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Let's Take The Drooling, Groping Retard Seriously: What Is His Economic Plan For America, And Will It Work?
It's very easy for sentient beings to make fun of Gropin' Joe Biden, because his rapid descent into senility, coupled with his impressively unsuccessful legislative career, capped with a stint as a figure-head vice president makes him ripe for mockery.
But figurehead or not, his economic plan for America has to be taken seriously because he might be the next President of The United States of America. Yes, that is a terrifying thought, but the more we pull back the curtain on his crypto-socialism the better chance we have of ending the progressive dream of having two Democrat presidents in the first quarter of the century who are puppets; easily controlled by the power players in the shadows. "Chicago Boyz" is always a good read, and this article is a particularly good one. The author manages to take Biden seriously, and looks at the broad strokes of his economic plan from the perspective of a classical economist. And it's scary. Is the Biden Economic Plan on the Right Track?Biden's Plan is an Extortion Racket on the Left-Behind TrackBiden will use the immense power of the administrative state to reshape our economy along the lines of the Indian caste system, where economic advantage is conferred based on ethnic group. That in itself would be tremendously destructive; destroying economic incentives and creating a vast bureaucracy dedicated to racial and ethnic "equality." But his monetary policy and headlong rush to unionize pretty much everyone would be the death knell for American industrial and technological might. Whether that would be the final nail in the destruction of American Exceptionalism, or would it be open borders? Who knows? But either one would be enough to end America's cultural, industrial, technological and social superiority. We would become just one of many struggling socialist nations, fighting for a slice of a shrinking pie. Just think Venezuela with snow.
Across time and space the evidence supports competitive market capitalism as the source of virtually all human economic progress. The Biden economic plan is essentially an extortion racket that fails to recognize its inherent limits, doubling down on the bad policies of the current Administration while eliminating the good, apparently because the Party's octogenarian leaders either never learned the limits or have lost control to the young radical left. This plan so far exceeds the limits that even partial success could easily lead to hyper-inflation. There is a sense that America can always turns things around if it gets derailed but the progressive perspective dominates America's intellectual elite and media. Argentina was once on the capitalist fast track parallel to the U.S., but progressive President Juan Peron switched tracks in 1946, and Argentina has been left behind ever since.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:06 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:06 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 12:07 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:08 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:09 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:09 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Fortcoins at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (AiXoJ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: t-bird at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (z36Kd)
I had this discussion with my DIL (a rabid liberal now living in N.Z.) pointing out that Venezuela voted itself into economic and social poverty and how quickly they did it.
Her only counter argument was 'it can't happen in the USA'.
I told her she was wrong and unfortunately we're living my observation.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (gtatv)
Biden wins, we lose now.
*shrugs*
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (RU4sa)
Can think of a few, but beyond the epidemic mismanagement (switch off economy, add enormous debt instantly to cushion the blow), they're not in the economic area.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2020 12:11 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:12 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: The Democrat Politburo at August 02, 2020 12:12 PM (z36Kd)
*spits*
A Legion of Drooling Retards, more like, supporting one of their own.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2020 12:12 PM (OWgiM)
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The communists are using the coronacrap to push their long sought dream of medicare for all.
https://tinyurl.com/y6dc4onu
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 06:03 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:12 PM (mpXpK)
Not necessarily true. Keep yours eyes peeled for the phrase "crimes against humanity".
Posted by: t-bird at August 02, 2020 12:13 PM (z36Kd)
Sadly though, we won't be Venezuela, we'll just be America, with monopoly money "debt," increasingly beholden to Chi Nah.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 02, 2020 12:13 PM (hku12)
Posted by: rhomboid
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The ones put in place by the last administration buffoons and are still running due to legislators in robes?
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at August 02, 2020 12:13 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: t-bird at August 02, 2020 12:13 PM (z36Kd)
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Pfft.
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 12:14 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 12:15 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: rhomboid
Continuation of DACA.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (2DOZq)
current administration on which these loathsome ridiculous people will
"double down"?
Posted by: rhomboid at August 02, 2020 12:11 PM (OTzUX)
Out of control spending. Sorry, but that is what will destroy us.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (dLLD6)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (2DOZq)
I dunno. It did give us the Power Painter.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (WX+x0)
Posted by: t-bird at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (z36Kd)
One thing we'll see is a sudden loss of federal judges capable of stopping an Administration from doing what the Constitution says it can do.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 02, 2020 12:17 PM (hku12)
Posted by: rhomboid
Continuation of DACA.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (2DOZq)
Ah cough cough...Supreme Court...not PDT's fault at all. he is trying
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:18 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (dLLD6)
The entire war on terror in Afghanistan/Iraq - 2.5 trillion.
Covid economic stimulus - 4 trillion
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:18 PM (2DOZq)
On a side note, I watched 1984 last night while nursing some whiskey. It should be required watching for every Millenial. AOC's spewings could have been taken right out of the movie's script.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:18 PM (xyImL)
"Social security", welfare, earned income chilluns tax credit, etc, etc. All designed to buy votes.
Bernie Madoff is in jail for less.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 02, 2020 12:19 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 02, 2020 12:19 PM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (dLLD6)
Yup.
And this covid shit is like a dagger at the deficeit which is why I am against a new covid package, unless we get the money from the chicoms. I am in favor of breaking them financially
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:19 PM (85Gof)
1. Open Borders.
2. $15 minimum wage.
3. Medicare for all.
4. "Assault rifle" ban and other assorted gun control stuff, like universal background checks, etc..
5. Citizenship for illegals which they did once before in the 80s.
6. Some sort of campaign finance reform that penalizes conservatives.
7. Tax increases out the wazoo.
8. Legislation to remove right to work State laws under the supremacy clause.
9. Federally funded abortions.
10. Medicare for illegals until they can shove the citizenship thing through.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:21 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Cato, Dread Pirate in Training at August 02, 2020 12:21 PM (O4K4J)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (2DOZq)
I dunno. It did give us the Power Painter.
You who else gave us Wagner and a painter?
Posted by: t-bird at August 02, 2020 12:21 PM (WLHrn)
Posted by: rhomboid
Continuation of DACA.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:16 PM (2DOZq)
We're going to wish for the good old days of DACA.
It will be full blown amnesty for all illegals.
Effectively ending future elections for the GOPe.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:23 PM (EiNjl)
It isn't Trump bottling up all of the insane shit coming out of Nancy's House. We need to keep the Senate and win back the House.
Offense is more fun than defense but Trump can't do it alone.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 12:23 PM (ZLI7S)
The Public Leftist Seminaries are to blame.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (6f16T)
They will have to repeal the 1947 Taft-Hartly Act first.
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 12:23 PM (ZLI7S)
Yep. So far, we've just staved off the inevitable.
We need to get the genie back in the bottle.
Posted by: Cato, Dread Pirate in Training at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (O4K4J)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Yep.
No one will stop it, except math.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: Northernlurker at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (lgiXo)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:26 PM (2DOZq)
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It's either three months or four years and three months.
I hope he wins, but he's a speedbump.
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 12:26 PM (7NCzG)
They will have to repeal the 1947 Taft-Hartly Act first.
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM
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Why? They will just ignore it and the Hawaiian Judge will back their play.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:27 PM (JUOKG)
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Try to remember the last time you heard a federal-level politician run on that.
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 12:27 PM (7NCzG)
Posted by: Northernlurker at August 02, 2020 12:24 PM (lgiXo)
They absolutely see it.
They are just showing their true colors- and that color is GREEN $$$.
Money and power. Same problems as every civilization has endured.
And, if the Divine Comedy depiction of hell is real, there is a special circle for turncoats such as them- the lowest, blackest and farthest from Heaven.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:28 PM (xyImL)
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:28 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: t-bird at August 02, 2020 12:21 PM (WLHrn)
We're waiting!!
Posted by: Zombie Judge Smails at August 02, 2020 12:28 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 02, 2020 12:29 PM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: BurtTC
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You can bet the Rent-a-Mobs will target every one of Trumps appointments.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 02, 2020 12:29 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:29 PM (YqDXo)
Reminds me of David Mamet's essay about who put the yoghurt in the refrigerator (chapter in The Secret Knowledge?). Because yoghurt always comes with berries, which make great pie (without the yoghurt of course) and everybody loves pie and wants a piece. Now even I want a piece of pie. With vanilla ice cream.
What were we talking about again?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 12:29 PM (Fc5rx)
Posted by: Cato, Dread Pirate in Training at August 02, 2020 12:21 PM (O4K4J)
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Obama was the end. Reprieve is the right word. We can't turn this around. I had a glimmer of a sliver of a hope Trump could do it, but we have seen from his administration that even the rarest of people - an honest politician - has no chance of reforming anything in this country.
It's good to vote Trump in 2020. It buys us time. But that's all it does or can do. This can't be fixed by voting, and eventually Democrats will be elected again, and then the gloves come off. They don't plan to play around anymore, the next time they have power.
If you thought the midnight passage of O-Care was flagrant, wait til you see their Enabling Acts. And, I doubt they even need both houses for that... the GOP is desperate to eliminate the system of government that gave us Trump, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (Tm4zg)
They will have to repeal the 1947 Taft-Hartly Act first.***
With control of Congress, the presidency, and a judiciary committed to the destruction of the Constitution, all things become possible.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (LGXGf)
Her only counter argument was 'it can't happen in the USA'.
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at August 02, 2020 12:10 PM (gtatv)
You should've asked her, "Why not?"
Because we're getting liberals to move to N.Z.?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Fortcoins at August 02, 2020 12:31 PM (nV60k)
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 12:27 PM (
There's a small handful chirping right now about adding trillions more to the debt with Phase 4 negotiations.
Lol just stop with the theatre.
The spending game is lost.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:31 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 02, 2020 12:32 PM (an7Mv)
1. Abolish the public school system. Privatize all schools. Continue collecting taxes at the present level.
2. All parents given a voucher for every child, equal to what the present system spends on that child.
3. Parents may then spend that voucher on private schools, or home school and keep the entirety of it, and may continue to do so as long as their children pass. (Failure to pass means that they will be unable to homeschool and must use a private school).
Statistics clearly show that, controlled for all other factors, home schooled students vastly outperform both public and private students, and private students outperform public students.
We can give these advantages to everybody, without spending a single cent more. Further, the effect of the ability to make a second income just by educating your own children (in the 24-40k range for a family with 2 children, depending on district) will be a more than adequate replacement for many working-class and middle-class families second incomes.
As more families opt to homeschool, the labor force effectively shrinks, lowering unemployment and putting upward pressure on wages.
All of this, without spending a single cent more than we do, for an education system everyone agrees is hopelessly broken.
Of course, we'd need a Republican House to pass it.
Posted by: Cato, Dread Pirate in Training at August 02, 2020 12:32 PM (O4K4J)
If you thought the midnight passage of O-Care was flagrant, wait til you see their Enabling Acts. And, I doubt they even need both houses for that... the GOP is desperate to eliminate the system of government that gave us Trump, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (Tm4zg)
THIS.
Who will be the first Emperor? Or Permanent Prezzy? Think they will ask Lightbringer and God King Obama to come back once they change, invalidate or throw out the Constitution?
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:32 PM (xyImL)
Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at August 02, 2020 12:32 PM (y5oH4)
Constitutional amendment and that ain't happening.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 12:33 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (Tm4zg)
Not to be a Pollyanna, but let me introduce a cheering thought: if Trump is re-elected (please, God!) he will continue to remake the Federal judiciary, which might then prove to be our bulwark against Marxism.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:33 PM (YqDXo)
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Zebrazier burgers
Quesagorillas
Rhinoceroast
Chimped beef on toast
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 12:33 PM (Fc5rx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (Tm4zg)
People so badly want to believe that the GOP is an opposition party.
They're not. They're a cooperative party - there to make sure we remain a two party system.
Posted by: Mirror at August 02, 2020 12:33 PM (A73dY)
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:33 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:34 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: andycanuck at August 02, 2020 12:34 PM (an7Mv)
Always have, always will. By whatever means is necessary, I will work to restore her to that vision of a shining city on a hill. The utter filth the left has smeared her with WILL be cleansed.
There are, thank God, enough of us to make it so.
Posted by: irongrampa at August 02, 2020 12:35 PM (KATBx)
Admittedly this may have prevented any chance at re-election but we will never know but we have and will feel the negative effect for years to come for not taking what I consider the proper action. But I'm just a middle class boob with an opinion like everyone else.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:35 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:18 PM (xyImL)
same here
Posted by: vmom 2020 cancel all pronouns at August 02, 2020 12:37 PM (TOyHQ)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:37 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:37 PM (zr5Kq)
They aren't great but they've stopped much of what we are predicting will happen with a Biden presidency and congress.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 12:37 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: obsidian at August 02, 2020 12:37 PM (7+yqP)
Pardon my civics ignorance...Can the Electoral College be overturned by
executive fiat or act of Congress, or must a Constitutional amendment be
ratified to do so? If the latter, there aren't enough states willing to
act in favor of it. YMMV.
Posted by: Fortcoins at August 02, 2020 12:31 PM (nV60k)
It should take and Amendment but there is no telling how an Obama black robe will rule.
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:38 PM (mpXpK)
If you thought the midnight passage of O-Care was flagrant, wait til you see their Enabling Acts. And, I doubt they even need both houses for that... the GOP is desperate to eliminate the system of government that gave us Trump, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:30 PM (Tm4zg)
There's only one way to win by voting, and it's a slim hope.
It's to keep the Democrats out of power until the party's internal fault lines slip and tear them apart, and do all we can to increase the tension on their side to speed up the process.
We can still win by default. You don't have to outrun the other guy if he doesn't make it to the finish line.
Posted by: Cato, Dread Pirate in Training at August 02, 2020 12:38 PM (O4K4J)
With obvious exemptions.
Posted by: The Democrat Politburo at August 02, 2020 12:12 PM
"Rich white Democrat power players" is an ethnic group.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:38 PM (qe5CM)
Road trip today, bunch of us are going out for dinner to a county exempt from the state mask requirement.
Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at August 02, 2020 12:39 PM (AgR7f)
Lol just stop with the theatre.
The spending game is lost.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:31 PM
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Yep, it's no longer about spending, deficits or the National debt. We are never go to make any serious effort to pay the debt, nor can we realistically address out of control spending. At this point only one of two outcomes are possible:
1. Inflation catches up with spending and the economy crashes after a period of hyper inflation and it's pretty much over for a good 10-15 years until we can put the pieces back together. See Venezuela.
2. The US defaults on it's debt which starts a cascading effect around the World of other Countries following suit. A short severe depression follows as everyone adjusts to new circumstances.
Something has to give.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:39 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:12 PM (JUOKG)
Yep. And Fauxcahontas. He's trying to gin up some enthusiasm by attempting to get the hard left retards on side.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 12:40 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:38 PM (mpXpK)
Legal as a tax!
Posted by: Chief Injustice Roberts at August 02, 2020 12:40 PM (O4K4J)
Posted by: Ripley at August 02, 2020 12:40 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: irongrampa at August 02, 2020 12:35 PM (KATBx)
Look at the chaos and trouble several thousand are able to cause with these riots.
NRA has 5-6 million members alone.
Add several million more non members.
We hold all the winning cards. At some point we will show them.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:41 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:42 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:18 PM (xyImL)
same here
Posted by: vmom 2020 cancel all pronouns at August 02, 2020 12:37 PM (TOyHQ)
There is no plan. There is no justice. Things just happen. Some people get what they want. Some people don't. Some people get good lives. Some people don't. Evil people prosper. Good people suffer. Shit just happens without any planning, point or purpose. We try to play the best round we can with a shitty hand in a rigged game, and that's all any of us can do.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:42 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 12:40 PM (LGXGf)
All socialism devolves to the Stalinist type. It's only a matter of time.
The core theories that underpin the system are fatally flawed, and can introduce only failure. As long as the socialist party retains control, the only solution to those failures is more socialism.
If you're in a "social democracy" or "democratic socialism" system, this is the point when the democracy becomes inconvenient to the socialists. The people reject the failures and want to move away from socialism. The result is always that democracy is abandoned, and you get another Venezuela.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 02, 2020 12:43 PM (O4K4J)
Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM (gtatv)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM (buTO7)
When the Dems get power have fun.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:42 PM (JUOKG)
I doubt it...To Little, To Late. In the day of the interenet and video tape, PDT will pound biden and her with that. And she is also a supporter of the Scientology Church. She is one fruit cake. But fuck, I've been wrong before
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (85Gof)
It's to keep the Democrats out of power until the party's internal fault lines slip and tear them apart, and do all we can to increase the tension on their side to speed up the process.
We can still win by default. You don't have to outrun the other guy if he doesn't make it to the finish line.
Posted by: Cato, Dread Pirate in Training at August 02, 2020 12:38 PM (O4K4J)
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This is fair.
I maintain a bit of optimism in that regard - the Democrat Party is just as fucked up as the GOP in terms of their Uniparty politics. Trump's win destroyed the Republican Party. The Democrats' slow-witted voters seem to be finally catching up to the Right, who began to grow furious years ago. Another Trump win may ruin the Democrat Party next.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (Tm4zg)
Posted by: Ripley at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (MxEKc)
I recommend my essay, "The Cloistered Acres" published in 2013 at American Thinker. The third and fourth segments ("The Cloistered Acres" and "The Caveat" deal with exactly this phenonemon.
Link:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/12/the_cloistered_acres.html
Posted by: Anthony Benvin at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (74hu/)
Though I suppose if the wheels truly do come off, money will become irrelevant and bullets will be the currency of the day.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (xyImL)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:46 PM (6f16T)
The various states' governors are basing their COVID policy on experts' computer modeling. For example, 100% mask compliance, the virus is gone by the end of the year, 0% compliance we're all dead by Groundhog Day 2012. So 60% compliance will be somewhere in between, right? But they don't have data built into the model for 60% half-assed mask compliance, (or weather or mutations of the virus or so on and so on). So the modeling is just a sad caricature of the real world, an imagining of sorts.
My point?
These are the same people who think they can predict what the fundamental transformation of America will look like. They may be ignoring some important variables.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 12:46 PM (Fc5rx)
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:41 PM
That is what I used to think...but then I thought people like the Steinbreeners were in our corner and would stand up...but I was wrong about that
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:46 PM (85Gof)
It's to keep the Democrats out of power until the party's internal fault lines slip and tear them apart, and do all we can to increase the tension on their side to speed up the process.
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Let the record show I'm signing on to this plan.
It's the only one that might prevent a broken America from capsizing completely all at once.
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 12:47 PM (7NCzG)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:48 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 02, 2020 12:48 PM (XUMZv)
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 02, 2020 12:48 PM (VOMkJ)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:48 PM (qe5CM)
Worse. If the media covered the problems in the Democrat party between their myriad victim groups it would be obvious to all.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 12:48 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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My wife and I were discussing this very scenario just yesterday. I do not think it is entirely implausible. And if they do fractionate, there is no telling what the new realignments will be four years down the road.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 12:49 PM (Fc5rx)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:48 PM (qe5CM)
There will be no VP debates unless there are Presidential Debates and i very much doubt there will be any. No way biden can debate PDT without absurd conditions
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:49 PM (85Gof)
Though I suppose if the wheels truly do come off, money will become irrelevant and bullets will be the currency of the day.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (xyImL)
Keeping it in. Going liquid for me makes no sense. NASDQ is through the roof. Those close to retirement may need to consider safer options. I do not subscribe to market panic. Black Swan event are known. That is always out there.
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:50 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:50 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM
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I forgot to add that to my list above of what will happen if biden wins and the democrats manage to win the Senate and keep the House.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 02, 2020 12:50 PM (JUOKG)
Not only can I imagine it, I believe it will be a hard-core, Bolshevik inspired angry, get-even socialism, if, God forbid, it ever gets a toe-hold here.
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I've met Leftists of every variety, from all around the world. I maintain the American ones are the angriest, most dedicated, single-minded hate machines in G-d's creation. It's dark in a way foreigners just can't match. We truly are better at everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 12:50 PM (Tm4zg)
I wish I could share your optimism on that point. Unfortunately, I conclude that a huge percentage of the population is dangerously cognitively impaired.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 12:52 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:52 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 12:40 PM (LGXGf)
Agreed. I have to conclude liberals are fundamentally not too bright: they think they can change something, but everything else will remain the same. They think instituting a 10% tax on a $1 billion cash flow will net them $100 million. See, e.g., California's tax on legal marijuana.
The blacks have a similar problem, here and in Africa. Despite any and all evidence to the contrary, they think that if they run things, everything will be the same, except that they will be in charge of the economic dynamo. See, e.g., Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Last, they fail to recognize that anything can happen anywhere. There's nothing magical about American soil; the magical thing here is the American people, and the system of government we inherited.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:52 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:52 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:52 PM (NWiLs)
thanks, daddy-o
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:53 PM (zr5Kq)
Though I suppose if the wheels truly do come off, money will become irrelevant and bullets will be the currency of the day.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM
All-in, but nervous. I worked in the industry for all of my professional career, so I am probably more risk tolerant than most. I have always told inquiring friends that I believe in the market, but I have thought about setting aside enough to keep me out penury in my old(er) age.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:53 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (NWiLs)
Still hope someone else becomes 2024 still, but time for that.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:52 PM (NWiLs)
thanks, daddy-o
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:53 PM (zr5Kq)
C'mere ya big galoot!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (zr5Kq)
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Keeping the bulk of it in but having cash on hand to buy a bunch at the next dip/crash that's coming. Maintain an emergency fund but be ready to take advantage of the market. Go look at what just putting $10K in a fund indexed to the dow or S&P500 would've made for you in the last few months.
Also getting ready to dump a lot of money in bullsh*t "green" stocks that will be subsidized and electric car companies and their component industries. Anything the government subsidizes, invest in.
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 12:55 PM (7NCzG)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (zr5Kq)
Apparently nothing can change that. And everyone's mattress has skin cells and mites in it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:55 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Fortcoins at August 02, 2020 12:55 PM (nV60k)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:55 PM (6f16T)
But it would break a lot of individuals on the left.
And moves for CA to secede would become very real.
I would support it 100%.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:56 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: Anthony Benvin at August 02, 2020 12:45 PM (74hu/)
Folks, this is a good explanation of the difference between a market economy pie and a progressive's wet dream of a finite pie.
Thanks for this link!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 12:56 PM (dLLD6)
Posted by: Fortcoins at August 02, 2020 12:55 PM (nV60k)
You mean 2050. Because you're 29 now...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 12:56 PM (NWiLs)
Still hope someone else becomes 2024 still, but time for that.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (6f16T)
Pence is off my list until I hear him apologize PUBLICALLY to Gen. Flynn.
Pence literally threw him under the bus.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2020 12:57 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:57 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Vic at August 02, 2020 12:09 PM (mpXpK)
_You feel a tightening in your chest, restricted breathing and a sore throat, right?
_Yes
_Walk to the end of the hall and take a left, continue until you see a Ward 13 sign; Enter that room and choose a cot. Someone will be with you shortly.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM (buTO7)
Bingo. The feds know where all the money is and it is simply a matter of when they need to grab it.
Do what Ravadem Patel did in Glengarry Glen Ross and stick your money in a mattress.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM
Discussions of 401k treatment does have me worried, but the articles I have read pertain to structure and tax treatment of future plans. I think there would some grandfathering that goes into any new regulations. I have money in my 401k but am no longer working. I can roll it to an IRA if that shields it from new 401k laws.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (OWgiM)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 12:49 PM (Fc5rx)
My wife and I have discussed this previously. I think it is entirely possible.
I use my usual tool: assume the result, and work backwards on how the result came to be.
In this case, it's easy. The Democrat Party comprises a whole bunch of groups that are mutually antithetical and just held together by bailing wire, chewing gum, duct tape, and the promise of goodies in the future.
If the prospect of future goodies dims, and/or if some constituencies decide that they're not getting their "fair share," the Democrat Party will shatter like the break on a billiards table.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 12:54 PM (6f16T)***
Well Rubio certainly has blotted his copybook. Never a fan. but with his advocacy of fraudulent Vote by Mail, he is dead to me.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 12:59 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM (buTO7)
Bingo. The feds know where all the money is and it is simply a matter of when they need to grab it.
Do what Ravadem Patel did in Glengarry Glen Ross and stick your money in a mattress.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (Z+IKu)
Except that seizing all that would tank the market, and entire economy.
Its the only long term stable investment money out there.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2020 01:00 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:00 PM (85Gof)
It's not optimism, it's evidence.
If Democrats are so all powerful how come Trump won? How come we have the Senate?
We are bombarded 7 x 24 with a media that for all intents is the PR organ of the left. All they do is dial up to eleventy any issue on the right while pretending riots aren't happening in Democrat cities across the country calling them "peaceful protests".
Everyone knows this is a lie but still she persisted. Imagine you are a Democrat small business owner in Portland or Minneapolis or NYC, are you happy with what your Democrat politicians are doing? What happens when the party is over and those places are left with billions in damages and a demoralized and depleted police force?
Karen Bass was on Slow Joe's shortlist for VP. And then it was revealed that she is a big supporter of Castro's Cuba and sent condolences to him and his supporters over his death. How well do you think that is going to play in Florida where Latinos hate Castro and communist with a passion?
If Democrats are so oh my God powerful why are they running a dementia patient who won't leave his basement for president in one of the more consequential presidencies in decades?
No guarantees of course but the idea that leftist are destined to rule America is far from certain.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 01:00 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: irongrampa at August 02, 2020 01:02 PM (KATBx)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 0
The big problem for me is what is now considered leftist and what is considered main stream....thing like blm, reperations, kneeling were considered left wing...NOW they are considered main stream.
We are letting the left dictate the arguments and platform
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (85Gof)
My point?
These are the same people who think they can predict what the fundamental transformation of America will look like. They may be ignoring some important variables.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 12:46 PM (Fc5rx)
BIN-f'ing-O !
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (zr5Kq)
Part of my Bolshevik inspired nightmare scenario has the unstoppable democrats/bolsheviks recalling all currency and issuing a new script. Like I said, they're gonna make it really hurt.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: DooDad at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (SnLSx)
They also start her media tour introducing by saying she's not a communist!
Disaster.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (EiNjl)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:04 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 12:44 PM (buTO7)
Bingo. The feds know where all the money is and it is simply a matter of when they need to grab it.
Do what Ravadem Patel did in Glengarry Glen Ross and stick your money in a mattress.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (Z+IKu)
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If Trump wasn't the president it probably would have happened when the DOW went to 20k. The first congressional hearings took place pretty much the day Obama was sworn in. I wouldn't bet my entire 401k on whether they are waiting for the right time. "Retirement equality!"
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (buTO7)
Which amazes me.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM
I have a growth fund that is up 16% this year. S&P fund is up about 5% ytd. A little above break-even on my entire portfolio. Key word- DIVERSIFY.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (qe5CM)
That assumes that IRAs won't be affected by new laws too.
How would the Reds expropriate 401(k)s and IRAs? They'd institute a requirement of, say, 10% of the assets being in those good good government bonds. You know, to "protect" us from the vagaries of that evil stock market.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (YqDXo)
A golf cart was set on fire and several windows were broken
Ah point of order! A golf cart in a prison? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (85Gof)
making CA today Disneyland in comparison.
After it has completely bankrupted itself and libertine virus done its job entrepreneurs will begin to gentrify the government then others will follow.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (qe5CM)
The only place where "diversity is out strength" is actually true.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (NWiLs)
I'm not certain that's a good thing for them. Obama won by lying about who he was and what he wanted to do because he had to. I don't think the country has changed all that much in 4 years.
Now there is no more hiding it, the Democrats have allowed the inmates to run the asylum. I haven't seen a lot evidence that is playing real well in parts of the country they need to win.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: DooDad at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (SnLSx)
No giving up. Buy more ammo
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM (nFRLh)
A golf cart was set on fire and several windows were broken
Ah point of order! A golf cart in a prison? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (85Gof)
Must've been one of those "country club prisons" we keep hearing about.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)
I hope your right. But now kneeling seems to be mainstream?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: irongrampa at August 02, 2020 01:02 PM
I was in a store the other day looking for food storage containers. I picked up a set and saw that it was made in China. Put it back on the shelf and went for the Anchor Hocking bowls instead.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:08 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (YqDXo)
True, but the force that binds these Democrat interest groups is the strong force, the desire for government power, something they all crave desperately above everything else. Conservative republicans have their factions, too, but they are not bound together through a desire for controlling the government as that is a weak force for conservatives. Our natural inclination is always been toward the private sector vs public service.
Posted by: Boswell at August 02, 2020 01:08 PM (32YRo)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (buTO7)
Yep. I can hear it now: "Some people have so much in savings, and others have nothing. It's not fair!"
Yeah, they invested in rims, gold teeth, malt liquor, and Beanie Babies, and it just didn't work out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 02, 2020 01:08 PM (nFRLh)
Posted by: DooDad at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (SnLSx)
No giving up. Buy more ammo
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (85Gof)
Pile of empty brass. Let death have meaning, even if life doesn't.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:09 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: DooDad at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (SnLSx)
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It's not a matter of giving up.
The South will be blue in ten years or less. Locusts are coming, consuming the land, and voting in the things they fled. There is nothing to give up on. This is happening.
How do we prevent it?
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 01:09 PM (7NCzG)
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM (LGXGf)
Yes. If soomething really bad ever hit, we can assume all social order will break down. So yes buy more guns and ammo. Some MREs and fresh water might be a good idea also
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:09 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:09 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 12:58 PM (YqDXo)
But the outcome/results/alignments after the shattering is the big what.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:10 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Boswell at August 02, 2020 01:08 PM (32YRo)
The question is "WHY do these groups want government power?" The answer is: so they can engage in naked self-dealing. Every group will suspect that other groups are getting more than they are.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:10 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Sniffin' Uncle Joe Biden at August 02, 2020 01:11 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:11 PM (JgrP5)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (buTO7)
Yep. I can hear it now: "Some people have so much in savings, and others have nothing. It's not fair!"
Yeah, they invested in rims, gold teeth, malt liquor, and Beanie Babies, and it just didn't work out.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:08 PM (YqDXo)
I got married. Sometimes the right and responsible thing sends you to the same place. But I agree - irresponsible behavior should not be rewarded.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:11 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:09 PM (NWiLs)
There is iron in your words of death for all Americans.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 01:11 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:11 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 01:06 PM (ZLI7S)
I hope your right. But now kneeling seems to be mainstream?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:07 PM
How much of it is under duress? Yes, those who would rather not kneel (Drew Brees) are cowards on the field, but the voting booth is private. Saw a story about a single athlete who refused to kneel the other day. He deserves respect.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:11 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:10 PM (YqDXo)
I'd prefer they remain clothed during such activities. Yuck.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:12 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (zr5Kq)
I haven't given up on much, let alone America. But I'm getting very close to giving up on its political process as it's currently constituted. I think we've reached a saturation of corruption and bloody-minded tyranny among our bloated government class that *probably* can't be addressed by our Constitutional safeguards, outside of the one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (Tm4zg)
Posted by: DooDad at August 02, 2020 01:03 PM (SnLSx)
I feel a Bluto speech coming up..."this could be the best election year of our lives, but you're going to make it the worst! Oooh, ooh, we're afraid to come with you Brother Boswell. Well, you can kiss my ass from now on! Obama, dead man! Biden? Dead! Pelosi...?"
Posted by: Boswell at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (32YRo)
https://tinyurl.com/yy2tqzzz
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:09 PM (NWiLs)***
I'm just hoping for a very favorable rate of exchange for my life.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:10 PM (h7ejD)
Yep. Good question, and a tough one to answer. My guess - and it's a WAG - is that it'll result in a hard-left Green Party, but what happens to the other constituencies? Who knows?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (YqDXo)
_Yes
_Walk to the end of the hall and take a left, continue until you see a Ward 13 sign; Enter that room and choose a cot. Someone will be with you shortly.
************
They say 50% of practicing medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. There is some truth in this, even today
Laughter Is The Best Medicine - a limerick
If you have a scratchy feeling in your throat
And you're full of yucky bile and belly bloat
If you're not amb'latory
Let me tell a funny story
What you need is an amusing antidote
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 01:14 PM (Fc5rx)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:14 PM (JgrP5)
1) Postpone the election
and/or
2) Lose and not leave and make himself Emperor for Life
sad
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: vmom 2020 cancel all pronouns at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM (TOyHQ)
Mail in ballots are not
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM (h7ejD)
Oh, I get it, Grillzz
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (zr5Kq)
Gold teeth and grillz are different. Grillz are a removable appliance, gold teeth are permanent.
The more you know... *ad council jingle*
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM (NWiLs)
=
" rest, a good diet, fresh air and cleanliness"
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:17 PM (zr5Kq)
How would the Reds expropriate 401(k)s and IRAs? They'd institute a requirement of, say, 10% of the assets being in those good good government bonds. You know, to "protect" us from the vagaries of that evil stock market.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM
As I said, "if". With enough legislative support, the government can do whatever it wants, but I still think that we are a long way from that end-point. Plus, US bonds would have been a good place to be vs. bank savings accounts these past several years.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:17 PM (qe5CM)
1) Postpone the election
and/or
2) Lose and not leave and make himself Emperor for Life
sad
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM (zr5Kq)
May I suggest seppuku to them?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:17 PM (YqDXo)
I would support it 100%.
Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at August 02, 2020 12:56 PM (EiNjl)
I have an idea, inspired by the "free cities" and charters of the middle ages.
Instead of allowing blue states to secede, since there are no truly blue states (it's all blue cities and red everything else), reclassify the failed blue hives as territorial possessions. They may have their own government, which may not extend beyond city limits, and no longer pay Federal or State taxes, but no longer have representation in State or Federal legislatures, nor any ability to benefit from Federal or State government programs.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (O4K4J)
Mail in ballots are not
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM
touche...
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (qe5CM)
Those who want to be left alone, rule over no one and do what they please that hurts no one else are conservatives.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (JgrP5)
Those who want to be left alone, rule over no one and do what they please that hurts no one else are conservatives.
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (6f16T)
Plenty of people I want to hurt, but they have it coming.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (NWiLs)
Karen Bass was on Slow Joe's shortlist for VP. And then it was revealed that she is a big supporter of Castro's Cuba and sent condolences to him and his supporters over his death. How well do you think that is going to play in Florida where Latinos hate Castro and communist with a passion?
If Democrats are so oh my God powerful why are they running a dementia patient who won't leave his basement for president in one of the more consequential presidencies in decades?
No guarantees of course but the idea that leftist are destined to rule America is far from certain.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 02, 2020 01:00 PM (ZLI7S)
JackStraw- an excellent posting. You have talked me off the ledge.
For today.
But seriously man, you make great points. The game ain't over and the fat lady, though on the stage, hasn't sung yet.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (xyImL)
The two programs are NOT the same and they need to understand that.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (M/9m0)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:16 PM (NWiLs)
[WITTY RETORT]
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:17 PM (YqDXo)
That comes on Nov 4th...
Posted by: Boswell at August 02, 2020 01:20 PM (32YRo)
Gropin' Joe: Look fat, I really like pie so
if they have pie we need to bring that here so that we can have some
pie....unless you like cake...then next Tuesday when I eat jello and we
have some other things...you know the things....
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 02, 2020 01:20 PM (t+tI7)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
I agree. Her military service and injuries are a shield like no other.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 01:20 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (xyImL)
You want Stacy Abrams to sing??
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:20 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:20 PM (JgrP5)
Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 02, 2020 01:21 PM (7NCzG)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2020 01:21 PM (Zmnko)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:05 PM (85Gof)
Must've been one of those "country club prisons" we keep hearing about.
Posted by: Insomniac
*******
Any convict caught kicking his ball out of the rough spends a night in the (19th) hole!
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 01:21 PM (Fc5rx)
Heidi already si fluent in Spanish..Yep, those countries are corrupt I wont care about their politics.
For something happy The Italians seem to be bouncing back.
https://tinyurl.com/y27m26gp
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 02, 2020 01:21 PM (Jx5Qs)
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 02, 2020 01:18 PM (O4K4J)
Chicken dinner
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:21 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Zombie Senor Juan McCain at August 02, 2020 01:22 PM (EgshT)
Don't want to bring you down again but the Left /Democrat plan has always been to win in increments. You hardly see it coming.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 01:22 PM (2DOZq)
https://tinyurl.com/yy2tqzzz
Posted by: SMH
Brave and Powerful. He stood up to peer pressure by do this. Well done young man!
What? This dope weakling from Canada?
Nah, that kid down in Orlando, Jonathan Isaac.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 02, 2020 01:23 PM (iBQTH)
Plenty of people I want to hurt, but they have it coming.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (NWiLs)
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Conversation with Joe Mannix, last night:
JOE: Whaddya wanna do for your birthday?
*pregnant pause*
ME: I have plenty of things I wanna do, but none of them are lawful. I'll think of something and call you tomorrow.
JOE: *laughs* OK.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 01:23 PM (Tm4zg)
The two programs are NOT the same and they need to understand that.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (M/9m0)
An excellent approach. Once again, too many people subscribe to the fallacy of thinking that you can change one thing, and not change others.
In this case, the fallacy takes the form of thinking Medicare will simply be expanded to everyone. No problem.
But as you astutely point out, it won't be Medicare any more; it'll be Medicare's poor relation, Medicaid. It has to be, just on financial grounds.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:23 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:24 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:24 PM (JgrP5)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:19 PM (NWiLs)
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Conversation with Joe Mannix, last night:
JOE: Whaddya wanna do for your birthday?
*pregnant pause*
ME: I have plenty of things I wanna do, but none of them are lawful. I'll think of something and call you tomorrow.
JOE: *laughs* OK.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 01:23 PM (Tm4zg)
Heh. Your mind's in the same place mine is these days.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 02, 2020 01:24 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:26 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
I don't know how much pull he's got (besides gravitational) but I've heard that Jabba the Pritzker is really pushing the Biden campaign to pick her
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 02, 2020 01:26 PM (t+tI7)
only one that can string two policies together
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:26 PM (JgrP5)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 02, 2020 01:26 PM (Fc5rx)
any more; it'll be Medicare's poor relation, Medicaid. It has to be,
just on financial grounds.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:23 PM (YqDXo)^^^So our version of the UK's NHS. The system that allows people to die. Well, at least they can die at home amid familiar settings and not in some impersonal nursing home.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:26 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:24 PM (JgrP5)
you made a chunk of change on that one, didn't you
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:27 PM (zr5Kq)
They are preparing for a win.
What are they preparing for the disappointed majority November 4,?
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:27 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:27 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:27 PM (JgrP5)
also the B'day of someone else
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 01:27 PM (JgrP5)
Many peoples'. August is popular month for bdays. Is it yours too ? You don't look like a Leo.
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:28 PM (zr5Kq)
https://tinyurl.com/yy2tqzzz
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:13 PM (RU4sa)
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This is a whole new twist, isn't it?
Maybe athletes from all over the world can kneel or flip the bird at the US anthem during the Olympics next year!!!
Of course they will stand politely for the N Korean, Chinese, Iranian, Cuban ones.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 02, 2020 01:29 PM (M/9m0)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2020 01:29 PM (l9m7l)
Most people were totally normal about it but I had more than one person "cough" in my direction. I guess that's a thing? There's some sad fucked up people around, and the Satanic Left just empowers them. These are your Concentration Camp guards.
Posted by: ... at August 02, 2020 01:29 PM (StxPR)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:30 PM (6f16T)
*******
Clinton Aide Advises Joe Biden: 'Whatever You Do, Don't Debate Trump'
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They know Tuna Finger Bidet is toast
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at August 02, 2020 01:30 PM (1Dmt5)
from their inventiveness. Take that away and current Venezuelan model
quickly follows" Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost
Liz "you didn't build that" Warren said she might allow us to keep a little of the profits as incentive, so we got THAT going for us.
Government and (mostly) Wall Street leveraged gamblers take most of the profit from the real idea people. Capitalism is supposed to finance idea people, so their ideas can take off ... banking and currency (money) enabled debt, and that can be good (but some religions are against debt, since it can be a form of slavery, done incorrectly) ...
Capitalism is not the same as global corporatism ... and government enabled plandemic has crushed small business, while boosting corporate BigBoxStore and online (leftist run) FANGS.
The inventiveness of the average citizen is a separate realm from the Gates/Fauci types that want to run the world via cancel culture. They don't want a cheaper/better mousetrap (e.g. HCQ), they want an expensive drug/vaccine ... which might also control the population, and they want to use BigBrotherGov to stop the cheap competition, and force their (unhealthy?) product.
WokeCorp that is not making products (digital or physical), is in Finance, putting blue collar America in debt to buy WokeCorp products, while deciding to knee cap gun makers, or other Non-Woke citizens. We will need a strong government to combat WokeFinance, WokeCorp, WokeJournalism ... and WokeSkools .... long road ahead.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 02, 2020 01:30 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2020 01:29 PM (l9m7l)
It wuz diabetees wut got him.
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's On The Road Again &&&& at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (uBD/X)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (V2Yro)
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Seems that way.
Not that they would be a loss.
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:32 PM (RU4sa)
Is the 15th still Leo? My B-Day was July 30th and I'm a Leo
Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2020 01:32 PM (Zmnko)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2020 01:29 PM (l9m7l)
Wilford Brimley always was a very lucky man.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:32 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 02, 2020 01:29 PM (l9m7l)
Wilford Brimley always was a very lucky man.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:32 PM (V2Yro)
Well abcensed of malice, you can say that
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:33 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2020 01:33 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:34 PM (RU4sa)
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Oh, but his hair is perfect now. He was balding but now is not.
My own problem for the week is to approach local voting elected officials without yelling and sounding like a 'reich-wing lunatic'.
County election commission sent an 'application for mail-in ballot' to my house. Okay, like an application for absentee ballot, it goes out and you return the envelope with your reason for absence.
This is a postage paid card to return with your full name and address. However, they are requiring you to provide DATE OF BIRTH and PHONE NUMBER on a postcard to return to the clerk.
Not only voting fraud potential but financial identity theft fraud. Name, address, date of birth, and signature. Dear heavens-to-betsy.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 02, 2020 01:34 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:35 PM (MVjcR)
Thought that was a 70s/80s thing.
That's peevish and dim. You must be a Taurus.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:35 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (V2Yro)
Can we get like maybe 14 days notice?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 02, 2020 01:36 PM (Jx5Qs)
Yeah but his reasoning is comical and pathetic:
"Trump has now made more than 20,000 misleading or false statements according to the Washington Post. It's a fool's errand to enter the ring with someone who can't follow the rules or the truth."
See, its not "Biden is lousy at debates" or "Biden has a crumbling brain and forgets his own name" no its "Trump lies so much its a waste of time!!!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2020 01:36 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:35 PM (gd9RK)
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whatevers dude
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:36 PM (RU4sa)
Zoomer girls pretend to, no clue how seriously they take it
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (KZzsI)
For some hilarity, go to YouTube and look up Willford Brimley prank calls. His Diabeetus ones are epic.
BTW I saw that the Crone Pelosi has now turned on Scarf Doc Birx. Twas a matter of time.
Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (xyImL)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (gd9RK)
Thought that was a 70s/80s thing.
That's peevish and dim. You must be a Taurus.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:35 PM (gd9RK)
LMAO. Thanks.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:38 PM (Jx5Qs)
The NHL lost me for good a while back.
Been a rabid Hockey fan since I was 9 or so.
Never again will I give any of them a penny.
Not a player, a team or the league.
Fuck them all.
Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2020 01:38 PM (EVym2)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 02, 2020 01:32 PM (Zmnko)
*consults astrological chart
For sure !
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:38 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (Tnijr)
01:23 PM (YqDXo)^^^So our version of the UK's NHS. The system that
allows people to die. Well, at least they can die at home amid familiar
settings and not in some impersonal nursing home.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:26 PM (LGXGf)
HAH! That is what you think. They will be forced to die in horrible agony in a facility (usually from dehydration as medical professionals deny them food or water) as their relatives are banned from visiting them lest they do something to help them.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (nAiE/)
They are preparing for a win.
What are they preparing for the disappointed majority November 4,?
Posted by: Braenyard "
That is the major precursor of the many polls showing Biden winning. Convince people that he won legitimately and accept the results. And Dem rule forever.
Posted by: Ripley at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (MxEKc)
Rodger Kimball
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (gd9RK)
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Neither am I.
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (gd9RK)
Just put in your nic. "It's a fucking joke!"...its troubled time.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:40 PM (Jx5Qs)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 02, 2020 01:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (gd9RK)
Irregardless, you should think about using them.
Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2020 01:40 PM (EVym2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (V2Yro)
OK, I am in a prertty secure building in Falls Church VA, kinda hiddden in a valley/hole so kinda protected by earth. Also on of my predesescors fucked up and got fired, but before he got the boot, they moved his desk from a nice window position fo up front in a pretty protected area in the center of the floor with no window exposure what so ever. So if a bomb goes off in DC, i am kinda protected, maybe, depending on the Kilitons
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 01:40 PM (85Gof)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2020 01:36 PM
You got to give them credit-they do think outside the box.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:41 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:41 PM (6f16T)
Thought that was a 70s/80s thing.
That's peevish and dim. You must be a Taurus.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:35 PM (gd9RK)
hahah !
LMAO. Thanks.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:38 PM (Jx5Qs)
Posted by: runner, who suspects there's a moon in fifth house at August 02, 2020 01:41 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:41 PM (6f16T)
Ummm... no? Pot is not good for your lungs.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 02, 2020 01:42 PM (nAiE/)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 01:37 PM (gd9RK)
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Neither am I.
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (RU4sa)
I don't understand anything any more. I'm going to mosaic a table top.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:42 PM (Jx5Qs)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:43 PM (zr5Kq)
has done to this country, I'm finding optimism a little hard to find at
present. This Wuhan virus would have been a great psy-op.
Our side won't even resist home-imprisonment, locking down of businesses and sports and forced improper wearing of PPE.
What makes you think that they will resist other forms of tyranny?
This Wuhan virus IS a great psy-op. Proved that most of the First World just wants be told what to do by their super-smart Betters.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 02, 2020 01:43 PM (luzVb)
Maybe she means brownies. That's the usual retort for when you point out multiple studies that show marijuana gives cancer more than even tobacco
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 02, 2020 01:43 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 01:43 PM (Tnijr)
die in horrible agony in a facility (usually from dehydration as medical
professionals deny them food or water) as their relatives are banned
from visiting them lest they do something to help them.Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 02, 2020 01:39 PM (nAiE/)***
It's funny you should mention that. It brought to mind the slow, systematic murder of comatose Terry Schindler. The MFM assured us that death by starvation was a painless, not unpleasant way to die.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:44 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:41 PM
But Trump is the monster for supporting treatments backed up by actual studies...
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:44 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 01:44 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:46 PM (Jx5Qs)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 02, 2020 01:46 PM (2DOZq)
So are hot coffee facials.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 02, 2020 01:46 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: m at August 02, 2020 01:47 PM (GkCy1)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:47 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:47 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 01:47 PM (3W0NT)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yy3qyvb7
Posted by: m at August 02, 2020 01:48 PM (GkCy1)
Posted by: JAS at August 02, 2020 01:48 PM (dT9VH)
The MFM assured us that death by starvation was a painless, not unpleasant way to die.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 01:44 PM (LGXGf)
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Yeah. If you plan to cack a patient, why not use a deadly shot of fentanyl or something? Seems a lot more humane. I don't think the law allows it for a DNR, even at a patient's request.
FTR, I agree with that, but this is a macabre outcome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 01:49 PM (Tm4zg)
nation could be saved would be if the 50 largest cities in the country
were all nuked, starting with DC.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:31 PM (V2Yro)
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Seems that way.
Not that they would be a loss.
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:32 PM (RU4sa)
Yeah thats about right. The country is heading towards stage 4 cancer. Trump may delay it, but we're going to need radiation.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 02, 2020 01:49 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:50 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:46 PM
Since so many have described this thread as "depressing', a little levity is a good thing. Plus, I saw it as a joke immediately. Reminds me of a couple of years ago when I had an exchange with Alex (not the chick) and correctly predicted he was left-handed and a bit of a hypochondriac when he/she said he/she was a Virgo.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:50 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2020 01:51 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:50 PM (MVjcR)
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When the chair is against the wall, you'll know what to do.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 01:51 PM (Tm4zg)
https://tinyurl.com/y6a49j2u
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:51 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: m at August 02, 2020 01:47 PM (GkCy1)
great !
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 01:52 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:50 PM (MVjcR)
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When the chair is against the wall, you'll know what to do.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 02, 2020 01:51 PM (Tm4zg)
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Understood.
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:52 PM (MVjcR)
"Shitweasel" is off limits? Good to know.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 01:52 PM (dLLD6)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:52 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Zombie Pappy Bush at August 02, 2020 01:53 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 01:52 PM (dLLD6)
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You called?
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:53 PM (MVjcR)
https://tinyurl.com/y6a49j2u
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:51 PM
2020 is awesome!!
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 02, 2020 01:53 PM (qe5CM)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 01:54 PM (Tnijr)
See, it's not ALL dystopian!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2020 01:54 PM (Dc2NZ)
Chickens are coming home to roost in California.
The Employment Development Department is the state's Obamacare.
Up to 4 months behind on cutting your first unemployment check. A circumlocution of emails and phone numbers. Calls time out. Personnel literally say "We're too busy right now" and hang up. For calls that have to be returned, they are admitting to call-back times of 4 to 6 weeks. Yes, they give you a number to call, you call and leave a message, they get back to you 6 WEEKS later. That's what they're admitting to, so it probably gets worse. The technology, Governor Newsom drolly declares, is "cutting-edge 1970s." Isn't he droll?
So bad that hard lefties in the Cali legislature grilled the department last week. Of course it was in self-interest -- how could you leave us hanging out to dry like this in front of our constituents -- but at least two lefty t.v. stations played it up. The state is a fuckup.
This is decades of civil service underwork and overpay, race-based hiring practices, dumbed-down education, and general lowering of standards. I can't prove any of that with numbers, but you know that's what it is.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Saf at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 01:54 PM (Tnijr)
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Well, my hearing is going!
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (MVjcR)
I have a lot of trouble understanding how anyone can find this appealing, but some people do.
Posted by: Emmie at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (+ljgK)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (3W0NT)
"Keeping colleges closed this fall is far more likely to stop the spread of Communism than it is to stop the spread of COVID."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (EVym2)
"Keeping colleges closed this fall is far more likely to stop the spread of Communism than it is to stop the spread of COVID."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (V2Yro)
Nice.
Posted by: m at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (GkCy1)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (3W0NT)
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*Gemini fistbump*
Hey - I think I'm going to drive down in October. I can bring more things that way.
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Skip at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Mr. Fecal Mustela at August 02, 2020 01:58 PM (HH652)
"two gangs" - the Republican and Democrat parties - to "get a common enemy," referring to himself.
Ventura said with an independent president, both parties would be "in bed together" making harmony.
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lol
Posted by: SMH at August 02, 2020 01:58 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at August 02, 2020 01:58 PM (qM84C)
They set the standard for the price to be paid for Liberty. Americans have traded it for Convenience, forget Safety.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 02, 2020 01:58 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 02, 2020 01:58 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Dr. McCoy at August 02, 2020 01:58 PM (WX+x0)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 02, 2020 01:52 PM (dLLD6)
I laughed when it happened. I think it was Dave back when. Except now its Heidis favorite name for me, so theres that.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (Jx5Qs)
Posted by: m at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (GkCy1)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (3W0NT)
Well Rubio certainly has blotted his copybook. Never a fan. but with his advocacy of fraudulent Vote by Mail, he is dead to me.
Posted by: Old Dude
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You're kidding me. I was off el-wagone all the way back in the Obama years when he was pushing amnesty. Dude's gonna betray us bigly at some point, like McCain did with his save of ObamaCAre.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 02:00 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: The Gay Falcon at August 02, 2020 02:00 PM (PR+wx)
ALL of them.
Wherever we find them.
Kill them.
Posted by: garrett at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (EVym2)
Concur. Stamping out that virus should be our top priority.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 02, 2020 02:00 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2020 02:00 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: freaked at August 02, 2020 02:01 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 02:00 PM (MVjcR)
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They lost all formality when smoking at ground control was abolished.
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 02:01 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Braenyard at August 02, 2020 02:01 PM (h7ejD)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (3W0NT)
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looking forward to it!
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 02:01 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Skip, the guy who says NOOD at August 02, 2020 02:01 PM (6f16T)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 02, 2020 02:02 PM (JgrP5)
Posted by: Menack at August 02, 2020 02:02 PM (buTO7)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 01:55 PM (3W0NT)
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*Gemini fistbump*
Hey - I think I'm going to drive down in October. I can bring more things that way.
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 01:57 PM (MVjcR)
We may have an RV by then. Ben, I believe we can be able to bring that bison sausage. My neighbor is back at her meat company. Would need a head count before then but I'll ask her how much lead time she needs for the order.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'Age of Aquarius'. at August 02, 2020 02:02 PM (Jx5Qs)
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Didn't expect him to come out & say Don't debate because you are wracked with Dementia
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at August 02, 2020 02:03 PM (1Dmt5)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 02:00 PM (MVjcR)
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They lost all formality when smoking at ground control was abolished.
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 02:01 PM (zr5Kq)
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Yep. That was the camel's nose under the tent.
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 02:03 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: runner at August 02, 2020 02:04 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 02, 2020 02:04 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 02, 2020 02:05 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 02, 2020 02:06 PM (85Gof)
"two gangs" - the Republican and Democrat parties - to "get a common enemy,""
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Completely daft. Trump has been their common enemy for 4 years now and that unity hasn't happened.
Posted by: f2000 at August 02, 2020 02:07 PM (IIUCn)
back in the Obama years when he was pushing amnesty. Dude's gonna betray
us bigly at some point, like McCain did with his save of ObamaCAre.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 02, 2020 01:59 PM (G51Gf)***Querida, I fear you have me all wrong. Like I said, I was never a fan. He was, at best, background noise. Now that he's dropped the veil, he's revealed himself for the two-timing, four-flusher he is and perhaps always has been.
Posted by: Old Dude at August 02, 2020 02:08 PM (LGXGf)
Posted by: Weasel at August 02, 2020 02:08 PM (MVjcR)
We need to have an email discussion about that.
My email is on the left sidebar.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 02, 2020 02:09 PM (3W0NT)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 02, 2020 02:13 PM (gd9RK)
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George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)