nah, they just relied on their political opponents -- who everyone knows cheat like motherfuckers -- to do it.

Posted by: Elric Blade


According to what I read those machines had been checked the day before, and worked correctly.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (4WAN5)
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Yea, but the issue wasn't the machines themselves. It's that the voting stations didn't have enough proper-sized ballots. That should have been easy to check the day before. So either nobody checked, or they did and fucked it up. Either way this was an unforced error. Lake would have won on election day if not for this.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

40 Why not just require index finger print scan to vote a ballot? We have the technology to do this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (OTXUv)

41 38 And when the precincts refuse to let them inspect anything, and lock them out? When the courts refuse to hear any challenge?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (wmDcS)

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Well, obviously it's Trump's fault. Democrats wouldn't have done that for a McCain clone. Then we'd get another McCain!

Success! Go Team Red!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

42 According to what I read those machines had been checked the day before, and worked correctly.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (4WAN5)


By whom? The election workers? The campaigns?

If the former, what proof is there that they were actually checked, as opposed to pencil-whipping the whole thing?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:27 PM (wmDcS)

43 Michael Bloomberg's America resembles Zimbabwe in many respects, although neither Mugabe nor apartheid are quite as evil as the New York types running the West into the ground.

Posted by: trev006 at March 31, 2023 03:27 PM (DTm0P)

44 Might I suggest "read the whole thing and get a coupon for a free personal-pan pizza"?

Posted by: Cicero Kabom! Kid at March 31, 2023 03:27 PM (3Or4S)

45 I am shocked, simply SHOCKED this is happening you guys!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 03:28 PM (MCHPY)

46 The left has corrupted everything. Even our basic right to a fair election. And now they're indicting their political opponents.

And nothing will be done about any of it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 03:29 PM (BdMk6)

47 May have to get into a sheltered place before long. Arkansas is getting torn up by tornadoes this afternoon, especially Little Rock.

Posted by: Dr. T at March 31, 2023 03:29 PM (tp+tP)

48 And when the precincts refuse to let them inspect anything, and lock them out? When the courts refuse to hear any challenge?

What you don't do, is what Kari Lake did. When shit starts going sideways, you don't predict victory once a certain group of early votes not yet counted go your way.

You send staffers into these fucked up polling places, in real time, to document not being able to vote. You do it all across the state. And you get that shit out before the final results are tallied. You create a pile of shit too big to be ignored.

Because once that score goes up ... just like in sportsball ... that result will not be changed.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:29 PM (flOYI)

49 The Courts have shown time and again they don't care.

This suit gets tossed.

Posted by: Getting rich on stonks at March 31, 2023 03:29 PM (5EOzM)

50 I see Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are rip-roaring, rearing and tearing to sue Harris County for the same scam.

No wait. That right: They haven't done shit.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 03:30 PM (6Mlq5)

51 So either nobody checked, or they did
Posted by: Elric Blade

Since were guessing:
Or only some of the boxes had the right size.
Or the boxes of blank boxes were swapped out for wrong size.
Or the machines were set for the wrong paper size (which is what I remember, hence 'broken' machines). This could have been done after the checks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:30 PM (4WAN5)

52 And is it in GOPe districts too trying to screw MAGA-esque candidates like Lake?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 03:23 PM (Vwz3I)

That's basically it. There are idiots who come here and say it's Lake's fault for not sufficiently sucking up to the McCain and Douchey wings of the party. Or more accurately, not being OF the McCain and Douchey wings of the party.

The steal could have been stopped. If... IF those wings of the party had any interest in doing so. But they didn't.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (S3vYy)

53 This is racist! Also I personally don’t want the govt to have the ability to collect all of our fingerprints. At least not overtly.

But we do need to do something way different because the avenues that should be available to us simply are not. Our court system is full of bananas.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (pZz43)

54 We're supposed to have one last mini blizzard tonight. 4-6 in of snow with 35-40 mph winds.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (76Foq)

55 Sounds a lot like a typical corporate new-tech-rollout nightmare. Not doubting it was nefarious, but they disguised it well. Why the hell does a polling-place need printers in the first place? The voting workflow is ridiculously complicated and expensive.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (MvF+J)

56 I believe the key phrase is “voter disenfranchisement.”

Needs to be repeated.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (MCHPY)

57 By whom? The election workers? The campaigns?

If the former, what proof is there that they were actually checked, as opposed to pencil-whipping the whole thing?
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Precinct workers IIRC.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (4WAN5)

58 I saw Republican Strongholds open for Govt. Mule at the Bartow FL Piggly Wiggly grand opening and greased hog wrestling championships in 77'

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (bUQO2)

59 Look, it's all FUBAR. I know it, you know it. How do we fix it?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (Xrfse)

60 52 The steal could have been stopped. If... IF those wings of the party had any interest in doing so. But they didn't.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (S3vYy)

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We would have won if we'd gotten another McCain! Like Martha McSally!

Democrats like those McCains!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

61 Same thing happened in Houston. They investigated and you can guess the conclusion. No intentional act. Just a coincidence it in occurred only in Republican heavy precincts.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (+hsEU)

62 Precinct workers IIRC.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (4WAN5)


Then I'm betting that they were never checked.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (wmDcS)

63 PA voting hi-jinks? Nah. Fetterman got 81 million votes.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

64 Pennsylvania Supreme court -

NO STANDING, Dismissed.

Posted by: National Review at March 31, 2023 03:33 PM (53oGX)

65 The proof is in who it favors every single time

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:33 PM (uQPen)

66 62 Precinct workers IIRC.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:31 PM (4WAN5)

Then I'm betting that they were never checked.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (wmDcS)

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"They were checked. See? I checked the box on the form. Checked."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:33 PM (LvTSG)

67 off old sock

Posted by: Inogame at March 31, 2023 03:33 PM (53oGX)

68 In 2020, I stood in line in SC for over an hour to vote for Trump.

My Grandmother in NY and an illegal immigrant had no wait time to vote for Biden.

I could not talk her out of it, as she has been dead for many years

Posted by: Regular joe at March 31, 2023 03:33 PM (nnp+f)

69 Slap Therapy GOOGLE IT!!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (bUQO2)

70 Ergo, you shouldn't run out of ballots, because you're supposed to anticipate 100% of voters voting.

What about districts where 105% of voters vote?

Posted by: Daniel Simpson Day at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (x72Rm)

71 18 The Dems had better be damn sure they can maintain the steal indefinitely, because if they ever lose power, there is going to be a reckoning, and they won't like what happens to them.

Bullshit. Exactly nothing will happen. At least not by the GOP. Wake me when someone starts breaking a few eggs.

Posted by: Sick & Tired at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (ChLld)

72 This is the story of Harris County, most populated in Texas. This happened almost exclusively on the west side of town. When Harris County went blue 2018 they got rid of the elected position of Harris County Clerk and appointed the replacements. One resigned, another was removed from office for incompetence and the current one has been indicted all in a span of 4 years and 3 votes.

A lawsuit or 10 are out there but they don't seem to be going anywhere. Harris County was the only county out of 253 in Texas that didn't have their votes tabulated by midnight in 2022.

Posted by: DanMan at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (DB6tu)

73 Kari Lake was probably robbed, that being said I gotta agree with the notion that she and hers could have done with a bit less grandstanding and a bit more ground game.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (PZvjL)

74 Lake would have won on election day if not for this.

Posted by: Elric Blade



Nobody won on election day, because her opponent had not printed up enough ballots to certify for the win yet.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (lTGtQ)

75 My 53 is in response to 40. Not working on all cylinders, clearly.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (pZz43)

76 I like how, for the past 50 years, anytime a Democrat filed a lawsuit to keep the polls open--even for the weakest of reasons--, it was automatically granted.

But, in 2022, for the first time i can ever recall, the judge in AZ found no reason to keep the polls open.

Really odd, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (6Mlq5)

77 "They were checked. See? I checked the box on the form. Checked."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:33 PM (LvTSG)


Bingo. That was the big takeaway from the Kari Lake lawsuit, IMHO: Maricopa county was a shitshow of mismanagement and incompetence. My assumption is that it's that way everywhere, which is why the GOP has no interest in cracking down on this stuff: their side would be just as guilty as the dems. Lots of questions would be raised about why certain expensive systems were purchased, where all the money went that was set aside for training officials and volunteers, etc.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (wmDcS)

78 In Houston’s case it was just the precinct captains incompetently not anticipating this type of cheat.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (+hsEU)

79 The only way I can see to fix it - and this won't be popular here (pun intended) - is minimize the popular vote. Thus smaller elections.

As in, go back to US Reps elected by the populace, and Senators appointed by Legislatures. I'd be just fine, once that system was in place, by skipping Presidential elections entirely and kicking it to the House and Senate. Should take about a week.

At the State level ? Same kinda' deal.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (flOYI)

80 2024 is going to different. The GOP will fix all this by then,
*rolls eyes*

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

81 As has been noted previously, elections, regardless of locale and parties involved, is largely, controlled and fortified.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 03:36 PM (up/3i)

82 Look, it's all FUBAR. I know it, you know it. How do we fix it?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 03:32 PM (Xrfse)

WE don't. THEY are in control now. If THEY mess it bad enough maybe WE'LL get another chance.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 03:36 PM (K/Q8b)

83 Either way this was an unforced error. Lake would have won on election day if not for this.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

Which is your way of saying, if you have secure locks on all your windows and doors except one defective lock on one window, and burglars come in and steal everything you own, it's YOUR fault for not knowing you had one lock that wasn't secured.

That's some pretty shitty reasoning there, fella.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:37 PM (S3vYy)

84 "Ergo, you shouldn't run out of ballots, because you're supposed to anticipate 100% of voters voting."

Texas law sez 125% of highest of last three for each voting location. The current clerk in Harris County broke that law
about 26 times with no consequences so far.

Posted by: DanMan at March 31, 2023 03:37 PM (DB6tu)

85 Bingo. That was the big takeaway from the Kari Lake lawsuit, IMHO: Maricopa county was a shitshow of mismanagement and incompetence. My assumption is that it's that way everywhere, which is why the GOP has no interest in cracking down on this stuff: their side would be just as guilty as the dems. Lots of questions would be raised about why certain expensive systems were purchased, where all the money went that was set aside for training officials and volunteers, etc.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (wmDcS)
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And that then might raise other questions - like, "if elections are this messy and fraudulent, what about X?" And then every X will be found to be the same. The veneer comes off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:37 PM (t0OGg)

86 80 2024 is going to different. The GOP will fix all this by then,
*rolls eyes*
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

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Some may get addressed at some state levels. AZ is possibly the best bet for positive action, and I'd put that at something like 25% of happening.

If it happens, though, it's not enough for the presidential election. That's lost.

Still, local and state voting is important. Just because the headline is a lost cause doesn't mean that you sit out and cede your state to leftists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:37 PM (LvTSG)

87 85 And that then might raise other questions - like, "if elections are this messy and fraudulent, what about X?" And then every X will be found to be the same. The veneer comes off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:37 PM (t0OGg)

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"I did it to accumulate power over the peasants. And they can get horsefucked."
-Pennsylvania Secretary of State, on television, in about a week

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:38 PM (LvTSG)

88 Recall that in Arizona, it took three days for the election supervisors to go through invalid ballots and validate them so that Hobbs, the supervisor of elections, could declare victory.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:38 PM (lTGtQ)

89 Urgent! If you promise to donate $20.00 by midnight tonight, we promise to try and have some paper for you to vote with.
Posted by: The GOPe at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (76Foq)
........

$20? I knew you were cheap whores.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

90 From Gumby's 'Now you know file' Many teachers union employees moonlight as protectors, Antigua and BLM'ers and now he/she/it'ers. STOP SCHOOL BUSING-HOME SCHOOL-ABOLISH JIMMY CARTER'S FEDERAL DEPT OF ED.....

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (bUQO2)

91 88 Recall that in Arizona, it took three days for the election supervisors to go through invalid ballots and validate them so that Hobbs, the supervisor of elections, could declare victory.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:38 PM (lTGtQ)

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If only Lake had better ground game...For shame...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (LvTSG)

92 Marjorie Taylor Greene to Lead New York Protest of Trump Indictment on Tuesday

https://tinyurl.com/3v4x7evb

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (EMO0a)

93 Some may get addressed at some state levels. AZ is possibly the best bet for positive action, and I'd put that at something like 25% of happening.

..

Dems control the Gov, SOS, and AG.

0% chance.

Posted by: Getting rich on stonks at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (5EOzM)

94 ANTIFA too..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (bUQO2)

95 If only Lake had better ground game...For shame...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (LvTSG

If only she had been a Quality Candidate

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (/99pL)

96 These criminals really do lay low and stay within their own circles. If I had one inkling of someone I knew (even at a distance) I would report them. They are a clandestine group.

We need more infiltrators. Remember how they blocked conservatives from watching the polling and tallying in some precincts?

Nothing was done.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (uQPen)

97 Clearly these people are doing their best with a shoestring budget and maybe you should consider increasing their funding instead of complaining that they are promoting fraud and influencing elections.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (kj5Hc)

98 95 If only she had been a Quality Candidate
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (/99pL)

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If only Lake had gone out and spoken to the people instead of hiding from the press and refusing to do public appearances...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

99 Which is your way of saying, if you have secure locks on all your windows and doors except one defective lock on one window, and burglars come in and steal everything you own, it's YOUR fault for not knowing you had one lock that wasn't secured.

When you've watched them steal everything from every house around you ? Then yeah ? It's on you. Your line of reasoning gets old. It's the Republican line of reasoning. Constantly bitching "but the rules".

Fool me once, shame on you.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (flOYI)

100 Dems control the Gov, SOS, and AG.

-

What makes things interesting is that the Constitution is extremely clear that only the state's congress has control over elections.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (kj5Hc)

101 If only Lake had better ground game...For shame...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (LvTSG)

Lol, if only Republicans had better ground games in these stolen elections.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (K/Q8b)

102 By the way, not a single Fleetwood Mac joke?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

103 If only Lake had gone out and spoken to the people instead of hiding from the press and refusing to do public appearances...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

Were always saying it. Retail Politics Wins Elections.

More kissing of babies less fighting the media

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (/99pL)

104 Lake's story is classically tragic. She, a mortal, dared to challenge the gods of cheat, and of course they ate her up.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (MvF+J)

105 By the way, not a single Fleetwood Mac joke?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (LvTSG)

Crossed my mind, but I hate Fleetwood Mac. So I moved on.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (xPJvm)

106 Remember when Mitch pulled campaign funding from Arizona when it looked like Republican candidates might win?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (kj5Hc)

107 *lifts shirt*
*flashes boobs*

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (lrNXH)

108 Vivek aptly points out: "If you want to talk about hush money for sexual indiscretions by politicians, consider this: in the past 25 years, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights has paid a staggering $18.2 million of *taxpayer dollars* to settle 291 cases of sexual harassment & other misconduct committed by members of Congress. "

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (MvF+J)

109 Nobody won on election day, because her opponent had not printed up enough ballots to certify for the win yet.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:34 PM (lTGtQ)

Oh hey, and guess what, on election day, that thing they did, putting ballots in "door 3" or whatever they called it? Where supposedly ballots that couldn't be validated right away went? They ended up with tens of thousands of ballots in there, when numbers from same day totals showed many thousands less same-day voters at those places. And you know what? Where they expect Lake to have comfortably outpolled Abortion Barbie, they ended up barely ahead, or even behind in some cases.

But if only Kari had been there to stop it! It's all her fault, you see.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (S3vYy)

110 107 *lifts shirt*
*flashes boobs*
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (lrNXH)

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Pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

111 We have a way better system in Oregon. We get mail in ballots in blue envelopes. You fill out your ballot and drop it off at the post office. The ballots are then sent straight to the incinerator and truck loads of new pre-filled out ballots go to be counted. They are pre-filled out with nearly all Ds and a few token Rs to make it look legit.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (h1jJh)

112 "I see Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are rip-roaring, rearing and tearing to sue Harris County for the same scam."

Texas Supreme Court (supposedly conservative) ruled Paxton cannot try these cases for some separation of powers type reasons.

I'd do a tiny url but I forgot how

Posted by: DanMan at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (DB6tu)

113 Marjorie Taylor Greene to Lead New York Protest of Trump Indictment on Tuesday

https://tinyurl.com/3v4x7evb
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:39 PM (EMO0a)


Good!

More should come out to support her.

Vivek had a pretty strong statement too. You should listen. Just a bit over 2 minutes long. He should join her.
https://tinyurl.com/yc4k4yr5
You do have a Constitutional right to protest this decision, but do it lawfully and peacefully.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (uQPen)

114 107 *lifts shirt*
*flashes boobs*
---------------
Sweet.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (OTXUv)

115 Republicans win up to Election Day but in the days and weeks that follow it's a Democrat landslide.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (/99pL)

116 *lifts shirt*
*flashes boobs*

Posted by: nurse ratched


Not fair, my screen resolution wasn't set right.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (lTGtQ)

117
(tries to remember bead etiquette)

(wonders where people buy bead necklaces)

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (kj5Hc)

118 Pics or it didn't happen.

A hard and fast HQ rule.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (Xrfse)

119 This slender bikini brunette is from Florida, so there is some benefit to her voting in state and local elections:
https://is.gd/Cph2wn

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (t0OGg)

120 Nidal Hasan may face execution

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=139362

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (EMO0a)

121 Rigged. Sure they claim incompetence but it's fucking rigged.

Posted by: We are shocked, SHOCKED! at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (0avLl)

122 As we've seen in Nevada, over 1.2 million ballots they sent out weren't returned.

There are so many ballots coming in from so many varied and disparate sources, all with no audit trail or any way to possibly validate or verify them that, pretty much no election going forward can be said to be legitimate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (up/3i)

123 Vivek aptly points out: "If you want to talk about hush money for sexual indiscretions by politicians, consider this: in the past 25 years, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights has paid a staggering $18.2 million of *taxpayer dollars* to settle 291 cases of sexual harassment & other misconduct committed by members of Congress. "
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (MvF+J)


I wonder if Assange had this

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (uQPen)

124 The Daily Daddario has seen you and decided you are unworthy of the flashing of her tits:

https://tinyurl.com/bdesnee3

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (LvTSG)

125 But if only Kari had been there to stop it! It's all her fault, you see.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (S3vYy)


You're slow, Burt. So I'll explain it again.

If somebody says they're going to steal from you, for say - six months. Then yes, they're wrong for doing it. You're also a fool for not doing the necessary precautions. They only gave you six months warning, after all.

So you're neighbors might just look at you and say "dumb ass" rather than "so sorry".

Kari Lake knew what was coming. So did Trump.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (flOYI)

126 Added to my voluminous pile of Election Fraud docs.

Joe Biden is not truly President.

The GOP won both House and Senate in 2022.

it is beyond doubt

Posted by: Dogleg Bumstead at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (mmduy)

127 120 Nidal Hasan may face execution

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=139362
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Is this the Ft. Hood shooter? If so, isn't he on life support? Just fucking pull the plug and play dumb.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (OTXUv)

128 What makes things interesting is that the Constitution is extremely clear that only the state's congress has control over elections.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (kj5Hc)

The Gov will veto.

Posted by: Getting rich on stonks at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (5EOzM)

129 119 This slender bikini brunette is from Florida, so there is some benefit to her voting in state and local elections:
https://is.gd/Cph2wn
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

See! Y'all can have nice things!


Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (lrNXH)

130 (holds index card to forehead)

No standing!

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:47 PM (kj5Hc)

131 What makes things interesting is that the Constitution is extremely clear that only the state's congress has control over elections.

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The Gov will veto.

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Yes, exactly. That's the point.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:47 PM (kj5Hc)

132 I do agree with DJT in that, as long as ballot harvesting is legal in a given state, our side would be foolish not to engage in it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 03:48 PM (jTmQV)

133 And that then might raise other questions - like, "if elections are this messy and fraudulent, what about X?" And then every X will be found to be the same. The veneer comes off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:37 PM (t0OGg)

The only reason ANY of these people have any control over our lives is because the people believe they were selected through fair elections. If the people stop believing that, the fun begins.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:48 PM (S3vYy)

134 It is a stupid argument to say that Lake did anything wrong. The SOS literally pulled invalid ballots from boxes behind closed doors and validated them. What was Lake supposed to do, blow the doors and shoot them?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 03:48 PM (lTGtQ)

135 By the way, not a single Fleetwood Mac joke?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (LvTSG)


Fleetwood Mac is a travesty, not a joke.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 03:48 PM (h5TKJ)

136 Well, at least they cured toe fungus.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 03:48 PM (fblP5)

137 Storm chasers converge on my QTH as we speak. NWS is inventing novel and fearful terminology to explain what they hope is going to happen here later today. I hate going down in my basement. Dank, but mostly boring down there.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:49 PM (MvF+J)

138 The Daily Daddario has seen you and decided you are unworthy of the flashing of her tits:

https://tinyurl.com/bdesnee3
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (LvTSG)
++++
Good one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:49 PM (t0OGg)

139 The mechanics of secure, fast, and reliable voting is not the problem. There are a dozen ways to do it.

The issue is politics and criminality, birm.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 03:49 PM (yQpMk)

140 Is this the Ft. Hood shooter? If so, isn't he on life support?
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Yes.

BTW, it's Ft. Cavazos, as of May 9 2023.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=139240

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:50 PM (EMO0a)

141 113 Marjorie Taylor Greene to Lead New York Protest of Trump Indictment on Tuesday

..

Bring her to me.

Posted by: DA BRAGG at March 31, 2023 03:50 PM (5EOzM)

142 Storm chasers converge on my QTH as we speak. NWS is inventing novel and fearful terminology to explain what they hope is going to happen here later today. I hate going down in my basement. Dank, but mostly boring down there.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:49 PM (MvF+J)
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Look at it as an opportunity to practice Mad Science!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 03:50 PM (BpYfr)

143 I hate going down in my basement. Dank, but mostly boring down there.
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The fun part for me is getting my two kittehs in their carriers by myself.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:51 PM (EMO0a)

144 142 Look at it as an opportunity to practice Mad Science!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 03:50 PM (BpYfr)

========

Weird Science > Mad Science

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

145 The Daily Daddario has seen you and decided you are unworthy of the flashing of her tits:

Somehow I'll have to survive this devastating blow to my expectations.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 03:51 PM (FUVRY)

146 I suppress voter turnout by sitting on them.

Posted by: Stacey Abrams, Topless at March 31, 2023 03:51 PM (gf7Ez)

147 It is a stupid argument to say that Lake did anything wrong. The SOS literally pulled invalid ballots from boxes behind closed doors and validated them. What was Lake supposed to do, blow the doors and shoot them?

For starters - don't play along. She gave cover by running to every camera she could find and pinning her hopes on those uncounted early ballots she was sure would break her way.

If its a cheat election, call it that from the beginning.

And there's nothing I'm sure more of that "my argument is smart" than when somebody starts with "that argument is stupid". If its stupid, the room can figure that out after your argument. You shouldn't have to prompt them.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:51 PM (flOYI)

148 >>I do agree with DJT in that, as long as ballot harvesting is legal in a given state, our side would be foolish not to engage in it.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (ZLI7S)

149 You're slow, Burt. So I'll explain it again.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:46 PM (flOYI)

Fuck off and die, asshole. I get so tired of you nic changers showing up here and trying to lecture people when you don't know shit about anything.

Go away, or get a new nic. You've burned this one.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (S3vYy)

150 >>>You may, if you are so inclined, consider reading the whole thing.
I agree, "Read the Whole Thing" is bossy.

How about:
I recommend that you read the whole thing.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (v0TzN)

151 The Daily Daddario has seen you and decided you are unworthy of the flashing of her tits:

https://tinyurl.com/bdesnee3


Which lumps her in with 99.9999999999999% of women on the planet.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (Bd6X8)

152 107 *lifts shirt*
*flashes boobs*
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 03:43 PM (lrNXH)

Hello, nurse!

Posted by: Inogame at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (53oGX)

153 Somehow I'll have to survive this devastating blow to my expectations.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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lol

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (EMO0a)

154 This slender bikini brunette is from Florida, so there is some benefit to her voting in state and local elections:
https://is.gd/Cph2wn
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (t0OGg)


Bendy fingers. Hints at other limber features.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 03:53 PM (h5TKJ)

155 NWS is inventing novel and fearful terminology to explain what they hope is going to happen here later today.

Fear factor. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 03:53 PM (Xrfse)

156 Where is Mitch McConnell?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 31, 2023 03:53 PM (DMyTF)

157 > I do agree with DJT in that, as long as ballot harvesting is legal in a given state, our side would be foolish not to engage in it.
_________________

And where it's not, push to make it legal and get a jump on the Democrats.

Fuck it... get the Republican ballots printed up now, preprinted and ready for tabulation in Republican purchased tabulators.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (Q4IgG)

158 142 All my mad science is here on the second floor, scattered all over. I have to cover up my experiments when not tinkering, so the cats don't barf on them.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (MvF+J)

159 151 she looks like my sister when she was in her 20s.

Posted by: Piper at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (pZz43)

160 Fuck off and die, asshole. I get so tired of you nic changers showing up here and trying to lecture people when you don't know shit about anything.

Fucking scogg.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (yQpMk)

161 The only thing I have seen this Daddario in s the True Detective series. She was naked. Mostly.

Posted by: tubal at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (PCK5/)

162
GOP voters are like a farmer buying their third fox to guard their chickens. "So help me G-d, if this one eats all my hens a few times, I'm switching to grey foxes only, I'll tell ya what!"

They never fucking learn. It's comical.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 03:55 PM (oINRc)

163 We're not going to win the ballot harvesting game either. The Democrats have money, people and population dense metro areas on their side.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:55 PM (76Foq)

164 Fucking scogg.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (yQpMk)

Is that Scoggy again. I didn't read enough of his comments to know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (FUVRY)

165 a lot of this shit happened in republican areas run by the GOP because the state GOP parties wanted trump gone and losing some elections to keep the riff raff out is preferable to losing control of their soon to be rump party.

Posted by: Iron-Wombat at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (lSIb9)

166 I do agree with DJT in that, as long as ballot harvesting is legal in a given state, our side would be foolish not to engage in it.

Me too.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 31, 2023 03:52 PM (ZLI7S)


Me three. The rules change when you do it to them better. Not until. That's how it works.

FWIW - you, conservatives, will get your closed Southern border in about ten years. Seriously, keep doing what you are doing - and I agree. Welcome the folks that are family oriented, and just want to work for a living.

They're voting Republican. Do you think it's any coincidence that the DNC is suddenly running to single women with kids, trannies, and unemployed blacks ? It's all they have left. But there are a lot of 'em.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (flOYI)

167 swinging
comes out attacking DeSantis (yes Vivek is running), but listen. He comes out with some facts. eek


Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy

We don't need another plastic career politician beholden to his donor masters to sit in the White House. We need a real leader. Let’s drop the act
@RonDeSantisFL and just get on with it: welcome to the race.


https://tinyurl.com/kbh4jact
tbh, all of a sudden I am seeing him everywhere, I don't know much about him. That is just a fraction of what he says above.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (uQPen)

168 > I do agree with DJT in that, as long as ballot harvesting is legal in a given state, our side would be foolish not to engage in it.
_________________


Not who we are.

Posted by: Filthy Pig That Goes By The Name Of Ronna at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (DMyTF)

169 We won't win if we don't play, that's for sure.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (jTmQV)

170 160 Fucking scogg.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (yQpMk)

THE MASTER MANIPULATOR
THE SOCIOPATH TO END ALL SOCIOPATHS

*spit*

Posted by: XTC at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (UnA8+)

171 Fucking scogg.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 03:54 PM (yQpMk)


Not at the moment. Much to my chagrin. But hope springs eternal.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:57 PM (flOYI)

172 155 This happened 12 miles from my house in 2015. I give you the scariest tornado video ever filmed. I was in my basement. Take three minutes to watch, if you haven't seen it before:
youtube.com/watch?v=s0c27Twu__o

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:57 PM (MvF+J)

173 Ha. I just heard back from my deeply Republican House member on the RESTRICT Act after sending a detailed email addressing specific problems with the legislation and what it will mean for freedom.

His opinion is that it has to be passed because China is bad.

Utterly clueless.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 03:57 PM (kj5Hc)

174 170 THE MASTER MANIPULATOR
THE SOCIOPATH TO END ALL SOCIOPATHS
Posted by: XTC at March 31, 2023 03:56 PM (UnA8+)

Hillary!

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 03:57 PM (v0TzN)

175 so strange that voting month has become so restrictive.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 03:58 PM (xhaym)

176 When Trump goes to jail I hope they make him do something about his BAD BREATH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at March 31, 2023 03:59 PM (/Qz4j)

177 Remember that all the people who have told you Trump is mean and uncouth just spent four days justifying killing 9 year olds over politics.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:59 PM (Ta1r+)

178 The Daily Daddario has seen you and decided you are unworthy of the flashing of her tits:

No disrespect intended but I have no inclination to check out the cheesecake stuff. It's just digital fluff. Having said that, it's all good IMHO.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:00 PM (Xrfse)

179 That's one of their vote fraud systems, they knew live voting is their weak point so they figured how to kill that. Also the under size ballots that got tossed out

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 04:00 PM (xhxe8)

180 We're not going to win the ballot harvesting game either. The Democrats have money, people and population dense metro areas on their side.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:55 PM (76Foq)

The dems will scream fraud, the courts will suddenly give them standing and invalidate the repub ballots. This script has already been written.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 04:00 PM (BdMk6)

181 I guess it is probably best to go ahead and accept that the RESTRICT Act is as good as law. After Lindsay's appearance and sponsorship and the house members agreeing, the republicans are clearly in on it, too.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:01 PM (kj5Hc)

182
His opinion is that it has to be passed because China is bad.

Utterly clueless.

Posted by: NISTdot gov:

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Did they ask for $20 while they were at it?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 31, 2023 04:01 PM (t1fLX)

183 Miss Daddario is a fine specimen. But she just never has tripped my trigger. No arguing taste, and all that. She's simply not mine.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:01 PM (flOYI)

184 This slender bikini brunette is from Florida, so there is some benefit to her voting in state and local elections:
https://is.gd/Cph2wn
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

I'd say something about her mons pubis but that would be rude.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

185 So, not an accidently?

Countless articles including: PAhomepage.com, DOJ monitoring Luzerne County for compliance with voting laws, Justin Glowacki, 4 month ago

Luzerne County(WBRE/WYOU) - (In part) "The Justice Department announced they are monitoring 64 jurisdications, including four Pennsylvania counties, across the U. S. for compliane with voting laws.

The Justice Department says the Civil Rights Division will monitor Luzerne, Berks, Centre, and Lehigh coutnies to ensure they are protecting the rights of voters.

They also have a division dedeciated to preventing voter intimidation and voter suppression based on race, color, national origin, or religion."

Posted by: Lola - ALL 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at March 31, 2023 04:01 PM (GshMh)

186 Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 03:57 PM (MvF+J)
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That is terrifying.

Did the guy filming live?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 04:02 PM (EMO0a)

187 well, the left's in a full court press on their color revolution.

all the gop...sorry lol...fuck the gop...they're democrats too...all the uhhhhhh base can do is say "wow, imagine if the parties were reversed."

but the parties aren't reversed because they'd never elect pussy beta chump pushovers. they fight.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:02 PM (MLrvz)

188 hey, I got an idea. let's go back to 1995 and ask the GOP to not be a bunch of pussies.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:03 PM (MLrvz)

189 Did they ask for $20 while they were at it?

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Close. Had a bunch of boilerplate links at the bottom of the email response.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:03 PM (kj5Hc)

190 186 It's so awful. His wife downstairs was killed, and his next door neighbor. I have no idea why he just sat there, silent, filming it from his second floor window. He did survive.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:04 PM (MvF+J)

191 Did nobody from Lake's campaign think to check the voting stations in Maricopa to ensure they had the correct ballots and enough of them? Nah, they just relied on their political opponents -- who everyone knows cheat like motherfuckers -- to do it.

Posted by: Elric Blade


According to what I read those machines had been checked the day before, and worked correctly.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (4WAN5)

And many on the election board were GOPe.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 04:04 PM (oHd/0)

192 hey, I got an idea. let's go back to 1995 and ask the GOP to not be a bunch of pussies.

The GOP reaction to Ruby Ridge and WACO was pretty much ... nothing.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:04 PM (flOYI)

193 Daddario has magical cans otherwise leaves me cold

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 04:04 PM (49WRT)

194 well, the left's in a full court press on their color revolution.

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We're in the final stages. They're indicting ex presidents after stealing the election. That is literally the playbook. It's over.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:05 PM (kj5Hc)

195 I'm sure the manifesto will be out any day now as the whole thing gets memory holed forever.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 04:06 PM (49WRT)

196 , I got an idea. let's go back to 1995 and ask the GOP to not be a bunch of pussies.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:03 PM (MLrvz)

Try 1865. If they had just put every prominent Democrat to death and proscribed the Party when they had the popular mandate and the victor's right to do it, we wouldn't be in this mess. That was the time. Magnanimity. FTS.

Never. Again.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 04:06 PM (oINRc)

197 I think, on a related topic, that if Trump was retiring from political life, he could conceivably stay in florida for the rest of his life ... or until a democrat governor evicts him ... or a federal swat team takes him... but as a presidential candidate, he has to travel around and you know the news networks are going to make sure presidential debates are in NYC.

so, he's a political prisoner. they'll probably humiliate him for a bit before having his cell cameras malfunction.

but, you know, at least with president desantis....if we can fight voter fraud, get to 270, etc etc...seems to not be a Graham/McConnell bitch ass loser. at least that's what it seems like right now. at this moment.

we also thought Bush, McCain, and Romney were our guys

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (MLrvz)

198 More evidence of how the dem scheme is working. Voting machine failure in heavily GOP populated precincts in Arizona in 2022. In Michigan in 2020 it was the arrival of thousands of blank ballots to be turned into actual ballots behind cardboard covered windows.

There is more of course. We now have identified also where and how the excess ballots were delivered in Arizona in 2020. Biden did not win Arizona in 2020.

Lake's lawsuit gets to continue in Arizona. The walls are closing in. Why do you think Trump was indicted? Too much bad news for the regime.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (UVyKP)

199 And many on the election board were GOPe.

Bill Gates still is employed by Ping golf. Sayin'

Posted by: Filthy Pig That Goes By The Name Of Ronna at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (DMyTF)

200 I'm an election officer. I can tell you that my county in VA does not allow this to happen, at all. We know exactly how many are in our precincts, how many voted early or requested absentee, and we *still* provide 20% more ballots than what we think is outstanding. We use preprinted ballots that are marked and then scanned, so we have the literal paper for the trail in case of a recount.

During early voting, if we ran out of a precinct's ballots (we had ballots for all precincts in the county) we would literally print one out from the machine used for blind voters. No one is ever turned away.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (4enNW)

201 Ugh Howard Schultz moving his pie hole around

Posted by: NCKate at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (d5Qya)

202 The GOP will continue to lose all close elections. Dems have perfected the steal but its kind of boring now.

Posted by: JmT at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (K/Q8b)

203 118 Pics or it didn't happen.

A hard and fast HQ rule.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (Xrfse)

Set the girls free.

#leftyandscamp

Posted by: zombie Anthony Bourdain at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (CCSxw)

204 off romney sock

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (DMyTF)

205 Hhhhhmmmmmmm.....
I'm thinking if I can't vote, maybe no one should.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2023 04:07 PM (anj39)

206 Daddario has magical cans otherwise leaves me cold.

Honestly - I think it's her face. She's a pretty girl. But its just kind of - sterile - for lack of a better word. Or maybe frigid.

Now look, she's a one. But Hollywood scale is a tougher scale.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:08 PM (flOYI)

207 I wonder though, did Georgia cucks every explain the water main break while the democrats continued counting ballots and pulling out suitcases of ballots?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:08 PM (MLrvz)

208 Let's imagine - a Republican like Trump or DeSantis is somehow allowed to win in 2024.

How long until the next "lab leak"?

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 04:09 PM (49WRT)

209 There was an F4 that passed two blocks from my house in 1928 that killed a bunch of people. I was here for the 1967 Belvidere tornado, and that was a terrifying day and night.

My gut impression is that T-storms were way scarier in the 1950s-1960s than now, but maybe cuz I had a kid's perspective. But back then, the clouds would sometimes be sickening brown or green, and intense lightning storms would go on for hours and hours in one place.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:09 PM (MvF+J)

210 The tranny Nashville Christian School shooter did it because she was upset that millionaires had lost $10k at a casino.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:09 PM (kj5Hc)

211 It's so awful. His wife downstairs was killed, and his next door neighbor. I have no idea why he just sat there, silent, filming it from his second floor window. He did survive.
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:04 PM (MvF+J)
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So sad...

That he was able to film it...and the sounds...

Glad you were not harmed.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 04:09 PM (EMO0a)

212 Once it's all vote fraud we are done for sure, better try and stop it though Leftists are all for it so getting a sizable portion of the population might be impossible

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 04:10 PM (xhxe8)

213 yeah, DD used to be quite magical. She lost a lot of weight in White Lotus (which introduced me to SyDDney Sweeney) and she still has that face and eyes but she's deflated her other assets.

True Detective DD was the tits. literally.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:11 PM (MLrvz)

214 But back then, the clouds would sometimes be sickening brown or green, and intense lightning storms would go on for hours and hours in one place.

Also known as - the Ohio Valley. When my wife first moved here, she about shit her pants. She'd never seen this kind of weather, when it really gets going.

The entire world gets a green tint when it's really about to start. And I can feel the pressure change all around me. The hairs on my arms will stand up.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:11 PM (flOYI)

215 She may have some junk in the trunk, but I would give Mollie Hemingway every inch of my love.

Posted by: Ken at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (ZqX6O)

216 210 The tranny Nashville Christian School shooter did it because she was upset that millionaires had lost $10k at a casino.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:09 PM (kj5Hc)

wut

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (v0TzN)

217 She's a pretty girl. But its just kind of - sterile - for lack of a better word. Or maybe frigid.

///

IDK, when I think of sterile beauty, I think of some highly made-up thots with too perfect features and filters.

you can just admit you're gay

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (MLrvz)

218 For the democrats, they like to pretend every election is 1948 in Da South and the poll tax, literacy test and Bull Connor, now a republican, is in charge at the election office shooing away the poor black folks who want to be voting.

So hilarious, so tiresome yet so effective.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 04:13 PM (R/m4+)

219 have no idea why he just sat there, silent, filming it from his second floor window

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Because the internet has broken humans' brains. People see things like this and now their first instinct is to text it to friends or post it on Facebook.

He probably didn't even realize he was doing it.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:13 PM (kj5Hc)

220 Gets quiet around here on Friday afternoons. Maybe we should do fish puns.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (v0R5T)

221 As a reminder, in 2020 PA had a couple hundred thousand "voters" who all shared the exact same initial registration dates from 20-40 years ago in blocks of 20-30k or so, exactly zero of whom had any evidence of having voted on those registrations at any time prior to 2020.

Complete, utter bullshit. And now these shitheads want to ban our appliances and vehicles and tax the fuck out of us while turning our kids into freaks and foisting released criminals on us and disarming us?

Uh, yeah, sure. Uh huh. The ditch goes here, start digging and we will tell you when to stop and line up in front of it.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (P+D9B)

222 back to trump, like what are we going to do?

nothing.

what the gop gonna do?

nothing.

so, he goes to NYC, already has a gag order, going to get locked up for 2 years, assraped, and then they turn off the cameras. ooops, well, we'll hold the trial in his absence.

you know, the thing is, what has DeSantis done that some Broward County DA can indict him for?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (MLrvz)

223 To make matters worse in Pennsylvania, In the last election, the Republicans lost control of the House side of the Legislature (possibly due to this nonsense) but still control the Senate side.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (RHGPo)

224 The tranny Nashville Christian School shooter did it because she was upset that millionaires had lost $10k at a casino.
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wut

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It's a reference to the FBI finally figuring out why the Vegas shooter murdered a bunch of people he didn't know and who had nothing to do with the casino.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (kj5Hc)

225 you can just admit you're gay

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (MLrvz)


Well - my crocs, messenger bag, and Vespa don't match. So I've got that going for me.

It's taste, you can't argue taste. Part of it is something I was talking about yesterday to a pardner at the bar - it's age. I'm fifty. I truly have a hard time looking at these girls the same as I used to.

But Selma Hayek could still get me to break laws. Many laws.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:15 PM (flOYI)

226 Good afternoon everyone! What's the hot topic? Besides boobs.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 04:15 PM (wagHN)

227 220 Gets quiet around here on Friday afternoons. Maybe we should do fish puns.
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (v0R5T)

Could probably come up with something crappie.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:15 PM (v0TzN)

228 Depressing: We're in the midst of a blizzard. 24 F with 7 to 10 inches of snow NW winds 26 to 45 MPH.


And on top of all that, we aren't voting ourselves out of this.

My winter of discontent. Stay the course.



Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 04:15 PM (gmo/4)

229 Yes; That's Scogg.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (FUVRY)

230 Shawn Fleetwood and Mollie Hemingway

I live not too far from Fleetwood, PA

Back in the 30's, they used to make car bodies for Cadillac there.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (RHGPo)

231 Muh Preshuz Demokrasy

Posted by: Nancy in her cups at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (WmGrA)

232 Gets quiet around here on Friday afternoons. Maybe we should do fish puns.
Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (v0R5T)
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We have scaled back on those quite a bit...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (BpYfr)

233 My last comment was dumb and unnecessary. Apologies.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (Xrfse)

234 228 Depressing: We're in the midst of a blizzard. 24 F with 7 to 10 inches of snow NW winds 26 to 45 MPH.


And on top of all that, we aren't voting ourselves out of this.

My winter of discontent. Stay the course.



Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 04:15 PM (gmo/4)

This is why one moves to the south...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (exHjb)

235 Two Points

One, The Courts are loathe to make any rulings that effectively overturn any election results no matter how much evidence exists of cheating

Two, The Republicans should engage in Ballot Harvesting and all the other tricks that the Democrats engage in, but should also be advised that should they WIN any race, the Democrats will scream bloody murder and have the election overturned

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (mR6Gs)

236 Daddario has magical cans otherwise leaves me cold.

Honestly - I think it's her face. She's a pretty girl. But its just kind of - sterile - for lack of a better word. Or maybe frigid.

Now look, she's a one. But Hollywood scale is a tougher scale.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:08 PM (flOYI)
***

Blue eyes and brunettes. As compelling as gingers.
Mmmmm!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (anj39)

237 wut

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (v0TzN)

It was suddenly decided yesterday to release the supposed motive of the Las Vegas shooter and that was supposedly his motive. He suddenly snapped over losing $10,000 to the casino and decided to shoot up a concert that was in no way associated with the casino using the arsenal he just happened to have on hand at that moment.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (nC+QA)

238 My last comment was dumb and unnecessary. Apologies.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (Xrfse)
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Dumb and unnecessary is what we do here.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (2hlEI)

239 Just remembered I picked up "1620" from the library today. I didn't finish reading it on the drive home (always have to be vigilant for damn crazy drivers,) so I think I'll take it to the basement.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (MvF+J)

240 Didn't the Rep congressmen claim that they had found bank receipts showing the Bidens receiving money from Chinese corps or interests?

Posted by: Floridachick at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (EBkdW)

241 My Dad used to tell me when I was a kid, live in area with really old houses, that tells you tornados don't usually go through that area. But he also said, that doesn't mean the next time won't be an anomaly.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (76Foq)

242 Because the internet has broken humans' brains. People see things like this and now their first instinct is to text it to friends or post it on Facebook.

He probably didn't even realize he was doing it.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:13 PM (kj5Hc)


I am glad I don't live in your head. It must be exhausting.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (xhaym)

243 saw Pence on the news saying the lawfare against Trump was dangerous. I guess he's figured out he's going to have to suck tranny cock the way things are going.

Posted by: x at March 31, 2023 04:18 PM (ZBPE2)

244 This is why one moves to the south...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (exHjb)


Next year, I hope.

Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 04:18 PM (gmo/4)

245 The PA Supreme Court authorized blatantly unconstitutional amendments to the voting laws that allowed the DNC to steal the election. Why should we expect the PA courts to care about disenfranchising voters this way?

It may be time for the third box.
Posted by: egd at March 31, 2023 03:24 PM (cOB2v)
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This will have an opportunity to get past the PA courts.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 31, 2023 04:18 PM (UVyKP)

246 you know, the thing is, what has DeSantis done that some Broward County DA can indict him for?

He likes Nickelback.

Posted by: Maj. Healey;s Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 04:18 PM (DMyTF)

247 Weather content; Heads up

It appears that a massive tornado outbreak is beginning. A line from Chicago south to Little Rock is popping bigly. Movement is generally southwest to northeast. Pull up a weather app or checkout who's on YouTube storm chasing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 04:18 PM (Q4IgG)

248 224 wut
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (v0TzN)

It's a reference to the FBI finally figuring out why the Vegas shooter murdered a bunch of people he didn't know and who had nothing to do with the casino.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:14 PM (kj5Hc)

237 wut
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:12 PM (v0TzN)

It was suddenly decided yesterday to release the supposed motive of the Las Vegas shooter and that was supposedly his motive. He suddenly snapped over losing $10,000 to the casino and decided to shoot up a concert that was in no way associated with the casino using the arsenal he just happened to have on hand at that moment.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (nC+QA)

Thanks!

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (v0TzN)

249 233 My last comment was dumb and unnecessary. Apologies.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:16 PM (Xrfse)

Doesn't seem to be stopping anyone else. Don't sweat it...

Posted by: When in Rome and all... at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (0avLl)

250 Blue eyes and brunettes. As compelling as gingers.

The skinny little green eyed, brown hair girl on Carnival Row was cute. As in - "I'd like it if my retard boy got his head out of his ass and locked down a girl like that".

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (flOYI)

251 As we've seen in Nevada, over 1.2 million ballots they sent out weren't returned.

There are so many ballots coming in from so many varied and disparate sources, all with no audit trail or any way to possibly validate or verify them that, pretty much no election going forward can be said to be legitimate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (up/3i)
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Yeah, forgot about the cameras that mysteriously failed in the counting room when Laxalt was leading, only to be behind when they came back on.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (UVyKP)

252 am glad I don't live in your head. It must be exhausting.

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Have you not watched people over the last 10 to 12 years?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (kj5Hc)

253 I strongly suggest that elections be changed such that counting of the ballots be done after all the ballots (statewide) have been collected, even if this means they sit on them for a few day until all the military ballots come in.
Then lock the doors and start counting, only to emerge when all the ballots are counted. NO preliminary counts should be allowed out of the counting hall, only the final counts.
This will end most of the catchup vote harvesting, and those "magic caches" of votes that appear by "magic".

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 04:19 PM (RHGPo)

254 It's taste, you can't argue taste. Part of it is something I was talking about yesterday to a pardner at the bar - it's age. I'm fifty. I truly have a hard time looking at these girls the same as I used to.

But Selma Hayek could still get me to break laws. Many laws.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:15 PM (flOYI)
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Heh.
After fifty, one begins to wonder what their moms are doing.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 31, 2023 04:20 PM (anj39)

255 Nood

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:21 PM (kj5Hc)

256 We have scaled back on those quite a bit...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I hope they are not fin.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

257 I never interpreted "read the whole thing" as bossy, but as a recommendation. That is why I would get annoyed when Instapundit would sometimes use it in a pro forma way.

I would see that "the whole thing" was mostly crap and realize that "read the whole thing" hadn't actually been a recommendation.

So I would say, feel free to say "read the whole thing," but only when that is a sincere recommendation that the whole thing is worth reading.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at March 31, 2023 04:21 PM (wh9C3)

258 BREAKING: Trans activists storm Tallahassee capital to demand child sex changes be legal in Florida...Trans activists have stormed the Florida capitol building, demanding rights for trans-identified people.

.. don't these people know that politicians take off Friday

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 04:22 PM (RHGPo)

259 .

Posted by: Maj. Healey's Backhoe and Lime Emporium at March 31, 2023 04:22 PM (DMyTF)

260 It's taste, you can't argue taste.

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I know, it just struck me as a funny thing to write as I was writing it, even though it's unfair yadda yadda.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 04:22 PM (MLrvz)

261 Ergo, you shouldn't run out of ballots, because you're supposed to anticipate 100% of voters voting.

What is you have 60% of the actual registered voters show up but already had the 50% of them you didn't think would vote submit a ballot for Joe Biden?!? Did you think of that smarty pants?

Posted by: Some PA election official at March 31, 2023 04:22 PM (lc5cP)

262 The only thing that makes Daddario look weird and unattractive is the stylists who doll her up and the photographers who pose her. In today's pic, she looks a little more normal, and more attractive for it.

I used to have a collection of Phoebe Cates modeling pics (head and shoulder shots, perverts.) In every damn one of them she looked like Bozo the fucking Clown, because Fashion.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 04:22 PM (MvF+J)

263 Dumb and unnecessary is what we do here.

I should have added that most of everything I post here is dumb and unnecessary. I refuse to recognize my limitations. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 04:22 PM (Xrfse)

264 have no idea why he just sat there, silent, filming it from his second floor window

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Because the internet has broken humans' brains. People see things like this and now their first instinct is to text it to friends or post it on Facebook.

He probably didn't even realize he was doing it.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 04:13 PM (kj5Hc)

It's a form of "target fixation". The brain turns off all input except for a very narrow focus.

It's what killed the storm chasers during the 2013 El Reno, OK tornado.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 04:23 PM (BdMk6)

265 Russia adopts new global strategy calling West an ‘existential threat

.. why not. It seems to be working for the Democrats.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (RHGPo)

266 "It was suddenly decided yesterday to release the supposed motive of the Las Vegas shooter and that was supposedly his motive. He suddenly snapped over losing $10,000 to the casino and decided to shoot up a concert that was in no way associated with the casino using the arsenal he just happened to have on hand at that moment.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 04:17 PM (nC+QA)"

A reminder for those not aware, it was found rather quickly that the g/f, who was out of the country at the time of the attack, had listed the FBI as an employer on loan applications.

Combined with the feds allowing his house to be ransacked just like the San Bernadino shooters' home, plus the complete lack of interest on the room service records and text histories clearly indicating additional people... you don't need to be a rocket surgeon to connect the dots here

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (P+D9B)

267 The dems will scream fraud, the courts will suddenly give them standing and invalidate the repub ballots. This script has already been written.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 04:00 PM (BdMk6)
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You harvest the votes the dems normally would get. If they are invalidated, fine. But then the dems couldn't have the votes either.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 31, 2023 04:24 PM (UVyKP)

268 I know, it just struck me as a funny thing to write as I was writing it, even though it's unfair yadda yadda.

You know me, if you've been paying attention. I'm sensitive and all that.

Not so much. Rosario Dawson also does very good things for me, FWIW.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 04:25 PM (flOYI)

269 Russia adopts new global strategy calling West an ‘existential threat

The American feral government is a bigger threat to Americans then the Russians are...that much is for certain.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

270 So, ran out of paper in addition to:

TimesLeader dot com: Luzerne County mail ballot tallying to continue today, May 18, 2020

"Due to a staffing shortage, Luzerne County did not complete tallying of most mail ballots on Election Day Tuesday, leaving the lion’s share — 11,000 — to address today, officials said.

...County Controller Walter Griffith said ... “The administration knew the amount of mail ballots days ago and made no provisions to address staffing concerns. This is unacceptable,” Griffith said. "Crocamo said the main priority is processing the ballots accurately — not speed. She also said she was not involved in the election board’s unilateral decision to stop the mail ballot processing around 6 p.m. While it is unlikely all 11,000 remaining ballots would have been counted that evening, continued processing would have reduced the number of ballots outstanding, she said. Crocamo also added that the board was aware of the number of workers assigned and did not raise any concerns to her."

Very convenient.

Posted by: Lola - ALL 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (GshMh)

271 May 17, 2022 sorry

Posted by: Lola - ALL 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at March 31, 2023 04:28 PM (GshMh)

272 233 My last comment was dumb and unnecessary. Apologies.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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Is there a way to auto post the above? I feel this way after almost every one of my posts.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 04:40 PM (fs1hN)

273 Russia adopts new global strategy calling West an ‘existential threat
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And Janet Yellen says global warming is an existential threat to the US economy.

IMHO, Russia has the correct assessment of the two.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 04:44 PM (fs1hN)

Down With The Restrict Act, a Patriot Act for Americans' Speech

I watched about ten minutes of the Congressional hearings on TikTok. I was digusted. Congressmen were demanding that TikTok manipulate the algorithm to reduce "harmful" content served to minors -- which is exactly what social media companies have done for five years to shadowban, restrict, and choke out all conservative content, which they claim constitutes "harm."

And Congressmen were pushing that TikTok do more of what we've been trying to get social media companies to do less of.

And when I say "Congressmen," I mean Republican Congressmen. I would not have been disgusted by Democrats pushing for this; it's all they ever push for.

But Republicans? Republicans, again knowing nothing, again learning nothing, again falling for every trap the Democrats lay for them?

The Democrats laid a trap to see if they could get Republicans to endorse the very methods by which Democrats and social media monopolies exclude conservatives from the public square, and Republicans walked right into it. They were angry that TikTok isn't manipulating its algorithm enough to choke down the transmission of "harmful" content.

The Democrats wanted to see if Republicans would endorse and support the Democrats' predicate for unending censorship and thought-policing, and boy, did Republicans surprise them by being even more pro-censorship than the Democrats.

All the Democrats had to do is introduce one of their favorite tropes -- "It's for The Children (TM)" -- and every Republican was crab-crawling over each other to endorse the social media monopolies' pretext for censoring conservatives.

They weren't careful about it at all. They didn't attempt to limit the principle they were advocating for. They didn't say "this will only apply to children under age 17."

No, they were, once again, just foaming at the mouth with eagerness to bless by legislation all the censorship that all of the tech monopolies have been engaged in.

TikTok should be banned. Period. And children 17 or under should be banned from social media. Period. And they should have to prove that by making a micro-transaction of, say, $1 with a credit card establishing that they are of age.

Instead of focusing on that, Republicans decided to argue that social media monopolies just aren't censoring enough people and manipulating the algorithms to avoid "harm."

Rand Paul is blocking the Resist Act from going forward. But not on grounds that the US would be endorsing algorithmic manipulation.

He's claiming that the communist Chinese Party's spy app shouldn't be banned, period, and insists it's not just because a top donor is connected to TikTok's parent corporation ByteDance.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has come out against a ban on TikTok, breaking from his GOP colleagues on a measure that would prohibit the use of the often-criticized social media app.

Lawmakers cited national security concerns raised by TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, after reports emerged that the company has gathered user data and spied on some journalists.

In an opinion piece published Wednesday in the Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, Paul argued that banning TikTok would mimic censorship by the Chinese government.

Well, in one way, that's true: China itself refuses to allow TikTok in their own country. They have a version of TiKTok which only runs videos about science lessons and studying hacks and pro-education stuff like that. Oh, and the videos also foster respect for kids' elders.

But the TikTok we see in the US? No way, that's not allowed. China's smarter than to allow its own children to be infected with this poison. This poison is for White Devils' Children only.

Kids can only use the Chinese version of TikTok for 40 minutes per day, and they can only see kid-friendly content.

If the export version of TikTok were like the version intended for Chinese kids, we'd have no problems with it at all.

Back to Paul:


He cast the question of whether to ban the app as a free speech issue and said he would defend it even against members of his party. Paul has maintained that his opposition is not due to the ties of one of his top donor's to the company.

"I hope saner minds will reflect on which is more dangerous: videos of teenagers dancing or the precedent of the U.S. government banning speech," Paul wrote. "For me, it's an easy answer, I will defend the Bill of Rights against all comers, even, if need be, from members of my own party."

It's not about teenagers dancing. Has Paul missed out the part where TikTok is spreading every social contagion mental illness, from fake tics, to fake Tourettes, to fake multiple personality disorders, to fake transgenderism among children?


He added: "If you don't like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don't use them. But don't think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them."

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., a vocal critic of TikTok, introduced legislation Wednesday to ban it in the U.S., which he tried to pass by unanimous consent. Paul objected.

Pretty sure the Constitution allows us to restrict what children can view. Or does he also support filling the schools with gay pornography?

I'm skeptical of Paul's position. It seems to me that the US has every right to block a foreign app, controlled by a hostile power, from the US.

There is a point at which "libertarians" simply become One Worlders, denying that that there is any difference between those within the country and those without it, and this is it.

But the "Restrict Act" isn't just about banning TikTok -- it's about empowering the government to censor social media and punish Americans.

Which is exactly the sense I got from the hearings.

So I agree with Paul that the Restrict Act should be voted down.

But I'd like all social media platforms to require proof of adulthood via a microtransaction. (Or parents can make the microtransaction with their credit cards, if they want to expose their children to this filth.)


Matthew Chapman
@fawfulfan

This is absolutely insane. A U.S. senator should not be learning about their own co-sponsorship of a bill for the first time on Fox News. Let alone a bill that basically gives the government massive, sweeping new powers to surveil and restrict the internet.

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1 yeah, i have to agree with Tucker.

the fact it's bipartisan tells me it's going to screw us good and hard....

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:14 PM (Mkvkw)

2 and i can't believe i'm agreeing with AOC...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:14 PM (Mkvkw)

3 and corgis called.

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:15 PM (Mkvkw)

4 I like how Jesse or whoever on Fox had to tell dipshit Graham that he cosponsored the bill. and what was in it.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 31, 2023 02:15 PM (MLrvz)

5 Man that's a lot of content!

Posted by: scottst at March 31, 2023 02:15 PM (ojBxe)

6 and i can't believe i'm agreeing with AOC...
Posted by: SturmToddler

It is a 'stopped digital 24hr clock' case.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:15 PM (4WAN5)

7
Jesse Watters
@JesseBWatters
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I break the news to Lindsey Graham that he co-sponsored a bill he doesn’t support

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You embarrassed a senator in public. I lament your future suicide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

8 So the dumb party yields to the evil party. Another day ending in Y.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 02:16 PM (OTXUv)

9 The Democrats wanted to see if Republicans would endorse and support the Democrats' predicate for unending censorship and thought-policing, and boy, did Republicans surprise them by being even more pro-censorship than the Democrats.

Am I the only one that watched the birth of the Patriot Act ?

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:16 PM (flOYI)

10 I'll disagree and say i don't believe that the GOPe was "manipulated" into anything. they KNOW exactly what this means, and how they can use it to get rid of maga....

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:17 PM (Mkvkw)

11 But I'd like all social media platforms to require proof of adulthood via a microtransaction. (Or parents can make the microtransaction with their credit cards, if they want to expose their children to this filth.)

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Making it through statute that individuals own their data and that 3rd parties, like social media companies, must pay the individuals for the use, sale, or analysis of that data, say, $15 per month or $30 per sale to another third party, would be something of a hamper on social media's reach.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:17 PM (LvTSG)

12 Lindsey Graham is non compos mentis.

But he is a stinking pile of shit!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 31, 2023 02:17 PM (wtvvX)

13 TikTok should be banned. Period. And children 17 or under should be banned from social media. Period. And they should have to prove that by making a micro-transaction of, say, $1 with a credit card establishing that they are of age.
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I agree, and the RESTRICT act - though it hadn't happened yet - is exactly why I didn't call for it to be done when I made this the topic of a rant a little while back.

The premise is simple: Social Media is addictive and dangerous and so, like other addictive and dangerous things, it should be restricted to adults.

Sadly, the outcome of such a call is also simple: let kids stay and extend government power over speech in a great con job that will give us more of the worst and none of the useful.

So here we are. The RESTRICT act, proving the point again.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (t0OGg)

14 It's horrible so it will become law, of course.
Joe signs anything they tell him to.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (jTmQV)

15 I'm a fag ??

I did not know this

Posted by: Linda Graham at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (us2H3)

16 >>Follow
I break the news to Lindsey Graham that he co-sponsored a bill he doesn’t support


$10 says his name is still on the bill

Posted by: DB - stealing the handle at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (geLO8)

17 Pssst. Ace, it's not a trap. They're going along with it willingly. They hate us too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (Angsy)

18 "Honey, how was work today?"

"Was awesome. Something I wrote was featured very prominently on the site!"

"Cool. Was it about a new product?"

"Product? There's no products on Ace of Spades."

"I thought you said you had a good day at work."

"Squirrel!"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (KbCG3)

19 Linda Graham is just the right's version of Joe Biden

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (us2H3)

20 16 >>Follow
I break the news to Lindsey Graham that he co-sponsored a bill he doesn’t support


$10 says his name is still on the bill
Posted by: DB - stealing the handle at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (geLO

=========

$10 says he raised $15,000 from small dollar donors due to that appearance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

21 Yo.

Posted by: Greyman27 at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (RKLPC)

22 Insanity on every front ... and yet, they persist.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (Cus5s)

23 TikTok. Some dissembly required.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 02:19 PM (Vwz3I)

24 I hope Grahamnesty's ladybugs turn cancerous.

Posted by: McLurkerson at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (wNDOJ)

25 and i can't believe i'm agreeing with AOC...
Posted by: SturmToddler

It is a 'stopped digital 24hr clock' case.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:15 PM (4WAN5)

so that's the blinking light.

i wonder when she gets to actual flashing...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (Mkvkw)

26 Graham wasn't told that he would be put down as a cosponsor of a bill written and brought to the senate by the lobbyists who also pay him on the side. Oops.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (lTGtQ)

27 Graham is an idiot.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (BRHaw)

28 24 I hope Grahamnesty's ladybugs turn cancerous.
Posted by: McLurkerson at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (wNDOJ)

Before or after the balloons go up?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (Rl7KJ)

29 I agree with Rand Paul's arguments on the Restrict Act as currently written.

Posted by: Archer at March 31, 2023 02:20 PM (gmo/4)

30 People, you should be ditching social media

commenting here is my only exposure, and I'm reasonably sure we're being monitored for wrongthink

Hi Bob@NSA

Posted by: DB - stealing the handle at March 31, 2023 02:21 PM (geLO8)

31 $10 says his name is still on the bill
Posted by: DB - stealing the handle at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (geLO

10 bucks his picture is on the 3 dollar bill

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:21 PM (us2H3)

32 25 and i can't believe i'm agreeing with AOC...
Posted by: SturmToddler

It is a 'stopped digital 24hr clock' case.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:15 PM (4WAN5)

=======

She also just voted against forbidding the Chinese Communist Party from owning farmland in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:21 PM (LvTSG)

33 30 People, you should be ditching social media

commenting here is my only exposure, and I'm reasonably sure we're being monitored for wrongthink

Hi Bob@NSA
---------------
Ace is a CIA plant. Just sayin.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 02:21 PM (OTXUv)

34 never trust a man who don't eat pussy

Posted by: my Grandpa at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (us2H3)

35 Friendly reminder - everyone here can ban Tik Tok in their homes. Just take the kids phones away. It doesn't take an act of Congress.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (flOYI)

36 Well, in one way, that's true: China itself refuses to allow TikTok in their own country. They have a version of TiKTok which only runs videos about science lessons and studying hacks and pro-education stuff like that. Oh, and the videos also foster respect for kids' elders.
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Sort of. TikTok is Chinese. The Chinese version of TikTok - Douyin - is also owned by ByteDance and China was its first major market.

Douyin was declared to be very harmful by the CCP. In its original form, Douyin was a *lot* like the export version of TikTok. It was full of kids, a lot of sexualized "dance videos," a lot of fringe rants, a lot of venal banality, etc. It happened there first, and the CCP deemed it a serious risk to the social fabric. They compelled ByteDance to change Douyin fairly significantly - including things like enforced timeouts (you can't use it much) and loads of content restrictions and other censorship.

But only for the domestic market. No restrictions on what ByteDance was allowed to export. If anything, the CCP probably *encouraged* ByteDance to export Original Douyin as TikTok to hurt foreign societies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (t0OGg)

37 Spoiler: It will pass and if it ever by some miracle gets repealed it will be "regulated" back into existence by faceless unelected agencies

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (a2WYj)

38 This is why I don't trust Luap Nor's son either.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (R0f8n)

39 Rand Paul, from hero to fool in one hour.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (yQpMk)

40 Graham introduced federal abortion restriction legislation two months before the '22 election. Blithering idiot.

Posted by: Greyman27 at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (RKLPC)

41 Spoiler: It will pass and if it ever by some miracle gets repealed it will be "regulated" back into existence by faceless unelected agencies
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (a2WYj)


Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop vaping.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (DRSnL)

42 never trust a man who don't eat pussy
Posted by: my Grandpa


10-4! Cat skinned and marinating.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (nW4TA)

43 how come there aint no vids of Graham chuckling it up over a tony DC dinner with Chuck and Mutt ?

cuz ya now it happens

frequently

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (us2H3)

44 I swear some people just TRY to be annoying. At least when I'm annoying it's mostly by accident.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (a2WYj)

45 34 never trust a man who don't eat pussy
Posted by: my Grandpa at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (us2H3)

Why would I want to eat kittehs? What have they ever done to me?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (Rl7KJ)

46 Graham is a two-faced sodomite.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 02:24 PM (Q65mO)

47 i'd be all for banning ANY foreign app on govt devices. that's an easy one.

as for banning tiktok? i'm not sure how you restrict it that isn't going to get sidestepped. and I do have an issue codifying it via law.

as someone else said, maybe a law to specifically indicate that user data is theirs, and every transfer is a 10 dollar payment to the individual, cash only could slow it down.

but you'll end up with some kind of a "waiver" that people will sign in the terms and conditions....

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:24 PM (Mkvkw)

48 Both Pauls are of the libertarian wing of the GOP so it's totally in character for Rand--where did you think he got that name, anyway?--to object on libertarian grounds. But at least he's doing something useful about Patriot Act 2: Social Media Boogaloo, plus the actually-libertarian Paul axis is a lot closer to my interests than the money grubbing faux-libertarian neocon axis.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 02:24 PM (PZvjL)

49 It's not about teenagers dancing. Has Paul missed out the part where TikTok is spreading every social contagion mental illness, from fake tics, to fake Tourettes, to fake multiple personality disorders, to fake transgenderism among children?
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He might have, or he fears social media contagion - as in, a contagion within social media companies.

The rational and reasonable approach to the problem, in my opinion, is to forbid the use of the service by minors. And not just TikTok, but all social media. That will have serious problems and it might result in the failure of social media as a whole, because they will suddenly have to verify everyone. This isn't technically difficult, but it would destroy anonymity on the platforms and thus make them a hell of a lot less popular.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:24 PM (t0OGg)

50 37 Spoiler: It will pass and if it ever by some miracle gets repealed it will be "regulated" back into existence by faceless unelected agencies
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:22 PM (a2WYj)

Ban TikTok and some other stupid app will pop up in its place. Just a few years ago everyone was doing Vines. These networks come and go.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (KbCG3)

51 Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop vaping.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (DRSnL)
-----

Good day to start injecting heroin directly into the eyeballs, though.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (Vp7E/)

52 It seems to me that the US has every right to block a foreign app, controlled by a hostile power, from the US.

Therein lies the heart of this debate. I don't like banning any more than any other rational, freedom-loving person. This is nefarious infiltration, nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (Xrfse)

53 A U.S. senator should not be learning about their own co-sponsorship of a bill for the first time on Fox News.

We need term limits for congressional staffers and all other support personnel (and, frankly, all government employees) before we enact term limits for the figureheads that actually get elected.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (EXyHK)

54 She also just voted against forbidding the Chinese Communist Party from owning farmland in America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

She didn't understand what she was voting for, she's come undone.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (4WAN5)

55 Everyone knows that the compelled-speech "MA" rating on video games, movies and TV reduces violence.

It's science. The 3rd glass of wine at 2pm says so.

Why won't you think of the children?!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (6Mlq5)

56 I'm a fag ??

I did not know this
Posted by: Linda Graham at March 31, 2023 02:18 PM (us2H3)


That's okay. Everyone else did.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (DRSnL)

57 But the "Restrict Act" isn't just about banning TikTok -- it's about empowering the government to censor social media and punish Americans.

Which is exactly the sense I got from the hearings.

++++
#meToo. Solving the legitimate problem by making social media restricted to adults would give them no authority. In fact, it would represent a net *decline* in their effective power. No government will ever do that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:26 PM (t0OGg)

58 Does anyone else think Miss Lindsay is drunk in that clip?

I am still dumbfounded at how amateurish and unprepared Graham was for that interview. That old slug has been in DC for how many decades now? Was he expecting a Hannity tongue bath?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 02:26 PM (j2Xg6)

59 I'm not much into the federal government banning any product, as their choice in products would likely be polar opposites to my own.

I would agree to a ban on data collection via phone or computer without the consent of each user and payment.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:26 PM (lTGtQ)

60 Yes, TT should be banned. Not so much because it's poison, but because it's Chinese spyware. They barely even hide that fact. It would be like everyone in the USA using a German spyware app called "Krautok" . . . in WW2. Insane, right?

As for TT being poison, that's not my circus and not my monkeys. This is a parental issue. If parents are dumb enough to let their tweens gorge on TT poison, then that's on them. It's not my job to police shitty parenting.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

61 58 I am still dumbfounded at how amateurish and unprepared Graham was for that interview. That old slug has been in DC for how many decades now? Was he expecting a Hannity tongue bath?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 02:26 PM (j2Xg6)

========

"You put Hannity on 24/7, or I stop appearing on your network!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

62 But I'd like all social media platforms to require proof of adulthood via a microtransaction. (Or parents can make the microtransaction with their credit cards, if they want to expose their children to this filth.)
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I'd prefer a different mechanism, but that's neither here nor there. No reasonable measure to simply keep kids off the platforms will ever be pursued. Having kids use the platforms, get hooked and then go crazy is a huge benefit to these platforms in the first place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:27 PM (t0OGg)

63 Didn't even watch the Graham video (surprise!), but in general, co-sponsorship of bills occurs in several different ways. Most bills are inconsequential no-brainers (establishing National Goat Cheese Day, or the like). Senators typically become co-sponsors when "Dear Colleague" letters circulate, and their staff gets their check-off to join in. Sometimes senators will just do this verbally, on the floor or wherever they meet.

More important bills will usually go through the Dear Colleague process, but get more systematic attention and be an actual decision following the whole internal review process, in the end.

Not knowing he was a co-sponsor of a bill is really not that big of a deal for Graham (or anybody). Graham's got much more serious pathologies when it comes to public policy, and those are a big deal.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:27 PM (OTzUX)

64 Without data collection 99% of all tech would go bust.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (jTmQV)

65 She also just voted against forbidding the Chinese Communist Party from owning farmland in America.

A very reasonable restriction would be to prohibit any foreign national from buying ANY land here.

But what do I know. I'm a Libertarian when it comes to domestic issues - but a flat out Nationalist when it comes to global matters. America first. And I'd expect every other country to value their interests above ours as well.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (flOYI)

66 Does anyone else think Miss Lindsay is drunk in that clip?

I am still dumbfounded at how amateurish and unprepared Graham was for that interview. That old slug has been in DC for how many decades now? Was he expecting a Hannity tongue bath?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 02:26 PM (j2Xg6)

It doesn't matter. He has nothing to worry about.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Q65mO)

67 I still think children under 18 should be banned from social media. It's more dangerous than guns and alcohol.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Mzdiz)

68 why is Linda so fucking brown ??

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (us2H3)

69 TikTok is spreading every social contagion mental illness, from fake tics, to fake Tourettes, to fake multiple personality disorders, to fake transgenderism among children?


I believe that these software programs are indeed using subtle tweaks to induce mental illness, much like theaters used to use subliminals to influence movie goers, and despite a law against it, I believe that is still going on as well.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (lTGtQ)

70 Second look at El Salvador?

Posted by: A Tout le Monde at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (5EOzM)

71 Didn't even watch the Graham video (surprise!), but in general, co-sponsorship of bills occurs in several different ways. Most bills are inconsequential no-brainers (establishing National Goat Cheese Day, or the like). Senators typically become co-sponsors when "Dear Colleague" letters circulate, and their staff gets their check-off to join in. Sometimes senators will just do this verbally, on the floor or wherever they meet.

More important bills will usually go through the Dear Colleague process, but get more systematic attention and be an actual decision following the whole internal review process, in the end.

Not knowing he was a co-sponsor of a bill is really not that big of a deal for Graham (or anybody). Graham's got much more serious pathologies when it comes to public policy, and those are a big deal.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:27 PM (OTzUX)
++++
"Its normal for senators not to know what they co-sponsor" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the Senate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (t0OGg)

72 How did the Patriot Act not already give the gov broad sweeping surveillance powers?

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (KpYH4)

73 Graham introduced federal abortion restriction legislation two months before the '22 election. Blithering idiot.
Posted by: Greyman27 at March 31, 2023 02:23 PM (RKLPC)

intentional. not blithering at all.

he could see the wave coming and KNEW how to steal it's energy...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Mkvkw)

74 2 and i can't believe i'm agreeing with AOC...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:14 PM (Mkvkw)


If memory serves the only legislators who expressed even a little bit of concern about FedGov's insane overreaction to J6 were one or two of The Squad. Broken clocks maybe, but still...

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (PZvjL)

75 Watters can be annoying but making Graham look like a schmuck was a thing of beauty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (W2hoj)

76 Yeah lets give more power to the government to do stuff to us.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (iayUP)

77 Without data collection 99% of all tech would go bust.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (jTmQV)
++++
It's the grease that makes ever high-tech wheel turn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (t0OGg)

78 I am okay with killing Tik Tok and banning data collection but at this point congress never releases a clean, clear bill. They never pass just a bill that does x, its always larded up not just with earmarks and graft, but crazy NWO crap to take away more freedom and control the public.

Basically congress is worthless. We cannot trust them to do anything, ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (0hOvj)

79 Related info.:
Abigail Marone @abigailmarone Replying to @thevivafrei and @HawleyMO
You're confusing Senator Hawley's bill - The No TikTok on US Devices Act - with The Restrict Act. They're 2 totally different bills.

Senator Hawley's legislation is a narrow ban of the TikTok app and doesn't give the government all that new power that the Restrict Act would.

Learn more about Senator Hawley's bill here

Abigail Marone @abigailmarone · Mar 29
Senator Hawley's legislation to ban TikTok is NOT the same thing as the Restrict Act. His bill:

- Narrowly prohibits the Chinese-based TikTok app from being downloaded on U.S. devices

-Bans commercial activity with TikTok’s parent
company, ByteDance.
https://tinyurl.com/hy3nk33v

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (Vwz3I)

80 South Carolina has been taken over by the James Madison types

so Linda is secure

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (us2H3)

81 I still think children under 18 should be banned from social media. It's more dangerous than guns and alcohol.

You can do that, in your own home, right now. Literally right now. Without any Congressional action whatsoever.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:30 PM (flOYI)

82 Ban TikTok and some other stupid app will pop up in its place. Just a few years ago everyone was doing Vines. These networks come and go.

Yeah, I suppose that is our "reality". Probably no stopping it. Life is now digital, unless we choose not to participate. Which has become pretty much impossible in our era. Catch-22.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:30 PM (Xrfse)

83 Without data collection 99% of all tech would go bust.

Posted by: gourmand du jour



Another benefit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:30 PM (lTGtQ)

84 62 But I'd like all social media platforms to require proof of adulthood via a microtransaction. (Or parents can make the microtransaction with their credit cards, if they want to expose their children to this filth.)
++++
I'd prefer a different mechanism, but that's neither here nor there. No reasonable measure to simply keep kids off the platforms will ever be pursued. Having kids use the platforms, get hooked and then go crazy is a huge benefit to these platforms in the first place.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:27 PM (t0OGg)
__________________

The entire business model is to get kids hooked early. Same with virtually every other product ever marketed. Indeed, TT blew up out of nowhere in large part BECAUSE it was seen to cater to kids and young adults. The competition -- Youtube -- was seen as more mature and adult.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

85 I still think children under 18 should be banned from social media. It's more dangerous than guns and alcohol.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Mzdiz)

I agree, that shit is terrible

Posted by: Hatari war whooping somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 31, 2023 02:31 PM (NtVYv)

86 Restricting use by minors seems like an unworkable paper solution when applied to reality.

It's no solution either, but recognizing that families and parents are the problem - in that they no longer seem to represent any kind of bulwark against poison, or at least far too many don't - is kinda central.

Of course there are several wheels turning here. The collapse of education (in large part) is in a chicken-and-egg situation with social media and other current afflictions. In any case they have a baleful synergy and we see the results.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:31 PM (OTzUX)

87 Yes, you can ban TT in your home and on your kid's devices but that isn't going to happen 90% of the time, and the other 10% will be constantly looking for ways around it.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:32 PM (iayUP)

88 You can do that, in your own home, right now. Literally right now. Without any Congressional action whatsoever.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:30 PM (flOYI)

Also true

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 31, 2023 02:32 PM (NtVYv)

89 Senator Hawley's legislation is a narrow ban of the TikTok app and doesn't give the government all that new power that the Restrict Act would.

Can we ask the other Republicans in the Senate to just give all their time to Hawley? Not only is he about the best Senator this century but he's one of the few NOT looking like an idiot right now.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 02:32 PM (lc5cP)

90 And yes, Graham is a pathetic joke whose constituents keep voting him back into office no matter how godawful he is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 02:32 PM (0hOvj)

91 Republicans didn't fall for the trap. They ARE the trap.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:32 PM (S3vYy)

92 Hawley/Buck's bill is the No TikTok on United States Devices Act, is S. 85, still in progress:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/
118th-congress/senate-bill/85

The many-senatorial co-sponsors' (Warner etc.) RESTRICT Act is S. 686:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/
118th-congress/senate-bill/686

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:33 PM (v0TzN)

93 Rand Paul is blocking the Resist Act from going forward.

---------

Resist we much!

[RESTRICT ACT?]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 02:33 PM (dwBLr)

94 Without data collection 99% of all tech would go bust.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 02:28 PM (jTmQV)

what's the downside?

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 02:33 PM (Mkvkw)

95 There might even be more.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (v0TzN)

96 Yes, you can ban TT in your home and on your kid's devices but that isn't going to happen 90% of the time, and the other 10% will be constantly looking for ways around it.

And you know what. If you ban it in your home, but your joint is still jimmied because your neighbor didn't ban it in his ?

That's not his problem. It's his choice. So if we're talking about Congress doing something because 90% of homes won't do it on their own ? That's bullshit. That's tyranny.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (flOYI)

97 He added: "If you don't like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don't use them. But don't think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them."
====

Oh, really? What about every other fucking banned thing?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (IytoW)

98 Miss Lindsey is a fraud.

Closeted liberal and ...

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (WmGrA)

99 I was thinking about a month's vacay in Mar del Plata

so looked at vids

Kids there are just as fucked up, if not more

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (us2H3)

100 I'm with Rand. No prohibiting anything for the American people when it comes to the internet. It may be that conservative thought eventually NEEDS to be hosted on foreign servers. NO WAY am I setting the precedent that the government can stop websites that originate out of the US. Let folks block the websites themselves (we have so many ways to personally block things, what's one more - commerce will also provide the solution)...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (exHjb)

101 You can do that, in your own home, right now. Literally right now. Without any Congressional action whatsoever.



Sure, and when the kid from three streets over goes to the school and kills your kid, you can say that YOUR kid wasn't exposed to this programming. Yay.

What is being done is 4th generation warfare against civilians.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (lTGtQ)

102 I'm fine with banning TT in the US. How about we ban all the software that is spying on us?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (iayUP)

103 118th-congress/senate-bill/686
Posted by: m

They added 20 to the actual bill number for obvious reasons.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (4WAN5)

104 Republicans didn't fall for the trap. They ARE the trap.

Posted by: BurtTC at

Aren't traps ghey?

Posted by: Tee hee! at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (5EOzM)

105 >>He added: "If you don't like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don't use them. But don't think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them."


Commerce Clause for the win!

Posted by: DB - stealing the handle at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (geLO8)

106 "Its normal for senators not to know what they co-sponsor" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the Senate.

Obligatory reminder that "senate" and "senator" have the same (Latin) root (senex, "old man") as "senile."

(The Roman Senate was originally basically a council of [theoretically wise] old men, which is fine for a Bronze age village or city. Once you get a metaphorical [and later, actual] empire to administer, things get dicy.)

Posted by: Lancius McCormickicus at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (l8gTz)

107 Linda Graham would bring a mirror to a gloryhole

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (us2H3)

108 103 118th-congress/senate-bill/686
Posted by: m

They added 20 to the actual bill number for obvious reasons.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (4WAN5)

LOL

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (v0TzN)

109 They're called "Marlboros.". And your first carton is free!

Posted by: RJ Reynolds at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (DhOHl)

110 Basically congress is worthless. We cannot trust them to do anything, ever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 02:29 PM (0hOvj)

The ending the Covid emergency bill they passed that Joe is finally gonna sign soon was one line. Best bill of the year.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:35 PM (exHjb)

111 The only difference between Swallowell and most Republicans is they still have their Chinese honeypot side piece.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (6Mlq5)

112 He added: "If you don't like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don't use them. But don't think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them."

Did the colonial congress ban the importation of "British propaganda" during the Revolutionary War?

I honestly don't know and I'd be interested to see what the people of the time did...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (lc5cP)

113 "How did the Patriot Act not already give the gov broad sweeping surveillance powers?"

I know it's getting into religious territory here but how did the stupidly named Patriot Act actually expand guvamint power? Mostly an expansion of RICO, was my impression.

As always I am ready to be edumucated and informed, because I haven't followed this closely for a long time, but what are some specific areas, and cases, of that stupidly named law being used to restrict freedom or expand surveillance? Specific being the key word here.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (OTzUX)

114 I wonder if Graham will now boycott Jesse as he does Tucker ?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (63Dwl)

115 They added 20 to the actual bill number for obvious reasons.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (4WAN5)



Same as in town?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (yQpMk)

116 Ban TikTok and some other stupid app will pop up in its place. Just a few years ago everyone was doing Vines. These networks come and go.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM


I actually wonder about that. Vine was hugely popular and Twitter seemingly just killed it off for no good reason. . .and then TikTok, providing essentially the same service (on its publicly-facing side, at least). Maybe Taibbi and rest of the Twitter Files bunch should see if there's any connection there. Did the CCP pay off Twitter/Jack Dorsey so they could emplace their spy network app?

Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (fF0pk)

117 Pretty simple... Write a bill that says only Tick Tok is forbidden in the US.. Period... On another note I see Trump has gotten the same Judge that railroaded one of his executives to plead guilty to getting illegal perks and not declaring them. He is a nasty Trump hating Judge...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (bs+z0)

118 Aren't traps ghey?

In this case yes.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg trying to get lil Jonah out of a mousetrap at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (lc5cP)

119 I think the simple, legal solution is that all software that can collect data has to get individual permission, and pay for each individual data hack.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (lTGtQ)

120 They added 20 to the actual bill number for obvious reasons.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Same as in town?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

It is DC right?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (4WAN5)

121 Newsflash: Republicans are quite fine with totalitarianism. They are not being misled at all.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (KSNKu)

122 Restricting use by minors seems like an unworkable paper solution when applied to reality.

It's no solution either, but recognizing that families and parents are the problem - in that they no longer seem to represent any kind of bulwark against poison, or at least far too many don't - is kinda central. ...
Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:31 PM (OTzUX)
++++
Mechanically/technically, it isn't that hard to do.

But yeah, the restrictions need to be in the home because the government cannot be trusted to anything right, or even non-evil.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (t0OGg)

123 A U.S. senator should not be learning about their own co-sponsorship of a bill for the first time on Fox News.

What about on a hospital bed?

Posted by: "Senator" John Fetterman, D(ebrained) at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (h5TKJ)

124 They DO have an S.666:

S.666 — 118th Congress (2023-2024)
Identifying and Eliminating Wasteful Programs Act

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (v0TzN)

125 Sure, and when the kid from three streets over goes to the school and kills your kid, you can say that YOUR kid wasn't exposed to this programming. Yay. What is being done is 4th generation warfare against civilians.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:34 PM (lTGtQ)


Congrats !!! You just made the same argument today's Communists who call themselves Democrats or Progressives make for - quite literally - everything.

We're all connected, so my bad decisions can hurt you - ergo, you are justified in making my decisions for me. Outstanding !!!

Everyone here is all for small government - until it's something you care about. Then the Inner Fascist always comes out. Never fails.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:37 PM (flOYI)

126 I have no idea why any Republican would want to be associated with Graham. The guy is creepy and more often than not, completely useless.

During Trump's problems with Mueller/FBI Graham was there to give encouragement but he never did shit on the Judiciary Committee to fix a God-damn thing.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

127 You can do that, in your own home, right now. Literally right now. Without any Congressional action whatsoever.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:30 PM (flOYI)

It's a libertarian principle that people have the right to make stupid choices, and they do. All the time. Government should not be in the business of stopping people from doing so.

But when a foreign power is spying through an appz and targeting children to do so, it absolutely IS the government's role to step in. One could argue that is the government's ONLY legit role.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:38 PM (S3vYy)

128 You are not going to prevent your kids from some type of access to this garbage. It's just not going to happen. I was a teenager once during the Pleistocene Epoch and my motto always was "where there's a will, there's a way".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:38 PM (Xrfse)

129 Republicans voters should get a general. Just in case.
That has passed. Where are the fighters.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 31, 2023 02:38 PM (MqEmj)

130 They DO have an S.666:

S.666 — 118th Congress (2023-2024)
Identifying and Eliminating Wasteful Programs Act
Posted by: m

It'll never pass or work.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:38 PM (4WAN5)

131 Here, there be monsters.

https://bit.ly/3G5kuSI

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 02:38 PM (j2Xg6)

132 I wonder if Graham will now boycott Jesse as he does Tucker ?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

He and that other Great American, Neutered Gingrich, are welcome anytime!

Posted by: Sean the Interrupter at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (WmGrA)

133 Soooo Missy Lindsey... China is attacking us, which is why we are sending all our ammunition and money to fight Russia?

/looks confused.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (oHd/0)

134 "Everyone here is all for small government - until it's something you care about. Then the Inner Fascist always comes out. Never fails.
Posted by: Get a Job"

What do you care about TT? It a data collection program for our enemy. Should it be allowed to continue?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (iayUP)

135 Here's the congress.gov site to play with:

https://www.congress.gov

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (v0TzN)

136 OT: My mother has learned how to work the teevee in her room. She has found the news channels.

On the plus side, she won't remember anything five minutes later, so maybe we won't have to talk about it.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (aBJcM)

137 Ron has got an upcoming problem

it wont be long before his "backers" start to say Trump is now disqualified

he'll have to have the right answer

I hope he does but I'm doubtful

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (us2H3)

138 Ace, Normies are full-throatedly pushing to ban or control TikTok, because the government told the Legacy Media to tell the #conservatives to think that. And they dutifully think it.

I don't understand how so many adult humans can claim not to trust government or media, and those exact same people will breathlessly repeat what they were told to think 15 minutes later.

I frequntly worry that most people really do deserve tyranny and slavery. Then it occurs that in order for them to get what they deserve, I must also suffer. That's when I figure I've just got nothing left to lose.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (b306O)

139 I actually wonder about that. Vine was hugely popular and Twitter seemingly just killed it off for no good reason. . .and then TikTok, providing essentially the same service (on its publicly-facing side, at least). Maybe Taibbi and rest of the Twitter Files bunch should see if there's any connection there. Did the CCP pay off Twitter/Jack Dorsey so they could emplace their spy network app?

Posted by: Bert G at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (fF0pk)

Wasn't it killed because they wanted to do Instagram videos? SnapChat seemingly came out of nowhere.

At this point, it's wise to just assume that the fair market has no say in which of these apps fail or succeed. I just know that we're in no short supply of them and they're all a scourge.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (KbCG3)

140 " "Everyone here is all for small government - until it's something you care about. Then the Inner Fascist always comes out. Never fails.
Posted by: Get a Job"

What do you care about TT? It a data collection program for our enemy. Should it be allowed to continue?
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM"




Of course, I might say the same thing about Windows.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (iayUP)

141 Everyone here is all for small government - until it's something you care about. Then the Inner Fascist always comes out. Never fails.

-

I'm the fascist for trying to restrict chinese military technology from being used on Americans.

great argument.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (lTGtQ)

142 You really don't expect lawmakers to actually READ and UNDERSTAND the papers put in front of them. They just sign away and go fapping to the camera to tout the size of their ducks.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (Ab1+v)

143 Did the colonial congress ban the importation of "British propaganda" during the Revolutionary War? I honestly don't know and I'd be interested to see what the people of the time did...

No, quite the opposite.

"Freedom of the Press" was thought up, in no small measure, because of the British tactic of seizing the press shops of the age - who would make money by printing whatever you wanted to distribute, for a price. Nobody stopped anyone from printing pro-Crown advertisements and posting them. Because it was your money that bought the ink and paper - and your time spent posting it in the town square.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (flOYI)

144 Obligatory reminder that "senate" and "senator" have the same (Latin) root (senex, "old man") as "senile."
------------
Neigh! Neigh!

Posted by: senator incitatus at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (Vwz3I)

145 On the plus side, she won't remember anything five minutes later, so maybe we won't have to talk about it.
Posted by: screaming in digital

That's funny and I'm sorry to hear it a the same time.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (4WAN5)

146 Hard to keep track of all these bills when there are so many d*cks to suck. They won't suck themselves after all, just ask Kamala.

Posted by: Kitchener Lesley at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (CgQvH)

147 Donald Trump has a blind spot when it comes to some people to try to appear to be his friends.

Graham keeps reappearing in Trump's life around all the crap that got Trump in trouble. I would have thought by now that Trump would have flushed Graham down the toilet.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (RHGPo)

148 I got to vote for the bill to find out what's in it.

Posted by: Senator Miss Lindsey at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (EQpMN)

149 141 I'm the fascist for trying to restrict chinese military technology from being used on Americans.

great argument.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (lTGtQ)

========

Being small government means having no borders of any kind. The Koch Brothers told me that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)

150 >>He added: "If you don't like TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, don't use them. But don't think any interpretation of the Constitution gives you the right to ban them."
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I don't think he's read the New Constitution.

Says right there in the "Emergency Declaration for the Health and Safety to Stop Pandemics or Whatever" clause that government can do what it fucking wants, the rest of the Bill of Rights mean jackshit.

Or did you miss the Supreme Court refusing to stop a single pandemic order until it was "too late?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (6Mlq5)

151 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Dantes at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fVKtH)

152 No, quite the opposite.


Was hoping for a link or reference more then just a "no"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (lc5cP)

153 Seriously, if AOC is for it, and Rand Paul is against it, easy call.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (v0TzN)

154 Ban TikTok is one step from "ban Ace" and "ban LibsofTikTok" and ban all other "possibly foreign" and "out of step with American values" websites. Did we learn nothing from the Patriot Act slippery slope? Give an inch, give up 20 million miles. Do NOT set the precedent of banning "seemingly innocuous to normal Americans" Internet.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (exHjb)

155 any politician that advocates for war should be duct taped to the next bomb going out

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (us2H3)

156 What is the origin of Graham cracker ?

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

157 OK, so how does Tik Tok make money in the US?

How about we take away their business license? With no funding, ap would die.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (oHd/0)

158 Maybe Republicans and Democrats should criminalize politicians investing in any Chinese corporation or business concern or receiving money from the PRC in any shape, fashion, or form. I'm sure they would line up around the block to co-sponsor the legislation.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 02:43 PM (KSNKu)

159 What do you care about TT? It a data collection program for our enemy. Should it be allowed to continue?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (iayUP)


Then ban it, in your home, today. It's been banned in mine from the first time I saw it - one of the brain dead crew guys I work with loves it.

I forbade it because its a non-stop loop of fifteen second long stupid clips. I also banned MTV went it went to rap. Do the same.

I don't care if my neighbor watches Tik Tok while MTV plays in the background. I also don't care if he dies tonight while diving in a swimming pool of coke.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:43 PM (flOYI)

160 How about Tranny Gladiatorial munus? That would be entertaining and hygienic. Just tell the Trannies they will become stars!

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 02:43 PM (OTXUv)

161 151 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dantes at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fVKtH)

the Gap

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:43 PM (us2H3)

162 143 No, quite the opposite.

"Freedom of the Press" was thought up, in no small measure, because of the British tactic of seizing the press shops of the age - who would make money by printing whatever you wanted to distribute, for a price. Nobody stopped anyone from printing pro-Crown advertisements and posting them. Because it was your money that bought the ink and paper - and your time spent posting it in the town square.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:41 PM (flOYI)

=======

You're funny.

"The Revolutionary War era featured numerous restrictions on free speech and free press. Those who were considered loyal to the King of England – loyalists – were subject to a host of onerous restrictions by colonial leaders. Some colonies passed laws declaring it treasonous to support the British King. "

The Sedition Act didn't come out of nowhere after teh Revolution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:43 PM (LvTSG)

163 The US Congress is the enemy of freedom loving folks everywhere.

Abolish the US Congress.

For The Chirruns.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (R/m4+)

164 153 Seriously, if AOC is for it, and Rand Paul is against it, easy call.
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (v0TzN)

My bad.
AOC and Rand Paul are against legislation banning TikTok.
Well, sort of.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (v0TzN)

165 154 Ban TikTok is one step from "ban Ace" and "ban LibsofTikTok" and ban all other "possibly foreign" and "out of step with American values" websites. Did we learn nothing from the Patriot Act slippery slope? Give an inch, give up 20 million miles. Do NOT set the precedent of banning "seemingly innocuous to normal Americans" Internet.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (exHjb)

========

Except TikTok is owned and run by a foreign government. It's not at all the same.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

166 Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:36 PM (OTzUX) if t

If this list is to be believed (and I can't endorse, its just what I found)

---------------
The Patriot Act expanded surveillance for law enforcement by:

Expanding domestic and international wiretapping and pen register monitoring;
Expanding authority to access electronic communications;
Allowing secret “sneak and peak” searches;
Removing privacy protections to allow federal agencies to share more information; and
Expanding funding to federal law enforcement agencies.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (KpYH4)

167 159 What do you care about TT? It a data collection program for our enemy. Should it be allowed to continue?

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:39 PM (iayUP)

Then ban it, in your home, today. It's been banned in mine from the first time I saw it - one of the brain dead crew guys I work with loves it.

I forbade it because its a non-stop loop of fifteen second long stupid clips. I also banned MTV went it went to rap. Do the same.

I don't care if my neighbor watches Tik Tok while MTV plays in the background. I also don't care if he dies tonight while diving in a swimming pool of coke.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:43 PM (flOYI)

Tiktok is banned in my home, too...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (exHjb)

168 Yay, tornado watch...and it's getting dark.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (EMO0a)

169 The best part of the RESTRICT Act is that it moves the censoring apparatus to the Department of Commence.
Golly gee .. we really needed yet another (lack of) intelligence agency.

Only somebody as devious as Ron Brown would have thought this up.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (RHGPo)

170 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dantes

Tropical Tyranny.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (WmGrA)

171 " Ban TikTok is one step from "ban Ace" and "ban LibsofTikTok" and ban all other "possibly foreign" and "out of step with American values" websites. Did we learn nothing from the Patriot Act slippery slope? Give an inch, give up 20 million miles. Do NOT set the precedent of banning "seemingly innocuous to normal Americans" Internet.

Posted by: Nova Local "


I don't think ace is collecting data for the Chinese. I do see your point though, I could swing to no censorship at all with not a lot of persuasion.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (iayUP)

172 156 What is the origin of Graham cracker ?
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

Bell was working so feverishously on the I Phone that he did not have time to eat

so Mrs Bell ...

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (us2H3)

173 151 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dantes at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fVKtH)

Showers without water. It's always the penultimate step to heaven on earth. They will be here soon.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (KSNKu)

174 Graham helped tilt the election to Biden.
Remember his abortion bill?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (jTmQV)

175 Make a law allowing social media companies to be sued for data misuse (may require a digital bill of rights or some such). Set the plaintiff's bar loose on them. Problem solved.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (5C4od)

176 165 154 Ban TikTok is one step from "ban Ace" and "ban LibsofTikTok" and ban all other "possibly foreign" and "out of step with American values" websites. Did we learn nothing from the Patriot Act slippery slope? Give an inch, give up 20 million miles. Do NOT set the precedent of banning "seemingly innocuous to normal Americans" Internet.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (exHjb)

========

Except TikTok is owned and run by a foreign government. It's not at all the same.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

Critical point.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (v0TzN)

177 This isn't about free speech, at least not directly. This is a chinese military psychological weapons project.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (lTGtQ)

178 F**KED STATAUS

[*] F**KED

[ ] NOT F**KED

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (up/3i)

179 165 154 Ban TikTok is one step from "ban Ace" and "ban LibsofTikTok" and ban all other "possibly foreign" and "out of step with American values" websites. Did we learn nothing from the Patriot Act slippery slope? Give an inch, give up 20 million miles. Do NOT set the precedent of banning "seemingly innocuous to normal Americans" Internet.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (exHjb)

========

Except TikTok is owned and run by a foreign government. It's not at all the same.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

And as I mentioned before, conservative thought may end up on foreign servers and thus owned there. Who knows who will be willing to host it.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (exHjb)

180 168 Yay, tornado watch...and it's getting dark.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (EMO0a)

Maybe locusts?

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (v0TzN)

181 Except TikTok is owned and run by a foreign government. It's not at all the same.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

That's true. The Left considers us a much bigger threat than foreign governments.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (KpYH4)

182 177 This isn't about free speech, at least not directly. This is a chinese military psychological weapons project.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (lTGtQ)

========

"It should be illegal for colleges to shut down Confucius Institutes as well. It's just speech."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (LvTSG)

183 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dantes at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fVKtH)

Narco State.

Like you see overseas in places Mexico and Detroit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 02:47 PM (R/m4+)

184 178 F**KED STATAUS

[*] F**KED

[ ] NOT F**KED
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (up/3i)

I have no idea what this means

Posted by: Linda Graham at March 31, 2023 02:47 PM (us2H3)

185 177 This isn't about free speech, at least not directly. This is a chinese military psychological weapons project.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:45 PM (lTGtQ)

Maybe this is the distinction Rand Paul is trying to prompt.

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:47 PM (v0TzN)

186 Never sent to Mar del Plata, or Punta del Este, but the latter must have been nice, judging by the area around Montevideo. Was summer. Long long ago. Of course the beaches and water far north in Brazil were a very different story, so can't compare (sub-tropical and tropical).

It's fall now, might be very nice, but a fall, not summer experience.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:47 PM (OTzUX)

187 Maybe locusts?
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (v0TzN)
___

Ummm...no.

It's spring in the Midwest.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 02:47 PM (EMO0a)

188 F**KED STATAUS

[*] F**KED


Is there a half status or something for this? I mean I've gone through two troop transports but I still have the other two to finish as well.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (lc5cP)

189 I think the root problem is not Tik Tok itself... but that it is Chinese owned, and controlled.

I personally don't like foreign ownership of American assets or companies... or LAND.... America by and for Americans.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (oHd/0)

190 180 168 Yay, tornado watch...and it's getting dark.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (EMO0a)

Maybe locusts?
Posted by: m


Frogs.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (cKEzo)

191 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
--------------
Fruit Apache.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (Vwz3I)

192 On the plus side, she won't remember anything five minutes later, so maybe we won't have to talk about it.

Oh God, I hated when mom wanted to talk politics. She hated Obama and let be known to anyone within earshot. Most of the CNA's were black.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (wagHN)

193 a mid day chuckle

Clown World
https://tinyurl.com/2s3fncys

lol

cute gentleman at the wheel
classic leftie chick (I'm just guessing) - no way she's going to apologize

This is why people do not want to do the right thing anymore.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (uQPen)

194 OK banners - if Tik Tok originated in the US - would you be for it even if you didn't use it ? Lets take away the "Chinese" angle.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (flOYI)

195 China bans our stuff at their firewalls.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (iayUP)

196 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
--------------
Fruit Apache.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 02:48 PM (Vwz3I)


Cherry Hill

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (uQPen)

197 Except TikTok is owned and run by a foreign government. It's not at all the same.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (LvTSG)

And as I mentioned before, conservative thought may end up on foreign servers and thus owned there. Who knows who will be willing to host it.
Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:46 PM (exHjb)

To me its the same stupidity as Dominion counting our election results, when it is not even an American Company... and some of that data goes overseas.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (oHd/0)

198 I personally don't like foreign ownership of American assets or companies... or LAND.... America by and for Americans.

I've often wondered how LIVs would react if everyone called it the "Mexican Owned Times" instead of the New York Times but..comparing it to the Bezos Post it really isn't any different.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (lc5cP)

199 Orange Julius

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (v0TzN)

200 I wouldn't care at all except for the Chinese angle.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (iayUP)

201 The Left considers us a much bigger threat than foreign governments.

Well, the upside to that is that they've made it perfectly clear.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (Xrfse)

202 200

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (v0TzN)

203 Lindsey started to defend the bill, but was sober enough to stop. Then he had lame reasoning that the provisions wouldn't trump the Constitution, as if that ever stopped the bureaucracy and most judges once the machinery was underway.

The guy needs to go. SC voters, send him packing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 02:50 PM (fs1hN)

204 @174

>> Graham helped tilt the election to Biden.
Remember his abortion bill?

There are so many operators, free agents and mercenaries running around the "halls of power," that truly understanding what the full game actually is, is nearly impossible.

Nothing is rational, nothing makes sense and that seems to be the SOP for the Capital City and it's urchins.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 02:50 PM (up/3i)

205 The Chinese shouldn't be spying on Americans. That's the Demcorats' job.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:50 PM (KpYH4)

206 Hello, nurse.

Hey jewells. : )

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 02:51 PM (EMO0a)

207 TikTok sucks but I can't see the government doing something about it that doesn't wind up being another overly broad power grab with huge unintended consequences. So I gotta go with not banning it: the cure is worse than the disease.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 02:51 PM (PZvjL)

208 200 I wouldn't care at all except for the Chinese angle.
Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (iayUP)

Then don't care...or put so much garbage on it that Chinese spying is worthless.

I mean, if I was DoD, and I was worried about Chinese spying through the app, I'd put so much garbage on it the data would be meaningless. I'm sure our smart governmental people. who we know ALREADY monitor social media, could figure out how to make the spying data worthless...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:51 PM (exHjb)

209 Oooh, this should be good.

Musk pledges to make "most of the recommendation algorithm" open source.

https://bit.ly/42TWMTn

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 02:51 PM (j2Xg6)

210 202 200
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (v0TzN)

*arched side eye*

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (us2H3)

211 My bad.
AOC and Rand Paul are against legislation banning TikTok.
Well, sort of.
Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 02:44 PM (v0TzN)

One of the problems of course is that it's damn near impossible to know what exactly is in the bill, and whether the bill itself would do anything one might want it to do.

So it's very possible both are against it for very different reasons. It's been said the "Ban Tik Tok" bill doesn't actually, you know, ban Tik Tok. So....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (S3vYy)

212 I wouldn't care at all except for the Chinese angle.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (iayUP)


And that's where I can agree as well. If we were talking about a simple one page bill ... Tik Tok, and everything else from your piece of shit Chinese Internet Content Company, can go somewhere else ... I'd be fine with it. Enthusiastic, even.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (flOYI)

213 Hi SMH!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (wagHN)

214 Who wrote the Restrict Act?

"Yes, we think government bureaucrats should be able to put citizens in prison for 20 years, for disagreeing with the lies and propaganda of DeepState (and/or CCP)."

We have seen what they call Misinformation ...
"The Vax is not safe and effective" ... 20 year sentence.
Dems cheated in the election, Ivermectin and the rest are effective early treatments, Fauci is not Science, Biden takes bribes from out enemies, ... in the coming dystopia, those comments will be tracked even in private emails, and you will be hauled off in the middle of the night.

Should there be protests in front of the homes of these terrorists trying to pass this? No, our protests are already (almost) criminalized.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (Cus5s)

215 A lot of evil genies have been let out of their bottles by government, technology moguls, billionaires, and Leftists over the past 60 years. It will be very difficult to get even a few of those evil genies back into their bottles, because about half of the population wants them to remain free. And because almost all of our governments, local to Federal, tech moguls, and billionaires also want them to remain free. Buy more ammo.

Posted by: Gref at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (AMIL/)

216 I still think children under 18 should be banned from social media. It's more dangerous than guns and alcohol.

I cannot understand why the hell any parent lets their kid have a smart phone. Period. Give them a dorky flip phone, something that they can ONLY text and call with if you feel you absolutely must let them have one (you don't).

Wait, what's that you say? There are no pay phones, they have to have one for an emergency? EVERYBODY HAS A PHONE. They're 9000 times more accessible than the few scattered pay phones that were in urban areas.

In any case, even if you let them have internet access and a phone, they should only be used under supervision, in a limited time period, for specific purposes. No "Billy needs the internet in his bedroom" or "Sally has to have a phone she can use all the time or she'll be socially outcast!" crap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (0hOvj)

217 211 One of the problems of course is that it's damn near impossible to know what exactly is in the bill, and whether the bill itself would do anything one might want it to do.

So it's very possible both are against it for very different reasons. It's been said the "Ban Tik Tok" bill doesn't actually, you know, ban Tik Tok. So....
Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (S3vYy)

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The Ban TikTok bill will build several homeless shelters in San Francisco and not ban TikTok.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (LvTSG)

218 Just watched a vid of some prof at U of Pittsburgh being laughed at when he was confronted by swimmer Riley Gaines and asked if he could tell the difference between a man or a woman based on their skeleton. He said no! And the audience was laughing. Then he says. I am the expert here! They keep laughing and he acutally says. I have a PHD! hilarity. Video is on FOX.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 02:53 PM (xAptn)

219 The fact is, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and lots of others collect a ton of data on people around the world every day. If it's just about data collection, then you have to address that. If it's about propaganda, well the enemy within is a lot more dangerous.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:53 PM (iayUP)

220 Once the chinese military saw what this software could do, they shut it down in country asap, faster than they shut down for the Wuhan flu.

Then, they exported it in the same way they exported the flu.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:53 PM (lTGtQ)

221

The Left can't let the Chinese spy on all our secrets because then what would there be to sell?

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (KpYH4)

222 They'll pass it here or run it through some other way...

By the time you benighted peasants hear about a policy """proposal,""" the various "stakeholders" from "both" "parties," the State, and their private sector cat's paws have already met and agreed that it absolutely will happen BAMN.

Whether it's your gas stove or your freedom of speech, or anything else, if you're hearing about it, you can write it off... it's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (oINRc)

223 I have no gamers' portfolio. Just don't care for 'em, after the first one I ever played took all the quarters and didn't work, no refund. I guess I stand as strongly as the next man for every teen-aged masturbator's innate right to get to the third level, dance the dance, save the Princess. Fine.

Show me evidence that installing that game on our department computers tracks keystrokes for the CCP, and I'm going to make the boys play their videos in the same place I can smoke cigarettes -- in the privacy of their own homes. How is that not simple?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (jYCXf)

224 4 OK banners - if Tik Tok originated in the US - would you be for it even if you didn't use it ? Lets take away the "Chinese" angle.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:49 PM (flOYI)

Shouldn't you be smoking dope about now? Isn't your shift over yet?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (S3vYy)

225 220 Once the chinese military saw what this software could do, they shut it down in country asap, faster than they shut down for the Wuhan flu.

Then, they exported it in the same way they exported the flu.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:53 PM (lTGtQ)

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Banning it would be against our principles. We must allow the Chinese to run a psychological operation against our population, mostly the country's children, is better than losing our principles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (LvTSG)

226 @211

>>So it's very possible both are against it for very different reasons. It's been said the "Ban Tik Tok" bill doesn't actually, you know, ban Tik Tok. So....

Are you suggesting that The Affordable Health Care Act did not actually make Health Care Affordable or The Patriot Act wasn't exclusively used to target terrorists organizations?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (up/3i)

227 I mean, if I was DoD, and I was worried about Chinese spying through the app, I'd put so much garbage on it the data would be meaningless.

Therein lies the problem.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (Xrfse)

228 Thanks ".....".

The last two are meh. The specifics of the first 3 are the key. And my question was seeking specific examples of how they were used in an abusive manner. Of course if they were abuses, then it muddies the whole thing, since abuses of existing laws are illegal and are not made possible by those laws, by definition.

FISA long long predated 9/11, which few seem to know, and the abuses of that process as part of the Mega-Scandal/rolling coup against Trump are just that - abuses of those powers. Of course having literally ZERO consequences for all of the abuses and crimes committed in the Mega-Scandal (a few resignations - to the welcoming arms of the "press" and the vast system of degraded corrupt racist-authoritarian organizations - is equivalent to zero consequences) renders even the existence of laws (controversial or not) sort of moot.

Lawlessness = chaos.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 02:55 PM (OTzUX)

229 Once the chinese military saw what this software could do, they shut it down in country asap, faster than they shut down for the Wuhan flu.

Spoiler Alert - if we ban Tik Tok, and everything that rhymes with Tik Tok from China ? An American company will fill that void in thirty days or less.

Because there is a market, much to my chagrin, for fifteen second videos that rot your mind quicker than hard candy breaks teeth.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:55 PM (flOYI)

230 The constitution does not apply to the internet.

It was not invented then! duh

Posted by: AOC at March 31, 2023 02:55 PM (M3hSG)

231 I think this bill should die.

I think TikTok should be barred from US devices.

If it's the bill or nothing, I choose nothing.

"Something must be done," if ever said by a politician, should lead to an immediate expulsion from office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

232
The Ban TikTok bill will build several homeless shelters in San Francisco and not ban TikTok.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (LvTSG)

What???

And no needle exchange programs?? The outrage!!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (S3vYy)

233 Shouldn't you be smoking dope about now? Isn't your shift over yet?

Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (Xrfse)

234 The problem with banning anything from china is that they just re-register it in some other country that is beholden to them. Thus my suggestion on requiring approval on data collection individually and payment per byte of data. Make it too expensive and cumbersome.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (lTGtQ)

235 Members of the Austrian parliament walks out as Zelenskyyyy begins a video conference speech.

https://bit.ly/3M5Pcz2

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (j2Xg6)

236 "OK, so how does Tik Tok make money in the US?"
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (oHd/0)

I assume you're being rhetorical but to be honest, I don't understand the income flow of a lot of these outfits.
Rumble was bragging about revenues increased 14 million in their last quarter and all I'm thinking is from what? Gum restoration snake oil?

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (76Foq)

237 Why would anyone on our side ever be in favor of another bill of any kind ever again? I don't get it. Have I woke up on Planet Zaxxon?

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (KpYH4)

238 I guess the only solution is to embrace this evolution of the wonderous thing we call the internets.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (iayUP)

239 Shouldn't you be smoking dope about now? Isn't your shift over yet?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (S3vYy)


You have me confused with jackstraw. He's the smoker. I'm the day drinker.

The club down the street is open now, though. And they just re-skinned the pool tables. They roll really nice now.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (flOYI)

240 236 Rumble was bragging about revenues increased 14 million in their last quarter and all I'm thinking is from what? Gum restoration snake oil?
Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (76Foq)

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My guess would be ad revenue. Rumble might have a subscription type model as well sort of like YouTube Premium.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (LvTSG)

241 People are stupid.

People like Tikky Tocky or whatever it's name is.

You'd think they would have learned from MySpace years ago.

But people are stupid...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 02:58 PM (R/m4+)

242 What can TikTok do now? Certainly some damage. But no meaningful amount.

American Communist Party digital media already destroyed the country years ago. All Chinese Communist Party digital media can do now is make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 02:58 PM (oINRc)

243 It would probably be good if I was banned from social media.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at March 31, 2023 02:58 PM (VdGjU)

244 . This poison is for White Devils' Children only.

===========

Do not forget our darker complected citizens. Communist Chinese Leaders hate Blacks, especially Africans.

Posted by: rd at March 31, 2023 02:58 PM (Z32m1)

245 SMH!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 31, 2023 02:58 PM (kwa+0)

246 Spoiler Alert - if we ban Tik Tok, and everything that rhymes with Tik Tok from China ? An American company will fill that void in thirty days or less.

Google already has an identical short-form film format in place, down to the "only records vertical phone cam" style.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (0hOvj)

247 Clown World
https://tinyurl.com/2s3fncys


I dunno ... unlikely scenario. How would he know her number?

If he had her number, why wouldn't he just text her?

She does have the "permanently irritated harridan" act down pat though.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (h5TKJ)

248 People are stupid.

Pretty much. Hard to ban stupidity.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (Xrfse)

249 214 Who wrote the Restrict Act?
___

There is some evil stuff in there. Best to assume that each co-sponsor is responsible for every single word and get called on all the worst aspects.

But no one goes on Tucker, and Hannity is too stupid. Lindsey got fooled by Watters goofy grin, not going to happen again.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (fs1hN)

250 The club down the street is open now, though. And they just re-skinned the pool tables. They roll really nice now.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (flOYI)

you felt them ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (us2H3)

251 BREAKING: 30 counts of document related fraud for Trump (supposedly) 2 sources in local NBC report...

https://tinyurl.com/4bu6znhm

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (exHjb)

252 The 2023 Women’s Tour Has Officially Been Canceled

https://tinyurl.com/bddn4a9s

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (EMO0a)

253 The constitution does not apply to the internet.

It was not invented then! duh

Posted by: AOC at March 31, 2023 02:55 PM (M3hSG)

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Al Gore wasn't a founding father?

And wasn't the term "algorithm" named after his rapey second chakra?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (9gSJi)

254 As it turns out the Patriot Act was intended to target patriots.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (KpYH4)

255 BREAKING: 30 counts of document related fraud for Trump (supposedly) 2 sources in local NBC report...

https://tinyurl.com/4bu6znhm

Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (exHjb)

Yet still no manifesto.

Huh

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:00 PM (KpYH4)

256 Without Tik Tok, we would have no Libs of Tik Tok, which is the best lulzing ever.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 03:00 PM (xAptn)

257 You have me confused with jackstraw.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (flOYI)

No, I don't have you confused with Jack. Jack is a known commenter here, so even when I disagree with him, I don't have to wonder if he's some anonymous sock who has a disingenuous agenda.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:01 PM (S3vYy)

258 This is absolutely insane. A U.S. senator should not be learning about their own co-sponsorship of a bill for the first time on Fox News. Let alone a bill that basically gives the government massive, sweeping new powers to surveil and restrict the internet.
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Legislation has been written by whoever paid to write it for a long time.

That's part of the reason the federal government is illegitimate.

Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2023 03:01 PM (kOpft)

259 "My guess would be ad revenue. Rumble might have a subscription type model as well sort of like YouTube Premium."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (LvTSG)

Only Crowder has a subscription-based show and that doesn't start for a couple weeks yet. I know the revenue is from ads but they don't really have any advertisers. Like I said just some snake oil outfits.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:01 PM (76Foq)

260 Lawmakers cited national security concerns

I don't want to one F'ing thing about "national security concerns" for as long as Democrats are handing over classified information to anyone who asks and brings enough money or pussy.

Not one word about "national security" with wide open borders allowing anyone in. Where is their concern for "national security" when it comes to food? electricity? oil? fentanyl? THE FREAKIN' BUDGET! and possible loss as the reserve currency. The current state of affairs in the Party Military that salutes Xi and Greta Thunberg but craps on PDJT - that "national security"?

Draining out the SPR to give China what it demands is "national security"?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 03:02 PM (YXHzG)

261 249 214 Who wrote the Restrict Act?
___

There is some evil stuff in there. Best to assume that each co-sponsor is responsible for every single word and get called on all the worst aspects.

But no one goes on Tucker, and Hannity is too stupid. Lindsey got fooled by Watters goofy grin, not going to happen again.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (fs1hN)

I don't know who wrote it--and I don't know if that can be known. I can tell you the names of the co-sponsors:

https://tinyurl.com/mrynx9nx

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 03:02 PM (v0TzN)

262 251 BREAKING: 30 counts of document related fraud for Trump (supposedly) 2 sources in local NBC report...

https://tinyurl.com/4bu6znhm
Posted by: Nova Local at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (exHjb)

99.9% of NYC CPA's buttholes just tightened

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 03:02 PM (us2H3)

263 30 counts of document related fraud
___

Cohen ran the copy machine through for 30 copies, ergo, 30 counts of fraud.
- A. Bragg, super D.A.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 03:02 PM (fs1hN)

264 I think this bill should die. I think TikTok should be barred from US devices. If it's the bill or nothing, I choose nothing.

I would be fine with all of that. And all of that can be achieved with a one or two page bill. Not what's on the floor of Congress now.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:03 PM (flOYI)

265 237 Why would anyone on our side ever be in favor of another bill of any kind ever again? I don't get it. Have I woke up on Planet Zaxxon?
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:57 PM (KpYH4)


The dirty little secret of American conservatism is that for all the big talk about limiting government power, by and large they have a massive hardon for state power so long as they or their proxies control it. Just like the liberals claim to be all in for civil rights, but only insofar as the People's Ministry Of Civil Rights waves their flag.

This is why I identify as nationalist libertarian. Edmund Burke had some awesome ideas but they've been out of practice for like 200 years.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 03:03 PM (PZvjL)

266 So, a complete Chinese takeover could be considered beneficial if it manages to let us be Christians if we want? Huh. I am confused. The machinations of the Inevitable Global Kleptocracy sure are fascinating to watch play out though. Something wicked this way comes. Evil incarnate camouflaged by the big lie claiming love, respect and tranquility is on the horizon.

Please, Lord, tell me that the Rapture is a real event, that it will happen prior to things getting horrific, and that my family and friends will be removed from the world and avoid all of whatever is coming.

Posted by: Hairpin Corner Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at March 31, 2023 03:03 PM (o+Kq8)

267 Former President Donald Trump’s first hearing will take place on April 4, a court spokesperson confirmed on Friday.

Trump is set to appear at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday before New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email.

https://tinyurl.com/4ztm838r

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 31, 2023 03:04 PM (EMO0a)

268 As it turns out the Patriot Act was intended to target patriots.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (KpYH4)

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Indeed, much like the Affordable Care Act targeted they are U.S. Healthcare System & Insurance for destruction.

[I remember being astonished at the time that they pull these multi-hundred page bills immediately out of file cabinets ... almost is it they were pre-written by lobbyists waiting for the appropriate provocation for their use ... or something.]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 03:04 PM (xkC5C)

269 No, I don't have you confused with Jack. Jack is a known commenter here, so even when I disagree with him, I don't have to wonder if he's some anonymous sock who has a disingenuous agenda.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:01 PM (S3vYy)


And the green haze helps. To be honest, if Yankee Candle made a scent that emitted that haze, I'd buy it. By the case. I love the smell of the sticky green.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:04 PM (flOYI)

270 Ask yourself if your government would ever harm China. You know they wouldn't... Unless the move would harm you more. It's *always* about harming *you.*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 03:04 PM (oINRc)

271 Legislation has been written by whoever paid to write it for a long time.

And the Senator's worthless, feckless shit staffers that encourage their deadbeat boss to promote it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 03:04 PM (YXHzG)

272 Please, Lord, tell me that the Rapture is a real event, that it will happen prior to things getting horrific, and that my family and friends will be removed from the world and avoid all of whatever is coming.

The alternative eschatology is that Jesus comes and shuts it all down completely and EVERYBODY gets out of this world. Doesn't end so well for some folks, but they had an entire life to get their soul right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 03:05 PM (0hOvj)

273 30 counts of document related fraud for Trump
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30 pages with a non-leap-year typo of February 29th.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 03:05 PM (Vwz3I)

274 The dirty little secret of American conservatism is that for all the big talk about limiting government power, by and large they have a massive hardon for state power so long as they or their proxies control it.

Holy shit. I've been screaming that for twenty years. I thought I was the only one.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:05 PM (flOYI)

275 269 No, I don't have you confused with Jack. Jack is a known commenter here, so even when I disagree with him, I don't have to wonder if he's some anonymous sock who has a disingenuous agenda.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 31, 2023 03:01 PM (S3vYy)

And the green haze helps. To be honest, if Yankee Candle made a scent that emitted that haze, I'd buy it. By the case. I love the smell of the sticky green.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:04 PM (flOYI)


were open for business

Posted by: Motel 6 at March 31, 2023 03:05 PM (us2H3)

276 234 The problem with banning anything from china is that they just re-register it in some other country that is beholden to them. Thus my suggestion on requiring approval on data collection individually and payment per byte of data. Make it too expensive and cumbersome.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 31, 2023 02:56 PM (lTGtQ)


How could a TikTok ban in the US be enforced? By forcing internet and cell service suppliers to scan for it on all devices using the service? Then somehow delete it, or stop service and tell the FBI who is illegally running TikTok? No thanks. I want to ban TikTok - without creating another legal portal for every smart phone user to be spied on by service suppliers and harassed by the FBI. Can this be done?

Posted by: Gref at March 31, 2023 03:06 PM (AMIL/)

277 Legislation has been written by whoever paid to write it for a long time.
That's part of the reason the federal government is illegitimate.
Posted by: Methos at March 31, 2023 03:01 PM (kOpft)

Concur.....they are inept, corrupt, overpaid, oversexed layabouts who no one will miss if they disappeared tomorrow.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 31, 2023 03:06 PM (R/m4+)

278 RESTRICT Act
Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act
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Such a cute acronym.
*shake weight motion*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 03:06 PM (fs1hN)

279 @265

>>The dirty little secret of American conservatism is that for all the big talk about limiting government power, by and large they have a massive hardon for state power so long as they or their proxies control it.


The GOP has controlled Congress, ie, the power of the purse and the power to pass legislation for 20 of the last 28 years.


The GOP is the biggest convention of COSPlayers going, COMICON has nothing on these f**king jokers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 03:07 PM (up/3i)

280 Clown World
https://tinyurl.com/2s3fncys

I dunno ... unlikely scenario. How would he know her number?

If he had her number, why wouldn't he just text her?

She does have the "permanently irritated harridan" act down pat though.
Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 02:59 PM (h5TKJ)


what number? they were following her in their car when they saw the hose.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:07 PM (uQPen)

281 Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:05 PM (flOYI)

RMPL

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 03:08 PM (KpYH4)

282 Rumble has a subscription app called locals.
You can join it for free but if you want to comment on a live chat you pay something, I think minimum is $2.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 03:08 PM (jTmQV)

283 Concur.....they are inept, corrupt, overpaid, oversexed layabouts who no one will miss if they disappeared tomorrow.

I do envy them quite a bit.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:08 PM (flOYI)

284 Ask yourself whether the Chinese government or the French government or the government of Cote d'Ivoire, or whomever, hates you and fears you more. Whoever it is, the US government hates you and fears you more. Always.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 03:08 PM (AmuUd)

285 another ClownWorld vid from Pool - evidently it was taken down, no doubt because he highlighted it on his show

CREEPY Video Shows Woke Teacher INDOCTRINATING KIDS Into Thinking They Are NOT Boys Or Girls
https://tinyurl.com/25fv45t8

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:08 PM (uQPen)

286 For any code monkey Morons, here is Twitter's recommendation algorithm on GitHub.

https://bit.ly/3nDr1Ot

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 03:09 PM (j2Xg6)

287 I linked the heckling towards Graham when he was on Hannity in the previous post. Finally ppl see him for who he is.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:09 PM (uQPen)

288 The weekend is here, the weekend is here!

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 03:09 PM (yyQiq)

289 The gladiatrix (plural gladiatrices) is the female equivalent of the gladiator of ancient Rome.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:09 PM (OTXUv)

290 151 What comes after Banana Republic? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Dantes at March 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fVKtH)

Bananas Foster?

Posted by: zombie Anthony Bourdain at March 31, 2023 03:10 PM (CCSxw)

291 More proof that lobbyists write the bills, they enlist congresscritters to sponsor them, and then partner together to manipulate people further while getting paid.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 31, 2023 03:10 PM (ryUqI)

292 @268

>>[I remember being astonished at the time that they pull these multi-hundred page bills immediately out of file cabinets ... almost is it they were pre-written by lobbyists waiting for the appropriate provocation for their use ... or something.]

Well it was, HillaryCare anyone?

The Donk apparatus has numerous pieces of legislation in all sorts of filing cabinets just waiting for the opportunity.

The only plans our side has ready to go are temporary tax cuts, pork, and other nonsensical shit like light bulb bans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 03:11 PM (up/3i)

293 The dirty little secret of American conservatism is that for all the big talk about limiting government power, by and large they have a massive hardon for state power so long as they or their proxies control it.

Yeah that has been pointed out several times here in the past. Social Conservatives (raises hand) are often the most guilty of this. We'll talk about small government but what is really meant by many is "all the power is in the wrong hands".

Its not 100% consistent, some have their integrity of their position and don't mean that, but too many do. And our first response to problems should NEVER be "if only the government had more power" or "we need more laws"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 03:13 PM (0hOvj)

294 Imagine if ace got paid $2 per comment...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 03:13 PM (jTmQV)

295 How could a TikTok ban in the US be enforced?

I'm so glad that the nanny state has taken upon itself to decide what apps we can use.

Its right there in the Constitution, next to the Good n Plenty clause.

I'm supposed to ignore the innumerable troop of giant gorillas in the room, but the entire Western society falls if your transgendered, doped-up kid sees twerking on TikTok.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 31, 2023 03:13 PM (YXHzG)

296 Banning it would be against our principles. We must allow the Chinese to run a psychological operation against our population, mostly the country's children, is better than losing our principles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 02:54 PM (LvTSG)
_____________

This, in a nutshell, is why I deprecate libertarians (and librarians, just to be sure). Applying one's "principles" unilaterally and reflexively across the board is puerile. There has to be a look-in for judgment, something that libertarians apparently lack.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2023 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

297 I didn't know Rumble owns Locals, I thought that was a Dan Bongino thing. I know Bongino and D'Souza bought a chunk of Rumble before it went public.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:14 PM (76Foq)

298 How could a TikTok ban in the US be enforced? By forcing internet and cell service suppliers to scan for it on all devices using the service? Then somehow delete it, or stop service and tell the FBI who is illegally running TikTok? No thanks. I want to ban TikTok - without creating another legal portal for every smart phone user to be spied on by service suppliers and harassed by the FBI. Can this be done?
Posted by: Gref at March 31, 2023 03:06 PM (AMIL/)


The only way to implement and enforce a ban on Tik Tok would involve exactly what you have described. A ban on Tik Tok access, by it's very nature, would be a possible ban on anything/everything else on the web. We would be at the mercy of what ever bureaucrat is in charge. It is not a slippery slope it is actually a cliff.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 31, 2023 03:14 PM (AiZBA)

299 274 Holy shit. I've been screaming that for twenty years. I thought I was the only one.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:05 PM (flOYI)


I sometimes get into those arguments with my dad, who's very right wing but can't quite see past the hood of How It Ought To Be onto the road of How Things Actually Work.

Dad: Harrumph! Harrumph! The libruhls are oppressing us by regulating the Current Thing!
Me: So you're good with totally deregulating it, right? Can't trust those thieves in DC.
Dad: Oh but we can't do that son, why, there would be moral turpitude across the land. We must regulate it, but we must do it the conservative way.
Me: So we keep it under the control of the very institutions that you're complaining about? That makes no sense.
Dad: Harrumph! Harrumph!

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 03:15 PM (PZvjL)

300 maybe 300

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 03:15 PM (v0TzN)

301 The only plans our side has ready to go are temporary tax cuts, pork, and other nonsensical shit like light bulb bans.

Posted by: Thomas Bender


Not that they're actually our side, just, y'know.

After a while even dignifying the charade makes me vomit.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at March 31, 2023 03:15 PM (OUMaO)

302 This, in a nutshell, is why I deprecate libertarians (and librarians, just to be sure). Applying one's "principles" unilaterally and reflexively across the board is puerile. There has to be a look-in for judgment, something that libertarians apparently lack.
----------------
So you have fucked crazy a couple times, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 03:15 PM (OTXUv)

303 nood

Posted by: m at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (v0TzN)

304

NOOD les

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (uQPen)

305 Dad: Harrumph! Harrumph!

Maybe its worth considering that mocking your dad is not a great look.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (0hOvj)

306 There are some podcasters on rumble using locals and they are making bank. I look at some podcasts when they aren't live anymore and some commenters toss in $50, $100 at a time.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 03:17 PM (jTmQV)

307 This, in a nutshell, is why I deprecate libertarians (and librarians, just to be sure). Applying one's "principles" unilaterally and reflexively across the board is puerile. There has to be a look-in for judgment, something that libertarians apparently lack.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 31, 2023 03:14 PM (YqDXo)


And that's why I've learned to detest certain conservatives, Jay. Because you do the exact same thing - enforce your principles via lawfare and government - without the first damn thought that maybe your principles aren't appreciated by others.

And you are so ... damn ... blind ... to what you do.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:17 PM (flOYI)

308 Banning it would be against our principles. We must allow the Chinese to run a psychological operation against our population, mostly the country's children, is better than losing our principles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

This, in a nutshell, is why I deprecate libertarians (and librarians, just to be sure). Applying one's "principles" unilaterally and reflexively across the board is puerile. There has to be a look-in for judgment, something that libertarians apparently lack.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara


Honestly, the whole "debate" is garbage. Either we let it run rampant or we further empower domestic tyrants? Those are seriously our only options? The hell is wrong with us?

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at March 31, 2023 03:18 PM (OUMaO)

309 what number? they were following her in their car when they saw the hose.

Ah, I first heard "calling me". It does sound like she could be saying "following me" on another listen.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 03:18 PM (h5TKJ)

310 Maybe its worth considering that mocking your dad is not a great look.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 03:16 PM (0hOvj)


Blah. Nobody loves their dad more than I love mine. But the man is the living embodiment of Boomer Jackass. To know him is to love him is to be irritated.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 03:19 PM (flOYI)

311 Ban TikTok and some other stupid app will pop up in its place. Just a few years ago everyone was doing Vines. These networks come and go.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 02:25 PM (KbCG3)



Is there any way that private citizens could cause TikTok to crash?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 03:20 PM (tkR6S)

312 "There are some podcasters on rumble using locals and they are making bank. I look at some podcasts when they aren't live anymore and some commenters toss in $50, $100 at a time."
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 03:17 PM (jTmQV)

Rumble has a live chat pay function also, Rumble rants?

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:21 PM (76Foq)

313 Urgent! If you promise to donate $20.00 by midnight tonight, we promise to try and have some paper for you to vote with.

Posted by: The GOP at March 31, 2023 03:25 PM (76Foq)

314 Off sock

Posted by: lowandslow at March 31, 2023 03:26 PM (76Foq)

315 RMPL



Rocky Mountain Paintball League?

Posted by: Calvin at March 31, 2023 03:28 PM (M3hSG)

316 I cannot understand why the hell any parent lets their kid have a smart phone. Period. Give them a dorky flip phone, something that they can ONLY text and call with if you feel you absolutely must let them have one (you don't).

Wait, what's that you say? There are no pay phones, they have to have one for an emergency? EVERYBODY HAS A PHONE. They're 9000 times more accessible than the few scattered pay phones that were in urban areas.

In any case, even if you let them have internet access and a phone, they should only be used under supervision, in a limited time period, for specific purposes. No "Billy needs the internet in his bedroom" or "Sally has to have a phone she can use all the time or she'll be socially outcast!" crap.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 02:52 PM (0hOvj)

Exactly! And one could probably design kid-friendly smart phones with built-in blockers for social media apps. Maybe some little program in the boot sector that will brick the OS if a social media site is accessed, either directly, or through some attempted work-around.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 03:42 PM (tkR6S)

317 BAN EVERYTHING!!

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 03:44 PM (eDPLA)

318 Put TikToc behind a paywall. Then kids would have to use their parent’s cc and get their permission to use.

Posted by: Whatsinaname at March 31, 2023 03:45 PM (Eei8h)

319 If some nosy little liberal snowflake overhears you using hurtful words and reports you then its time for these nasty little snitches to keep their noses to themselves and be reminded Freedom of Speech don't only means them alone

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 31, 2023 04:41 PM (wGqjj)

Rand Paul: Anthony Fauci Lied About Retiring. He's Still Working for the Government, For Protection Against an Indictment.

Claiming to be retired also means he can legally fight congressional subpoenas. If he admits he's a government employee, he has to testify -- he has no choice.

But a private citizen can fight a subpeona.

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has taken another swipe at his arch nemesis, Anthony Fauci, claiming that the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is not really retired and is still working for the government. The senator appeared on Fox News on Wednesday and spoke to host Sean Hannity about what he says he found.

"There is a massive coverup going on and the lead in all of the coverup has been Fauci," the senator said. "We now have information that he is still working for the government even though he says he is retired. It is my belief that he is worried about being indicted and so he continues to work so he will get legal protection under the federal government."

Video at the link. Rand Paul also says Fauci weaponized the government to destroy his critics, using taxpayer monies as a bribery slush-fund.

"This guy weaponized the NIAD. He weaponized it to get his supporters," the senator said. "At first, they said, 'My goodness. It came from a lab.' And then, all of a sudden, they changed their mind. They got more money. They got more grants."

"He used that grant-making authority -- who gets it -- and he weaponized government to get what he wanted," he said, "and that was the cover-up."

Even the New York Times now admits that Anthony Fauci is a corrupt liar, in an opinion piece written by a New York Times op-ed contributor.

Even the literally-Fauci-worshipping NYT is starting to doubt their midget god.

She begins by recalling an interview of Anthony Fauci in 2021 by... Newt Gingrich. Gingrich praised Fauci for being such a wise and learned man.

But then he asked about this conspiracy theory being spread by conservatives -- or "urban legend," as Gingrich called it -- that covid-19 had been created in the Wuhan Respiratory Virus Laboratory, specifically in their bat-virus-research lab.



"There's a sort of urban legend," Mr. Gingrich prodded Dr. Fauci, "that there's a biological warfare center in Wuhan and that the coronavirus escaped from that."

"I've heard these conspiracy theories," Dr. Fauci replied. "And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories." He added that while he could not say that scenario was impossible, "the things you're hearing are still in the realm of conspiracy theories without any scientific basis."

Dr. Daszak agreed that "all the evidence says" the virus crossed from animal to human either in a Wuhan market or in rural China, probably after originating in wild bats.

The two men could have told Mr. Gingrich a lot more.

They could have said that laboratories in Wuhan had indeed been studying bat viruses, including coronaviruses. Live bats were kept in the laboratories, and scientists occasionally carried out controversial forms of research in which viral strains are manipulated in ways that can make them more dangerous to humans. Both men worked for organizations that had a hand in moving U.S. taxpayer funds to the scientists in Wuhan -- Dr. Daszak had been involved with Wuhan bat research for years; Dr. Fauci's emails show his staff had recently reminded him of N.I.H. funding for the coronavirus work Dr. Daszak's organization supported.

They could have acknowledged that while they believed the virus had reached humans as a zoonotic spillover from animals, accidental leaks are a known lab hazard and couldn't yet be ruled out (even if the notion of using coronaviruses as a biological weapon was laughably improbable).

Why? It f&cking shut the world down, did you not catch that? If you did have a working vaccine in advance, you could release such a weapon while your own population remained infection-free.

They always have to signal their adherence to the True Progressive Faith, even when they're confessing that their Progressive Popes are corrupt liars.


Instead they dissembled.

Ah, "dissembled." The cowardly courtier's way of saying "My dear sweet glorious prince appears to have inadvertently lied, perhaps due to be overserved by a commoner."

The near-certainty with which Dr. Fauci spoke publicly of zoonotic crossover is somewhat incongruous with his private communications from that time. He knew there was real debate -- he was in the thick of it. In public, he leaned hard into animal crossover; behind the scenes, he wrote that "I do not know how this evolved" but warned that he was concerned about "distortions on social media" of Covid's origins.

The pandemic grievously eroded public faith in health authorities as well as news media, a sort of national unmooring often attributed to former President Donald Trump and others on the right who touted questionable treatments and pushed back against vaccine mandates, masks and closures.

But the full story of Covid information manipulation is much broader...

And so we are left to wonder how a straightforward hypothesis got labeled first as a conspiracy and later as a reflection of racism. Retracing coverage and public comments, I found a cautionary tale: Those who seek to suppress disinformation may be destined, themselves, to sow it.


***

A familiar Chinese tendency to stonewall and evade foreign inquiries was on full display in Beijing and Wuhan as the world demanded answers about Covid's origin. A similar impulse to shut down discussion, however, is suggested by the early public remarks of Drs. Fauci and Daszak, who found themselves thrust into fame overnight as journalists eagerly sought their insights.

By the time Dr. Fauci recorded the Gingrich podcast, he was involved in a private debate among some of the world's most renowned biologists and virologists over how the virus had come to infect humans. Dr. Fauci recently acknowledged that half the participants in a now-notorious conference call to discuss Covid's origin "felt it might be from a lab" -- but at the time he gave little public hint of the seriousness of this debate.

I asked Dr. Fauci in a telephone interview about the largely one-sided nature of his public remarks. He'd always, at least, acknowledged the possibility of a lab leak, he said, but he couldn't pretend to think both theories were equally probable. His entire career, he reminded me, centered for years on a virus -- H.I.V. -- that jumped into humanity from a chimpanzee. He then listed all the other outbreaks that he'd seen traced to animal origin: swine flu, MERS, even SARS-CoV-1.

"I can't dissociate that in my mind, I can't say, just, 'I don't know,' the way you can," he said. "I can't, as a scientist, ignore the historical perspective that I've been deeply involved with my entire career."

Fauci here "forgets" that many diseases have escaped from research labs.

Including the H1N1 swine flu putbreak of 1977.

The danger of a manmade pandemic sparked by a laboratory escape is not hypothetical: One occurred in 1977, and it occurred because of concern that a natural pandemic was imminent. Many other laboratory escapes of high-consequence pathogens have occurred, resulting in transmission beyond laboratory personnel. Ironically, these laboratories were working with pathogens to prevent the very outbreaks they ultimately caused. For that reason, the tragic consequences have been called "self-fulfilling prophecies."

Modern genetic analysis allows pathogens to be precisely identified, and because all circulating pathogens show genetic changes over time, the year that a particular example of a pathogen emerged can generally be determined, given a sufficient database of samples. If a pathogen appears in nature after not circulating for years or decades, it may be assumed to have escaped from a laboratory where it had been stored inert for many years, accumulating no genetic changes--that is, its natural evolution had been frozen.


The swine flu scare of 1976 and the H1N1 human influenza pandemic of 1977.


Human H1N1 influenza virus appeared with the 1918 global pandemic and persisted, slowly accumulating small genetic changes, until 1957, when it appeared to go extinct after the H2N2 pandemic virus appeared. In 1976, H1N1 swine influenza virus struck Fort Dix, N.J., causing 13 hospitalizations and one death. The specter of a reprise of the deadly 1918 pandemic triggered an unprecedented effort to immunize all Americans. No swine H1N1 pandemic materialized, however, and complications of immunization truncated the program after 48 million immunizations, which eventually caused 25 deaths.

Human H1N1 virus reappeared in 1977, in the Soviet Union and China. Virologists, using serologic and early genetic tests, soon began to suggest the cause of the reappearance was a laboratory escape of a 1949-50 virus, and as genomic techniques advanced, it became clear that this was true. By 2010, researchers published it as fact: "The most famous case of a released laboratory strain is the re-emergent H1N1 influenza-A virus which was first observed in China in May of 1977 and in Russia shortly thereafter." The virus may have escaped from a lab attempting to prepare an attenuated H1N1 vaccine in response to the U.S. swine flu pandemic alert.

The 1977 pandemic spread rapidly worldwide but was limited to those under 20 years of age: Older persons were immune from exposures before 1957. Its attack rate was high (20 to 70 percent) in schools and military camps, but mercifully it caused mild disease, and fatalities were few.

Is that not scary enough?

How about the repeated release of deadly smallpox from British labs?

Smallpox releases in Great Britain. Eradication of natural smallpox transmission made the prospect of reintroduction of the virus intolerable. This risk was clearly demonstrated in the United Kingdom. From 1963-78 the U.K. saw only four cases of smallpox (with no deaths) occurred that were imported by travelers from areas where smallpox was endemic. During this same period at least 80 cases and three deaths resulted from three separate escapes from two different accredited smallpox laboratories.

Fauci is claiming he didn't lie when he ruled out a lab outbreak. He will confess only to a Modified Limited Hang-Out: Maybe he had a congnitive bias in favor of natural zoonotic evolution, but that's only because he's such an experienced virus-fighter that he remembers all the cases of "natural spillover."

But he has also been the head of the NIAID during the period when scientists confirmed that the swine flu of 1977 was due to a lab outbreak.

As well as all the other outbreaks.

So no, his Modified Limited Hang-Out that he didn't lie but only maybe had a cognitive bias holds no water: yes, there are, of course, natural hops of viruses from animals and birds to humans. But there are also ample instances of labs leaking out the very viruses they were supposed to be protecting us against.

Did Fauci just completely forget about all those cases? Apparently that's his story and he'll be sticking to it in later perjury trials.


Emails released in a congressional inquiry indicate that Dr. Fauci was among the senior scientists who encouraged his colleagues to write a paper asserting that the new coronavirus had a natural origin. "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," published by Nature Medicine in March 2020, concluded "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is possible."

"Our main work over the last couple weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory," one of the authors, a researcher named Kristian Andersen, wrote in an email the day before the podcast dropped.

Then, in April 2020, Dr. Fauci pointed White House reporters to the publication, presenting it as compelling evidence of zoonotic crossover -- without revealing that he had been involved with its creation and had even, according to the emails, given it his approval. (Dr. Fauci told me that he's not sure he ever got around to reading the paper.)

"He's not sure he ever got around to reading the paper." Notice how noncommittal he is about this lie. He wants to chalk it up to a lapse in memory in case proof emerges that he gave it a final edit.

He's doing a lot of perjury-trial preparation here.

By then, Dr. Fauci was fixed in the public imagination as a figure of reassurance and reliability. Mr. Trump was an easy foil -- dishonest, childishly self-congratulatory and disturbingly capricious. And then there was Dr. Fauci -- sober, rational and an emerging celebrity at a time when the public was exhorted to "follow the science," a tiresome phrase obscuring the necessarily disputatious nature of scientific progress.

With Mr. Trump sneering about "kung flu" and "China virus," it was easy to write off a lab-leak hypothesis as a right-wing fantasy.

Boy, they sure do give themselves every possible latitude for being wrong about everything.

Trump is always Forcing Them to Be Wrong.

Just as conservatives sometimes force trans lunatics to kill Christian children.

Has it ever occurred to you that if the extent of your "thinking" is just automatically taking the position opposite of Trump's, you're a childish, mentally-ill non-thinker?

Did Trump force you to be a childish, mentally-ill nonthinker? Is that also one of his crimes?

The MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace called it "one of Trumpworld's most favorite conspiracy theories." Twitter added warning labels to posts that argued for lab leak; Facebook banned such posts altogether for several months in 2021 before reversing the decision. NPR called it a "baseless conspiracy theory" in a tweet, and the foreign affairs expert Fareed Zakaria wrote (and repeated on CNN): "The far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory."

And not just a loopy, harmless conspiracy theory, either, but a toxic idea often blamed for rising hate crimes against Asian Americans. Last year, even the White House press secretary at the time, Jen Psaki, attributed attacks on Asian Americans to "hate-filled rhetoric and language around the origins of the pandemic."

This is a good point coming up, which many of you have pointed out:

Fauci both claimed that the lab leak theory was racist... while claiming the virus really emerged due to Chinese people's disgusting practices in dirty "wet markets:"


But was that really about the lab? As I recall, people harped about bats, made cruel comments about Chinese food and stigmatized Chinese markets like this:


"The wet markets that have exotic animals in them -- you're not talking about a big chicken farm. You're not talking about raising pigs. You're talking about getting exotic animals from the wild ... the fact is, the customs and the traditions and the things people have done for centuries are so ingrained in the population that the Chinese authorities and the Chinese people have found it very difficult to make those kinds of changes." That's Dr. Fauci in conversation with Mr. Gingrich, dwelling on the "ingrained" tendency of people in China to create disease-breeding environments.

But to say that Chinese scientists made this bat virus in a laboratory dedicated to creating new variations of bat viruses, using money from Peter Daszak and Antony Fauci, would be "racist."



As for Dr. Daszak, he'd soon pop up in China as a member of the World Health Organization team dispatched to investigate the origins of the virus. He was hardly a disinterested observer: Dr. Daszak had been collaborating for more than a decade with Chinese virologists studying bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and directed National Institutes of Health money toward the research through his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance.

That initial W.H.O. investigation was famously stymied by Chinese intransigence, but the panel nevertheless ruled out the possibility of lab origin -- only for the organization's director general to admit several months later that this decision had been premature.

Fresh off the W.H.O. investigation, Dr. Daszak made the rounds of U.S. media to disparage lab leak as a conspiracy theory -- frequently without disclosing his own professional stake in the laboratory. In perhaps the most mind-bending of these appearances, Dr. Daszak, was quoted on NPR's "All Things Considered," vouching for the independence of the W.H.O. investigation.

"If there was political interference with what we're trying to say," Dr. Daszak assured the listeners, " ... we would push back."

***

From the beginning, it struck me -- and many others -- as outstandingly odd that the virus had erupted in a city where Chinese scientists ran experiments on bat viruses. It seemed even stranger when it emerged that one of the labs, the Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, was next to the market still believed to be the epicenter of the outbreak. Sure, it could be a coincidence. But what a coincidence!

She notes that even when it became clear that the lab leak theory was a very viable theory which had been prematurely dismissed by people like Daszak and Fauci due to their own involvement in the Wuhan Bat Virus lab, her media friends on the left found ways to continue insinuating it was all a Trumpist Conspiracy Theory:

Even when news fell in its favor -- a World Health Organization report that left open the possibility of a lab leak, for example -- the developments tended to be described gingerly and layered with caveats. CNN, for example, qualified the W.H.O. news by adding, "experts have roundly condemned the theory of a laboratory origin" and "there's no proof of such origins or of a leak."

In fact, there is no conclusive proof to rule out either theory. Mentions of lab leak were frequently followed by warnings that "many" or "most" researchers didn't think it had happened, but I never found any basis for this sweeping assertion: Did somebody poll all the scientists?

Dr. Fauci has, in recent weeks, seemed to conflate the two theories or muddy the distinction between them.

"A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab and was being studied in the lab and then came out of the lab," Dr. Fauci told Jim Acosta this month on CNN. "But if that's the definition of a lab leak, Jim, then that still is a natural occurrence."

That's my favorite: Even if it leaked from a lab, it's still a natural outbreak.

I mean, obviously he's a Real Scientist who has an open mind and just goes where the evidence takes him, right? He's definitely not a zealot who will twist the facts violently to support the One Truth he knows in his heart must be right.

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Posted by: GF at March 31, 2023 01:02 PM (aJxr8)

2 I thot this all along. He will be getting the Big Govt checks when he is in HEll.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:04 PM (BRHaw)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:05 PM (7Q7Ca)

4 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: I'll ruin the ending for you at March 31, 2023 01:06 PM (zd2ie)

5 2 I thot this all along. He will be getting the Big Govt checks when he is in HEll.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:04 PM (BRHaw)

Different EIN, but ultimately the same people.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 01:07 PM (/EuRN)

6 That's my favorite: Even if it leaked from a lab, it's still a natural outbreak.

Xi told the truth. It was brought to Wuhan by the US.

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 01:07 PM (Zzbjj)

7 "We now have information that he is still working for the government even though he says he is retired. It is my belief that he is worried about being indicted and so he continues to work so he will get legal protection under the federal government."
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A good plan if you can pull it off. Being a *former* government employee is no good at all. Trust me.

Posted by: Donald J. Trump, indicted at March 31, 2023 01:07 PM (t0OGg)

8 It wasn't like an "outbreak" outbreak.

Posted by: Whoopsi at March 31, 2023 01:07 PM (Q4IgG)

9 I saw Midget God open for Leper Messiah at MSG in 1998

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

10 Eventually Fucksi will croak and share turns with McCain and Hitler getting pineappled fucked in hell

Although it would be nice to see him get fast tracked there as a result of getting hit by a train

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (VTu1l)

11 C19 was just the warm up.
Wait 'til you see what they've got cooked up the next time the populace gets frisky.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (jTmQV)

12 Fauci must die a horrible death. I'm not sure how that will happen, but it needs to. Desperately. This man is The Devil himself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (7Q7Ca)

13 Wow, this is some seriously voluminous content, Chuy. Good stuff.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (Xrfse)

14 There was a picture of a woman in DC with Fauci just a week or two ago (she was giving him the middle finger) that reported he was in "a restaurant in DC with two bodyguards"

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (RHGPo)

15 They could have said that laboratories in Wuhan had indeed been studying bat viruses, including coronaviruses. Live bats were kept in the laboratories, and scientists occasionally carried out controversial forms of research in which viral strains are manipulated in ways that can make them more dangerous to humans. Both men worked for organizations that had a hand in moving U.S. taxpayer funds to the scientists in Wuhan -- Dr. Daszak had been involved with Wuhan bat research for years; Dr. Fauci's emails show his staff had recently reminded him of N.I.H. funding for the coronavirus work Dr. Daszak's organization supported.
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Yeah, but they didn't. Why would they? If you were an evil liar, would you suddenly disclose that?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (t0OGg)

16 Rand Paul: Anthony Fauci Lied About Retiring. He's Still Working for the Government, For Protection Against an Indictment.

I was thinking about this. Rand is probably right, but Fauci probably also had a bug in his ear about the indictment and to hold tight. Things may change. But, of course he is a little coward. And evil little coward.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (uQPen)

17 "A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab and was being studied in the lab and then came out of the lab," Dr. Fauci told Jim Acosta this month on CNN. "But if that's the definition of a lab leak, Jim, then that still is a natural occurrence."


Huh. Your words seem to mean differently than my words do. Funny, that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (7Q7Ca)

18 12 Fauci must die a horrible death. I'm not sure how that will happen, but it needs to. Desperately. This man is The Devil himself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (7Q7Ca)


Uh, no, I am the Light Bringer.

Posted by: zerObama at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (Zzbjj)

19 Just like Biden he's untouchable

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (bs+z0)

20 Wow, this is some seriously voluminous content, Chuy. Good stuff.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (Xrfse)



TLDR.

Is it good? Cliff's Notes?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:10 PM (7Q7Ca)

21 The near-certainty with which Dr. Fauci spoke publicly of zoonotic crossover is somewhat incongruous with his private communications from that time.
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"Somewhat incongruous." What a nice way to say, "Fauci lied to everyone to cover up what he knew and gain more power."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:10 PM (t0OGg)

22 "A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab and was being studied in the lab and then came out of the lab," Dr. Fauci told Jim Acosta this month on CNN. "But if that's the definition of a lab leak, Jim, then that still is a natural occurrence."

That is 100% all lies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:10 PM (BRHaw)

23 C19 was just the warm up.
Wait 'til you see what they've got cooked up the next time the populace gets frisky.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 01:08 PM (jTmQV)
.........

You won't have to wear a mask to the supermarket when the supermarkets are all closed.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

24 A familiar Chinese tendency to stonewall and evade foreign inquiries was on full display in Beijing and Wuhan as the world demanded answers about Covid's origin. A similar impulse to shut down discussion, however, is suggested by the early public remarks of Drs. Fauci and Daszak, who found themselves thrust into fame overnight as journalists eagerly sought their insights.
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Why, it's almost like murderous, incompetent, authoritarian shit heels are more alike than they are different.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:11 PM (t0OGg)

25 Has Newt been brought up to speed or is he still clueless?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 01:11 PM (fs1hN)

26

Uh, no, I am the Light Bringer.
Posted by: zerObama at March 31, 2023 01:09 PM (Zzbjj)



You're the 12th imam that will bring about the battle of Heaven and Hell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:11 PM (7Q7Ca)

27 This has long been my problem with Gingrich. He's completely a beltway insider, he parties and hangs out with these people. The Contract With America thing was great, but almost none of it actually opposed Democrat agenda, it was only procedural and corruption-fighting stuff. It streamlined the system and made it run better, and got rid of corruption through rule changes (which the Democrats swapped right back once they got power back), but didn't actually have any "stop the madness" stuff in a legislative agenda.

The only thing that was distinctly conservative about the movement was reducing spending to balance the budget. Which, they sort of managed, over Clinton's objections. But when it came time to cut spending, they blinked at the last moment and it all came apart.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 01:11 PM (0hOvj)

28 "A lab leak could be that someone was out in the wild, maybe looking for different types of viruses in bats, got infected, went into a lab and was being studied in the lab and then came out of the lab"

You mean like the plot of 90% of zombie or other mutant-infected horror movies? Damn, this Fauci is one smart and thoughtful guy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

29 back to work.........

F*ck Paul. I have it on good authority he's a dick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:13 PM (7Q7Ca)

30 Fauci is just another one of Stan's minions. Stay tuned, more and worse to follow.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:13 PM (Xrfse)

31 I think at this point the logical conclusion is that the 20 or so Ukraine biolabs we were paying to operate were working on bio-weapons.

"Are we the baddies?" <meme here.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 01:13 PM (fs1hN)

32 "I can't dissociate that in my mind, I can't say, just, 'I don't know,' the way you can," he said. "I can't, as a scientist, ignore the historical perspective that I've been deeply involved with my entire career."
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Whoa. How direct.

"I cannot, as a scientist, overcome my biases resulting from long-term work on a specific condition with a particular kind of origin and assess new information based on new information and new contexts" is the most asinine thing I have ever heard.

Here's a hint for Fauci: that isn't science. It isn't even close to it. In fact, taking evidence and selectively interpretation it to uphold existing assumptions is the *opposite* of science.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:13 PM (t0OGg)

33 RFK Jr.'s book on Fauci is $15 on Kindle now. It used to be $5. Worth a read.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 31, 2023 01:13 PM (rJ48h)

34 Trump was Fauci's boss often gave him prases

Posted by: Paul at March 31, 2023 01:14 PM (gadwe)

35 "I cannot, as a scientist, overcome my biases resulting from long-term work on a specific condition with a particular kind of origin and assess new information based on new information and new contexts" is the most asinine thing I have ever heard.

Yeah, that is the opposite of science. Its being so wedded to your personal work you cannot analyze it or correct it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 01:14 PM (0hOvj)

36 Posted by: Paul at March 31, 2023 01:14 PM (gadwe)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 31, 2023 01:14 PM (7Q7Ca)

37 Fauci is claiming he didn't lie when he ruled out a lab outbreak. He will confess only to a Modified Limited Hang-Out: Maybe he had a congnitive bias in favor of natural zoonotic evolution, but that's only because he's such an experienced virus-fighter that he remembers all the cases of "natural spillover."
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Which is still unacceptable and appalling, given that he claims to be The Science itself, and perfect in his ability to judge evidence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (t0OGg)

38 Trump is always Forcing Them to Be Wrong.

Just as conservatives sometimes force trans lunatics to kill Christian children.
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This is the exact same argument from sniveling cowards who say, "Violent resistance to tyranny is what they want! If you stand up to tyranny, that gives them an excuse to make my life harder."

Those bitches can eat bags and bags of dicks.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (b306O)

39 Any state AGs gearing up to arrest him for fraud?
No?

The die has been cast ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (6Mlq5)

40 On a recent jimmy dore he shows when Fauci admitting that it was a mistake to put patients in ICU on the ventilators, causing more harm than good. Many of us knew this. But they kept killing people. The same with the mandate to use Remdesivir (his own private cash cow). Killing and murdering people for profit.

Remember the hospitals were given money for every little step of instruction given to them.

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (uQPen)

41
You're the 12th imam that will bring about the battle of Heaven and Hell.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 31, 2023 01:11 PM (7Q7Ca)

lucifer is the translation of "bringer of light" into Latin.
I ain't no fuckin' imam

Posted by: zerObama at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (Zzbjj)

42 Omnis in Verbum.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (/EuRN)

43
HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHH *cough-cough*

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (vwCZJ)

44 often gave him prases
Posted by: Paul at March 31, 2023 01:14 PM (gadwe)

Great spelling there

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (bs+z0)

45
Fauci knew there was no vaccine that had shown any favorable results in animal testing on corona type viruses. In fact, he knew the results were just the opposite - a little something called VAED, or vaccine associated enhanced disease.

That little video of him that appeared recently where a young AA male berates him? Inside job photographer/chronicler. Of course Fauci is staying on the fed payroll for the insurance protection. To go naked now when the truth is slowly playing could take all his ill-gotten gains from him. Every penny.

He may be the most vile creature ever to step his dwarf-like feet on the planet but he's no dummy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (enJYY)

46 Sit on the couch with me again, Newt.

Posted by: "Speaker" Nancy Pelosi at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (h5TKJ)

47 I ain't no fuckin' imam
Posted by: zerObama at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (Zzbjj)

it's I-MA'AM!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (/EuRN)

48 "They could have acknowledged that while they believed the virus had reached humans as a zoonotic spillover from animals"

Except they didn't. The emails make this pretty clear when you tug on the threads those initial warnings are referring to.

The man-made nature of this was provable by anyone who knew where to look by the end of December 2019. Fauci and Daszak knew where to look because it was their project, and their efforts at suppression are well documented; everyone else got sufficient clues in spring 2020, and the dots were publicly connected going all the way back to the DARPA proposal by spring 2021 at the latest.

It took two years and Musk buying Twitter to fully pry the lid off of what were openly available facts for anyone not stuck in the MSM/big tech censorship bubble.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (BW9UA)

49 Armada of Industrial Wood Chippers, Cadre of People, Feet First, some assembly required.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (up/3i)

50 Great spelling there
Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (bs+z0)
.......

He's been hanging out with Mary too long.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

51 This is the exact same argument from sniveling cowards who say, "Violent resistance to tyranny is what they want! If you stand up to tyranny, that gives them an excuse to make my life harder."/i]

Or "we cannot go to that rally, the FBI will infiltrate it and use it to attack us! or its a total setup!" Which means: you never protest, never rally, never take to the streets. If all 70+ million people who voted for Trump took to the streets and stayed there, the country would literally shut down. But no, its an FBI setup we can do nothing!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (0hOvj)

52 49 Armada of Industrial Wood Chippers, Cadre of People, Feet First, some assembly required.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (up/3i)

Thet got away with it

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (Zzbjj)

53 He's doing a lot of perjury-trial preparation here.
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I very much doubt that. This is to wean the public off of Fauci. He has served his purpose and has crossed over from asset to liability. It's time to do away with the liability.

He did great work for them and will never see the inside of the court room. But the establishment would prefer him to be gone now, and they are taking him out. Gently. He is persona non grata now because his usefulness is in the past, but they won't go after him.

They'll just firmly instruct him to ride off into the sunset. He'll be given a state funeral when he finally dies, and they'll build a monument to him in Washington and guarantee sinecures for his children.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (t0OGg)

54 Has it ever occurred to you that if the extent of your "thinking" is just automatically taking the position opposite of Trump's, you're a childish, mentally-ill non-thinker?
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Well he *is* always wrong, so it sure makes things easier!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:18 PM (t0OGg)

55 HAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHH *cough-cough*

yeah
Posted by: John Fetterman at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (vwCZJ)
........

Take it easy, John. You might blow another gasket.
Get well soon!

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 01:18 PM (v0R5T)

56 No Dissemble!!!!

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:18 PM (4jhOQ)

57 So we get Fauci instead of Tranny Day of Vengeance. This sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 01:18 PM (fWTJL)

58 "dissembled"

I like this word... dissembled.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 31, 2023 01:19 PM (MkuC5)

59 They'll just firmly instruct him to ride off into the sunset. He'll be given a state funeral when he finally dies, and they'll build a monument to him in Washington and guarantee sinecures for his children.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:17 PM (t0OGg)

"Mommy, what did Grampa do in the Before Times?"

"He was an immigrant from Italy. That's all you need to know. Now shush up and eat your lunch."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 01:19 PM (/EuRN)

60 You'd think Pfizer would be happy to pay Fauci's legal bills. They qualify as a write off, you know.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 01:19 PM (fWTJL)

61 If all 70+ million people who voted for Trump took to the streets and stayed there, the country would literally shut down. But no, its an FBI setup we can do nothing!

There is an easier way - but it's very hard to coordinate with 70+ million people. Stock up on 30 days of food, and pay your bills one month in advance.

Then just stay home. A general strike.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 01:19 PM (flOYI)

62 I'd like to type that Fauci deserves to be executed by fire for his role in murdering millions.

Instead, I'll just post this appropriate musical accompaniment, by Primus:

https://tinyurl.com/Grannys-Little-Yard-Gnome

Posted by: Sharkman at March 31, 2023 01:19 PM (7jTIf)

63 In two years Dr. John Campbell has gone from having a poster behind him promoting masks and social distancing and encouraging viewers to take the vaccine to having a poster behind him that says something like "Follow the facts, wherever they lead" and exposing paper after paper about the shoddy research behind the vaxx, the associated excess deaths, the medically unthinkable treatment regimens prescribed early on and the absolute maniacal actions of the health organizations of the world.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 01:20 PM (YPWOk)

64 As for Dr. Daszak, he'd soon pop up in China as a member of the World Health Organization team dispatched to investigate the origins of the virus. He was hardly a disinterested observer: Dr. Daszak had been collaborating for more than a decade with Chinese virologists studying bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and directed National Institutes of Health money toward the research through his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance.
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Daszak aside, "disinterested" cannot be used in combination with "Red China" and "The World Health Organization."

China is a big force. Not as big as a lot of people give it credit for, but there are certain major institutions that Red China controls completely. The WHO is one of those institutions. It is wholly owned by the CCP, and has been for quite some time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:20 PM (t0OGg)

65 40 On a recent jimmy dore he shows when Fauci admitting that it was a mistake to put patients in ICU on the ventilators, causing more harm than good. Many of us knew this. But they kept killing people. The same with the mandate to use Remdesivir (his own private cash cow). Killing and murdering people for profit.

Remember the hospitals were given money for every little step of instruction given to them.
Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 01:15 PM (uQPen)

My daughter has 3 or 4 of the risk factors for BAD COVID and 2 weeks ago they would NOT give her the Paxil stuff or zpak or anything.

They have broke Medicine forever.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:20 PM (BRHaw)

66 Yeah, I was so looking forward to Tranny of Vengeance. Needed some new men's fashion tips.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 01:20 PM (v0R5T)

67 Remember the hospitals were given money for every little step of instruction given to them.
___

I have a friend who worked in a hospital. He knows exactly what they did, they killed people, on purpose, for money. The doctors are in denial, the nurses know.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (fs1hN)

68 Political Pitch Meeting Proposal:

Producer: So, I hear you have a new control device for me.
Writer: Yes, sir, I do. It's a virus called Covid.
P: Ooo, sounds interesting. Is it like a plague?
W: It's more like the flu.
P: But really bad, right? Like your organs melt and it's almost 100% deadly if you catch it?
W: It's more like the flu.
P: Oh. So why are people going to be scared of it?
W: Well, we're going to tell them to be.
P: And they're just going to go with it?
W: They won't have a choice. We're going to lock everything down for two weeks and keep everyone at home. Ya know, to really show how deadly this virus can be.
P: Two weeks doesn't seem like very long.
W: That's because two weeks really means indefinitely.
P: Huh. I like the sound of that.
W: We're also going to scare everyone into wearing these stupid face masks all the time to prevent the spread of this virus.
P: Do these masks actually do anything?
W: Nothing at all.
P: Won't it be hard to get the entire population on board with wearing masks to prevent the spread of a virus?
W: Actually, it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (KbCG3)

69 "45
Fauci knew there was no vaccine that had shown any favorable results in animal testing on corona type viruses. In fact, he knew the results were just the opposite - a little something called VAED, or vaccine associated enhanced disease.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (enJYY)"

Fuck the vaccines; Fauci knew that several treatments were identified as cures 1-2 years prior to the outbreak. Mostly the same ones the feds suppressed.

We know he knew this because the original DARPA grant application called them out as a risk mitigation vs. gain-of-function concerns. After rejection from DARPA they turned to funding from Fauci, which was made (barely) possible by some last minute EO's from Obama on his way out of office.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (BW9UA)

70 Fresh off the W.H.O. investigation, Dr. Daszak made the rounds of U.S. media to disparage lab leak as a conspiracy theory -- frequently without disclosing his own professional stake in the laboratory. In perhaps the most mind-bending of these appearances, Dr. Daszak, was quoted on NPR's "All Things Considered," vouching for the independence of the W.H.O. investigation.
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Why is that mind-bending? Daszak himself was in it thick and hopelessly compromised. The WHO was also hopelessly compromised. That one corrupt, criminal bastard went to work for another corrupt, criminal bastard to pursue a sham investigation against a third corrupt, criminal bastard that the first two bastards directly worked for and then lied about it isn't exactly surprising.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (t0OGg)

71 Guess I should read my comments before I post so I don't leave important words out.
Eh, nah.

Posted by: wth at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

72 This talk of a "general strike" makes me chuckle.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:22 PM (Xrfse)

73 Last night Arizona publicist Melissa Lively and filmmaker Greg Strause were dining in Washington DC when Dr. Tony Fauci entered the restaurant with two bodyguards. It is not clear at this point if these were government-funded bodyguards but they reportedly did have badges.

Melissa posed for a photo with Dr. Fauci and gave him some much-needed feedback. She flipped him the bird.

Mar. 4, 2023

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 01:22 PM (RHGPo)

74 God bless Rand Paul.

Here’s one reason the Left keep trying to kill him. He refuses to forgive or forget what Fauci did to us.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 01:22 PM (MCHPY)

75 I recently saw a list of what was released from these types of labs one of Campbell's videos. Latest being covid-19.

smallpox
swine flu
SARS
anthrax
foot and mouth disease

Risky London virus research
https://tinyurl.com/yc3ch97k

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 01:22 PM (uQPen)

76 How's he going to keep all the lies he told straight when he writes his autobiography? A mere $5 million advance, btw.

Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2023 01:23 PM (4h9M3)

77 P: Won't it be hard to get the entire population on board with wearing masks to prevent the spread of a virus?
W: Actually, it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (KbCG3)

Shall I go on?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 01:23 PM (KbCG3)

78 Fuck the vaccines; Fauci knew that several treatments were identified as cures 1-2 years prior to the outbreak. Mostly the same ones the feds suppressed.


Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM (BW9UA)

The NIH destroyed Dr Raoult over this.

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 01:23 PM (Zzbjj)

79 I am so over the scamdemic the only news I want to hear is about these jerks twitching at the end of a rope.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 31, 2023 01:23 PM (LaNzR)

80 76 How's he going to keep all the lies he told straight when he writes his autobiography? A mere $5 million advance, btw.
Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2023 01:23 PM (4h9M3)

That's somebody else's problem.

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (/EuRN)

81 The promise of great riches was always certainly the key persuader for Fauci. However, along with that I think he thoroughly enjoys his role in the cat-and-mouse game. Fauci being the wily mouse. Something in his warped personality relishes the challenge of thinking on his toes, dodging the attacks. He is just another one of many who doesn't mind lying in the least and savors the limelight.

Posted by: washrivergal at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (ySZtE)

82 "My daughter has 3 or 4 of the risk factors for BAD COVID and 2 weeks ago they would NOT give her the Paxil stuff or zpak or anything.

They have broke Medicine forever.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:20 PM (BRHaw)"

You can get your own zpacks without much hassle, along with a ton of other stuff.

Laws are for suckers.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (BW9UA)

83 Trump supporters are generally in small to mid-size cities and rural areas, not in the large politically connected cities. It would be incredibly foolish to try to damage the economies of smaller mid size cities while leaving the big cities - the source of the problems - free to go on just as before. That's why a "general strike" is nonsense. It's like telling gun owners to go protest in favor of the 2A by shooting themselves.

If you want to create political unrest, at least target your enemies, not yourself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (trdmm)

84 Dr. Clayton Forrester >>>>>>>>>> Dr. Anthony Fauci

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (6uZ0Z)

85 I have a friend who worked in a hospital. He knows exactly what they did, they killed people, on purpose, for money.


The British NHS was recommending morphine and benzodiazepines to patients with respiratory distress.

They were legit prescribing Benzo-dope, which in the street drug world is basically known for its likelihood of killing you when free-based before you ever even exhale.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (YPWOk)

86 >>>using coronaviruses as a biological weapon was laughably improbable

Just because *this* Corona virus was not Bio Weapon material, it would only have to be a bit more lethal to be a great bio weapon. Someone needs a little more conspiracy belief in their life for their own safety.

That anyone would manufacture a highly contagious disease that had a 2 week incubation, often lethal, and when not lethal often debilitating, and could potentially be inoculated against. And your saying weaponization never crossed the mind of any involved party? That's dangerously to gravely naive.

Posted by: mikethemoose at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (AmpGx)

87 I have a friend who worked in a hospital. He knows exactly what they did, they killed people, on purpose, for money. The doctors are in denial, the nurses know.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM


I asked a PA about that during a visit last year. When did doctors forget how to treat an inflammatory upper respiratory disease, because they've been treating them successfully the same way for decades? She said it was when the Fed Gov came along and said the old ways of doing things were just not going to work, even though she had personal knowledge that they did.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (dTFZY)

88 Rand Paul needs to do Rachel Levine next.

Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (4h9M3)

89 That's my favorite: Even if it leaked from a lab, it's still a natural outbreak.
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I strongly suspect that's the real point of the exercise, and how they'll attempt to massage this to deflect from the real problem.

"A natural virus under research escaped from the lab" is very bad indeed - but nowhere near as bad as "a synthesized virus that we helped create in contravention of the law escaped from the lab."

One is a natural basis, albeit with a synthetic originator. The other is something that never existed in nature, never should have existed, was created deliberately, its creation was illegal, then they lost control of it.

"Whoops! Nature! Whaddya gonna do?!" is a much better explanation. Cede the "lab leak" point and then contain it to that while icing out gain-of-function as a possible attribute of the incident.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:25 PM (t0OGg)

90
I have a friend who worked in a hospital. He knows exactly what they did, they killed people, on purpose, for money. The doctors are in denial, the nurses know.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 31, 2023 01:21 PM


When nurses renamed Remdesivir as 'Run Deaths Near' - yeah, they knew the score.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 31, 2023 01:25 PM (enJYY)

91 This talk of a "general strike" makes me chuckle.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:22 PM (Xrfse)


You don't take a group of people that six months ago were cranking Lee Greenwood and flying the flag off their porch straight to revolution. There have to be steps along the way. A first step, simply not toiling to maintain the status quo, is vital. Not for the results it achieves, but rather simply in the taking of the step.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 01:25 PM (flOYI)

92 Quaint that Sen. Paul thinks, short of some unformed/unknown death squad, that Fauci would face "justice" in any form. Fauci is far more likely to be promoted to Genocide Czar to develop a viral strain that targets and kills White Americans. Infinitely more likely. Given the multiple state-sponsored and near fatal terror attacks on Paul, he should know this better than anyone.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 01:25 PM (KSNKu)

93 She said it was when the Fed Gov came along and said the old ways of doing things were just not going to work, even though she had personal knowledge that they did.
Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (dTFZY)

Good old CMS. Whether we care to admit it or not, they rule healthcare

Posted by: CN at March 31, 2023 01:25 PM (Zzbjj)

94 By the way, "the government told me to kill you" is not a legitimate medical excuse.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 01:26 PM (YPWOk)

95 88 Rand Paul needs to do Rachel Levine next.
Posted by: Ziba at March 31, 2023 01:24 PM (4h9M3)

Not with your dick on a ten foot pole.

Posted by: Rand Paul at March 31, 2023 01:26 PM (/EuRN)

96 Yes some virus has escaped from labs but Ace knows that many many more jump from animals. Many people thought Ebola had come from a lab. Whether it came from Trump approved funding at the lab or from the ert market will be difficult to o prove with a high le bc rl of confidence. What we do know was that 2 years ago today less than 10000 Americans were dead and Trump was giving us strong assurances that COVID would magically disappear in April when the weather got warmer.
April 5th 2020 Trump said "we are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel"

I didn't believe him,did you?

Posted by: Paul at March 31, 2023 01:26 PM (gadwe)

97 " like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories."

That's some Kamala level rhetoric there.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 01:26 PM (iayUP)

98 Quaint that Sen. Paul thinks, short of some unformed/unknown death squad, that Fauci would face "justice" in any form. ...
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 01:25 PM (KSNKu)
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He will, but it will sadly not be on this plane of existence and we are all robbed of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:26 PM (t0OGg)

99 This is not about me, is it?

Posted by: Andromeda Strain at March 31, 2023 01:26 PM (ufFY8)

100 Oy vey, today's Paul is less competent and articulate than average. What a mess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:27 PM (t0OGg)

101 > Here’s one reason the Left keep trying to kill him. He refuses to forgive or forget what Fauci did to us.
___________

Yes. They're also rivals. Both doctors. Both have the sort of disposition that goes along with being "big brained."

And the egos. I've been around the likes of these two. They honestly hate each other.

Posted by: Whoopsi at March 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Q4IgG)

102 I think the main thing to keep in mind about all of this is that our hard working public servants were able to make mucho dinero from this.

They deserve every peso, being hard working public servants and all.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Y9v4l)

103
---- removal of sock downloading ----

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (Q4IgG)

104 Ah, "dissembled." The cowardly courtier's way of saying "My dear sweet glorious prince appears to have inadvertently lied, perhaps due to be overserved by a commoner."

However, 'Dissembling' is a specific kind of lie, one in which you shade the lie in apparent truth. There are a variety of lies that don't involve this shading, lies of omission, for example. I think it's ok to have several categories of lie each with their own specific term.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (jzzG8)

105 are you day-drinking today, Paul?

Congratulations if so.


Condolences, if not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (/EuRN)

106 96 ert market?


I order my erts online.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (6uZ0Z)

107 CBS News has banned reporters from describing the tranny murderer in Nashville as "transgender."

https://tinyurl.com/m9ttt6fe

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (sWM8x)

108 Doctors, in general, have never struck me as particularly bright people. They mostly work out of a recipe book. "If this - do that" kind of folks.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (flOYI)

109 Fauci added a lie of Newt. SWIDT.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (xAptn)

110 Good stuff Ace.

I think contextually, you have to remember Fauci was seen as one of the foremost experts at the time. That makes all of this even more insidious. Rather than yielding to the proven scientific process, permitting dissent, cataloguing and testing different ideas or theories he sought to suppress it. This should have been the first clue for anyone that something was amiss here. His sine qua non because trying to crush people personally, silence them, cut them out of research grants, call them pejoratives or attack peoples credibility. Notice none of that has anything to do with science or the truth. It's obfuscation, diversion and authoritarian. The minute anyone uses all or part of that they are trying to hide the truth. Remember it's always the one who doesn't want visibility or exploration towards achieving the truth who is the guilty party.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (HDGM5)

111 I hear that Anthony Fauci has a book deal.
It must be awful short ...


The day before Thanksgiving (2022), Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, deposed Anthony Fauci (head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID]) at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

While the deposition uncovered no smoking guns, the sheer volume of things Fauci “couldn’t recall” or “couldn’t remember,” along with his obvious attempts at providing misleading and deceptive responses, collectively damned his testimony.

No reasonable observer could find his testimony to be credible. Simply put: he lied even when the truth would have made a better story.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (RHGPo)

112 107 CBS News has banned reporters from describing the tranny murderer in Nashville as "transgender."

https://tinyurl.com/m9ttt6fe
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (sWM8x)

Look at CBS, trying to erase trans people from existence. This is literally violence!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (KbCG3)

113 CBS News has banned reporters from describing the tranny murderer in Nashville as "transgender."

https://tinyurl.com/m9ttt6fe
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (sWM8x)
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"Murderous tranny freak" is still okay, though, right? It doesn't use the word "transgender."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (t0OGg)

114 This is the fucking tripe that is being spewed by JAMA as of late:

https://tinyurl.com/bddbyac7

Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (IytoW)

115 Fuck congress. Bring his ass up on criminal charges.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (nW4TA)

116 Reuters
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Follow
After school shooting, some trans Tennesseans face backlash

Todays FOAD List:
Reuters every single fucking one of you. And your friends too!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (BRHaw)

117 By the way, "the government told me to kill you" is not a legitimate medical excuse.

It was apparently motivational for some.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (Xrfse)

118 I have a feeling that the majority of people (and by which I mean non-leftists) are still not very far along in getting caught up on what all is actually known now about what happened.

This was not something that just mysteriously popped up in 2019. Fauci and NIH/CDC were not ginuinely responding to this thing as if it's coming out of nowhere - it was theater.

They made this. We now know they made this, and the info proving this has been publicly available for a couple of years now - as has information detailing the start of their coverup efforts.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (BW9UA)

119 "At first, they said, 'My goodness. It came from a lab.' And then, all of a sudden, they changed their mind. They got more money. They got more grants."

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"Quid Pro Quo, Clarice ... Quid Pro Quo."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (+lwg5)

120 DC is a pinball game and the Dems have the front two legs up on their toes.

Son just told me that the husband of the head of the DCCC has been stealing Republican VA records for years.

...

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (krQz2)

121 Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird.

Fauci Birx lies, and especially the assault on effective/cheap early treatment, killed a million or more. Half in the USA (at least) could have been saved ... that is a half million Americans "murdered".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (Cus5s)

122 Look at CBS, trying to erase trans people from existence. This is literally violence!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (KbCG3)
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It's literally genocide.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (t0OGg)

123 >>>there's no proof of such origins or of a leak

Yes which is intellectually dishonest to the point of lying.

There was plenty of *evidence* for laboratory origin and no *proof* of natural zoonotic origin.

Posted by: mikethemoose at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (AmpGx)

124 Apropos of nothing, my elderly mother still watches Jeopardy and likes to ask me the Final Jeopardy questions sometimes.

Most of the categories now seem to deal with art, literature, pop culture, politics... all "humanities" shit. Very little in the way of physics, chemistry, etc.

So finally she says the category is Math and I think to myself oh this should be good, finally they're asking a question that isn't Marxist Critical Bullshit.

The question was - I shit you not - This math symbol, a sideways V, is also the same thing that an oppressed people might feel. The answer being (fetch) "less than".

I mean, not only was it a third grade level question at BEST, and supposedly aimed at adult experts in general knowledge and insanely obscure trivia, but it's *that* shit. The rot is so real and pervasive and it is everywhere. Fucking the math symbol is what an oppressed people might *feel*. And they're serious.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (N3BTF)

125 122 Look at CBS, trying to erase trans people from existence. This is literally violence!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (KbCG3)
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It's literally genocide.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (t0OGg)

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Would be uncouth to demand vengeance against this genocide?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

126 I looked at my public stock portfolio and just realized I own shares of that dogshit company Rivian. I must have gotten shares in the IPO. I don’t even remember. Not that it matters, the shares are down 80%. But EVs are the FUTURE, yo!

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

127 108 Doctors, in general, have never struck me as particularly bright people. They mostly work out of a recipe book. "If this - do that" kind of folks.
Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 01:28 PM (flOYI)

They kinda have to be, for insurance and legal reasons... but there is still a whole hell of a lot of "if this - do that" they still need to know.

Fun fact.... Anthony Fauci is one of the editors of the Harrison manual of internal medicine. Basically the CRC Handbook of Human Beings.

God knows what money crossed which palms to get that to happen.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (/EuRN)

128 Retch not fetch, what the shit is going on today

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (N3BTF)

129 I have a friend who worked in a hospital. He knows exactly what they did, they killed people, on purpose, for money. The doctors are in denial, the nurses know.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

I must be in denial because I find the suggestion that all healthcare workers in hospitals conspired to actively kill people for money beyond the pale.

Many may have followed directives that contributed to the un-necessary death re- placing sick young people in seniors homes, but, at the height of the panic I don't believe that the majority of doctors and nurses actively killed patients on purpose for money.

Posted by: old chick at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (sOete)

130 JAMA

Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rather than deferring to scientific decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court often struck them down. The justices invalidated New York and California’s restrictions on religious gatherings (eTable in the Supplement) despite considerable evidence that congregate settings pose a high transmission risk. The Supreme Court similarly overturned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eviction moratorium despite findings that evictions contribute to the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

I have the MD! I have the MD! We is the smarterest in the world.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:32 PM (BRHaw)

131 "110 Good stuff Ace.

I think contextually, you have to remember Fauci was seen as one of the foremost experts at the time. That makes all of this even more insidious.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (HDGM5)

To give credit where credit is due, a vocal minority of critics were after Fauci's head for years prior to this, and they were right. Nobody paid them much attention because normies don't care all that much about stuff like AIDS.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:32 PM (BW9UA)

132 "The question was - I shit you not - This math symbol, a sideways V, is also the same thing that an oppressed people might feel. The answer being (fetch) "less than"."

That's < stupid.

Posted by: fd at March 31, 2023 01:32 PM (iayUP)

133 My daughter has 3 or 4 of the risk factors for BAD COVID and 2 weeks ago they would NOT give her the Paxil stuff or zpak or anything.

They have broke Medicine forever.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 31, 2023 01:20 PM (BRHaw)


might want to contact a doctor from the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance.

www.americasfrontlinedoctors.org/
covid19criticalcare.com/

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 01:33 PM (uQPen)

134 Era Of Remote Work Ends For Millions Of Americans

... it has been a challenge to revoke remote work once it has been implemented.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (RHGPo)

135
t wasn't like an "outbreak" outbreak.
Posted by: Whoopsi


More like a putbreak.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (63Dwl)

136 This is the fucking tripe that is being spewed by JAMA as of late:
https://tinyurl.com/bddbyac7
Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM (IytoW)
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None of the old mainline journals are worth anything anymore. Academia and formalized research institutions aren't worth anything. It's all part of the Omniparty Complex, and so it's all just lies and manipulation.

"Peer-reviewed" means nothing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (t0OGg)

137 Many may have followed directives that contributed to the un-necessary death


Sounds like another group of people in history.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (YPWOk)

138 Trans ~ a week ago: WE'RE BEING GENOCIDED!!!!

Trans now: WE DO NOT FEEL SAFE!!!

Me: Really?

So before it was an unscary genocide?!

What the fuck do you people do with your brains?

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (krQz2)

139 But he has also been the head of the NIAID during the period when scientists confirmed that the swine flu of 1977 was due to a lab outbreak.

As well as all the other outbreaks.

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"Like crack cocaine was created to wipe out blacks, everybody knows that the CIA -- likely in consultation with Fauci -- created HIV to wipe out the gay male population."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (+lwg5)

140 138 What the fuck do you people do with your brains?
Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (krQz2)

=========

A wide variety of drugs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 01:35 PM (LvTSG)

141 I haven’t watched Jeopardy since Alex died. He was that show for me.

Well, he and the two hotties on the Clue Crew, or whatever it was called. Sarah and Kelly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 01:35 PM (6uZ0Z)

142 I'm trying to think of anything Fausti ever said that ISN'T a lie.

I mean even his lies about his lies are lies.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (N3BTF)

143 "I've heard these conspiracy theories," Dr. Fauci replied

Wouldn't a man of science say "conjecture" instead?
Even a baseless conecture if he knows of it and finds it without merit?

However, knowing the lab and its function, wouldn't he have to say, more honestly, it is "well-reasoned hypothesis" and merits further investigation?

Thast is more scientific than pulling out of your ass that it magically appeared out of nowhere. Although this spontanious appearance had 'scientifically' explained rats in centuries past. The magic rats was used as an example of bad science in, what, middle school science. Right before some monk and his pea patch.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (iHSjH)

144 Bill "Most of you will have to die" Gates.

Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (krQz2)

145 the chinese lady, who gas been on Tuca a few times. said it came from the lab and it was intentional

she worked in the wuhan lab and stated that the security protocols were too stringent for it to be an accident

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (us2H3)

146 107 CBS News has banned reporters from describing the tranny murderer in Nashville as "transgender."


So man or woman?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (eGTCV)

147

The WHO’s vaccines advisors said Tuesday they don’t recommend annual Covid-19 vaccine boosters for healthy adults under ages 50 to 60 after they have received their first vaccine and booster, and they no longer recommend vaccinating healthy children or teens against the virus.

Health authorities in the U.S. and many other countries continue to recommend a dose of a bivalent Covid-19 vaccine booster for anyone over the age of 6 months. The latest WHO guidelines represent a significant step away from that stance, and come as Covid-19 vaccine makers face pushback in the U.S. over pricing and as health officials consider a postpandemic future.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (63Dwl)

148 This is the fucking tripe that is being spewed by JAMA as of late:

https://tinyurl.com/bddbyac7

Posted by: bicentennialguy at March 31, 2023 01:29 PM


It's pretty bold to squander your reputation by just following orders and then bitch about someone else pointing out that the orders were stupidly wrong.

Posted by: huerfano at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (dTFZY)

149 The man-made nature of this was provable by anyone who knew where to look by the end of December 2019. Fauci and Daszak knew where to look because it was their project, and their efforts at suppression are well documented; everyone else got sufficient clues in spring 2020, and the dots were publicly connected going all the way back to the DARPA proposal by spring 2021 at the latest.

It took two years and Musk buying Twitter to fully pry the lid off of what were openly available facts for anyone not stuck in the MSM/big tech censorship bubble.
Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (BW9UA)

The only legitimate question at this point is whether United States and Chinese governmental elements intentionally released the virus. Whether it was malice or incompetence matters little to the dead's loved ones, but it would be nice to tack this additional crime against humanity if that's what it is on the bill of particulars against the United States.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (KSNKu)

150 138
'What the fuck do you people do with your brains?'

Pickle them in hormones. What do you do?

Posted by: Trannies Everywhere at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (2OL6m)

151 Transgender Worries About Backlash From Next Friday's Attack

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (N3BTF)

152 (adjusts tinfoil hat to jaunty angle)

The CIA released the virus in Wuhan.

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (SYTee)

153 "129 I must be in denial because I find the suggestion that all healthcare workers in hospitals conspired to actively kill people for money beyond the pale.

Many may have followed directives that contributed to the un-necessary death re- placing sick young people in seniors homes, but, at the height of the panic I don't believe that the majority of doctors and nurses actively killed patients on purpose for money.
Posted by: old chick at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (sOete)"

This is probably not on most people's radar, but more and more of the actual doctors in these settings are H1B's or other recent imports. They don't look at this stuff like we do: they follow the procedure, and if you die you die and it's not really going to bother them much.

I can walk into any number of world famous hospitals in the US and stand in a hallway and point out a bunch of MD's who are barely making more than my entry level employees. It's the medical equivalent of hiring Jose to trim your shrubbery on the cheap.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (BW9UA)

154 129 I must be in denial because I find the suggestion that all healthcare workers in hospitals conspired to actively kill people for money beyond the pale.
Posted by: old chick at March 31, 2023 01:31 PM (sOete)


Purdue Pharma teaches us that they don't have to be actively conspiring, just following guidelines from the flashy cute booster gals handing out money and favors. One way of looking at this is everyone should have been more aware of the scandals going on inside the medical profession in the last couple of decades, and now we pay the price.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (PZvjL)

155 I am Science!

Posted by: PG at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (84jHt)

156 CBS News has banned reporters from describing the tranny murderer in Nashville as "transgender."
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So much for being seen. Down the memoryhole you go, cunt.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (N3BTF)

157 142 I'm trying to think of anything Fausti ever said that ISN'T a lie.

I asked him for some cash and he said he was short

Posted by: hobo at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (us2H3)

158 144 Bill "Most of you will have to die" Gates.
Posted by: Axeman at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (krQz2)

The death rate is 100 percent, which includes you, Bill. Go first.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (eGTCV)

159 Hoo boy. Here's video of the TN Capitol occupation claiming the Tranny Terrorist is one of the SEVEN VICTIMS from that day.

https://bit.ly/3TY2a3E

Posted by: bonhomme at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (j2Xg6)

160 In other news, a Big Tit Donna sighting!
A couple reasons to look up.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (ufFY8)

161 ... it has been a challenge to revoke remote work once it has been implemented.
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 01:34 PM (RHGPo)

Yet, here I sit.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (MkuC5)

162 Lots of people retire from Federal service and sometime later, do consulting, give testimony in legal cases, etc. It doesn't mean they're still specifically Federal employees with specific job immunity.

There are ethics to follow if/when returning post-employment to a Federal agency as a contractor. For example: ogc dot commerce dot gov Returning to a Federal Agency as a Contractor, 2021

Rand Paul has been on the legislative side of the government, not the executive side. Perhaps that's the confusion. Or, perhaps, Fauci is emgaging in more questionable practices but, if so, OPM is allowing. (One retired, OPM becomes the retiree's agency.) That would be a problem as a violation of civil service rules and laws.

Posted by: Lola - all 1/6 videos from Alexandra and Jade, too at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM (GshMh)

163 I haven’t watched Jeopardy since Alex died. He was that show for me.

Well, he and the two hotties on the Clue Crew, or whatever it was called. Sarah and Kelly.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 31, 2023 01:35 PM

Your mother's a whore Trebek.

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (xAptn)

164 "152 (adjusts tinfoil hat to jaunty angle)

The CIA released the virus in Wuhan.
Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (SYTee)"

We funded gain-of-function research on a SARS variant by labs that have previously cause two public SARS outbreaks via fuckups.

From a practical standpoint that's as close as you can get to intentional without marking it down as a calendar appointment in Outlook.

Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (BW9UA)

165 I'm having anger overload today

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (fUnHJ)

166 Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 01:33 PM (uQPen)

Good call

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (1uGIo)

167 The question was - I shit you not - This math symbol, a sideways V, is also the same thing that an oppressed people might feel.

I have long thought that Alex Trebeck spent just about every show meeting shooting down this crap and keeping the show in the same course it had been and that had made it so successful.

We're gonna see Jeopardy canceled. Trebeck kept it going decades by running it well. They're gonna kill the brand.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (0hOvj)

168 ... It took two years and Musk buying Twitter to fully pry the lid off of what were openly available facts for anyone not stuck in the MSM/big tech censorship bubble.
Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:16 PM (BW9UA)
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Which is why they're going to RESTRICT it from now on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (t0OGg)

169 En fuego!

Posted by: That Guy who shouts "En Fuego!" at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (a3Q+t)

170 The only legitimate question at this point is whether United States and Chinese governmental elements intentionally released the virus.

There is no way it was intentional. Most people are a resource, for their basic labor if nothing else. China was welding doors to keep people inside - pretty much writing them off - when this shit first escaped that Wuhan lab. China does not waste resources without reason.

That tells me China, at first, feared something way worse than Covid got out of that lab.

Posted by: Get a Job at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (flOYI)

171 CBS news is run by one of Obama's besties brother

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (us2H3)

172 My doctor is a muslim with a thick accent and he probably saved my life when others had looked the other way

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:39 PM (N3BTF)

173 "Fauci must die a horrible death. I'm not sure how that will happen, but it needs to. Desperately. This man is The Devil himself.

Posted by: Sponge"


The Deep State will make sure he gets a funeral for his service in taking down Trump and saving Our Democracy that rivals the recently ended McCain ceremonies

Posted by: Ripley at March 31, 2023 01:40 PM (cUYo/)

174 165 I was just now thinking that too.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at March 31, 2023 01:40 PM (MvF+J)

175 149 The only legitimate question at this point is whether United States and Chinese governmental elements intentionally released the virus. Whether it was malice or incompetence matters little to the dead's loved ones, but it would be nice to tack this additional crime against humanity if that's what it is on the bill of particulars against the United States.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (KSNKu)


I've got a sneaking suspicion that this ends with the rest of the world embargoing both countries based on evidence they've obtained independently about what we did. And I'm not gonna be able to fault them for it.

Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 01:40 PM (PZvjL)

176 This is probably not on most people's radar, but more and more of the actual doctors in these settings are H1B's or other recent imports. They don't look at this stuff like we do: they follow the procedure, and if you die you die and it's not really going to bother them much.

I can walk into any number of world famous hospitals in the US and stand in a hallway and point out a bunch of MD's who are barely making more than my entry level employees. It's the medical equivalent of hiring Jose to trim your shrubbery on the cheap.
Posted by: somedood at March 31, 2023 01:37 PM (BW9UA)

It should be on everyone's radar. As Western medical professionals get more "diverse," it will become increasingly dangerous to seek treatment. We are starting to see this phenomenon with air travel, too.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 31, 2023 01:40 PM (KSNKu)

177 Ace, your line ""My dear sweet glorious prince appears to have inadvertently lied, perhaps due to be overserved by a commoner" sounds like one delivered by the king whose daughter is in danger of being sacrificed to the dragon in Dragonslayer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 01:41 PM (J2vNu)

178 So man or woman?
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (eGTCV)


Encocrinologically enhanced to become a living weapon

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 01:41 PM (xhaym)

179 Note they're not even coming up with cutesy names for the bills anymore.

RESTRICT
DENY
SURVEIL
OPPRESS

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:41 PM (N3BTF)

180 I believe it was in those depositions for the state cases that the ridiculous Fauci admitted there was no science backing up the benefit of masks. Something easily known before and during The Great Idiocy. CDC itself helpfully published a meta-study in *May 2020* repeating the basic conclusion (with some weak a**-covering mini-claim about N95s, which was helpfully debunked by studies shortly to follow).

But the whole origins thing, in context, was/is a distraction. Regardless of origin, and histrionic corruption/misconduct by scum like Fauci and the corrupt, incompetent institutions, the "so what" of all this was the *response* to the epidemic. That's were the economic, social, and medical damage was done.

And that of course was *also* well understood, already. "Mitigation" was/is a fantasy. As the control group (Sweden, FL, a few other jurisdictions) demonstrated - redundantly. There was almost certainly literally *zero* benefit from *any* of it. Zero. Regardless of origin (definitely a legitimate topic and obviously one soaked in corruption and misconduct), that's the main issue. Any discussion of that? Of course not.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 31, 2023 01:41 PM (OTzUX)

181 ... So finally she says the category is Math and I think to myself oh this should be good, finally they're asking a question that isn't Marxist Critical Bullshit.

The question was - I shit you not - This math symbol, a sideways V, is also the same thing that an oppressed people might feel. The answer being (fetch) "less than". ...
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 01:30 PM (N3BTF)
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It's on TV. It is, therefore, woke to the point of insanity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 01:41 PM (t0OGg)

182 I don't believe that the majority of doctors and nurses actively killed patients on purpose for money

Most likely not but I would hazard a guess that many followed protocols that they knew on some educational or intellectual level were either ineffectual or harmful treatments. That is, at best, negligence.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 31, 2023 01:41 PM (Xrfse)

183 I find the suggestion that all healthcare workers in hospitals conspired to actively kill people for money beyond the pale.

Its not that they go cackling into rooms dressed in a black suit and hold a pillow over someone's face.

Its that they get money to use certain kinds of treatments and are banned from using others, which results in death.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 31, 2023 01:42 PM (0hOvj)

184 No, I am Science!

Posted by: Tony Curtis at March 31, 2023 01:42 PM (dTFZY)

185 Yet, here I sit.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at March 31, 2023 01:38 PM


Broken hearted?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 31, 2023 01:42 PM (a3Q+t)

186 I've got a sneaking suspicion that this ends with the rest of the world embargoing both countries based on evidence they've obtained independently about what we did. And I'm not gonna be able to fault them for it.
Posted by: CppThis at March 31, 2023 01:40 PM (PZvjL)
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Maybe. I kind of doubt it because both economies are gigantic and both have tremendous