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What If Deplorables Start “De-Platforming” Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?
[Buck Throckmorton]

If Monster Tech can aggressively de-platform businesses and individuals for expressing forbidden opinions, then maybe it’s time for skilled tradesmen to respond in kind against the woke left.

Leftists despise working class “deplorables” and seek to punish them for all their disapproved habits – you know - God, guns, motorized vehicles, and voting MAGA. Well, the tradesmen I know are swamped with business right now, so it might be a good time for them to establish their own “terms of service” enabling them to deny services to advocates of cancel culture. We’ve learned from Monster Tech that all you have to do is declare someone’s speech to be “hateful” or state that their speech might “incite violence” to banish someone from receiving service. If a deplorable can be targeted as hate-filled for simply supporting Trump, then a tradesman’s Terms of Service can in turn declare that any visible support for Democrats constitutes hate speech.

Broken down on the side of the road with a Bernie or Biden bumper sticker? Sorry – you’re going to have to find a wrecker that employs all 57 genders and declares all their pronouns. But Earl’s 24-Hour Wrecker won’t be towing your car today. Terms of service, you know.

Broken down furnace during a deep freeze? Too bad you advocated for a fracking ban on Facebook. That’s a violation of Smith HVAC’s terms of service. It looks like you’ll need to find yourself an HVAC company that can fix you up with 100% renewable energy if you want your heat back on.

It’s a shame about that plumbing leak, but your hate-filled “Hate Has No Home Here” sign is a violation of Jones Plumbing’s terms of service. If you’ll just open your backdoor, the leaking water will find its way out.

Low on gas in the middle of the desert? That’s a shame, but Last Chance Gas can’t put fuel in your car if it’s going to be spreading the message of hate encompassed by your COEXIST sticker.

Can such service be denied? The left is already doing it. My county is relaying updates about Covid vaccinations via Facebook. My town posts winter road updates on Facebook. I can’t express my political views on Facebook or else Mark Zuckerberg might deny me access to life-or-death info regarding roads and vaccines.

As the defenders of Monster Tech like to remind us, if I don’t want Facebook banishing me for having the wrong opinion, then I can just go start my own social media monopoly. Well then, it’s not asking too much for the left to go start their own skilled trade services.

It shouldn’t have to come to this, but we’re already seemingly here. In addition to the de-platformings by tech companies, some banks are refusing service to gun shop owners, retailers are banishing products from My Pillow, etc. If we can only buy products and services from those within our political tribe, leftists are really going to hate the new rules when they’re in critical need of a skilled tradesman.

(buck.throckmorton at gmail.com)

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1 FIRST

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 25, 2021 12:00 PM (LLgU1)

2 Afternoon all.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:00 PM (Rvt88)

3 I like this idea...very much!!!

Posted by: browndog at January 25, 2021 12:01 PM (BgMrQ)

4 Good idea.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 25, 2021 12:01 PM (SgI6S)

5 Heh,

Read the post and still got third.

Posted by: browndog at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (BgMrQ)

6 Better yet, agree to work for them at a premium price. Win-Win!

Posted by: Sophistahick at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (z3LzY)

7 Thank you for hosting, Buck. Great question about patriots denying services to communist weasels.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (LLgU1)

8 Sounds good to me. They need more student loan debt anyway.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (L8ADy)

9 A case can be made that hookers provide skilled services.

DC would grind to a halt inside of a week.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (Rvt88)

10 Bake the cake.

Posted by: them at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (l3+k2)

11 Bake the cake plebe.

Posted by: WiNO at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (NY48c)

12 Though about this some time ago. Unfortunately I offer no services anyone would need. Good thought though.

Posted by: Javems at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (rTxB7)

13 Skilled tradesmen aren't techie billionaires. Not happening.

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (ONvIw)

14 Moar Culture War

Fight back, fight dirty.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (ifmtJ)

15 The ginger chick in the previous post is still too skinny.

Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (UFgOG)

16 It'd probably be illegal for the deplorables to get uppity with their social betters.

However, you can and should take the measure of a client and charge accordingly.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (z79tQ)

17 You can't. Leftist are guaranteed to be able to receive services. You're not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (T7iTv)

18 Let's deprive the cities of food.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

19
andycanuck at January 25, 2021 11:59 AM (ab0zp)


I was
watching the Flames v Leafs game yesterday and a commercial came on for
"Dry Feb". Apparently all the Canadians are drinking too much firewater
during chink flu lock downs and need to dry out. I actually laughed out
loud! Sadz for what has become of Canada.

Posted by: Archer at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (gmo/4)

20 "Well, the tradesmen I know are swamped with business right now,"

Ain't that the truth. It's difficult to even get a quote on a home repair job. Plumbers, electricians, roofers, concrete guys; good ones are scarce.

Posted by: Behold gp's Bulged Trunnion at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (qpX6U)

21 I saw a gab this morning a gun shop in MI is saying they can't supply Biden supporters with guns and ammo. This sentiment needs to spread - F them all.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (L8ADy)

22 18 Let's deprive the cities of food.
Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

Then they'll kill you kulak

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (ONvIw)

23 Let's deprive the cities of food.
Posted by: BignJames

I know a few drivers that would be more than happy to oblige.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (Rvt88)

24 We also need to get government, all government off of private platforms. Social Security has no need to be on Facebook They can start their own site. As well as Nasa, the DoD, Stae Dept. All of them.

Posted by: James at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (9bqWr)

25 Ain't that the truth. It's difficult to even get a quote on a home repair job. Plumbers, electricians, roofers, concrete guys; good ones are scarce.
Posted by: Behold gp's Bulged Trunnion at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (qpX6U)

---

Hub is an electrician.

This is true.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (+tqLU)

26 I don't think one will have to actively campaign to deprive cities and leftists of goods and services. I think it will happen organically, as increased regulation makes it more and more difficult to get goods to the market.

Posted by: blake - Dr semi lurker in marginal standing at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (WEBkv)

27 I'm absolutely for this. They want to deplatform us? Have fun getting through winter without heat.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp - Taking A Lid at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (VWp7G)

28 Way ahead of ya. Already checking social media of my vendors.

Posted by: BluesFish at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (sRma+)

29 Dumb idea. All that will do is force the spurned customers onto social media to destroy any small business that tries this.

Posted by: toddg at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (PoO61)

30 Nah, I'd rather make money off the people who hate me.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 12:06 PM (C+We0)

31 Let's deprive the cities of food.
Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (AwYPR)


Easy peasy. Since they've killed the energy sector in less than 48 hours, diesel is going to get real expensive. Why waste it driving to and around the cities? That goes for any goods coming in by truck.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:06 PM (L8ADy)

32
What If Deplorables Start "De-Platforming" Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?

__________

Business licences pulled. Code violations discovered. Screaming Twitter mobs. Downvotes on Yelp. Etc.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2021 12:06 PM (mht8P)

33 Civil Rights attorneys will be busy if we try this.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (e1mwr)

34 Dumb idea. All that will do is force the spurned customers onto social media to destroy any small business that tries this.
Posted by: toddg at January 25, 2021 12:05 PM (PoO61)

---

My hub isn't on social media.

Business is by word of mouth.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (+tqLU)

35 Sure, deprive some Establishment better of a service and watch:

- Your business disappear
- Your bank close your account
- Your family get harassed
- Your online accounts get removed

It can work only if it isn't blatant.

Posted by: WiNO at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (NY48c)

36 >>>I don't think one will have to actively campaign to deprive cities and leftists of goods and services.


Trashmen in Philly didn't pink up the recycling Wednesday. Looked online and the city won't even hear your case until five days after trash day has passed. But please raise my taxes again.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp - Taking A Lid at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (VWp7G)

37 10 Bake the cake.
Posted by: them at January 25, 2021 12:02 PM (l3+k2)

11 Bake the cake plebe.
Posted by: WiNO at January 25, 2021 12:03 PM (NY48c)

It's called Horde mind for a reason, you know.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (sy5kK)

38 Point out that your advertised prices are just guidelines.

From each according to his ability..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (yQpMk)

39 Didn't we see this play out in real time?

Turns out they did have to bake the cake.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (C+We0)

40 It's difficult to even get a quote on a home repair job. Plumbers, electricians, roofers, concrete guys; good ones are scarce.
Posted by: Behold gp's Bulged Trunnion at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (qpX6U)


Good anything is scarce. Good-enough rules the day.
Sub-standard is amazingly common.
Sue me, they say.

But really, there are ways to get back the pound of flesh they insist on taking.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (z79tQ)

41 ^^^^THIS.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at January 25, 2021 12:08 PM (+RZls)

42 Been blocking anyone with even a hint of "woke" from getting hired at my shop for years.

Posted by: Pierre at January 25, 2021 12:08 PM (u2I6p)

43 Practical "Irish Democracy"!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 25, 2021 12:08 PM (87oRe)

44 Taking money from people who hate you is fun

Posted by: Jmel at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (P5bLJ)

45 All well and good (and something I'd fully support) if there was any semblance of equality under the law. They can discriminate at will against us. We have to bake the cake or face liquidation.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (O+I8R)

46
Watch how aggressively any tradesman who does this is hit with Civil Rights law prosecutions and has the book thrown at them. Revocation of professional licenses, etc. etc.

And this is how you get underground economies. Unless and until currency is abolished.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (s2VJv)

47 Buck T., truly an excellent idea.

Actions, not words. Because the Left has censored our ability to speak our words.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (sy5kK)

48 32 Hadrian the Seventh

Nope. The Republican Party will fight the Democrats tooth and nail over that.

Bwahahahahaha

* Mad laughter *

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (LLgU1)

49 I'm all for it, but to the right, the left's money spends as well as the right's.

That's where we cut our own throats.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (0DVOr)

50 There is a lot you can do against Leviathan without even sticking your neck out. Some thoughts in no particular order:

1. Stop buying stuff
2. Do only what the government directly compels you to do. Do not voluntarily cooperate.
3. Pay in cash with a winkwink
4. Cheat the government whenever possible
5. Steal all your entertainment
6. If you know of tax cheating, keep your mouth shut
7. If called to jury, refuse to convict if you think the law unjust
8. Discriminate in all your private dealings, without openly saying so. Never miss an opportunity to quietly do a Commie dirty.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)

51 Didn't we see this play out in real time?

Turns out they did have to bake the cake.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (C+We

At the end of the day, political affiliation is not a protected category. "Sexual orientation" is.

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (ONvIw)

52
9. If you see a CoC sticker on a business, go elsewhere
10. Vote against all tax levies, particularly school levies
11. Buy firearms and ammo. It's not simply a just-in-case, it's a good financial investment of small sums when savings are yielding 1/4 of a percent.

Good Citizens are chumps.

They need us more than we need them.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)

53 Nah, I'd rather make money off the people who hate me.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 12:06 PM (C+We0)


When we were dick kids (instead of dick grown ups) one buddy of mine who was a particularly good salesman had what he called the "law enforcement" discount. Which was a 10-20% increase in the normal price for cops. At one point, he ripped a cop off terribly bad, but did it with such great service and a smile that he got referrals. Yes, there was a time when we weren't on the best side of LEO's.

Their money is just as green as anybody else's. And so are assholes'. Just give them the asshole/lefty discount. But I'd say that goes for the service industry, where you can't necessarily discount the immense power of yelp.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (L8ADy)

54 The ginger chick in the previous post is still too skinny.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Even when they're wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (T7iTv)

55 This is some hardcore shit, right here.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 25, 2021 12:10 PM (03n3v)

56 Just speculatively, if truck drivers stayed home for a weekend my entire state (NJ) would probably go into food supply crisis.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 25, 2021 12:10 PM (vpurQ)

57 Moar Culture War

Fight back, fight dirty.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * finger painting in my attic studio at January 25, 2021 12:10 PM (B52IH)

58 YES! I always advocated 75+million voters need to withdraw from supporting the Woke. I absolutely love this idea. It takes things to the next level and it avoids the violence the Leftist Marxist crave. No more volunteer Army/Navy fight your own wars Joe.

Posted by: MantuaBill at January 25, 2021 12:11 PM (fWuI4)

59 "Bake the cake, bigot!" becomes "Blacklist Trump supporters."

It'll only be "unfair" again if, as you suggest, people who know how to do things revolt against those who would cancel them.

And it's a LOT of them. Our town FB page is full of people who are desperate for an electrician to change out a light bulb or a plumber who can fix a faucet handle for them.

Posted by: red speck at January 25, 2021 12:11 PM (gS3OW)

60 G'rump928(c) - newsletter details if you please!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:11 PM (Rvt88)

61 This touches on a point I have made periodically. The only way forward (other than open warfare, and that might be inevitable) is for the public hard leftists to be denied service. Need to get your car or pipes fixed? No sale. Want a meal at the diner? No sale.

Marginalization in everyday life would have a big effect. Not that those folks couldn't get services - some companies will carve out a niche and cater to them - but that their options are reduced and they are made into pariahs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (UZVEt)

62 No more volunteer Army/Navy fight your own wars Joe.
Posted by: MantuaBill at January 25, 2021 12:11 PM (fWuI4)

I love the idea of wokesters being drafted and sent to Iraq.

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (ONvIw)

63 I see this and want no part of it.

That said, I don't think I will have a choice.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (KbCG3)

64 Skilled trades, especially the best of the best, can write their own fricking ticket. They are always in such demand that they have no down time. Around here, for example, if you have a need for a plumber right away, you end up with a schmo trainee. The owners put their good guys on the jobs with the important clients, and if you demand a true pro - you have to wait. And we have no shortage of plumbing companies here.
We need to bring back the days of the "club". Hell, Sam's Club requires a membership in order to make purchases ...

Posted by: GrandeMe at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (ytutJ)

65
Skilled tradesmen today are more difficult to find to repair things like your home, your car, and your equipment than it was to find a steady weed dealer in the '70's.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (sy5kK)

66 Actions like this just isn't who we are.




BUT.....they should be.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (S7VTO)

67 Strikes will be declared Domestic Terrorism.

Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (l3+k2)

68 Take their money. Charge emergency or OT rates if it's a lunatic wanting your service.

A few years ago I changed out a toilet for a woman and had to go back 3x because it was leaking. The third trip it was discovered that her grandson that she sits in the mornings before he goes to school could not hit the bowl. I billed big.

Posted by: Tree of Liberty Landscaping at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (DB16e)

69 There is a lot you can do against Leviathan without even sticking your neck out. Some thoughts in no particular order:

1. Stop buying stuff
2. Do only what the government directly compels you to do. Do not voluntarily cooperate.
3. Pay in cash with a winkwink
4. Cheat the government whenever possible
5. Steal all your entertainment
6. If you know of tax cheating, keep your mouth shut
7. If called to jury, refuse to convict if you think the law unjust
8. Discriminate in all your private dealings, without openly saying so. Never miss an opportunity to quietly do a Commie dirty.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)


Right now, my mother is in hospice care, being covered by medicare. What I didn't know is that they offer support to family members (I'm it) as far as drug rehab, psychological counseling (depression, anxiety, suicide), and a host of other services for up to a year after the patient's death. I'm trying to think of how to suck them dry. Maybe an addiction to pixy sticks? There's a LOT of manpower behind this, I had no idea. And this is just one group of probably hundreds in CA.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (L8ADy)

70 What If Deplorables Start "De-Platforming" Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?"
I've been doing that for years.

Posted by: f'd at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (+y8uL)

71 I know this will come as a great disappointment to many here, but Rob Portman (R-ino) will not run again for the Senate from Ohio. Possible candidates include Jim Jordan.

Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (v16oJ)

72 This is a fun idea that would be impossible to implement. All of the trades would have to organize and coordinate their efforts and I don't see how that can happen.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (yP9BI)

73 Love it. I kinda been doing that for a few years now.

Democrap flag or paraphernalia? Pass.

Rainbow flag or other sodomite markers? Pass.

Earth In The Lurchers or Mother Earth stickers? Pass.

No do business with fuckers who preach and teach communism, perversion or hatred as much as I can.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (F5zz8)

74 My new plan is to support any conservative they seek to deplatform and it is my hope that we conservatives can Goya the left where it hurts them most - you know - by making one of their hated succeed beyond their wildest imagination. I consider it part of my charitable giving this year. So. I was one of the Goya purchasers (for the first time in my life) last year. It gives me a real thrill when I see those cans sitting in my pantry. Now adorning my bed are brand new My Pillows. Gifts to give? I'm thinking My Pillow gift certificates will be a wonderful choice.
Let's do this right and make being shunned by the left a thing to be desired.

Posted by: Sweets at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (0GzkE)

75 Really it wouldn't need to go that far.. one industry can shut every city down in a day... Truckers stop delivering.

I'd give it 72 hours before these bastions of culture look like a Walking Dead episode.

Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (bLfy6)

76 18 Let's deprive the cities of food.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (AwYPR)


Great idea. I've been doing this for a while now. I own a farm and choose my customers accordingly. Also I was ready to lease my rental property out but took it off the market. Biden bans evictions, so fine, now deal with rental shortages and sky high rents. I'll flip the property for profit. No way am I renting when I can't evict for non payment of rent. Stealing an election has consequences.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (cCxiu)

77 sign outside your business:


YOU MUST BE THIS FAR RIGHT TO ENTER

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (iTXRQ)

78 >>Buck T., truly an excellent idea.


It is. Now if only Buck would ditch that Google mail account of his...and the other cobs ditch their Twitter accounts.

Posted by: (fly) at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (RATxy)

79 Just speculatively, if truck drivers stayed home for a weekend my entire state (NJ) would probably go into food supply crisis.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks

My Brother in Law is a "retired" truck driver. Used to drive all over, now drives only occassionally (he's 70 years old).
His take is that a lot of truck drivers are getting to the point they won't go into some of these "troubled" cities. Besides the cops hassling them, there is also a lot of crime around trucks moving food, etc into cities to super markets. A lot of truckers carry (without permits, frequently), which also makes cops angry at them.
Yeah, they could call a "strike", and watch the supermarkets empty out in 48 hours. And then people start going hungry, and no TP to wipe their little asses.
Sad!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (vcOmj)

80 Many hard leftists would fight this on the basis of gender, race or national origin, maybe even religion. We lose when Tapper is denied service and he sues over "because I'm Jewish" or when BLM types say "racist". It's a losing proposition that will destroy tradesmen.

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (ONvIw)

81 I know this will come as a great disappointment to many here, but Rob
Portman (R-ino) will not run again for the Senate from Ohio. Possible
candidates include Jim Jordan.

Astonishingly, he blames gridlock and partisanship, and says we all need to come together, left and right.

Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (v16oJ)

82 Actions, not words. Because the Left has censored our ability to speak our words.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

When men run out of words, they reach for their swords.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Paladin at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (B52IH)

83 It's difficult to even get a quote on a home repair job. Plumbers, electricians, roofers, concrete guys; good ones are scarce.
Posted by: Behold gp's Bulged Trunnion

I demo'd my master bath down to the studs, pulled up the old tiled floor and all. I think I did a good job. The tile guy was over the other day and asked if I was looking for work. I told him I didn't know how to tile.

Didn't care. He can't find guys willing to learn, pee clean, and show up everyday - let alone on time.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (Rvt88)

84 NO REPUBLICAN VALUES- NO SERVICE





(small r)

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (iTXRQ)

85 >>The ginger chick in the previous post is still too skinny.


I will feed her sausage for a small fee.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (peRI/)

86 I have done this forever.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (km9ug)

87 To me, the worst offenders are the public school teachers refusing to go back into the classroom. Grocery store workers, medical people, bus drivers, etc Lots of people who have to come into close contact with people everyday of the week and who are much more likely to be exposed to Covid are expected to go to work but teachers are somehow exempt even though it has been conclusively shown that children do not carry the virus. Private schoools in lots ofplaces are open and doing fine. This is again hurting the most vulnerable populations, poor children. All those elites who bemoan food deserts so kids need to be fed in school and before school and afterschool and preschool programs so kids don;t have to go home to poor environments are just fine with forcing them to sit in front of a computer screen all day without fresh air and sunshine to the point where suicides of school age children are increasing at an enormous rate.This is all so phony.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (sd8p8)

88 Reality TV idea- drop a few woke millennials on remote island. No settlements, just bags of concrete, dimensional lumber for construction, generator for power tools, nail guns- only after passing proficiency and first aid course. Pass/fail based on surviving the winter.

Posted by: Rex B at January 25, 2021 12:16 PM (uN4KS)

89
And this is how you get underground economies. Unless and until currency is abolished.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (s2VJv)

Silver dimes and quarters for the win! And barter.

Besides, the dollar is getting blown out asap from the Biden crowd and their affiliates.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:16 PM (sy5kK)

90 What If Deplorables Start "De-Platforming" Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?

That's why I changed jobs the last time. Woke bullshit from on high.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at January 25, 2021 12:16 PM (SchxB)

91 Skilled trades, especially the best of the best, can write their own fricking ticket. They are always in such demand that they have no down time. Around here, for example, if you have a need for a plumber right away, you end up with a schmo trainee...
We need to bring back the days of the "club". Hell, Sam's Club requires a membership in order to make purchases ...
Posted by: GrandeMe at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (ytutJ)


We used to call them co-ops. I remember one in Palo Alto when I was a kid. Trade for trade. Or, join and pay. Then again, we used to live in a society back then, and neighborhoods supported each other. The left has done what they can to destroy that and family. We just need to bring it back. By face-to-face interactions, cutting out the middle man (social media).

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:16 PM (L8ADy)

92 10. Vote against all tax levies, particularly school levies

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)


I've been doing this for decades.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:16 PM (yP9BI)

93 Yeah, they could call a "strike", and watch the supermarkets empty out in 48 hours. And then people start going hungry, and no TP to wipe their little asses.
Sad!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (vcOmj)

They'd get a quick ultimatum and face firing.

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:16 PM (ONvIw)

94 Yes, tradesmen can deplatform the left . . . by foregoing money from jobs from leftists . . . based on . . . what? . . . searching their social media posts before agreeing to unclog their sewer lines etc.? This doesn't really seem workable to me in any but the most obvious cases, like public figures and loudmouths.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (H5knJ)

95 I'm about to take over a team of 40, growing to 100+ over the next few years.

A whiff of woke and you're either not getting the job, will never get promoted, or will be asked to leave.

They've decided what is fair. I accept these terms.

Posted by: MJ at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (gAMkn)

96 >>the worst offenders are the public school teachers


No qualifications needed, there.

The Teachers are just NPCs for a Union that MUST be destroyed.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (peRI/)

97 This is the de-evolution of lawfulness. And the left started it with Sanctuary Cities. If the right is answering with 2A sanctuary counties. And it will escalate from here. If you don't have to follow the law, I don't either. If you can ban me from your bank for voting for Trump, I can ban you from my bakery for being gay. I can refuse to fix your car for having a Biden bumper sticker. This is the self-segregation happening like in Kurt Schlicter's books. Pretty soon we'll have our communities and they'll have theirs.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (Dc5Qe)

98 Hiya Buck !

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (arJlL)

99
My hub isn't on social media.

Business is by word of mouth.
Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 12:07 PM (+tqLU)

SMH!
And a warm hello to you!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (sy5kK)

100 Good idea, Buck, but it won't work without immigration reform. In the short term, those "denied service" will simply hire illegals from the local Home Depot to do a "good enough" job. In the long term, Congress will expand the guest worker visa program to permit Roto-Rooter to import plumbers from India. The latter is why, 30 years after the H-1B program, Big Tech is filled with America-hating foreign nationals.

Posted by: Rusty at January 25, 2021 12:18 PM (70/sB)

101 >>Good idea, Buck, but it won't work without immigration reform. In the short term, those "denied service" will simply hire illegals from the local Home Depot to do a "good enough" job


Hahaha -

Mexican Infrastructure, FTW.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:19 PM (peRI/)

102
To me, the worst offenders are the public school teachers refusing to go back into the classroom.

____________

Albert Shanker may not have said, "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children," but the sentiment is typical of teachers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2021 12:19 PM (mht8P)

103 87 To me, the worst offenders are the public school teachers refusing to go back into the classroom.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (sd8p


I didn't mind that. What got me was that they both (a) refused to work and (b) demanded full pay.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:19 PM (yP9BI)

104 75 Really it wouldn't need to go that far.. one industry can shut every city down in a day... Truckers stop delivering.

I'd give it 72 hours before these bastions of culture look like a Walking Dead episode.
Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (bLfy6)

Yes, the magic number is 72 hours.
And while at it, cut off the electrical as well.

It will be like rats in the bottom of The Barrel.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:19 PM (sy5kK)

105 First they say we have to bake a cake even if it is against our principles, now they say you are to be punished for your principles.

Yeah, I like the idea of withholding services from those that hate us and want us dead. They need us more than we need them.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at January 25, 2021 12:19 PM (Oq/TM)

106 I demo'd my master bath down to the studs,

_-----

I demo'd my masterbate too, and I got fired!

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at January 25, 2021 12:19 PM (V5CNJ)

107
I was watching the Flames v Leafs game yesterday and a commercial
came on for "Dry Feb". Apparently all the Canadians are drinking too
much firewater during chink flu lock downs and need to dry out. I
actually laughed out loud! Sadz for what has become of Canada.
-----------
Hilarious. I've not seen it though because I've given up on the NHL even on 'free' TV after cancelling my two cable sports packages.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (ab0zp)

108 'Judges families might starve ' is just a ray of sunshine!

Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (QgW45)

109 I saw a gab this morning a gun shop in MI is saying they can't supply Biden supporters with guns and ammo. This sentiment needs to spread - F them all.
Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:04 PM (L8ADy)

local charter boat captain here in va beach has said he doesn't want dems on his boat.

he's been doing great business since that announcement...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (8D42x)

110 It works in reverse too. The Wifey and I own a 120 year old house, and the sewer began backing up (on a Saturday, natch). Called out a contractor to snake the line. While he was working a Trump parade went down my street, and the contractor said, "I can't believe that they're celebrating that idiot.". I held my tongue and paid him for his work, but it turns out my sewer line had collapsed (original clay pipe). A ~$10k job that went to his competitor.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (oCsk1)

111 87 To me, the worst offenders are the public school teachers refusing to go back into the classroom.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)
____________

"Offenders?" No, dammit, we're HEROES. We said so.

Posted by: Education Majors Everywhere at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (9vQJW)

112 Alinsky's #4
Good and hard

Posted by: Lizzy at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (7Hjh9)

113 like rats in the bottom of The Barrel.

Those were rats?

Posted by: IP at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (pWrfh)

114 First cup of coffee stream of consciousness items.

Quick look at JJ's morning rant - does he know FISA long long long pre-dates 9/11? Not something that resulted from 9/11.

NG units requested to stay in DC until MARCH? There was obviously no reason for them to be there in the first place. March? WTF?

WHO changed C19 testing/case protocol on .... Jan. 20?? Of course in a rational direction, back towards how influenza and other diseases are assessed. Test + symptoms = "case" (simplifying, but correct).

Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (OTzUX)

115 72 This is a fun idea that would be impossible to implement. All of the trades would have to organize and coordinate their efforts and I don't see how that can happen.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:14 PM (yP9BI)

Slowly, at first, then suddenly.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (sy5kK)

116 Hiring. It's about hiring.

If you're a corporate person with the ability to hire, you have time to check backgrounds.

Eliminate all leftist and never talk about it.

Posted by: MJ at January 25, 2021 12:21 PM (gAMkn)

117 Short comic relief video-Trump vs. Biden-Mission Impossible:

https://tinyurl.com/y6lxe3qu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2021 12:21 PM (VP4Cd)

118 I love all the 'well gosh someone stood up and it didn't go too well for them, how can I be expected to even try' posts. Hello, Boomercons.

Posted by: JebPilled at January 25, 2021 12:21 PM (QUqEV)

119 >>NG units requested to stay in DC until MARCH? There was obviously no reason for them to be there in the first place. March? WTF?


Wasting money and destroying people's lives...it's what the Dems do.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:21 PM (peRI/)

120 71 I know this will come as a great disappointment to many here, but Rob Portman (R-ino) will not run again for the Senate from Ohio. Possible candidates include Jim Jordan.
Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (v16oJ)

The long knives will be out to tank Jordan, but Big T will probably be out for him.
Expect the GOPe to flood the primary in that one to dilute as much from him as possible.

Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (bLfy6)

121 Make a butt crack joke, fix your pipe with soy butter.

Posted by: DaveA at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (FhXTo)

122 They've decided what is fair. I accept these terms.

Posted by: MJ at January 25, 2021 12:17 PM (gAMkn)

I worry about this at my job, but then again I think I'll be okay. My company hasn't really bothered much with this Woke stuff till just in the last few months and it's been pretty mild. Had to take some inclusion course and being aware of discrimination but it was surprisingly mild. None of that "confess your white privelege crimes" stuff I've heard about. And I'm in a nominally blue state working for a pretty left leaning corporation based in NYC.
I can be a stainless steel rat. I know all the "right" answers. And honestly, my upbringing, my faith, and Dr King have taught me how to treat other people as equals. So none of it is new to me. I don't need any "inclusion training" but whatever.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (Dc5Qe)

123 First Toomey said he wouldn't run in 2022, and now Portman bails. Progress.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (vpurQ)

124 Also willowed: There's another 'cute, loving Bidens couple' shit story being promoted:
Joe and DOCTOR Jill went and got bagels at a local restaurant just like
ordinary people! And Trump never ate anywhere in D.C. other than at his
hotel!!

Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (ab0zp)

125 We are a very pro 2A company. That pretty much weeds out the wokest of the woke.

Posted by: IP at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (pWrfh)

126 Didn't care. He can't find guys willing to learn, pee clean, and show up everyday - let alone on time.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (Rvt8

This. No work ethic anymore.

Posted by: Count de Monet in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)

127 108 'Judges families might starve ' is just a ray of sunshine!
Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (QgW45)

You go ahead and refuse service to wokesters and he how quick they play the "protected group" card. You'll have nothing when they finish with you. Realism s not always sunshine and daffodils.

Posted by: Judges' families might starve if Dominion does not win. at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (ONvIw)

128 'Judges families might starve ' is just a ray of sunshine!
Posted by: Rando East Texas Poster at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (QgW45)


Just another of the "you can't fight back" bunch. Scroll on by - you won't miss anything.

Posted by: Pierre at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (u2I6p)

129 I know this will come as a great disappointment to many here, but Rob
Portman (R-ino) will not run again for the Senate from Ohio. Possible
candidates include Jim Jordan.
Astonishingly, he blames gridlock and partisanship, and says we all need to come together, left and right.
Posted by: pep

and the embarrassment of losing a primary ... to any warm body Trump chooses to endorse

Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2021 12:22 PM (Xih1H)

130 Here in CA, I've run across the problem of the frightened sheep syndrome - I've mentioned this a few times. My plumbing company, which I've used for over 15 years? Well, the owner is so scared of covid he won't go inside a house. As far as I know, he's lost all of his workers - as I see a bunch of trucks parked in their lot now all day. I hired him to do some outside work I'd have normally gotten some low-skilled laborers to do (sprinkler irrigation) because I felt sorry for him.

His lot sits on a very busy corner, I predict he'll sell the approx 1 acre and retire. In the meantime, other plumbers are stepping in. What a shame, to build a business and reputation over 20 years, and throw it away because scary disease. I can only guess he's one of a million here in CA that are voluntarily committing business suicide.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:23 PM (L8ADy)

131 OT Rob Portman (R - HA!) Ohio Senator will not seek re-election.

I am sure he was graftful to serve.

Posted by: AJ Duie at January 25, 2021 12:23 PM (oDpqT)

132 Teachers that didn't bother teaching don't miss teaching when they don't do what they didn't do in the first place. Nyah.

Posted by: klaftern at January 25, 2021 12:23 PM (RuIsu)

133 My Pillows. Gifts to give? I'm thinking My Pillow gift certificates will be a wonderful choice. Posted by: Sweets


You must be a mind reader. I did a one gift Christmas this year. EVERYONE on the list got a My Pillow. After New Years , got another My Pillow for my mom so far, and the pillowcases too. If Mike Lindell sold My Ammo, My Primers and My Powder I'd be sending him wire transfers.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 25, 2021 12:23 PM (cCxiu)

134 Astonishingly, he blames gridlock and partisanship, and says we all need to come together, left and right.
Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:15 PM (v16oJ)

Yup, it's the damn voter's fault yet again.

Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (bLfy6)

135 110 It works in reverse too. The Wifey and I own a 120 year old house, and the sewer began backing up (on a Saturday, natch). Called out a contractor to snake the line. While he was working a Trump parade went down my street, and the contractor said, "I can't believe that they're celebrating that idiot.". I held my tongue and paid him for his work, but it turns out my sewer line had collapsed (original clay pipe). A ~$10k job that went to his competitor.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (oCsk1)

This is one thing I've always noticed - lefty's have no problem interjecting their politics to anyone at any time.

They get very sheepish when called out. Trust me, I know.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (KbCG3)

136 It works in reverse too. The Wifey and I own a 120 year old house, and
the sewer began backing up (on a Saturday, natch). Called out a
contractor to snake the line. While he was working a Trump parade went
down my street, and the contractor said, "I can't believe that they're
celebrating that idiot.". I held my tongue and paid him for his work,
but it turns out my sewer line had collapsed (original clay pipe). A
~$10k job that went to his competitor.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 25, 2021 12:20 PM (oCsk1)

Never, ever talk politics, sex or religion at work. Or in public at all. Who doesn't know this?

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (Dc5Qe)

137 I like the idea but why wouldn't some tradesmen simply see a business opportunity in servicing the woke?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (lgiXo)

138 Damned good idea!

Would have responded/commented earlier, but was outside breaking my back shoveling snow. . . .

In Arizona!

Posted by: FIIGMO at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (2S93K)

139 We are a very pro 2A company. That pretty much weeds out the wokest of the woke.

Worked for a consulting company where at least one-third of the staff packed.

Posted by: Observer at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (C+evo)

140 If I were a baker, I would never give in on baking the lgbt cake.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (ftFVW)

141 65
Skilled tradesmen today are more difficult to find to repair things like your home, your car, and your equipment than it was to find a steady weed dealer in the '70's.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:12 PM (sy5kK)


Mrs. Muse and I know a guy, been paying him for nearly 30 years to fix random broke stuff in our house, i.e. appliances, plumbing, etc. Guy has an encyclopedic knowledge of home repair, appliance parts, etc. But he's > 80 years old, and is obviously not going to be around forever. In the old days, someone like him would've taken on and trained an apprentice, but no, that's a thing of the past. So when he finally goes, we're going to be up a creek.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:25 PM (yP9BI)

142 Teachers that didn't bother teaching don't miss teaching when they don't do what they didn't do in the first place. Nyah.

Posted by: klaftern at January 25, 2021 12:23 PM (RuIsu)

One thing they don't like about remote learning. They are very unhappy about the fact that parents can now overhear what their children are being taught. They can't prattle off their leftist propaganda without being overheard by mom and dad.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 25, 2021 12:26 PM (Dc5Qe)

143 Too Cool :

https://youtu.be/ntgfk2OlcIM

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:26 PM (DErdz)

144 I know this will come as a great disappointment to many here, but Rob
Portman (R-ino) will not run again for the Senate from Ohio. Possible
candidates include Jim Jordan.
Astonishingly, he blames gridlock and partisanship, and says we all need to come together, left and right.
Posted by: pep

and the embarrassment of losing a primary ... to any warm body Trump chooses to endorse
Posted by: Jean

The conclusion is that he will vote for impeachment of Trump, which will doom his re-election anyways. He's getting out because he is voting for impeachment.

Buh-by, Rob!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at January 25, 2021 12:26 PM (vcOmj)

145 Possible candidates include Jim Jordan.
Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (v16oJ)


Will google give him a raise moving from the House to the Senate?

Posted by: WeBoned! at January 25, 2021 12:26 PM (8k7U7)

146 Re: 19/Archer. Chink flu!

Holy shit, almost passed my second cup of coffee through my nose.

Posted by: FIIGMO at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (2S93K)

147 Those of you saying leftists would sue you out of existence are right.

That's why the first rule of Fuck You Club is you don't talk about Fuck You Club.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (z79tQ)

148 It might be easiest to just put a sign on your tow truck that says "Trump is still my president."

When you show up to tow the woke idiot's car, xe will refuse your services.

Posted by: RKae at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (2hwYQ)

149 I watched "She Dies Tomorrow" which apparently got a lot of press when it originally came out. It is sort of a horror movie. SPOILERS
One the characters becomes convinced he is going to die tomorrow and spreads it to the protagonist who then spreads it to other people by talking with them (they suddenly see an off screen light and hear something that sounds like muted TV/radio in the background)

The characters don't die from some fantastical means, or even from some disease...they do bad, stupid things based on fear and some of them die. Almost made me wonder if the real point of the movie is that the media fear mongering about covid was the real danger instead of the disease itself which of course is the case.


Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (qlFIA)

150 I almost don't care who runs to replace these RINO's, on the theory they will all be swampy. My proposition is that first term Senators will be less self-impressed and more interested in representing constituents (I hope) than fully dug-in incumbents. At some point they all become convinced they know better. Romney arrived that way, I realize, but I'm hoping newbies get to that point a little more gradually.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (vpurQ)

151 If I were a baker, I would never give in on baking the lgbt cake.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs

Don't wanna buy a dick mold, huh ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)

152 Hey LCD : )

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (+tqLU)

153 140 If I were a baker, I would never give in on baking the lgbt cake.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (ftFVW)


The Masterpiece Cake guy hasn't given up.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:28 PM (yP9BI)

154 Sometimes the clues are subtle when it comes to weeding out clients to dump. If there are pictures of the client with a shotgun and a bunch of dead ducks on their office wall they are probably going to be ok.

Posted by: f'd at January 25, 2021 12:28 PM (+y8uL)

155 When I was getting ready to sell my house, had a lot of tradesmen at the house. As soon as they saw I wasn't wearing a mask, their masks came off and they knew it was okay to talk politics. Not a one wasn't a Trump supporter. Never had a problem getting someone to do work on the house.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:28 PM (sd8p8)

156 Need your AC/heat fixed ... "we're sorry, but we noticed you had a Biden sign outside your house last year, and we consider you a domestic terrorist. We suggest an anti-commie training seminar, to get back on the approved for service list. After that we will have a priest or minister tour your house and social media, to evaluate whether or not you are in compliance. Have a nice (cold) day."


How much different is that, to what some banks and BigTechs are doing? (or at least what they seem to be planning to do)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2021 12:28 PM (Cus5s)

157 Will google give him a raise moving from the House to the Senate?

Posted by: WeBoned!

Excellent question. He's smart, so it might occur to him that the single best move he could make to win the election is to go after Big Tech.

Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (v16oJ)

158 The outrage of what's been done (most places) with schools during this catastrophe (self-inflicted) really sort of sums up the overall civic degradation, verging on collapse. It has every element.

Unionized self-interested absolutely non-"public servants" acting like the arrogant entitled useless parasites they are (sorry, so many good/normal teachers, but they're completely swallowed up/erased by the overall trend).

Based on absurd non-science. 90% of teachers/staff demo, entirety of student demo - not affected by C19 even as much as by normal influenza.

Talk about "disparate impact". Work-from-home professionals etc barely affected. Millions without that ability hit very hard (no nannies, no care-takers). Educational impact? Disastrous (even most clueless teachers admitting this). It's the whole package: science-free, constitution-free misrule by arrogant tyrants, despicable parasitism by unionized non-"public servants", devastating impact on middle and working class families, to include educational damage.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (OTzUX)

159 If I were a baker, I would never give in on baking the lgbt cake.

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs



Don't wanna buy a dick mold, huh ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)

You know what? I wonder if you aren't on to something here. Why didn't those bakers just say that? "I don't have that mold" or "I don't have the skill to do that kind of cake, but X baker I know does here's his number." Very easy way to deflect the witch hunt.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (Dc5Qe)

160 Hell yesssss.

A backed up septic can get pretty nasty.

Posted by: Ziba at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (S1hrL)

161 Hi SMH. Thanks for sticking up for me the other day.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (sd8p8)

162 Ooo! Ooo! Mail just arrived with music. The mail lady left my mail on a front bench, weighted down against the wind with a hatchet I keep handy. Hadrian's thumb drive with marvelous music collection was in the stack.

Thank you, Hadrian. This is wonderful.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (XxJt1)

163 Life's been good to me - have been able to implement a "will not work for assholes" for a few years now. That eliminated about 95% of the leftists right there.

Posted by: Pierre at January 25, 2021 12:30 PM (u2I6p)

164 I think a 3rd party charter, or some sort of overall agreement would be best. People/companies could sign on, and the various addendums would cover the various industry specific aspects.

That way you have a broader base from which to resist.

This would be sort of the flip-side of the consumer boycott platform idea which has been vaguely discussed on here sometimes as of late.

Posted by: .87c at January 25, 2021 12:30 PM (Hjsrt)

165 137 I like the idea but why wouldn't some tradesmen simply see a business opportunity in servicing the woke?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (lgiXo)

Simple percentages. Woke people, for the most part, don't want to get their hands dirty or roll around in dirty areas, where the equipment that needs fixing is located.

The Woke want the office jobs, pushing numbers and paoerwork around, and going home at 5pm. And the Woke HR Directors are smart at identifying them and getting them hired.

So, the natural progression is that if you want your furnace fixed when it goes out in the winter is to plop down a Trump sign in your yard.

Hey, it's a work in progress.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:30 PM (sy5kK)

166 Sometimes the clues are subtle when it comes to weeding out clients to dump. If there are pictures of the client with a shotgun and a bunch of dead ducks on their office wall they are probably going to be ok.
Posted by: f'd

What if its Wabbitt Season ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:30 PM (arJlL)

167 Too Cool :

https://youtu.be/ntgfk2OlcIM


Inspiration by Sesame Street?

Posted by: spindrift at January 25, 2021 12:30 PM (xhomZ)

168 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.

Posted by: dude1394 at January 25, 2021 12:31 PM (3exmE)

169 This is brilliant!

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 25, 2021 12:31 PM (2BZBZ)

170 Guilds. Let's try those again, I guess.

Posted by: .87c at January 25, 2021 12:31 PM (Hjsrt)

171 57 Moar Culture War

Fight back, fight dirty.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * finger painting in my attic studio at January 25, 2021 12:10 PM (B52IH)

You either read deeply or also play Civ 5.
Good job.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:31 PM (ifmtJ)

172 >>Inspiration by Sesame Street?


That or Pinball. I can watch that stuff all day, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:31 PM (DErdz)

173 You know what? I wonder if you aren't on to something here. Why didn't those bakers just say that? "I don't have that mold" or "I don't have the skill to do that kind of cake, but X baker I know does here's his number." Very easy way to deflect the witch hunt.

--

It was never about the cake. It was about forcing someone to do something.

Posted by: Greyshirt at January 25, 2021 12:32 PM (9uUSs)

174 What did China do with its schools and Wuhan flu?
I know they locked down Wuhan for a while - I'm going to guess they reopened the schools at the same time they re-opened Wuhan itself right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:32 PM (qlFIA)

175 Ooo! Ooo! Mail just arrived with music. The mail lady left my mail on a front bench, weighted down against the wind with a hatchet I keep handy. Hadrian's thumb drive with marvelous music collection was in the stack.

Thank you, Hadrian. This is wonderful.
Posted by: creeper

A HATCHET ?

I'm gonna keep my Exotic Love Vine away from you !

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:33 PM (arJlL)

176 >>What did China do with its schools and Wuhan flu?


Killed the children of the dissidents who got 'sick' and went right back to classes.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:33 PM (DErdz)

177 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.

Wokesters are like vegans and crossfitters. Don't bother trying to spot them. They'll be damn sure to let you know.

Posted by: Pierre at January 25, 2021 12:33 PM (u2I6p)

178 The purpose is to not count coup or even have your opponents notice your actions, or non-actions. It is to just slowly drain them of vitality and prosperity.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:33 PM (yQpMk)

179 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.
Posted by: dude1394 at January 25, 2021 12:31 PM (3exmE)


That's easy if they wear a mask in a car, obvious Biden voter.

Posted by: WeBoned! at January 25, 2021 12:33 PM (8k7U7)

180 Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:09 PM

I agree with everything in your list except "steal all your entertainment". They don't care if you steal their brainwashing propaganda, only that you absorb it. Devil Mouse et al. have demonstrated that they have enough money to last centuries of profit loss, and that all they care about is you keep eating the poison. Whether you pay for it or not.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (OssQ4)

181
Thank you, Hadrian. This is wonderful.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:29 PM (XxJt1)

_________

I'll be happy if you're happy. Collecting classical music is my hobby. Most people wouldn't know where to start, so I do it for them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (mht8P)

182 My memory with gay cake clients is they basically got the baker to agree to make a wedding cake and THEN told them it was for a gay wedding.


They were upfront on social media it was all a scam to try and get bakers to take to court.


I seem to recall that Steven Crowder then went to some Muslim bakers in Detroit and tried the same thing. They told him to get lost and the state told him they didn't care.


Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (qlFIA)

183 just say you'll do the work, then don't ever get to it. backed up you see, due to regulations.

Posted by: x4 at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (0tE/i)

184 This is why Larry David always keeps a MAGA hat in his car.

Posted by: Denny Hastert at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (Bs26G)

185 Keep in mind that you don't have to refuse them outright and risk the blowback from that. Just put them on the bottom of the priority list and keep them there.

Make them crap in a portapotty for a couple of weeks before you get around to fixing their toilet. And so on.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (yTo22)

186 My wife and I marvel at the inability of many of the folks in the neighborhood to do even the smallest bit of home/auto repair themselves.
It's certainly important to understand the limits of what can be done by a non professional, but I've saved thousands of dollars just in the past year knocking it out myself.
Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a wrench.

Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (bLfy6)

187 Oops the Denny Haster comment was me using a stale sig.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (Bs26G)

188 This points out something the woke don't understand
Deplorables keep things working. By and large they're the ones who did the hard and dirty.
Most of the people who believe, in principle, in doing an honest day's work in return for an honest day's wage are Deplorables.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (lgiXo)

189 I see a slight problem with lost revenue.

Would it be all right, to begin with, to just charge The Enemy lots more? Or, just give the good guys big discounts!

Posted by: mindful webworker - radicallisly inclined
at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (rTqAd)

190 Liberals will tell you their politics out of the gate no matter what the reason for your running to them is. All you have to do is listen.
Conservatives usually won't talk about the political issue of the day. Again all you have to do is listen.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM (qlFIA)

191 MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell hires "Gawker Killer" attorney, suing Daily Mail.

Posted by: SMOD at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM (3aI0K)

192 >>Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a wrench.


'If one monkey can do it, YOU can do it.'
...
'Monkey.'

Posted by: Stuff Grandpa said at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM (DErdz)

193 A HATCHET ?

I'm gonna keep my Exotic Love Vine away from you !
Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:33 PM (arJlL)



bluebell can have her girly knives.

Now to enroll in the Ed Ames School of Hatchetry.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM (XxJt1)

194 "I steal all my Disney films, and watch them all!"

Disney: "Primary mission accomplished."

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 25, 2021 12:37 PM (OssQ4)

195 189 I see a slight problem with lost revenue.

Would it be all right, to begin with, to just charge The Enemy lots more? Or, just give the good guys big discounts!
Posted by: mindful webworker - radicallisly inclined
at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (rTqAd)

I like this

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:37 PM (ifmtJ)

196 Never, ever talk politics, sex or religion at work. Or in public at all. Who doesn't know this?
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM


I know a lot of people who never learned this fundamental rule. Then they wonder why no one ever wants them around.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:37 PM (ejd/p)

197 I want a divorce. I want our own payment services, web hosting services, cell phones and a way to identify friendly businesses.

I love the idea of refusing service because of Terms of Service.

Posted by: dude1394 at January 25, 2021 12:37 PM (3exmE)

198 You know what? I wonder if you aren't on to something here. Why didn't those bakers just say that? "I don't have that mold" or "I don't have the skill to do that kind of cake, but X baker I know does here's his number." Very easy way to deflect the witch hunt.

--

It was never about the cake. It was about forcing someone to do something.


Yes, but I also think the baker was an uprfront, honest Christian who is not ashamed of his beliefs. A brave person who could easily have avoided the shitstorrn. He's a much better person than I am.

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (Ed8Zd)

199 Now to enroll in the Ed Ames School of Hatchetry.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM



Still one of the funniest moments in TV history.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (axyOa)

200 >>Deplorables keep things working. By and large they're the ones who did the hard and dirty.


Not necessarily. Lots of Unions involved in that stuff, too...and their members are the usual foot soldiers in these events.

It is actually pretty amazeballs that the Dems managed to get the Laziest of their scions to do the killing/beating/destroying this time.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (DErdz)

201 Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a wrench.
Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (bLfy6)

I'm not handy. That's a flaw and feel free to mock me for it. If I have to do most repairs, it takes me longer and probably doesn't get done as well. I'd rather pay money than spend the time. I can make more money, time I don't get more of.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (ifmtJ)

202 Most of the people who believe, in principle, in doing an honest day's work in return for an honest day's wage are Deplorables.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (lgiXo)

???????????????????
We have no idea what this "honest day's work" means.
We only want to know your political beliefs, and if you hate Trump and his supporters.
Now, about that second interview..............

Posted by: Woke HR departments at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (sy5kK)

203
Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a wrench.

__________

On the other hand, my self-confidence has collapsed to the point of asking myself, "How much will this cost if I screw it up?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (mht8P)

204 bluebell can have her girly knives.

Now to enroll in the Ed Ames School of Hatchetry.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM


Knives? What use does the Way of The Shiv have for knives?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (ejd/p)

205 It works in reverse too. The Wifey and I own a 120 year old house, and
the sewer began backing up (on a Saturday, natch). Called out a
contractor to snake the line. While he was working a Trump parade went
down my street, and the contractor said, "I can't believe that they're
celebrating that idiot.".

--

That contractor was a very, very stupid man to have thought it appropriate to spew anything political into a discussion with a client.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 25, 2021 12:39 PM (O+I8R)

206 We have to stop calling it cancel culture and call it out for what it is, fascism.

Posted by: Djladysmith at January 25, 2021 12:39 PM (PuW4g)

207 Punch back twice as hard.

Posted by: Andrew Breitbart at January 25, 2021 12:39 PM (AD14M)

208 184 This is why Larry David always keeps a MAGA hat in his car.
-----------------------------------------------------------

That was a great episode.

Posted by: theATL at January 25, 2021 12:39 PM (Z+jhz)

209 Fucking cat is playing with my BAOFENG again. I think it's the antenna attracting him.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:40 PM (ifmtJ)

210 Yeah, no. Not until you reform Yelp.

Posted by: Michael Puttre at January 25, 2021 12:40 PM (/77uJ)

211 > Lots of Unions involved in that stuff, too...and their members are the usual foot soldiers in these events.

Dopey Joe just put 70,000 of them out of work.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2021 12:40 PM (yTo22)

212 I saw over the weekend that even Mercedes Benz is giving 60 mo, 0% interest loans on an E Class.

I think we're being fed a line of BS on the economy. These clowns really have hurt the US

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 25, 2021 12:40 PM (1ISKN)

213 189 I see a slight problem with lost revenue.

Would it be all right, to begin with, to just charge The Enemy lots more? Or, just give the good guys big discounts!
Posted by: mindful webworker - radicallisly inclined
at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (rTqAd)

In a capitalist economy, the greatest revenge possible against your enemies, is to make them your customer.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:40 PM (sy5kK)

214 Still one of the funniest moments in TV history.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (axyOa)



I was watching the night it aired. My initial reaction was stunned shock, followed by "Did he do that on purpose?" and ending in hysterics at the horrified look on Ames' face. My stomach hurt for hours from laughing.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:41 PM (XxJt1)

215 we just got back from a week in Mexico and every American we talked to there (20 or so) is a Trump supporter. Even our Mexican cab driver loves Trump! He told me that his Mexican relatives say he's a racist because he doesn't like the way some
Mexicans act. He says his relatives live the lie; he wants the truth.

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:41 PM (Ed8Zd)

216 Don't wanna buy a dick mold, huh ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:27 PM (arJlL)


I will have you know that my dick does not have the slightest amount of smegma, thank you very much.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 25, 2021 12:41 PM (w9Wax)

217 204 bluebell can have her girly knives.

Now to enroll in the Ed Ames School of Hatchetry.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM

Knives? What use does the Way of The Shiv have for knives?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM

***
Up at the Big House, she was the Queen of Cell Block D.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:41 PM (axyOa)

218 Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a wrench.
Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (bLfy6)

I'm not handy. That's a flaw and feel free to mock me for it. If I have to do most repairs, it takes me longer and probably doesn't get done as well. I'd rather pay money than spend the time. I can make more money, time I don't get more of.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM


Depends. Some things I can do, some things I can't. But I do enjoy repair projects that I can do. I find them satisfying. Except for that one time I almost broke a rib changing the final stage resistor of my car's blower motor. That hurt.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:41 PM (ejd/p)

219 I think something like this was tried with the cake shop brouhaha. The full weight of the state came down on them.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM (wzqPr)

220 In a capitalist economy, the greatest revenge possible against your enemies, is to make them your customer.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

--- Black Rifle Coffee Compamy

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM (OssQ4)

221 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.
Posted by: dude1394

Crossed bandoliers and side arms okay?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM (Rvt88)

222 182 My memory with gay cake clients is they basically got the baker to agree to make a wedding cake and THEN told them it was for a gay wedding.
They were upfront on social media it was all a scam to try and get bakers to take to court.
I seem to recall that Steven Crowder then went to some Muslim bakers in Detroit and tried the same thing. They told him to get lost and the state told him they didn't care.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (qlFIA)

No, it's a lot worse than that. They called and kept raising the ante, making it more and more outlandish, until they got the baker to say, "No, I won't do that." After the decision, they did it again. They clearly intend to keep the bakery tied up in the Colorado antidiscrimination process forever to prove a point.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM (BMmaB)

223 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.
Posted by: dude1394

4

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM (1ISKN)

224 "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." It's not just for bars anymore.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 25, 2021 12:43 PM (HaL55)

225 That's why the first rule of Fuck You Club is you don't talk about Fuck You Club.

------------
Fuck you!

Crap! I guess I'm out of the club now.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2021 12:43 PM (ab0zp)

226 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.
Posted by: dude1394

4

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM

I'm getting a baseball cap with the number 4 on it.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:43 PM (axyOa)

227 LaSue, where were you in Mexico? I have a timeshare in Cozumel and had put off going but thinking about planning a trip.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (sd8p8)

228 No plumbing for you! Next!

Posted by: josephistan at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Izzlo)

229 >>"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." It's not just for bars anymore.


Every shop we ever owned had one of these right in front of you.

Shit. I used to throw people out of the pizzeria just for the advertising.

Nobody talks about you more than an asshole you toss out on his ear and tell him to not come back.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (DErdz)

230 What If Deplorables Start "De-Platforming" Leftists From Receiving Skilled Trade Services?

There is a way to do it that is probably... easier and will have a bit less blowback.

First of all, have someone on staff dedicated to researching all new clients. "Please fill out our online form and include your Facebook/Twitter pages before scheduling."

Then, when you see they're a rabid leftist, simply schedule them far out. As in "I'm sorry that your toilet is broken and it's the only one in your house, we will be able to service you in early March." I'm so very sorry."

Yes, there is the problem of down votes and such. However, there is another way to handle it. Make sure your website has a huge American flag on it and includes testimonials. That should attract the right customers, even if you are given down votes.

Posted by: shibumi at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (ZCiJZ)

231 Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a wrench.
Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:35 PM (bLfy6)


I love doing things - within my skill set - as DIY. However, there's certain things that require specialized tools and a lot of practical application and experience. Certain types of plumbing being one. IMHO, a plumber earns every damned cent he charges. I just replaced a valve stem yesterday, no big. But when it comes to pipes, or installing a kitchen faucet and doing contortions to get under the sink - that's what money is for!

My step-dad fixed everything he could himself, because he enjoyed it. But I tell ya, he should have stayed FAR away from electricity. The whole concept was lost on him, and he could never figure out why the switch on one side of the dining room didn't work like the one on the other side controlling the same light. Luckily, no fires were ever started because there was no place to put that green wire.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (L8ADy)

232 Now to enroll in the Ed Ames School of Hatchetry.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:36 PM



Still one of the funniest moments in TV history.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yep !

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (arJlL)

233 140 If I were a baker, I would never give in on baking the lgbt cake.
Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 25, 2021 12:24 PM (ftFVW)

So then we will shut down your business, let a mob that hates you picket your store and not protect you, and file charges against you to take away your store and all of your assets. Because that is what we did. And unlike you, we have free, unlimited legal assets and you don't.

- the WA state Attorney General.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (sy5kK)

234 Stop services, stop supplying fuel, stop supplying food from farms, stop supplying beef and pork. Let's not forget hard alcohol. Stop all for the woke for the next 12 months and see who wants to deplatform who.

Posted by: Patti at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (1bKMN)

235 I can only imagine the long list of competent attorneys who turned Trump down for the election contest representation.

A mass murderer with no money would have had a better selection of representation. Trump was stuck with the few who had zero f*cks to give , either because they were already considered crackpots or too close to the grim reaper to worry about the consequences to their social life.

Posted by: theATL at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Z+jhz)

236 >> That's why the first rule of Fuck You Club is you don't talk about Fuck You Club.


Assholes Anonymous.

If we could only get everyone together for a meeting?

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (DErdz)

237 I'm getting a baseball cap with the number 4 on it.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021


What's the significance of 4?

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

238 211 > Lots of Unions involved in that stuff, too...and their members are the usual foot soldiers in these events.

Dopey Joe just put 70,000 of them out of work.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2021 12:40 PM (yTo22)

At some point the skilled trades are going to figure out that their members' needs have nothing in common with the Service Employees International Union and the government employee unions.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (BMmaB)

239 I love all the 'well gosh someone stood up and it didn't go too well for them, how can I be expected to even try' posts. Hello, Boomercons.

Think of it as more a case of...

- Here's an idea.
-- I foresee this issue.
- Hmm...here's how we get around that.
--- Ooh, I see this different issue.

When you get older maybe you'll recognize people trying to plan prior to acting. We used to call that wisdom.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (T7iTv)

240 While he was working a Trump parade went
down my street, and the contractor said, "I can't believe that they're
celebrating that idiot.".

--

That contractor was a very, very stupid man to have thought it appropriate to spew anything political into a discussion with a client.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 25, 2021 12:39 PM (O+I8R)


As someone has already said, conservatives never introduce politics into business transactions, but liberals always find a reason to.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (yP9BI)

241 Fuck you!

Crap! I guess I'm out of the club now.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2021 12:43 PM


Isn't that the official martial art of Scotland?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (ejd/p)

242 So there's a guy on YT who's farming fowl up in Vermont. The last video I saw he turned up in a black tshirt with a pirate logo on it. Made me wonder.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (XxJt1)

243 221 Crossed bandoliers and side arms okay?
left-over-right vs right-over-left is the new longbows vs crossbows

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (sGtp+)

244 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.
Posted by: dude1394

---------

The guys get T-shirts.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (kTF2Z)

245
No dogs or Irish.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (mht8P)

246 What's the significance of 4?
Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

About a week ago, at the end of one of the morning posts, art or gorilla, there was a 4 that had nothing to do with anything.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (BMmaB)

247 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.

Not really. Pasty thin soy boys. Short fat guys with heads like look like a penis. Unattractive angry women with pinched faces. People who drive a Prius.

Posted by: shibumi at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (ZCiJZ)

248 No, it's a lot worse than that. They called and kept raising the ante, making it more and more outlandish, until they got the baker to say, "No, I won't do that." After the decision, they did it again. They clearly intend to keep the bakery tied up in the Colorado antidiscrimination process forever to prove a point.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:42 PM (BMmaB)

Be a shame, it would, if something were to happen to those brave and stunning warriors.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (z79tQ)

249 Rob Portman always gave me the creeps. Looks too much like Andy Warhol.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (O6DoG)

250 Isn't that the official martial art of Scotland?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (ejd/p)

It's most just head butts and stomping people when they're down.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (ifmtJ)

251 >>Be a shame, it would, if something were to happen to those brave and stunning warriors.


I'm on it.

Posted by: AIDS at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (DErdz)

252
What's the significance of 4?

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM

It's a Horde thing, and more subtle than crossed bandoliers. Also a hat with an otter on it is just gay.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (axyOa)

253 What's the significance of 4?

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

There is none. There is only 4.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (1ISKN)

254 Depends. Some things I can do, some things I can't. But I do enjoy repair projects that I can do. I find them satisfying. Except for that one time I almost broke a rib changing the final stage resistor of my car's blower motor. That hurt.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:41 PM (ejd/p)


I'm horrifically claustrophobic. Not freak out in elevator stuff, but crawling under the house stuff. My old place barely had 18" crawlspace and just no. Nope, nope nope. Same with heights. My roof is a bit over 21', inside about 20'. I will not get on a ladder like that. At 29, I'll leave that for kids who's fractures heal faster.

Posted by: clutch cargo | with more crushed glass flavor crystals at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (L8ADy)

255 Oh hell yeah.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (9Om/r)

256 I think the Mexican President was a Trump fan and appreciated the policies that stopped the caravans crossing his country. Now Biden is reversing those policies. Wouldn;t it be amusing if they continued to build the wall on the Mexican side?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (sd8p8)

257 All well and good (and something I'd fully support) if there was any semblance of equality under the law. They can discriminate at will against us. We have to bake the cake or face liquidation.

Posted by: Lady in Black


Sure. They certainly can.

Of course once there are almost no plumbers or electricians or HVAC specialists left because they prosecuted them all, well...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: All Hail BRIAN BLESSED! at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (OUMaO)

258 About a week ago, at the end of one of the morning posts, art or gorilla, there was a 4 that had nothing to do with anything.

Other than the fact that is was an Ace post, this is correct.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (T7iTv)

259 >>What's the significance of 4?


You are Number 6.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (DErdz)

260
I'm getting a baseball cap with the number 4 on it.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021

________

*puffs cigar*

See your 4 and raise you... (*tosses chips*)... 27.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (mht8P)

261 In the Moronic Hall of Fame:

Lou Gehrig

Brett Favre

Bobby Orr

Rogers Hornsby

Jim Harbaugh

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (w9Wax)

262 The guys get T-shirts.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (kTF2Z)



So do the 'ettes. But the 'rons hose 'em down first.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (XxJt1)

263 LaSue, where were you in Mexico? I have a timeshare in Cozumel and had put off going but thinking about planning a trip.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (sd8p

Cabo. But the re-entry restrictions are about to change on Tuesday so definitely check that out before leaving the US

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

264 234 Stop services, stop supplying fuel, stop supplying food from farms, stop supplying beef and pork. Let's not forget hard alcohol. Stop all for the woke for the next 12 months and see who wants to deplatform who.
Posted by: Patti at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (1bKMN)

Ok, then, I volunteer to hold all of the hard liquor in my home and garage, for the cause of course.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (sy5kK)

265 About a week ago, at the end of one of the morning posts, art or gorilla, there was a 4 that had nothing to do with anything.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM

SShhh!!! Don't give it away. We can have her going all morning.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (axyOa)

266 The judge said you had to bake them a cake

The judge didn't say it had to be tasty

Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (qAR6u)

267 iirc, the bakery thing started when a journalist called and asked if they would cater a gay wedding. The bakery is a bakery, not a catering business, so they said no.

Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (l3+k2)

268 I posted this on the downstairs thread which was weird .Anyway Supreme Court dismisses the lawsuit against Trump and Trump Hotels for violating emoluments clause. Story at CT. He

Posted by: Jen the original at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (dOM49)

269 I'm not handy. That's a flaw and feel free to mock me for it. If I have to do most repairs, it takes me longer and probably doesn't get done as well. I'd rather pay money than spend the time. I can make more money, time I don't get more of.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (ifmtJ)

I specifically said it's important to understand what you can do and not do. I also understand not everyone can. If I came off mocking tone it was not intentional. I said the simplest of home/auto repairs. It's more an observation of the area where in a division of some 50 homes we haven't met anyone else that will try simple repairs at home or on the car.
I can't make more money as I'm not hourly and don't get commission. I suppose I'm fortunate that I don't work every hour of every day... Sure it'll take me a bit longer to do things than a pro, but I'm also not paying myself $100 hour.
Other thing is the more I know the more I know what I'm paying for when I do need to hire.

Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:49 PM (bLfy6)

270 That's why the first rule of Fuck You Club is you don't talk about Fuck You Club.
Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (DErdz)


The first rule of duck you club is you don't quack about duck you club.

Don't go getting your feathers in a ruffle.

Posted by: clutch cargo | now with 100% autocorrect. at January 25, 2021 12:49 PM (L8ADy)

271 You are either 4 us or agin' us

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 25, 2021 12:49 PM (w9Wax)

272 4?
27.

But not 19

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:49 PM (qlFIA)

273 186 Maybe it's more a product of how and where I grew up, but I'm amazed at
the amount of money people are willing to part with rather than pick up a
wrench.

the most important thing i learned from taking auto mechanics in high school is that i should not be allowed anywhere near a vehicle with a tool in my hand.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (sGtp+)

274 Posted by: Inogame at January 25, 2021 12:49 PM (bLfy6)

I get all that. Some years I had more time than money and thus would spend time fixing stuff. Badly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (ifmtJ)

275 At some point the skilled trades are going to figure out that their members' needs have nothing in common with the Service Employees International Union and the government employee unions.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon


But the trade unionion bosses have more in common with the SEIU crew than they do with the rank and file members. And that, at day's end, is what matters. To them, anyway.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: All Hail BRIAN BLESSED! at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (OUMaO)

276 What's the significance of 4?
Posted by: LASue

About a week ago, at the end of one of the morning posts, art or gorilla, there was a 4 that had nothing to do with anything.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

The horde took it and ran with it like it was code to rise up and throw off our machine overlords.
7

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (0DVOr)

277 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

278 No dogs or Irish.

In a bar? Shirley you jest.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (HaL55)

279 Since y'all like to tell us #LearnToCode, let me lay it out for you programmatically:

10 PRINT "OrangeMan Bad!"
20 GOTO 10

Posted by: NPC_11101110 at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (DMUuz)

280 But not 19
Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:49 PM (qlFIA)

Wouldn't that be 17?

Posted by: Deep State 910 at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (+RZls)

281 It was never about the cake. It was about forcing someone to do something.

In my opinion, that's how the whole gays in the military thing started back in 1993. The incoming Clinton Administration had not even taken office yet and out of the blue comes this edict that had never been discussed during the campaign. It wasn't about the homos, it was about forcing the military to submit. Say what you will about him, Colin Powell at least stood up to it and it became DADT, which held for 16 years.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:50 PM (BMmaB)

282 27

Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (l3+k2)

283 259 >>What's the significance of 4?


You are Number 6.
Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (DErdz)

Well we all live in The Village now...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (ifmtJ)

284 Fantastic 4

Posted by: josephistan at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (Izzlo)

285 Welp...speaking of plumbers, I got one showing up soon. Shower pipe sprung a leak.
Damn it.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (axyOa)

286 "the contractor said, "I can't believe that they're
celebrating that idiot.".



Some of my old friends on Facebook are rabid like that ... they had to be much better friends back in the day, or relatives, or I'd dump them ... also, interesting to see how some of them think. But they generally make banal attacks like that, not specifics. ---

The whole of Trump hate is Orwellian like that, he is dangerous, an idiot, hates women, lies constantly ... whatever ... while complete love for criminal/dolt Biden is easy for them.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (Cus5s)

287 I was told it was 42.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (XxJt1)

288 A shopowner last week told me last week that the police had told him that in our little burg of 100,000 or so they get 6-700 reports of people going maskless ... EVERY DAY.

The cops think it's bullshit, and are trying to discourage it, but the problem is that the reports are anonymous, and so exert a siren call for every hypochondriac and wannabe fascist in town. Apparently some people in the 101st Karenborne Rangers have deputized themselves to go from business to business to check on them and report any wrongthink.

My guess: it's probably about two dozen people doing the vast majority of their Stasi impression.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (dkP80)

289 262 The guys get T-shirts.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (kTF2Z)





So do the 'ettes. But the 'rons hose 'em down first

the shirts or the 'ettes?

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (v3pYe)

290 Late to the party, but if "deplorables" start doing that, it'll be back to "bake the fucking cake, fascist!!!" for them.

As Paul Joseph Watson says, it's ok when WE do it, but when YOU do it, IT'S EVIL AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

291 BackwardsBoy: saved by his close tags in his nic. How ... unsporting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (UZVEt)

292 The Postman always rings twice, but the Horde goes for 4.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (axyOa)

293 The Masterpiece Cake guy is being targeted by a tranny lawyer that hates Christians. He requests really vile cakes then files complaints when the baker says no.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (JKNZq)

294 283 259 >>What's the significance of 4?


You are Number 6.
Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:47 PM (DErdz)

Well we all live in The Village now...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (ifmtJ)

Not a prisoner, I'm a free man!

https://youtu.be/Yfk5-y_pYac

Posted by: josephistan at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (Izzlo)

295 All we need is for truckers to stop delivering food to Blue Cities.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (2BZBZ)

296 Wouldn't that be 17?

No.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (qlFIA)

297
I'm not handy. That's a flaw and feel free to mock me for it. If I have to do most repairs, it takes me longer and probably doesn't get done as well. I'd rather pay money than spend the time. I can make more money, time I don't get more of.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (ifmtJ)

So, get paid at what skill you are best at, and pay others to perform tasks they can do better than you can, and they make a profit and you have free time, where otherwise you would have lost a lot of time and money.

This is really a great idea. I think I'll write a couple of books on this very subject.

- Adam Smith

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (sy5kK)

298 I was told it was 42.

Check back again at 25 or 6 to 4.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (SchxB)

299 The Biden gun plan:


Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (f/z+J)

300 4 is actually the number of otters in the raft.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (XxJt1)

301 The Masterpiece Cake guy is being targeted by a tranny lawyer that hates Christians. He requests really vile cakes then files complaints when the baker says no.


No plaintiff, no tort.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:53 PM (yQpMk)

302 The Masterpiece Cake guy is being targeted by a tranny lawyer that hates Christians. He requests really vile cakes then files complaints when the baker says no.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (JKNZq)

Ask him to represent you in a religious liberty case. If he refuses, sue his ass.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 25, 2021 12:53 PM (1ISKN)

303 Stop services, stop supplying fuel, stop supplying food from farms, stop
supplying beef and pork. Let's not forget hard alcohol. Stop all for
the woke for the next 12 months and see who wants to deplatform who.


This might be a good idea to test in a smallish city, like say, Washington DC (District of China).

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 25, 2021 12:53 PM (HaL55)

304 It was never about the cake. It was about forcing someone to do something bend the knee.


*Suggested edit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (S7VTO)

305 >> The Biden gun plan:


Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.



Hahaha - Come and get it.

Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (DErdz)

306 269 I'm not handy. That's a flaw and feel free to mock me for it. If I have to do most repairs, it takes me longer and probably doesn't get done as well. I'd rather pay money than spend the time. I can make more money, time I don't get more of.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:38 PM (ifmtJ)


If women don't find you handsome at least they can find you handy.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (lgiXo)

307 Not really. Pasty thin soy boys. Short fat guys with heads like look like a penis. Unattractive angry women with pinched faces. People who drive a Prius.

Posted by: shibumi at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (ZCiJZ)

COEXIST bumper sticker.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (BMmaB)

308 I have friends who are union. Some plumbers and pipe fitters on Keystone. Some teamsters on Keystone. They are not happy. I told them their leadership sold them out.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (0DVOr)

309 What's the significance of 4?

Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM


Something we say as a prefix to that Continuum guy's name.

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (DMUuz)

310 Wouldn't that be 17?
---

You mean Stalag 17?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (sy5kK)

311 @135: Another way to get liberals sheepish.... I've had fun doing this over the years and it really pisses them off but they can't do anything about it!

Whenever a gal says "Men are pigs" (or "shallow" or "stupid" or "assholes" or whatever) I tell her that is a very bigoted, hateful statement. I tell them to substitute any other noun there and see how they feel about it... For example - "Blacks are pigs" or Jews are pigs." Obviously these people would never dream of saying "Blacks are pigs" so I put it back in their face and make them think about the magnitude of what they just said.

In general, they stand there looking dumb. They have no idea what just hit them. The fun never ends!

Posted by: 496 at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (U1eOr)

312 It was one of Ace's posts

4

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (2BZBZ)

313
What they are really advocating for is soething called "apartheid".

Not racial, but cultural apartheid.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (O4X3m)

314 To the larger point, you can't just use lefty policies against them.
They will always come up with a reason why it isn't ok to use such policies against THEM.

And its because they don't believe in any of this shit. It is all about power. Making a Christian bake a cake that's offensive to them? That's a head rush. Like making that sweet young thing from the sticks earn her first role on the casting couch, or taking the savings away from some "old white dude" to save da Erf.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (qlFIA)

315 Again, you are suffering under the delusion that there are substantially more of you self-proclaimed 'morons' than there actually are. Remember, such discrimination for beliefs involves substantial time in court.

Posted by: vonKreedon at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (kylnh)

316 The Biden gun plan:
Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (f/z+J)
++++
They can try confiscation. They'll get very low compliance.

Also, yet another immediate violation of a Biden campaign promise. Of course, this one was obvious before he even got the nomination when he, in an attempt to bring the Beto Boys over, promised to make Robert Francis "damn right I'm going to take your AR-15" O'Rourke his gun policy czar.

He kept that particular promise. So I guess on the "promises kept" front, he's batting .500...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (UZVEt)

317 " >> The Biden gun plan:


Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance. "

All my firearms self-identify as kitchenAid mixers

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (S7VTO)

318 I don't think they are trying to unperson Mike Lindell just because of his unwavering Trump support, it's more.
It's, Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
His faith, his contribution of millions to faith based movies, his frequent presence and leading at pray.
Mike Lindell credits God with saving him from himself and he hasn't been ashamed to shout it loudly.

Posted by: old chick at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (sOete)

319 The judge said you had to bake them a cake

The judge didn't say it had to be tasty
Posted by: kbdabear at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (qAR6u)

Ding! Clause 1 subsection a of Fuck You Club.

Fighting to not bake the cake was based, but everyone else should take heed of how it turned out.
You'd come out ahead baking a shitty cake (maybe I mean that figuratively, but maybe not) and fighting the refund in small claims court.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (z79tQ)

320 SodaSense swooped in and swooped up SodaStream's customers when the 'Rona lockdown essentially killed SodaStream. And I'm impressed with SodaSense's customer service. When you finish with the cylinders, you mail them back in the postage paid box and get replacements. That's good enough but somehow they know when you drop the package off at the Post Office because they immediately send you replacements without waiting to receive your package.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (VVEnO)

321 305 >> The Biden gun plan:

Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.
Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.
Hahaha - Come and get it.
Posted by: garrett at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (DErdz)

I will give my answer, it will be measured in grains.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (sy5kK)

322 Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.


-----

I will not comply.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (O4X3m)

323 If women don't find you handsome at least they can find you handy.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (lgiXo)
++++
Important PSA for morons:
"Handy" and "Handsy" are *not* synonyms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (UZVEt)

324
BackwardsBoy: saved by his close tags in his nic. How ... unsporting.

Yeah, I'm on a different schedule these days because B'Gal. I'm just now having my second cup of The Elixir of Life. Automation is teh shiznit.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (HaL55)

325 What's the significance of 4?
Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM


It's the answer to Roman numeral section 3, part two of subset D of the question.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (ejd/p)

326 As someone has already said, conservatives never introduce politics into business transactions, but liberals always find a reason to.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (yP9BI)


Also social occasions. Liberals are perfectly happy to interject their politics - loudly, blatantly, and unambiguously - into the most anodyne social occasions.

I've never seen a conservative do that. Ever.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (dkP80)

327 The Biden gun plan:
Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.

Hahaha - Come and get it.
Posted by: garrett


Time to buy burner phones and start SWATting leftists.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (0DVOr)

328 287 I was told it was 42.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 12:51 PM (XxJt1)

This is the number of trucks it will take.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (BMmaB)

329
You mean Stalag 17?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (sy5kK)


Pikers.

Posted by: Col. Klink at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

330 Late. But I can totally get behind Buck's way of de-platforming these lefty shit heads.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (VcFUs)

331 Love it.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (7X3UV)

332 Some of my old friends on Facebook are rabid like that ... they had to be much better friends back in the day, or relatives, or I'd dump them ... also, interesting to see how some of them think. But they generally make banal attacks like that, not specifics. ---

The whole of Trump hate is Orwellian like that, he is dangerous, an idiot, hates women, lies constantly ... whatever ... while complete love for criminal/dolt Biden is easy for them.


It's bitterly ironic to be grateful to Kung Flu, but I am, in that it showed me just how many people whose company I thought I enjoyed are utter assholes. Also, it revealed that I really don't have any friends, merely acquaintances. Which is fine with me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (2JVJo)

333 120 71 I know this will come as a great disappointment to many here, but Rob Portman (R-ino) will not run again for the Senate from Ohio. Possible candidates include Jim Jordan.
Posted by: pep at January 25, 2021 12:13 PM (v16oJ)

The long knives will be out to tank Jordan, but Big T will probably be out for him.
Expect the GOPe to flood the primary in that one to dilute as much from him as possible.
======
Ohio is non-Dominion, so the GOP has to go out and lie to the voters' faces directly. The southern and north-central GOP hates the country club Taft-style machine. Jordan can win the votes easily in a primary if he conducts a vigorous campaign. They won't Blackwell him so easily now.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (W+kMI)

334 Posted by: vonKreedon at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (kylnh)


Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (yQpMk)

335 Put some shit in that pie.

Posted by: The Help at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (2BZBZ)

336 Important PSA for morons:
"Handy" and "Handsy" are *not* synonyms.
Posted by: Joe Mannix


They are to Josef Stolin.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2021 12:57 PM (0DVOr)

337 A little too late when the customer's 'friends' own the bank, your water and gas, and the IRS.

A much hell as you can conjure with single service pales in comparison as they can can with all of theirs.

... also, don't talk about DenyClub. Thx.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (QjGTg)

338 The Biden gun plan:
Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.


It's a TAX!

It's all good. It says it right there in the print.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (Zz0t1)

339 I have to stop reading the news.Now they are saying that there are credible threats against lawmakers about the 2/8 Impeachment Trial. That armed and dangerous insurrectionists are coming to the capitol and that is why they need the NG to stay.
They also said they had testimony from people arrested at the Capital that they believed they had "orders" from Trump to do what they did.Is this America?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (sd8p8)

340 326 As someone has already said, conservatives never introduce politics into business transactions, but liberals always find a reason to.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (yP9BI)

Also social occasions. Liberals are perfectly happy to interject their politics - loudly, blatantly, and unambiguously - into the most anodyne social occasions.

I've never seen a conservative do that. Ever.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (dkP80)

I'll sometimes join a political conversation but I never start one. But, yep, liberals do it all the time.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (lgiXo)

341 320 SodaSense swooped in and swooped up SodaStream's customers when the
'Rona lockdown essentially killed SodaStream. And I'm impressed with
SodaSense's customer service. When you finish with the cylinders, you
mail them back in the postage paid box and get replacements. That's
good enough but somehow they know when you drop the package off at the
Post Office because they immediately send you replacements without
waiting to receive your package.

they keep three precogs in a tank down in the office of prefizz.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (sGtp+)

342 If you aren't up for the tradesman "denial of service", there is always the lefty "surcharge."

Posted by: Mr. Barky at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (hKi6n)

343 Name a country where forced buybacks have been successful.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (JKNZq)

344 I love all the 'well gosh someone stood up and it didn't go too well for them, how can I be expected to even try' posts. Hello, Boomercons.
-------------------------
Think of it as more a case of...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (T7iTv)

Boomercons... you know, sometimes people will quote a comment from up thread, clip the nic off of it, and I have to scroll up to find it, just to see which douchebag said it.

Most of the time it's either A. Some idiot who posts idiotic things here all the time, or 2. A new nic.

Or both. Which is what I'm going with on this one.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (oQ94s)

345 Then again, regarding the Ohio battle to succeed Portman, a new party might sweep the GOPe's selected man anyways.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (W+kMI)

346 This thread is starting to get a bit scary.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (C+We0)

347 320 SodaSense swooped in and swooped up SodaStream's customers when the 'Rona lockdown essentially killed SodaStream. And I'm impressed with SodaSense's customer service. When you finish with the cylinders, you mail them back in the postage paid box and get replacements. That's good enough but somehow they know when you drop the package off at the Post Office because they immediately send you replacements without waiting to receive your package.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (VVEnO)


Good to know about SodaSense. We went off SodaStream when it was purchased by Pepsi.

Yeah, I remember young Gupta the CEO-ette, who teed off on America and W. Shoulda deported her ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (dkP80)

348 "Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per
weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current
photograph per gun."

I'd send them a picture of the Ocmulgee River.

Posted by: f'd at January 25, 2021 12:59 PM (+y8uL)

349 246 What's the significance of 4?
Posted by: LASue, More legit pres. than Biden at January 25, 2021 12:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

About a week ago, at the end of one of the morning posts, art or gorilla, there was a 4 that had nothing to do with anything.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM (BMmaB)

It was one of Todd's posts, wasn't it?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 12:59 PM (sy5kK)

350 I'll send them a picture of my guns if they'll supply an underwater camera.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 25, 2021 12:59 PM (kTF2Z)

351 Willowed my self.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 25, 2021 12:59 PM (QjGTg)

352 Don't go getting your feathers in a [R]uffle.
Posted by: clutch cargo | now with 100% autocorrect. at January 25, 2021


***

That does not sound like an appealing snack.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2021 12:59 PM (yvr3o)

353 Mike Lindell credits God with saving him from himself and he hasn't been ashamed to shout it loudly.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that except in the hollow heads of woketards, all of whom read something into a situation that doesn't exist because batshit crazy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at January 25, 2021 12:59 PM (HaL55)

354
No plaintiff, no tort.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at January 25, 2021 12:53 PM (yQpMk)


So Stunning, so Brave.
So, missing?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (z79tQ)

355 I'm getting a baseball cap with the number 4 on it.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 25, 2021 12:43 PM (axyOa)

---

I already have one.

4th Infantry.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (+tqLU)

356 "Congress shall make no law..." When exactly is that supposed to kick in? Seems pretty clear.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (O+I8R)

357 Has anybody been keeping track of all the weirdness in DC that's got the Qbots all jumping around? I gotta admit, a lot of strange things.

- Why did the lights go out on the WH last night? (not to mention dozens of police cars circling as well as on the ground activity) - Why is there a parking lot behind the oval office? - why was (supposedly a lawyer) telling Pelosi to "not say another word" and Pelosi says "I won't"? - Why photos of Biden signing what appears to be a blank sheet of paper?

That's just a tiny bit, but the ones I've seen and can verify. I don't know about the 21 gun salute (supposedly it was the wrong kind), Jill's shoes being different going from tan to blue (seriously, have these guys never been married?) or supposed weirdness at inauguration. But things do seem really stranger than usual considering an alzheimer's president.

Posted by: clutch cargo | now with 100% autocorrect. at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (L8ADy)

358 Burn it down.

Scatter the stones.

Salt the earth where it stood.


h/t AllenG

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (XxJt1)

359 Anytime, sharon.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (+tqLU)

360 Also social occasions. Liberals are perfectly happy to interject their politics - loudly, blatantly, and unambiguously - into the most anodyne social occasions.

I've never seen a conservative do that. Ever.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (dkP80)

I'm at work one day, discussing a video script. English compatriot, out of the blue, mentions something tangentially related and then just insults Margaret Thatcher for some reason.

Fantasy baseball buddy of mine is talking about a trade with me. For some reason, uses it as a way to just blast Trump.

I could go on but it would probably get blocked as spam.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (KbCG3)

361 343 Name a country where forced buybacks have been successful.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (JKNZq)

Germany, 1938
China, 1966

I could go on if need be, but I don't think it's necessary.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 01:01 PM (sy5kK)

362 If women don't find you handsome at least they can find you handy.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM (lgiXo)

Guess it's lucky that I'm so pretty

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 01:01 PM (ifmtJ)

363 Friend of mine lives in DC. She reports troops still patrolling around, not much in the way of civvies, etc.

One thing she said was interesting. They stocked up on food earlier in the month but they got low, so they went to several stores last week and they were all closed.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 01:01 PM (C+We0)

364 h/t AllenG
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (XxJt1)

----

I miss that guy.

Posted by: fixerupper at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (+t4e+)

365 So we actually DO need a way to identify each other so we can also identify the enemy.
Posted by: dude1394

Hi, John? That sure is a long mustache.
And pray tell, why do you have the chair against the wall like that?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (sy5kK)

366 Kid Who Turned His Dad Into The FBI Sets Up GoFundMe Because His Parents Are Kicking Him Out Of The House

-
It's like it says in the Good Book, payback's a bitch.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (VVEnO)

367 If women don't find you handsome at least they can find you handy.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at January 25, 2021 12:54 PM


*fistbumb*

Keep your stick on the ice.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (ejd/p)

368 SodaSense swooped in and swooped up SodaStream's customers when the 'Rona lockdown essentially killed SodaStream. And I'm impressed with SodaSense's customer service. When you finish with the cylinders, you mail them back in the postage paid box and get replacements. That's good enough but somehow they know when you drop the package off at the Post Office because they immediately send you replacements without waiting to receive your package.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (VVEnO)

Heh. Sodastream has never struck me as a company that knew how to market and deliver its service, which should be bigger than Budweiser and Coca-Cola combined.

And now Ralphs, which makes superior soda syrups, has been sold, apparently, or consolidated with some company called Warren something or other. Not as colorful or inviting as Ralphs, but the website seems to be much better run.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (oQ94s)

369 There is none. There is only 4.
--------
Do you 'reach', brother? [makes "L7" box shape with fingers]

Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (ab0zp)

370 There is a fundamental problem with this suggestion. While skilled tradesmen may be swamped with business right now, they will no longer be swamped if they throw away half of their customer base. The tradesmen will be screwed.

Multibillionaires? Sure, they can through away business and still never be able to give away all of their money to Leftist causes during the lifetimes.

This is an example of asymmetry, and it's working against us here.

Posted by: RalphF at January 25, 2021 01:02 PM (5FiEy)

371 Isn't that the official martial art of Scotland?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 12:45 PM (ejd/p)

It's most just head butts and stomping people when they're down.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at January 25, 2021 12:46 PM


This guy? He gets it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2021 01:03 PM (ejd/p)

372 Also social occasions. Liberals are perfectly happy to interject their politics - loudly, blatantly, and unambiguously - into the most anodyne social occasions.

I've never seen a conservative do that. Ever.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 12:56 PM (dkP80)

To be fair, my conservative uncle does this. But he's one of those guys who talks just to hear his own voice. If it wasn't politics, it'd still be something.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor (fka Chunk Hunger) at January 25, 2021 01:03 PM (uhPTO)

373 nood y'all

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2021 01:03 PM (AwYPR)

374 Name a country where forced buybacks have been successful.
Posted by: Notsothoreau


You cannot buy back something you never sold in the first place.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2021 01:04 PM (0DVOr)

375 Fighting to not bake the cake was based, but everyone else should take heed of how it turned out.
You'd come out ahead baking a shitty cake (maybe I mean that figuratively, but maybe not) and fighting the refund in small claims court.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 25, 2021 12:55 PM (z79tQ)


Bake the cake, drop trou, sit on it, then wrap it up for your fabulous customer(s).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 01:04 PM (dkP80)

376 267 iirc, the bakery thing started when a journalist called and asked if they would cater a gay wedding. The bakery is a bakery, not a catering business, so they said no.
Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2021 12:48 PM (l3+k2)


No, that was Memories Pizza. The Masterpiece Cake crapfest was started by some gays who were actually long-time customers who wanted a wedding cake, but were refused, so they got all pissy about it.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at January 25, 2021 01:04 PM (yP9BI)

377 Interesting idea, but it has to be 'informal', like twitter just so happens to block conservative accounts much more often than liberal ones.

Also, I was going to use the quote "the capitalists will sell us the rope by which we will hang them" or some variant thereof, but it turns out it is probably a made up quote. Attributed to various commies such as Stalin, Lenin, Marx, or John Brennan.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 25, 2021 01:04 PM (F0YaR)

378 but don't tell them the reason - that would be a violation of their civil rights.
just say, "sorry, booked solid for next 6 weeks (or 6 months), you want to go on the waiting list ?"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 25, 2021 01:04 PM (PpU3N)

379 problem is tradesmen aren't typically in the position to be able to turn down work.

Posted by: Mozam at January 25, 2021 01:05 PM (uToj1)

380 Kid Who Turned His Dad Into The FBI Sets Up GoFundMe Because His Parents Are Kicking Him Out Of The House

Meanwhile his parents set up a GoFundMe to get someone to kick his ass for them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 25, 2021 01:05 PM (dkP80)

381 Denial of goods and services to the blue bubbles is a provocation, yes. Sort of like the original Tea Party, or the "vital industry" strikes of the Gilded Age. But it gets the point across real fast! Since we're headed to Molon Labe territory anyway, reminding the blue bubble dimbulbs that without Deplorableville, USA they don't exist might have an effect.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2021 01:06 PM (W+kMI)

382 Most of my friends from when I was a kid (HS and college) are libs. I talk to them (some frequently, some occasionally). I know that we disagree on politics and so do they. To their credit, all but one of them decline to bring up politics when we talk. I never have. There's no point, and we all know it. The one who insists on bringing it up has become pathological and so we don't talk anymore. Sad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 25, 2021 01:06 PM (UZVEt)

383 346 This thread is starting to get a bit scary.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, off to the great beyond. at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (C+We0)

Just wait until Biden comes for our guns.
Haha, mine are in the bottom of the lake.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 01:06 PM (sy5kK)

384 No, people still need to get paid. Just charge these guys 2-3x more. if they don't like it, call someone else. You won't run afoul of any laws and you can donate a portion of the fees to your political cause as well. it's not like prices are fixed by the government.

Posted by: AL at January 25, 2021 01:07 PM (VEc60)

385 299 The Biden gun plan:


Forced buyback or registration of all semi-auto guns. $200 tax per weapon, must fill out a 13 page form, provide ID and a current photograph per gun.

Failure to comply is 10 year federal rap and 10,000 dollar fine per instance.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 25, 2021 12:52 PM (f/z+J)

Send bachelors.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2021 01:08 PM (sy5kK)

386 339 I have to stop reading the news.Now they are saying that there are credible threats against lawmakers about the 2/8 Impeachment Trial. That armed and dangerous insurrectionists are coming to the capitol and that is why they need the NG to stay.
They also said they had testimony from people arrested at the Capital that they believed they had "orders" from Trump to do what they did.Is this America?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 25, 2021 12:58 PM (sd8p

After the impeachment trial is over, there will be something else. The oligarchs are pretty much settling in to a permanent emergency that will require armed troops to protect them from the people they govern.

On the one hand, that's not America. On the other hand, I am at least a little bit pleased that they are so afraid of us for no reason. That leads me to believe this little gun legislation thing is going to go nowhere. Who represents Lexington and Concord? What was that little dustup about? Someone is bound to have a historical memory that dovetails with their fear of us (and of the NG troops themselves).

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at January 25, 2021 01:08 PM (BMmaB)

387 Fantasy baseball buddy of mine is talking about a trade with me. For some reason, uses it as a way to just blast Trump.

-
It's Trump's fault that Tom Brady's balls were deflated!

P.S. How do you greet Lance Armstrong? "How's it hangin'?"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2021 01:09 PM (VVEnO)

388 332 Also, it revealed that I really don't have any friends, merely acquaintances.

Thank goodness. I thought it was just me. Yikes.

Posted by: Carmenzoid at January 25, 2021 01:10 PM (9sa5h)

389 I already have one.



4th Infantry.

Posted by: SMH - Biracial Honkey at January 25, 2021 01:00 PM (+tqLU)

Got one also - 4th Tank Battalion USMC, unfortunately that battalion no longer exists.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 25, 2021 01:10 PM (DjiZK)

390 Re: This denying skilled trade services - I believe there is a gun shop in Missouri that's begun doing this, deciding not to sell guns or ammo to Biden voters. The FB comments are LIT.

Posted by: KeithV at January 25, 2021 01:11 PM (aZ8cu)

391 No. You will bake that fucking cake.

Posted by: thesgm at January 25, 2021 01:17 PM (d+Wxf)

392 I seem to recall that Steven Crowder then went to some Muslim bakers in Detroit and tried the same thing. They told him to get lost and the state told him they didn't care.


Posted by: 18-1 at January 25, 2021 12:34 PM (qlFIA)

Shatila Bakery in east Dearborn.

Posted by: clutch at January 25, 2021 01:20 PM (9UmRs)

393 384 "You won't run afoul of any laws and you can donate a portion of the fees
to your political cause as well. it's not like prices are fixed by the
government."
Not yet anyway.

Posted by: Jeff K at January 25, 2021 01:21 PM (cpVs2)

394 Kid Who Turned His Dad Into The FBI Sets Up GoFundMe Because His Parents Are Kicking Him Out Of The House

Meanwhile his parents set up a GoFundMe to get someone to kick his ass for them.

-
Jeff Gillooly may be available to set something up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2021 01:21 PM (VVEnO)

395 Oh, I'd bake the cake, no problem. But rest assured there would be 11 secret herbs and spices in it as a special treat. Subtle, but still in there.

Posted by: AJ Duie at January 25, 2021 01:22 PM (oDpqT)

396 I like this idea a lot and since the skilled trade companies that would employ them would likely be banned from the Big Tech platforms due to "wrong think" they would be somewhat immune to the woke cancel culture on these platforms.

Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at January 25, 2021 01:31 PM (tSosf)

397 There will be somebody hungry enough to do the work.

Or somebody that thinks Trump was the problem will do the work.

Posted by: nip-WRONG ABOUT TRUMP at January 25, 2021 01:33 PM (yoqcZ)

398 I like it.

Posted by: Weak Geek at January 25, 2021 01:50 PM (Apbdw)

399 Great...so you boycott half the population and end up going broke, just like the woke corporations?

Not a good idea, IMHO.

Its better to work on the inside and make MORE money, so it could be put to better uses -- politically.

Posted by: Dansgirls at January 25, 2021 01:50 PM (mvp+a)

400 It sounds a lot like the "Atlas Shrugged" right after Galt's speech at the motor factory. Let the "elites" fix their own stuff. I'm sure that young leftists will have all the skills necessary to keep the country running, being that their degrees at University have adequately prepared them to tackle everything.

Posted by: Misguided Sailorguy at January 25, 2021 01:50 PM (y5BxJ)

401 127 You go ahead and refuse service to wokesters and he how quick they play the "protected group" card. You'll have nothing when they finish with you. Realism s not always sunshine and daffodils.

This is why we need to be open about discriminating. "No woketards served here." Then they have to prove you discriminated for a reason that isn't the one you posted.

Posted by: jdgalt1 at January 25, 2021 01:53 PM (3SFo/)

402 Impactful enough for me to post a "Heh" here. Because I did, several times.

Posted by: Wry Mouth at January 25, 2021 01:53 PM (N55zD)

403
Nasty Tyrant Quim from MI is
pre-empting shit on TV again.



Biotch lurves her airtime.









Posted by: Deplor4ble I4n G4lt at January 25, 2021 01:53 PM (ufFY8)

404 That would be perfect. Let them change their own tires, oil and repair their own ACs etc.

Posted by: leber at January 25, 2021 02:03 PM (TUdnY)

405 Back in the 90's, doctors in a Georgia town got tired of the malpractice lawsuits and quit treating the lawyers who were suing them. One ob-gyn told a female lawyer she couldn't call him a quack who killed a patient that morning and come for her afternoon appointment for treatment from him.

Posted by: Kingfish at January 25, 2021 02:10 PM (d7kHH)

406 Looks like maintaining internet service in urban areas might get a little more expensive. Put them so far down on the priority list that you never get to them. Deplatform them from the hardware end of things. Alot of these shitweasles can handle troubleshooting their connectivity inside their homes, but outside the home, it looks like alien technology

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 25, 2021 02:11 PM (uPsJY)

407 391 No. You will bake that fucking cake.

You bet. Coming right up. Maybe I'll put sugar in it, maybe I won't. I'm sure a flour sugarless cake will be perfect for your poly-transgender inter-species wedding.

Posted by: Patti at January 25, 2021 02:19 PM (1bKMN)

408 Trucking. Nuff said. Stop the trucks. "Who is John Galt?"

"stop the motor of the world"

Posted by: SmileyGG at January 25, 2021 02:25 PM (3w9Fm)

409 Yes, but Leftists actually walk the walk. Conservatives don't. So they have nothing to worry about.

Posted by: David at January 25, 2021 02:26 PM (u9peP)

410 Yeah, like the people that control banks, payment processors, advertising, regulatory agencies, and every other center of power in the country would have no way of retaliating.

Posted by: Monty James at January 25, 2021 02:27 PM (Zqz9o)

411 "Would you have any problem doing business with me if you knew that I support Joe Biden?"
"Why, no sir. Of course not."
"Would you have any problem doing business with me since I actually support Donald Trump?"

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at January 25, 2021 02:28 PM (YPZzQ)

412 Don't deny, just tax them more. Justification? To offset the costly policies they support, you must extract their fair share. It just costs more to have progressives, so ... make them cover those costs.

Posted by: Carly at January 25, 2021 02:43 PM (iFhQM)

413 Good idea. Cut them off, or at least make them pay through the nose for inferior work.

Posted by: Tom W at January 25, 2021 02:52 PM (OZh1L)

414 Yep.
Go John Galt on their ass.

I know plumbers that have done a version of this for years.
They have three prices: Friend prices, normal business prices, and asshole prices.

Posted by: Dr. Mongo at January 25, 2021 02:54 PM (IU8aO)

415 GREAT idea. How do get this to work? First thing would be to line up a couple rich people to fund the lawyers necessary to establish the principle. That should be easy given the "private firms can do what they want" attitude of the wokesters supporting woke companies. Of course, they will use every race law ever invented to punish a movement of service denial by the right. So we would need to be prepared.

Posted by: DZouave at January 25, 2021 02:59 PM (zyaIA)

416 That's a good idea, but...

Who except tech companies have either the time or the manpower to police wrongthink? Certainly not Earl or the Joneses.

Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at January 25, 2021 03:02 PM (GA8EQ)

417 Real answer: government will declare the non-serviced moonbat is some sort of minority or other, no matter how tenuous, then charge the non-servicer criminally.

Posted by: there are only three star wars films at January 25, 2021 03:12 PM (EEVQU)

418 YES. I work in tech and thinly-veiled contempt for blue-collar work and workers is commonplace. It's easy to dismiss skilled trades until your sink backs up or your furnace goes out. My kid is a diesel mechanic and his dog is smarter than a lot of the people I work with.

Posted by: Fat Joe-NAH of Krypton at January 25, 2021 03:17 PM (VbLoi)

419 I fucking LOVE this idea.

Posted by: thirteen28 at January 25, 2021 03:42 PM (KX4VP)

420 Can you imagine your average lefty trying to change a tire or swap out a faucet? This could be a new reality show.

Posted by: Bob Johnston at January 25, 2021 03:57 PM (/a+Mq)

421 We would never do this. They would, but we won't.
Bonus: we get to sleep at night, and live with ourselves, and not become Them.

Posted by: m at January 25, 2021 03:58 PM (o+Yqs)

422 I've been wanting this to happen for years.

Posted by: Lulu at January 25, 2021 04:02 PM (TB7HE)

423 Works for me, unlike liberals who like to spit in the police hot drinks this idea isn't gross.

Posted by: Rose at January 25, 2021 04:16 PM (f/Wek)

424 FCUKING GENIUS.

I work in IT... but I know how to change my oil, change a water heater, build a shed, do drywall.

Specialization is for insects.

I support this plan 1000%

Posted by: bob at January 25, 2021 04:20 PM (D2wY0)

425 THIS! No offense to the proprietor & host these many years, but phuck this is one of the best things ever posted here. I had a cup of coffee in the trades as a laborer while I was in school, and I sure got my share of patronizing from the white collars who just saw a paint- and dust-spattered hump. Twenty-five years later, white collar smugness is insufferable with wokeness.

Wokester brings the Beemer into the shop. Shop-owner: "OK, we'll need to run some diagnostics. What are your facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts?" Wokester: "How are those diagnostics for my car?" Shop-owner: "Oh, they're not for the car, they're for you. If you pass, then we'll look at the car."

Posted by: Sarge6 at January 25, 2021 04:29 PM (0kfUU)

426 Nice idea but how to put on a united front? Better idea is to bleed them by making them pay higher fees and have more work orders. Make them pay and when they ask why blame the higher government regs and taxes.
Same idea for anyone batching about inflation, higher gas prices, or stupid regs or laws. If they voted for this make them pay, if they don't pay, they can learn to code it fixed.

Posted by: 1byland2bysea at January 25, 2021 05:07 PM (XoPVy)

427 "Wokester: "How are those diagnostics for my car?" Shop-owner: "Oh, they're not for the car, they're for you. If you pass, then we'll look at the car."
Sarge6 at January 25, 2021 04:29 PM (0kfUU)

Exactly.
And if they ask why just tell them that you can't take the risk of working on some racist's car without checking. I'm sure they will understand.

Posted by: Dr. Mongo at January 25, 2021 05:17 PM (IU8aO)

428 We just hung two floating shelves in the laundry room. Only too six hours, a little muttering under breaths and a few bruises. We bruise easily.

Posted by: Javems at January 25, 2021 05:30 PM (2ShTI)

429 i would bake the cake with some interesting ingredients.

Posted by: trump 4 ever at January 25, 2021 08:17 PM (er/ld)

430 Tradesmen are already doing this in Seattle region. It is dangerous to drive and work in the Seattle urban area due to BLM/Anitfa domestic terrorist activity, and the progressive attitude of hatred.
I personally know contractors who live in the outer belt blue collar "ghettos" who have been offered 200% plus 20% on top of normal rates to refuse to agree to work within the radioactive radius.
This is an excellent concept, as the fact is the cities produce very little of value, and nothing that cannot be lived without.
Also social conscience shopping by refusing to purchase made in China products, manufacturers who exploit Latinos by hiring illegals denying minimum wages, poor conditions and creating ghettos because the lily white suburbs where the wealthy progressives congregate despise minorities.

Posted by: Tundra at January 26, 2021 01:10 AM (ujRQU)

431 I am reporting leftist hate speech on facebook. Giving it back.

Posted by: Rose at January 27, 2021 12:08 AM (kw9uW)

432 My partner and I stumbled over here from a different web page
and thought I might check things out. I like what I
see so i am just following you. Look forward to looking at
your web page yet again.

Posted by: Blogs at January 28, 2021 07:18 AM (qgkry)

433 we could do the muslim thing and give them one chance to repent. and then we monitor. any backsliding and they get fined. all according to the rules of service.

Posted by: warhorse at January 31, 2021 12:30 PM (e+apI)

434 It's in fact very complicated in this full of activity life to listen news
on Television, therefore I only use internet for
that purpose, and obtain the latest information.

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Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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