Anger And Hatred Is No Basis From Which To Create A Political Philosophy, But The Left Sure Is Trying!

There is a visceral, irrational hatred that manifests itself among a certain kind of left-of-center American. We have all seen the videos of some inarticulate, sputtering maniac spouting furious talking points about how Trump is the Devil and Republicans will murder immigrants and take away your rights and force women into servitude and on and on and on.

It is on this continuum that are the people who burn buildings and riot and destroy, and it is because of them that I cannot put a Trump sign in my front yard or a conservative bumper sticker on my car.

They want us silenced, and to get their way are willing to violate the social compact and subvert the political philosophy that is the bedrock of this country's institutions.

They constantly threaten to leave, to destroy, to change; everything but what many (we will find out in a couple of weeks whether it is most) Americans really want, which is to live their lives in freedom, with the opportunity for success that isn't contingent upon government.

But what strikes me as most irrational, most untethered from reality, is their anger with and hatred for the typical American who just wants to live a good life with family and friends and perhaps his church, and not worry too much about what goes on in the halls of Congress and the Supreme Court and the state houses of America.

What is it about America that makes them seethe with rage? Why has our success, our unprecedented freedom -- both economic and civil -- made them envious of other political systems that control and manipulate and restrict their citizens?

It makes no sense, and I have become weary of trying to understand and engage and perhaps convince them that there is another way, that there is accommodation to be had with people whose political opinions are perfectly legitimate, but simply different.

Here is a reasonably conservative writer who seeks honest engagement with Bruce Springsteen; one of the most famous examples of exactly the sort of mindset that has made American political discourse a horrid, angry, ignorant mess. Dear Bruce Springsteen: Here Is My Letter to You is a mildly interesting exposition of the differences between the two men, but it carefully ignores the most important part: Bruce Springsteen's world view does not allow any other political philosophy. Because while Springsteen's words may not specifically foment violence and insurrection; the people he supports are perfectly happy to burn down cities to get their dystopia.

The writer is eloquent and accommodating and quite willing to find some middle ground, but we have arrived at a point in our history that suggests to me: "Why Bother?" Let Springsteen go to Australia (Bullshit. He will never leave America...it's far too great a life!) without trying to engage him in an honest political debate. Because there is no honesty in that debate. Our words are unacceptable to these people, and their goal is simple; to shut down political debate and change the greatest country in history into a sort of Euro-West.

Andrew Breitbart was correct.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 FIRST!

Posted by: Two Weeks From Bitchslapping Christians Into Reality at October 25, 2020 12:02 PM (8YFRI)

2 They threaten us, degrade us, gaslight us, tell us that we can't survive without them, constantly demand that we accommodate their ever-changing whims.

It's an abusive relationship. If this were happening to a friend we'd tell him to leave her.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2020 12:03 PM (sTnpX)

3 I'm glad I was able to experience the America where most people wanted to mind their own business and black people were briefly believed to be just as intelligent, capable, and family oriented as white people.

Also I just saw that Biden has Texas locked up.

Posted by: Undercover Brother is the third monkey at October 25, 2020 12:05 PM (+UZ7V)

4 I nooded

Posted by: Hunter Biden at October 25, 2020 12:05 PM (2N7oZ)

5 The left's philosophy?...."My Way or the Highway".

Posted by: BignJames at October 25, 2020 12:06 PM (AwYPR)

6 As far as I can tell, the only two major contributions from Blue areas are Big Finance and Big Tech. And you know what, I think we Deplorables could do just fine without them. We keep agriculture, mining, manufacturing, faith, the Constitution, and pretty much everything else.

Posted by: Bettey Marcineaux at October 25, 2020 12:06 PM (jvQ5d)

7 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:07 PM (BJLVZ)

8 I miss Tom Joad. *sob*

Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at October 25, 2020 12:07 PM (EgshT)

9 They threaten us, degrade us, gaslight us, tell us that we can't survive without them, constantly demand that we accommodate their ever-changing whims.

It's an abusive relationship. If this were happening to a friend we'd tell him to leave her.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

I survive just fine without the left. Have for a long time.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:08 PM (BJLVZ)

10 The Clinton Archipelago!

Its vulnerability is that it has to import all its food and fresh water.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Xenomorph Queen at October 25, 2020 12:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

11 Communism made me filthy rich. Wait, wut?

Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (EgshT)

12 They threaten us, degrade us, gaslight us...

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Speaking of which, I'm one of the few exempted from wearing masks, I went shopping at a Sprouts, where the cashier clerk started shrieking at me to wear a mask or she wouldn't check out my items. I tried to explain my exemption, but she started blabbering about it being store policy, then called the manager and ran away.

The manager was MUCH nicer, I explained to her the reason for not wearing a mask, partly to raise awareness for my disability, and she finished checking out my items.

I wrote to Sprouts and told them for a woke company they could give two fucks about the disabled, and suggested lawyers that specialize in ADA lawsuits would be very interested to learn about their store policy and how it fucks over the disabled.

Fuckheads.

We can't be passive about this. As much as I hate having evil eyes on me while I shop maskless, somebody needs to stop accepting the premise that this is all about our safety and start challenging this bullshit.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule my Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (8YFRI)

13 Another canard of the left is they should have a right to tell red states how to live their lives because of how much "The blue states subsidize red states" --supposedly in how much $ they send to the federal government vs how much they get back.

Obviously any metric of who contributes what and who gets what back is subjective. I don't even know if the numbers add up by their own argument. And, if one argues that the primary contribution of the citizen to the Republic is in the form of military service, and sacrifice, I think the "red states" would be far, far in the credit vs the blues, especially in the past generation.

Philosophically, of course, there is no equating revenue collection/distribution with what should be the federalist structure of our constitution, or the individual liberties guaranteed by our Bill of Rights. But they really do think this way.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:11 PM (w/5KC)

14 There is a reasonably conservative writer who seeks honest engagement with
Bruce Springsteen; one of the most famous examples of exactly the sort
of mindset that has made American political discourse a horrid, angry,
ignorant mess. Dear Bruce Springsteen: Here Is My Letter to You

I'm working on a slight variation of that letter. Mine is entitled: Dear Bruce Springsteen: Here is My Butt, Up Which You May Jump. What do you guys think?

Posted by: pep at October 25, 2020 12:11 PM (v16oJ)

15 somebody needs to stop accepting the premise that this is all about our safety and start challenging this bullshit

Kind of late for that. You know, genie meets bottle, horse meets barn.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 25, 2020 12:12 PM (EgshT)

16 That accent that Bammy is using is just a little racyst

but the left thinks the population has arrived at majority stupid, so it might work

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:12 PM (R3uW8)

17 I miss Tom Joad. *sob* Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at October 25, 2020 12:07 PM (EgshT)>>>
I was wondering if that old codger has been doing any concerts firing-up the youngsters to get out and vote. Dems are like ancient insects trapped in amber.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 12:13 PM (LGXGf)

18 11 Communism made me filthy rich. Wait, wut?
Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (EgshT)

I'm sure Bruce's investments are only in the most noble, profit-free things./

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:13 PM (ONvIw)

19 " change the greatest country in history into a sort of Euro-West."
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American civnats and your hatred for Europe; Europe isn't awash with riots and human poop on the sidewalks.

You don't have the integrity to describe the demographic changes to the US which makes the present US so degraded and which means the future of a Leftist US will not resemble Europe.

Posted by: jaycee at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (ih9Up)

20 Repost from earlier today for those that were recovering from their MoMe hangovers.

Sunday Morning Math (sorry)

We had some discussion of Florida early voting last night, so I put together a spreadsheet based on the current early voting results.

Based on multiple polls early voting intentions are that 60% of Democrats, 30% of GOP, and 34% of Non Party Affiliated (NPA) plan to early vote in Florida.

I went back and looked at the 2016 results, growth in registration, and the shift in registration strength by each party.

In order to end up with the same results as 2016, each party should expect to see the following number of early votes:

Dem - 2,568,561
GOP - 1,317,634
NPA - 1,056,870

Current performance as of 10/25:
Dem - 2,290,670
GOP - 1,903,762
NPA - 1,030,518

Over/under performance:
Dem - (277,891)
GOP - 586,128
NPA - (26,352)

Conclusions: The Republicans are over a half million ahead of where they need to be on 11/2. This shows that some of that election day voting is getting in early and enthusiasm.

The Democrat lack of enthusiasm is showing, they are at about 90% of where they need to be to even eek out the same loss that Hillary had. They have 9 days to close this gap. It should be doable given they have this Sunday and next Sunday to get their voters to the polls.

But overall the Dems are not banking enough of a lead, and are lagging the GOP by 850K votes. They either need a big drop in GOP election day performance or a heavy vote from the NPA group.

These results do not say to me that there are enough Karens in Florida, that can't wait to get rid of OrangeManBad, to swing this for Biden

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (5p7BC)

21 Bruce Springsteen and his ilk are the enemy. I don't care to find common ground with the enemy.

Posted by: PacosMojo at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (spiZY)

22 "Stay Safe" is the new seig heil. Virus!! VIIIIRUSSSS!!! Fear! Narrative!! Second Wave!!! Stay safe = submit. Grovel. Shut down your business and like it. Disfigure and depersonalize yourself with the mark of the beast mask of shame. We're Scienceing here!! Vote kamaltoe!

Posted by: Banned at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (eosX4)

23 I'm with you CBD. We can't put anything even remotely right-leaning out in front of our house, or on our cars, we would be very sorry very quickly.

We fly an American flag in front of our house, and it has a light on it so that we can leave it up 24/7.

Used to be, the majority of the houses on the block would also fly the flag. Not any more, we have the only flag flying. US Flags have been replaced with BLM signs, and that goofy Creed the Athiest/Leftists have adopted (you know the one, "In this house, we believe Science is Real, Love is Love, blah blah blah")

We will sell this house someday, and leave this bankrupt state in which we live, but there are family ties, not to mention that j*b thing (you know the thing, c'mon man!) that can't be moved to a different location. We are here till we are no longer employed.

Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (oGBso)

24 That accent that Bammy is using is just a little racyst

but the left thinks the population has arrived at majority stupid, so it might work

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:12 PM (R3uW

Why is he never accused of "acting white"?

Posted by: BignJames at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (AwYPR)

25 when I am out exercising (walking briskly), and come upon a masked person, I make sure to give them 12 (or more) feet of clearance. No mask, normal pass on 6ft wide walk path. (definitely withing 6ft as we both are on the path)

Posted by: projection on steroids at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (V9NdA)

26 St. Louis County shows up on the map as deep blue, and I think even that is misleading. Until very recently, St. Louis County skewed Republican, but as more and more people move out of the city, the county has turned blue.

Still, elections remain close, and it could... could go back. I assume it's deep blue from the last Prez election. I do think it's possible after a few weeks here, we're could see a map that has a lot more of those blue areas turned red.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:15 PM (hku12)

27 this is not difficult

NYC/DC/SV runs this country

they are just going to show you, no matter what it takes

even getting China to bring a virus here

the powerful always make out better in chaos

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:15 PM (R3uW8)

28 Personally I think it's great that all of Springsteen's concerts are free. Truly a man of the people.

Posted by: Mr. Barky at October 25, 2020 12:15 PM (b7h7p)

29 To these well meaning people who want to engage the left:

You may not believe in Evil.

Evil believes in you, and has you on its list.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2020 12:16 PM (CQ8KO)

30 Good Morning all.

The 5th Texas MoMe is in the books and I have a whole bunch to say. I am probably going to be guilty of threadjacking and I hope you will bear with me.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 25, 2020 12:17 PM (CKxoR)

31 21 Bruce Springsteen and his ilk are the enemy. I don't care to find common ground with the enemy.
Posted by: PacosMojo at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (spiZY)

Bruce, like John Lennon, is a raging hypocrite and poseur. Nice estate for a "man of the people". But his words inoculate him from their anger.

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:17 PM (ONvIw)

32 Kind of late for that. You know, genie meets bottle, horse meets barn.

************

https://youtu.be/zsqo1H-up_g

Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule my Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:17 PM (8YFRI)

33 18 11 Communism made me filthy rich. Wait, wut?
Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (EgshT)

I'm sure Bruce's investments are only in the most noble, profit-free things./
Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:13 PM (ONvIw)

Didn't this clown have his land in NJ classified as farmland so it would be taxed lower, even though it was questionable agricultural property?

I think Bon Jovi did the same thing.

Cheapskates.

Posted by: Marybeth at October 25, 2020 12:17 PM (4pK1/)

34 When I walk in NYC (still required for my job) I typically go nude-faced. I get occasional dirty looks etc but I"m not the only one.

Need I mention that every other "mask" I pass is worn under the nose, or under the chin? And of course one passes between rows of outside diners, all maskless, whose Covid particles are magically transformed to harmless fairy dust by the act of being seated in a "licensed" eating establishment.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:17 PM (w/5KC)

35 Interestingly, I saw TRUMP 2020 signs in a very blue hood. Gutsy and cool.

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:18 PM (ONvIw)

36 Trump adding Maine to his stops today

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:19 PM (ngzjr)

37 Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (5p7BC)

If Trump wins FL by 100K, election will be close and he might lose

250K, Trump wins

north of 350-400K blowout for Trump, maybe 350 EV

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:19 PM (R3uW8)

38 A commenter at American Thinker yesterday posted an extensive list of all the Democrat crimes investigated by the FBI and DOJ, et al., in which there were "no crime, no arrests, no indictment", and a horrific thought occurred to me.

That Infamous Clinton Body Count? None of them needed killing. All those Arkancided, for nothing at all, because nobody's crimes were ever going to see justice, ever, regardless.

Maybe this is why there isn't a Biden Body Count. Or one named after any other criminal family in D.C. The rest of them must see how stupid the Clinton cabal was: nobody needs to die. Except Epstein, I suppose. And probably not even him. Because nobody is going to see justice anyway.

(Good morning! Sunday morning!)

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at October 25, 2020 12:19 PM (OssQ4)

39 OT, but wanted to respont to AH Llloyed grand REALPOLITIK:
"Borders are never permanent.

Pretending that the 1945 Yalta conference was divinely inspired and its lines can never change is silly.

Yalta was result of a MAJOR WORLD WAR. Different reality now. Or are you propositn a war to shift some borders ?

In fact, Europe has already seen the lines move. Look at the Balkans.

That was a result of 1) A Cold War carried out for 50 years or so, civil war and a mini Revolution.

The Kalingrad Enclave is a source of vulnerability as much as an advantage, and the Art of the Deal is about highlighting the negative costs of keeping it with the positive gains of getting rid of it.

Why do we care about Kaliningrad ?

Russia doesn't need to worry about European invasion, it needs to worry about Central Asia and China.

Maybe, but they've ben dealing with them longer than we have. They always worry about them.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 25, 2020 12:07 PM (cfSRQ)

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:19 PM (zr5Kq)

40 Good Morning all.

The 5th Texas MoMe is in the books and I have a whole bunch to say. I am probably going to be guilty of threadjacking and I hope you will bear with me.

Posted by: Ben Had

Let 'er rip!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:19 PM (BJLVZ)

41 Communism made me filthy rich. Wait, wut?
Posted by: Bruce Stringbean at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (EgshT)

I'm sure Bruce's investments are only in the most noble, profit-free things./
Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:13 PM (ONvIw)

He got all butthurt when people misunderstood his "Born In the USA" song. Bunches of yokels bought his records, showed up at his concerts and sang themselves hoarse with the chant.

They took it to mean the opposite of what he thought it meant. Because they were stoopid stoopidheads.

Sure had no problem cashing the checks though.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:19 PM (hku12)

42 Bruce, like John Lennon, is a raging hypocrite and poseur. Nice estate for a "man of the people". But his words inoculate him from their anger.
Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:17 PM (ONvIw)

He takes his ag exemptions. Total hypocrite.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable chump at October 25, 2020 12:20 PM (hGohp)

43 10 The Clinton Archipelago!

Its vulnerability is that it has to import all its food and fresh water.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Xenomorph Queen at October 25, 2020 12:09 PM (Dc2NZ)

Peruvia is a superior place to live.

Posted by: Barry Soetero at October 25, 2020 12:20 PM (9IdCK)

44 Black women fall for Bammy's phony BS

however, Black men see Bammy as a real goofus

last "man" picked on asphalt

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:20 PM (R3uW8)

45 I have to run out to finish putting things back in order but I will be back in a couple of hours.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 25, 2020 12:21 PM (CKxoR)

46 To ben had: I didn't do the thing! I swear! You know, the thing.

In all seriousness, what you arranged was lovelier than ever!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2020 12:21 PM (CQ8KO)

47 It makes no sense, and I have become weary of trying to understand and engage and perhaps convince them that there is another way, that there is accommodation to be had with people whose political opinions are perfectly legitimate, but simply different.
====

At the great TxMoMe, this general theme was discussed over and over by Morons.

Between the shooting, great food, liquor, and tall stories, of course.

And of course, the incredible, irreplaceable people

Morons rock.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (3YCch)

48 We had some discussion of Florida early voting last night, so I put together a spreadsheet based on the current early voting results.

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What do you think of the stats at

https://targetearly.targetsmart.com

This is where I generally go to see early vote returns, but their default setting is MODELING (as the returns show a forecast model, not the actual tally), but it's the only site where you can get a sense of how each party is doing in ballot returns for states that don't report party affiliation.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule my Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (8YFRI)

49 My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Le Sigh.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

50 We can't be passive about this. As much as I hate having evil eyes on me while I shop maskless, somebody needs to stop accepting the premise that this is all about our safety and start challenging this bullshit.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule my Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (8YFRI)

This.

**You should see the Valentines card I got from Hope.**

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (axyOa)

51 Sorry about the OT comment so early.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at October 25, 2020 12:23 PM (OssQ4)

52 49 My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Le Sigh.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

you had one job

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:23 PM (R3uW8)

53 St. Louis County shows up on the map as deep blue, and I think even that is misleading. Until very recently, St. Louis County skewed Republican, but as more and more people move out of the city, the county has turned blue.

Still, elections remain close, and it could... could go back. I assume it's deep blue from the last Prez election. I do think it's possible after a few weeks here, we're could see a map that has a lot more of those blue areas turned red.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:15 PM (hku12)
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The McCloskey's are from St. Louis county, aren't they? That couple being prosecuted for defending their property from a mob?

I would hope that might sway some sane voters to see they could be next, but I dunno, here in my equally blue county it's like people are wearing those masks over their eyes instead of their noses, none so blind as those who refuse to see.

Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 12:24 PM (oGBso)

54 Trump adding Maine to his stops today

***********

ME-2 District, I think it's just one EV vote but he's not taking any chances.

Trump campaign clearly doesn't think Colorado or Virginia is winnable though (or maybe it is, and it's simply not critical for an electoral victory).

Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule my Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:24 PM (8YFRI)

55 I wasn't even old enough to drive when Born in the USA came out and I knew it was anti-American song. I never understood how people thought it was a rah rah rah USA USA USA song. And I'm the type of person who usually doesn't even listen to the lyrics of a song, lol

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (22mNy)

56 Le Sigh.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

Dude...

Can you maybe at least convince her to sit this one out?

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (Vt61E)

57 This post really resonates with me after an especially disturbing conversation with a friend I had several days ago.

I have never discussed politics with this woman, and I was OK with that. But she started steering our conversation in that direction. She told me she was tired of lockdowns, tired of BLM-type looting, tired of being told she was "privileged" in life, etc. Tells me how hard she works at her job. Then she says, "And then there's the election."

Naturally, I'm thinking we have common ground, right?

She then blurts out, "I have to vote for Biden, because Trump hurts the environment. And nothing is more important than that."

Rather than get agitated, I mentioned my own points about why I would not vote for him. She answers: I've never heard about any of those things.

Her final thought was something to the effect of, "Biden won't be running anything, anyway. It will be that woman. I can't remember her name."

This is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.

I really need smarter friends.

Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (TdS97)

58 every thing the left is engaged in is designed to suppress the Trump voter

Polls, early voting, media

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (R3uW8)

59 And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously. Le Sigh.

****

When is the divorce?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule My Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (8YFRI)

60

They can't hate - they say they are against hate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2020 12:26 PM (63Dwl)

61 The McCloskey's are from St. Louis county, aren't they? That couple being prosecuted for defending their property from a mob?

I would hope that might sway some sane voters to see they could be
next, but I dunno, here in my equally blue county it's like people are
wearing those masks over their eyes instead of their noses, none so
blind as those who refuse to see.

Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 12:24 PM (oGBso)

No, they live in a well-off area of the City of St. Louis, but if I remember my geography of the area they're not that far from the border with St. Louis County.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 12:26 PM (/wAhO)

62 Thinking about why Trump is making this New Hampshire stop, it isn't really critical for the electoral vote map. He might be trying to help the Senate candidate and the two House candidates.

This looks like a play to help down ballot races.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:26 PM (5p7BC)

63 https://bit.ly/34uqySG
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Memo suggests FBI opened Manafort probe before Trump hired lobbyist but gave no warning | Just The News

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (ngzjr)

64 Once you're out of the urban areas and start talking to folks like myself and my neighbors, the idea of impending civil war isn't even debated anymore, even among many of the normies. It's become a given, an absolute certainty. Most discussions of it are simply reflections on the "when" and "how" questions. It's simultaneously frightening, hilarious and gratifying - people who laughed and said "conspiracy theory" even just ten years ago, are now fully on board and preparing, and considering their options.

Perhaps the most disturbing comments have come from elderly people I know. To paraphrase one local graybeard: "I have COPD, I'm not getting better. If I'm still alive when it happens, I'll do whatever needs done to take a ton of them with me, and I mean whatever needs done."

I don't know whether to be proud, terrified or both.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (+3rQF)

65 every thing the left is engaged in is designed to suppress the Trump voter

Polls, early voting, media
Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (R3uW

But that motivates Trump voters, does it not ?

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (zr5Kq)

66 somebody needs to stop accepting the premise that this is all about our safety and start challenging this bullshit.>>>
This is why I haven't returned to church. If I go along with the mask sham I am endorsing it. I very much miss the Mass and the Eucharist, but I'm not sure how much I'd get out of it whilst sitting in a pew masked and seething. I do not know how I'm going to get my mind right about this. I do not want to validate a lie.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (LGXGf)

67 59 And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously. Le Sigh.

convince her to do an mail in and then toss it on the way to the PO

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (R3uW8)

68 Bruce Springsteen hasn't been relevant in 30 years

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (ngzjr)

69
My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city
council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona
case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after
all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Le Sigh.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

Show her data for deaths (which are falling) and hospitalizations (which are falling too). Case numbers would be a stupid metric even if it were not being manipulated.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (nAiE/)

70 Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule my Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:10 PM (8YFRI)

Has anyone ever actually seen Two Weeks from.... and Miklos..... at the same time?

Continually coming up with creative nics as they both do is a special skill. One that I can't replicate, but certainly appreciate.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (3YCch)

71 I never understood how people thought it was a rah rah rah USA USA USA song

**************

Reminds me of people also believing Police's Every Breath You Take was a love song to be played at weddings, rather than actually being a stalker song about kidnapping the object of your obsession and locking her in your basement.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule My Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (8YFRI)

72 The left is and always has been about controlling others.

They pretend to be do-gooders and water walkers, but it's all a sham to keep you in your place, a place they decide you should be and don't dare think for yourself.

Whenever a lefty tells you what to do, tell them MYODB.

If that doesn't work, knock the shit out of them. A couple of good whacks and the likes of Bruce Springstain start singing a different tune.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (Z+IKu)

73 This is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.

I really need smarter friends.

Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (TdS97)

And this woman truly thinks that voting for Biden/Harris will suddenly put a stop to all of the things she's tired of?

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (/wAhO)

74 What is it about America that makes them seethe with rage?

Daddy, why did you beat up mommy?

"Because she knows I like my steaks medium rare."

*proceeds to beat up junior for asking*

If you can understand and condone this, you might be a leftist.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (Z4rgH)

75 My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city
council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona
case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after
all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Le Sigh.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

grounds for le Divorce ?

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (zr5Kq)

76 Was out trout fishing with my son and I had to pass some people in the park who were watching their toddlers on the playground; others were walking their dog.

Very few people were even around, but several had their masks on. What on earth are they even afraid of under these circumstances? Seems like a breeding ground for paranoid hypochondriacs.

Posted by: DC at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (onMzM)

77 62 Thinking about why Trump is making this New Hampshire stop, it isn't really critical for the electoral vote map. He might be trying to help the Senate candidate and the two House candidates.

This looks like a play to help down ballot races.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:26 PM (5p7BC)

___

In 2000 Bush won with 271. Had he lost NH we would have had President Gore.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (22mNy)

78 The 3 most eloquent words spoken to leftists...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (3H9h1)

79 I marked my ballot this morning, as did Mrs. D, and I'll drop them in the collection box today or tomorrow. Despite her personal dislike of Trump, she realized that he's a much better choice than Biden or, in reality, Harris. It won't make a difference in our state's electoral college outcome, since we live in the People's Republic of Oregon, and Portlandia will have the final say. You'd think 120 plus days of anarchy would have some effect, but nah.

Posted by: PabloD, make commies fly again! at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (qXPmL)

80
Dude...

Can you maybe at least convince her to sit this one out?

Posted by: Jordan6

Or go with that dreamy Green party candidate.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (51WJ2)

81 But that motivates Trump voters, does it not ?
Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (zr5Kq)

what it is designed to do and what it does

just might be different

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (R3uW8)

82 Has anyone ever actually seen Two Weeks from.... and Miklos..... at the same time?

***********

I didn't realize I had a competitor.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Behold Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (8YFRI)

83 Reminds me of people also believing Police's Every Breath You Take was a love song to be played at weddings, rather than actually being a stalker song about kidnapping the object of your obsession and locking her in your basement.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Asking Amy Barrett to Rule My Printed Out Marriage License to Hope Hicks Valid at October 25, 2020 12:28 PM (8YFRI)

Or like how Boys of Summer is about a stalker ex-boyfriend instead of a wistful summer's ending nostalgia song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (x8Wzq)

84 I hear that rhinovirus cases are skyrocketing!

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (w/5KC)

85 & Prince's Little Red Corvette was not about a car

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:30 PM (ngzjr)

86 59 And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously. Le Sigh.

Good thing she's not here in NorCal... Even though we have the strictest "rules" some think it doesn't apply to them.. Case in point.. On my morning walk in a nearby park all the fields are full of soccer players... Signs clearly say Fields closed except for practice... It's not "practice" when you bring a bunch of spectators which it clearly says you can't... I bet I sound like a Karen on this.. Let me explain.. The soccer players are all Hispanic as is their Families.. Not a mask among them.. Do I sound racist? I'll just say that the majority of the new "cases" in my area are Hispanic.. To the tune of 70%... Sorry for the rant but seriously

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:30 PM (Zmnko)

87 64 Once you're out of the urban areas and start talking to folks like myself and my neighbors, the idea of impending civil war isn't even debated anymore, even among many of the normies. It's become a given, an absolute certainty. Most discussions of it are simply reflections on the "when" and "how" questions. It's simultaneously frightening, hilarious and gratifying - people who laughed and said "conspiracy theory" even just ten years ago, are now fully on board and preparing, and considering their options.

Perhaps the most disturbing comments have come from elderly people I know. To paraphrase one local graybeard: "I have COPD, I'm not getting better. If I'm still alive when it happens, I'll do whatever needs done to take a ton of them with me, and I mean whatever needs done."

I don't know whether to be proud, terrified or both.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 25, 2020 12:27 PM (+3rQF)

The more I ruminate on this whole Civil War 2 thing, the more ludicrous it seems to me. Really, if the wheels come off and the cops run, it'll take about a squad sized element of semi trained people to stop one of these antifa/blm riots. Enough of those happen, the movement dies.

This whole drawing lines between suburbs/small towns/urban stuff ends when the SNAP cards run out and the urban dwellers realize that the infrastruture they burned down no longer provides them with electricity or running water. Eventually the agitators will be killed by some of the very mobs they lead who will be sick of this shit and want to go back to being a "normie."

Anyway, that's my take. It's worth about a shot of Valu-Rite Vodka.

Posted by: Jack Burton, who was born ready at October 25, 2020 12:30 PM (1+Jvs)

88 St. Louis County shows up on the map as deep blue, and I think even that is misleading. Until very recently, St. Louis County skewed Republican, but as more and more people move out of the city, the county has turned blue.

Still, elections remain close, and it could... could go back. I assume it's deep blue from the last Prez election. I do think it's possible after a few weeks here, we're could see a map that has a lot more of those blue areas turned red.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:15 PM (hku12)
------------------------------

The McCloskey's are from St. Louis county, aren't they? That couple being prosecuted for defending their property from a mob?

I would hope that might sway some sane voters to see they could be next, but I dunno, here in my equally blue county it's like people are wearing those masks over their eyes instead of their noses, none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 12:24 PM (oGBso)

No, they're actually in the city. The city is lost... in almost every way.

The county has wide swaths of areas that are solidly red, and indeed as far as Congressional districts go, there are two districts that take up most/all of the county. The first district is also comprised of most/all of the city, so that's going to be a Democrat district, now and forever.

The second district though is solidly Republican, and has been for quite some time. It added some territory the last time it was redistricted, and I think the Democrats were pissed with how the redistricting went, because they basically lost the extra seat in Missouri.

So while St. Louis County might... MIGHT swing for Biden this year, it's due to the... eh, shall we say, darker areas of North County.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:31 PM (hku12)

89 Thinking about why Trump is making this New Hampshire stop, it isn't really critical for the electoral vote map. He might be trying to help the Senate candidate and the two House candidates.

This looks like a play to help down ballot races.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:26 PM (5p7BC)
*********
PDT is the Terminator he is going all out to win everything within reason

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:31 PM (ngzjr)

90 According to the map, only 5 IL counties outside of the Chicago metro area orbit went blue in 2016: Rock Island (Quad City area adjacent to Iowa), Peoria (central IL), Champaign (eastern IL, home to University of IL), St. Clair (E. St. Louis), and Jackson (just south of there; home to Southern IL University).

In the case of Peoria Hillary won by less than 2%; not surprising, for a former blue collar bastion that's lost thousands of jobs in the past 30 years or so. Lack of enthusiasm for Biden among minorities and blue collar whites might put Peoria back in the red column this time around. Students being gone from the respective campuses might also make the vote closer in Champaign County and tilt Jackson County back potentially into the red column. Finally, a possible wild card in Rock Island County is the fact that its businesses have been competing with the much freer state of Iowa throughout the pandemic.

You may be surprised to know that the red counties include Sangamon -- home to the state capital of Springfield; the city itself is blue leaning but surrounding communities are red -- and Macon (Decatur, also a declining blue collar town).

I am still convinced that a longshot Trump upset is possible in IL if Biden gets less than 80% of the Chicago vote.

Posted by: Secret Square at October 25, 2020 12:31 PM (9WuX0)

91 re: my wife

1. Her vote doesn't matter really since our state is not in play

2. It's useless trying to talk sense into her. She gets her news from Facebook and whatever her iphone news app pops up. Hunter emails don't exist, Trump thinks Covid is a hoax and Biden is a really nice guy.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:31 PM (22mNy)

92 American civnats and your hatred for Europe; Europe isn't awash with riots and human poop on the sidewalks.

Posted by: jaycee at October 25, 2020 12:14 PM (ih9Up)

Really? First of all, you clearly haven't been in Europe. Second, I don't hate Europe; I love it, and am sad that it is decaying.

But please, tell us all about the filthy undesirables in America: speak truth to power dude!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2020 12:32 PM (xT2tT)

93 What do you think of the stats at

https://targetearly.targetsmart.com

Posted by: Two Weeks
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They are generally seen as being accurate for their early vote totals. They have the advantage of being able to get close for states without party ID. They lean left, but their data is respected by some people I respect.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:32 PM (5p7BC)

94 Lolly Pop wasn't really about candy.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at October 25, 2020 12:32 PM (OssQ4)

95 The reason we can't get a handle on the virus is the younger people are getting exposed and giving to older people

and when older people ask the youths about their behavior

they reply "of course I've been good"

like the have for centuries

they never do drugs, drink or smoke

NEVER

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:32 PM (R3uW8)

96 This is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.

********************

Having worked in or known people in academia, I have come to the conclusion that people with postgraduate degrees are very very stupid people with a better vocabulary.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:32 PM (8YFRI)

97 91 re: my wife

1. Her vote doesn't matter really since our state is not in play

2. It's useless trying to talk sense into her. She gets her news from Facebook and whatever her iphone news app pops up. Hunter emails don't exist, Trump thinks Covid is a hoax and Biden is a really nice guy.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:31 PM (22mNy)

Brother I am in the same boat. My vote ain't in play in WA State and the wife and I both cancelled each other out.

Posted by: Jack Burton, who was born ready at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (1+Jvs)

98 Explosive piece today at American Thinker: "Forget the Hunter Biden sex tapes. The real news is much bigger than that." If the allegations therein are true, we have a much, much bigger problem on our hands. We are talking about HIGH TREASON committed by a former U.S. Vice President, now candidate for the highest office in the land. Facebook is blocking the article, removing it, per several commenters in the comments section. FTA: "Biden identified CIA assets in China. The back story is that, between 2010 and 2012, China executed or imprisoned 18 to 20 assets who had bravely worked with the CIA, destroying a critical intelligence network."

Posted by: JeanneMarie at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (P0j2W)

99 Good morning! Sunday morning!

Posted by: hogmartin at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (bkCMZ)

100 13 Another canard of the left is they should have a right to tell red states how to live their lives because of how much "The blue states subsidize red states" --supposedly in how much $ they send to the federal government vs how much they get back.

Instead of comparing subsidies of Blue and Red states, a better comparison would be Red states to Blue megacities.

Blue big cities are a money sink, I'm guessing.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (3YCch)

101 Well, I wonder how Insom did at the MoMe. He did, after all, volunteer to be the moving target at the live fire exercise.

Posted by: Old Blue - Deplorable Trump Chump at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (VNmG1)

102 And she's decided she's on Team Joe after
all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.
Le Sigh.

Posted by: Asshoes

grounds for le Divorce ?
Posted by: runner

I was going to say, but didn't want to.
How can anyone stay married to anyone who is so diametrically opposed to what one believes in?
You don't have to agree on everything, but the main points, yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (BJLVZ)

103 NEW @trafalgar_group Post Debate Poll:

Michigan:
Trump 49% (+2)
Biden 47%
Jorgensen 2%

Florida:
Trump 49% (+2)
Biden 47%
Jorgensen 2%

Arizona:
Trump 50% (+3)
Biden 47%
Jorgensen 2%
10:11 AM � Oct 25, 2020

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (ngzjr)

104 Similar story regarding typically smart friends but just insane views on reality. Had a lawyer Friend, well educated liberal and successful tell me he thinks Trump will lose by more than 6 million votes. When i said he has a great chance for the electoral college map though, he just couldnt understand why it is set up that way. Completely refused to believe the EC matters. I am still scratching my head a week later.

Posted by: Eli Cash at October 25, 2020 12:34 PM (67sg6)

105 Read a story that the FBI ignored the laptop because they didn't think a Court would believe the computer guy who turned it in... Pay no attention to what was on it...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:34 PM (Zmnko)

106 sorry Trafalgar PDT is not up the same in Fla as Michigan & More in Arizona

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:34 PM (ngzjr)

107 'Cases' are going up because at least in my county if you test pos for the general tso's sicken you get your mortgage paid for the month and they drop food boxes at your door. The 8 marijuana dispensaries within 2 miles of me all deliver too! So its like winning the fucking loto if you get a false pos or asymptomatic pos result. The free test site across the street from my biz always has lines around the parking lot.

Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (ozPhh)

108 The passive right who keep placating and acquiescing to people who want them dead is something that needs to be spoken about, too. Having that mindset and continuing to say things like, "Golly, I just want to live my life in freedom." or "Gee-whiz, please don't kill my family and burn the city down. We're all Americans, dontchaknow." is a cancer and one of the main reasons leftists control everything.

Posted by: joe joe at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (UXHfL)

109 Good morning! Sunday morning!
Posted by: hogmartin at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (bkCMZ)

*waves from SeaTac*

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (Vt61E)

110 What would you like to listen to for the next 4

Trump making you laugh

or China Joe screaming at you

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (R3uW8)

111 If true, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will go down as the worst traitor in American history. That is not an exaggeration.

Posted by: JeanneMarie at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (P0j2W)

112 Since the generaly hypocricy and insufferability of the left is being discussed, it amazes me that in the whole Amy C B discussion no politician has pointed out that the only reason Ruth "Love Me Some South African Constitution" Ginsberg vacated her seat in an "election year" is that she kept her phoney baloney job for several months if not more than a year after being medically disabled to try to game the system.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (w/5KC)

113 Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 12:24 PM (oGBso)

No, they live in a well-off area of the City of St. Louis, but if I remember my geography of the area they're not that far from the border with St. Louis County.
Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 12:26 PM (/wAhO)

Correct. Central West End, basically butts up against the swankier parts of St. Louis County, not far from Ladue, U City, and Clayton, which is the county seat.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (hku12)

114 Meetin of Minds with host Steve Allen, Episode 1

Featuring: Teddy Roosevelt, Cleopatra, Thomas Paine, Saint Thomas Aquinas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRxZSOqAYw

Posted by: Braenyard at October 25, 2020 12:36 PM (CZm2G)

115 Wheels down in NH...

Video of line to get in...

https://tinyurl.com/y6xrjttq

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 12:36 PM (cF8AT)

116 99 Good morning! Sunday morning!
Posted by: hogmartin at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (bkCMZ)

Helloooo Hogmartin!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Xenomorph Queen at October 25, 2020 12:36 PM (Dc2NZ)

117 Because there is no honesty in that debate.

-
I once read an opinion that one might date the beginning of WWII not from Hitler's invasion of Poland but rather from violation of the Munich agreement by taking all of Czechoslovakia rather than taking only the Sudetenland because this act proved that you could not negotiate with Hitler because he would not keep his word. This is where we are with the Springsteen/Pelosi/Schumers of the world. We either admit their superiority such that neither law nor morality nor logic apply to them or we fight.

Incidentally, another interesting thing from Children of Nazis discussed last thread, both Himmler and Goering believed that after the death of Hitler, the Allies would make an accommodation with them. Himmler thought the Allies would allow Nazi Germany to continue to exist with himself as the new Fuehrer. Goering repeatedly wrote Eisenhower seeking clemency believing Eisenhower would believe his noble knights, brothers in arms crap. Reminiscent of Schumer's closed door double secret negotiation asking the evil Republicans to delay ACB's confirmation until after the election because, hey, we're all friends here.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 12:36 PM (+y/Ru)

118 I was going to say, but didn't want to.
How can anyone stay married to anyone who is so diametrically opposed to what one believes in?
You don't have to agree on everything, but the main points, yeah.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (BJLVZ)

ok, rickb, let's find him a new wife

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (zr5Kq)

119 73 This is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.

I really need smarter friends.

Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (TdS97)

And this woman truly thinks that voting for Biden/Harris will suddenly put a stop to all of the things she's tired of?

I tried to engage her about what she sees on TV versus reality. She basically said, "Well, if those things that you're saying were true, they would talk about it on TV. Maybe if the news doesn't talk about it, it's because it really isn't true."

She said it to me in this very gentle voice, as if she were educating a 5-year-old about monsters in a closet.

Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (TdS97)

120 oh Ghost those are GREAT numbers

now we have to push to get the fact that Joe Biden gave the CCP our spy info, causing their imprisonment and murder, which is btw HIGH TREASON...

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (j9HX3)

121 My wife dislikes Trump on a personal level, because he reminds her of her late father, who was not a good dad. But she happily cast her vote for Trump because she knows he is quite possibly our last best hope.

She's awesome that way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (x8Wzq)

122 Two Weeks From Behold Miklos in a Mirror
-------
THIS is funny

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (5p7BC)

123
Read a story that the FBI ignored the laptop because they didn't think a
Court would believe the computer guy who turned it in... Pay no
attention to what was on it...

Posted by: It's me donna

We should ask why they subpoenaed it then.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (51WJ2)

124 96 This is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.

I used to meet a lot of those kinda folks in the NYC salesrooms

they would turn their noses up and say "there's nothing here of value"

my fav words evah

and then I would proceed to clean up

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (R3uW8)

125 If true, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will go down as the worst traitor in American history. That is not an exaggeration.
Posted by: JeanneMarie at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM

"C'mon, man!" -- Zombie Ethel And Julius Rosenberg

Posted by: Taqiyyologist at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (OssQ4)

126 Douglas Murray and Dennis Prager conclude that the left's ignorance of history is what makes them condemn the US:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yy2sw8hg

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 12:38 PM (6WbUY)

127 Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 12:36 PM (cF8AT)

Looks like most of the State!

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:38 PM (Zmnko)

128 111 If true, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will go down as the worst traitor in American history. That is not an exaggeration.
Posted by: JeanneMarie at October 25, 2020 12:35 PM (P0j2W)

I wish they'd drop the proof of this - very quickly. Maybe I'm wrong, but the allegations and proof have to have time to penetrate social and MFM, and to seep into the minds of the undecided and election day voters.

Posted by: Marybeth at October 25, 2020 12:38 PM (4pK1/)

129 105 Read a story that the FBI ignored the laptop because they didn't think a Court would believe the computer guy who turned it in... Pay no attention to what was on it...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:34 PM (Zmnko)

I read a story that most of the FBI is lazy good for nothing bums!

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 25, 2020 12:38 PM (JFO2v)

130 Has Chris Wray yet reported that he unfortunately dropped the Biden laptop in his bathtub while working late at home?

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:39 PM (w/5KC)

131 LOL!

https://tinyurl.com/yxua26z6

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 12:39 PM (cF8AT)

132 Is that the map from 2016 ?

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:39 PM (zr5Kq)

133 I've never been surprised to learn that somebody has a Masters. They always let you know.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Xenomorph Queen at October 25, 2020 12:39 PM (Dc2NZ)

134 Good morning! Sunday morning!

Posted by: hogmartin at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (bkCMZ)

*waves from SeaTac*

Posted by: Jordan61-2020

Sweetie, you and hubs are gonna faint when your wheels down in Spoke!!

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:40 PM (51WJ2)

135 oh Ghost those are GREAT numbers

now we have to push to get the fact that Joe Biden gave the CCP our spy info, causing their imprisonment and murder, which is btw HIGH TREASON...
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (j9HX3
******
They are good ! but I don't buy that PDT is up 3 in Arizona & up 2 in Fla. & MIchigan. If PDT is up 2 in Michigan & up 3 in Arizona I bet he is up more in Fla. nothing to back that up but Gut Feeling

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 12:40 PM (ngzjr)

136 Most blue cities have enclaves like what the McCloskeys live in

River Oaks in Houston and the Park Cities in Dallas

no matter how blue the city turns, you'll never get those folks to move

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:40 PM (R3uW8)

137 Having worked in or known people in academia, I have come to the conclusion that people with postgraduate degrees are very very stupid people with a better vocabulary.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:32 PM (8YFRI)

No huh!
My kollege make me smart!

Oh.

**Hope Hicks likes me more gooder**

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:40 PM (axyOa)

138 his is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.>>>
Similar story. Friend considers herself well-informed. When asked a couple of days ago what she thought about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, she said she was unaware of it. Also seemed shocked at Granpa Badfinger's inappropriate creepy behavior around little girls. MFM has really done a number on this country.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (LGXGf)

139 Sweetie, you and hubs are gonna faint when your wheels down in Spoke!!
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:40 PM (51WJ2)

Oh, is it that bad?

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (Vt61E)

140 Those who can't teach, teach college.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (w/5KC)

141 Look, I made sure insomnia got the full butter kit... they rest was up to him.

Posted by: lin-duh en nui! at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (W2taJ)

142 Why is it when these folks say they're leaving, it's always to some country like Canada and Australia? Maybe Switzerland?

What are some of the things all those countries have in common?

Shouldn't these (hypothetical) expatriates be a little more diverse in their selections and, for example, move to a place where they are a little less privileged?

Since they never mean it anyway, they should at least pretend they're open to living in, say, Iran.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (vJCwr)

143 121 My wife dislikes Trump on a personal level, because he reminds her of her late father, who was not a good dad. But she happily cast her vote for Trump because she knows he is quite possibly our last best hope.

She's awesome that way.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 25, 2020 12:37 PM (x8Wzq)

Yay! Thanks, Pug Mahon's wife.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (6WbUY)

144 49 My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Has she been assigned her CCP/Google social identity score yet?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (3YCch)

145 your= you're, so sorry Sister Kevinpatrick.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (51WJ2)

146 ok, rickb, let's find him a new wife
Posted by: runner

Do we have any single 'ettes?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (BJLVZ)

147 Win Trump wins, he will settle all accounts on Nov 4th

Wray and Fauci are toast

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (R3uW8)

148 I'm sorry to say that I am near that isolated little blue square in the middle of Georgia, but both PDT and DT Jr have been here within the last week. Meanwhile, the Ridin' With Biden drew 6 cars.

I would be very surprised if Macon goes for Trump though, seeing as how the city is slap full of dumbass Democrats.

Posted by: f'd at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (9Xy6q)

149 Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg
-----------
Those are good numbers. Slight move in Trump's direction off their last polls. Makes sense after the debate.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (5p7BC)

150 136 Most blue cities have enclaves like what the McCloskeys live in

River Oaks in Houston and the Park Cities in Dallas

no matter how blue the city turns, you'll never get those folks to move

unfortunately for Philly ours is I guess Society Hill. and they are right in Center City and for damn sure moving!

the outer areas - maybe Chestnut Hill? but that's not that nice anymore. North Philly infects the nicer outer boros - even the Greater Northeast is getting ragged.

we'll see. but yeah I don't think Philly has a place like that

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (j9HX3)

151 99 Good morning! Sunday morning!
Posted by: hogmartin at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (bkCMZ)

Never not funny!

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (6WbUY)

152 Le Sigh.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

It's a virus, flattening the curve extends the outbreak it doesn't squash it. Eventually you'll hit a herd immunity for one strain, then another will come along. This hide from the virus shit is shit.

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (ONvIw)

153 Why is it when these folks say they're leaving, it's always to some country like Canada and Australia? Maybe Switzerland?

What are some of the things all those countries have in common?

Shouldn't these (hypothetical) expatriates be a little more diverse in their selections and, for example, move to a place where they are a little less privileged?

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos

Nuevo Laredo.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (BJLVZ)

154 How can anyone stay married to anyone who is so diametrically opposed to what one believes in?

****************

That's part of why I'm still single. All the MAGA ladies I know are married. All the single ones I know are face diaper wearing Karens.

I knew I should have married in high school when everyone was still single and I had the chance.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (8YFRI)

155 Springsteen used to be big in the 1970s. Today's moldy oldies show, not so much.

Posted by: Desultory joe at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (L9P9s)

156 Oh, is it that bad?
Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (Vt61E)

They had a bit of snow.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (axyOa)

157 Anyone else from CA receive their second official ballot? Wife and I got ours on Saturday. Looks like a lot of people in our city did.

Posted by: Chunk Hunger at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (eIsKx)

158 Look, I made sure insomnia got the full butter kit... they rest was up to him.
Posted by: lin-duh en nui! at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (W2taJ)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (Vt61E)

159 Trump is like having Jackie Mason for President

who could not like that ?

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (R3uW8)

160 Do we have any single 'ettes?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (BJLVZ)

Are you new here ??

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (zr5Kq)

161 Y'all do know that a Chinese billionaire, and a critic of the CCP is dropping one piece of news (mostly video) an hour til the election, yes?
Those who are aware, where are you going to keep track?
(This is, as I understand it, independent of the laptop. Supposedly the blackmail that the CCP has on Biden).

Posted by: MarkY at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (vV8g8)

162 Speaking of Missouri and vigilanteism, here is an instructive case from 1981 --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

Ken was the town bully, and a Very Bad Dude. The townsfolk finally had their fill of him in 1981, which was very bad for his health.

The events that day have been the subject of many a play and movies. The final scene in Roadhouse springs to mind.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (Z4rgH)

163
It's an abusive relationship. If this were happening to a friend we'd tell him to leave her.
Posted by: Colorado Alex
---------

The common on-the-street Democrat is absolutely emblematic of Battered Wife Syndrome. This is even more true of 'minorities'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (WZ5i4)

164 Wray and Fauci are toast
Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (R3uW

He should have replaced Wray a few months in, same with Bagpipes Fatty

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (ONvIw)

165 Oh, is it that bad?

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench

Heh, define "bad". 20 degrees, 4-8 inches snow, streets are good, some folks still without power.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (51WJ2)

166 They had a bit of snow.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (axyOa)

I know, but I was hoping they'd be considerate enough to have it all cleaned up by now.

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (Vt61E)

167 Trump parade on 5th Ave right now according to the Twitterverse

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (j9HX3)

168 I've actually concluded that "flatten the curve" is entirely regressive. It basically allows our medical institutions to experiment on the concentrated urban poor of color, who get the virus ahead of affluent suburbanites and rural white Americans.

So by the time everyone else gets it they've worked out the bugs and have better therapeutics.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (w/5KC)

169 See, this is where the thread turns into marital advice thread. Which we at AOSHQ are famous for !

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (zr5Kq)

170 I wasn't even old enough to drive when Born in the USA came out and I knew it was anti-American song. I never understood how people thought it was a rah rah rah USA USA USA song. And I'm the type of person who usually doesn't even listen to the lyrics of a song, lol
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:25 PM (22mNy)

1984 was an interesting year. People who imagined Orwell's book coming true were in for something very different.

The Reagan juggernaut was running at full steam, the Soviets were on their heels, and the dominant even of that summer was the Olympic games, which the Soviet Union was boycotting, due to Carter's boycott of the '80 Moscow games.

So the Americans were basically winning every frickin' thing at the Olympics, which were in Los Angeles, and here comes Brucie, trying to write a stinging rebuke of America.

People weren't stupid, not anywhere near as stupid as he thought they were, and they basically told Bruce to stick it in his ear, and turned his anti-American song into an anthem.

Personally I hated the song, but hey, that's just because my musical taste has ALWAYS been better than everyone else's.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (hku12)

171 Nuevo Laredo.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (BJLVZ)

Ciudad Acuna

I like it seedy

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (R3uW8)

172 Do we have any single 'ettes?
Posted by: rickb223
-------

Give me a call...

Posted by: Tickled Pink at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (830x5)

173 Wray and Fauci are toast

*********

Wray is definitely toast, verified that Trump is going to dump his pissant little deep state ass.

I don't think Fauci is fireable, but Trump is planning to either push him into retirement or send him to some kind of bureaucratic purgatory.

I'm thinking Honey Badger Trump Part 2 is going to be a lot more careful now in who he hires.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (8YFRI)

174 Has anybody seen the article at American Thinker on the leaks coming out of Taiwan and the allegation that Biden gave up CIA assets in China who were subsequently imprisoned and/or executed?

Posted by: old5.0 at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (h7B6F)

175 Newsmax has several really good shows, and among them are Diamond and Silk. Today they were ridiculing P. Duffy for wanting to start a black only political party. They said it was weird that even though he's so woke, he doesn't realize blacks are only 13% of the population so they'd have trouble getting a majority!

Posted by: Chillin the most at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (lonOK)

176 Do we have any single 'ettes?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (BJLVZ)

Are you new here ??
Posted by: runner

All the ones I know of are married, 'cept for nurse.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:46 PM (BJLVZ)

177 Oregonian here, my wife was probably default registed a dam when she moved here, never voted never cared about politics. The dems are hand witing postcards and mailing them out to registered dems, not that stupid fake handwriting font.. Real, like 'this is little suzzy, please get out and vote so orange man bad doesnt make me into a hand maiden blah blah..' Never seen that before.

Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 12:46 PM (ozPhh)

178 I never understood how people thought it was a rah rah rah USA USA USA song

-
Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?) And now, the new Barbie:

https://bit.ly/34tOzJe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 12:46 PM (+y/Ru)

179 Another point made to me earlier this morning on another blog: most of the blue state governors that rural/small town residents are ticked off at due to their strict lockdowns -- Pritzker, Whitmer, Newsome, Cuomo, Evers, etc. -- are elected in the midterm years and are not on the ballot this year. (Inslee in Washington is an exception, he is on the ballot this year.) Therefore, a vote for Trump is one effective way for conservatives to signal disapproval of them.

Another possible draw for conservative voters in IL this time is the so-called "Fair Tax" Amendment referendum to replace our flat percentage income tax with a "progressive" income-bracketed tax structure. Conservatives who, in past years, might have felt their POTUS vote would make no difference will likely turn out to vote the amendment down and end up voting for Trump while they're there.

Posted by: Secret Square at October 25, 2020 12:46 PM (9WuX0)

180 And the Leaf Blower Wars continue apace in my neighborhood. Going on 5 non-stop hours of this. I know I sound like a whiny bitch but it really gets annoying after a while. End of rant.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 25, 2020 12:46 PM (EgshT)

181 I've actually concluded that "flatten the curve" is
entirely regressive. It basically allows our medical institutions to
experiment on the concentrated urban poor of color, who get the virus
ahead of affluent suburbanites and rural white Americans.

So by the time everyone else gets it they've worked out the bugs and have better therapeutics.

Posted by: Zek

Their "two weeks" seems to be the same as ours.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (51WJ2)

182 Nuevo Laredo.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (BJLVZ)

Ciudad Acuna

I like it seedy
Posted by: REDACTED

Tijuana. Donkey shows.
Don't get much more seedy than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (BJLVZ)

183 Heh, define "bad". 20 degrees, 4-8 inches snow, streets are good, some folks still without power.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (51WJ2)

I didn't know that power was still out in places. I got a notification that ours went out Friday night, but it showed as restored by the time I got up on Saturday morning.

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (Vt61E)

184 I was going to say, but didn't want to.
How can anyone stay married to anyone who is so diametrically opposed to what one believes in?
You don't have to agree on everything, but the main points, yeah.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:33 PM (BJLVZ)

I think JJ's wife doesn't even know he does the morning report.

It happens...

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (cF8AT)

185 Winch Wench and I went to our fav breakfast cafe, about 30 miles north of here in NW WI. Counted signs, as always. Trump outnumbered Biden by 6:1. We saw a very large (12'x8') Biden sign that had been defaced with the word LIAR across it in bright red paint. Both sides. I'm not thrilled with the defacement, but I've never seen a dem sign defaced, stolen, or run over. Not ever. It's always open season on Repub signs.

Posted by: Muad'dib at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (5fQpL)

186 Tijuana. Donkey shows.
Don't get much more seedy than that.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (BJLVZ)

where do you think I'm at !!

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:48 PM (R3uW8)

187 You can't argue with them and change their mind.

1) They didn't arrive at their position because of facts but due to feelings
2) They then convince themselves they have studied the issue and there is nothing left to learn--97% of all scientists agree, etc.

The biggest lie told by the left--and accepted far too long by the right-- is that both sides want what's best, they just have different opinions on how to accomplish that.

I'll put it this way: Buckley won a few converts but he never won a battle.
Countless battles have been lost because of all the energy wasted on trying to pusuade-- not on winning.

Imagine if, the last 40 years, instead of ceding that the left was merely an honest difference of opinion, they were treated as the illegitimate communists bastard swine they really are?

Posted by: RoyalOil at October 25, 2020 12:48 PM (aO8Gd)

188 See, this is where the thread turns into marital advice thread. Which we at AOSHQ are famous for !
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Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:48 PM (BJLVZ)

189 Trump exiting plane....

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 12:48 PM (cF8AT)

190 138 his is a woman with a Master's degree. Who believes herself to be "informed" and intelligent.>>>
Similar story. Friend considers herself well-informed. When asked a couple of days ago what she thought about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, she said she was unaware of it. Also seemed shocked at Granpa Badfinger's inappropriate creepy behavior around little girls. MFM has really done a number on this country.
Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (LGXGf)

I honestly thought I couldn't find anyone to compete with my MIL in terms of cluelessness. She is a champion in that regard.

In her real life, she dislikes socialism and is extremely protective of her money/retirement savings. She doesn't support rioting or voter fraud. But then she sits down to watch the CBS Evening News and comes away every time believing she just needs to vote Democrat and everything will be OK!

It frightens me how many people are like this.

Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 12:49 PM (TdS97)

191
I would be very surprised if Macon goes for Trump though, seeing as how the city is slap full of dumbass Democrats.
Posted by: f'd
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Ah...I miss the days of 'Machine Gun' Ronnie Thompson

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2020 12:49 PM (830x5)

192 Do we have any single 'ettes?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (BJLVZ)

Are you looking for a young single conservative woman?

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

193 "Stay Safe" is the new seig heil.

So true. "Just wear the mask" is the equivalent of "Just wear the armband". Just give the salute. Just say the words. You don't have to MEAN it - it just makes other people comfortable, and you don't want to be SELFISH, do you? Think about the others!

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 25, 2020 12:49 PM (8akOE)

194 I didn't know that power was still out in places. I got a notification that ours went out Friday night, but it showed as restored by the time I got up on Saturday morning.

************

My parents were looking to retire to Colorado but after it went Commierado they are looking at South Dakota, figuring the weather can still be temperate enough there during the winter. It's -2 now (or will be with 6 inches of snow in Rapid City. In October.

Sigh.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:49 PM (8YFRI)

195 where do you think I'm at !!
Posted by: REDACTED

I thought you went to the ping pong ball show.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (BJLVZ)

196 Young single conservative woman= unicorn

Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (ozPhh)

197 87

.....The more I ruminate on this whole Civil War 2 thing, the more
ludicrous it seems to me. Really, if the wheels come off and the cops
run, it'll take about a squad sized element of semi trained people to
stop one of these antifa/blm riots. Enough of those happen, the
movement dies.....

Posted by: Jack Burton, who was born ready at October 25, 2020 12:30 PM (1+Jvs)

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

A fair assessment, and I hope you're right. I just keep thinking about all those civilians who dressed up in their Sunday best and took picnic lunches to watch the First Battle of Bull Run, because they didn't want to miss seeing the war, which would certainly be over by the end of the day.

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Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (51WJ2)

199 Are you looking for a young single conservative woman?
Posted by: CN

Not me. Happily married to a hard right woman.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (BJLVZ)

200 82 Has anyone ever actually seen Two Weeks from.... and Miklos..... at the same time?

***********

I didn't realize I had a competitor.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Behold Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (8YFRI)

You have the day shift, Miklos has the night shift.

Ace.mu.nu is a 24/7 operation.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (3YCch)

201 Blue states subsidizing red states is one of the biggest left wing lies out there.

First off 40 states are net takers and 10 states are net donors. So blue and red states are subsidized by a handful of states.

But if you look at how the numbers are calculated it's a straight up how much federal tax does a state pay vs how much money does the federal govt spend in the state. And what what does the govt spend money on the most? Military and infrastructure. What states have the most military bases? Red states. And it costs a fuckton more money per capita to build a highway in Wyoming than in New Jersey. Bigger open rural states cost a lot of money per mile per capita. That's why the really small states like CT, NJ and MA are "donor" states.

But you know what state is never on the "donor" list? California. Which is because it's a) a big state with a lot of rural areas and b) has a lot of military. But leftists never quite put 2 and 2 together.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (22mNy)

202 Douglas Murray and Dennis Prager conclude that the left's ignorance of history is what makes them condemn the US:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yy2sw8hg
Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 12:38 PM (6WbUY)

Two people I agree with almost always, and I cannot listen to them talk for more than 30 seconds at a time.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (hku12)

203 How can anyone watch the size and enthusiasm of these rallies and think Biden will win?

Biden can't even campaign in one of his strongholds without getting heckled.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (5p7BC)

204 "Ah...I miss the days of 'Machine Gun' Ronnie Thompson "

I don't know if I ever told you before, but my MIL dated RT for a while. She has a copy of a Country album he recorded.

Posted by: f'd at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (9Xy6q)

205 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (jMD9L)

206 Woodpecker control advice.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp

*updated.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (BJLVZ)

207 that's great Insom! so glad to hear!

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at October 25, 2020 12:52 PM (j9HX3)

208 Are you looking for a young single conservative woman?

Posted by: CN

Heh, hell, just conservative woman!! (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:52 PM (51WJ2)

209 178 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 12:46 PM (+y/Ru)

Ha! Never heard that.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (6WbUY)

210 So who will be Harris's VP?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (pB6Gt)

211 205 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.

We expect a full report when you get back

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (Zmnko)

212 Those who can't teach, teach college.
Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:41 PM (w/5KC)

I teach (part time) at a local university. There are some good profs but it's been my experience the real teaching is done by the part-timers. We tend to blend theory with real world experience. Full time profs tend to teach their "facts" and worry about tenure.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (axyOa)

213 205 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (jMD9L)

SEEEEEEEEEEEE! Everyone told ya so!

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (cF8AT)

214 So who will be Harris's VP?
Posted by: humphreyrobot

Hillary. Who else?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (BJLVZ)

215 In other news, Pelosi plans to run for Speaker again if the Dems keep the House, although she'd really like it if they took the Senate too.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 12:54 PM (/wAhO)

216 Nuevo Laredo.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (BJLVZ)

Ciudad Acuna

I like it seedy
Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:45 PM (R3uW

Piedras Negras ftw.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable chump at October 25, 2020 12:54 PM (hGohp)

217 Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:48 PM (BJLVZ)

"How to" Sous vide your favorite backyard finds

(you forgot that one )

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 12:54 PM (zr5Kq)

218 Did they really call a lid? I guess the hobbesian choice of bleeding slowly from no response/campaign is better than letting him talk and blow it all up quickly in their calculations. I'm not sure it wouldn't be better to let him implode and try to make down ballot races about checking the executive.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 12:54 PM (7o4Oo)

219 168 I've actually concluded that "flatten the curve" is entirely regressive. It basically allows our medical institutions to experiment on the concentrated urban poor of color, who get the virus ahead of affluent suburbanites and rural white Americans.

So by the time everyone else gets it they've worked out the bugs and have better therapeutics.
Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (w/5KC)

I'm thinking about this, but I don't think so. If the hospitals had been overwhelmed, the wealthy would have gotten first dibs.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 12:54 PM (6WbUY)

220
I don't know if I ever told you before, but my MIL dated RT for a while. She has a copy of a Country album he recorded.
Posted by: f'd
-----------

Those were the days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (cGzEU)

221 We expect a full report when you get back
Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (Zmnko)

What happens at the MoMe stays at the MoMe...

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (jMD9L)

222 My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Le Sigh.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

you gotta go upside her head

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (oAY8z)

223
What happens at the MoMe stays at the MoMe...
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (jMD9L)

LOL... That good huh...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (Zmnko)

224 Heh, hell, just conservative woman!! (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:52 PM (51WJ2)

I keep telling you to come meet my mom.

Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (Vt61E)

225 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (jMD9L)

Good for you, Insom! Isn't it great to find out the people you like online are 3-dimensionally awesome?

Posted by: NaughtyPine - now with extra naughtiness at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (/+bwe)

226 210 So who will be Harris's VP?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (pB6Gt)

That Castro dude.

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (ONvIw)

227 I'll tell you this much, though: there was no sous vide.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (jMD9L)

228 I teach (part time) at a local university. There are
some good profs but it's been my experience the real teaching is done
by the part-timers. We tend to blend theory with real world experience.
Full time profs tend to teach their "facts" and worry about tenure.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (axyOa)

In university I took a seminar class that was taught by a former Ambassador to the UN. I can say for certain that of the dozen or so people in the class, I was by far the biggest skeptic of most of what he said.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (/wAhO)

229 I thought you went to the ping pong ball show.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (BJLVZ)

that's where I met my ex

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (R3uW8)

230 I teach (part time) at a local university. There are some good profs but it's been my experience the real teaching is done by the part-timers. We tend to blend theory with real world experience. Full time profs tend to teach their "facts" and worry about tenure.
Posted by: Diogenes

Best community college teacher I ever had was a part time instructor. He'd start a business, run it for a couple of years and then sell it. He would for a couple of years until he got tired and then go start another business.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (BJLVZ)

231 The biggest lie told by the left--and accepted far too long by the right-- is that both sides want what's best, they just have different opinions on how to accomplish that.

-
I used to believe that, that we all wanted a strong and prosperous America and the argument was merely about how to get there. Now, of course, I realize the argument is between America and Death To America.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (+y/Ru)

232 In her real life, she dislikes socialism and is extremely protective of her money/retirement savings. She doesn't support rioting or voter fraud. But then she sits down to watch the CBS Evening News and comes away every time believing she just needs to vote Democrat and everything will be OK!

It frightens me how many people are like this.
Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 12:49 PM (TdS97)

___

My inlaws.

They are big RVers so they have this monster gas guzzling truck. My FIL owns several guns. They are pretty socially conservative, my MIL still thinks ghey marriage is icky and should not be legal.

And yet they vote straight D in every election, for the party that wants to ban oil, ban guns and supports tranny library hour for kids.

I don't get it, I will never get it and I stopped trying to get it.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (22mNy)

233 Most discussions of it are simply reflections on the "when" and "how" questions.

****************

I imagine any civil war 2 scenario is going to be bizarre and chaotic. We had a more delineated map where it was north vs south in the past, but today we're more intertwined where the battle lines would be rural vs urban.

If were to bet, I would think the first act of secession would be Virginia counties merging with West Virginia, because I think that can be legally done.

Other acts of secession would be "illegal" because it requires the approval of the state legislature I believe. Colorado/California is one example, red counties that have expressed a desire to break away, but that has to be sanctioned by a blue state legislature, which will never approve it and will continue to harass and torment these red counties.

Texas and Alaska could be the first whole states that would break away because the secessionist movements are strongest in those states.

Then there's the whole question of whether these states can be completely self sufficient, or if they depend on resources from blue states. If so, how do they compensate? Do they declare war to seize assets in blue states, or try to work out new commerce agreements?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (8YFRI)

234 I'll tell you this much, though: there was no sous vide.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (jMD9L)

condolences

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (oAY8z)

235 Heh, hell, just conservative woman!! (smiley face icon here)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:52 PM (51WJ2)

I keep telling you to come meet my mom.
Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (Vt61E)

My mom's been single, going on 20 years.

She's lots of fun.

You gotta carry her oxygen tank everywhere you go though.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 12:58 PM (hku12)

236 210 So who will be Harris's VP?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (pB6Gt)>>>
Some Obama administration acolyte. Young enough to carry the torch after 10 years of Harris.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (LGXGf)

237 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.

Posted by: Insomniac
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[kicks dirt]

Dammit. I go through this resentment...no, it's something else, envy (?) every year, when I'm unable to attend a MoMe.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (bPH26)

238 Hawaii has a pretty strong secessionist movement, but they call it a Restoration movement.

Posted by: navybrat, at home at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (w7KSn)

239 "How to" Sous vide your favorite backyard finds

(you forgot that one )
Posted by: runner

*updated

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (BJLVZ)

240 Good for you, Insom! Isn't it great to find out the people you like online are 3-dimensionally awesome?
Posted by: NaughtyPine - now with extra naughtiness at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM (/+bwe)

It really is! Wonderful. Terrific, just terrific. Just the best people. Though there were only two people there I'd met
IRL before, it was very much like getting together with longtime friends - because it was.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (jMD9L)

241 The Left has been using hatred since 1789, actually works well for them.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (OjZpE)

242 The more I ruminate on this whole Civil War 2 thing, the more
ludicrous it seems to me. Really, if the wheels come off and the cops
run, it'll take about a squad sized element of semi trained people to
stop one of these antifa/blm riots. Enough of those happen, the
movement dies.....

Posted by: Jack Burton, who was born ready at October 25, 2020 12:30 PM

***

Rule 1. Never underestimate the opposition.
To get "enough of this to happen" requires coordination. Without that, the enemy gets a chance to recover, rearm, and reply. And you can see they are already connected. Their C2 is functional.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (axyOa)

243 My inlaws.

They are big RVers so they have this monster gas guzzling truck. My FIL owns several guns. They are pretty socially conservative, my MIL still thinks ghey marriage is icky and should not be legal.

And yet they vote straight D in every election, for the party that wants to ban oil, ban guns and supports tranny library hour for kids.

I don't get it, I will never get it and I stopped trying to get it.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (22mNy)

Union people?

my uncle was straight union, also racist and homophobic, but will vote D until he's in the grave

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (oAY8z)

244 I was traveling through Pasadena in LA County yesterday, and spotted graffiti on a couple of the pillars holding up a freeway overpass. The first said "Trump 2020", and the second said "CA Red" (both in red spray paint, of course). And Pasadena is not a Republican-friendly city.

I would be shocked if the California election numbers were even close. But I still can't shake the feeling that something interesting might be about to happen here.

Posted by: junior at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (PTw5h)

245 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.
Posted by: Insomniac
-----------
So your fear ended up being wrong?

Something to keep in mind in the future when the demons are whispering to you.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (5p7BC)

246
Hawaii has a pretty strong secessionist movement, but they call it a Restoration movement.

Posted by: navybrat, at home

Great! We'll use it as a "no fossil fuels" showcase!

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (51WJ2)

247 Can we talk Hawaii into taking California with them?

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (OjZpE)

248 Young single conservative woman= unicorn

************************

Not really true, a ton of them at rallies I believe, well I presume.

Now, young single conservative women that would find me attractive, THAT's a unicorn.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:01 PM (8YFRI)

249 Young single conservative woman= unicorn

Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (ozPhh)
-----------------------------------

Well there is that one young lady, Caitlyn maybe, who posed for her college graduation photos with a nice rifle...I think she's still going around to campuses and annoying commies at college.

Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 01:01 PM (oGBso)

250 The biggest lie told by the left--and accepted far too long by the right-- is that both sides want what's best, they just have different opinions on how to accomplish that.

-
I used to believe that, that we all wanted a strong and prosperous America and the argument was merely about how to get there. Now, of course, I realize the argument is between America and Death To America.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (+y/Ru)

Republican voters though, many apparently are still blind to the fact that we were sold out on, with China, with the middle east perpetual wars, and this notion that corporate America was "on our side."

When the Party purge happens, those are going to be the people I don't want around. and there are still a LOT of them in Washington. And elsewhere.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:01 PM (hku12)

251 My inlaws.

They are big RVers so they have this monster gas guzzling truck. My FIL owns several guns. They are pretty socially conservative, my MIL still thinks ghey marriage is icky and should not be legal.

And yet they vote straight D in every election, for the party that wants to ban oil, ban guns and supports tranny library hour for kids.

I don't get it, I will never get it and I stopped trying to get it.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (22mNy)

Ugh! Yes. Exactly.

Posted by: BethinPA at October 25, 2020 01:01 PM (TdS97)

252 My husband and I were on the same page politically. He was a registered Democrat (because that way he got to vote against Jerry Brown twice) but he always voted Republican. I used to tell him how to vote on propositions and stuff because I researched those things and he knew we would agree. I wish he were still around; he'd get a kick out of Trump.

Posted by: Bean Counteress of Rohan at October 25, 2020 01:01 PM (2+j2N)

253 Dammit. I go through this resentment...no, it's something else, envy (?) every year, when I'm unable to attend a MoMe.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (bPH26)

Have you been to any of them before? This was my first one.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 01:02 PM (jMD9L)

254 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?) And now, the new Barbie:

https://bit.ly/34tOzJe
Posted by: A
*********
Bernie Taupin was Reg Dwight's Lyricist only song that I know of that Elton wrote the lyrics for was Nikita

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:02 PM (ngzjr)

255 Union people?

my uncle was straight union, also racist and homophobic, but will vote D until he's in the grave
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (oAY8z)

___

Not union but gubmt employees. Which is a part of it, but not all of it. The biggest reason is where they get their info. They watch the national network news shows religiously as well as local news.

Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 01:02 PM (22mNy)

256 Never was a Springsteen fan, but the more I know about today's entertainers, the less enjoyment I can get from their work. I've mostly retreated to the past, watching pre-70s movies and TV shows. Those performers might have been lefties, but they didn't think they were evangelists who were ordained to bring the Good News of Mao or Lenin to the uncivilized.

Now I have to work hard not to find out what some modern performer thinks, because there's a 95% that it will be disgusting and insulting, and I'll have to remove them from the list of possible amusements.

I used to be a big Rifftrax fan, probably spent several thousand dollars at their site. Then Mike Nelson was targeted by SJWs for having a friend who said rude things about gays, and his co-workers ganged up on him until he apologized. It's not his collapse in the face of pressure that alienated me - not everyone is a hero - it was finding out what pieces of shit the other people at that place are. Bill Corbett is such a hater of Trump, God and common human decency, I decided it would be wrong to do anything to prevent his death by starvation, so I'll never buy one of their tracks again.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 25, 2020 01:02 PM (8akOE)

257 Greetings:

For me, it's sad that Bruce Springsteen continues to insist on broadcasting his politics. I grew uo in the Bronx of the '50s and '60s and suffered through the diaspora-white flight-ethnic cleansing of those times. My family lived in the same apartment house even after I left and until the dope and multicultural plagues made residency too much of a risk. My father was a truck drive in the local construction industry and, after my sister and I went off to high school, my mother worked as a court clerk.

I still believe that Mr. Springsteen had/has a rare artistic gift into the trials and tribulations of "working" class culture and experience and turning that gift into progressive polemics is more than a bit of a shame. From his artistic beginnings his music seemed more complex and stronger than most others of the time. But, these benighted days, it seems to be getting a little bit more difficult to listen to his earlier records as the earlier less emphasized politics seem a good deal more bothersome.

But, hey, what's a guy going to do ???

Posted by: 11B40 at October 25, 2020 01:02 PM (evgyj)

258 Then there's the whole question of whether these states can be completely self sufficient, or if they depend on resources from blue states. If so, how do they compensate? Do they declare war to seize assets in blue states, or try to work out new commerce agreements?
Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror

Texas can. We have our own grid. Cattle, pigs, chickens - Pilgrims Pride, vegetables. Dell computer. Ocean going ports - Houston & Corpus Christie. Oil. Natural gas.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 01:02 PM (BJLVZ)

259 ....And yet they vote straight D in every election, for the party that wants to ban oil, ban guns and supports tranny library hour for kids.

I don't get it, I will never get it and I stopped trying to get it.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (22mNy)

I know people like that. For the longest time brainwashed into "republicans are for the rich and dems are for the poor." Knew someone - gun owning , hunting, Catholic family. But..blue collar. So, Republicans are for the rich...

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 01:03 PM (zr5Kq)

260 Young single conservative woman= unicorn

Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 12:50 PM (ozPhh)
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Well there is that one young lady, Caitlyn maybe, who posed for her college graduation photos with a nice rifle...I think she's still going around to campuses and annoying commies at college.
Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 01:01 PM (oGBso)

You gotta be careful though. If you meet a woman named Caitlyn, and she seems nice and all, as discreetly as possible, check the package.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:03 PM (hku12)

261 Hawaii has a pretty strong secessionist movement, but they call it a Restoration movement.

Posted by: navybrat, at home

Great! We'll use it as a "no fossil fuels" showcase!

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (51WJ2)
--------------------------------

That movement in Hawaii is being entirely funded by Chy-na.

They would be "free" for as long as it would take for the Chy-na navy to show up and march them off to the camps.

Posted by: Boots at October 25, 2020 01:03 PM (oGBso)

262 238 Hawaii has a pretty strong secessionist movement, but they call it a Restoration movement.
Posted by: navybrat, at home at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (w7KSn)

I looked into this fairly extensively. And you all would be shocked to know the CCP is behind it, yet again. Much of the movement is fomenting an insurrection by the "locals" against the oppressors Haole who brought things like clean water, an economy, and stopping cannibalism. Well, I don't know if the Hawaiians ate long pork. But I digress.
The Confucius System embedded in Universities seeded a lot of this movement. I think it is fringe, but we saw BLM go from fringe to mainstream.

Posted by: Jack Burton, who was born ready at October 25, 2020 01:03 PM (1+Jvs)

263 Something to keep in mind in the future when the demons are whispering to you.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (5p7BC)

Interestingly enough, someone else told me pretty much the exact same thing. And it's definitely something to hold on to.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 01:04 PM (jMD9L)

264 I teach (part time) at a local university. There are some good profs but it's been my experience the real teaching is done by the part-timers. We tend to blend theory with real world experience. Full time profs tend to teach their "facts" and worry about tenure.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM

Wayne State University in Detroit was the best place I could have gotten teaching certification when I did. All but two instructors worked as in schools or in the related job; e.g. a psychologist working with juveniles taught "Adolescent Psychology." Then I took continuing education classes elsewhere with professors whose school contacts were limited to consulting or workshopping. They were writing books and doing studies, though.

I ran into my former student at the grocery store and she found the same thing at WSU: her accounting instructors work in accounting, tax law, etc.

Posted by: NaughtyPine - now with extra naughtiness at October 25, 2020 01:04 PM (/+bwe)

265 Cloture vote on Barrett is about to start.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 01:04 PM (/wAhO)

266
What would you like to listen to for the next 4

Trump making you laugh

or China Joe ~~screaming~~ mumbling at you
Posted by: REDACTED

FIFY

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 25, 2020 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

267 Cloture vote on Barrett is about to start.

Posted by: Vendette

That makes me smile.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:06 PM (51WJ2)

268 NYPD Investigating After A Cop Car Drove Through Brooklyn Shouting "Trump 2020!"

https://bit.ly/2G1jbIU

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The horror! The horror!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 01:07 PM (+y/Ru)

269 166 They had a bit of snow.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (axyOa)

I know, but I was hoping they'd be considerate enough to have it all cleaned up by now.
Posted by: Jordan61-2020 TX MoMe Bacon Wench at October 25, 2020 12:44 PM (Vt61E)

Get those dang roads cleared!
There are Morons landing in a few hours!

Posted by: Spokane city road maintenance department Manager at October 25, 2020 01:07 PM (3YCch)

270 Crooked Hillary: if the phone in the white house rings at 3am, who do you want to answer it?

Sundown Joe: if the phone in the white house rings at 10am, who do you want to answer it?

Posted by: Guam tipper at October 25, 2020 01:07 PM (FsgBK)

271 The other day at Ohio rally, the crowd broke out into "We Love Her" when Trump mentioned Melania. I don't think I've ever seen such a grateful, sincerely happy smile on his face before.

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 01:07 PM (zr5Kq)

272 "This is why I haven't returned to church. If I go
along with the mask sham I am endorsing it. I very much miss the Mass
and the Eucharist, but I'm not sure how much I'd get out of it whilst
sitting in a pew masked and seething. I do not know how I'm going to get
my mind right about this. I do not want to validate a lie.

Posted by: Old Dude"

We're supposed to mask up in church too. I don't - I merely sit well away from everyone else, and nobody says boo about it.

Of course if your pastor is a BLM enthusiast and an acolyte of St. Greta Thunberg, you're probably better off not going anyway.

Posted by: Annalucia at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (S6ArX)

273 have any single 'ettes?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 12:42 PM (BJLVZ)

Are you looking for a young single conservative woman?
Posted by: CN at October 25,

I think lots of us are single ettes!

Posted by: Chillin the most at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (lonOK)

274 See Insomniac ! everything was great

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (ngzjr)

275 Another question that I'm having trouble answering for myself is this: if and when crazy Kamala/AOC faction Dems take over the WH and Congress again (whether that's next week, 4 years from now, or whenever), will current blue state residents be better off living in red states? Or will it no longer matter where you live?

On the one hand, I would think that deep red states, if they didn't attempt full secession, would actively resist or at least ignore federal policies that their residents weren't willing to accept (e.g. gun confiscation), thereby protecting them from the worst of the federal excesses.

On the other hand, given the pervasiveness of federal regulations, federal funding and federal courts, you might be screwed no matter where you live; if that's the case then why bother moving UNLESS it's to a red state that's going full secession?

Posted by: Secret Square at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (9WuX0)

276 I miss AB. Fuck you, war. Is his best characteristic.

Posted by: USNtakim at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (0OmEj)

277 Cloture vote on Barrett is about to start.

Posted by: Vendette

That makes me smile.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:06 PM (51WJ2)

Best supreme nomination Trump made.

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (zr5Kq)

278 We started losing this country when we, as a country, thought there was a middle ground between left and the Constitution.

Specific mechanism were put in place so the Constitution could be kept current with changes in the U.S.

However, the left was not satisfied with those mechanisms, because those mechanisms were put in place to reign them in.

So, naturally, they seduced the right into thinking compromise was possible and then started subverting the constitution.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:08 PM (WEBkv)

279
The left and I share nothing save we are carbon based life forms.
The philosophical differences aren't reconcilable, so why should I even acknowledge them?
Better yet, instead of ME ceding ground and argument why not THEY get to leave and take their philosophy with them?

Peacefully or otherwise, at this stage I don't care.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (KATBx)

280 Barr has a pretty mouth and says nice things about what needs to be done (including against BigTech) ... but if it is just talk without action, he is an enemy, not a friend. Since he decided to wait till after the election ... imo he will continue to drag his feet and serve the bureaucracy that is his heritage, if Trump wins. (if his pretty talk is building to action but there are real reasons for delay, fine, but evidence of that is hidden)

The Paradigmic Suburban Karen is a DeepState PsyOp. The real life Karens being the new version of Stepford Wives, robotically manipulated by the PsyOp, pre-programmed by decades of Marxist infiltration and feminist diatribe. This is why debate is worthless, only shock and awe therapy might be effective. (which they are using on the rest of us)

And the Mockingbird Media continues in action, and the coup plotters gave themselves some cover with the repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act (194

, and modernized it. From my linked article:

"... our government was permitted to lie to people in other countries, but not to us here at home.

This prohibition was lifted in 2012, when the SMMA was signed into law by President Obama, allowing the same propaganda disseminated by our government to foreign publics, to now be released in the U.S. for the very first time.

And yes, our government is also now allowed to create propaganda tailored specifically for U.S. public consumption, using any media as it sees fit, while remaining anonymous as the source of the material being reported."

https://tinyurl.com/y4z3e98g

Posted by: illiniwek at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (Cus5s)

281 If your not super deep into a church then the white wimmins are a lost cause in oregon. I took the latina option. Catholic, all you gotta do is say the left is for abortion and shes voting strait R ticket.

Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (ozPhh)

282 Young single conservative woman= unicorn

************************

Not really true, a ton of them at rallies I believe, well I presume.

Now, young single conservative women that would find me attractive, THAT's a unicorn.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos

Well then just get yourself a suicide vest and you are set.

57 virgins or is 57 the spice?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (pB6Gt)

283 Unless the Democrats plan to show up en masse, they are going to boycott and Schumer may be the only person to vote.

The reason? Pence, in particular that some of his staff, including his CoS, have tested positive. Since Pence is expected to preside over the confirmation vote tomorrow evening, out of the safety and security of senators and staff who are there Schumer called for the Senate not to convene today and that people should vote remotely (and therefore safely). Remote doesn't exist for Senate floor votes.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (/wAhO)

284 I know this is way down thread, but the woman who steered the conversation to politics, then expressed her frustration, then environment- missed opportunity. She was looking to be persuaded. Politely make your arguments- cleaner air, fewer emissions, etc. C'mon guys- be polite, don't harangue, engage.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:10 PM (7o4Oo)

285 Way too many white veterinarians... Michael Vick hardest hit.

Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2020 01:10 PM (an7Mv)

286 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick.

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If I wrote a song about my dick it'd be Dinosaur Rampage!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 01:10 PM (+y/Ru)

287 The reason? Pence, in particular that some of his staff, including his CoS, have tested positive. Since Pence is expected to preside over the confirmation vote tomorrow evening, out of the safety and security of senators and staff who are there Schumer called for the Senate not to convene today and that people should vote remotely (and therefore safely). Remote doesn't exist for Senate floor votes.
Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (/wAhO)

What an interesting coincidence....

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2020 01:10 PM (zr5Kq)

288 57 virgins or is 57 the spice?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (pB6Gt)

The number of communists in the State Department.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (jMD9L)

289 I do not know how I'm going to get my mind right about this. I do not want to validate a lie.

***************

I feel the same way, and I'm actually exempt from wearing masks, and still get harassed and oppressed in public (thankfully it's fairly rare).

As a silver lining though, part of me thinks this just made it a ton easier to find a girl to marry. First girl I come across not wearing a face diaper in a supermarket mandating them is instant wife material.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (8YFRI)

290
Union people?

my uncle was straight union, also racist and homophobic, but will vote D until he's in the grave. Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (oAY8z)

And even after.

Posted by: megthered at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (SM/op)

291 Wouldn't doubt that about Tiny Dancer

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (OjZpE)

292 Then there's the whole question of whether these states can be completely self sufficient, or if they depend on resources from blue states. If so, how do they compensate? Do they declare war to seize assets in blue states, or try to work out new commerce agreements?
Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 12:57 PM (8YFRI)

It would be interesting to spread the rumor that a rep from the Alaska Sec of State office was quietly visiting places like Paris, Prague, Moscow, Bras�lia, etc for "quiet talks" with government officials.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (axyOa)

293 "Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick."

Seamstress for the band? Does he actually thread the needle with .... never mind.

Posted by: Annalucia at October 25, 2020 01:12 PM (S6ArX)

294 Democrats are showing up, but they're voting and running. The Republicans are for the most part sitting in their seats.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 01:12 PM (/wAhO)

295 57 virgins or is 57 the spice?

*******

I thought it was 42. Has this been adjusted for inflation now?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:12 PM (8YFRI)

296 Dammit. I go through this resentment...no, it's something else, envy (?) every year, when I'm unable to attend a MoMe.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (bPH26)
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Mike, you need to have a sit-down talk with Hammer Cat. He's too possessive and controlling.

Seriously, I would love to meet you and a lot of the other Hordelings who haven't attended a MoMee yet.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Xenomorph Queen at October 25, 2020 01:12 PM (Dc2NZ)

297 Read a book about Springsteen songs. Forget the name, but the author was pro-Springsteen. The guy concluded that Springsteen was a hypocrite with his reaction to people (and Reagan) who took Born In The USA as patriotic. Springsteen is a political idiot, but he knows music and what sells. The song was originally written as a dark and dour acoustic one, but Springsteen knew it was more bankable as an anthem and everybody would just take it as pro-America. Money in the bank.

Posted by: Flatville Bill at October 25, 2020 01:15 PM (tEsMf)

298 My God, Trump has just spent 10 minutes riffing on Air Force One. Hilarious.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:15 PM (5p7BC)

299 Some of us live in vans by the river.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 01:15 PM (pB6Gt)

300 I admit I've been a long time Bruce fan and I knew the first time I heard it what "Born in the USA" was about and what he meant. In 1984, I followed his career avidly and let me tell you that what has been lost to the mists of time that it wasn't that a bunch of yokels thought it was a patriotic song it was that the LEFT THOUGHT IT WAS A PATRIOTIC SONG.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:16 PM (HrMC1)

301 66 somebody needs to stop accepting the premise that this is all about our safety and start challenging this bullshit.>>>
This is why I haven't returned to church. If I go along with the mask sham I am endorsing it. I very much miss the Mass and the Eucharist, but I'm not sure how much I'd get out of it whilst sitting in a pew masked and seething. I do not know how I'm going to get my mind right about this. I do not want to validate a lie.

As I have said before, I do not wear a mask. I am exempt but it wouldn't matter. I will not wear one. I also don't give a fvck if people look at me and scowl. Not one. I have no problem telling someone to go fvck themself, I don't care about their feeelz. I am not afraid of defending my rights and Karens are less than human anyway, so I will tear them apart.

Posted by: megthered at October 25, 2020 01:16 PM (SM/op)

302 Daniel Greenfield- Facebook, Twitter and big tech make their money in China
https://tinyurl.com/y5skf98j

As the saying goes Follow the money, added reason for them to block all information bad about China for Sundowner, they make alot of money.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:16 PM (OjZpE)

303 Hawaii has a pretty strong secessionist movement, but they call it a Restoration movement.
Posted by: navybrat, at home at October 25, 2020 12:59 PM (w7KSn)

I looked into this fairly extensively. And you all would be shocked to know the CCP is behind it, yet again. Much of the movement is fomenting an insurrection by the "locals" against the oppressors Haole who brought things like clean water, an economy, and stopping cannibalism. Well, I don't know if the Hawaiians ate long pork. But I digress.
The Confucius System embedded in Universities seeded a lot of this movement. I think it is fringe, but we saw BLM go from fringe to mainstream.
Posted by: Jack Burton, who was born ready at October 25, 2020 01:03 PM (1+Jvs)

I'm not sure why we ever made it a state. Maybe guilt over what happened at Pearl Harbor?

But since Japan is no longer a naval threat, I really don't think the place provides anything Americans really need.

Let's give it back. Hell, let's trade Canada, they can have Hawaii, we'll take Alberta.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:17 PM (hku12)

304 298 My God, Trump has just spent 10 minutes riffing on Air Force One. Hilarious.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:15 PM (5p7BC)

Coming down the stairs story was funny!

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:17 PM (cF8AT)

305 "Newsmax has several really good shows, and among them are Diamond and Silk."

They were parodied on SNL last night (as "Crystal and Caviar") and Diamond and Silk showed part of the sketch on their show this morning! They said the sketch writers actually got them down pat....

Posted by: Secret Square at October 25, 2020 01:17 PM (9WuX0)

306 Move that Ben Had gets a whole thread to update us on the MoMe!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 25, 2020 01:18 PM (PiwSw)

307 Springsteen is a political idiot, but he knows music and what sells. The song was originally written as a dark and dour acoustic one, but Springsteen knew it was more bankable as an anthem and everybody would just take it as pro-America. Money in the bank.
Posted by: Flatville Bill at October 25, 2020 01:15 PM (tEsMf)

Exactly.
With it's synthesizer fanfare and it's rousing chorus, Born in the USA was a ready-made party anthem for the Summer of 1984.

And everyone was happy in the end

Bruce got filthy-rich and Reagan got re-elected in a landslide.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:18 PM (HrMC1)

308 I also don't give a fvck if people look at me and scowl. Not one. I have no problem telling someone to go fvck themself, I don't care about their feeelz.

**********

Don't mind the scowling either, but when they interfere with my ability to buy goods and essentials is when I go nuclear.

I like how their answer is that I must be relegated to online or curbside delivery if I continue to go without a mask. Sure, you gonna pay for the extra fees it costs to use those services? No? Well then go fuck yourself.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:19 PM (8YFRI)

309 I never even in High school like Shitstain, never. Started with no reason maybe but he proved why shortly after.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:19 PM (OjZpE)

310 I would be shocked if the California election numbers were even close. But I still can't shake the feeling that something interesting might be about to happen here.
Posted by: junior at October 25, 2020 01:00 PM (PTw5h)

Me too. Attended a rally in Bev Hills yesterday and something is brewing in CA (I hope).

Posted by: IC at October 25, 2020 01:19 PM (a0IVu)

311 Move that Ben Had gets a whole thread to update us on the MoMe!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Seconded.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 01:19 PM (BJLVZ)

312 As a silver lining though, part of me thinks this just made it a ton easier to find a girl to marry. First girl I come across not wearing a face diaper in a supermarket mandating them is instant wife material.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (8YFRI)

Hello Sailor!

Posted by: Lena Dunham, not wearing a mask at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (PiwSw)

313 We'll take Alberta.

Sounds like a proper saloon song.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (pB6Gt)

314 223
What happens at the MoMe stays at the MoMe...
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (jMD9L)

LOL... That good huh...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM

Actually, better.

But rules are rules.

Posted by: Spokane city road maintenance department Manager at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (3YCch)

315 Doesn't Springsteen basically scream his songs? Has a voice like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (PgmdM)

316 We'll take Alberta.

Sounds like a proper saloon song.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

Yukon and Northwest Territory.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (BJLVZ)

317 Also I just saw that Biden has Texas locked up.
Posted by: Undercover Brother is the third monkey at October 25, 2020 12:05 PM (+UZ7V)

WTH is THAT supposed to mean?

Posted by: Optimizer at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (hOOi9)

318 But I still can't shake the feeling that something interesting might be about to happen here.

************

California Trump votes matter, even if it just hands Trump a symbolic popular vote majority, it matters.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (8YFRI)

319 1984 was also the Summer of the LA Olympics.
The recession was over, everyone wanted to party.

The country was optimistic and Springsteen caught the zeitgeist with that song and has been crying all the way to the bank since

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (HrMC1)

320 "change the greatest country in history into a sort of Euro-West."
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I wish.
Actually, they want to change us into "a leftist society that rejects and despises the Western and European cultural heritage."

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (M/9m0)

321 I admit I've been a long time Bruce fan and I knew the first time I heard it what "Born in the USA" was about and what he meant. In 1984, I followed his career avidly and let me tell you that what has been lost to the mists of time that it wasn't that a bunch of yokels thought it was a patriotic song it was that the LEFT THOUGHT IT WAS A PATRIOTIC SONG.
Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:16 PM (HrMC1)

Well sure. Most young people at the time were at least a little bit left, as is always the case.

Anti-nooks, the poors, pay for my kollej, leave my body alone... all that nonsense.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:22 PM (hku12)

322 lso I just saw that Biden has Texas locked up.
Posted by: Undercover Brother is the third monkey at October 25, 2020 12:05 PM (+UZ7V)

WTH is THAT supposed to mean?
Posted by: Optimizer at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (hOOi9)

Okay, enough of this shit

Who's being gaslit here, Us or Them?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:22 PM (HrMC1)

323 I want a presidential candidate whose theme is either "Everything Louder than Everything Else", or "Dare to be Stupid."

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (sTnpX)

324 178 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?)

"now you're in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand" didn't clue you in?

Posted by: Anachronda at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (5br8a)

325 And don't get me started on Bruce's Christmas album. Jeebus such crap.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (PgmdM)

326 Texas Texas Texas Texas

Posted by: Ladyl at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (h6BP/)

327 Don't mind the scowling either, but when they interfere with my ability to buy goods and essentials is when I go nuclear.
>>>
Not sure where you guys live, but in Ill-annoy it has the force of law. Just not worth it to risk potential leo involvement. I admire your passion about this.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 01:24 PM (LGXGf)

328 Slow Joe has Texas locked up?? This again?

Posted by: IC at October 25, 2020 01:24 PM (a0IVu)

329 70% of people in Texas voted (assuming 2016 equivalent turnout) and GOP have an 11 point lead.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:24 PM (8YFRI)

330 Well sure. Most young people at the time were at least a little bit left, as is always the case.

Anti-nooks, the poors, pay for my kollej, leave my body alone... all that nonsense.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:22 PM (hku12)

What I meant was that Leftists--as in writers and journalists-- were the ones who thought it was a patriotic song. Bruce had to come out and assure them that it wasn't.

And because Leftists thought it was, Reagans people thought it was too--that's why Reagan mentioned Bruce.
And why George Will wrote a column extolling his virtues.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:25 PM (HrMC1)

331 We'll take Alberta.

Sounds like a proper saloon song.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

Yukon and Northwest Territory.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (BJLVZ)

I'll allow it. And maybe BC too, but we gotta give Vancouver to Seattle and kick them out. Let the whole left coast form it's on Chilean style nation.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:25 PM (hku12)

332 Just got a note from a buddy in Kentucky. He joined a Trump Train yesterday in Hardinsburg. He said it was 3 miles long.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 01:25 PM (axyOa)

333 https://bit.ly/2Hqjvlj
*******
WAYNE ROOT: This is the Michael Dukakis Election of 2020

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:25 PM (ngzjr)

334 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (M/9m0)

Western Europe has mostly lost sight of its own history. Any rational political philosophy is found in the newly freed republics to its east.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (xT2tT)

335 Who's being gaslit here, Us or Them?
Posted by: JoeF.
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Why are you even listening to something so dumb as Biden is winning Texas?

GOP is crushing the Dems in early vote already. Trump will win by 10. Based on early vote, he could win by 20.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (5p7BC)

336 324 178 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?)

"now you're in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand" didn't clue you in?
Posted by: Anachronda at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (5br8a)

...and Bernie Taupin's girlfriend. I had always wondered about those two.

Posted by: Roy at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (Ti+Tv)

337 And don't get me started on Bruce's Christmas album. Jeebus such crap.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (PgmdM)

Bruce hasn't put out a Christmas album

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (HrMC1)

338 314 223
What happens at the MoMe stays at the MoMe...
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:55 PM (jMD9L)

LOL... That good huh...
Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 12:56 PM

Actually, better.

But rules are rules.

Posted by: Spokane city road maintenance department Manager at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (3YCch)

Indeed. An awesome time was had by all, including me!

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (jMD9L)

339 Grampa, are there footjobs in Texas? Asking for my dad.

Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (EgshT)

340 Not sure where you guys live, but in Ill-annoy it has the force of law. Just not worth it to risk potential leo involvement.

Up here in Ontario, police were called on an old guy who wouldn't wear a mask, and left the store in a huff. They tracked him to his house and shot him dead. Not in a squalid hive like Toronto, either, this was out in the rural sticks. I can't afford to lose my life over this. It may come to execution by cop over something some day, but it's my duty to put it off if I can.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (8akOE)

341 51-48

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (/wAhO)

342 I just saw that Biden has Texas locked up.
Posted by: Undercover Brother

WTH is THAT supposed to mean?
Posted by: Optimizer

Okay, enough of this shit
Who's being gaslit here, Us or Them?
Posted by: JoeF.

Them.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (BJLVZ)

343 and Bernie Taupin's girlfriend. I had always wondered about those two.
Posted by: Roy at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (Ti+Tv)

Bernie was straight--much to Elton's chagrin

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (HrMC1)

344 I'm watching PDT in NH. He looks GREAT.

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (6WbUY)

345 I thought what happens at a MoMe stays at a MoMe with the exception of next to kin?

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (OjZpE)

346 Whoa, i think im seeing kristen sinema on the senate floor with orange hair. Looks like she's reverting back to her crazy years look.

Posted by: WisRich at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (qKfc+)

347 Just back home from the TX MoMe. Everyone, including Insomniac, had a great time.

Posted by: An Observation at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (tkvQg)

348 Where is Joe campaigning today?

Posted by: IC at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (a0IVu)

349 Well sure. Most young people at the time were at least a little bit left, as is always the case.

Anti-nooks, the poors, pay for my kollej, leave my body alone... all that nonsense.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:22 PM (hku12)

What I meant was that Leftists--as in writers and journalists-- were the ones who thought it was a patriotic song. Bruce had to come out and assure them that it wasn't.

And because Leftists thought it was, Reagans people thought it was too--that's why Reagan mentioned Bruce.
And why George Will wrote a column extolling his virtues.
Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:25 PM (HrMC1)

Oh, I don't know anything about that. I wasn't reading anything in 1984 that wasn't assigned. And even most of that I wasn't reading.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (hku12)

350 326 Texas Texas Texas Texas
Posted by: Ladyl at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (h6BP/)

Ladyl!!!
{{{Ladyl}}}

*hugs some more*
*hugs again*

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (jMD9L)

351 Joe F. Sorry I just assumed it was from an album. Doesn't he scream Santa Claus is coming to town for about 5 minutes?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (PgmdM)

352 If Biden wins, he will loose the harder.

Unless somebody opens all the doors and gives the key fob to fucking China.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (pB6Gt)

353 I like how their answer is that I must be relegated to online or curbside delivery if I continue to go without a mask.

Drive-thru pharmacy here in GA. Sign on window : "Please wear a face covering when window is open".

It's beyond ridiculous, dehumanizing and a pure exercise of political power. And yet it continues to be perpetuated at every damn Trump presser and and rally. By the Don himself.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (3P/5p)

354 I'll allow it. And maybe BC too, but we gotta give Vancouver to Seattle and kick them out. Let the whole left coast form it's on Chilean style nation.

BC's infested with chippy Indian bands trying to shut down every sort of natural resource development. You're better off without them.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (8akOE)

355 I was never Left . I was on the Right before I knew what on the Right meant. I believe people are born with a specific logic on how the world should work. The innate Left unfortunately have a short circuit in their logic. I say innate because I concede that behavior can be learned . Eventually those who are born with intact logic but were raised Left or peer pressure Left will eventually move Right because logic will force them to.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (2DOZq)

356 That map it's easy to see where Penn State College is

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (OjZpE)

357
Doesn't Springsteen basically scream his songs? Has a voice like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (PgmdM)

He's a shitty singer. It's obvious that he sings from his throat rather than from the diaphragm. Crap technique, and it's surprising how many professional singers do it, like "Two Sheets" Crow and Michael Jackson from Thriller on.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:29 PM (EGyGV)

358 My wife has flipped to the dark side. She wrote a letter to our city council and mayor telling them we need more restrictions since the 'Rona case load is skyrocketing. And she's decided she's on Team Joe after all because Trump isn't taking it seriously.

Le Sigh.
Posted by: Asshoes at October 25, 2020 12:22 PM (22mNy)

Sad. Does she understand that lots of people, like students, are getting tested constantly so the same person might generate 3 or more positives? Also the contact tracing assumes a certain number o positives even without testing. But most - most people are positive but NOT SICK!!

Posted by: LASue at October 25, 2020 01:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

359 347 Just back home from the TX MoMe. Everyone, including Insomniac, had a great time.
Posted by: An Observation at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (tkvQg)

Fantastic time, and it cool meeting you!

Have to sign off in a sec, plane will be backing out now.

Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 01:29 PM (jMD9L)

360 Grampa, are there footjobs in Texas? Asking for my dad.
Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby

Yeah, but the spurs are a bitch.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at October 25, 2020 01:29 PM (qc+VF)

361 51-48
Posted by: Vendette
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Good, we remain on track for confirmation tomorrow.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:29 PM (5p7BC)

362 Where is Joe campaigning today?
Posted by: IC
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He called a lid

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:30 PM (5p7BC)

363 I doubt that Elton's penis is talented enough to be a seamstress for the band. I don't buy that theory.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 25, 2020 01:30 PM (q2K0j)

364 Good, we remain on track for confirmation tomorrow.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:29 PM (5p7BC)

If they use all the time, the vote will be at 7:25 p.m. tomorrow evening.

Posted by: Vendette at October 25, 2020 01:30 PM (/wAhO)

365 346
Whoa, i think im seeing kristen sinema on the senate floor with orange
hair. Looks like she's reverting back to her crazy years look.

Posted by: WisRich at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (qKfc+)

High heels too?
I just turned on CSPAN, and Cocaine War Turtle is speaking now.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at October 25, 2020 01:31 PM (ufFY8)

366 I'm working on a slight variation of that letter. Mine is entitled: Dear Bruce Springsteen: Here is My Butt, Up Which You May Jump. What do you guys think?
Posted by: pep at October 25, 2020 12:11 PM (v16oJ)
_______________

You'd be better off inviting him to jump up his own ass. He wouldn't have far to go, since his head is already in there.

You probably don't want him anywhere near your own ass, given the number and skankiness of the many 'hos he has probably boinked over the decades. He could pass on some very nasty diseases to you.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 01:31 PM (k4dH2)

367 362 Where is Joe campaigning today?
Posted by: IC
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He called a lid
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:30 PM (5p7BC)

He did?? I guess he needs to recover from crawling out of his basement yesterday.

Posted by: IC at October 25, 2020 01:31 PM (a0IVu)

368 It's beyond ridiculous, dehumanizing and a pure exercise of political power. And yet it continues to be perpetuated at every damn Trump presser and and rally. By the Don himself.

****************

All democrats and half of GOP are mask aficionado soibois. Trump cannot afford to peddle a hardline against masks until after the election, when he has the capital to make unpopular decisions.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:31 PM (8YFRI)

369 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?)

"now you're in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand" didn't clue you in?

Posted by: Anachronda at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (5br8a)

Crap! I named a boat after that song. Best little sailboat I ever owned. Had more fun with it than the larger boats I owned later.

Ick ick ick ick. I'll just keep the vision of a lithe elfen dancer in sheer silk robes dancing alone in the middle of the living room.

So to heck with Elton. He's weird and we always knew that.

Posted by: jakee308 at October 25, 2020 01:31 PM (DqrLy)

370 Grampa, are there footjobs in Texas? Asking for my dad.
Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (EgshT)

There are footjobs everywhere that civilized people gather, fake Biden baby.

So no, not Texas.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:32 PM (hku12)

371 This is why I haven't returned to church. If I go along with the mask
sham I am endorsing it. I very much miss the Mass and the Eucharist, but
I'm not sure how much I'd get out of it whilst sitting in a pew masked
and seething. I do not know how I'm going to get my mind right about
this. I do not want to validate a lie.

Preach it sister.

I know that to some people it is not a big deal. ITS A BIG DEAL.

If I have to do X in order to exercise my Creator-given rights as an American??
Then those "rights" were complete bullshit to start with.

Way past time to have this discussion.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 25, 2020 01:32 PM (3P/5p)

372 362- 2 huge gaffes yesterday "chumps" and "fraud" - he's more of a liability on the trail than gagged in the basement. It's a choice of how fast to bleed.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:33 PM (7o4Oo)

373 Sad. Does she understand that lots of people, like students, are getting tested constantly so the same person might generate 3 or more positives?

************

Didn't Costco recently release a take home COVID test kit?

Wouldn't make sense that with tests more readily accessible and done from home case numbers would go up?

Wouldn't it make sense to monitor the death rate in ratio to cases, and note that if cases are going up but death rates are static or going down that's a good thing?

Or does that make too much sense?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:33 PM (8YFRI)

374
We'll take Alberta.

Sounds like a proper saloon song.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

Yukon and Northwest Territory.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2020 01:21 PM (BJLVZ)

And poetry...

"Grab a drink and have a seat, this is the story of Big-Ass Lil and Yukon Pete..."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (EGyGV)

375 363- that puts "needle dick" in a whole new perspective.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (7o4Oo)

376 362 Where is Joe campaigning today?
Posted by: IC
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He called a lid
___________________

He was just asking Hunter to hook him up with a lid of weed.

His aides misunderstood.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (k4dH2)

377 Dude...

Can you maybe at least convince her to sit this one out?

Posted by: Jordan6

Or go with that dreamy Green party candidate.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 12:29 PM (51WJ2)

Maybe she should vote for that nice Jo Jorgenson?

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (nAiE/)

378 I'll allow it. And maybe BC too, but we gotta give Vancouver to Seattle and kick them out. Let the whole left coast form it's on Chilean style nation.
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BC's infested with chippy Indian bands trying to shut down every sort of natural resource development. You're better off without them.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (8akOE)

Good to know. When the great reorganization occurs, we can send our own chippy Indian bands up there.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (hku12)

379 Great post, CBD! Spot on commentary. The seething hatred on the left boggles the mind. The avoidance of any rational discussion with differing minded folks is the tell tale sign of being irrational.

Posted by: Doof at October 25, 2020 01:35 PM (mZUr4)

380 Very difficult to love those who hate you, want to kill you and destroy your way of life. Kind of makes you hate them back. Lord give me strength.

Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at October 25, 2020 01:35 PM (MxeFh)

381 I can't believe Biden's "we are setting in the best fraud operation in history" line.

I want to see the face palming of his staff at that moment.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:35 PM (5p7BC)

382 Tow weeks. The Costco kits are very pricey. I'm guessing the panicers will go for them but not too many others.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at October 25, 2020 01:35 PM (PgmdM)

383 334
Western Europe has mostly lost sight of its own history....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2020 01:26 PM (xT2tT)
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Just as America has.
But I think we have a stronger opposition.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (M/9m0)

384
Good to know. When the great reorganization occurs, we can send our own chippy Indian bands up there.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (hku12)

Blanket subsidies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (EGyGV)

385 I was never Left . I was on the Right before I knew what on the Right meant. I believe people are born with a specific logic on how the world should work. The innate Left unfortunately have a short circuit in their logic. I say innate because I concede that behavior can be learned . Eventually those who are born with intact logic but were raised Left or peer pressure Left will eventually move Right because logic will force them to.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:28 PM (2DOZq)

concur

I would add that some people are missing the part of the brain that connects tangible, empirical results to the intention of the stated policy. All they need to see is the pretty words and pictures on the outside of the box - matters not if the end product is a steaming turd.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (oAY8z)

386 Wouldn't it make sense to monitor the death rate in
ratio to cases, and note that if cases are going up but death rates are
static or going down that's a good thing?

Or does that make too much sense?

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos

Our beloved President brought this up yesterday. Haven't seen the MFM report on it and if they do, it'll be negative.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (51WJ2)

387 I can't believe Biden's "we are setting in the best fraud operation in history" line.

If that is the tip of the senile iceberg, it really makes you wonder about some of the doozies he's blurting out off camera.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (3P/5p)

388 348 Where is Joe campaigning today?
Posted by: IC at October 25, 2020 01:27 PM (a0IVu)

In the basement. With his oatmeal and pudding.

After staff managed to pry his 2 feet out of his mouth - see "chumps" and "voter fraud"

Posted by: Marybeth at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (4pK1/)

389 lulz gaslighting:

Latest Texas Poll has Biden leading by 3, 48-45

Early vote returns up to today: GOP is leading by 11.

The polling industry needs to be slaughtered and sued out of existence.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Beholding Miklos in a Mirror at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (8YFRI)

390 Good to know. When the great reorganization occurs, we can send our own chippy Indian bands up there.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (hku12)

Blanket subsidies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (EGyGV)

And a pox on all their houses.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (hku12)

391
It would be interesting to spread the rumor that a rep from the Alaska Sec of State office was quietly visiting places like Paris, Prague, Moscow, Braslia, etc for "quiet talks" with government officials.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 25, 2020 01:11 PM (axyOa

There goes Diogenes, stirring up things again.

Heh, I like it.

He's multi-talented.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 01:38 PM (3YCch)

392 The nice thing about Joe (for us) is that he's such an arrogant, uncountable bastard. That, and the dementia, make him completely unpredictable, even at scripted events. Being a Joe handler must be incredibly stressful. The political equivalent of handling old, sweaty dynamite.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (7o4Oo)

393 210 So who will be Harris's VP?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (pB6Gt)

Hillary

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (FnwlK)

394 I like that Trump doesn't try to talk folksy, hifalutin, or attempt some insultingly tin-eared ethnic solidarity (I ain't no ways tard!) -- just his own inyerface Queens self.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Xenomorph Queen at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (Dc2NZ)

395 I doubt that Elton's penis is talented enough to be a seamstress for the band. I don't buy that theory.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 25, 2020 01:30 PM (q2K0j)

needle dick---seamstress

could work

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (oAY8z)

396 *uncoachable

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (7o4Oo)

397 What is it about America that makes them seethe with rage? Why has our
success, our unprecedented freedom -- both economic and civil -- made
them envious of other political systems that control and manipulate and
restrict their citizens?

IMO - Some people just can't be happy unless they are forcing other people to obey them.

The idea that they can't control free people hurts them to their totalitarian core and ignites their fury against the enjoyment of freedom and liberty.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (3P/5p)

398 381 I can't believe Biden's "we are setting in the best fraud operation in history" line.
______________

Who was the black woman Dim -- Maxine Waters maybe? -- who was boasting during the Obama administration that he was setting up a new and comprehensive data-gathering operation that was going to blow people's minds because there would be nothing they wouldn't know about every individual voter. Then somebody told her to STFU about it.

Biden's accidental truth-telling about the massive Dim voter fraud operation reminds me of that.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (k4dH2)

399 Good to know. When the great reorganization occurs, we can send our own chippy Indian bands up there.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (hku12)

Blanket subsidies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (EGyGV)

And a pox on all their houses.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (hku12)

and blankets

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:40 PM (oAY8z)

400 I like that Trump doesn't try to talk folksy, hifalutin, or attempt some insultingly tin-eared ethnic solidarity (I ain't no ways tard!) -- just his own inyerface Queens self.

******

And that is why I cannot vote for him.

Posted by: Principled Christians Who Soil Their Pants Because Trump Said P***y at October 25, 2020 01:40 PM (8YFRI)

401 The lockdowns will end as soon as government workers go without paychecks.

Posted by: Furious George at October 25, 2020 01:40 PM (rDq8D)

402 I get 10% of any residual laughs, ghost.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:40 PM (7o4Oo)

403 So who will be Harris's VP?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (pB6Gt)

Hillary
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (FnwlK)

VP of what? The She-woman Manhaters Club?

Because neither of them are getting anywhere near the US of A veep slot.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:41 PM (hku12)

404 Political Cliff Clavin trivia

We all know Senator Eugene McCarthy. What state did he represent?

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:41 PM (2DOZq)

405 205 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (jMD9L)

Glad to hear it. I have similar concerns about attending a MoMeet should we ever be allowed to have one in Ca

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:41 PM (FnwlK)

406 NY state as of today shows 33,418 Covid-19 related deaths as of today, 493,832 confirmed cases, 0 deaths since yesterday but 22 the day before.Sunday May 17 for instance they had 174 deaths in 24 hrs. May 26 Sunday 437 in 24 hours. The last two months probably averaging 9 a day, but did on Sept 11 add 7,649 in 24 hours.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:41 PM (OjZpE)

407 369---... I'll just keep the vision of a lithe elfen dancer in sheer silk robes dancing alone in the middle of the living room.
So to heck with Elton. He's weird and we always knew that.

Posted by: jakee308 at October 25, 2020 01:31 PM (DqrLy)
---------------------------------
I thought Bernie Taupin, who wrote the lyrics, said it was inspired by a jewelry box ballerina.

Whatever EJ, BT, or others may say about it now, I find it preposterous that any male would use the word "tiny" in the context of his equipment. So I think that has to be a secondary interpretation.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 25, 2020 01:41 PM (M/9m0)

408 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (jMD9L)
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Cool.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:42 PM (WEBkv)

409 What is it about America that makes them seethe with rage? Why has our success, our unprecedented freedom -- both economic and civil -- made them envious of other political systems that control and manipulate and restrict their citizens? CBD

Its quite easy to understand when you accept the fact that they want to be the ones controlling everyone and everything. They are tyrants. And they are determined to have their tyranny. They must have control to prove that they are superior. And you, yes YOU will be forced to accept their superiority and tyranny.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 25, 2020 01:42 PM (Vxu+H)

410 313 We'll take Alberta.

Sounds like a proper saloon song.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 01:20 PM (pB6Gt)

I nominate Alberta Oil Peon to be First Territorial Governor.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 01:42 PM (3YCch)

411 We all know Senator Eugene McCarthy. What state did he represent?
________________

MN

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 01:43 PM (k4dH2)

412 He is probably airborne now but I am glad Insomniac had a great time. He thought he wouldn't fit in, I was sure he would.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:43 PM (OjZpE)

413 Yep PDT is up 2 in Fla & Michigan & up 3 in Arizona , But down 3 in Texas !! TOTES Believable

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:43 PM (ngzjr)

414 All I know is the only things pointing to a Biden victory are wildly inaccurate polls.

As anyone can tell you, the country is divided 50/50 among the voters in the electoral college. National polls don't mean shit. There aren't enough "undecideds" to matter. This is going to be an election totally based on turnout.

The beltway liberals think the entire country is as rabidly anti-Trump as they are. This lead to the thinking that people on the left will drag themselves through broken glass to vote against Trump.

Wrong.

If it rains, if dog needs to go to the groomer, if they're having a busy day, if anything happens, the vast majority of liberals will stay home.

Trump voters, on the other hand, are enthusiastic. We see proof of that every day with the rallies. For every person who goes to one, there are a thousand others that will brave whatever challenges are put in front of them and vote.

This is how elections are won. Enthusiastic voters.

Biden doesn't have any of those.

The MSM and the deep state are trying hard to make it seem Biden has already won, but the evidence just isn't there.

Posted by: jwest at October 25, 2020 01:43 PM (/BlEx)

415 As far as the letter to Springsteen goes, did you not see his recent stage show? As he admits, it's all an act. He's "good at it." Enjoy his music or not but don't take it seriously. He doesn't.

Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (MxeFh)

416 I think they just switched out Pence in Greensboro NC tomorrow with Trump.

So Trump will do 3 rallies in PA tomorrow and a night rally in NC.

They want Pence in DC for the confirmation vote. That means they plan to vote at 7:30 tomorrow night.

Talk about keeping all the plates spinning.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (5p7BC)

417 We'll take Alberta.
_________________

We'll walk on gilded splinters

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (oAY8z)

418
And a pox on all their houses.
Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (hku12)

*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (EGyGV)

419 He is probably airborne now but I am glad Insomniac had a great time. He thought he wouldn't fit in, I was sure he would.
Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:43 PM (OjZpE)
*****
Anxiety can really play mind games with people, Ask me How I know

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (ngzjr)

420 Vile POS Schumer is bloviating now.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 25, 2020 01:45 PM (ufFY8)

421 409- easy-they suck. They always have sucked. They always will suck. If you don't they hate you, because they can see and compare.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:45 PM (7o4Oo)

422 I think they just switched out Pence in Greensboro NC tomorrow with Trump.

So Trump will do 3 rallies in PA tomorrow and a night rally in NC.

They want Pence in DC for the confirmation vote. That means they plan to vote at 7:30 tomorrow night.

Talk about keeping all the plates spinning.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (5p7BC)
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Gee, PDT can plan ahead for contingencies? Wow, I thought he was a hitlarian dunce who can barely dress himself!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:45 PM (WEBkv)

423 We all know Senator Eugene McCarthy. What state did he represent?
Posted by: Weaning is hard
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Massachusetts?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:46 PM (5p7BC)

424
Gee, PDT can plan ahead for contingencies? Wow, I thought he was a hitlarian dunce who can barely dress himself!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:45 PM (WEBkv)

No, no. That was Chimpy McBushitler. You need to keep up with the program, comrade.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:47 PM (EGyGV)

425
Oooh...eight days before an election,
ACB will be confirmed.

Schumer is stroking out over that.

LMAO

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 25, 2020 01:47 PM (ufFY8)

426 393 210 So who will be Harris's VP?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 12:53 PM (pB6Gt)

Hillary
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:39 PM (FnwlK)

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Oh, I very much doubt that. I don't see Hillary playing second fiddle to the first female president. And I don't think Kamala wants a target that big painted on her back.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at October 25, 2020 01:47 PM (CAJOC)

427 All I know is the only things pointing to a Biden victory are wildly inaccurate polls.

**********************

I might have believed the polls if they showed a close horse race, I tend to think it is close but with a 1-2% shift to Trump since 2016. That may not seem like a lot but even a marginal shift like that is all you need for a massive red wave.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Releasing A Poll That Hot Chess Playing Women Want to Get Into My Pants By 68% to 19% at October 25, 2020 01:47 PM (8YFRI)

428 As far as the letter to Springsteen goes, did you not see his recent stage show? As he admits, it's all an act. He's "good at it." Enjoy his music or not but don't take it seriously. He doesn't.
Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (MxeFh)

Correct. He is a clown who gets paid to entertain us.

Dance clown dance!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (Z+IKu)

429
Where is Joe campaigning today?
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He called a lid

I let it go to voicemail.

Posted by: A Lid at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (63Dwl)

430 The problem isn't why they hate us. The problem is the'ye built systems that further breed suckitude, including public education, the media, the bureaucracy, and the welfare state. Now, they hope they're at critical mass and can overwhelm us. Our hope is that they, like Hitler, moved a bit too soon.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (7o4Oo)

431 MN - no
MA - no

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (2DOZq)

432
No, no. That was Chimpy McBushitler. You need to keep up with the program, comrade.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:47 PM (EGyGV)
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Oh, I thought the left had grafted PDT into the Chimpy McBushitler role.

It's hard to keep up some times.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (WEBkv)

433 I think the guy who wrote the letter to Springsteen is completely naive. I don't know how you compromise between people who just want to be left alone and people who want to tell others what to do in every aspect of their lives--and will accept nothing less.

The Left literally wants a totalitarian government. Maybe it made sense to try that two or three hundred years ago, but the last century should have disabused even the stupidest people about how totalitarianism works in practice. That Nazism and Communism did not disabuse them of the ideas about socialist Utopias is an indication that nothing can change their minds.

Posted by: RalphF at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (5FiEy)

434 Schumer is stroking out over that.

LMAO

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

This is how I know there is a God.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (51WJ2)

435 MN - no
MA - no
Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (2DOZq)

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Wisconsin.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (WEBkv)

436 I think they just switched out Pence in Greensboro NC tomorrow with Trump.

So Trump will do 3 rallies in PA tomorrow and a night rally in NC.

They want Pence in DC for the confirmation vote. That means they plan to vote at 7:30 tomorrow night.

Talk about keeping all the plates spinning.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:44 PM (5p7BC)

4 rallies? Glad he has a little time to rest after this one, that's gonna be a long, long day.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (5FCda)

437 "Oooh...eight days before an election,
ACB will be confirmed."

I love this SO much. It will be great solace to me if Trump loses. Not that I think he will, mind you. But the timing of ACB could NOT be more perfect.

Posted by: lizabth at October 25, 2020 01:49 PM (L3Rsz)

438 Totally random- had a dream last night that there was an official AoS private jet and members of the Horde in good standing could form groups to check it out and take on trips.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at October 25, 2020 01:49 PM (LZ7Gl)

439 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (WEBkv)

Ding ding ding

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:49 PM (2DOZq)

440 The election is the big tell. If the're really 15 points up, we've been swamped and pray your part of the remnant that survives.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 25, 2020 01:49 PM (7o4Oo)

441 OMG...Trump playing the Biden video of 'Voter Fraud'!!!

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:49 PM (cF8AT)

442 LOL! Now he's playing the Biden video of kids rubbing his 'hairy legs' and 'kids jumping on my lap'!

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:50 PM (cF8AT)

443 Living in deep blue California I sometimes toy with the secessionist idea too. BUT....being over 60....what about the SS I paid into all these years? What about medicare? What about my 1M in home equity I've built up?

I just don't see it happening. Anyone over the age of 55 - blue or red - would be foolish to support it.

I realize there's more than just money - but are we really to the point of freedom or death?

Pay no attention to me....I'm just rambling on this morning....wishing I could go to a Mo Meet....

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:50 PM (FnwlK)

444
No, no. That was Chimpy McBushitler. You need to keep up with the program, comrade.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:47 PM (EGyGV)

No no no. That was Ronald Raygun, the buffoon Hollywood actor! "Bedtime for Bonzo! Bedtime for Bonzo!"

The Left never changes.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes. the Housekeeper at October 25, 2020 01:50 PM (PiwSw)

445 Omigosh, he just showed Joe's hairy legs...thing, you know...the thing. LMAO

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 25, 2020 01:51 PM (5FCda)

446 205 Howdy y'all! Boarding my flight back in a few minutes. I can't adequately describe what an amazing time I had and what truly awesome people I got to spend time with.
Posted by: Insomniac at October 25, 2020 12:51 PM (jMD9L)

Dat you boy...

Y'all sound "different".

Posted by: browndog at October 25, 2020 01:51 PM (BgMrQ)

447 I can't get enough of that Bernie commercial.

My God, it is so brutal.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:51 PM (5p7BC)

448 Better yet, instead of ME ceding ground and argument why not THEY get to leave and take their philosophy with them?

Peacefully or otherwise, at this stage I don't care.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM

Preach it, irongrampa.

They keep spreading out to more and more of the country. And too many on our side think it won't ever reach their area.

Posted by: Hands at October 25, 2020 01:51 PM (786Ro)

449 OMG...Trump playing the Biden video of 'Voter Fraud'!!!

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:49 PM (cF8AT)>>>If we only had some sort of controlling legal authority to investigate violations of voter fraud.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 01:51 PM (LGXGf)

450 4 rallies? Glad he has a little time to rest after this one, that's gonna be a long, long day.

**************

Trump said he'll stop to take a nap after the election.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Releasing A Poll That Hot Chess Playing Women Want to Get Into My Pants By 68% to 19% at October 25, 2020 01:51 PM (8YFRI)

451 Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:50 PM (FnwlK)

A consensus split would take at least 5 years to divvy up the money and assets.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:52 PM (2DOZq)

452 Good to know. When the great reorganization occurs, we can send our own chippy Indian bands up there.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (hku12)

Blanket subsidies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (EGyGV)

And a pox on all their houses.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (hku12)

and blankets

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:40 PM (oAY8z)

and two hardboiled eggs.

Posted by: Chico Marx at October 25, 2020 01:52 PM (DLzZd)

453 You know, Schumer looks like one of those stereotypical 'Shylock' cartoons from the early 1900s.

He is an ugly mofo.
And, he is still bloviating, getting a little more hysterical.
lol

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 25, 2020 01:52 PM (ufFY8)

454 We loves Joe Bidin and cant'd weight when he be Presdent. It will be like having Presdent Obama again and the world will love us again !!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 25, 2020 01:52 PM (nOJDr)

455

Bruce Shitstain. His music sucks as bad as his politics.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (D/UlL)

456 WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!

@stillgray

BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (cF8AT)

457 324 178 Elton John has said that his song Tiny Dancer is actually about his dick. (Whether he was joking, who knows?)

"now you're in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand" didn't clue you in?
Posted by: Anachronda at October 25, 2020 01:23 PM (5br8a)

Oh dear lord no...

Seriously???

Posted by: browndog at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (BgMrQ)

458 4 rallies? Glad he has a little time to rest after this one, that's gonna be a long, long day.
Posted by: Gaelic Girl
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Not exactly, I understand he is heading to ME-2 after this.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (5p7BC)

459 If we only had some sort of controlling legal authority to investigate violations of voter fraud.

Posted by: Old Dude

Heh, WE do, too bad your side don't.

Posted by: Dims at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (51WJ2)

460 435 MN - no
MA - no
Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (2DOZq)

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Wisconsin.
___________________

No, that was Senator Joe McCarthy who was from Wisconsin. McCarthy was the anti-Communism guy, for whom the term "McCarthyism" was coined.

Senator Eugene McCarthy, who ran for president a bunch of times (challenged LBJ, and was an early challenger of JFK) was from Minnesota.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (k4dH2)

461 BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2
Posted by: Tami
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Deep state spin. I doubt it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (5p7BC)

462 https://bit.ly/3mm3tHP
*******
"Right on, Trump!" - Duke Tanner Releases Second Powerful Video in Support of Trump After His Release from Federal Prison

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (ngzjr)

463 WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!

@stillgray

BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2
Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (cF8AT)

Maybe they had the investigation TAKEN from them because they are compromised?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (HrMC1)

464 Hope Trump shows up in a few particular states this week. I assume some of his PA locations are linked to House races? Expanding his map could be the same thing as taking back the House and adding to the Senate majority. As questionable, or merely defensive, as those things have sadly become.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (OTzUX)

465 Deep state spin. I doubt it.

******************

Cheong seems to be a bit of an alarmist too.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Releasing A Poll That Hot Chess Playing Women Want to Get Into My Pants By 68% to 19% at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (8YFRI)

466 According to the map, only 5 IL counties outside of the Chicago metro
area orbit went blue in 2016: Rock Island (Quad City area adjacent to
Iowa), Peoria (central IL), Champaign (eastern IL, home to University of
IL), St. Clair (E. St. Louis), and Jackson (just south of there; home
to Southern IL University).

It's disgusting to see DuPage County that blue. It used to be solidly Republican. All the Karens and their beta male husbands fleeing Chicago/Crook County and bringing their shitty virtue signaling politics with them.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (D/UlL)

467 Just as America has.
But I think we have a stronger opposition.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (M/9m0)

They've had an opposition for a longer time. Many don't know their literature or history. My SIL is a Sorbonne grad, he has never read Victor Hugo or Camus, let alone Voltaire, Descartes, or Rousseau. He is a little surprised that we know of these people and are familiar with English classics. He is not. And he is the rule. The idea that Europeans are well read, know history, and are familiar with art and music is the stuff of television series, not reality.

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (ONvIw)

468 @stillgray

BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2

Posted by: Tami

They didn't even make #twoweeks. They are getting more efficient, I suppose.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (3P/5p)

469 Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (k4dH2)

Heh of course. Had a brain fart when I wrote Eugene.

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (2DOZq)

470 It was Posobiec reporting that the FBI dropped the laptop investigation.

I trust him, but he DOES like to play games.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (HrMC1)

471 399
Good to know. When the great reorganization occurs, we can send our own chippy Indian bands up there.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:34 PM (hku12)

Blanket subsidies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 25, 2020 01:36 PM (EGyGV)

And a pox on all their houses.

Posted by: BurtTC at October 25, 2020 01:37 PM (hku12)

and blankets

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at October 25, 2020 01:40 PM (oAY8z)

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

History will refer to it as "The Trail of Casino Chips."

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (+3rQF)

472 Trump has 4 rally's today and Joe put a lid on it... Either Joe believes the polls or he's given up

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (Zmnko)

473 One of my saved, evergreen poll comments:
****

Public Polls early October 2016 had:

NBC: Hillary +14
ABC: Hillary +12
CBS: Hillary +11
AP: Hillary +12
Monmouth: Hillary +12
Atlantic: Hillary +12
USA Today: Hillary +10
CNBC: Hillary +10
Rasmussen: Hillary +7

Posted by: LASue at October 25, 2020 01:56 PM (Ed8Zd)

474 No Investigation? Then people are under no obligation to remain silent.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 01:56 PM (LGXGf)

475 461
BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2

Posted by: Tami

That makes no sense. The store owner's 'story' has nothing to do with the evidence.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 25, 2020 01:56 PM (ufFY8)

476 Cheong's feel for American goings-on is generally fine, but sometimes his Malaysian perspective does lack nuance. Though less so than innumerable lightweight American observers who go ape-s**t over anything they come across.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 25, 2020 01:56 PM (OTzUX)

477 Deep state spin. I doubt it.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:54 PM (5p7BC)

Why? That might be their boss, the one that they are aiming for. "No reasonable prosecutor..."

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 01:56 PM (ONvIw)

478 Chuckie is beside himself, poor dear. He just can't let go of Merrick. Out-classed, out-played by the Turtle.

Posted by: lizabth at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (L3Rsz)

479
Glad to hear it. I have similar concerns about attending a MoMeet should we ever be allowed to have one in Ca
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:41 PM (FnwlK)

Up in WA, we never asked for permission.

Nurse rached put out the bat signal, and we immediately executed the plan.

A good planning practice for future events?

Forgiveness, not permission.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (3YCch)

480 Public Polls early October 2016 had:

NBC: Hillary +14
ABC: Hillary +12
CBS: Hillary +11
AP: Hillary +12
Monmouth: Hillary +12
Atlantic: Hillary +12
USA Today: Hillary +10
CNBC: Hillary +10
Rasmussen: Hillary +7
Posted by: LASue at October 25, 2020 01:56 PM (Ed8Zd)

It's possible that Hillary really DOES believe that the election was stolen from her.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (HrMC1)

481 "... FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation "

Confirming my most cynical suspicions.

Posted by: navybrat, at home at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (w7KSn)

482 281 If your not super deep into a church then the white wimmins are a lost cause in oregon. I took the latina option. Catholic, all you gotta do is say the left is for abortion and shes voting strait R ticket.
Posted by: KarlHungus at October 25, 2020 01:09 PM (ozPhh)

I went the same route 40 years ago here in Cali and have (almost) never regretted it. She watches Trump rallies wearing her MAGA hat and cheering him on!

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Ca at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (FnwlK)

483 OT good lines from Archer.

Archer: Introspection is the enemy of happiness, Lana. My advice is don't do it. That's the secret to my happiness.

Lana: But is it really?

Archer: I don't know. That's the beauty of it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (+y/Ru)

484 BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

Read down. AdamHousely says it's fake.

Posted by: MarkY at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (JbTDu)

485 @stillgray

BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2

Posted by: Tami

They didn't even make #twoweeks. They are getting more efficient, I suppose.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast

Not to worry, the social media sites will ban this too. /s

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (51WJ2)

486 Pence CoS has Covid-19 but Mike and wife are fine and still on trail.

FBI had laptop for 10 months, they could have tried for some new dog ate homework excuse.

Posted by: Skip at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (OjZpE)

487 Either Joe believes the polls or he's given up
Posted by: It's me donna
-----------
The Biden campaign is on the record saying the polls are wrong and they aren't leading by 12.

They went public with it a week ago.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (5p7BC)

488 Chuckie is beside himself, poor dear. He just can't let go of Merrick. Out-classed, out-played by the Turtle.
Posted by: lizabth at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (L3Rsz)

He's still worried about Garland?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (HrMC1)

489 Bernie Taupin was Lyricist
Elton John wrote the music

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (ngzjr)

490 481 "... FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation "

Confirming my most cynical suspicions.

I expect Wray to come out personally to exonerate Biden before the election

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (Zmnko)

491 One America News Network host Jack Posobiec tweeted Sunday that a source from the Department of Justice told the network that the FBI has dropped the investigation due to supposed concerns over the story from the repair shop owner.

The source indicated that the FBI dropped the investigation "because they did not believe the repair shop owner's story would hold up in court, although Mac Isaac provided them with evidence," according to Posobiec, who added that "They found zero evidence of foreign involvement."

On the other hand, Adam Housley re this story:

@adamhousley

This isn't true.

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (cF8AT)

492 Someone gave us a life size 6'4" poster of DJT last week. Didnt know what the hell I was gonna do with it but I figured yesterday, it's gonna help us make Halloween great again.

Cannot wait for the sploding Karens when they turn up the driveway and are greeted by poster DJT.

Posted by: BluesFish at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (WQZ1O)

493 "can't believe Biden's "we are setting in the best fraud operation in history" line."

returning to the Pentecostal theme for a moment ... "that was Joe's devil spirit talking", deliberately telling the truth, while Joe's addled brain sits in neutral.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (Cus5s)

494 USA Today: Hillary +10
CNBC: Hillary +10
Rasmussen: Hillary +7

***********

This is why you can't really trust Rasmussen either, they even had a recent poll showing Biden up in Ohio and Arizona.

Sure, Jan.

Trafalgar may be the only valid ones as they make a concerted effort to get a good sample weight of the rural and "hidden" votes.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Releasing A Poll That Hot Chess Playing Women Want to Get Into My Pants By 68% to 19% at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (8YFRI)

495 Chuckie is beside himself, poor dear. He just can't let go of Merrick. Out-classed, out-played by the Turtle.

Posted by: lizabth at October 25, 2020 01:57 PM (L3Rsz)>>>
And we can thank Dingy Harry for abolishing Senate tradition with his "Reconciliation" b s. Thanks, Harry! Couldn't have done any of this without you.

Posted by: Old Dude at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (LGXGf)

496 435
MN - no

MA - no

Posted by: Weaning is hard at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (2DOZq)

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

Wisconsin.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at October 25, 2020 01:48 PM (WEBkv)

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

As I recall, Tailgunner Joe McCarthy was from Wisconsin, and Eugene McCarthy was from Minnesota.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (+3rQF)

497 He's still worried about Garland?
Posted by: JoeF

He is! It was so unfair!
And now we're all going to lose our healthcare and such.
LOL...too bad, Chuckster.

Posted by: lizabth at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (L3Rsz)

498 As the Muslim savage tried to saw his head off, Theo van Gogh still asked that they should work this out. This after Theo had been shot five times while riding his bicycle.

As for the Left, know them by their works and acts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 25, 2020 01:59 PM (QB0rT)

499
I expect Wray to come out personally to exonerate Biden before the election
Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (Zmnko)

His boss, Bill Barr will approve this. To interfere with the election would be a mortal sin and deny you access to all the best all-you-can eat buffets!

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 02:00 PM (ONvIw)

500 Speaking of Elton John and the song titles, what do you think the album "Brown Dirt Cowboys" was about?

Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home. Thanks China &&&& at October 25, 2020 02:00 PM (R5lpX)

501 Hunter Biden's signature on a claim check isn't proof of anything, I suppose.

Posted by: navybrat, at home at October 25, 2020 02:00 PM (w7KSn)

502 No, that was Senator Joe McCarthy who was from Wisconsin. ...

Senator Eugene McCarthy... was from Minnesota.

Wait, you're saying those are two different places? Huh. The things you learn here.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at October 25, 2020 02:00 PM (qc+VF)

503
Early voting started yesterday here in NYC. Was planning on going tomorrow but I strolled past my polling place on my way to the pet store and YIKES! The line was around the block.

I think I might now go later in the week. I assume it will get thinner and thinner as the week goes on. I hope that a good portion of those waiting were shy Trump voters but as I live in the Village/SoHo, I wouldn't make book on that.

Sigh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2020 02:00 PM (s2VJv)

504 Not exactly, I understand he is heading to ME-2 after this.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 01:53 PM (5p7BC)

Hmmm...not seeing it on RSBN's schedule.

Posted by: Gaelic Girl at October 25, 2020 02:00 PM (5FCda)

505 FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation "

Confirming my most cynical suspicions.
Posted by: navybrat

Hopefully even more FBI agents now will go to jail too.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 02:01 PM (pB6Gt)

506 FBI drops Hunter laptop investigation. Not surprised.

Rudy G. better have a couple back ups of those drives laying around, and he better release ALL of the data on them pronto.

Thousands of copies to the cloud. Do it now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2020 02:01 PM (3H9h1)

507 505 FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation "

Confirming my most cynical suspicions.
Posted by: navybrat

Hopefully even more FBI agents now will go to jail too.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at October 25, 2020 02:01 PM (pB6Gt)

Someone commented that this is fake news per Adam Housley.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2020 02:02 PM (s2VJv)

508 FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation "

Then they won't mind if Rudy releases all of it to the public

Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 02:02 PM (Zmnko)

509 >BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

Of course they have.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 25, 2020 02:02 PM (iTXRQ)

510 Nood

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 02:02 PM (ONvIw)

511 The FBI busts local cops for being dirty.

Who busts the FBI for being dirty?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 25, 2020 02:02 PM (QB0rT)

512 @stillgray

BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2

Posted by: Tami

They didn't even make #twoweeks. They are getting more efficient, I suppose.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast

Not to worry, the social media sites will ban this too. /s
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at October 25, 2020 01:58 PM (51WJ2)
********
Posobiec is a Turd who I believe a little more than PISS Wallace

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 02:03 PM (ngzjr)

513 The popularity of zombie and purge movies makes it clear many people just want to shoot their neighbors.

I'm starting to understand.

Posted by: DaveA at October 25, 2020 02:03 PM (FhXTo)

514 Make America Great Again Again

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 02:03 PM (6WbUY)

515 can't find confirmation on the web

Posted by: DB- just DB. at October 25, 2020 02:03 PM (iTXRQ)

516 461
BREAKING: DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

https://tinyurl.com/y4vm9nd2

Posted by: Tami
_______________

What "investigating" were they even doing? They've had the thing for almost a year, and basically sat on it, even though it contains all sorts of incriminating evidence, evidence that would have been relevant during the impeachment hearings.

We're not going to get anywhere with the FBI or DOJ, not as they are currently configured anyway.

Hopefully after Trump wins re-election, he can do some serious house-cleaning in those two hopelessly corrupt agencies.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at October 25, 2020 02:03 PM (k4dH2)

517 Sen. John Thune giving it to Schumer now, saying changing the rules in 2013 lead us to this point.

LOL.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 25, 2020 02:03 PM (ufFY8)

518 Top. Men.

Posted by: That Guy who always says "Top. Men." at October 25, 2020 02:04 PM (DMUuz)

519 Seriously, when has "DOJ will do shit" ever been wrong when it comes to donk corruption?

Posted by: CN at October 25, 2020 02:05 PM (ONvIw)

520 @adamhousley 36s

Will work to confirm whether it was dropped or not...I know this...if it was...blaming the repairman is a complete lie and copout

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 02:05 PM (cF8AT)

521 Hmmm...not seeing it on RSBN's schedule.
Posted by: Gaelic Girl
-----------
I think it was just announced. No way RSBN can get there. They are scrambling to cover Allentown tomorrow. I bet they can't get the North Carolina one tomorrow either.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2020 02:05 PM (5p7BC)

522 Me to Little: Did you see what Bruce Springsteen said?

Little: Who is that?

Me: He's a singer

Little: Never heard of him.

Me: Perfect. Never mind.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at October 25, 2020 02:05 PM (Zg7Gg)

523 Shriek! Shriek!
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Shriek! Shriek!
Blah! Blah! Blah!

BORN IN THE USA!
BORN IN THE USA!

Hey, this is a cool song!

Sure, I'll take a toke of that doobie.

Posted by: 1985 LeftCoast Dawg, at a Springsteen concert. at October 25, 2020 02:07 PM (3YCch)

524 On the other hand, Adam Housley re this story:

@adamhousley

This isn't true.
********
And since Adam was on this story 1st before Solomon & Carter & since Piece of Shit Posobiec I believe Adam Housley

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 02:07 PM (ngzjr)

525 He looks like a drunk- my oldest child commenting on Springsteen.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable chump at October 25, 2020 02:08 PM (hGohp)

526 Reports: President Trump Adds Maine Visit to Sunday Schedule; Campaign Stop to Follow New Hampshire Rally

Posted by: Ghost Of Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg at October 25, 2020 02:09 PM (ngzjr)

527 Not just "sort-of Euro-West". What they'll create will attempt to be Norway or Sweden, but end up a Brazil-corrupt imitation of Germany.

They don't have the competence or the integrity to realize their goals, and they're too stupid to be aware of it.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at October 25, 2020 02:09 PM (Msrhc)

528 Wray needs to confirm or deny the Mockingbird Media rumor that they dropped the investigation. They already said it was not a Russian Op as Joe and Fake News have been preaching.

The evidence is real, and "convicts" Joe, so Wray needs to state whether that "anonymous source rumor" is true or false. If rumor is true, Wray needs to explain why Joe's involvement and denial of such are perfectly OK. Otherwise he needs to deny the rumor.

FBI has denied rumors before ... even Mueller came out against ?? I forget what, but one of these kind of Fake News accusations a couple years ago.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 25, 2020 02:09 PM (Cus5s)

529 nooood

Posted by: m at October 25, 2020 02:13 PM (6WbUY)

530 Let Springsteen go to Australia

I've got some boxes he can use.

I detest this tendency of liberals to strike a pose about how they're going to move to ~~Zimbabwe Mexico North Korea Somalia~~ Canada/ Australia/ New Zealand if they don't get their way.

So MOVE already!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 25, 2020 02:13 PM (4eDGJ)

531 > DOJ source says FBI has dropped Biden laptop investigation

Great, Bobulinski can testify on Monday as planned then.

Posted by: Make sure they're surrounded at October 25, 2020 02:15 PM (BBWrU)

532 There's all out brawls happening on the 'Jews for Trump' convoy in NYC....

https://tinyurl.com/y32cgktm

Posted by: Tami at October 25, 2020 02:16 PM (cF8AT)

533 I no longer have any interest in trying to engage with the left. If they won't leave me alone, they will die.

It's really that simple now.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 25, 2020 02:19 PM (jWe5r)

534 472 Trump has 4 rally's today and Joe put a lid on it... Either Joe believes the polls or he's given up
Posted by: It's me donna at October 25, 2020 01:55 PM (Zmnko)

Neither. He's counting on fraud to get him over the line.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at October 25, 2020 02:24 PM (Oka5v)

535 Yeah. Springsteen. Fuck that little Jersey wad. I'd be proud to lose my CCW and do 90 days in the brig with bread and water only to throat punch that goof.

Posted by: 0231 at October 25, 2020 02:31 PM (r+ov6)

536 Trump has 4 rally's today and Joe put a lid on it... Either Joe believes the polls or he's given up
Posted by: It's me donna

Biden doesn't have the energy or the focus to do any of that.
He is just doddering along, with the propaganda that he is ahead in the polls.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at October 25, 2020 02:32 PM (ZCiJZ)

537 Speaking of Missouri and vigilanteism, here is an instructive case from 1981 --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

Ken was the town bully, and a Very Bad Dude. The townsfolk finally had their fill of him in 1981, which was very bad for his health.

The events that day have been the subject of many a play and movies. The final scene in Roadhouse springs to mind.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 25, 2020 12:43 PM (Z4rgH)

Ironically enough, for all the jokes about him around here, Brian Dennehy actually played a surrogate for McElroy in 1991's "In Broad Daylight"...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy 🍺 at October 25, 2020 02:34 PM (ZSK0i)

538 history demonstrates that you either keep a boot on the neck of the left or they WILL put a boot on yours. there is no compromise with them, other than as a launching point for their next attack upon you

Posted by: Grad School Fool at October 25, 2020 03:19 PM (Tia6s)

539 I like these county-level maps. If you know a little geography, you can pick out the degraded urban cores, university towns, Indian reservations, and other Democrat shitholes. It says a lot about America.

Posted by: IronDave at October 25, 2020 03:31 PM (k3crU)

540 185 Winch Wench and I went to our fav breakfast cafe, about 30 miles north of here in NW WI. Counted signs, as always. Trump outnumbered Biden by 6:1. We saw a very large (12'x8') Biden sign that had been defaced with the word LIAR across it in bright red paint. Both sides. I'm not thrilled with the defacement, but I've never seen a dem sign defaced, stolen, or run over. Not ever. It's always open season on Repub signs.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 25, 2020 12:47 PM (5fQpL)

This week there was a Crimebusters style appeal for help on a Milwaukee TV news, asking for help identifying a vehicle that had been running over political signs.

They didn't say whose.

Posted by: Introverted elephocentric hypochondriac at October 25, 2020 04:01 PM (rw/ga)

541 I live in St Charles, MO. Went driving through the city this morning and there were many more Biden signs than there were during 2016. Our congressional district is huge and stretches out to Trump-land to the west and north, it was something like 65-35 for Trump.

I think most of the Trump supporters around here just raise the stars and stripes like I do, but the area has been seeing a lot of urban flight (inbound from STL) and I worry a bit the percentage will be lower for this election.

There's a state amendment on the ballot to allow the Governor (R) more control over redistricting; I suspect they want to tweak these congressional districts around STL to ensure the D's have no swing districts that are even close.

MO will go to Trump safely, even though we voted for Obama twice.

Posted by: muggs at October 25, 2020 04:15 PM (3HmoA)

542
"Artists," as they like to call themselves, believe one can not be "cool" if one is a conservative. "Cool" always means being edgy, and "edgy" can NEVER mean appreciating and conserving the "status quo" in anything to their way of thinking.

Making matters worse, people like Springsteen are incurious, as people tend to be when they are always convinced they are on the "right" side.

I'd lay big money Springsteen doesn't bother to read broadly or deeply.

He's incurious and so are those who buy the "Conservatives can't be good and liberals can."

The problem is wanting to be "cool" in the first place. It's always been overrated.

Posted by: gayle at October 25, 2020 04:16 PM (02bqp)

543 Fuck Springsteen! When he said he wouldn't do a concert in NC unless they voted to allow men in women's bathrooms that was the day and every day since that I turn off the radio when his fuckin songs come on.

Posted by: JD at October 25, 2020 05:30 PM (7/kmB)

544 Bruce who?

Posted by: CZ = Happiness at October 25, 2020 05:30 PM (MkuC5)

545 This campaign is a well oiled machine. That's how Obama won both times and how Trump will win again.

It's in governance that the Republicans completely forget how to tie their shoes.

416 I think they just switched out Pence in Greensboro NC tomorrow with Trump.

So Trump will do 3 rallies in PA tomorrow and a night rally in NC.

They want Pence in DC for the confirmation vote. That means they plan to vote at 7:30 tomorrow night.

Talk about keeping all the plates spinning.

Posted by: Mooch Obamas Uncircumcised Penis at October 25, 2020 05:39 PM (GaAew)

546 Talk about keeping all the plates spinning.
Great! Now I've got the "Sabre Dance" running in my head!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqg3l3r_DRI

Posted by: andycanuck at October 25, 2020 06:22 PM (an7Mv)

547 I remember when Christy hugged Springsteen. I thought leaders/Generals/Knights did not suck up to court jesters/entertainers.

Posted by: Barry Smith at October 25, 2020 06:44 PM (HjdTl)

548 Nood. Gun thread

Posted by: zeera I should be writing right now at October 25, 2020 07:02 PM (zUdXR)

549 J.J., you're in my neighborhood. St. Anthony's, right? I also walked past and decided to wait because the line of libtards was around the block. I will go on Tuesday morning at 10.

Posted by: Beverly at October 25, 2020 09:40 PM (9xzPu)

550 Plot Against the President docu is finally up on amazon-free with prime.

very absorbing.

Posted by: BOC-we can be like they are at October 25, 2020 10:41 PM (Mce6+)

551 The characters in Springsteen's early songs would all support President Trump.

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