TWITTER, WHICH CENSORS TRUMP FOR TWEETING WE NEED LAW AND ORDER AS "GLORIFYING VIOLENCE," ALLOWS HASHTAG "BURN LOUISVILLE" TO TREND FOR HOURS IN MIDDLE OF RIOT SITUATION

**TWITTER, WHICH CENSORS TRUMP FOR TWEETING WE NEED LAW AND ORDER AS "GLORIFYING VIOLENCE," ALLOWS HASHTAG "BURN LOUISVILLE" TO TREND FOR HOURS IN MIDDLE OF RIOT SITUATION**

It's still up.

I'm getting tired of having to live under monopolistic censorship just because Jim Fucking Jordan likes getting paid off by Google.

And they do. Jim Jordan takes a lot of Google money, and a lot more Google money indirectly through the various groups Google funds.

And I'm tired of having a party leadership dominated by traitors in the pay of the enemy.

And if takes voting Jim Jordan out of fucking office -- well, I'm sure we'll do just fine without him.

Twitter should be subject to lawsuit for any damages caused by their incitements.

They've left up this incitement from a leftwing professor to murder former Trump NSA spokesman Michael Anton for nearly a week, despite being repeatedly warned about it.

What would be the argument against that, apart from "Google Money has made Jim Jordan Gay4Pay"?

And no, Jimmy Boy -- I don't want another Failure Theater hearing where you talk tough to google and facebook for the cameras while distributing talking points behind-the-scenes about how to forestall any action against your Cash Money Johns.

A memorandum leaked ahead of a Wednesday antitrust hearing suggests Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee drafted talking points to help them defend tech companies against claims they have become too monopolistic.
The 37-page memo was prepared in advance of an antitrust subcommittee's hearing with tech CEOs including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s Sundar Pichai. Marked "confidential," the document threatened to undermine Republican efforts to appear tough on the companies amid claims they have not only engaged in anti-competitive practices, but have also sought to censor conservatives online.
Four themes summarized on the first page began with a brief acknowledgment of conservatives’ concerns, calling "political bias in Big Tech" a "problem that must be highlighted … so that consumers are aware, the market can respond, and lawmakers can evaluate options." The final three themes emphasized the need to defend "Big Tech" from regulation, stating, "Antitrust law should be used to promote freedom, competition, and the American dream, not to punish success or attack companies."

Part of antitrust law is about stopping monopolies from using their monopoly position to squelch businesses in other fields.

You know, like conservatives' access to advertising revenue from third parties.

But Jim Jordan's okay with Google using its power to destroy conservatives, conservative think tanks, and conservative citizens.

Because Google pays him to be okay with it.

...

Some conservatives on Wednesday expressed their displeasure with the news, and especially with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), after the memo widely circulated on social media.
"He needs to give an explanation for why his office put out a memo for this hearing that might as well have been written by Google's lobbyists," Human Events publisher Will Chamberlain wrote on Twitter. Breitbart News reporter Allum Bokhari wrote in another message directed at Jordan, "Big tech has faced billion-euro antitrust fines in Europe and taken it on the chin. Has GOP ever proposed any punishment close to as severe for political bias?"

And no Jim, I don't want to hear you grandstand and yell at Google on camera again -- I already know you've worked out a Joint Defense Agreement with your co-conspirator behind-the-scenes.

Do you guys work out the exact script -- the exact pretend-angry question you'll ask, and the exact rebuttal offered by Google, Twitter, and FaceBook -- or do you allow some light improvisation in your Failure Theater performances?

Do you find that some light improvisation makes your performances feel more "organic"?

Contact Google's Capitol Hill shill Jim Jordan here.

Meanwhile -- Twitter's getting the riots it's inciting.

Posted by: Ace at 05:26 PM

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1 First

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 23, 2020 05:26 PM (/6GbT)

2 first?

Posted by: IC at September 23, 2020 05:26 PM (a0IVu)

3 alas, it was not to be.

Posted by: IC at September 23, 2020 05:26 PM (a0IVu)

4 What would twitter do if the rioters were suggesting to burn down Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al? Geographically, it's doable.

Posted by: iandeal at September 23, 2020 05:27 PM (7F3r5)

5 I'm hoping for a RICO or at least a libel liability after the election.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:28 PM (F14HU)

6 not first

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, shouting Lawrence! into the desert at September 23, 2020 05:28 PM (IZDOe)

7 The riots will continue until you peasants learn your place.

Which is prone.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Backstabs and Betrayals 15% Off at t The Outrage Outlet! at September 23, 2020 05:28 PM (cZjDV)

8 Jim Jordan is another Miss Lindsey. On TV all the live-long day, nothing gets accomplished or he stabs us in the back.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (mNhhD)

9 One of the feeds on the riot livestream page is Mavis and her kittehs.

so cute!

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (DJFLF)

10 Break up Big Tech.

Also also pathetic, money-losing Little Pussy Tech like Twitter

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (ifmtJ)

11 RICO Twitter?

The ratcheting goes one way and it coordinates messaging for rioting.

Pretty sure old crime syndicates couldn't do that and get away with it.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (HhXSr)

12 It is hard for us normals to imagine the vast sums being thrown around. 425 congress critters, 100 senators, some DAs and judges. A billion or two would go a long way to getting these guys on your side.

Posted by: iandeal at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (7F3r5)

13 Even in the midst of mayhem and insurrection, the kitteh will prevail.

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (DJFLF)

14 I think what's most insulting is how little money this really is when you really look at it. I bet the average donation from Google to any Republican is well under $2k. Same with Facebook.

It's a real shame a conservative populist type group can't raise money and throw it around. The whores in DC are cheap.

Posted by: Blago at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (gkdnV)

15 He needs to give an explanation for why his office put out a memo for this hearing that might as well have been written by Google's lobbyists,

--

It was written by Goolag's lobbyists.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:29 PM (F14HU)

16 7 The riots will continue until you peasants learn your place.

Which is prone.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Backstabs and Betrayals 15% Off at t The Outrage Outlet! at September 23, 2020 05:28 PM (cZjDV)

Prone is a much more stable shooting position.

Your terms are accepted.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (ifmtJ)

17 So, Jack Dempsey is an accessory to Sedition, or maybe terrorist acts? Can twitter be designated a terrorist entity??

Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (bCLt0)

18 Also trending is "armed" so, not sure what that means.

There was a great 30 for 30 documentary awhile back called 'Broke'. It told the stories of how pro athletes made tons of money and ended up blowing it.

That was a great series, and a great episode of it. Most of those shows were excellent sports journalism but that one hit pretty hard. Those poor dumb kids.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (KZzsI)

19 Louisville is very dark.

Posted by: Sweet Pickles at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (EbdyZ)

20 Jordan is a cuck
Lee is a cuck

To hell with them

Posted by: Astro is Asshoe at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (a48q1)

21 I'd love to see the users of all these things heavily taxed. Don't know how that'd work but considering how broke the West is, someone will find a way.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (v2c9/)

22 It's okay when they're attacking us.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (ExV1e)

23 #BurnSiliconValley

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (yQpMk)

24 But Jim coached wrestling. Nobody in wrestling is involved in any kind of theatrics. Its all real dammir.

Posted by: Mishdog at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (xZYGI)

25 Twitter is a terrorist organization. Serbian rules apply.

Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2020 05:31 PM (ZVQi2)

26 All that has to be done about Twitter is to pass new laws regarding social media sites and free speech, treating them as a new form of broadcasting (like they had to with radio and TV before it) with its own particular governing regulations and structures.

Its not a platform, its not a publisher, its something new, like Blogs. Commenters and people's responses are a new factor that existing laws don't cover well. Enough of this "well they are neither goose nor gander so lets just let them do whatever the hell they want" thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:32 PM (KZzsI)

27 We need to start raising money to bribe members of Congress. That or goat pictures. That is how the best government in the history of the world works.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:32 PM (F14HU)

28 Twitter is the pipeline for insurrection. Not bad for an app developed for teenie boppers to get together at the mall.

Has it made any money yet?

Posted by: Regular joe at September 23, 2020 05:32 PM (L9P9s)

29 I abandoned Heritage Foundation over this. I can surely expand the field.

Thanks for the heads up, Ace.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 05:32 PM (HhXSr)

30 I'm already doing my part by boycotting the shit out of gooble, FB, and twitworld.

Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2020 05:32 PM (+AASJ)

31 From the last thread, if you need a really good laugh

Saddleback College Discusses a New Mascot

https://tinyurl.com/y3ugkxel

I never laughed so hard

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 05:33 PM (dKiJG)

32 Why do you hate fires ace? There's nothing wrong with fires

Posted by: Juris Dick at September 23, 2020 05:33 PM (vMCab)

33 22 It's okay when they're attacking us.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (ExV1e)

Yes. Just like how that RI professor said it was morally okay to kill the Trump supporter in Portland.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 23, 2020 05:33 PM (Ez6QX)

34 The White House was examining Jordan for a position. There is a reason they took a pass.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 447 meters at September 23, 2020 05:33 PM (6Y47l)

35 24 But Jim coached wrestling. Nobody in wrestling is involved in any kind of theatrics. Its all real dammir.
Posted by: Mishdog at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (xZYGI)

Nobody in wrestling is gay, either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2020 05:33 PM (Kpl3J)

36 If it makes you feel any better, Billy Bagpipes and the DOJ submitted a proposal today to Congress to strip social media companies including google from 230 protection.

The DOJ doesn't take money from Google.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:34 PM (ZLI7S)

37 ooof, I get the feeling it will be a long night in Louisville.

The kittehs are all sleeping peacefully though.

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:34 PM (DJFLF)

38 They never learn. This all comes back to bite them.

Biden rule, nuclear option, ignoring awful behavior. A nj senator human trafficking and a kkk hood dem governor.

This is why we have Trump but they keep pushing.

Posted by: Smileyj at September 23, 2020 05:34 PM (3w9Fm)

39 One thing that has to change is the way the censorship works right now.

Twitter's commissars and workers can censor, block, shadowban, or deplatform anything they want, without consequence, for any reason they wish even if its crazy or stupid -- they even are doing it to the freaking President of the United States.

Yes, eventually they tend to reverse these decisions, and put stuff back up or let it go out more, when appealed and the outcry hits them. But here's the thing...

Twitter is very fast. Anything that's scrolled off your main page, you probably won't see or have forgotten about. It rolls off so fast you can't really go find old posts easily.

So by the time they go "oopsie, we fixed it" that ship has sailed, and there's no negative consequence whatsoever for that action, but they have this plausible 'we did the best we could' answer to complaints.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (KZzsI)

40 Oh and I pointed out some of that idiot Juris Doc's previous crap today. Would you be shocked to know that he's one of those "Why don't you just start your own service?" dumbasses?

328 Unhappy with these businesses (snapchat, twitter, etc.)? Create your own and see how that goes. No one is forcing you to use twitter. Conservatives started Gab and now it is filled with, among other things, many white supremacist nazis. Don't like Gab, create something else. If there's a market for it, it will thrive. Follow your free market principles, not your totalitarian urges.
Posted by: Ghost at June 03, 2020 02:49 PM (vw8tb

Posted by: buzzion at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (vMCab)

41 >>Also trending is "armed" so, not sure what that means.

Might be this:

@ArtValley818_

Large group of heavily armed patriots heading to Louisville, Kentucky

https://tinyurl.com/y2r2z9fv

Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (cF8AT)

42 YouTube seems to be nuking live streams of Louisville "protests" tonight too. Presumably, that's a major policy change since Democrats changed course on race-based political violence.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (+WWsf)

43 the DOJ submitted a proposal today to Congress to strip social media companies including google from 230 protection.

--

That is why Jordan had Goolag write up this document for the fake hearing.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (F14HU)

44 Sunset in Louisville is 7:37. What we're seeing now is just the warm-up act until the orcs come out at nightfall.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (HmZuC)

45 The DOJ doesn't take money from Google.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:34 PM (ZLI7S)

Yeah, this is the answer to Google/FB/Twitter - strip them of 230.

Posted by: Boswell at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (w2LAm)

46 Jordan is a POS, but there's plenty of blame to go around. DC is in big tech's pocket. I'm fed up with it. And I fucking live here.

These clowns first and foremost need to be declared publishers. Next, if we had a functioning DOJ they'd look into the privacy breaches google/fb/amazoid et al inflicts on us daily. It's beyond crazy. And we all literally carry their personal monitoring devices with us 24/7.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 05:36 PM (8B6Ng)

47 Supposedly Doug Collins is hot for Google dick too.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at September 23, 2020 05:36 PM (3P/5p)

48 The DOJ doesn't take money from Google.

"Well, not as a body"
--FBI Director Wray, counting money

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:36 PM (KZzsI)

49 wait, I'm confused, we hate Jim Jordan now, I missed the memo.... I thought he was on our side?

going back up to read the links now.

Posted by: spypeach at September 23, 2020 05:36 PM (Up/Jb)

50 Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 05:33 PM (dKiJG)
that was really good -
"tough break, Straighty"

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:36 PM (DJFLF)

51 Seems the whole Leftist sphere is ready to take over the government

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (OjZpE)

52 How many flaming skulls will the Hunter Biden Senate Report get when Ace does the post on it? I'm guessing two at least.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (qpX6U)

53 If you want to take out Big Tech, pass some basic privacy laws and they're finished. Would get bipartisan support from voters, it's creepy.

Their entire business model is based on targeting consumers for advertisers.

Posted by: Blago at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (gkdnV)

54 >>That is why Jordan had Goolag write up this document for the fake hearing.

Pretty sure that's because Barr is also threatening them with anti-trust legislation.

He's going double barrel.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (ZLI7S)

55 How many flaming skulls will the Hunter Biden Senate Report get when Ace does the post on it? I'm guessing two at least.
Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (qpX6U)
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In pudding cups.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Task Group Cluebat at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (Rk6Cp)

56 I think what's most insulting is how little money this really is when you really look at it. I bet the average donation from Google to any Republican is well under $2k. Same with Facebook.

I remember reading an article once about people who had spied for the USSR back in the bad old days. Different people did for different reasons but the ones who said it was for money...the money was always laughably small. Like, not even enough to retire on, small.

I got the feeling that if someone was gonna be a treasonous piece of shit it wouldn't take much...maybe 2K.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 23, 2020 05:37 PM (ExV1e)

57 I should probably skip this thread. Everyone talking about Jim Jordan is going to confuse the hell out of me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (Ez6QX)

58 they'd look into the privacy breaches google/fb/amazoid et al inflicts on us daily. It's beyond crazy. And we all literally carry their personal monitoring devices with us 24/7.

I'm waiting for the day when they require your camera to be on, accessible, and uncovered to do things online because of facial recognition.

DOJ submitted a proposal today to Congress to strip social media companies including google from 230 protection.

"yeah, we'll get right on that"
--GOP Congressman mcBribetaker

"any day now"
--Democrat Congressman cheering Google on

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (KZzsI)

59 Isn't Jim Jordan retiring? Not running again?

Or was that someone else?

Still, I think that all of the posts today can lead to one conclusion:

NOTHING IS HAPPENING. NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (ZfRYq)

60 For whatever weird reason this all set me off on a weird tangent and I ended up here - (have added spaces which would need to be removed)

https://www.washingtonpost.com /blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/08/26/ how-smart-is-ted-cruz/

Showing that in 2013 Jennifer Rubin was already exactly who she is today.

Posted by: Synova at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (BD/yx)

61
I believe in free market principals.

If you don't like Congress, start your own country.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (2hb8F)

62 Christopher R Taylor: "So by the time they go 'oopsie, we fixed it' that ship has sailed..."

Modern day version of "By the time truth puts on its pants, the lie has traveled the globe."

It's an MO of MFM, and Twitter is damn well MFM now.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (HhXSr)

63 So, Jack Dempsey is an accessory to Sedition, or maybe terrorist acts? Can twitter be designated a terrorist entity??
Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (bCLt0)

Dorsey, not the famous boxer.

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (y7DUB)

64 and yet, I must wonder, what do the tech billionaires think they're going to get out of a Sanders/Ocasio takeover of the government? Let's see what the Washington Post writes when one of Amazon's warehouse operations is firebombed.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (4a9Vv)

65 How many flaming skulls will the Hunter Biden Senate Report get when Ace does the post on it? I'm guessing two at least.

He used up all the flaming skulls on a drunken, late-night post on "OMG, YOO GUYS, THESE ARE THE BEST DONUTS!"

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (oVJmc)

66 Wow, that's very disappointing about Jordan. He's one of the few I had respect for.

Posted by: Jewells45 at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (dUJdY)

67 Lots of politicians have calculated that the Money and Power will be in the Left's hands, long term. Politicians, generally, are prostitutes.

Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (bCLt0)

68 I should probably skip this thread. Everyone talking about Jim Jordan is going to confuse the hell out of me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (Ez6QX)
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Speaking of that, you have e-mail.

Not Jim Jordan.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Task Group Cluebat at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (Rk6Cp)

69 Guarantee, at some point that product uses public airways.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (2ygtH)

70 When the housing crisis was just beginning, it was said that the Fannie/Freddie folks had so much money to throw around (including the Morgans and Goldmans) that they just bought all the lobbyists. ALL the influence was on the side of inflating the bubble, as Wall Street made billions (then got billions/trillions in bailouts).

Seems like that now ... Big Tech has bought all sides. The niche market is Breitbart and a handful like AoS and the few not bending the knee. Molly/Buck types .... and few names ... seem less willing to bow ... but they get limited exposure.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (Cus5s)

71 I dunno about Jim Jordan but I know our Jordan deserves all the hugs. Not you, Insom, you're too free with the hands

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (KZzsI)

72 Jordan isn't accepting emails from outside his district. So I called and left a message of my disgust at his DC office.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (H8QX8)

73 The louder they yell, the more you can guarantee that they playing a starring role in Failure Theater.

ace, hits a fat, ugly, nasty grand slam with this post.

Nice one, ace. Kudos.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (3P/5p)

74 63 So, Jack Dempsey is an accessory to Sedition, or maybe terrorist acts? Can twitter be designated a terrorist entity??
Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (bCLt0)

Dorsey, not the famous boxer.
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (y7DUB)

Yes Dorsey. My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:40 PM (bCLt0)

75 So, Jack Dempsey is an accessory to Sedition, or maybe terrorist acts? Can twitter be designated a terrorist entity??
Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (bCLt0)

Dorsey, not the famous boxer.
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (y7DUB)
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I hate that guy.

Posted by: Luis Angel Firpo at September 23, 2020 05:40 PM (Rk6Cp)

76 Wow, stabbed in the back yet again by a sheep in wolf's clothing. At least we've had 50+ constant years of the same shit to inure ourselves to it ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 23, 2020 05:40 PM (4wOmz)

77 I really don't see any issue with treating these sites as publishers. At least from an honest observer's perspective. Comments on blogs or twits are like letters to the editor.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:40 PM (F14HU)

78 Figure with all those bribes from google, you would think he could buy a nice jacket to wear on the floor of the House.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 23, 2020 05:41 PM (JRaU+)

79 Jordan is the one who never wears a jacket and always has his shirt sleeves rolled up like a real working man. Bullshit.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 23, 2020 05:41 PM (H8QX8)

80 Fuck Socialist Media.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: #BurnTwitterBurn at September 23, 2020 05:42 PM (OUMaO)

81 41 >>Also trending is "armed" so, not sure what that means.

Might be this:

@ArtValley818_

Large group of heavily armed patriots heading to Louisville, Kentucky

https://tinyurl.com/y2r2z9fv
Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (cF8AT)

The music...the music...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 05:42 PM (ifmtJ)

82 I wonder what the chances are that a lot of Black people in Louisville will be out with baseball bats to keep their neighborhoods from being torched.
one can hope, anyway.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 23, 2020 05:42 PM (4a9Vv)

83 73 The louder they yell, the more you can guarantee that they playing a starring role in Failure Theater.

***
I resemble that.

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at September 23, 2020 05:42 PM (H8QX8)

84 Posted by: buzzion at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (vMCab)

I wonder if we mentioned at the time all the ways big tech tried to shut down Gab. They probably just said, start your own banks, communication networks, credit agencies, domain registrars, etc.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 23, 2020 05:42 PM (ExV1e)

85 We're tanned, rested, and ready.

Posted by: L.A. Rooftop Koreans at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (HmZuC)

86 75 So, Jack Dempsey is an accessory to Sedition, or maybe terrorist acts? Can twitter be designated a terrorist entity??
Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:30 PM (bCLt0)

Dorsey, not the famous boxer.
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 23, 2020 05:38 PM (y7DUB)
--------
I hate that guy.
Posted by: Luis Angel Firpo at September 23, 2020 05:40 PM (Rk6Cp)

You lost fair and square. Jess Willard is the guy who should be pissed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (ifmtJ)

87 Do they all start as phony shills, or are they legit and get co-opted if effective? Howdy, Ryan, Jordan.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (7o4Oo)

88
If you want to take out Big Tech, pass some basic privacy laws and
they're finished. Would get bipartisan support from voters, it's creepy.

Their entire business model is based on targeting consumers for advertisers.

President Boy would want those companies to just recognize Constitutional rights all the time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (HaL55)

89 I am in the "we need to be extra careful about government interference with business and regulation" camp as well, solidly.

My principle is that I don't want any power in the hands of the federal government that I would fear Hillary Clinton using as president, for example.

But there is a place for these laws as a short-term, careful hedge against excesses by business. I would very much rather out government not go "woohoo!!!! ANOTHER PATRIOT ACT AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (KZzsI)

90 *snort*

@The_Kyle_Mann

Libs unironically sharing the @TheBabylonBee article about NBA players wearing lace collars is pretty funny

https://tinyurl.com/yyt37nct

Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (cF8AT)

91 I wonder if we mentioned at the time all the ways big tech tried to shut down Gab. They probably just said, start your own banks, communication networks, credit agencies, domain registrars, etc.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas

Maybe we should just start our own government.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: #BurnTwitterBurn at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (OUMaO)

92 77 I really don't see any issue with treating these sites as publishers. At least from an honest observer's perspective. Comments on blogs or twits are like letters to the editor.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:40 PM (F14HU)

Treat these bishes like publishers! Make them like CNN and then they will have to pay for their bias!

Wait, wut?

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (ZfRYq)

93 Speaking of that, you have e-mail.

Not Jim Jordan.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Task Group Cluebat at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (Rk6Cp)

Got it and reply sent!

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (Ez6QX)

94 All I can do is pray.

The Lord sent in Samson to pull the columns down.

Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (Eicbe)

95 re 79: thank you for the description, Now I know who you mean

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (4a9Vv)

96 Glad I never gave a dime to that charlatan. Didn't trust him.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (S5OQe)

97 Suppose There Were Tweets On Twitter And Nobody Cared Or Read

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (4JLkY)

98 Ordinary American: "Jordan isn't accepting emails from outside his district. So I called and left a message of my disgust at his DC office."

He's bombarding me with contribution solicitations. He may not want my emails, but he sure wants my money/endorsement.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (HhXSr)

99 the DOJ submitted a proposal today to Congress to strip social media companies including google from 230 protection.

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A Proposal to Congress you say?

Gorsh, hope this doesn't slow down the glacial speed of doing any damn thing about the Federal law enforcement agencies that tried to commit a coup, because I took the day off #Two Weeks from today to enjoy that.

oh, this troop of Kabuki dancers will get much different results then the last.

Posted by: Bete at September 23, 2020 05:44 PM (Ojki1)

100 I'd get on twitter and mock them, but I got notice yesterday of a second tweet "glorifying violence" against the savages rioting, looting, and burning that I won't take down to appease twitter's Karen censors.

Posted by: Methos at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (kOpft)

101 I want pudding cups with Hunter's Flaming Skull thread, as Rush said if it was a Republican, Trump especially it would be the end.
The Democrat's Propaganda machine will barely touch it.

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (OjZpE)

102 Supposedly Doug Collins is hot for Google dick too.

That's unfair. I bet Doug isn't at all picky when it comes to dick.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (ExV1e)

103 There are no government institutions, or politicians, I automatically trust. The rot has spread to all areas. It seems my own governments hand is against me.

Posted by: tubal at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (bCLt0)

104 That is why Jordan had Goolag write up this document for the fake hearing.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 23, 2020 05:35 PM (F14HU)

And 230 was written in 1995?

That's the same as if congress in 1887 saw the prototype for a steam powered horseless carriage. So they wrote a bill regarding the auto industry determining what defined travel, and potential speed limits based on a steam engine.

Only, the auto industry came and went, and now we're looking at interstellar travel and faster than light speed.

In 1995, we were using 56K modems (the fancy stuff), Netscape was announcing its IPO, and AOL was the main form of communication. It's time for an update, because there's a whole lotta gray area they never could have anticipated. Like the ability to sway elections, and control knowledge. There's very few cases where protections should be allowed.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (8B6Ng)

105 71 I dunno about Jim Jordan but I know our Jordan deserves all the hugs. Not you, Insom, you're too free with the hands
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:39 PM (KZzsI)

LOL. And thanks!

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (Ez6QX)

106 I noticed how Youtube keeps shutting down streams, the word went out that it's Helping Trump

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (ZCr9+)

107 fun experiment - lets all send our simm cards around the country to be used in other phones for a week or so.

That would screw up their algorithms enough to jack with the advertising schemes.

Posted by: DanMan at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (aUOqu)

108 Libs unironically sharing the @TheBabylonBee article about NBA players wearing lace collars is pretty funny

"Damn it this is why we have to do fact checks!!!!"
--Snopes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (KZzsI)

109 Since we're ragging on Jim Jordan, he never knows how not to drive a point into the ground. He had Fauci nailed on his dogshit mask hypocrisy but ended up making him somewhat sympathetic by being a yapping chihuahua.

Posted by: Captain Hate at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (y7DUB)

110 I'd just eliminate section 230 of the CDA altogether.

It's a statutory repeal of the common law about republishing anyway.

Much as I like commenting here, no comments section can justify the kind of abuse section 230 has spawned.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - now under self-supervision at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (H5knJ)

111 omg, one of the Antifa dudes looks like he got his great grandaddy's army helmet and wrote PRESS on it with crayon

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:46 PM (DJFLF)

112 It's like we're in Gilded Age II or something.

Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with fake science, omnipresent surveillance, and extra grift at September 23, 2020 05:46 PM (BRkq2)

113 It was thing for WEEKS that Don Jr had responded to an email about meeting with some Russians "Love it!"

WEEKS.

If Don Jr had gotten a wire of $3.5M from some Russian billionairess they would be rioting in Louisville RIGHT NOW.

Oh.

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:47 PM (ZfRYq)

114 I remember when Jack Dorsey knocked out Willard Scott back in '19.

Oh how my father would gather us around the transistor to listen to the Nassau Mauler. Helluva left hook.

Move it up a line.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 23, 2020 05:47 PM (2hb8F)

115 I'd get on twitter and mock them, but I got notice yesterday of a second tweet "glorifying violence" against the savages rioting, looting, and burning that I won't take down to appease twitter's Karen censors.

So the fuck what? Worried that Twitter will ban you?

Why would you care?

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 23, 2020 05:47 PM (naEeR)

116 Tucker called Jordan out on taking Google money. His answer was I'm happy to take their money and not do anything for them. There isn't any "there", there.

Well now there isn't just a "there" Jim, but an entire Google Sponsored Broadway theatrical aimed at giving Google what they want and the American people a doink in the ass. Best part? You have a starring role.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy, staring from 447 meters at September 23, 2020 05:48 PM (6Y47l)

117 YouTube to me is the biggest violator of copyright law to me . The government allowed them the work around and put the burden on the owner of the content to formally request it be removed. Somebody's pockets were lined.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at September 23, 2020 05:48 PM (2DOZq)

118 Here is a Rightwing channel on Youtube streaming the Riots
https://tinyurl.com/y4jpuwrv

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 05:48 PM (ZCr9+)

119 That's the same as if congress in 1887 saw the prototype for a steam powered horseless carriage. So they wrote a bill regarding the auto industry determining what defined travel, and potential speed limits based on a steam engine.

I agree completely, the current laws and attitudes are inadequate to the current situation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:48 PM (KZzsI)

120 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino.

Posted by: WeBoned! at September 23, 2020 05:48 PM (8k7U7)

121 And 230 was written in 1995?

That's the same as if congress in 1887 saw the prototype for a steam powered horseless carriage. So they wrote a bill regarding the auto industry determining what defined travel, and potential speed limits based on a steam engine.

Only, the auto industry came and went, and now we're looking at interstellar travel and faster than light speed.

In 1995, we were using 56K modems (the fancy stuff), Netscape was announcing its IPO, and AOL was the main form of communication. It's time for an update, because there's a whole lotta gray area they never could have anticipated. Like the ability to sway elections, and control knowledge. There's very few cases where protections should be allowed.
Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (8B6Ng)

Oh hell, as I am sure you already know (and everyone else here does), the government is incapable of staying ahead of techonology.

Or much else.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (4JLkY)

122 He had Fauci nailed on his dogshit mask hypocrisy but ended up making him somewhat sympathetic by being a yapping chihuahua.
Posted by: Captain Hate at September 23, 2020 05:45 PM (y7DUB)

Speaking of, Rand Paul was needling Fauci today but not enough and nit with much sting. He let the schmuck Fauci filibuster.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (H8QX8)

123 >>>Much as I like commenting here, no comments section can justify the kind of abuse section 230 has spawned.

all you need to do is restrict it for any platform that does not have a dominant or monopoly position.

And then for those that do -- you STILL have s.230 protection, but only if they abide by the preconditions of a safe harbor provision. Namely, that they prove that they are not censoring based on point of view but only based on time, place, manner considerations (that is, they track with US laws on free speech) every year.

And if they don't prove that -- they lose their s.230 immunity for two years. they can apply after two years for the safe harbor again, if they can prove they've not been censoring based on point-of-view for two full years.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (PbpT7)

124 re 94: and perhaps the Lord sent Trump to hold the columns up. If Trump could give a speech like Lincoln, he'd already have his own monument.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (4a9Vv)

125
>>Gorsh, hope this doesn't slow down the glacial speed of doing any damn thing about the Federal law enforcement agencies that tried to commit a coup, because I took the day off #Two Weeks from today to enjoy that.

I know, right? When I had my back surgery it took 8 hours. 8 hours!

At the 2 hour mark I had my friends come in and hassle the doctors and tell them to hurry the fuck up. I mean, what took them so fucking long?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (ZLI7S)

126 116 Tucker called Jordan out on taking Google money.

Fox News is taking on Jordan61? She's getting Google money?

This house sho gone crazy.

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (ZfRYq)

127
There are no government institutions, or politicians, I automatically
trust. The rot has spread to all areas. It seems my own governments hand
is against me.

My own government destroyed my career with NAFTA. They've been against normal Americans for decades.

I don't remember voting for that...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (HaL55)

128 US elections
·
1 hour ago
Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview, CNN and Politico confirm
Trending with: CNN and Politico

Well, if you can't trust CNN and Twitter, who can you trust?

Posted by: t-bird at September 23, 2020 05:50 PM (WLHrn)

129 Taking it from google is ok, as long as I don't swallow.

Posted by: Jim Jordan at September 23, 2020 05:50 PM (qlFIA)

130 Gotta say I'm mesmerized watching idiots get arrested on that twitter feed.

Posted by: TexasDan at September 23, 2020 05:50 PM (yL25O)

131 Hesco Gypsy: "Well now there isn't just a 'there' Jim, but an entire Google Sponsored Broadway theatrical aimed at giving Google what they want and the American people a doink in the ass..."

Tucker needs to do a follow up on this ASAP. Tighten Jordan's sphincter.

I've been a fan of Jordan's. Donated money in the last few days. Now I'm pissed.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 05:50 PM (HhXSr)

132 Fox News is taking on Jordan61? She's getting Google money?

This house sho gone crazy.
Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (ZfRYq)

I freaking wish. Then I could quit my job and move someplace sane.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (Ez6QX)

133 I know, right? When I had my back surgery it took 8 hours. 8 hours!

At the 2 hour mark I had my friends come in and hassle the doctors and tell them to hurry the fuck up. I mean, what took them so fucking long?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (ZLI7S)

Did the doctors say "hey this will be done in #twohours," and then in two hours say "it looks like it will be another #twohours?"

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (ZfRYq)

134 It's like we're in Gilded Age II or something.

Except the previous Gilded Age built a nation and created something wonderful in the process. They made things, produced things. Today's tycoons produce nothing and have nothing to show for their efforts. Its all electronic signals. Its like being an artist that only creates pulses of light without writing anything down. It might be amazing, but once its over, its gone forever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (KZzsI)

135 It's time for an update, because there's a whole lotta gray area they never could have anticipated. Like the ability to sway elections, and control knowledge. There's very few cases where protections should be allowed.

Posted by: clutch cargo

When you're talking fellow travellers, it's features, not bugs.

We are waaaaaaaaaay the fuck past where legislative solutions are the answer.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: #BurnTwitterBurn at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (OUMaO)

136 omg, one of the Antifa dudes looks like he got his great grandaddy's army helmet and wrote PRESS on it with crayon

Sounds more like a request than an identifier.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (SchxB)

137 Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview, CNN and Politico confirm

___

Union Carbide did nothing wrong confirms Union Carbide Press flacks and lawyers.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (qlFIA)

138 Here is a Rightwing channel on Youtube streaming the Riots

I want to have a stream of fairly long duration where the camera isn't moving so I can make that my Zoom background.

Both a daytime and nightime version of maybe twenty minutes each.

Posted by: 🐧 at September 23, 2020 05:52 PM (C+evo)

139 #94 Axeman

Yes! I have been reading that part of Judges this week.
Had the same exact thought.

God can use anyone -- no matter how big of a screw-up
they are. And there were a lot of Biblical screw-ups. In fact 99.99% of them were of that persuasion.

Our Lord can use anyone. Any. One.

So, look out....

Posted by: Prime sistah at September 23, 2020 05:52 PM (tQL7r)

140 Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview, CNN and Politico confirm

The teleprompter is plainly visible in the wide shots. He is obviously reading from it. But I guess that's just my lying eyes, who'd believe that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:52 PM (KZzsI)

141 But there is a place for these laws as a short-term, careful hedge against excesses by business. I would very much rather out government not go "woohoo!!!! ANOTHER PATRIOT ACT AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (KZzsI)

The government doesn't need to regulate. They simply need to spell out (LOL) the types of models, period. Twatter for instance can decide if they want to remain who/what they are, or change their business to fit their desired and protected model. Door 1, 2 or 3.

They can't have their cake and eat it too. If somebody like google decides they're going to track you via GPS on your phone, and evesdrop on your conversations saving them for later (like they do now), great.

Make that apparent to the end-user and also make sure that ONLY that end user gets tracked. Right now, if you've got a friend installing these apps you're fair game as well. If they're caught doing something else, they can pay to rebuild the infrastructure.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 05:53 PM (8B6Ng)

142 >>Did the doctors say "hey this will be done in #twohours," and then in two hours say "it looks like it will be another #twohours?"

Nobody but the people who are constantly bitching about how long it's taking promised 2 weeks.

It started out as a review with 1 US Attorney back in the spring of 2018. It has grown to at least 4 and possibly 5 US Attorneys running separate investigations. Do you know why? Because they keep finding more corruption.

Would you like them to just say "fuck it, the guys at AOS are getting pissy. Let's just wrap this up." Or do you want them to get all of it?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:53 PM (ZLI7S)

143 Bottom link? A zoom meeting full of randos? No thanks.

Posted by: Downcast at September 23, 2020 05:53 PM (Bx6uU)

144 They can't have their cake and eat it too.

I agree, its this middle ground where nothing is applied except to protect them that's the problem.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (KZzsI)

145 John Solomon Twitter account temporarily suspended

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (1Dmt5)

146 Fox News is taking on Jordan61? She's getting Google money?

___

Hey, I keep seeing ads on the intertubes saying work for Google from home make large ducats.

But whenever I click on the link it is either "Bob" in Bangalore asking me for my credit card information or Bryan from Beverly Hills asking me to point my webcam at my pants.

Posted by: Obligatory at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (qlFIA)

147 aww dang, kittehs are gone

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (DJFLF)

148 >>>I've been a fan of Jordan's. Donated money in the last few days. Now I'm pissed.

I was a fan too and didn't post this when it happened because I was hoping it wasn't true.

It was true and I was a fucking sap for trusting this traitor and gay whore.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (PbpT7)

149 Would you like them to just say "fuck it, the guys at AOS are getting pissy. Let's just wrap this up." Or do you want them to get all of it?

I want it now!

Posted by: Verruca Salt at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (Zmnko)

150
The teleprompter is plainly visible in the wide shots. He is obviously reading from it. But I guess that's just my lying eyes, who'd believe that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:52 PM (KZzsI)

It's gaslighting all the way down.

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:54 PM (ZfRYq)

151 My own government destroyed my career with NAFTA. They've been against normal Americans for decades.

I don't remember voting for that...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (HaL55)

Which is odd, because this helped mine, because we could send things south of the border at last, whereas once we couldn't.

Indeed, the company I worked for had to build a whole new facility with which to make money off of Mexico. It turned into a cash machine for them. And led to the hiring of tons of people in the United States.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (4JLkY)

152 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (KZzsI)

Not sure all the people f-cked by the railroads tariffs wouldn't recognize this.

Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with fake science, omnipresent surveillance, and extra grift at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (BRkq2)

153 "120 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino."

Yes prayers for him and his wonderful family. He's probably the guy I trust most in the whole world. Him and Grady Judd.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (qpX6U)

154
"The thing about a U.S. Congressman is 50 to a hundred grand will get one elected. But once they're in, the incumbency rate is over 90% so you can get an average of maybe 18 to 20 years use out of one. In these uncertain times, buying a U.S. Congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make. "

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (Vxu+H)

155 I was a fan too and didn't post this when it happened because I was hoping it wasn't true.

I think he'd defend it by saying "I'm a fan of private enterprise and capitalism, so my approach for any business is to have as little government interference as possible"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (KZzsI)

156
Would you like them to just say "fuck it, the guys at AOS are
getting pissy. Let's just wrap this up." Or do you want them to get all
of it?
***

They've got 48 days to wrap it up if Biden wins. And....they know that.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (qlFIA)

157 >>It was true and I was a fucking sap for trusting this traitor and gay whore.

garrett fooled me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (ZLI7S)

158 76 Wow, stabbed in the back yet again by a sheep in wolf's clothing. At least we've had 50+ constant years of the same shit to inure ourselves to it ...
__________________

I was fooled by thus cuck. Fuck him, another back stabbing republican. So tired of this game.

Posted by: HB at September 23, 2020 05:55 PM (nzKWW)

159 seems like Louisville crowd is dispersing

Posted by: kallisto at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (DJFLF)

160 120 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino."

What happened?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (Zmnko)

161 Everyone who goes into the House or Senate comes out a multi-millionaire on the other side.

It would be more shocking to hear a story about a Congress-whore turning down influence-money.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (3P/5p)

162 Oh hell, as I am sure you already know (and everyone else here does), the government is incapable of staying ahead of techonology.

Or much else.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (4JLkY)

Sadly, yes. Otherwise we'd have seen something in the past quarter century.

But what the government does do, and does better than anything else is penalize with crippling taxes. I think if there's a way to open that can of worms, the industry can be scared into doing a lot of things. Do I want that? Fuck no. But we're way past the point of proper regulation.

TBH, what google can do and does is scarier than anything the government has figured out. I'm more afraid of google taking over.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (8B6Ng)

163 Not sure all the people f-cked by the railroads tariffs wouldn't recognize this.

Well there was a lot of bad in the Gilded Age too, but my point is that there's none of the good in this one. We got railroads and bridges and electricity and dams and all the rest from the Gilded Age.

In this one we get... another Call of Duty, but this time with the OK symbol banned.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

164
Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview, CNN and Politico confirm

Magic earpiece?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (oVJmc)

165 Google gives way more money to Democrats.

How the hell you use a BLM riot to go after Jim Jordan?

We told you not to use Twitter and you did. You probably did more to get them off the ground than most.

Posted by: Devils Advocate at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (vS12P)

166 Dan Bongino has a tumor in the back of his neck. Not sure if it's cancer or not but it's not a fatty lump like my pup Logan gets.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (ifmtJ)

167 Troll's back.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (oVJmc)

168 seems like Louisville crowd is dispersing

Better be under fire.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (naEeR)

169 166 Dan Bongino has a tumor in the back of his neck. Not sure if it's cancer or not but it's not a fatty lump like my pup Logan gets.

Damn

Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (Zmnko)

170 Fox News is taking on Jordan61? She's getting Google money?

I met her a couple of weeks ago. I'd have sucked up so much harder if I'd known.

I'm noble that way.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (q2K0j)

171 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino.

What's wrong with Dan ?

Thing I like about Dan is, he's not always right. But he's always willing to say that he is wrong.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at September 23, 2020 05:58 PM (3P/5p)

172 Just watched Nad's explosion prompted exit. It is the 2nd time this month that Pelosi has been immersed in other peoples' shit. It is kismet, in my way of thinking.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 23, 2020 05:58 PM (66BnU)

173 166 Dan Bongino has a tumor in the back of his neck. Not sure if it's cancer or not but it's not a fatty lump like my pup Logan gets.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (ifmtJ)

Fuck that's not good

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 05:58 PM (ZCr9+)

174 You do realize that we have no use for 95% of you Deplorables, except for sex toys or agricultural supplements?

Posted by: The DNC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the PRC at September 23, 2020 05:58 PM (DMUuz)

175 Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview,
.......

Of course not, he used a teleprompterio.

Posted by: wth at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (v0R5T)

176 "But what the government does do, and does better than anything else is penalize with crippling taxes."

Regulations. Administrative law. Unequal application of the law. Perverse subsidies. Crippling freedom of association. Starting wars and then refusing to win them.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (qpX6U)

177 Do i burn Louisville now or wait for our comrades to leave?

Im new here. Hope i burn the right city.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (pB6Gt)

178 120 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino."

What happened?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (Zmnko)

On his show today, he announced he may have a tumor in his neck, rather large he said. He then said something showed up elsewhere in his body.

Posted by: WeBoned! at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (8k7U7)

179 ace with a good approach up at 123 - and I've seen others/similar. This is not some incredibly vexing conundrum - there are plenty of proven concepts and models already that can be applied to tech giants that will break their ridiculous orwellian hold over information and opinion.

Posted by: rhomboid, AKA at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (OTzUX)

180 Both Jordan and McCarthy are Big-talk-little-action. They LOOOVE to scurry out to the lobby cameras to act tough.

Posted by: Blaster at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (L89u9)

181 Just watched Nad's explosion prompted exit. It is the 2nd time this month that Pelosi has been immersed in other peoples' shit. It is kismet, in my way of thinking.

The smell must have been cataclysmic, even Pelosi hesitated and kind of stuttered in her speech.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (KZzsI)

182 Facebook has already announced they will censor posts if there is 'unrest' during or after the election.

Gee, I wonder which side will get censored?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (NgKpN)

183 Nobody but the people who are constantly bitching about how long it's taking promised 2 weeks.

It started out as a review with 1 US Attorney back in the spring of 2018. It has grown to at least 4 and possibly 5 US Attorneys running separate investigations. Do you know why? Because they keep finding more corruption.

Would you like them to just say "fuck it, the guys at AOS are getting pissy. Let's just wrap this up." Or do you want them to get all of it?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:53 PM (ZLI7S)

Jack, I love you in a 98% non-gay way, but YOU told me the week before Labor Day that Barr said Labor Day.

When is Labor Day again?

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (ZfRYq)

184 Could just be a lipoma.
*fingers crossed*

Posted by: wth at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (v0R5T)

185 >>>Thing I like about Dan is, he's not always right. But he's always willing to say that he is wrong.

Pfft, what an amateur

Posted by: Pastor David French, purveyor of a wife that is easily a "5" based on her age category and willingne at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (PbpT7)

186 No no... it's say "Boo-urn Louisville".

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (uEbPt)

187 Honestly, while I understand the Two Minutes Hate against Jim Jordan, what's the point? This is the scam. Today Mitt Romney votes against you. Tomorrow Whorekowski. Day afte Jordan. They are all rotten. All liars. If they didn't take the ticket, these mediocrities would be rotting in jail.

We would be better off if Trump ruled as Emperor.

Posted by: trev006 at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (ZVQi2)

188 98 Ordinary American: "Jordan isn't accepting emails from outside his district. So I called and left a message of my disgust at his DC office."
------------------------------------------------

Maybe that old fax machine that's in the closet.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (SpZxj)

189 No more, please, I'm full.

Posted by: The Troll's Jerk Sock at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (l3+k2)

190 You do realize that we have no use for 95% of you Deplorables, except for sex toys or agricultural supplements?
***

You want to be the sex toy for some hollywood starlet

You'll settle for being an agricultural supplement

You get being a diaper cleaner/sex toy for Jerry Nadler

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (qlFIA)

191 "184 Could just be a lipoma." No he specifically said it was not.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (qpX6U)

192 Libs unironically sharing the @TheBabylonBee article about NBA players wearing lace collars is pretty funny

https://tinyurl.com/yyt37nct
Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (cF8AT)
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It's Wish Day everyday in Lib Land!

Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (Eicbe)

193 120 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino."

What happened?
Posted by: It's me donna at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (Zmnko)

On his show today, he announced he may have a tumor in his neck, rather large he said. He then said something showed up elsewhere in his body.
Posted by: WeBoned! at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (8k7U7)

I saw that he said he had some personal news to share, but haven't listened to the show.

https://tinyurl.com/y4o92us7

That sucks. Why can't liberals have this crap happen to them? No, they live for fucking ever.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (8B6Ng)

194 The teleprompter is plainly visible in the wide shots. He is obviously reading from it. But I guess that's just my lying eyes, who'd believe that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:52 PM (KZzsI)

Ok, they may be right on this one. Another angle released by Telemundo.

https://tinyurl.com/y5yz2bcn

Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (cF8AT)

195 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino.

I know. My husband told me a few hours ago.. We cannot lose him!

Why why are all the good people taken and Soros still breathes?

Posted by: Jewells45 at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (dUJdY)

196 all you need to do is restrict it for any platform that does not have a dominant or monopoly position.

And then for those that do -- you STILL have s.230 protection, but only if they abide by the preconditions of a safe harbor provision. Namely, that they prove that they are not censoring based on point of view but only based on time, place, manner considerations (that is, they track with US laws on free speech) every year.

And if they don't prove that -- they lose their s.230 immunity for two years. they can apply after two years for the safe harbor again, if they can prove they've not been censoring based on point-of-view for two full years.

This seems like a well-considered approach. At the very least its an easy way of applying existing legislation until a better idea can be worked out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (KZzsI)

197 Would you like them to just say "fuck it, the guys at AOS are getting pissy. Let's just wrap this up." Or do you want them to get all of it?

I understand your frustration but let me make two points...

1. Some of the girls are pissy also. Don't be sexist.
2. I want both. Pull some all-nighters. Work some weekends. I get that maybe you don't want to arrest anyone and give away the game. Fine. Torture a couple and livestream it. I'm reasonable.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (ExV1e)

198 Even the protesters assembling storage depots of Molotov cocktails at strategic locations in my quarantine beard to burn it all down if Donald Trump goes forward with his dangerous and reckless plan to install a new SCOTUS justice before the election in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat know that it is nothing if not anti-American for politicians to use antitrust or other laws to punish private corporations like Google or Facebook for the political positions they happen to take in the course of running their businesses.

How many times must I instruct you on this before you finally grasp the point? Look, if you want to push your political views on social media, build your own Google. But let's face it, no one is interested in your incoherent fascist hate speech anyway.

Now for something actually important. If the Marvel Cinematic Universe acquires the Dune franchise, what super powers should new Avenger Paul Atreides have? Tell me below and I may incorporate your ideas into my fan fiction writings!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (IcuBN)

199 Facebook has already announced they will censor posts if there is 'unrest' during or after the election.

***

Pretty sure that makes them active participants in the planned coup attempt.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (qlFIA)

200 That sucks. Why can't liberals have this crap happen to them? No, they live for fucking ever.
Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (8B6Ng)

Not for ever...

Posted by: Crept keeper Ruth at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (Zmnko)

201 Did the doctors say "hey this will be done in #twohours," and then in two hours say "it looks like it will be another #twohours?"
Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 05:51 PM (ZfRYq)

Or hey, tit took so long the administration at the hospital changed so we aren't going to be able to finish it up. Maybe just slap a hot iron on it or something.

Posted by: Bete at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (Ojki1)

202 Could just be a lipoma.
*fingers crossed*
Posted by: wth at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM (v0R5T)

Nope, he says he gets Lipoma's & the doc said it wasn't Lipoma.

Posted by: WeBoned! at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (8k7U7)

203 That's disappointing to learn about Jordan. Even more disappointing is that its not the least bit surprising anymore. We are overrun with prostitutes.

Posted by: Botched_Lobotomy at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (lRrON)

204 Cancerous Fatty Lump (D) NY-10

Posted by: Blaster at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (L89u9)

205 "184 Could just be a lipoma." No he specifically said it was not.
Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (qpX6U)
.........

Bummer.

Posted by: wth at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (v0R5T)

206 195 Damn, prayers up for Dan Bongino.

I know. My husband told me a few hours ago.. We cannot lose him!

Why why are all the good people taken and Soros still breathes?
Posted by: Jewells45 at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (dUJdY)

Because we can't have nice things.

Or because the Devil rules this world.

Or because otherwise things won't go to hell and they have to due to some divine plan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (ifmtJ)

207 >>>179 ace with a good approach up at 123 - and I've seen others/similar. This is not some incredibly vexing conundrum - there are plenty of proven concepts and models already that can be applied to tech giants that will break their ridiculous orwellian hold over information and opinion.

Sargon of Akkad had a piercing insight two years ago. In response to the Google Defenders saying 'But what RULES would you APPLY?! It's so conFUSing!!!," he said: "They can just apply the basic free speech laws of the united states. It's a very well defined and well understood area of the law. To the extent possible, gray areas are pretty well defined."

The people claiming this is some sort of impossibility are lying. They are derailing the discussion into BUH BUH HOW COULD WE DO IT? when their real objection is either 1, they should be allowed to be our censors because they're the most powerful leftwing political actor in the world, or 2, because they're paying us off, brah.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (PbpT7)

208 Fuck that's not good
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 05:58 PM (ZCr9+)

Hopefully not in a lymph gland. We need as many voices as we can get right now. Terrible thing to hear.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (8B6Ng)

209 49 wait, I'm confused, we hate Jim Jordan now, I missed the memo.... I thought he was on our side?

going back up to read the links now.
Posted by: spypeach at September 23, 2020 05:36 PM (Up/Jb)

None of them have ever been on your side. Ace is just now figuring that out. What you missed is that Jordan got outed performing failure theater.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (50gG9)

210 No no... it's say "Boo-urn Louisville".

"Like the Bourne Identity? I loved that movie!"
--Female Juror #5

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (KZzsI)

211 192 Libs unironically sharing the @TheBabylonBee article about NBA players wearing lace collars is pretty funny

https://tinyurl.com/yyt37nct
Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 05:43 PM (cF8AT)
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It's Wish Day everyday in Lib Land!

Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (Eicbe)

One of the funniest things I've seen on twitter. Did you scroll down to see all of them? There's even one from someone at Elle Magazine. Idiots.

Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (cF8AT)

212 Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 23, 2020 05:57 PM (q2K0j)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (WkPC9)

213 >>Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview, CNN and Politico confirm

When this becomes hi fives all around in the media its time to stick a fork in Punchy.

Posted by: Boswell at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (w2LAm)

214 Union Carbide did nothing wrong confirms Union Carbide Press flacks and lawyers.
Posted by: 18-1

Ackshually~

They didn't. It was the local union crew that placed an unqualified asshole to sit next to the manual controls that the Indian government forced UC to install that killed that town.

/pedant

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (HzNRy)

215 I look at the Texas Covid dashboard update, I check it about this time every day. Established trends continue, new case numbers per day are falling slowly, fatalities per day are falling dramatically. Saw something in the data that I had never focused on before, it surprised me. Total deaths assigned to Covid in Texas are 15,129, far more than enough to be statistically significant.

Current population demographics in Texas are persons of black descent, 12.9%, non-Hispanic whites, 41.2%, those who identify as Hispanic or Latino, 39.7%. You see why Dems always tell themselves they should be wining, but they forget that people like Ted Cruz identify as "hispanic" in this reckoning. ANYWAY..

the Covid death numbers so far are - Blacks, 11.3%, even a little less than you would expect, but close. Non-hispanic whites, 30%, much lower than one would expect. This was the surprise - Hispanic persons, 56% of all deaths, even though they only make up 39% of the population. I found that amazing, and something that I had not seen reported or noted anywhere else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (Kpl3J)

216 There are very few in Washington who have stood strong and had the fortitude to call things what they are and stood behind their words. Best I can tell, Ric Grenell is one of them.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (uEbPt)

217 Ok, they may be right on this one. Another angle released by Telemundo.

And there was ABSOLUTELY nothing on the monitor while they cut away to his "response".

Editing cuts can hide many sins.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (naEeR)

218 Not buying what Telemundo is selling on Sundowner Joe. They gave time the questions ahead of time then swear he wasn't using a teleprompter?

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (OjZpE)

219 I fully expect them to crash the web on Nov 3.

Posted by: HB at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (nzKWW)

220 Or hey, tit took so long the administration at the hospital changed so we aren't going to be able to finish it up. Maybe just slap a hot iron on it or something.
Posted by: Bete at September 23, 2020 06:02 PM (Ojki1)

Turns out that it wasn't your back after all.

And, oh, if you are thinking about applying for that job as UNIX administrator, it's eunuch.

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (ZfRYq)

221 If you don't like it, start your own social media platform! Capitalism! Free market! Wargbarglargle!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (NWiLs)

222
One of the funniest things I've seen on twitter. Did you scroll down to see all of them? There's even one from someone at Elle Magazine. Idiots.
Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (cF8AT)
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I can no longer get to Twitter from my work VPN. So, I'll have to see that later.

Instead I went to BB and laughed.

Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (Eicbe)

223 I fully expect them to crash the web on Nov 3.
Posted by: HB at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (nzKWW)

Only because the dems couldn't get the online voting to be a thing.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (8B6Ng)

224 One of the streamers just said he had been arrested before and didn't want to get arrested again; that he'd stay as long as he could. Added that the police had arrested "legal observers".

WTH is a "legal observer"? When there's a riot in play, "legal observers" don't get to stick their schnoz anywhere they damn well please like they're in a protective immunity bubble. If you get in the middle of everything, you're now part of the demonstration if you don't follow an order. Sure, you can defy it. Then don't complain when you have to talk to the judge. Don't whine that you were abused. Cops have their jobs; "legal observers" have theirs. But on the streets, the cops win. Non-idiots understand this.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (HhXSr)

225 I like Telemundo and Univision, but only for the T&A.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (NWiLs)

226 Twitter has physical headquarters, doesn't it?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (puu6v)

227 "221 If you don't like it, start your own social media platform! Capitalism! Free market! Wargbarglargle!"

Well, Bongino has been working on Parler and Rumble.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (qpX6U)

228 The core part of controlled opposition is that the Republicans say what you expect an opposition party to say but then never actually stop the Democrats from doing what they want, let alone role it back.

Sometimes it is silly procedural things. Sometimes it is oh we need 60 solid Senators and the House and the Supreme Court and the judges on the Voice. Sometimes it is "the conscious" of one otherwise conservative legislator.

But to better understand this look at the Dems. How many times has a rightwing measure gone through because Dems have aided it (when it would have failed otherwise). How many times did the Dems get stopped by procedural nonsense?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (qlFIA)

229 I will pray or Dan Bongino

Posted by: vmom 2020 - Long Live Death by A.H. Lloyd at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (nUhF0)

230 By November 3rd, Joe will be CGI.

CGI Joe.

Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (Eicbe)

231 227 "221 If you don't like it, start your own social media platform! Capitalism! Free market! Wargbarglargle!"

Well, Bongino has been working on Parler and Rumble.
Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (qpX6U)

Dan Bongino is The Rumble?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (ifmtJ)

232 WTH is a "legal observer"?

Marxists with law licenses -- Guild something or other.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (naEeR)

233 Damn. Prayers up for Dan Bongino.

The evil progs live way longer lives than sweet, kind patriots like my late parents and grandparents.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (BCfKj)

234 If you don't like it, start your own social media platform! Capitalism! Free market! Wargbarglargle!
***

Don't forget your own investment banks, payment methods and legal currency!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (qlFIA)

235 Twitter has physical headquarters, doesn't it?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (puu6v)

Yes, main HQ in SF. One of the only ones, everybody else down south in Silicon Valley.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (8B6Ng)

236 Hispanic persons, 56% of all deaths, even though they only make up 39% of the population. I found that amazing, and something that I had not seen reported or noted anywhere else.

Very overweight people seem to fare very badly with the Wuhan Flu if they get a bad case. And, while you wouldn't know this from pop culture, hispanics do tend to be heavy.

But this data does explain why the Democrats keep hammering the "Trump killed us all" lie. They hope it resonates with hispanic voters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (KZzsI)

237 Did they reschedule the spontaneous riots That erupted from the grief stricken African American community for the weekend?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (2hb8F)

238 Has Jerry Nadler denied shitting himself?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (MoFSn)

239 Regulations. Administrative law. Unequal application of the law. Perverse subsidies. Crippling freedom of association. Starting wars and then refusing to win them.
Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 05:59 PM (qpX6U)

There use to be no tax on internet purchases. That changed- Mostly cause Amazon now had physical locations in enough states they had to pay state taxes and wanted to hobble other E-tailers, but it still changed.

Other internet laws can adapt as well.

Posted by: Bete at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (Ojki1)

240 Handling the nuances of free speech is very delicate and must be done with care. See, what you do is you prop up every one of your comrades and let them say what the fuck they want when they want, while staunchly silencing your opponents and potential opponents by any means necessary. It's right there in the Constitution. Easy peasy!

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (uEbPt)

241 Hopefully not in a lymph gland. We need as many voices as we can get right now. Terrible thing to hear.
Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:03 PM (8B6Ng)

My Dentist found a Lump under my jaw, freaked me out. I had it checked out and it turns out that my rosacea caused my Lympnoids to swell. I have it checked out ever few months to see if they grow but nothing

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (ZCr9+)

242 Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (Kpl3J)

243 Maybe we can get Tittypussy to run against wrastler Jim, couldn't be any worse.

Posted by: HB at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (nzKWW)

244 When is Labor Day again?
Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 06:00 PM

When you stop wearing white Crocs.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (DMUuz)

245 Politics
In Lieu Of New Justice, Trump Announces He Will Simply Grant Clarence Thomas Two Votes
September 23rd, 2020

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Now there's an idea! Unfortunately, it's just the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (+y/Ru)

246 223 I fully expect them to crash the web on Nov 3.
Posted by: HB at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (nzKWW)

Only because the dems couldn't get the online voting to be a thing.
Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (8B6Ng)

I've expected it half a dozen times over the last three or four years. Karen shouldn't be surprised when she cannot log onto NextDoor sometime around 11 p.m. EST November 3.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (puu6v)

247 123 >>>Much as I like commenting here, no comments section can justify the kind of abuse section 230 has spawned.

all you need to do is restrict it for any platform that does not have a dominant or monopoly position.

And then for those that do -- you STILL have s.230 protection, but only if they abide by the preconditions of a safe harbor provision. Namely, that they prove that they are not censoring based on point of view but only based on time, place, manner considerations (that is, they track with US laws on free speech) every year.

And if they don't prove that -- they lose their s.230 immunity for two years. they can apply after two years for the safe harbor again, if they can prove they've not been censoring based on point-of-view for two full years.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2020 05:49 PM (PbpT7)

Here's why I am skeptical of a that kind of nuanced approach:

(a) You have to control the executive branch to see the DOJ move on this issue when there's a violation. Our guy has been president for more than 3 years, and it's disputable how much control he has, given the deep state.

(b) Our courts. Enough said, right?

So I think the law needs to be exceedingly clear. Very simple. No exceptions. Just an ironclad rule.

It would be hard enough to get a simple repeal, given how bought-off everyone is. Imagine these same grifters drafting a more complicated measure.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - now under self-supervision at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (H5knJ)

248 In Lieu Of New Justice, Trump Announces He Will Simply Grant Clarence Thomas Two Votes

***

Supreme Court reparations!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (qlFIA)

249 I can no longer get to Twitter from my work VPN. So, I'll have to see that later.

Instead I went to BB and laughed.

Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (Eicbe)

Here it is unrolled, no twitter necessary.

https://tinyurl.com/y2c8xcjj

Posted by: Tami at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (cF8AT)

250 I wonder if their headquarters has an address

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (uEbPt)

251 WTH is a "legal observer"? When there's a riot in play, "legal observers" don't get to stick their schnoz anywhere they damn well please like they're in a protective immunity bubble. If you get in the middle of everything, you're now part of the demonstration if you don't follow an order. Sure, you can defy it. Then don't complain when you have to talk to the judge. Don't whine that you were abused. Cops have their jobs; "legal observers" have theirs. But on the streets, the cops win. Non-idiots understand this.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (HhXSr)

Some feddle judge out in Washington said that the press were authorized observers and no riot control actions could be taken against them.

So next day people started writing "PRESS" on their hats while throwing Molotovs.

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (ZfRYq)

252 That sucks. Why can't liberals have this crap happen to them? No, they live for fucking ever.
Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:01 PM (8B6Ng)

Uh, hello? I just died a couple days ago and you forgot about me already? Really doesn't seem worth spending eternity down here in Hell if everyone's gonna forget me after a few days!

Posted by: RBG at September 23, 2020 06:08 PM (lRrON)

253 >>Jack, I love you in a 98% non-gay way, but YOU told me the week before Labor Day that Barr said Labor Day.

>>When is Labor Day again?

That was the original date Barr mentioned as kicking off the next phase.. But you know how investigations go. There are interview, grand juries, negotiations, Supreme Court Justices dropping dead and other political considerations. Delays happen all the time in simple investigations. This is the biggest political scandal in the history of the country. Probably any country.

Barr said there would be developments between Labor Day and the election. I believe him. If you don't you don't but tell me, what fucking difference does it really make if it hits tomorrow or next Wednesday?

I want results more than anyone here. I've followed it pretty damn closely for almost 4 fucking years. I didn't know until today that Hunter Biden got $3.5 million from the former wife of the mayor of Moscow and used it to pay for sex with sex trafficked women controlled by the Russian mafia, did you?

Durham found the FBI guilty of framing 4 innocent men in Boston and freed the two who were still alive and sprung them over the complaints of a guy named Bob Mueller. He's a maniac for public corruption and he's very thorough.

It's going to take as long as it takes. I trust Barr, he is probably Trump's best appointee and he also has a calendar. We have 40 days.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (ZLI7S)

254 Ackshually~

They didn't. It was the local union crew that placed an unqualified asshole to sit next to the manual controls that the Indian government forced UC to install that killed that town.

/pedant
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2020 06:04 PM (HzNRy)

Plus, when Union Carbide built the plant, it was off by itself. The shanty town grew up around it after it was opened.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (0A3LU)

255 Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (Kpl3J)
His son is an even more hateful megalomaniac.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (uEbPt)

256 When I ran for Congress I didn't take a cent of big tech money.

Posted by: Howard Williamson (never heard of me?) at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (LBiyC)

257 By November 3rd, Joe will be CGI.

CGI Joe.
Posted by: Axeman at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (Eicbe)

LOL.

I'd predicted back when covid started that google was hard at work perfecting a deep fake Joe to do virtual town halls and even the debate.

Joe's all of a sudden bright and articulate. Heck, the mask could make it even easier for them to create a convincing fake. They've already pretty much perfected voices.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (8B6Ng)

258 Mean Bee is Mean:

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-decides-to-just-give-clarence-thomas-two-votes

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (GbPPJ)

259 So I took a look at all the celebrities that have died from Wuhan flu and....

https://tinyurl.com/y6yda2kk

I recognize one of them. Weird for a disease that killed 200M Americans don't you think?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:10 PM (qlFIA)

260 By the way, Big Tech cuck Jim Jordan is no longer taking feedback from people outside his district. Lololol

Posted by: Montesquieu's Big Idea at September 23, 2020 06:10 PM (8FfnY)

261 The Alamo Cenotaph stays where it is, 12-2.

SCREW YOU P!!!!!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 23, 2020 06:10 PM (4JLkY)

262 Twitter has physical headquarters, doesn't it?
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Nerdrotic mentioned once that it's in San Francisco right on the San Andreas fault, as a monument to hubris.

Posted by: Methos at September 23, 2020 06:10 PM (kOpft)

263
Dan Bongino is The Rumble?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 06:06 PM (ifmtJ)

Can you bet on a rioter vs an alligator? #Moneyplane

Posted by: Bete at September 23, 2020 06:11 PM (Ojki1)

264 https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-decides-to-just-give-clarence-thomas-two-votes
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (GbPPJ)

Better than any Penthouse Forum letter could ever be.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at September 23, 2020 06:11 PM (NWiLs)

265 So next day people started writing "PRESS" on their hats while throwing Molotovs.

Which is actually a valid move. Because the "press" isn't like an elected office. Its just a job. Anyone can be in the press, if they gather and report information. This idea that there is this sanctified PRESS *heavenly choir* which is set apart and a noble, special thing distinct from the rabble is bullcrap. I have a blog, in which I write down news: I am a reporter, I am part of the press, publishing news.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:11 PM (KZzsI)

266 The City of Portland just denied the Proud Boys a permit to assemble in a Portland city park on Saturday, citing "COVID concerns".

Unbelievable. Good thing they crack down on all the other political demonstrations using the same criteria...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 23, 2020 06:11 PM (I2/tG)

267 I'm taking down my Fathead poster of Jordan in his wrestling tights now. Dammit.

Posted by: Blaster at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (L89u9)

268 "Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer."

The poison has spread throughout our entire country. All of our institutions are corrupt. That's why I just shrug when people talk about Soros and Gates and the WEF. Even if they disappeared, we'd still be in the same World Of Shit.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (qpX6U)

269 I recognize one of them. Weird for a disease that killed 200M Americans don't you think?

It wasn't until summer that anyone in politics announced they got it. None of them even went to the hospital. I strongly suspect that the rich and powerful are getting regular HCQ treatments.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (KZzsI)

270 Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 23, 2020 06:07 PM (Kpl3J)
His son is an even more hateful megalomaniac.

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (uEbPt)

I'm hoping the son is lazier than George and slightly less driven. It'd be awfully easy for him to slip into complacency, and just let the fronts he's set up do the work.

But I could see George plugging away for another decade. Why he can't get dementia, or cancer, or even fucking chlamydia...

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (8B6Ng)

271 That crazy Iranian chick had the right idea when it came to dealing with Big Tech censorship.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (0CMdT)

272
The people claiming this is some sort of impossibility are lying.

Just as they lied when they said how difficult it would be to bring back the economy. They are lost in their honeycomb brains.

Trump will cut to the chase next term.
He said so.
I believe him.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 23, 2020 06:13 PM (SpZxj)

273 Unbelievable. Good thing they crack down on all the other political demonstrations using the same criteria...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 23, 2020 06:11 PM (I2/tG)

But a number of people think the Democrats will "forget COVID" on November 4th...

Posted by: ... at September 23, 2020 06:13 PM (uEbPt)

274 The City of Portland just denied the Proud Boys a permit to assemble in a Portland city park on Saturday, citing "COVID concerns".

They should (and probably will) do it anyway, just like antifa and BLM do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:13 PM (KZzsI)

275 next day people started writing "PRESS" on their hats while throwing Molotovs.

-

Press medic

(tucks 9mm in belt)

Posted by: Undercover brother at September 23, 2020 06:13 PM (0Y/m7)

276 Which is actually a valid move. Because the "press" isn't like an elected office. Its just a job. Anyone can be in the press, if they gather and report information. This idea that there is this sanctified PRESS *heavenly choir* which is set apart and a noble, special thing distinct from the rabble is bullcrap. I have a blog, in which I write down news: I am a reporter, I am part of the press, publishing news.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:11 PM (KZzsI)

Until the ACLU ois given the power to recognize who is or isn't a reporter. OR was it SPLC that was angling for it?

Posted by: Bete at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (Ojki1)

277 271 That crazy Iranian chick had the right idea when it came to dealing with Big Tech censorship.
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (0CMdT)

Right idea, bad marksmanship

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Mostly Peaceful, Free WA, Buy Ammo at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (ifmtJ)

278 I strongly suspect that the rich and powerful are getting regular HCQ treatments.
***

My take is no asymptomatic spread - so everyone they come into is getting a temp check first.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (qlFIA)

279 It's going to take as long as it takes. I trust Barr, he is probably Trump's best appointee and he also has a calendar. We have 40 days.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 06:09 PM (ZLI7S)

Yeah, I get it. Just wait. It's coming any day now, if not by the time they say, it will be later.

Can we call election day a hard and fast deadline? If it doesn't happen by then, we can just raise our glasses and say "we'll always have Clinesmith."

Barr said May, too. #twoweeks is snark but, umm, you get it, right?

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (ZfRYq)

280 I watched sidebar video of Judge Stickman's smack down of Governor Wolf's tyrannical Covid orders. It's merciless and beautiful. Stickman is a young Trump appointee.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (H8QX8)

281 Trey Gowdy (and every other Republican in those committees) still refuses to tell us why he hid the testimony by the former Obama officials from us.

Why he decided it was more important for the Russian hoax to go on than the truth to come out.

Why, it's almost as buried as the dick in his ass.

Posted by: RoyalOil at September 23, 2020 06:15 PM (aO8Gd)

282 But a number of people think the Democrats will "forget COVID" on November 4th...

***

If Trump gets re-elected and is not going to give the blue states a COVID bailout they aren't going to have a choice.

I mean they could fire a bunch of state and local employees and cut government retirement benefits.....sorry, I feel on the floor laughing.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:15 PM (qlFIA)

283 280 I watched sidebar video of Judge Stickman's smack down of Governor Wolf's tyrannical Covid orders. It's merciless and beautiful. Stickman is a young Trump appointee.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (H8QX

First name Based?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at September 23, 2020 06:15 PM (NWiLs)

284 Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yeah? Well, Trump better not try to appoint anyone to replace him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at September 23, 2020 06:16 PM (+y/Ru)

285 Which is odd, because this helped mine, because we could send things south of the border at last, whereas once we couldn't.

Indeed, the company I worked for had to build a whole new facility
with which to make money off of Mexico. It turned into a cash machine
for them. And led to the hiring of tons of people in the United States.

I lost a pretty good manufacturing job the day NAFTA went into effect on 1/1/94. The company shut down the entire plant and moved it to Mexico and only took the family's management people with them.

Nearly 100,000 small manufacturing businesses were forced to close over the next few years, gutting the middle class (who just so happened to be grassroots Republican supporters).

Sundown Joe was quoted at the time saying he knew NAFTA would cost American jobs, but he voted for it anyway. That's why B'Gal and I are just barely getting by. I should be making around $75K a year as a machinist by now, which is what they told me I could expect when I started Toolmaker Apprenticeship school in the early '80's.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at September 23, 2020 06:16 PM (HaL55)

286 Posted by: Ordinary American at September 23, 2020 06:14 PM (H8QX

I didn't see that, but thanks for the positive news!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2020 06:16 PM (WkPC9)

287 They should (and probably will) do it anyway, just like antifa and BLM do.

Of course. Think Antifa asks for permits?

The mayor today put out a statement denouncing the Proud Boys, saying that they had no right to assemble in Portland. Funny the COVID is only a worry when Proud Boys assemble.

If you can get it before a Trump-appointed judge, methinks there would be a huge civil rights suit in the works for viewpoint discrimination.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 23, 2020 06:16 PM (I2/tG)

288 Trump up

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (ufFY8)

289 There is something brutally wicked and twisted in a world where people will burn down cities, cause massive mayhem, even deaths because street thugs get entangled with the law - and lose. Yet, we need the President of the United States to formally sign an order to protect and give medical care to innocents born alive that were sentenced to death.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (66BnU)

290 228 The core part of controlled opposition is that the Republicans say what you expect an opposition party to say but then never actually stop the Democrats from doing what they want, let alone role it back.

Sometimes it is silly procedural things. Sometimes it is oh we need 60 solid Senators and the House and the Supreme Court and the judges on the Voice. Sometimes it is "the conscious" of one otherwise conservative legislator.

But to better understand this look at the Dems. How many times has a rightwing measure gone through because Dems have aided it (when it would have failed otherwise). How many times did the Dems get stopped by procedural nonsense?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (qlFIA)

There are issues where the GOP isn't allowed to win and there are issues where the Democrats aren't allowed to win. When you look at those areas the political desires of our ruling class become apparent. Low taxes with a lot of loopholes for the wealthy, and a very, very friendly attitude toward big business. However, the GOP is never allowed to win a social issue. No matter how many Justices Trump appoints abortion will never be endangered. These general policies clearly matches up with the preferred policy choices of the large donors.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (50gG9)

291 As far as the rioting goes. If the politicos want it stopped the cops can stop it.
_see last nights clip of Mayor Daley saying, - if they have a Molotov cocktail shoot them
_see last nights clip of Florida Sheriff illustrating
-this is a demonstration, this is a riot. If you riot you will go to jail.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (SpZxj)

292 Louisville PD Livestream

https://bit.ly/302qdDY

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (yQpMk)

293 Louisville "protestors" hanging around, aimlessly, waiting ...

If you guessed "for nightfall," go to the window to collect your winnings.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (0A3LU)

294 I watched sidebar video of Judge Stickman's smack down of Governor Wolf's tyrannical Covid orders. It's merciless and beautiful.

The entire point of emergency powers is all about there being an actual emergency to respond to. By every possible definition of the term, there IS NO FREAKING EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW if there ever even was one, with the Wuhan Flu. But I know of only one person in authority who has dropped emergency status (DeSantis), the rest are retaining their power indefinitely without any slightest suggestion of the criteria for ending it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (KZzsI)

295 267 I'm taking down my Fathead poster of Jordan in his wrestling tights now. Dammit.
Posted by: Blaster at September 23, 2020 06:12 PM (L89u9)

Are you socking me?

Posted by: blaster at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (ZfRYq)

296 Since Twitter wants things to burn, start with their stuff.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (tE8fj)

297 PDT talking vaccines.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (ufFY8)

298 Trump finally up

whitehouse.gov/live

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (rjE57)

299 So I took a look at all the celebrities that have died from Wuhan flu and....

https://tinyurl.com/y6yda2kk

I recognize one of them. Weird for a disease that killed 200M Americans don't you think?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:10 PM (qlFIA)

Ive heard of 4 of them (assuming Annie Glenn is John Glenn's widow), but they're all (but 1) quite elderly, overweight, or both. Plus I don't trust any death finding anymore; they're paid to put Covid as the cause of death if they can't rule it out.

Posted by: LASue at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (Ed8Zd)

300 >>Barr said May, too. #twoweeks is snark but, umm, you get it, right?

If only there was something that happened that shut down the courts for almost 4 months and made face to face interviews difficult and hindered travel particularly international travel that hit earlier this year.

It would have to be something enormous. Something on the order of a worldwide pandemic.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (ZLI7S)

301 Four themes summarized on the first page began with a brief acknowledgment of conservatives concerns, calling "political bias in Big Tech" a "problem that must be highlighted so that consumers are aware, the market can respond, and lawmakers can evaluate options."

Consumers aware and market respond? What? Make your own Facebook so the original Facebook can pressure google into blocking ad revenue, Paypal, MC and Visa from accepting payments, citibank from hosting business accounts, and microsoft from allowing use of its servers and software, not to mention Apple keeping the app out of its app store? Oh. That never happens.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (dNzKv)

302 monoclonal antibodies!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (ufFY8)

303 Twitter's commissars and workers can censor, block, shadowban, or deplatform anything they want, without consequence, for any reason they wish even if its crazy or stupid -- they even are doing it to the freaking President of the United States.

Yes, eventually they tend to reverse these decisions, and put stuff back up or let it go out more, when appealed and the outcry hits them. But here's the thing...

Twitter is very fast. Anything that's scrolled off your main page, you probably won't see or have forgotten about. It rolls off so fast you can't really go find old posts easily.

So by the time they go "oopsie, we fixed it" that ship has sailed, and there's no negative consequence whatsoever for that action, but they have this plausible 'we did the best we could' answer to complaints.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05

Late to the thread but I would add some kind of legal punishment too for the commissars.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (qk31/)

304 Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Won't make a bit of difference when he goes. His kids are alive and all of the organizations are organisms all their own.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (HzNRy)

305

Johnson and Johnson final stages of vaccine. 4th company.

funding to distribute the vaccine to high risk individuals

Operation Warp Speed

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 23, 2020 06:18 PM (rjE57)

306 Louisville "protestors" hanging around, aimlessly, waiting ...

If you guessed "for nightfall," go to the window to collect your winnings.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (0A3LU)

I hope they're all rounded up while the sun is still out. Confiscate their cache and put them in jail for the night.

Posted by: LASue at September 23, 2020 06:19 PM (Ed8Zd)

307 Soros is 90 years old. He can't be around that much longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo

******

Meanwhile:
Andrew Breitbart - age 43
Antonin Scalia - age 79
Everyone with Dirt on the Clintons - asstd

Posted by: Blaster at September 23, 2020 06:19 PM (L89u9)

308 I had invested in stocks doing monoclonal antibodies, and cloned mice, going back about 20 years. And now a President actually said those words, lol.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 23, 2020 06:19 PM (ufFY8)

309 >>Ok, they may be right on this one. Another angle released by Telemundo.

Okay, sorry but what the hell is even saying there at the end - about having lost the thread or something?

Not sure this does anything for Team Punch n Jody...

First, if the goal here was to convince everyone (everyone being his media fweens) you would do a wide angle including interviewer and Punchy there asking and answering questions in the normal back and forth, not this cropped shit where you first see Biden, then the interviewer, then Biden for the answer and so forth - its way to staged to be the natural back and forth they desperately need you to believe.

Second, what is with this dark sterile interview stage set up? Are they in some studio bunker or what? Interviews are done in the light, not down in the janitors broom closet. Is is because Punchy has eye problems?

Posted by: Boswell at September 23, 2020 06:19 PM (w2LAm)

310 Sundown Joe was quoted at the time saying he knew NAFTA would cost American jobs, but he voted for it anyway. That's why B'Gal and I are just barely getting by. I should be making around $75K a year as a machinist by now, which is what they told me I could expect when I started Toolmaker Apprenticeship school in the early '80's.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Joe Biden killed my career at September 23, 2020 06:16 PM (HaL55)

Last I looked, and admittedly it's been awhile, TX has a $10 billion trade SURPLUS with Mexico.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 23, 2020 06:19 PM (4JLkY)

311 Levin saying reviewing the Louisville case today the boyfriend who started the tragic chain of events and wounded a police officer is not being charged at all.

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2020 06:20 PM (OjZpE)

312 Nood.
Top 8ish still for sale.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at September 23, 2020 06:20 PM (7Fj9P)

313 Where is the statement that Breonna Taylor's family has accepted $12 million, in large part, to compensate them for their "pain and suffering"?

Any report on the case that omits that fact is creating an error of omission. #FakeNews

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at September 23, 2020 06:20 PM (EMi53)

314 Why settle for monoclonal antibodies when we could have polyclonal posibodies? Think outside the box.

Posted by: We're Serving Up gp, Hot And Fresh at September 23, 2020 06:21 PM (qpX6U)

315 292 Louisville PD Livestream

https://bit.ly/302qdDY
Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 23, 2020 06:17 PM (yQpMk)

I read how the Portland Police did the same thing and it was so effective that the rioters sued to shut it down.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 23, 2020 06:21 PM (ZCr9+)

316

noood, ya know

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 23, 2020 06:22 PM (rjE57)

317 Soros might have the ruling ring

One ring to rule them all,
and it the darkness
Bind them

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2020 06:22 PM (OjZpE)

318 140 Joe Biden did not use a teleprompter in Telemundo interview, CNN and Politico confirm

The teleprompter is plainly visible in the wide shots. He is obviously reading from it. But I guess that's just my lying eyes, who'd believe that?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:52 PM (KZzsI)

I saw the video clip, and it's clear that he was reading from a teleprompter, and they superimposed the video question on a screen afterwards.

Unless there are newfangled TVs out there, you would see the flicker if they were filming the segment with a live TV on.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 23, 2020 06:23 PM (6xA3t)

319 >>>290 228 The core part of controlled opposition is that the Republicans say what you expect an opposition party to say but then never actually stop the Democrats from doing what they want, let alone role it back.

Sometimes it is silly procedural things. Sometimes it is oh we need 60 solid Senators and the House and the Supreme Court and the judges on the Voice. Sometimes it is "the conscious" of one otherwise conservative legislator.

But to better understand this look at the Dems. How many times has a rightwing measure gone through because Dems have aided it (when it would have failed otherwise). How many times did the Dems get stopped by procedural nonsense?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 23, 2020 06:05 PM (qlFIA)

There are issues where the GOP isn't allowed to win and there are issues where the Democrats aren't allowed to win. When you look at those areas the political desires of our ruling class become apparent. Low taxes with a lot of loopholes for the wealthy, and a very, very friendly attitude toward big business. However, the GOP is never allowed to win a social issue. No matter how many Justices Trump appoints abortion will never be endangered. These general policies clearly matches up with the preferred policy choices of the large donors.
Posted by: DFCtomm

...

all very cynical, and therefore all very close to the truth.

Posted by: ace at September 23, 2020 06:23 PM (PbpT7)

320
So next day people started writing "PRESS" on their hats while throwing Molotovs.
Posted by: blaster

The Three Stooges took the flush handle off the toilet. It said "PRESS" on it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 23, 2020 06:25 PM (63Dwl)

321 The solution is an executive order banning all US communication networks from carrying data from companies which use the networks to influence US elections without registering with the FEC.

The is the approach being used against chyna, and it could apply here too.

Tell twitter to F. O. and get by without airwaves (public controlled) or utilities. Then go down the list to the other companies.

Make them BEG the feds to turn their platforms into public space where free speech is upheld (like,... malls.)

Also, I heard Scott Adams say we need to force companies like tiktok release their algorithm. (ie, open source it to prevent manipulation.) I have been saying that for about a decade re. facebook, amazon, google search,,...

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 23, 2020 06:25 PM (LWu6U)

322 163 Not sure all the people f-cked by the railroads tariffs wouldn't recognize this.

Well there was a lot of bad in the Gilded Age too, but my point is that there's none of the good in this one. We got railroads and bridges and electricity and dams and all the rest from the Gilded Age.

In this one we get... another Call of Duty, but this time with the OK symbol banned.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 23, 2020 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

Yes. What I mean by Gilded Age II is too complicated to explain well in this forum and too prone to misunderstanding. That is why I clipped the name, but I just couldn't resist when this subject arose.

Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with fake science, omnipresent surveillance, and extra grift at September 23, 2020 06:25 PM (BRkq2)

323 TR thought it had gone too far too and he was a bully chap.

Posted by: Gilded at September 23, 2020 06:26 PM (BRkq2)

324 They are inside the wire.

Posted by: That guy who says they are inside the wire at September 23, 2020 06:28 PM (1eJby)

325 36 If it makes you feel any better, Billy Bagpipes and the DOJ submitted a proposal today to Congress to strip social media companies including google from 230 protection.

The DOJ doesn't take money from Google.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 23, 2020 05:34 PM (ZLI7S)

Love it Jack, but let's see if Congress buries it.

Posted by: clutch at September 23, 2020 06:29 PM (9UmRs)

326 Lee Atwater understood this in the 80s. This is not R v. D, or even rich v. poor. It is productive class v. the leech class.

Basically, everyone in DC is leech class. Most working for gov. are leech class. Everyone on welfare is leech class. AND, much of the wealthy are leech class. (certainly everyone working for their foundations is.)

This was the Reagan revolution. Problem is that that squelched the leach class down enough that the leeches went to ground and concentrated their efforts (academia, increased immigration, ccp buggery, etc.) and have risen.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 23, 2020 06:32 PM (LWu6U)

327 Love it Jack, but let's see if Congress buries it.
Posted by: clutch at September 23, 2020 06:29 PM (9UmRs)

Of course it will be buried. Nothing changes as long as people are capable of, generally, making a living. That is what's so bizarre about 2020. Look at it this way. America has only worked these last 20 years because of bread and circuses. It kept the average person from needing to take a really hard look at what our leadership was doing. However, in 2020 the establishment decided it was a really good idea to attack the bread and the circus. This policy change is frightening, and means that something is about to fundamentally change.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 23, 2020 06:34 PM (50gG9)

328 Jim Jordan is a great American!

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at September 23, 2020 06:36 PM (sWM8x)

329 This policy change is frightening, and means that something is about to fundamentally change.
Posted by: DFCtomm

A C change. As in D Day.
Real.
I hope.

Posted by: MarkY at September 23, 2020 06:38 PM (I2X0u)

330 A C change. As in D Day.
Real.
I hope.
Posted by: MarkY at September 23, 2020 06:38 PM (I2X0u)

They seem incompetent and to have gotten in way over their heads, but how did incompetent morons beat us time after time? There were brains there once, but it doesn't matter because I don't think they can stop this now, that it's started, and Trump doesn't appear eager to save them from all those little tigers they created and tried to ride.

Posted by: DFCtomm at September 23, 2020 06:41 PM (50gG9)

331 Sorry I'm not taking a vaccine for a virus with a 0.025% mortality rate among a reasonably healthy population. I dont care if it comes with Trump's seal of approval or not.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at September 23, 2020 07:04 PM (0CMdT)

332 Jim Jordan: Shocked, I'm just shocked. This time I'll pull in TWICE the number of regular suspects.

Posted by: jim at September 23, 2020 07:15 PM (ynpvh)

333 331
Sorry I'm not taking a vaccine for a virus with a 0.025% mortality rate
among a reasonably healthy population. I dont care if it comes with
Trump's seal of approval or not.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at September 23, 2020 07:04 PM (0CMdT)

I may, as I am part of the unhealthy population at high risk for COVID (plus I don't protest and riot, so I have no protection).

Posted by: jim at September 23, 2020 07:17 PM (ynpvh)

334 Jim JORDAN???? oooohhh, FUDGE. I thought he was one of our few good guys.
Goddammit.

Posted by: Beverly at September 23, 2020 11:37 PM (iPsvI)

335 Let's explore how to redefine social media to something else. They do NOT produce their content, they distribute it. Perhaps a new category - apart form "the press" - could be defined. Their monopolistic policies should then be regulated like utilities.

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