The Morning Report - 1/29/21 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Friday and the weekend is here, for whatever temporary respite from this nightmare will bring us. While the big story is the little guys breaking the rigged casino in the GameStop/Robinhood saga, there are other things going on of equal importance that are probably not going to be getting the attention they deserve. Beyond the schadenfreude of watching actual vulture capitalists get taken down as well as the rage-inducing actions of the junta and its cronies rushing in to illegally shut down thousands of ordinary folks to protect the racket while at the same time threatening to go after those same ordinary folks for merely beating the house by playing the game by its own rules (sound familiar?), there are these items that came over the transom within the past 12 hours as I was aggregating the links:

Democrat Lawmakers Introduce Bill for Nationwide Mail-in Voting: Necessary to "Make Real Progress"

The bill, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), is designed to "fight voter suppression" as detailed by Wyden's press release. The measure would "massively expand vote-at-home ballot access, provide voters with pre-paid ballot envelopes and enact automatic voter registration"...
...The lawmakers point to the unprecedented number of Americans who voted by mail in the 2020 presidential election -- a move Democrats vehemently pushed. While progressives largely used the coronavirus pandemic as justification for opening the doors for mass mail-in voting, which many critics warn leads to mass fraud, universal vote-by-mail has existed as a primary goal for the Democrat Party, even prior to the pandemic. The measure introduced on Thursday essentially updates the vote-by-mail measure the two lawmakers introduced in 2017, long before the Wuhan virus struck.
Abrupt changes in state election laws, coupled with existing concerns of fraud and irregularities, led to a heated post-election battle, which essentially ended January 6 after Congress certified the electoral votes despite challenges from GOP lawmakers and ongoing concerns from millions of Americans who continue to question the integrity of the election.

Number two on the hit parade:

Senate Judiciary Chairman Says Gun Control Is "Top Priority"

After winning control of the committee chairmanship on Wednesday, Durbin said he had met with a group of activists and promised to prioritize action on guns.
"Today I had the chance to speak with a group of gun violence prevention advocates from across the country," Durbin tweeted. "I told them that reducing gun violence will be a top priority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I will never stop fighting for gun safety."
Democrats enjoy a slim majority in the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris able to cast tie-breaking votes, a partisan split that makes sweeping, new gun-control legislation difficult to pass. Durbin's control of the Judiciary Committee, however, will allow him to shape America's legal landscape. His ability to shepherd President Joe Biden's judicial nominees to federal courts could play a decisive role in numerous gun-rights cases. The committee also oversees federal law that regulates firearms, including the federal gun background check system.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the committee's top Republican, said he hopes Durbin will pursue similar gun initiatives to the past Congress instead of attempting to push through sweeping liberal changes.
"Unduly abridging or regulating those rights, especially if it's through a strictly partisan process, is wrong," Grassley told the Washington Free Beacon. "I hope, if Senator Durbin chooses to focus on this issue, it will be with a bipartisan, consensus-building approach."

Yes, once again, if we're going to disarm private citizens let's make sure we preserve a fig leaf of an illusion of a fairy tale that it's completely kosher. Chuck Grassley is a fossil and a fraud. Then again, it's not as if regular order means anything anymore. And with the courts about to be packed so tight Roman Polanski will wrestle Biden to see who can marry it, at least 100 million people now labeled as insurrectionist will be reclassified as armed terrorists. As an aside, Malig-Nancy Pelosi bitching about Rep. Lauren Boebert carrying in the halls of Congress is quite rich considering she (Pelosi) was supposedly fearing for her life because of the "rioters."

Finally, John Kerry, a man who made his fortune the old fashioned way, by shacking up with wealthy broads impressed with his phony Crackerjack box medals, farted out this little gem:

Climate Czar John Kerry Says Tens of Thousands of Jobs Will Be Cut for Zero Benefit

"He [Biden] knows [the] Paris [Accord target] alone is not enough. Not when almost 90 percent of all of the planet's emissions, global emissions come from outside of U.S. borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn't solved."
Beyond the obvious problems of using low-density energy sources like wind and solar to power high-density living in urban and suburban areas, the assertions the administration is making about workforce opportunities and even U.S. manufacturing are absurd. We are going to kill millions of jobs for absolutely nothing. Canceling the Keystone XL project was a gift to Vladimir Putin and his petrol economy, just as no new leases on federal land will be. Pushing a rapid transition to green will be a boon for the Chinese Communist Party while they continue to pollute at alarming rates and lie about it.
Welcome back to leading from behind, only worse. Climate Czar John Kerry, who has gotten almost nothing right in his entire career, will drag the economy down with him this time. After all, not everyone can marry a ketchup heiress.

Add these items to the elimination of our borders and amnesty for upwards of 30 million illegal aliens already here, the move to once again prop up the mad Muslim mullahs in Iran and let them build an A-bomb - which will touch off a war in the Gulf, the aiding and abetting of the Chi-Coms to seize global economic and geo-political domination, and the ramping up of political persecution and repression here in the former United States of America and we are looking at a situation, folks.

The reality is, even if we had a political party to try and fight this - which we do not - there is nothing they can do to prevent or even slow down any of this. The Grassley attitude of "if I'm going to get gang-raped by AIDS-infected chimpanzees, at least they better take me to dinner first" is fully on display. If anyone thinks that 2022 and 2024 are going to make any difference whatsoever, they're delusional. I guess it comes full circle back to l'affaire GameStop. While the system may very well have always been rigged, Donald J. Trump came along in 2016 and in essence "beat the house." And for four years, he singlehandedly exposed those who are back in power now as the frauds, poseurs and incompetents that they were, just by enacting policies that made Americans more prosperous, more secure and more free than at any time since the end of the Second World War -- which not coincidentally was when the malignant cancer of Globalism first metastasized.

So, what can we do? For starters, I would say while you still have the opportunity arm yourself to the teeth. Start developing and strengthening social ties with family and friends who you know have the same political bent and can be trusted, and figure out how to communicate in a way that is as private as you can make it. It would be nice if red states went the full on nullification route, if not secession. The states where Keystone XL runs should tell Biden to go fuck himself and build the damn pipeline anyway.

Try and stay positive; seek out G-d or find some sort of way towards inner peace and calm (stay away from AOSHQ, right?). I think for the first time, thanks to the actions of this illegal, criminal junta, a very large swathe of the citizenry are going to face a situation where, stripped of an income and perhaps facing serious economic hardship will collectively have nothing to lose. I hope and pray that it never comes to this, but to not see the signposts that this is indeed the direction we are headed is to be blind.

Those in power right now are not only playing with matches, but they're doing so inside of a gasoline refinery. Pun intended.

CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY IMPEACHMENT

Daniel Greenfield: "Enjoy unity at gunpoint in the Bidenist banana republic."
Unite and Heal With Show Trials and Fascist Purges
"A Senate trial of a private citizen with no chance of conviction would be pointless and divisive."
The Impeachment Show Must Not Go On
"Fears of extremists in the National Guard in D.C. were completely unfounded."
After Vetting 25,000 Guardsmen, No Extremists Were Found
"In a second Trump impeachment attempt, Democrats have succumbed to their weak ways, hedging bets on something that never was in 2020 and never will be in 2021."
Impeachment Fizzle Shows Why Democrats' 4D Chess Doesn't Work
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is the co-chair of the House of Representative's Second Amendment Caucus and has been outspoken about her commitment to carry a gun in D.C."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi: House Members Who Carry Guns for Self-Defense Are the "Enemy Within"
"'I'll know it when I see it,' John Hickenlooper said."
"Unity" is Like Pornography, Says Dem Senator Who Watched Deep Throat with His Mom
"AOC's accusation is entirely baseless." (as is any claims to her having any intelligence or self-awareness - jjs)
Titty Caca AOC Accuses Ted Cruz of "Trying to Get Me Killed"
"AOC's over-the-top reaction to Ted Cruz's unifying statements made suggests that Democrats are unprepared for the inevitable consequences of their actions."
Having Sowed the Wind, Are Democrats Reaping the Whirlwind?
"Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence," the DHS said in the alert. (that's not your hair, it's the Reichstag that's burning - jjs)
DHS Issues Federal Terrorism Advisory Over Domestic Extremists, First Alert in a Year
DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST & RINO SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
"The financial relationship is revealed via her most recent disclosure as item 33 on a 68-item-long list titled 'Filer's Sources of Compensation Exceeding $5,000 in a Year.'"
Biden Treasury Sec Yellen Paid by Chinese Communist Party-Linked Group
"It's time to push back against people who say one thing on the campaign trail and do another once elected."
Rep. Young Kim Owes Me $25
GAMESTOP/ROBINHOOD SHORT SELLING SCANDAL
The return of not a smidgen...
Janet Yellen Received $810,000 in Speaking Fees From Hedge Fund Embroiled in GameStop Saga
Gatz's lawsuit claims Robinhood "halted trading on its securities exchange platform of Blackberry (BB), Nokia (NOK), and AMC Theatres (AMC) for retail investors. On information and belief, they have continued to allow trading for institutional investors."
Lawsuits Filed Against Robinhood After Restricting Trades of Shorted Stocks
"On Thursday, Robinhood froze purchases of shares in GameStop and other companies boosted by market-roiling Reddit users, a move that provoked widespread outrage and several lawsuits."
Robinhood Raises $1 Billion as CEO Defends Actions Amid GameStop Frenzy
"The unilateral cancelation of GME buys rocked the price and is not sitting well. Users have filed a class-action lawsuit against the app."
Has the Robinhood App Been Unmasked as the Sheriff of a Rotten System?
"An irony fit for the first month of 2021: A trading app that touts 'democratizing investment' reveals it's willing to quash the little guy to keep hedge fund giants afloat."
How the Trading Platform Robinhood Started Stealing From the Poor to Give to the Rich
"Hedge fund managers are currently learning a lesson the hard way."
The GameStop Saga: The Retail Investors Strike Back
"The great irony of our current politics is that the very populism so decried by the ruling class is only buttressed by that very ruling class's censoriousness and game rigging."
American Elites Seek To Rig the Game
POLITICS
"The bill, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), is designed to "fight voter suppression" as detailed by Wyden's press release."
Democrat Lawmakers Introduce Bill for Nationwide Mail-in Voting: Necessary to "Make Real Progress"
"They have a maniacal need to rule rather than govern within constitutional limits."
Democrats Want Biden to Be the Dictator They Said Trump Was
"After promising to unite us in his inaugural address, Biden almost immediately set about to do more to divide us than any president in American history."
Biden's First Week in Office Was Utterly Destructive for America
"When the smiling, jubilant faces beaming at us from our TVs assure us that their only motivation is our happiness, our success, and an America of boundless opportunity and utter equality, buckle up!"
Welcome to the Era of "Unintended Consequences"
Run Trumpist candidates and win big, Dominion voting machines and Democrat ballot dumps notwithstanding. GOP-e seems to be doing the same thing as it did in the 2018 House midterms; throw the election .
GOP's 2022 Senate Prospects Clouded by Retirements
"Turns out the purpose of job training programs is not actually to train workers."
Get Ready for the Gesture 'Presidency'
"After a chaotic four years, [quote unquote] 'President' Biden wants voters to believe he's governing as a unifier while actually governing as a hard partisan."
Biden's Unity Branding Is False Advertising That Will Sow More Division
"Despite the RINOS, the majority base of the party is loyal to the MAGA agenda, a durable package of timeless ideas that will always make our nation great and our people prosperous."
What to Do Now?
"It is time to move on from the Cold War consensus that Reagan is the gold standard of the American Right. The Donald has taken the Gipper's place."
The Reckoning of Ronald Reagan
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
They should've been vaccinated long ago -- with a 9mm behind the ear.
Report: Biden Administration to Vaccinate Terrorists First, Will Offer Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine to Gitmo Detainees
"Through a spokesperson, the California Department of Public health confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle that the state of California will soon finalize its agreement with Blue Shield. At that point, officials plan to reveal more details about the arrangement."
California to Outsource Vaccine Distribution Amidst Poor Rollout
"Gov. Gavin Newsom loosens stay-at-home restrictions, but his administration seems driven far more by political considerations than scientific ones as the scandals pile up."
It's All About (Political) "Science"
"Abundant evidence makes clear that in-person learning poses little health risk -- and that keeping children home is doing serious damage to them, their parents, and the economy."
Don't Wait to Reopen Schools
Lloyd Billingsley: "The virulent strain still infecting the nation."
Faucism, the Highest Stage of White Coat Supremacy
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"'The story is accurate and was published by NBC News after our normal editing and vetting process', Dilanian tells the Washington Free Beacon."
NBC's Dilanian Stands By Story Network Retracted Amid Accusations of Anti-Semitism
"Refuses to resolve disagreement between secretary of state and NSC official."
White House Punts on Condemning BDS Movement
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"No Democrat senators are expected to oppose nominee Alejandro Mayorkas, whose pro-migration, pro-Wall Street policies tend to push Americans to the sidelines, lower wages, and reduce technology investment -- but also to boost Democrats' vote totals."
Democrats to Push Joe Biden's Amnesty Chief Through the Senate
"One of many Executive Orders to reverse Trump's successful immigration policies."
Biden Orders the End of Construction of U.S/Mexican Border Wall
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Social media censorship just ratcheted up to a new level," said Sen. Ron Johnson. "Google's YouTube removed two videos of doctors testifying under oath at my US Senate hearing on early treatment of [Chinese] COVID."YouTube Nuked Two Videos of a Senate Hearing on Chinese COVID-19 Treatments
"Peter Rice, Disney's chairman of general entertainment content for Disney, reportedly 'did not think Goldston was the right fit for ABC News.'"
ABC News President James Goldston to Step Down in March
"Social media bans and Google search manipulation prove that the need for a large-scale monitoring system."
When Big Tech Flexes, Everyone's Freedom Is Threatened
"Google blocked the advertisements of a legal group that opposes Biden and the Democrats' plan to pack the courts with additional seats, a move that the bipartisan organization labeled as 'bizarre.'"
Google Blocked Ads From Legal Group Opposing Democrats' Supreme Court-Packing Plan
"It seems to me she has solid legal grounds to sue, and win big. Regardless, this action by the owner of this literary agency shows that the storm-troopers in today's leftist dominant culture come from both the rank and file as well as their political leadership in the Democrat Party."
Today's Blacklisted American: Literary Agent Fired for Having Parler and Gab Accounts
SECOND AMENDMENT
Maybe Dick Turd-Bin should've confiscated his friend James Hodgkinson's guns.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Says Gun Control is "Top Priority"
"Top NRA lawyer opens up about using bankruptcy to fight legal battles."
Inside the NRA's Strategy to Escape Disaster
ABORTION
"In reality, it's an attack on the lives of many unborn, non-white babies."
"Catholic" Biden Re-Introduces Foreign Abortion Funding by American Taxpayers
"One way or another, it can be weakened." (not after the Junta adds four more hack-in-black operatives - jjs)
Could This Be the Supreme Court That Overturns Roe v. Wade?
"Members of Congress will be reintroducing a ban on abortion based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome on Friday, the same day as the virtual March for Life."
Federal Lawmakers Set to Introduce Bill Protecting Children With Down Syndrome From Extermination
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by opposition leader Alexei Navalny for his release from jail, while authorities detained several of his allies and warned social media companies about promoting more protests after tens of thousands rallied across the country last weekend demanding his freedom."
Russia Doubles Down on Navalny, Demands Social Media Censor Posts Supporting Anti-Putin Protests
"Biden has effectively given away the store to Putin."
Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call
Conrad Black: "Richard Nixon spoke nothing but the truth when he famously remarked, 'No power on earth can defeat or humiliate the United States, except the United States.' Will we?"
The Nature of the Chinese Threat
PIJ chief: "[N]othing happened [in Gaza] without his direct orders and supervision."
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Admits Iran's Soleimani Gave "Direct Orders" in Gaza
"Millions in peril of starvation in Ethiopia's Tigray region." (more blood and treasure wasted; just get Bob Geldof to record another dumb record - jjs)
Biden Junta Faces Mounting Pressure to Act in Ethiopian Conflict
"Desiree Cormier Smith claims black diplomats have more humility and empathy than white colleagues."
Biden State Dept. Appointee Says White Diplomats Are Too "Protective" of United States
Senator Marco Rubio inquired with Thomas-Greenfield, a long-time Chinese Communist Party-linked consultant and speaker, as to whether or not the Chinese Communist Party's actions conduct in the region constituted "genocide." (it's not genocide-genocide! - jjs)
Biden State Dept. Reviewing Trump's Xinjiang "Genocide" Declaration
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Thank you for your cervix, real or prosthetic. Feh.
SecDef: "We Should Avail Ourselves of the Best Possible Talent in Our Population, Regardless of Gender Identity"
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Rancida Taliban and Bro-Fo will be handing out Turkish delight and ululating.
Pakistani Supreme Court Frees Terrorist Who Beheaded Daniel Pearl
Raymond Ibrahim: "Exposing where his true loyalties lie."
Another Muslim-American Soldier Turns to Terrorism
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
"Griggs v. Duke Power Co. does not have the name recognition of Roe v. Wade or Brown v. Board of Education, but it is nonetheless one of the most consequential decisions ever rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court."
The Griggs Decision and Affirmative Action
"Mayor What-Me-Worry proposes to pay for highway maintenance with a tax on miles driven, rather than fuel consumed."
So, Now We're Going to Tax Miles Driven?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Funny, I don't hear the cries from Titty Caca AOC and Bernie for a 99% tax on their profits. Talk about "vulture capitalism." Meh, crony Leftists get dispensation.
U.S. Billionaires Boost Their Wealth by 40% During Manufactured Phony Chinese Coronavirus Crisis
"As cryptocurrencies become more mainstream and easier-than-ever to buy, and inflation becomes a very real risk, assets like Bitcoin could continue to increase in value."
What's the Deal With Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin? Here's Your Primer
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
She also hates Jews and whites. Winning.
Biden's DOJ Nominee Repeatedly Posted Misinformation About Breonna Taylor's Death on Social Media
HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
"As the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic shows, a national healthcare system, as opposed to a competitive and decentralized system, is the worst choice of all."
A Shot in the Arm for Decentralization
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Julie Kelly: "Biden not only is using children to get Congress to greenlight another federally funded kickback to the unions, he's burdening these very same children with trillions in debt to repay in the future."
Biden, Teachers' Unions, and the $630 Billion Shakedown
"Teachers' Unions Are a Criminal Racket. Maybe that's a little harsh. Actually, when you consider that I usually refer to the National Education Association as 'the most evil labor organization on Earth' the 'criminal racket' thing doesn't seem so bad."
Chinese COVID-19 Has Exposed Teachers' Unions as the Shakedown Artists They Really Are
"For more than 10 months, 355,000 CPS students and their families have been unduly and unnecessarily suffering because CTU members refuse to return to work."
Chicago: A Case Study in Teachers Union Abuse of Students
"The American gentry seeks to squash conservatism, the free speech ethos of the university system, and intellectual diversity in our country."
Leftists Want "The Next Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley" Exiled From Name-Brand Universities
"Students at the United Nations International School launch an anonymous social media campaign denouncing their teachers as 'racists' and 'oppressors.'"
Spoiled Rotten
"A Latino man is judged by the color of his skin and then dehumanized in racial terms because of where he lives. This is okay in America using public tax dollars and public institutions."
Small-Town Iowa Public Schools Teach Preschoolers Transgenderism And Judging People By Skin Color
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Our intrepid science reporter: "...it seems to me that someone in the Biden [junta] essentially wanted to tell SpaceX, 'Nice rocket company you got here,
Sure would be a shame if something happened to it.'" (didn't Musk cheer on the guys who screwed over the Game Stop short-sellers? - jjs)
FAA Bureaucrats Block SpaceX Starship Test Flight
I guess he wanted to hire people of competence over people of color. He's showing himself more and more to not be on board with the socialism and must be destroyed. (hat-tip to MTF)
Justice Department Investigating Elon Musk's SpaceX Following Complaint of Hiring Discrimination
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"He [Biden] knows [the] Paris [Accord target] alone is not enough. Not when almost 90% of all of the planet's emissions, global emissions come from outside of U.S. borders. We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn't solved."
Climate Czar John "Cash 'n" Kerry Says Tens of Thousands of Jobs Will Be Cut for Zero Benefit
"Joe Biden, through his wrong-headed climate policy, has unleashed a job destruction pandemic on the American people. This job destruction pandemic is deliberate, intentional and devastating to the American people."
"Deliberate, Intentional and Devastating": Experts Say Biden's Week One Climate Actions Already Killing Jobs
"Excerpts from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity newsletter."
Biden's War on Energy
"But, saving the world from climate change won't really build back our economy. The first thing that needs to happen is reopening the economy -- allowing people to leave their homes and encouraging businesses to reopen and operate normally. Step 2: save the world. "
It's Climate Day at the White House. What Does This Mean?
No-Shit-Sherlock entry of the day from John Barrasso.
Barrasso: "What We're Seeing Here Is the Green New Deal, Basically Dressed Up in Executive Orders"
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Welcome to Walghanistan. Sam Walton is rolling in his grave."
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon: "Semi-Woke" Ingenue and His Lethal Properties
"It's definitely not sensitivity and it's definitely not diversity. There used to be sensitivity and diversity years ago, and this is not that."
"Exploring White Fragility": Longtime School Teacher Explains How Critical Race Theory is Hurting Multicultural Classrooms
"Equity and equal opportunity are fundamentally incompatible."
How Equity Will Destroy America
"Helen Andrews takes on the Boomers."
Boomsday
HITHER & YON
"Washington, Leto and Malek can't save this pensive, but puzzling crime thriller."
How Little Things Squanders Its Oscar-Winning Cast
Rest in peace.
Cicely Tyson, Sounder and Miss Jane Pittman Star, Dead at 96

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1 First?

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 07:22 AM (2BZBZ)

2 And so it begins.

Posted by: Guy Who Says "And So It Begins" at January 29, 2021 07:23 AM (NenxG)

3 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 07:23 AM (5QBw6)

4 Mornin', all! Still loving the GameStop story today. I also love that the investors are looking for other shorted stocks to buy. Be like water!

Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at January 29, 2021 07:24 AM (RMAph)

5 Reliving 2008-2016....at least Hillary hasn't shown up...yet.

Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2021 07:24 AM (AwYPR)

6 Mornin

Posted by: FtWorthMike at January 29, 2021 07:24 AM (EgUvv)

7 Good morning horde. TGIF to eleventy!

Posted by: Heidi at January 29, 2021 07:25 AM (GxS0F)

8 Good morning horde! TGIFF!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 29, 2021 07:25 AM (U7wke)

9 Equity and inclusions dictates I hate Democrats in Congress as much as those in the Harris administration

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 07:26 AM (IQ9iU)

10 It's "Weekend at Bernie's" with the role of Bernie being played by the Republic.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 07:26 AM (2BZBZ)

11 we aren't going to recognize this country in 6 months. It is stunning how fast it is happening.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy (Now 80% Google Free!) at January 29, 2021 07:27 AM (dNzKv)

12 I also love that the investors are looking for other shorted stocks to buy.

There will only be one Woodstock.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 07:27 AM (C+evo)

13
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 29, 2021 07:27 AM (OyUjq)

14 GME closed at 193.60 yesterday. It's 338 in pre-market now. Crazy.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at January 29, 2021 07:28 AM (wzqPr)

15 "We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn't solved."

The idiot does not understand what he just said.

Posted by: Saved By Zero at January 29, 2021 07:28 AM (otSzs)

16 Thank you, J.J.

And as always

Happy Birthday!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:28 AM (S7VTO)

17 GME closed at 193.60 yesterday. It's 338 in pre-market now. Crazy

The great Dutch Tulip craze. This time it's personal.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 07:30 AM (2BZBZ)

18 I also love that the investors are looking for other shorted stocks to buy.

There will only be one Woodstock.
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 07:27 AM (C+evo)

I kinda get that, but if you had told me six months ago that reasonably intelligent fund managers would refuse to take a loss on one short sale until they lost billions, I wouldn't have believed you. They will not stop. Finding more ways to hurt their trades theoretically (because they won't listen) says that the retail investors with a plan will not stop either.

Posted by: Catherine at January 29, 2021 07:30 AM (RMAph)

19 Tucker Carlson is willing to say what is going on unlike any other person on MSM

Posted by: iandeal at January 29, 2021 07:30 AM (vgGyZ)

20 morning horde. we made it to the weekend.

the drinking lamp is lit....

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 29, 2021 07:31 AM (8D42x)

21
I think for the first time, thanks to the actions of this illegal, criminal junta, a very large swathe of the citizenry are going to face a situation where, stripped of an income and perhaps facing serious economic hardship will collectively have nothing to lose.

I saw a FaceBoot meme recently - "At a certain age, a life sentence doesn't seem so threatening."

Elections have consequences, yes. Stolen elections could have even more dangerous consequences. I hope there's no Tim McV out there, but I'm pretty certain there might be.

Which is one gigantic reason the Dems should get on board with REAL election integrity. States with predominate (R) legislatures should 'carve out' the electoral votes of the huge cities that decided the outcome of this election. Sure, give them 2 or 3 EV's - but not 16, 18, or 20.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Conservative at January 29, 2021 07:31 AM (N/gDA)

22 There is a pandemic alright. A pandemic of hatred. And the Dems have the market cornered.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 07:31 AM (2BZBZ)

23 Anyone got any hot stock tips?

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 29, 2021 07:32 AM (F5zz8)

24 20 Since the election results came in, my drinking lamp has been an eternal flame.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 07:32 AM (I58tH)

25 Can we use RICO against the feral government?

Didn't think so. Damn.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:33 AM (7X3UV)

26 25 Can we use RICO against the feral government?

Didn't think so. Damn.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:33 AM (7X3UV)

Revolution Inside Capitol Organizations...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 07:33 AM (s2VJv)

27 Desiree Smith makes every joke about the State Department suddenly actually true: She says outright she works to undermine US interests.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 07:33 AM (IQ9iU)

28 I suppose if we eliminated everyone on the planet we might make an impact on climate change but we need to have an experiment first.

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 07:34 AM (otSzs)

29 GME could close all it's stores and it wouldn't matter

it has now become just a roulette wheel

the trades both in and out are coming quickly

the volume in pre market is already up to where this stock should trade for the entire day

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2021 07:34 AM (zZxh0)

30 Thank you, JJ.
Back up for the read and the links.

Posted by: Trumplican - Not Junta Joe B at January 29, 2021 07:34 AM (jV+aN)

31 Impeachment show MUST go on, if he's being charged related to "false claims of fraud", there will finally be a chance to air it.

Posted by: CN will vote donk to survive at January 29, 2021 07:34 AM (ONvIw)

32 Happy birthday JJ!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2021 07:35 AM (EZebt)

33 Devastatingly true article by Daniel Greenfield-always a superb writer-at "Frontline Magazine".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 07:35 AM (VP4Cd)

34 "Today I had the chance to speak with a group of gun violence prevention advocates from across the country," Durbin tweeted. "I told them that reducing gun violence will be a top priority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I will never stop fighting for gun safety."
________
Start by telling your friends not to shoot Republicans.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:35 AM (7X3UV)

35 The callous disregard for workers income and the ability to provide for their families is like they planned Holodomor 2.0.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 07:36 AM (I58tH)

36 19 Tucker Carlson is willing to say what is going on unlike any other person on MSM
Posted by: iandeal at January 29, 2021 07:30 AM (vgGyZ)

I haven't watched Tucker in a few months

and even then he would bang on the other channels

but not Fox

never Fox

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2021 07:36 AM (zZxh0)

37 And where is the GOP in all of this madness?

They're completely checked out and doing Curly like rug burnouts of the floor burbling, Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.

I'd call them a clown show but that would be an insult to clowns and their shows.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 29, 2021 07:36 AM (/8PIA)

38 I agree with all JJS says about how to protect yourself. And I add this: plant a garden and find a local source for protein. Food chain supply will be affected, either intentionally (don't discount the viciousness of these people) or as a result of their other draconian edicts.

Posted by: itsacookbook at January 29, 2021 07:37 AM (yPxXc)

39 Related 2A news:

HR 121 text has been released. Authorizes hiring 200 additional ATF
HR 125 Gun Safety Not Sorry Act. To provide for a 7-day waiting period before a semiautomatic firearm, a
silencer, armor piercing ammunition, or a large capacity ammunition
magazine may be transferred.

HR127 Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act. Licensing and registration of firearms and ammo. Penalties to violating this law not to be less than $50,000 and not more than $100,000. No less than 10 years in jail, but no more than 20yrs. (This isn't an either/or. It can be both).

All of the come courtesy of the Rhodes Scholar Sheila Jackson Lee

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 29, 2021 07:38 AM (D3cJf)

40 I won't lie. Things are looking very, very bleak right about now. I simply cannot believe what these evil, fraudulent mother******* are getting away with. They are, without question, burning the last vestiges of the US Constitution and nearly everyone in Washington is just yawning.

It was said here yesterday that the Bidumb "commission" on remaking the SCOTUS and federal court system was just to mollify the crazies. I vehemently disagree. They are removing every last protection that the Constitution still provides Americans, so that all of their radical agenda can get enacted and there won't be a damned thing, short of war, we can do to stop it. They mean business. And they aren't going to let this opportunity pass.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 07:38 AM (O+I8R)

41 And if you needed more evidence of DemoTechnoFascism...

Apparently Facebook will no longer allow any groups behind Gavin Newsome's recall effort to run ads.

Hope that filthy Tech Money was worth it Mike Lee.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 29, 2021 07:39 AM (/8PIA)

42 23 Anyone got any hot stock tips?

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 29, 2021 07:32 AM (F5zz

Yeah -- buy low, sell high. And don't piss off the autists on reddit.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 29, 2021 07:39 AM (D3cJf)

43 40
And they aren't going to let this opportunity pass.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 07:38 AM (O+I8R)

You mean like the GOP did in 2016?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 29, 2021 07:40 AM (D3cJf)

44 By now Uncle Joe and Doctor Jill have been up pumping iron and ready for the day of signing shit Presidential Orders. I wonder if a AF1 trip to Beijing is planned soon to report to his masters. He hasn't even left the WH yet, Trump was all over the place by this time. Is Biden afraid to fly on AF1 fearing Kamala has be screwing with the engines.

Posted by: Colin at January 29, 2021 07:40 AM (+wPLm)

45 Completely fucking up everything in under 8 days is quite the impressive feet for Joey CCP and his merry band of fucktards.

I can't even imagine what a full year of this garbage will bring us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 29, 2021 07:41 AM (/8PIA)

46 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2021 07:41 AM (arJlL)

47 Nice pic up top, JJ !

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2021 07:41 AM (arJlL)

48 The callous disregard for workers income and the ability to provide for their families is like they planned Holodomor 2.0.

--

I also said the other day that they will spend years doing "impact studies" on the threat to the leg hairs of a grasshopper if you plant that field or dig that canal. But not one second is given to the impact of actual Americans when the federal gov't decides it wants to vaporize 80,000 jobs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 07:42 AM (O+I8R)

49 Anybody see the video of Bidumb signing the EOs? He was given index cards to read from and still couldn't function. But OrangeMan bad and said bad things on twitter.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 29, 2021 07:42 AM (D3cJf)

50 You know who else barred disfavored groups from employment, the media, and the marketplace?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (EZebt)

51 Kamala screwing the engines? heh heh heh

Posted by: itsacookbook at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (yPxXc)

52 27 Desiree Smith makes every joke about the State Department suddenly actually true: She says outright she works to undermine US interests.
__________

IOW, she's a Dim-o-crat. It's who they are. It's what they do.

Posted by: Your Elite Dim Masters at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (k4dH2)

53 Watched the video clip of the father in Loudon VA confronting the School Board over school shutdown.
He was great! A good example of what we can and should do on the local level. An army of one, multiply that by millions and you've got a force which is better than nothing.

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (S1hrL)

54 Mr. Durbin, why is gun violence bad and violence by all other means OK?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (49Dnm)

55 Morning rons. So I have a question the big brains on here might could help me with: should I take the hit and pull money out of my retirement accounts? It will be 20+ years before I could reasonably expect to retire and start drawing from them, and between Wall Street chaos and federal borrowing I have no certainty that they will be worth anything at that point. Should I take the money now and invest in things of actual value?

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (Bg96i)

56 45 Completely fucking up everything in under 8 days is quite the impressive feet for Joey CCP and his merry band of fucktards.

I can't even imagine what a full ~~year~~ 2+ years of this garbage will bring us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 29, 2021 07:41 AM (/8PIA)

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (D3cJf)

57 44 Biden* won't go to China until he can have a flyover and see the assault vessels hitting the Taiwan beaches. So, about the end of February, beginning of March.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (I58tH)

58 the drinking lamp is ~~lit~~ lighted....

*One of those pet bug-a-boos of mine

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:45 AM (S7VTO)

59 Anyone got any hot stock tips?

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

"Salute the Marines"

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2021 07:45 AM (arJlL)

60 "And I will never stop fighting for gun safety."

Nor do I, hence my adherence to the four iron rules of gun safety.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 29, 2021 07:46 AM (49Dnm)

61 "Completely fucking up everything in under 8 days is quite the impressive feet for Joey CCP and his merry band of fucktards.

I can't even imagine what a full year of this garbage will bring us."

I'm still going with the Democratic party will be lucky to survive the Harris/Biden administration intact.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:47 AM (S7VTO)

62 It just hit me that the Democrats are combining the abuses of both sides in the years leading up to the English Civil War. It's well known that the Star Chamber was a weapon the Royalists used against the Parliamentarians. It is not so often realized that Bills of Attainder were a counter-weapon of the Parliamentarians against the Royalists (Strafford and Laud).

Progress.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:47 AM (7X3UV)

63 Guten Morgen

linke Zeile

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 29, 2021 07:47 AM (tsZQ+)

64 Morning, Captain !

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2021 07:48 AM (arJlL)

65 Morning all...

You Can't Make This Up: Disgraced Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok's Wife, Melissa Hodgman, Named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement for the SEC

The SEC reported on January 22, 2021 -

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced Melissa R. Hodgman, currently an Associate Director in the Commission's Division of Enforcement, has been named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement.

https://tinyurl.com/yxawypo8

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 07:48 AM (cF8AT)

66 "The states where Keystone XL runs should tell Biden to go fuck himself and build the damn pipeline anyway."

Indeed. And build the thing right up to the Canadian border so the rest can be completed quickly if it is ever approved. In the meantime, it can be used to get oil from ND among other places to Cushing, OK and on south to Houston.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 29, 2021 07:48 AM (49Dnm)

67 An explosion has been reported at Aurangzeb Road, near the Israeli embassy in Delhi, India.

Several cars are said to have been destroyed in the blast.

Local security forces have been deployed to the scene of the explosion.

This is a developing story.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 29, 2021 07:48 AM (tsZQ+)

68 SCOTUS Reforms just another way of saying "burn it down."

Likewise all talk of "reform."

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 07:48 AM (S1hrL)

69 Gun Safety Not Sorry Act

*

This sounds too real to be a joke.

The Sheila Jackson Lees of the world are now naming bills after Reeses Cup commercials.

Posted by: Mr Gray at January 29, 2021 07:49 AM (NTVS2)

70 I wonder just how long it will take before Durbin's bill to outlaw any semi-automatic firearm is introduced and passed.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 29, 2021 07:49 AM (qZdIZ)

71 Should I take the money now and invest in things of actual value?

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (Bg96i)

Like what?.....Personally, I wouldn't....you'll take a huge tax hit + 10% penalty if you're under 59.

Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2021 07:49 AM (AwYPR)

72 An explosion has been reported at Aurangzeb Road, near the Israeli embassy in Delhi, India.

Several cars are said to have been destroyed in the blast.

*

We're they in the middle of voters wanting an investigation into fraudulent and illegal votes?

Posted by: Mr Gray at January 29, 2021 07:50 AM (NTVS2)

73 "'I'll know it when I see it,' John Hickenlooper said."
"Unity" is Like Pornography, Says Dem Senator Who Watched Deep Throat with His Mom
_________
OK, forget Lear and Carroll. We have reached peak nonsense. That has literally no meaning whatsoever.

I think I'll go talk to a pobble about jabberwocks.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:50 AM (7X3UV)

74 28 I suppose if we eliminated everyone on the planet we might make an impact on climate change but we need to have an experiment first.
Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 07:34 AM (otSzs)

Not really, because the dirty secret is that climate ALWAYS changes and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 29, 2021 07:51 AM (49Dnm)

75 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 29, 2021 07:53 AM (ju2Fy)

76 "Not really, because the dirty secret is that climate ALWAYS changes and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it."

Tell me about it

Posted by: Zombie Dinosaurs Everywhere at January 29, 2021 07:53 AM (S7VTO)

77 For a handy itemized list of what the Democrats want to eliminate first, just consult the Bill of Rights

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 07:53 AM (IQ9iU)

78 53 Watched the video clip of the father in Loudon VA confronting the School Board over school shutdown.
He was great! A good example of what we can and should do on the local level. An army of one, multiply that by millions and you've got a force which is better than nothing.
Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (S1hrL)

I feel for the guy but don't mistake passion for success. The board brushed him off. They don't care what he said, they won't get kids back in school anytime soon.

All those board members will be re-elected

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 07:54 AM (ZfRYq)

79 2A is their top priority? I'll be damned, we DO have something in common.

Posted by: AJ Duie at January 29, 2021 07:55 AM (/B9w6)

80 70 I wonder just how long it will take before Durbin's bill to outlaw any semi-automatic firearm is introduced and passed.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 29, 2021 07:49 AM (qZdIZ)

This would concern me but a terrible thing happened last time I went canoeing....

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 07:55 AM (ZfRYq)

81 'Not really, because the dirty secret is that climate ALWAYS changes and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33'

Well we can still do the experiment. We can start by banning all congressional speech and air travel.

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 07:56 AM (otSzs)

82 I think I'll go talk to a pobble about jabberwocks.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:50 AM (7X3UV)
------
Move over.

Posted by: The Akond of Swat at January 29, 2021 07:56 AM (WENj9)

83 I did a quick read of H.R. 127, the everything and the kitchen sink gun control bill. These assholes don't even understand the logistics involved to put this in place let alone enforce it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 07:56 AM (I58tH)

84 It has been a slow moving coup since Trump took office in 2016
Started accelerating in 2020 thanks to theChiCom virus excuse
It's now in 3rd gear and they are still lead footing the gas

Posted by: Herr Frau Doktor vmom at January 29, 2021 07:57 AM (nUhF0)

85 Mail-in voting trivializes elections. Not having to go to the trouble of going a polling station and voting in private reduces it to just checking a box, which you can do with your friends, family and Dem operative helpfully offering advice.. Might as well just have voting by on-line polls.

Posted by: Ripley at January 29, 2021 07:57 AM (MxEKc)

86 FOAD List:

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen

expressed concerned that with so many white Trump voters in the guard, there could be violent extremists among them.

ha! What about the 9k GA Military mail in votes for Biden that had not 1 single Trump vote?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 07:58 AM (5QBw6)

87 Like what?.....Personally, I wouldn't....you'll take a huge tax hit + 10% penalty if you're under 59.
Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2021 07:49 AM (AwYPR)

Food stores. Ammo. Upgrades and repairs to my house. Et cetera. I know under any kind of normal situation it would be a bad idea.... But how far beyond normal are we right now?

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 07:58 AM (Bg96i)

88 So the troops will stay in D.C.

The security fence will remain and become permanent

Gun Rights suppression is their #1 Priority

Supreme Court stacking is moving forward

Gee Timmy...I wonder why the troops are remaining in the Capitol.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:58 AM (S7VTO)

89 vmom -

Happy Friday !

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2021 07:59 AM (arJlL)

90 "Today I had the chance to speak with a group of gun violence prevention advocates from across the country," Durbin tweeted. "I told them that reducing gun violence will be a top priority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I will never stop fighting for gun safety."
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Citation needed, Dick. Please point to one example of gun control legislation and enforcement tracking with a reduction in "gun violence." Once you've done that, show me the statistical analysis that implies causation. After that's done, do it 11 more times. If you can't come up with a dozen examples in the vast corpus of federal firearms law, you're a fraud and this has nothing to do with "violence" and everything to do with your own tyrannical aspirations.

I'll wait. I suspect I'll wait until long after you and I are both dead.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 07:59 AM (UZVEt)

91 It's All About (Political) "Science"
________

That forced me to listen to Randy Newman.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 07:59 AM (7X3UV)

92 Lena Dunham in the third

sloppy track and she's a mudder

careful tho, she's carrying a few extra pounds

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2021 07:59 AM (zZxh0)

93 Hi JT!

Posted by: Herr Frau Doktor vmom at January 29, 2021 08:00 AM (nUhF0)

94 It's now in 3rd gear and they are still lead footing the gas
Posted by: Herr Frau Doktor vmom at January 29, 2021 07:57 AM (nUhF0)

And a Thelma and Louise cliff about 200 yards ahead.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:00 AM (5QBw6)

95 "These assholes don't even understand the logistics involved to put this in place let alone enforce it."

We are going to see the second run of Shit Midas. One way to deal with it is to see the opportunities that always open due to chaos.

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 08:00 AM (otSzs)

96 I get a calendar every year from the local college that has a meteorology course and it shows the highs and lows for the whole year back to about 1880. Temps are all over the place, hot, cold, wet, dry, year after year. Looking at the high say in 1910 for this day it might be 60 degrees. I didn't think GW was happening back then.

Posted by: Colin at January 29, 2021 08:01 AM (+wPLm)

97 Thanks for the links JJ. Happy Birfday.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 29, 2021 08:01 AM (flINI)

98 Thelma Alabama ?

Posted by: JT at January 29, 2021 08:01 AM (arJlL)

99 Food stores. Ammo. Upgrades and repairs to my house. Et cetera. I know under any kind of normal situation it would be a bad idea.... But how far beyond normal are we right now?

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 07:58 AM (Bg96i)

I wouldn't use my retirement savings on those kinds of outlays.

Posted by: BignJames at January 29, 2021 08:01 AM (AwYPR)

100 "I told them that reducing gun violence will be a top priority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And I will never stop fighting for gun safety."

***

It seems trivially easy. Put these planned bans and fines and fees into effect against particular demographics and punish the shit out if they violate any of your new laws for a decade, and then re-visit the issue nationwide.

Hint: It's not rural hicks going to the shooting range that are the problem.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:02 AM (nMXLX)

101 think for the first time, thanks to the actions of this illegal, criminal junta, a very large swathe of the citizenry are going to face a situation where, stripped of an income and perhaps facing serious economic hardship will collectively have nothing to lose.
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I do not share your optimism, JJ. They will use UBI to plug the gaps and allow the population to drift away into oblivion. It's part and parcel with the rest of their strategy. Use abortion, destruction of family law and family normality, indoctrinate kids to drive misery and subsequent suicide, destroy working people to drive misery and subsequent suicide, throw welfare pittances around to breed dependence, misery and conformity - in other words, transform human beings into merely humans existing.

Let interrupted reproduction and increased suicide solve over a couple of generations what they've identified as the real problem: people in general. This is all the same underlying strategy and goal to kill off a lot or most people. Everything they do is anti-human. That's why they'll do UBI next.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:02 AM (UZVEt)

102 NBC's Dilanian Stands By Story Network Retracted Amid Accusations of Anti-Semitism
________

Made me realize the dog that hasn't barked (yet) in the Gamestomp foofaraw. No one has yet said it's a Jewish plot. Rashida nods.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:02 AM (7X3UV)

103 moar please

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) referred to House members who carry guns for self-defense as the

enemy within

Every worthless fuckin Repub needs to understand that Nancy would line you up for the guillotines on the steps of the capital.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:03 AM (5QBw6)

104 Comrades, to be fair, we never said you would all be well off and comfortable, what we said is that all "you" peasants will be equal!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:03 AM (87oRe)

105 I did a quick read of H.R. 127, the everything and the kitchen sink gun control bill. These assholes don't even understand the logistics involved to put this in place let alone enforce it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 07:56 AM (I58tH)

****

You're talking about the same group that has officially said we will be off of all types of oil and natural gas in 14 years.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:03 AM (nMXLX)

106 85 Mail-in voting trivializes elections. Not having to go to the trouble of going a polling station and voting in private reduces it to just checking a box, which you can do with your friends, family and Dem operative helpfully offering advice.. Might as well just have voting by on-line polls.
_____________

The big attraction of mail-in voting for Dims is that it makes it so very easy to cheat.

Jimmy Carter's commission on voting, years ago, noted that mail-in voting is the type of voting most susceptible to fraud.

Several European nations have banned mail-in voting because it is so susceptible to fraud.

Yet the Dims in this country can't get enough of mail-in voting.

Not surprising, since they just used mail-in voting fraud to steal a presidential election.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:03 AM (k4dH2)

107 Since all PO vehicles will have to be electric...Your mail my never arrive on cold, cold days in the winter. The mail trucks will all be parked along the road, out of fuel. (electricity)

Posted by: Colin at January 29, 2021 08:03 AM (+wPLm)

108 moar please

Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that arent trying to get me killed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:04 AM (5QBw6)

109 in other words, transform human beings into merely humans existing.

It is the final battle between:

Imago Dei vs Lebensunwertes Leben

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:04 AM (C+evo)

110 You know who else ruled by Decree?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 29, 2021 08:04 AM (EZebt)

111 "Try and stay positive; seek out G-d or find some sort of way towards inner peace and calm (stay away from AOSHQ, right?)."

Posted by: [JJ] at 07:22 AM

=====================

No way, JJ -- we need MORE AOSHQ, not less!!!

Thanks for continuing to do that thing you do! Hope you have an enjoyable weekend despite the current state of things.

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:05 AM (mZUr4)

112 I wouldn't use my retirement savings on those kinds of outlays.

***

+1.

Count that money as gone and be pleasantly surprised if you're wrong in 25 years.

Start from scratch now.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:05 AM (nMXLX)

113 Thank goodness 2021 couldn't be as malevolent as 2020 was. Maybe.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 29, 2021 08:05 AM (KATBx)

114 Since all PO vehicles will have to be electric...Your mail my never arrive on cold, cold days in the winter. The mail trucks will all be parked along the road, out of fuel.

On those days they will be towing Chinese made diesel generators to keep the batteries topped.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:05 AM (C+evo)

115 Anyone else notice that the anti-energy crowd has shifted from the "peak oil" argument to the "global warming" argument? Do they expect everyone to forget that these same loony toons spent a couple of decades talking about the inevitable end of oil due to overproduction, only to be slapped around by reality time and again?

A lot of people will have forgotten. Many, however, will not forget that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:06 AM (UZVEt)

116 Today's Blacklisted American: Literary Agent Fired for Having Parler and Gab Accounts
______

That never happened. There is no literary agent. There is no Parler. There is no Gab.

Saying otherwise is insurrection.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:06 AM (7X3UV)

117 Thank goodness 2021 couldn't be as malevolent as 2020 was. Maybe.

As another commenter noted:

"Its an average Russian Year. This year is worse than last year, but will be better than next year."

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:06 AM (C+evo)

118 It is very true that several EU countries have banned mail in voting. Why is Amazon banning vote by mail for a union, if its the great way to vote. Why not let Goggle just handle the voting by internet.

Posted by: Colin at January 29, 2021 08:06 AM (+wPLm)

119 Guns, first. National Democrat Socialists' American "Working Man's Party" must disarm deplorables before their 1,000 year utopia can be implemented.

I have to be honest, I didn't fully credit those who warned such moves against poltical enemies would be swift and crushing.

I give us maybe 7-8 years, if history teaches.

Thanks, JJ for the always-great morning report.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 08:06 AM (KnJdm)

120 Is it not unconstitutional (yeah, I know) for Congress to legislate state and federal elections?

Posted by: RedDish on the tablet at January 29, 2021 08:07 AM (AjwWO)

121 I'm still going with the Democratic party will be lucky to survive the Harris/Biden administration intact.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:47 AM (S7VTO)

Weren't people saying that about the 2020 election? Like cockroaches, those vermin aren't going anywhere.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:07 AM (y7DUB)

122 No-Shit-Sherlock entry of the day from John Barrasso.
Barrasso: "What We're Seeing Here Is the Green New Deal, Basically Dressed Up in Executive Orders"
_________
I have to assume that phrase was first said by Mycroft, as a boy.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:08 AM (7X3UV)

123 I don't think it's "global warming" anymore it's "climate change".

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 08:08 AM (otSzs)

124 FWIW, I personally think we're going to see the DJIA at 60K-80K before the big crash. The sky is the limit with the printing presses, and the market is only loosely tied to economics or to anything happening in real life.

You'd be a fool to not have at least some money in that, and have a point where you decide, "Okay, I'm out and moving it over to a safer place."

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:08 AM (nMXLX)

125 These assholes don't even understand the logistics involved to put this in place let alone enforce it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 07:56 AM (I58tH)

True. But also: they don't care. This is Floyd Ferris stuff.

https://tinyurl.com/yyoog3r5

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:09 AM (ZfRYq)

126
Weed is legal and schools are closed. In about two years we'll graduate from high school the smartest eighth graders in a century.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Conservative at January 29, 2021 08:09 AM (N/gDA)

127 Count that money as gone and be pleasantly surprised if you're wrong in 25 years.

Start from scratch now.
Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:05 AM (nMXLX)

I can never tell when the Horde is being sarcastic.

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 08:09 AM (Bg96i)

128 115 Anyone else notice that the anti-energy crowd has shifted from the "peak oil" argument to the "global warming" argument? Do they expect everyone to forget that these same loony toons spent a couple of decades talking about the inevitable end of oil due to overproduction, only to be slapped around by reality time and again?
_______________

The left can't seem to wrap their tiny brains around the fact that people and systems (like the climate) are not static but adaptable and evolving.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (k4dH2)

129 There is no hope whatsoever of richly-deserved legal action and punishment, but I do hope that Robin Hood put themselves out of business with their stunts. The other misbehaving brokerage houses like TD are probably too big, but Robin Hood might not be.

I know of three people who texted me yesterday out of the blue and told me they were closing all positions and canceling their accounts. None of them were playing the GME (at least, they told me they weren't). There was no context for any of it but rage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (UZVEt)

130 We had to make a very difficult decision to protect our customers and protect our firm, Tevev said.

But mainly, we did it to fuck the little guys.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (5QBw6)

131 I have a great idea! Let's invade someplace, because unity.

Posted by: Republican Replicant Liz Cheney at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (IQ9iU)

132 Invest in solar panels....made in China, which I mean buy Chinese solar panels. A local solar panel company financed by locals has gone tits up.

Posted by: Colin at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (+wPLm)

133 I'm still going with the Democratic party will be lucky to survive the Harris/Biden administration intact.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:47 AM (S7VTO)

***

I agree, although mine is that the antifa and Bernie supporters who were voting Democrats rip it apart to go full-on commie. The Republicans will become the landing spot for the idiots who voted Democrat since 2008.

I don't know where conservatives go.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:11 AM (nMXLX)

134 Congratulations, J.J. on being included in the list of "Blogs I read" over at William Jacobson's side bar site at "Legal Insurrection."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:11 AM (VP4Cd)

135 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) referred to House members who carry guns for self-defense as the enemy within

This is the calming voice of Unity.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:11 AM (C+evo)

136 G'morning, J.J. thank you very much for the content, and the news links aggregation.

*types* *deletes*

Pretty much all i can say right there.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at January 29, 2021 08:11 AM (VcFUs)

137 That's why they'll do UBI next.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:02 AM (UZVEt)

Sadly, I think I must agree with you. Very few people have any real survival resources (like working small family farms) because those have been crushed through regulation and taxation for decades, a beneficent government offer UBI. Starving people welcome it as largesse, failing to remember that once you accept the liberalgeld, you never get rid of the liberals (even though they might get rid of you with the "increased" monthly food rations)!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:11 AM (87oRe)

138 126
Weed is legal and schools are closed. In about two years we'll graduate from high school the smartest eighth graders in a century.
Posted by: Pennsylvania Conservative at January 29, 2021 08:09 AM (N/gDA)

Welfare and paying single women to have babies is a better value the public education.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:12 AM (5QBw6)

139 e had to make a very difficult decision to protect our customers and protect our firm, Tevev said.

***

It's legal for THEM to place that kind of bet. It's not legal for minimum wage workers to sit at the table and gamble with them, though.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:12 AM (nMXLX)

140 In case you're wondering what they plan to tell your kids next, here's a great Tablet article on California's diversity education plan:

https://tinyurl.com/y2rerozk

Spoiler alert: BDS is heroic, Jooos are bad, and we must rewrite "hxrstory".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:12 AM (6XLoz)

141 Is it not unconstitutional (yeah, I know) for Congress to legislate state and federal elections?

--

Here again, remake SCOTUS and they can and will do whatever they want.

And they are already throwing down their markers on remaking SCOTUS.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:13 AM (O+I8R)

142 132 Invest in solar panels....made in China, which I mean buy Chinese solar panels. A local solar panel company financed by locals has gone tits up.
Posted by: Colin at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (+wPLm)

With wage, employment, EPA, and local regs it is IMPOSSIBLE to build panels in the US.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:13 AM (5QBw6)

143 Mail-in voting trivializes elections. Not having to go to the trouble of going a polling station and voting in private reduces it to just checking a box, which you can do with your friends, family and Dem operative helpfully offering advice.. Might as well just have voting by on-line polls.
Posted by: Ripley at January 29, 2021 07:57 AM (MxEKc)

It seems like just yesterday that the enemedia used to swoon about the tradition of going to the polls as a signal of American unity. Then Gaylord was elected and said our traditions caused his nympho whore mother and substance abusing alleged father to abandon the needy mentally ill bastard.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:13 AM (y7DUB)

144 101 Joe Mannix,

UBI does not work the way that they would want it to--there is a reason that even Communist nations did not and do not employ it.

Basically, the devil finds use for idle hands and ultimately bread and circuses did not save Rome from its citizenry.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (pO7gM)

145 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) referred to House members who carry guns for self-defense as the enemy within

--

Pelosi is a malignant twat whose skin is so wrinkled, she has to screw on her bra.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (O+I8R)

146 "Mayor What-Me-Worry proposes to pay for highway maintenance with a tax on miles driven, rather than fuel consumed."

"Rather than"? That's just silly, it will be max tax on both.

Posted by: yop at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (nqhkI)

147 12 I also love that the investors are looking for other shorted stocks to buy.

There will only be one Woodstock.
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 07:27 AM (C+evo)
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Right. The next one will be Altamont.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (7X3UV)

148 TGIF

So

. . . any good news?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:15 AM (bDqIh)

149
The left can't seem to wrap their tiny brains around the fact that people and systems (like the climate) are not static but adaptable and evolving.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:10 AM (k4dH2)

***

You misunderstand. The local dummies might truly hold those semi-religious beliefs, but the people making the laws and putting it into the schools intend to be modern oil barons, except without offering something people want and improving everything in the world simultaneously.

There is HUGE money to be made, and they intend to make it. Men with guns work for them to make sure you obey their laws, too.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:15 AM (nMXLX)

150 134 Congratulations, J.J. on being included in the list of "Blogs I read" over at William Jacobson's side bar site at "Legal Insurrection."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:11 AM (VP4Cd)

I link his ass every damn day so he better!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

151 Despite all these pie-in-the-sky bills and proposals for legislation and whatnot, Democrats forget one rule above all:
Reality gets a vote. ALWAYS. Ignore reality at your peril.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at January 29, 2021 08:15 AM (hQrcu)

152 UBI does not work the way that they would want it to--there is a reason that even Communist nations did not and do not employ it.

Basically, the devil finds use for idle hands and ultimately bread and circuses did not save Rome from its citizenry.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (pO7gM)
++++
If they had even a modicum of humility or introspection, then yes - you would be right. But they don't. They are all-in on "this time, it will be different." They are smarter, more capable, more ideologically competent, have better data, have better systems and are, of course, purer than anyone who came before them. Their towering arrogance and depths-plumbing evil are astonishing. I think they think they will "make it work" this time and win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:16 AM (UZVEt)

153 The mileage tax is simply a way for them to put in vehicle tracking devices on each car. They know where you are going, where you've been.

Once the electric cars become mandatory with self driving for our "safety" they will be able to control where the car goes.

We are in the very beginning of 1984, but probably too far to return.

Posted by: Eli Cash at January 29, 2021 08:16 AM (SScvq)

154 WHAT THE HELL did you do to my publicity shot? I was never that ugly!

Posted by: Glenn Strange at January 29, 2021 08:16 AM (GSSsC)

155 Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (ZfRYq)

156 "So

. . . any good news?"

The comfort of knowing what happens after we depart this earthly existence

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (S7VTO)

157 Sure, the US alone can't reduce carbon emissions, but Biden will put pressure on China and...

Oh man! I can't even finish typing it without cracking up!

Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (FJYfm)

158 Here again, remake SCOTUS and they can and will do whatever they want.

***

And the unspoken implications will be that everything the Democrats want to do is not only popular, moral, and just, but super duper legal since 90% of the SCOTUS justices rule in favor of them every time.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (nMXLX)

159 10days in and the communists are going after elon.

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (Xih1H)

160 I used to work for the Fed. There's no way the democrat's agenda will be enacted as a whole. Some parts might, but even something as sweeping as "gun control" won't make it.

I've seen large government groups in action. Even if there's a stated, common goal they can't reach it. Everyone has their own agenda, their own thoughts on how to achieve the goal, etc.

These are likeminded people, but they'll stab each other in the back at every opportunity.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (3H9h1)

161 146 "Mayor What-Me-Worry proposes to pay for highway maintenance with a tax on miles driven, rather than fuel consumed."

"Rather than"? That's just silly, it will be max tax on both.
Posted by: yop at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (nqhkI)

Is there a "Odometer Rigging for Dummies" book available?

If not, I sense an opportunity.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (s2VJv)

162 >> "Mayor What-Me-Worry proposes to pay for highway maintenance with a tax on miles driven, rather than fuel consumed."

Narrator: What he's really proposing is a national tracking of your freedom of movement.

And we all know what happens when bureaucrats start tracking something -- they next impulse is to control/micro-manage it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

163 Have used the My Pillow since Monday and it is surprisingly nice. Glad I bought it.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (GSSsC)

164 146 "Mayor What-Me-Worry proposes to pay for highway maintenance with a tax on miles driven, rather than fuel consumed."

"Rather than"? That's just silly, it will be max tax on both.
Posted by: yop at January 29, 2021 08:14 AM (nqhkI)

Big Govt: Buy fuel efficient vehicles.
Citizen: OK, Ill save a few bucks at the pump.
Big Govt: We need more taxes, whats your odometer reading?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (5QBw6)

165 We are in the very beginning of 1984, but probably too far to return.

***

People would also do well to pay attention to what has happened in South Africa over the last 25 years or so.

There are a whole bunch of farmers and landowners who don't know what's happening here.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (nMXLX)

166 I don't get the pun.

Posted by: pawn at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (HZOsk)

167 Should I take the money now and invest in things of actual value?
Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM (Bg96i)

==================

I imagine you're not alone in considering that action. Lots of reasons to think it wise. Main point to consider is what is your LONG TERM strategy. I'm in a similar time-phase as you -- 15-20 years until I expect to retire and start using funds from my retirement plan (401K equivalent). I fully expect ups and downs -- including some extremes in both directions. As of now, I think there are enough "safe" options as far as interfund transfers in my plan. Hopefully you have some too.

Just use extreme caution when pondering a bold move like liquidating your account and taking a hit. Yes, things look dire right now. But thus far, "the market" doesn't appear to care.

Final point -- Can you be sure you know how to identify what "things of actual value" are good LONG TERM investments?

Sucks that we have gotten to the point where you/we have to consider doing what you are considering.

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (mZUr4)

168 131 I have a great idea! Let's invade someplace, because unity.
Posted by: Republican Replicant Liz Cheney
_______________

As domestic unrest grows in a country, despotic leaders often start foreign wars as a way of diverting the domestic population's attention away from troubling domestic conditions by focusing the population's attention on a common "enemy" outside the country.

It's an old standard in the despot playbook.

Look for it to be in play here within a year or two.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:19 AM (k4dH2)

169 The mileage tax is simply a way for them to put in vehicle tracking devices on each car. They know where you are going, where you've been. ...
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 29, 2021 08:16 AM (SScvq)
++++
A thousand times this. The only goal is tracking and eliminating locomotive privacy. There is a much simpler way to handle a mileage tax if they want to do one and voters approve it. It's so easy even a caveman can do it: just fucking subtract. There's an odometer on every car in the country. Y - X == miles driven during the interval.

Why pick a complicated and expensive approach over a simple and cheap approach? It's the same answer as always: there's a different goal, and they're trying to get away with something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:19 AM (UZVEt)

170 Once the electric cars become mandatory with self driving for our "safety" they will be able to control where the car goes.

Cars have always been a problem for totalitarians. People being able to go wherever without government permission or knowledge is Double Plus Un-Good. Once you realize that's an animating principle of the Left, you see it everywhere, from global warming to hating suburbs.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:19 AM (6XLoz)

171 Question, when Our Maximum Leader "signs" an executive order, does it read "Comrade Biden, His Mark"?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:19 AM (7X3UV)

172 58 the drinking lamp is ~~lit lighted~~ *illuminated....

*One of those pet bug-a-boos of mine
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 07:45 AM (S7VTO)

And one of mine as well.
/pedant

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (VcFUs)

173 TGIF

So

. . . any good news?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:15 AM (bDqIh)

*****

New puppy is almost potty trained.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (flINI)

174 Sure, the US alone can't reduce carbon emissions, but Biden will put pressure on China and...

--

A funny thing happened on the way to world domination. China found Jesus and decided to royally kneecap themselves so the Earf's temperatures would recede .000001% over the next 100 years.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (O+I8R)

175 anyone got any hot stock tips?

****

Read Yahoo and Marketwatch and other financial websites. The dumbasses are advertising which ones are next.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (nMXLX)

176 As domestic unrest grows in a country, despotic leaders often start foreign wars as a way of diverting the domestic population's attention away from troubling domestic conditions by focusing the population's attention on a common "enemy" outside the country.

It's an old standard in the despot playbook.

Look for it to be in play here within a year or two.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:19 AM (k4dH2)

You say this like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Woodrow Wilson at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (FJYfm)

177 we aren't going to recognize this country in 6 months. It is stunning how fast it is happening.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy (Now 80% Google Free!) at January 29, 2021 07:27 AM (dNzKv)

Apparently you weren't paying attention to what happened in Virginia -- In late 2019, Dems won control of 'the trifecta', house, senate, and grubnership...

and immediately laid waste to decades of established laws and regulations. You name it, they fucked with it to favor Dem policies. All within about 6 months. As one example, they passed something like 25 new gun 'control' laws alone.

I'm sure the VA Morons can expound on this. The point is, they showed in no uncertain terms they were taking no hostages. So I expected no difference if it happened at the national level. And said so, here.

I hate being right.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (F0YaR)

178 Is there a "Odometer Rigging for Dummies" book available?

If not, I sense an opportunity.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (s2VJv)

In DFW many years ago big scandal all taxis replaced the gear off the trans to the speedometer to read 10% higher.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (5QBw6)

179 "The comfort of knowing what happens after we depart this earthly existence"

AND what will happen to wicked rulers, corrupt judges, and all liars and hypocrites. God has always singled them out for a special contempt and condemnation.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (GSSsC)

180 Joe Mannix,
No, I don't not agree because they do not understand human nature. If the Soviets failed to make a new Soviet Man in 75 years despite really horrible repression, total control over media and education, yet the peasant plots out performed the state farms in agricultural production, they will fail. Also see East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the failure of the cultural Revolution in China.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (pO7gM)

181 The comfort of knowing what happens after we depart this earthly existence

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (S7VTO)

The good news is that this is a sustaining thought; the bad news is that this is the only sustaining thought left to us!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (87oRe)

182 I see on the Twats that GameStop hit the magical $420.69, which is probably the real goal of about half of the Redditors.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (6XLoz)

183 Fusion Ken's antisemitic attack on Anne Nueberger is still up at NBC, accompanied by an editor's note explaining why NBC is completely innocent of hating Jews and Israel.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (IQ9iU)

184 I feel for the guy but don't mistake passion for success. The board brushed him off. They don't care what he said, they won't get kids back in school anytime soon.

All those board members will be re-elected
Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 07:54 AM
(ZfRYq)
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Right, I didn't say he was successful. But at least he spoke out, something our representatives so-called consistently have failed to do. I give the guy credit for that alone.

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (S1hrL)

185 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

186 Community helps restore home of 94 year old war vet:

https://tinyurl.com/y4fyzn52

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (VP4Cd)

187 Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:17 AM (ZfRYq)

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Mrs Doof told me about that last night and showed me a few images of the young lady you mentioned. Let's just say I don't think Ella will be showing up in any of kbdabear's ONT Compliance Pics

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (mZUr4)

188 It's OK everyone.

Beto wants to be Governor of Texas.

WE'RE SAVED!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

189 Final point -- Can you be sure you know how to identify what "things of actual value" are good LONG TERM investments?

Sucks that we have gotten to the point where you/we have to consider doing what you are considering.
Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:18 AM (mZUr4)

Nice nic postscript! And to your question, not 100%. I guess my main thought is not: how do I maximize dollars? But rather: should I act before dollars become worthless, and how long do I have until then?

Appreciate the thoughtful answers from everyone so far.

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (Bg96i)

190 Nice to know that Grassley is willing to bipartisanly screw us over. Just remember folks, these people have no legitimate authority to make you do anything. Enough of them are there by cheating that that authority is gone. They may or may not have naked power depending on what people with guns are willing to act as enforcers but we are not morally bound by any social contract to do what they say.

Oh and Robinhood is still doing the bidding of the hedge funds. You can now by GME but ony 5 shares a day... they have also put about a dozen other stocks on the limited buy list probably because they were mentioned on WSB. Looks like the redditers are good and mad though because the price jumped back up to over $300 per share in after hours trading. Go get them autists!

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (946rW)

191 I always thot this was a scam!

Report identifies some 43 yes, 43 existing federal job training programs, spread across nine different federal agencies 19 in the Department of Labor, 7 in the Department of Education, 7 in HHS, and so forth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (5QBw6)

192 One of the great freedoms of the USA is being able to travel freely from coast to coast and visit every corner so yeah they want to do away with that.

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (otSzs)

193 Trivial Pursuer,
It does not work the way that they think it does--WWI or the Falklands for that matter destroyed the regimes that started those wars.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (pO7gM)

194 Gun control is more likely than court packing or DC statehood, IMO. Toomey is already pretty much on board, Portman has listened before and Collins has never cared. So...yea...

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (6/LtX)

195 >>"Mayor What-Me-Worry proposes to pay for highway maintenance with a tax on miles driven, rather than fuel consumed."

What's the difference?

Oh, more fuel efficient cars will consume lef fuel per mile, so they are taxed less. So Petey wants to eliminate any incentive to purchase a guel efficient car and/or electric cars.

Then there's the other part: how will they know how many miles you travel? Will they set up incentives/punishments for traveling nore miles than they arbitrarily decide is unreasonable?

They want us all living in pods in big cities using public transportation. This is just the latest scheme to nudge us in that direction. Tell me Im wrong.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (bDqIh)

196 Apparently you weren't paying attention to what happened in Virginia -- In late 2019, Dems won control of 'the trifecta', house, senate, and grubnership...

and immediately laid waste to decades of established laws and regulations. You name it, they fucked with it to favor Dem policies. All within about 6 months. As one example, they passed something like 25 new gun 'control' laws alone. ...
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (F0YaR)
++++
See also: Colorado.

We went to all vote-by-mail and by the next election cycle the state became a Democrat rotten borough under full control. Gun control, abortion expansion, grotesque remaking of education and more all followed within a year. My state went from a great place where I loved living and a great place to grow up into an unrecognizable shit show in the space of about 18 months.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:23 AM (UZVEt)

197 I see on the Twats that GameStop hit the magical $420.69, which is probably the real goal of about half of the Redditors.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (6XLoz)

***

Some moron posted that 420 was where a large part of the group had put their automated "sell" command at.

We should've seen that coming.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:23 AM (nMXLX)

198 AND what will happen to wicked rulers, corrupt judges, and all liars and hypocrites. God has always singled them out for a special contempt and condemnation.
Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (GSSsC)

something something millstone neck sea something

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:23 AM (5QBw6)

199 Living in their bubble, the left cannot comprehend effects of fuel costs on families. Gas around here is just over $2 a gallon. There's a lot of people who have a 60 mile round trip commute. Come in at 20mpg, that's $120 a month just to get to work and home. Now, the left sees no problem with $6 per gallon gas, but a young family would feel an extra $240 real quick.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:23 AM (I58tH)

200 there's a different goal, and they're trying to get away with something.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:19 AM (UZVEt)

And there is lots of sweet graft in those side-contracts...

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:23 AM (87oRe)

201 Oh, more fuel efficient cars will consume lef fuel per mile, so they are taxed less. So Petey wants to eliminate any incentive to purchase a guel efficient car and/or electric cars.

Several liberal states that offered extra incentives for electric cars then discovered it made their gas tax revenue go down. Tax revenue going down makes Democrats even sadder than the existence of Israel, so Something Had To Be Done.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:24 AM (6XLoz)

202 77 For a handy itemized list of what the Democrats want to eliminate first, just consult the Bill of Rights
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 07:53 AM (IQ9iU)
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And the Ten Commandments. Don't forget them. Or rather, according to the Democrats, you MUST forget them.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:24 AM (7X3UV)

203 I'm sure the VA Morons can expound on this. The point is, they showed in no uncertain terms they were taking no hostages. So I expected no difference if it happened at the national level. And said so, here.

I hate being right.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2021 08:20 AM (F0YaR)

They did this with a one vote margin in both houses of the legislature.

Yes, they brought it hard. They continue to do so.

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:24 AM (ZfRYq)

204 I dont know if Zim will publish my rant on his site:

Zuckerberg finally got his Athena satellite up, and since everyone has been so quiet about it, I will assume it is a brick.

He paid 300M for Biden, since he cant get up on his own, he will use naked cash to impede Elon. The FAA and FCC only gave Swarm a little wrist slap, and I assume Elon can afford better lawyers, have Texas DPS issue a NOTAM and launch anyway.

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:24 AM (Xih1H)

205
It makes sense to put a mileage tax on hybrid (50% tax) or full electric cars(100% tax) because they're helping to destroy roads while not paying a cent in gasoline tax.

But of course, they'll tax everyone equally, wrong-thinking that is 'fair'.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Conservative at January 29, 2021 08:24 AM (N/gDA)

206 Living in their bubble, the left cannot comprehend effects of fuel costs on families.

--

That assumes they care. They don't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (O+I8R)

207 No, I don't not agree because they do not understand human nature. If the Soviets failed to make a new Soviet Man in 75 years despite really horrible repression, total control over media and education, yet the peasant plots out performed the state farms in agricultural production, they will fail. Also see East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the failure of the cultural Revolution in China.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (pO7gM)
++++
Don't get me wrong, whig. I am *not* arguing that times have changed and thus now their schemes are feasible. I am arguing that *they* think that and so will try despite the fact that it can't work, they can't make it work and they may ultimately bring about their own destruction by trying.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (UZVEt)

208 >>Report identifies some 43 yes, 43 existing federal job training programs, spread across nine different federal agencies 19 in the Department of Labor, 7 in the Department of Education, 7 in HHS, and so forth.

That is exactly what Mick Mulvaney was going to eliminate. He gave an excellent presentation to the Trump cabinet, and then. . . what happened? Distracted? The DC swamp killed it? What?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (bDqIh)

209 "something something millstone neck sea something"

Yes, and the corrupters of children...hoo boy. Awesome and terrible will be His wrath.

"The hairs on your arm will stand up..."

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (GSSsC)

210 Faucism, the Highest Stage of White Coat Supremacy

Fuck FauxChi

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (5QBw6)

211 Living in their bubble, the left cannot comprehend effects of fuel costs on families. Gas around here is just over $2 a gallon. There's a lot of people who have a 60 mile round trip commute. Come in at 20mpg, that's $120 a month just to get to work and home. Now, the left sees no problem with $6 per gallon gas, but a young family would feel an extra $240 real quick.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:23 AM (I58tH)

You don't seriously think they care, do you?

Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2021 08:26 AM (FJYfm)

212 Yes, they brought it hard. They continue to do so.
Posted by: blaster

Yep, I lost out on 17L on GunBroker because of 1 handgun every 30d rule this month ... I wonder how many 17L have been used in crimes

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:26 AM (Xih1H)

213 Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (87oRe)

Not for me.

I find lots of sustaining thoughts about God being with people in a crisis. It doesn't mean that things will change in the ways I want them to. It means God is with us as we give ourselves to God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:26 AM (VP4Cd)

214 Johnson & Johnson said that in the US and 7 other countries, the single-shot vaccine was only 66% effective overall at preventing moderate to severe illness, and much more protective, 85% against the MOST serious symptoms.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

215 "Cars have always been a problem for totalitarians."

Several technologies needed to be brought into the world of auto making.

Mechanical steering input replaced by electric steering

Mechanical throttle cable replaced by electronic throttle plate positioner

Mechanical transmission selection replaced by electronic selector

Electronic emergency brake
Wi-fi connectivity becoming native to the vehicle. After that, if the government wishes to, they can take you in any direction, at any speed in any gear. And apply the brakes at any point in your journey. All without having to disable your engine, so you can remain comfortable, and listen to your playlist on the sound system, till the authorities arrive.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (S7VTO)

216 >>Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.
- - -

Not being snarky here -- is Ella a transgirl?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (bDqIh)

217 Since all PO vehicles will have to be electric...Your mail my never arrive on cold, cold days in the winter. The mail trucks will all be parked along the road, out of fuel.

On those days they will be towing Chinese made diesel generators to keep the batteries topped.
Posted by: Observer

The itony is lost on seemingly everyone.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (shN6a)

218 The Left, the Communist Democrats, are anything but for the "little guy," the "working man." Their tyrannical agenda is all that matters, and whomever gets crushed under their feet along the way is purely expendable. This is truth. And it's evidenced everywhere.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (O+I8R)

219 Progressives really really really hate the Jews

NBC's Dilanian Stands By Story Network Retracted Amid Accusations of Anti-Semitism

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (5QBw6)

220 "Is there a "Odometer Rigging for Dummies" book available?
If not, I sense an opportunity.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021
In DFW many years ago big scandal all taxis replaced the gear off the trans to the speedometer to read 10% higher."

Replace those puny 16" wheel on your car with some 22's.

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (otSzs)

221 Several liberal states that offered extra incentives for electric cars then discovered it made their gas tax revenue go down. Tax revenue going down makes Democrats even sadder than the existence of Israel, so Something Had To Be Done.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:24 AM (6XLoz)
++++
In CO, they floated the idea of a mileage tax (complete with always-on GPS tracking!) a few years ago because of declining gas tax revenues due to hybrids and E85 (which is taxed at a different rate, apparently). Someone made the mistake of asking, "if this is such a problem, then just change the fee schedule to register a hybrid or flex fuel vehicle to make those registrations more expensive to offset the drop in gas tax revenue."

The committee was horrified at the suggestion, because it would "punish people who do the right thing" and disincentivize the purchase of alternative-fuel vehicles.

Your betters, everyone. Your. Betters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (UZVEt)

222 Now, the left sees no problem with $6 per gallon gas, but a young family would feel an extra $240 real quick.

***

Honestly? That's the point.

"Move closer and buy an electric vehicle, citizen."

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:28 AM (nMXLX)

223 The mileage tax is simply a way for them to put in vehicle tracking devices on each car. They know where you are going, where you've been.

That, and its a way to tax the EVs and alternate fuel vehicles.

You thought you could escape by not paying the fuel excise tax?

I don't know how they expect this to work. LOTS of cars and motorcycles out there. Going to be expensive, there will be a massive play for the obvious rent seeking in providing the licensed and approved plug-in mileage monitors, and it will force local police to be the enforcement of this stupidity.

Due to working remote and the CoViD stimulus to have home deliveries of practically everything, I racked up fewer than 1000 miles in 2020 - most of that in Q1.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:28 AM (C+evo)

224 "The hairs on your arm will stand up..."
Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (GSSsC)

Jesus is coming back. And boy is he pissed!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:28 AM (5QBw6)

225 >>New puppy is almost potty trained.

Aw, great news, Truck Monkey!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:28 AM (bDqIh)

226 Look at the bright side. Once the Dems are done, the US will still be the biggest exporter of bullsh!t in the entire world!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (E+OcO)

227 Beto wants to be Governor of Texas.

WE'RE SAVED!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

===============
Beto might consider just getting a job.

Posted by: Beto's dather in law, check writer at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (IQ9iU)

228 Very few if any new cars have a throttle cable.

Posted by: f'd at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (otSzs)

229 I will hand it to the dims, the people they "elect" aren't afraid to wield power. Too bad for us that it is only for the benefit of the elected with a few scraps thrown to their mentally ill supporters.

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (iWCRg)

230 Apple deleted over 100,000 negative comments in the App Store for the Robinhood App.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

231 Chuck Grassley is a fossil and a fraud.

You'd be surprised how many otherwise intelligent people defend that fat oaf. Usually it's transplanted midwesterners who must have had fond memories of morbidly obese relatives, which is the only resemblence to that corrupt bloated toad.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (y7DUB)

232 Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.
- - -

Not being snarky here -- is Ella a transgirl?
Posted by: Lizzy

Gossip Girl without the actress's looks.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (shN6a)

233 193 Trivial Pursuer,
It does not work the way that they think it does--WWI or the Falklands for that matter destroyed the regimes that started those wars.
_______________

Sure, it backfires sometimes, but they still do it.

When the domestic population is restless and angry, the despots have to do something to make sure they don't start coming after them.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (k4dH2)

234 The mileage tax is simply a way for them to put in vehicle tracking
devices on each car. They know where you are going, where you've been.
================
already there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (IQ9iU)

235 Nice nic postscript! And to your question, not 100%. I guess my main thought is not: how do I maximize dollars? But rather: should I act before dollars become worthless, and how long do I have until then?

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (Bg96i)

==============

Glad you enjoy my "dad-joke" nic postscript!

Wish I had better investing advice. For now, I'm taking EVERYTHING day by day. And I keep hearing my dad's voice who frequently would remind me that "this too shall pass".

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (mZUr4)

236 Johnson & Johnson said that in the US and 7 other countries, the single-shot vaccine was only 66% effective overall at preventing moderate to severe illness, and much more protective, 85% against the MOST serious symptoms.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

***

Shit, that's nothing. I'm only 0.04% effective.
- COVID-19

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (nMXLX)

237 Not being snarky here -- is Ella a transgirl?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (bDqIh)

I believe she was assigned female at birth.

She doesn't shave her pots because of the patriarchy I am sure.

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (ZfRYq)

238 Apple deleted over 100,000 negative comments in the App Store for the Robinhood App.

The story I read said it was Google, Apple hadn't done anything yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (6XLoz)

239 227 Beto might consider just getting a job.
Posted by: Beto's dather in law, check writer at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (IQ9iU)

E.L. Fudge "cream" filler...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (s2VJv)

240 Several people on here, being logical thinkers, are mentioning the infeasibility of Leftist policies. Yes, everything they're doing will fail, like it failed in the Soviet Union, WHICH LASTED ALMOST 75 YEARS! Like it failed in Cuba, STILL GOING AT 60+ YEARS.

Leftism is a religion. It doesn't matter whether it "works" or not. It just matters that you keep the faith and all of it's practices and sacraments.

Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (FJYfm)

241 Might as well make a little off this mess. Think I'll write Mayor Pete and tell him I'm in the final stages developing a device that analyzes both mileage and cost, with a display and a kept record. Tell the imbecile I can get it to fruition with a measly $50K grant. Trollable little asshoe thinks, OK, cheap enough, sends check. I go over to Razorback cab in Fort Smith, slip the dispatcher a C note and walk out with an extra taxi meter and send it in.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (I58tH)

242 The committee was horrified at the suggestion, because it would "punish people who do the right thing"...

Well that certainly explains income taxes.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (C+evo)

243 "The hairs on your arm will stand up..."
Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:25 AM (GSSsC)
++++
https://youtu.be/k9IfHDi-2EA

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (UZVEt)

244 Narrator: What he's really proposing is a national tracking of your freedom of movement.

And we all know what happens when bureaucrats start tracking something -- they next impulse is to control/micro-manage it.
Posted by: Lizzy

Bingo. Tracking not only your miles, but where those miles took you.

Posted by: Pony Tail at January 29, 2021 08:31 AM (7TT6M)

245 Doof,
One is land enough to support one's self and family plus the skills to effectively use it to support one's diet year around.

Second, you need to be able to provide yourself light and heat absent central power. Passive solar heating devices, high insulation, fireplaces or stoves, solar cells and wind generators, and inverters and tri fuel generators might be a good start. Start small.

Third, learn how to fix and repair what you have, gas motors, etc.

Fourth, you need a store of value--booze, silver, food, medicines, gold, ammunition, etc. Tips from other countries going through burning times indicate that coins that are worthless collector wise are actually a good store of gold or silver value. The bullion and new collector types might get you robbed or get your hoard confiscated. Old worn coins, are less obvious that you have a stash.

Fifth, get physical books, etc. that explain how to do stuff and if you have children, basic educational books for home schooling and deprogramming.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:31 AM (pO7gM)

246 217 Since all PO vehicles will have to be electric...Your mail my never arrive on cold, cold days in the winter. The mail trucks will all be parked along the road, out of fuel.

On those days they will be towing Chinese made diesel generators to keep the batteries topped.
Posted by: Observer

The itony is lost on seemingly everyone.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (shN6a)

You mean it is funny that in the USA the Tesla is 48% coal powered.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:31 AM (5QBw6)

247 148 TGIF

So

. . . any good news?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:15 AM (bDqIh)

Got insulation and heat in our new build this week. Drywall, next week. Kitchen cabinet order, soon.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (KnJdm)

248 Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

Homely and hairy......

https://www.out.com/sites/default/files/ ellaemhofftransorg.jpg

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

249 224

The wrath of the Lamb, Revelation ch. 6.

Few consider what that says is coming and Who is bringing it.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (GSSsC)

250 Bitcoin...Zero Hedge had a story the other day, after a 2 year investigation a 20 tons of cocaine shipment was seized in Spain, cocaine pipeline from South America to Spain, the organization's finances were entirely Bitcoin. Reading that, I thought with all the massive efforts for years to fight money laundering someone's got to be taking notice that something has to be done about the growth of these underground financial systems.

Posted by: yop at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (nqhkI)

251 And I was particularly struck by the comments about God in crisis by this rabbi who died the Holocaust about whether he still believed in God:

https://tinyurl.com/y4rkvw2g

(link from "My Jewish learning" site)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (VP4Cd)

252 She doesn't shave her pots because of the patriarchy I am sure.
Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (ZfRYq)

Is pots the new slang for vajaja?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (5QBw6)

253 ===============
Beto might consider just getting a job.
Posted by: Beto's dather in law, check writer at January 29, 2021 08:29 AM (IQ9iU)

Why?

He's got a war chest of MILLIONS from his failed senate run. He actually thinks the people LOVE him.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

254 And apply the brakes at any point in your journey.

This has been a dream at NIJ OJP for decades. Stopping vehicles during pursuit with a button vs stop strips, little robots that run under the car, helos with stabilized .50cal, etc.

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:33 AM (Xih1H)

255
Off to get shot at the allergist. See you later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:33 AM (s2VJv)

256 Pixy put in some apostrophe and hyphen hate I see

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:33 AM (Xih1H)

257 I said yesterday that I was trying to remain upbeat and positive. Not so much today. G-d help us all.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (jvt6t)

258 If Texas has no standing to determine how Pennsylvania runs an election, how can the federal government mandate that all states do mail in voting. Isn't that up to each state?

Posted by: Kate Winslet's boobs at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (ftFVW)

259 No, I don't not agree because they do not understand human nature. If the Soviets failed to make a new Soviet Man in 75 years despite really horrible repression, total control over media and education, yet the peasant plots out performed the state farms in agricultural production, they will fail. Also see East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the failure of the cultural Revolution in China.

--

I defer to much smarter Morons here than I, but my thoughts wonder...yes, failure for them became reality because of a variety of factors. How big a part did it play that places like America, the free superpower, still existed and could lend credence to those repressed people? When the world becomes enveloped in tyrannical rule (and the world is well on its way, by appearances), who will be there if America is no more? Just tossing around some thoughts. When the good guys are gone, tyranny will be all that much harder to break.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (O+I8R)

260 all the automotive related crap is a way to reverse the flight from the cities

higher gas, mileage tax, etc will hit the subs and the rural the hardest

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (zZxh0)

261 Is pots the new slang for vajaja?
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (5QBw6)

Just autocucumber messing with me.

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (ZfRYq)

262 233 Trivial Pursuers, that only works when the society appears to be working on its surface and information control was limited.

In reality, a large scale war in a nuclear age will get the elites too. That is why they are whipping up a frenzy on Covid, global warming, racial hatred, etc as an alternative.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (pO7gM)

263 Off to get shot at the allergist. See you later.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:33 AM (s2VJv)

May their aim be true, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

264 "Very few if any new cars have a throttle cable."

Exactly.

And look at all the other stuff I listed in my previous comment.

The new Volvos, with damn near 100% autonomous driving capability are easily within the realm of a complete remote takeover of every driver input. Including cabin temperature and radio station.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (S7VTO)

265 The mileage tax is simply a way for them to put in vehicle tracking
devices on each car. They know where you are going, where you've been.

And automatically deduct from your bank account speeding and failure to stop citations.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (C+evo)

266 Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.
Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

Homely and hairy......
https://www.out.com/sites/default/files/ ellaemhofftransorg.jpg
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
I don't know who that is or who her daughter is. The girl int he picture would be ordinary looking, maybe on the "cute in a totally average way" side if she weren't going out of her way to be unpleasant. Leftism strikes again - making the ordinary into the grotseque.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (UZVEt)

267 all the automotive related crap is a way to reverse the flight from the cities

higher gas, mileage tax, etc will hit the subs and the rural the hardest
Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (zZxh0)

But $15 minimum wage will fix all of that.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

268 >>Living in their bubble, the left cannot comprehend effects of fuel costs on families.

Of course they do, and they don't care. Well, no, they do care -- they judge your "wasteful" use of fossil fuels and want to apply Cass Sunstein's "NUDGE" tax to convince you to stop it.

Oh, you have multiple kids with activities across town? Should've had fewer kids to save the planet. Punish!

Oh, you're in the 'burbs and things aren't close by? Should live in the city and leave the pristine countryside/open space unblemished with your human need to own it. Punish!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (bDqIh)

269 250 I thought with all the massive efforts for years to fight money laundering someone's got to be taking notice that something has to be done about the growth of these underground financial systems.
Posted by: yop at January 29, 2021 08:32 AM (nqhkI)

Underground economies fuel the desire by the junta to abolish hard currency. More than just avoiding taxation, when the government can track your purchases they can control your life with ease.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (s2VJv)

270 241 Might as well make a little off this mess. Think I'll write Mayor Pete and tell him I'm in the final stages developing a device that analyzes both mileage and cost, with a display and a kept record. Tell the imbecile I can get it to fruition with a measly $50K grant. Trollable little asshoe thinks, OK, cheap enough, sends check. I go over to Razorback cab in Fort Smith, slip the dispatcher a C note and walk out with an extra taxi meter and send it in.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (I58tH)

There are some real cheap GPS chips. Bluetooth can be turned on remotely. Then use the drivers phone to send in the mileage.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (5QBw6)

271 If the Soviets failed to make a new Soviet Man in 75 years despite really horrible repression, total control over media and education, yet the peasant plots out performed the state farms in agricultural production, they will fail.

I expect this is true. I also have not much use for freedom in 2096.

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (ZfRYq)

272 Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

Homely and hairy......

https://www.out.com/sites/default/files/ ellaemhofftransorg.jpg

--

Good G*d! Oh, no doubt it was merit-based.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (O+I8R)

273 152
++++
If they had even a modicum of humility or introspection, then yes - you would be right. But they don't. They are all-in on "this time, it will be different." They are smarter, more capable, more ideologically competent, have better data, have better systems and are, of course, purer than anyone who came before them. Their towering arrogance and depths-plumbing evil are astonishing. I think they think they will "make it work" this time and win.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:16 AM (UZVEt)
________
Rocky: But that trick never works.
Bullwinkle: This time for sure!

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (7X3UV)

274 Wish I had better investing advice. For now, I'm taking EVERYTHING day by day. And I keep hearing my dad's voice who frequently would remind me that "this too shall pass".
Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (mZUr4)

I hear that. I am probably a little frustrated at having planned for the future only to have the whole thing threatened, but I know I am far from the only one.

Well, that does it for me. I have a 2000 word writing goal for the day so I had best get started!

Posted by: Long-time Commenter, First-time Reader at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (cGJ7O)

275 It's OK everyone.

Beto wants to be Governor of Texas.

WE'RE SAVED!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)
*************
Oh Hell No.
This is why voting does matter.
Because we have a Republican governor, AG, SOS etc. Texas will be leading the charge against mail-in voting.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

276
The new Volvos, with damn near 100% autonomous driving capability are easily within the realm of a complete remote takeover of every driver input. Including cabin temperature and radio station.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:34 AM (S7VTO)

Making Total Recall a prophetic movie.

Fight me.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

277 whig @ 245 --

That is a well though out plan. To quote/paraphrase Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon -- I'm gettin' too old for that shit! You've given me some ideas for the sons of Doof to start doing!

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (mZUr4)

278 248 Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

Homely and hairy......
______________

Barf. She's not even slightly attractive.

But those charming cow and birthday cake tattoos should make expensive haute couture dresses look even classier!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (k4dH2)

279 "Very few if any new cars have a throttle cable."

I have a 1996 Jeep and the throttle cable just sends an analog signal to a position sensor that coordinates with other engine controls to manage the engine's power.

IOW, One can't pump the accelerator pedal on hard to start engines.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (C+evo)

280 I don't know if this has been covered, but Philadelphia let some 22 year old kid right out of college, with no experience in anything, much less health care, to run the COVID vaccine distribution. It was the Fyre Festival of vaccinations. The kid, of course, blamed Trump.

Posted by: josephistan at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (Izzlo)

281 Evita Duffy's parents really did a great job. What a wonderful young woman. Smart, courageous and hard-working. Loved her Federalist article.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Fopps News Sucks at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (IQ9iU)

282 *************
Oh Hell No.
This is why voting does matter.
Because we have a Republican governor, AG, SOS etc. Texas will be leading the charge against mail-in voting.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

Yeah.

I hate it, but unless Abbott gets primaried and defeated by a Republican, I'm voting for him with my noes held.

I CAN'T HAVE Beto as a leader of any type in my state.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

283 240 Several people on here, being logical thinkers, are mentioning the infeasibility of Leftist policies. Yes, everything they're doing will fail, like it failed in the Soviet Union, WHICH LASTED ALMOST 75 YEARS! Like it failed in Cuba, STILL GOING AT 60+ YEARS. Posted by: Wally at January 29, 2021 08:30 AM (FJYfm)
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Don't forget Poland, 45 years of the communists.
How did anyone with children vote for Biden?

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (S1hrL)

284 Beto wants to be Governor of Texas.

WE'RE SAVED!!!!

Posted by: Sponge

Pancho Vanilla for gubanor!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (shN6a)

285 *nose

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

286 But $15 minimum wage will fix all of that.......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)
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It'll fix a whole lot of employment, that's for sure. Raising the minimum wage above its natural level is a sure-fire way to get unemployment. Synthetically boosting wages at the same time that you synthetically cheapen capital is a double-whammy. These people *really* hate wage earners earning under about $75k per year.

If they really wanted more employment, they'd raise interest rates up to something approaching the natural level. But nope, can't have that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (UZVEt)

287
I am shocked, SHOCKED..!!!

No, not really. Nationwide voting Mandate will fail, But it will take effort on the part of individual states.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2021 08:38 AM (HEKn5)

288 >>Got insulation and heat in our new build this week. Drywall, next week. Kitchen cabinet order, soon.

Nice!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:38 AM (bDqIh)

289 These are the end days. God only knows how long they will last. Purify yourself for what is to come.

Posted by: Abraham at January 29, 2021 08:38 AM (Fdgdx)

290 Off to get shot at the allergist. See you later.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2021 08:33 AM (s2VJv)

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Did JJ really leave us alone without adult supervision??

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:38 AM (mZUr4)

291 Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

The only images that came up were of a very tall girl (being tall you need, I suppose to be a model) who had frizzy hair and who was wearing a mask. Can't tell much-and the other link didn't work.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (VP4Cd)

292 Very few if any new cars have a throttle cable.

All of that stuff exists as a workaround for previous government meddling. Meeting EPA/California emission standards on an all-mechanical car gets you the gutless wonders of the late 70s, vs today where 300 HP is fairly common because of fast ECUs and associated equipment. Toyota and Mazda both passed the 40% thermal efficiency mark in the last decade, which was considered impossible for a long time.

So of course the government's going to use a bunch of technologies invented to work around their previous meddling as the enabler for future meddling.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (6XLoz)

293
IOW, One can't pump the accelerator pedal on hard to start engines.
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:37 AM (C+evo)

Fuel injection doesn't require this.

Only carbureted engines need this, mainly to set the choke.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

294 Oh Hell No.
This is why voting does matter.
Because we have a Republican governor, AG, SOS etc. Texas will be leading the charge against mail-in voting.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

I wish we had someone to primary Grabbit!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (5QBw6)

295 290 Where did he hide the keys to the liquor cabinet?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (I58tH)

296 Don't worry. Grassley writes VERY strongly worded letters.

Gun control measures, beyond symbolic nothings, are the least likely legislation to pass because there are at least two Democratic senators who would sign their own death warrants if they signed onto it.

The real action will be with these measures to promote voter fraud via illegal immigration and nationally mandated mail-in ballots. The latter is strictly unconstitutional, which means nothing now.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (puu6v)

297 No, not really. Nationwide voting Mandate will fail, But it will take effort on the part of individual states.

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In truth, all that will matter is that those 6 in question from 2020 still retain their mail-in schemes. Even if all other states take a pass (if they're allowed), just those handful are all that's apparently needed.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (O+I8R)

298 Where's Dan Crenshaw on all this mail in voter crap? He assured everyone that he would spearhead voting reform that would fix everything as long as we joined him and Lizard Cheney to stop obsessing over Drumpf and look to them and the new improved GOPe for new leadership!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (y7DUB)

299 Can't tell much-and the other link didn't work.

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Fen, take out the space in the URL.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (O+I8R)

300 Just remember folks, these people have no legitimate authority to make you do anything. Enough of them are there by cheating that that authority is gone. They may or may not have naked power depending on what people with guns are willing to act as enforcers but we are not morally bound by any social contract to do what they say.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (946rW)

Good daily reminder that bears repeating.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (KnJdm)

301 Great job, JJ
The eastern sky is on fire. Its gonna be a great day

Cant wait for horse face to send in neil
Punch in and take a break

Posted by: CarpetheadLaRo at January 29, 2021 08:41 AM (+ITg4)

302 Can't tell much-and the other link didn't work.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Remove the empty space in the link and it will work.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:41 AM (k4dH2)

303 I see on the Twats that GameStop hit the magical $420.69, which is probably the real goal of about half of the Redditors.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 29, 2021 08:21 AM (6XLoz)

That happened yesterday morning before they shut down trading.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:41 AM (946rW)

304 Where did he hide the keys to the liquor cabinet?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (I58tH)

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First thing you think of while we're on the "honor system" is the liquor cabinet???

* Fist bump *

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:41 AM (mZUr4)

305 @JackPosobiec 15m

Robinhood restricts crypto trading as bitcoin, dogecoin surge

@JackPosobiec 15m

Robinhood raises $1 billion, taps credit lines to make trading of GameStop available to customers

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (cF8AT)

306 Modeling contract ? I can sort of see why, she is size 0 , good facial structure. Does not look worse that many others currently in circulation.

Posted by: runner at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (HEKn5)

307 Where's Dan Crenshaw on all this mail in voter crap?
He assured everyone that he would spearhead voting reform that would
fix everything as long as we joined him and Lizard Cheney to stop
obsessing over Drumpf and look to them and the new improved GOPe for new
leadership!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (y7DUB)

Get this... he lied!

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (946rW)

308 Can't tell much-and the other link didn't work.

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Fen, take out the space in the URL.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (O+I8R)

Here you go....

https://tinyurl.com/yyogpnnk

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

309 "Catholic" Biden Re-Introduces Foreign Abortion Funding by American Taxpayers

Burning corn in leased SUVs to drive children to soccer game where they do not keep score was not killing brown and black 3rd world kids fast enough.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (5QBw6)

310 Living in their bubble, the left cannot comprehend effects of fuel costs on families.

It is a lot worse than that. Gasoline engines came about because up until the ICE, Rockefeller and other oil producers considered gasoline as a waste product.

The point being, is that if a large segment of petroleum production is made obsolete, then the recovery costs become much higher for other oil based products.

Take a look at a list of products that require oil. Obviously plastics, but also medicine, fertilizer and a myriad of other things.

Destroying the gasoline economy will destroy the rest of the economy. These folks in the District of China are not human, they are demons.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:43 AM (C+evo)

311 Modeling contract ? I can sort of see why, she is size 0 , good facial structure. Does not look worse that many others currently in circulation.
Posted by: runner at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (HEKn5)

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0 on the binary system, too

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:43 AM (mZUr4)

312 ... but we are not morally bound by any social contract to do what they say.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:22 AM (946rW)
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Not to mention that doing what they say is impossible. There is no one that does not commit several crimes a day. Such is the US legal code.

There is no honor in law, and thus no honor in obeying those laws. Even if it were possible, there's no reason to. It's impossible to do so anyway. Just don't get caught. The only honor left is in getting away with it.

It's why I've reverted to "peaceable citizen" to describe myself. Ain't no one in this country who's "law abiding."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:43 AM (UZVEt)

313 >> I don't know if this has been covered, but Philadelphia let some 22 year old kid right out of college, with no experience in anything, much less health care, to run the COVID vaccine distribution.

So. . . who is he/she related to?

The worst part is how universally states are making it near impossible for seniors to find info and sign up to get vaccines. Here's a thought: people who are 75+ likely aren;t tech savvy, so don't require them to use facebook, follow tweets to stay informed, etc. to navigate your program.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:44 AM (bDqIh)

314 So how do we print millions of Mail In Ballots? Will they be counted? Methinks we need a White Lives Matter Militia.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:44 AM (mMpkz)

315 Gun control measures, beyond symbolic nothings, are
the least likely legislation to pass because there are at least two
Democratic senators who would sign their own death warrants if they
signed onto it.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at January 29, 2021 08:40 AM (puu6v)

It wouldn't be their "election" death warrant under our new all cheating all the time system.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:44 AM (946rW)

316 Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

The only images that came up were of a very tall girl (being tall you need, I suppose to be a model) who had frizzy hair and who was wearing a mask. Can't tell much-and the other link didn't work.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:39 AM (VP4Cd)
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It didn't work for me. I tried it again by closing 1 space and it worked.
She definitely got the job due to who she's related to.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

317 There will be a push requiring front license plates in all states. And more cameras. Lots of cameras.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (I58tH)

318 What would it take for, say, a strongly pro-child murder Catholic to be excommunicated? How far up the chain does that call have to be made for them to say "get out"?

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (GSSsC)

319 @PrisonPlanet 1h

Facebook has banned a group called 'Robinhood stock traders' that had 157,000 members, with its founder suggesting the group had been targeted by "major institutions."

WTF?! Get over yourself Zuckerberg!

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (cF8AT)

320 "Did JJ really leave us alone without adult supervision??"

Happens occasionally.

We all chip in at the end of the day to cover the damages.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (S7VTO)

321 Did JJ really leave us alone without adult supervision??
Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:38 AM (mZUr4)

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J.J.!! Doof is looking at me again!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (jvt6t)

322 Where's Dan Crenshaw on all this mail in voter crap?

As I keep saying: The fastest and most surest way to demon possession is to live in DC.

Dan traded in his soul, and got nothing in return except to spend eternity in outer darkness.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (C+evo)

323 The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday freed Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the primary suspect in the abduction and on-camera beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

Daniel fell on the swords accidentally, 9 times.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:46 AM (5QBw6)

324 Where's Dan Crenshaw on all this mail in voter crap?

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Helping write the gun control bill, probably.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:46 AM (nMXLX)

325 Happy Birthday JJ!

*looks around*

Where's the spritzer?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 29, 2021 08:46 AM (PiwSw)

326 What would it take for, say, a strongly pro-child murder Catholic to be excommunicated? How far up the chain does that call have to be made for them to say "get out"?
Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (GSSsC)
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It will never happen. There is antipope at the helm and even if there weren't, there's too much money and influence coming out of America to permit it. I doubt even John Paul II would dare to excommunicate an American president.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:46 AM (UZVEt)

327 @258

They will find the authority in an emanation of a penumbra from the voting rights act, which the GOP had an opportunity to kill but didn't, because useless pile of dog shit, and the 14th amendment.

I'm sure they can get ACB, Gorsuch and Kavenaugh to sign on.

Because of course they will sign on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 29, 2021 08:46 AM (/8PIA)

328 Burning corn in leased SUVs to drive children to soccer game where they do not keep score was not killing brown and black 3rd world kids fast enough.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (5QBw6)

Ah. The HQ.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (qcmJn)

329 GME closed at 193.60 yesterday. It's 338 in pre-market now. Crazy

The great Dutch Tulip craze. This time it's personal.

In some sense, yes, but I believe the price had been over 400 during the trading day before the brokerages halted buying and started selling shares without authorization. The run back up to 338 reflects the continued buying pressure that the brokerages were no longer stopping since it was coming from overseas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (U7wke)

330 I think Ms. Emhof is very skinny and tall-which models are. They could put her in makeup, do something with her hair and brows and she'll look like any other model, but I'm sure being Kamala's stepdaughter didn't hurt her chances. Chelsea Clinton got a job as a talk show person-which she did badly at-simply based on who are parents were.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (VP4Cd)

331 262 233 Trivial Pursuers, that only works when the society appears to be working on its surface and information control was limited.

In reality, a large scale war in a nuclear age will get the elites too. That is why they are whipping up a frenzy on Covid, global warming, racial hatred, etc as an alternative.
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It doesn't have to be a large-scale war. Barky used a "targeted strike" in Libya. Remember Samantha Power and the other geniuses telling the U.S. public how we had a "responsibility to protect" the at-risk and defenseless Libyan population from the evil Quadaffi regime?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (k4dH2)

332 >>Modeling contract ? I can sort of see why, she is size 0 , good facial structure. Does not look worse that many others currently in circulation.

Seriously androgynous -- I would not be surprised if Ella used to be Eddie. Gah, the Left revels in ugliness.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (bDqIh)

333 "How far up the chain does that call have to be made for them to say "get out"?"

Don't matter.

Once it gets to the Hawaiian Pope, he will claim some biblical interpretation that only he can read.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (S7VTO)

334 The worst part is how universally states are making it near impossible for seniors to find info and sign up to get vaccines.

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It's weird, but it's almost like getting people vaccinated isn't really the point.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (nMXLX)

335 324 Crenshaw is keeping an eye on things. Somebody was going to say it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (I58tH)

336 277 Doof,
Not hard to do right now if you start small. Start with two weeks worth of emergency food and water and gradually extend to three weeks, then four, etc.

Buy an inverter generator--if you have a car, you will then have some power to run a few items in an emergency. These are pretty cheap. A small 3-4 kw generator is also useful and less than a stimulus check as backup. Some cheap foldable solar cells for charging electronic devices are also useful.

Get a water bob and remember that if you have a tanked water heater, it too is a source for clean water. You can also buy a couple of rain barrels for storing water coming off the roof through the gutters. With a reverse osmosis water pump with a filter, it can even supply drinking water in a pinch.

There are books on gardening by the square inch. Replace your grass or scenic plants with plants you can eat and learn how to raise stuff at the same time. Start with with a couple of plants per season.

The key is self education and buying bit by bit to increase your insulation from society.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (pO7gM)

337 Marshall Crenshaw > Dan Crenshaw

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (F5zz8)

338 J.J.!! Doof is looking at me again!
Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (jvt6t)

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Snitches get stitches! Or a wedgie at a minimum

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (mZUr4)

339 The point being, is that if a large segment of petroleum production is made obsolete, then the recovery costs become much higher for other oil based products.

Take a look at a list of products that require oil. Obviously plastics, but also medicine, fertilizer and a myriad of other things.

Posted by: Observer

There's a small list of things made from petroleum traveling around on Facebook. I think it's around 6,000 items so far.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (shN6a)

340 when is enough enough?

aw shut up! is the answer, and vote local, 'cause that's gonna fix everything.

Posted by: Shoey77 at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (hmNVd)

341 334 The worst part is how universally states are making it near impossible for seniors to find info and sign up to get vaccines.

***

It's weird, but it's almost like getting people vaccinated isn't really the point.
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The point is to teach you who is boss.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (mMpkz)

342 I think the TxMoMe should be held once a month going forward. You know, just for brother/sisterhood and trading recipes.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (jvt6t)

343 We all chip in at the end of the day to cover the damages.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (S7VTO)

The bed was already on fire when I lay down.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (5QBw6)

344 GME closed at 193.60 yesterday. It's 338 in pre-market now. Crazy

The great Dutch Tulip craze. This time it's personal.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 07:30 AM (2BZBZ)
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I don't see a parallel to tulip mania or housing mania. Some people might be trying to buy into the bubble to get rich, but most aren't. They're gleefully ruining a couple of hedge funds for the entertainment value. Once those positions are covered and hedge funds destroyed (Citron is already out and failed, they're going after Melvin now), the stock will crash back to the teens or single digits where it belongs, and few who own the shares will care.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (UZVEt)

345 Dan traded in his soul, and got nothing in return except to spend eternity in outer darkness.
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (C+evo)

Coming to the defense of Liz Cheney was really really dumb; some misplaced concept of chivalry and respect for fake authority.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

346 @319

I called that out at comment 41.

I, mean it is what it is.

The GOP doesn't care to fight this garbage.

They are completely checked out and bought off.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (/8PIA)

347 337 Marshall Crenshaw > Dan Crenshaw

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (F5zz

Love his music, but I think he's a BernieBot.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (PiwSw)

348 Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (mZUr4)

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....and end up in ditches....touche!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 08:50 AM (jvt6t)

349 331 Trivial Pursuer,

None of those wars 'moved' the American people nor changed society much, they were more like wars to keep the generals and the military industrial complex in grift. Roman emperors did the same back in the day--let the generals do small wars for their fun and profit.

A war with Russia or China (perhaps even a large scale war in the Middle East) is a different matter altogether. The Romanovs paid with their lives for going along with a stupid war over Serbia.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:50 AM (pO7gM)

350 It's why I've reverted to "peaceable citizen" to describe myself. Ain't no one in this country who's "law abiding."

This problem you describe has been around for the full span of human history. In part it explains why the Bible says to "live peacefully with your neighbors" and maintain a life pleasing to God.

The whole narrative of Scripture, and thus the Gospel, is based on the fact that no one can obey the law perfectly.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (C+evo)

351 There's a small list of things made from petroleum traveling around on Facebook. I think it's around 6,000 items so far.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (shN6a)
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It would be easier to figure out what *doesn't* have petroleum. Virtually everything has petroleum somewhere in the supply chain or as an input to some subordinate good used in the final product. The modern industrial world runs on two things more than anything else: oil and corn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (UZVEt)

352 It's why I've reverted to "peaceable citizen" to describe myself. Ain't no one in this country who's "law abiding."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:43 AM (UZVEt)

The distinction is that there is moral law related (in theory) to the consent of the governed to enforce common standards of behavior within the populace, and then there is administrative law(regulations) written by unelected bureaucrats to enforce the consent of the rulers upon the mere populace!

Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (87oRe)

353 On the gun control thing how is that annual tax not equivalent to a poll tax which, if I'm not mistaken, was ruled unconstitutional many years ago? I know it is foolish to think the Supreme court will do the right thing, but seems pretty cut and dried. It is just using a tax to deprive a group of people of their constitutional rights.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (Q4GsL)

354 They're gleefully ruining a couple of hedge funds for the entertainment value.
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I see nothing wrong with this motivation. Maybe the Hedge Fund can carry over its bankruptcy, like it does its profits, to lower its taxes?

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (mMpkz)

355
The distinction is that there is moral law related (in theory) to the consent of the governed to enforce common standards of behavior within the populace, and then there is administrative law(regulations) written by unelected bureaucrats to enforce the consent of the rulers upon the mere populace!
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That went out the window with Gay Marriage. Our standards are determined by the most vicious minority, not majority.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:52 AM (mMpkz)

356 Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens > Marshall Crenshaw

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (mZUr4)

357 Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (Q4GsL)

No Standing!! It's a tax!

Posted by: John Cornholio Roberts at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (jvt6t)

358 The distinction is that there is moral law related (in theory) to the consent of the governed to enforce common standards of behavior within the populace, and then there is administrative law(regulations) written by unelected bureaucrats to enforce the consent of the rulers upon the mere populace!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (87oRe)
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"Administrative law" is an extraconsitutional, sinister morass imposed upon us by tyrants who were put in place courtesy of enabling acts written and passed by derelict legislatures.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (UZVEt)

359 The key is self education and buying bit by bit to increase your insulation from society.
Posted by: whig

Moving out of an high rise with no windows in a dense urban core where you're dependent on electricity and water pressure would be high on my list.

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (Xih1H)

360 329 GME closed at 193.60 yesterday. It's 338 in pre-market now. Crazy

The great Dutch Tulip craze. This time it's personal.

In some sense, yes, but I believe the price had been over 400 during the trading day before the brokerages halted buying and started selling shares without authorization. The run back up to 338 reflects the continued buying pressure that the brokerages were no longer stopping since it was coming from overseas.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 29, 2021 08:47 AM (U7wke)

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I read that institutional players were trading the stock at lower than market rates to each other in order to drive down the price.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (LvTSG)

361 They're gleefully ruining a couple of hedge funds for the entertainment value.

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This isn't directed at you:

It's so bizarre to see so many people blaming the reddit kids for the hedge funds making poor choices.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (nMXLX)

362 The point being, is that if a large segment of petroleum production is made obsolete, then the recovery costs become much higher for other oil based products.

Take a look at a list of products that require oil. Obviously plastics, but also medicine, fertilizer and a myriad of other things.

Posted by: Observer

There's a small list of things made from petroleum traveling around on Facebook. I think it's around 6,000 items so far.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (shN6a)
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I don't think the average person (voter) even realizes this. We need to post the list here and make it go viral.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (NpAcC)

363 Biden's War on Energy

I read that as Biden's War on Economy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (5QBw6)

364 (Looks at bottom of boot)

Nope, but it suddenly smells like shit in here.

Posted by: John Cornholio Roberts at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (jvt6t)

365 The modern industrial world runs on two things more than anything else: oil and corn.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

and hyper-inflated currency

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (Xih1H)

366 353 On the gun control thing how is that annual tax not equivalent to a poll tax which, if I'm not mistaken, was ruled unconstitutional many years ago? I know it is foolish to think the Supreme court will do the right thing, but seems pretty cut and dried. It is just using a tax to deprive a group of people of their constitutional rights.
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The fence around Congress is a metaphor of who's in and who's out. Americans are certainly out.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (mMpkz)

367 the stock will crash back to the teens or single digits where it belongs, and few who own the shares will care.

But will officers of GME, as part of their compensation plan, get to exercise their options before then?

Because that would be a great hidden Pay Day.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (C+evo)

368 I am without speech...

@stillgray

You had me at hello.

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yyyfw33d

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (cF8AT)

369 357

Posted by: Eromero at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (em79L)

370 Dang it.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (jvt6t)

371 Some moron posted that 420 was where a large part of the group had put their automated "sell" command at.

We should've seen that coming.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government"

4/20 was Hilers birthday. Proof these retards are Nazis that must be arrested.

I'm also expecting increased NG in DC on that day because DHS will detect increased white national;is terror threats.

Posted by: Ripley at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (MxEKc)

372 "It's so bizarre to see so many people blaming the reddit kids for the hedge funds making poor choices."

I guess from the Left, blaming would be the right term.

I know Little VIA was playing with about $600.00 in all this yesterday.

Once he withdrew his seed money, he kept on having a blast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (S7VTO)

373 It's so bizarre to see so many people blaming the reddit kids for the hedge funds making poor choices.
Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 08:53 AM (nMXLX)
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Yeah, it's funny isn't it? The hedge funds that have failed or may fail are just object lessons in the old adage that "pigs get fed, but hogs get slaughtered." No one put a gun to their heads to make them short more than 100% of available shares. They were reckless and stupid and they got broken. The problem isn't even that they got broken, by the way. That happens semi-frequently and hedge funds destroy or cripple each other for sport. The problem is that they got turfed by the rubes. That is unacceptable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:56 AM (UZVEt)

374 "It has been a slow moving coup since Trump took office in 2016

Started accelerating in 2020 thanks to theChiCom virus excuse

It's now in 3rd gear and they are still lead footing the gas"

yes ... but imo, (even though I constantly call it a coup, and now a junta) .. it was not really a coup against Trump, because they held the real power the whole time. They got rid of Gorka, Bannon, Lewandoski early on ... and the Mueller machine had the knee on the throat of Trump from the start. ---Yes Trump accomplished some things, but the Swamp/Cartel never really relinquished control, as we saw when they decided to just up front steal the landslide victory from Trump, and hand it to their leftist puppets. The election thingy just wasn't working ... and they own the power to break every law and walk free as a bird.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 08:56 AM (Cus5s)

375 All their rules are unruly. Obeying laws written by frauds is not a matter of ethics but merely one of consequences.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2021 08:56 AM (yQpMk)

376 Every night at dinner each member of my family talks about his or her day. We close by saying if it was a good day or not.

I can't remember the last time I said "today was a good day."

Tyrannis delenda est.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2021 08:56 AM (wGxSf)

377 >>They're gleefully ruining a couple of hedge funds for the entertainment value.

. . . who were gleefully ruining a weakened Gamestop for profit.

The hedgefund took a ridiculous (and illegal?) risk by shorting 140% of the GME shares. That should be recognized if we're passing judgement on the whole mess. Reddit couldn't have f#cked them so hard if they hadn't made it so easy.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:56 AM (bDqIh)

378 Feudal fascism is the thing now. Gotta admit, wasn't expecting quite that.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 08:57 AM (GSSsC)

379 372 "It's so bizarre to see so many people blaming the reddit kids for the hedge funds making poor choices."
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They are really good at punching down.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:57 AM (mMpkz)

380 Marshall Crenshaw > Dan Crenshaw

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (F5zz

Love his music, but I think he's a BernieBot.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (PiwSw)

Possibly; the BernieBots are kind of like us only on the retarded side of the bell curve. Looking for political intelligence in musicians is like looking for explanations of particle physics at a playground. He understands rock really really well and that's all that matters to me. I think his guitar playing is starting to fall off though; I saw him backed by Los Straightjackets and he seemed kind of clunky in comparison.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:57 AM (y7DUB)

381 But will officers of GME, as part of their compensation plan, get to exercise their options before then?

Because that would be a great hidden Pay Day.
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:54 AM (C+evo)
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I think a lot of them cashed out already in the $20 range, since that represented something like a doubling of share value. That was well before the war started and sent it to the stratosphere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:57 AM (UZVEt)

382 379 372 "It's so bizarre to see so many people blaming the reddit kids for the hedge funds making poor choices."
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They are really good at punching down.
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 29, 2021 08:57 AM (mMpkz)

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They've had pretty much total cultural power for decades.

Where else is there to punch?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

383 240 Wally,
Religious fervor too rises and falls often in a few years especially if heaven on earth does not come.

Secular substitutes fail even quicker which is why they won't win. People will adapt faster than they can develop their control mechanisms.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:58 AM (pO7gM)

384 The run back up to 338 reflects the continued buying pressure that the brokerages were no longer stopping since it was coming from overseas.

[insert cuss words] Not only do they outsource jobs, but now they outsource investment opportunities.

They truly hate us and only wish us ill.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:58 AM (C+evo)

385
I'm really getting tired of hearing the number of rodeos that Tom Selleck has or has not attended. But you can get everything you're entitled to including dental, vision, hearing, prescription drug coverage all at no extra cost. Call the number on your screen now. It's free.

Posted by: Joe Namath at January 29, 2021 08:58 AM (N/gDA)

386 Grump 928, you get it. Word.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 08:59 AM (pO7gM)

387 349 331 Trivial Pursuer,

None of those wars 'moved' the American people nor changed society much, they were more like wars to keep the generals and the military industrial complex in grift. Roman emperors did the same back in the day--let the generals do small wars for their fun and profit.
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LOL, hey I didn't say it always worked, just that it's an old standard in the despot playbook.

And look at the kind of people in power here now. These are the exact same idiots who decided to use the U.S. military take out the Libyan government without giving any thought to what would fill the power vacuum there afterwards.

Do you think that they're any smarter now than they were then? Biden, by the account of his own associates, is operating at 50% mental capacity -- and he was a blithering idiot when he was at 100%.

It's not a matter of "if" they'll get us into some stupid foreign war, it's just a matter of when.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:59 AM (k4dH2)

388 The CEO of Robinhood is trying to spin the reason why he stopped the trading was like what we did when there was a run on toilet paper and hand sanitizer during the pandemic. It's for the common good.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

389 Every one of the links today was a depressing headline.
I could'n't bear to read a single one.

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 09:00 AM (S1hrL)

390 I think a lot of them cashed out already in the $20 range, since that represented something like a doubling of share value.

Can you imagine the "conversation" around the house regarding the spouse's wisdom in cashing out at that price?

Hindsight is often 20/20.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:00 AM (C+evo)

391 as I said, the company of GME is irrelevant now

GME is just roulette table now

has 70 million outstanding shares

will probably trade 30 mil today, has already traded 3.3 in pm

contrast to Ford

3.9 billion shares outstanding, daily volume 75 million, pm 1,5 million

Posted by: REDACTED at January 29, 2021 09:01 AM (zZxh0)

392 The CEO of Robinhood is trying to spin the reason why he stopped the trading was like what we did when there was a run on toilet paper and hand sanitizer during the pandemic. It's for the common good.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:00 AM (NpAcC)
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He's not wrong. Stopping trading in GME and lockdowns serve the same the purpose: the common good (of Wall St. and megacorp elites).

They always leave out that last bit, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:01 AM (UZVEt)

393 The lesson on this GME deal is: There are chinks in their armor everywhere. These assholes are so arrogant, they actually believe the shit that that flows from their filthy sewers.

Minutemen were known for their ability to hit and run, take cover in the surrounding countryside and disappear. For now, that can be done online. Until they remove that from us as well.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (jvt6t)

394 Partial list of the more than 6000 items made from oil.

About half way down the page.

https://tinyurl.com/y2bao5zu

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (shN6a)

395 Notice the framing of the story....it's Joe's family...not joe!

@politico

In the midst of his 2020 campaign, Joe Biden took his younger brother, Frank, aside to issue a warning.

"For Christ's sake, watch yourself," Biden said of his brother's potential business dealings, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation

Biden, according to the person, seemed to know then what is becoming plainly obvious now: His family's business ties threatened to undermine an administration whose messaging is centered on restoring integrity in the White House

Relatives' money-making ventures, most prominently his son Hunter's overseas dealings, have long dogged Biden. But it's taking on a new dimension now that he's in the White House.

He already has had to answer for matters related to his family.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

396 The CEO of Robinhood is trying to spin the reason why he stopped the trading was like what we did when there was a run on toilet paper and hand sanitizer during the pandemic. It's for the common good.

That, and a sizeable donation to the hearing judge's off shore bank account, will go a very long way in defending against the class action law suit.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (C+evo)

397 It's not a matter of "if" they'll get us into some stupid foreign war, it's just a matter of when.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:59 AM (k4dH2)

All we are asking Is give WAR a chance.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:03 AM (5QBw6)

398 371 illiniwek,
That is because there was still a residual amount of trust in the system. Ultimately, it won't end well and repression in a coup usually results in losing even more population support.

People will tolerate a repressive regime if life is getting materially better (China). Even more toleration exists if the regime is genuinely democratic and shares the pain equally (think England during WWII). Repression and open naked high level corruption in high places with the population getting poorer by the minute, these are the things that revolutions are made of.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:03 AM (pO7gM)

399 Partial list of the more than 6000 items made from oil.

And what happens to the unsold gasoline?

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:03 AM (C+evo)

400 My tummy still hurts from all of the gut punches earlier in the week. While we're still allowed to say such things, I wish the Horde, Godspeed and grace.

Posted by: Marooned at January 29, 2021 09:03 AM (yYptV)

401 "For Christ's sake, watch yourself," Biden said of his brother's potential business dealings, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation

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If we had a free and curious press someone could ask Joe why he would need to warn his brother about legal business dealings.

And if any are illegal, wouldn't that mean Uncle Joe would've had a duty to...

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 09:04 AM (nMXLX)

402 He already has had to answer for matters related to his family.
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

Hunter is still wrapped tight in CCP silk!

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:04 AM (5QBw6)

403 Today's Blacklisted American: Literary Agent Fired for Having Parler and Gab Accounts

She had exactly 1 post on Gab, asking Romance authors to consider submitting stories to her agency. She was literally fired for doing her job.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 29, 2021 09:04 AM (U7wke)

404 I think a lot of them cashed out already in the $20 range, since that represented something like a doubling of share value.

Can you imagine the "conversation" around the house regarding the spouse's wisdom in cashing out at that price?

Hindsight is often 20/20.
Posted by: Observer

"Whatever I do isn't good enough for you, is it??"

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:04 AM (shN6a)

405 I am without speech...

@stillgray

You had me at hello.

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yyyfw33d
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (cF8AT)
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That is hilarious!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

406 397 It's not a matter of "if" they'll get us into some stupid foreign war, it's just a matter of when.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 08:59 AM (k4dH2)

All we are asking Is give WAR a chance.
Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:03 AM (5QBw6)

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I sometimes wonder about the true believers of the anti-war movement and if they ever have moments of clarity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

407 And what happens to the unsold gasoline?
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:03 AM (C+evo)
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:: checks history books from a time prior to combustion engines, when kerosene was king and gasoline was a worthless waste product ::

Dump it onto the river and set it on fire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:05 AM (UZVEt)

408 377 >>They're gleefully ruining a couple of hedge funds for the entertainment value.

. . . who were gleefully ruining a weakened Gamestop for profit.
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Greedy and stupid hedge funds screwing over retail investors = good and noble and totes legal.

Retail investors screwing over greedy and stupid hedge funds = dangerous and evil and illegitimate and white supremacy!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 09:05 AM (k4dH2)

409 Tami,
It doesn't matter anymore what the media says as their credibility swirls the toilet. Biden is already underwater and the present actions this week will make it worse. When people do not like someone, everything sticks to them fair and unfair and given the probably fewer people voted for Biden, there is no genuine warmth for him among the people.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:06 AM (pO7gM)

410 Crenshaw is turning a blind eye at it.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 09:06 AM (2BZBZ)

411 Retail investors screwing over greedy and stupid hedge funds = dangerous and evil and illegitimate and white supremacy!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at January 29, 2021 09:05 AM (k4dH2)
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I love they suited up and trotted out the "white supremacy" goblin for this one. What do they think he is? Joe Biden?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:06 AM (UZVEt)

412 352 It's why I've reverted to "peaceable citizen" to describe myself. Ain't no one in this country who's "law abiding."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:43 AM (UZVEt)

The distinction is that there is moral law related (in theory) to the consent of the governed to enforce common standards of behavior within the populace, and then there is administrative law(regulations) written by unelected bureaucrats to enforce the consent of the rulers upon the mere populace!
Posted by: Commissar Chairman Hrothgar ~ (@Hrothgar on GAB) at January 29, 2021 08:51 AM (87oRe)
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The trouble is that the connection between the moral law, and the consent of the governed is itself tenuous at best. It's fine to hold up the latter as the voice of God, and moral per se, well, your revolution stops being American, and becomes French. And it was always thus. The people chose Barabbas.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 29, 2021 09:06 AM (7X3UV)

413 The SEC announced this week that Strzoks wife, Melissa Hodgman, has been named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement.

Melissa knows what Pages pussy taste like.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (5QBw6)

414 Autonomous vehicles are a piece of cake. You'll see them proliferate just as soon as all the variables can be accounted for in an OPEN driving environment.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (KATBx)

415 Good morning. Coffee and chocolate glazed donut in hand.

Posted by: dantesed at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (88xKn)

416 "But will officers of GME, as part of their compensation plan, get to exercise their options before then?"

I don't know a thing about their business model and its future, but if the company could have issued new stock at $200/share, it could have maybe acquired the capital to restructure in a more workable way. (or maybe it is doomed to die as everyone stays home and buys from Amazon, I have no clue)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (Cus5s)

417 Retail investors screwing over greedy and stupid hedge funds = dangerous and evil and illegitimate and white supremacy!

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I'm actually very supportive of this line of thought.

How many of the higher-ups at these hedge funds were black?

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (nMXLX)

418 The SEC announced this week that Strzoks wife, Melissa Hodgman, has been named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement.

Melissa knows what Pages pussy taste like.
Posted by: uncle handsy Joe

College football has a division of enforcement?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:08 AM (shN6a)

419 403 Today's Blacklisted American: Literary Agent Fired for Having Parler and Gab Accounts

She had exactly 1 post on Gab, asking Romance authors to consider submitting stories to her agency. She was literally fired for doing her job.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 29, 2021 09:04 AM (U7wke)

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"Keep away from me, Smith. I'm an agent of Goldstein. I didn't know it myself. Thoughtcrime is so insidious. It just creeps up on you."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

420 Autonomous vehicles are a piece of cake. You'll see them proliferate just as soon as all the variables can be accounted for in an OPEN driving environment.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (KATBx)
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They'll proliferate well before that milestone gets met (if it ever does). What's the worse-case downside? All that can go wrong is that some people die. They love it when people die.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:08 AM (UZVEt)

421 406 TJM, Most of the anti war protesters from Vietnam era morphed into anti nukes, and now have morphed into whatever trend du jour is popular. The hard core live from protesting as a form of giving their life purpose.

The true pacifists generally are those of a religious bent and not those larping in the streets by and large.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:08 AM (pO7gM)

422 The SEC announced this week that Strzoks wife, Melissa Hodgman, has been named Acting Director of the Division of Enforcement.
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Shocked

Face

/s

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at January 29, 2021 09:09 AM (3H9h1)

423 It occurred to me that Obama at least understood the importance of appearing moderate and a more go-slow approach to fundamentally transforming the US and not rile up the natives too much. No so with Biden. He may not be a far left radical at heart but he is barely cognizant of what is going on around him and has no sense of how much his radical puppeteers are tearing up the country. They don't give a damn either and only care about implementing their leftist utopia as fast as possible, especially now they don't have to worry about elections.

Things will be getting worse. Much worse.

Posted by: Ripley at January 29, 2021 09:09 AM (MxEKc)

424 >>Ella Emhoff Mamala Harris' stepdaughter just got a major modeling contract.

Search her images on the Internet to see if that was, err, merit based, or not.

- - -

Not being snarky here -- is Ella a transgirl?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (bDqIh)

It looks like Harry Potter in drag. Mary Potter.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:10 AM (KnJdm)

425 423 It occurred to me that Obama at least understood the importance of appearing moderate and a more go-slow approach to fundamentally transforming the US and not rile up the natives too much. No so with Biden. He may not be a far left radical at heart but he is barely cognizant of what is going on around him and has no sense of how much his radical puppeteers are tearing up the country. They don't give a damn either and only care about implementing their leftist utopia as fast as possible, especially now they don't have to worry about elections.

Things will be getting worse. Much worse.
Posted by: Ripley at January 29, 2021 09:09 AM (MxEKc)

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He doesn't know what he's signing. He's in control of nothing. His staff is doing this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

426 405 I am without speech...

@stillgray

You had me at hello.

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yyyfw33d
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 08:55 AM (cF8AT)
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That is hilarious!
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

HA!

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:10 AM (5QBw6)

427 "If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out."

Crenshaw has a tough choice to make.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at January 29, 2021 09:10 AM (GSSsC)

428 394 Partial list of the more than 6000 items made from oil

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (shN6a)
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Stock up now!

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 09:10 AM (S1hrL)

429 (or maybe it is doomed to die as everyone stays home and buys from Amazon, I have no clue)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 09:07 AM (Cus5s)

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Amazon didn't kill Gamestop. Gamestop killed Gamestop. They were the K-Mart, Sears, Toys-R-Us, etc. of the video game market.

WAY overpriced, and offering very little incentive to shop there. Their one "hook" was buying and selling used games, but they'd give you a couple of bucks for a massively popular title and then turn around and try to sell it for 3% less than the same thing new.

They were going under regardless.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 09:10 AM (nMXLX)

430 TJM, Most of the anti war protesters from Vietnam era morphed into anti nukes, and now have morphed into whatever trend du jour is popular.

Green jello at the lunch counter of the nursing home.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:11 AM (shN6a)

431 There's a small list of things made from petroleum traveling around on Facebook. I think it's around 6,000 items so far.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 08:48 AM (shN6a)

In the episode of The Grand Tour where the gang trekked to Azerbaijan, as they went through the oil fields they were rhyming off all the incredible things oil has made possible.

I was surprised the fuckheads at Amazon allowed it to be aired. Of course, that was way back in 2019 ...

Posted by: spindrift at January 29, 2021 09:11 AM (HMFot)

432 Relatives' money-making ventures, most prominently his son Hunter's overseas dealings, have long dogged Biden. But it's taking on a new dimension now that he's in the White House.

He already has had to answer for matters related to his family.
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:02 AM (cF8AT)

He's never had to answer for one fucking thing during his long career of graft and corruption. Even that worthless clown, Chris Wallace, kept Drumpf from pointing that out in the fake debate. The only time he'll answer for his corruption is when his puppet masters have decided he's of no further use, which should be fairly soon.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (y7DUB)

433 >> "For Christ's sake, watch yourself," Biden said of his brother's potential business dealings, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation

A. Why is this just now being reported, instead of before the election?

2. Biden has been in DC for 47 years, and during all that time as Senator, as VP for 8 years, he never felt compelled to tell his brother to "watch himself" before fall of 2020? Are we really supposed to consider Biden concerned about appearances of corruption, or somehow prescent that after 47 years maybe -- just maybe -- this gives the impression he and his family are corrupt AF???

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (bDqIh)

434 The committee was horrified at the suggestion, because it would "punish people who do the right thing" and disincentivize the purchase of alternative-fuel vehicles.

Your betters, everyone. Your. Betters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 08:27 AM (UZVEt)

And people say the zombie apocalypse is fantasy.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (KnJdm)

435 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: tbodie at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (5QyYN)

436 "If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out."

Crenshaw has a tough choice to make.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation

Why do you think he's not offended by the things dems do?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (shN6a)

437 I am without speech...
@stillgray
You had me at hello.

***

This says so much about the news industry. This is BIG time international news, and they don't even run video before airing it live.

Posted by: Your Betters in Perpetual Government at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (nMXLX)

438 The Hill
@thehill

"QAnon Shaman" is willing to testify in the Trump impeachment trial, lawyer says.

http://hill.cm/5ODF7X7

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

439 All that can go wrong is that some people die. They love it when people die.

Because they can go full on Tobacco Class Action Lawsuit against the manufacturers for their modern day Corvairs.

[I know, mixed metaphors...]

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (C+evo)

440 Robinhood restricts crypto trading as bitcoin, dogecoin surge
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Who on here knows crypto and is willing to put us some basic information/opinion?

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (NqxJG)

441 So GM is going all electric by 2035. Do I recall correctly that the GM President is a big time lefty?

Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (G0vdT)

442 Reporter: Hey there is some bigtime cheating on wallstreet

Jen: Well, I'm also happy to repeat that we have the first female Treasury secretary and a team that's surrounding her," Psaki said.

GIRLS RULE!

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:14 AM (5QBw6)

443 438 The Hill
@thehill

"QAnon Shaman" is willing to testify in the Trump impeachment trial, lawyer says.

http://hill.cm/5ODF7X7
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (NpAcC)
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With or without the horns?

Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2021 09:14 AM (G0vdT)

444 gooder and harderer!

Short-sellers are sitting on estimated losses of $70.87 billion from their short positions in U.S. companies so far this year, data from financial data analytics firm Ortex showed on Thursday.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:15 AM (5QBw6)

445 @RobbyStarbuck 1m

The Biden administration is now threatening states into enforcing mask mandates. Wisconsin was going to repeal their mandate until they found out the Biden Admin would literally strip funding from feeding the hungry in Wisconsin. Essentially saying: "Enforce a state-wide mask mandate or we won't help you feed hungry poor families in your state and they'll starve to death." In the words of a friend @jamisonvid: "it's pure evil".

https://tinyurl.com/y6xfwvgw (Gab link)

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:15 AM (cF8AT)

446 Crenshaw is turning a blind eye at it.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at January 29, 2021 09:06 AM (2BZBZ)
==================

Oooooooo -- you went there!

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 09:15 AM (mZUr4)

447 For Christ's sake, watch yourself," Biden said of his brother's potential business dealings, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation

===
"according to a person with knowledge of the conversation".

so Biden is prepping the battlespace. His bro is going to take a bit of a hit and his position will be like Sgt. Schultz.

Posted by: biden rapid response team fingerprints at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (r9tiY)

448
Refilled the bird feeders. The little sparrows and chickadees are braver and come in first. That's the signal for the bully birds - the jays and red-winged blackbirds - that it's all right to eat. The little guys get pushed out to the lower feeders. Late in the day the big birds leave and the small birds come back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (mht8P)

449 Who on here knows crypto and is willing to put us some basic information/opinion?
I've made some money on Bitcoin but it's pure luck. It's all over the place. Elon Musk tweeted about it yesterday so I expect there will be a surge today. It's been doing crazy numbers all year -- (up and down).

Dogecoin started as a joke and trades for fractions of a penny. 4chan ran it up yesterday, now the word is out so normies are buying.

Posted by: brak at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (cG+eD)

450 "QAnon Shaman" is willing to testify in the Trump impeachment trial, lawyer says.
http://hill.cm/5ODF7X7
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (NpAcC)
++++
On who's side?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (UZVEt)

451 The Biden administration is now threatening states into enforcing mask mandates. Wisconsin was going to repeal their mandate until they found out the Biden Admin would literally strip funding from feeding the hungry in Wisconsin. Essentially saying: "Enforce a state-wide mask mandate or we won't help you feed hungry poor families in your state and they'll starve to death." In the words of a friend @jamisonvid: "it's pure evil".

https://tinyurl.com/y6xfwvgw (Gab link)
Posted by: Tami

I'm so old, I remember when Trump couldn't enforce "strings attached" to anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (shN6a)

452 Bitcoin is almost back to it's all time high of 40k. I would definitely wait if you're thinking about jumping in.

Posted by: brak at January 29, 2021 09:17 AM (cG+eD)

453 Who on here knows crypto and is willing to put us some basic information/opinion?
Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (NqxJG)
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It's quite complicated and I don't understand it as well as some others. I know enough to make me bearish on it in general intermediate/long-term. In the immediate or short term, though, everything is crazy town and anything can happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:17 AM (UZVEt)

454 441 So GM is going all electric by 2035. Do I recall correctly that the GM President is a big time lefty?
Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (G0vdT)

IMPOSSIBLE There are about 1.4 total Elec cars in US. Selling 2.6 Million in one year would required about 40 to 50 new gas plants or about 20 new nukes.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:18 AM (5QBw6)

455 This mask mandate.

Any legal specifications as to the mask itself? I'm getting tired of my Darth Vader mask and my plague doctor mask doesn't fit very well. I'm thinking of making a Bioshock Big Daddy suit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2021 09:18 AM (wGxSf)

456 PS that does not include grid buildout.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:18 AM (5QBw6)

457 Refilled the bird feeders. The little sparrows and chickadees are braver and come in first. That's the signal for the bully birds - the jays and red-winged blackbirds - that it's all right to eat. The little guys get pushed out to the lower feeders. Late in the day the big birds leave and the small birds come back.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Pellet pistol to the bully birds. They'll get the message.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:18 AM (shN6a)

458 Jen: Well, I'm also happy to repeat that we have the first female Treasury secretary and a team that's surrounding her," Psaki said.

Does this mean that they are going on a shopping spree?

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:19 AM (C+evo)

459 454 441 So GM is going all electric by 2035. Do I recall correctly that the GM President is a big time lefty?
Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (G0vdT)

IMPOSSIBLE There are about 1.4 total Elec cars in US. Selling 2.6 Million in one year would required about 40 to 50 new gas plants or about 20 new nukes.
Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:18 AM (5QBw6)

Might be a reason it's set 14 years into the future. Namely they don't really intend to hit that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at January 29, 2021 09:19 AM (Zm+LZ)

460 Just ordered some more ammo.

Makes me feel all giddy inside.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

461 Narrator: What he's really proposing is a national tracking of your freedom of movement.

And we all know what happens when bureaucrats start tracking something -- they next impulse is to control/micro-manage it.

Posted by: Lizzy

Bingo. Tracking not only your miles, but where those miles took you.

Posted by: Pony Tail at January 29, 2021 08:31 AM (7TT6M)

Take a lesson from long-besieged law-abiding gun owners. It is about making the free exercise of once Constitutionally-protected rights expensive and burdensome to the point of self-elimination.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:20 AM (KnJdm)

462 If I had a tip line for what Elon Musk was going to tweet I'd be a multi millionaire

Posted by: brak at January 29, 2021 09:20 AM (cG+eD)

463 Who on here knows crypto and is willing to put us some basic information/opinion?
I've made some money on Bitcoin but it's pure luck. It's all over the place. Elon Musk tweeted about it yesterday so I expect there will be a surge today. It's been doing crazy numbers all year -- (up and down).

Dogecoin started as a joke and trades for fractions of a penny. 4chan ran it up yesterday, now the word is out so normies are buying.
===
1. Is there a difference between Dogecoin and Bitcoin? Besides the price - I mean is one in limited supply or are they both infinite?

2. How do you buy it? Do you have to sign up for a brokerage like place? if so, do you recommend any in particular?

3. If you were going to buy crypto today, which ones would you consider?

--- Thanks to anyone who cares to offer opinion/info.

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 09:20 AM (ove+i)

464 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Thanks for the update from nature.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 09:20 AM (VP4Cd)

465 Just ordered some more ammo.

Makes me feel all giddy inside.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

I score 100 Nosler 30-06 brass and 100 150 grain Partitions and ABs yesterday at a local retailer at pretty normal prices.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (KnJdm)

466 Someone posted yesterday the point of the warp speed EO's is to inflict the worst in the shortest time possible, rendering the populace helpless. Obama learned his lesson with the "go slow" approach and is making sure Biden doesn't make the same mistake.

How many more EO's today? How many more?

Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

467 Refilled the bird feeders. The little sparrows and chickadees are braver and come in first. That's the signal for the bully birds - the jays and red-winged blackbirds - that it's all right to eat. The little guys get pushed out to the lower feeders. Late in the day the big birds leave and the small birds come back.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Pellet pistol to the bully birds. They'll get the message.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:18 AM (shN6a)
===================

You're way might work. I prefer a dead fish in the bully birds' nest.

-- Rahm Emmanuel

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (mZUr4)

468 "QAnon Shaman" is willing to testify in the Trump impeachment trial, lawyer says.
http://hill.cm/5ODF7X7
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:12 AM (NpAcC)
++++
On who's side?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (UZVEt)

What a fucking circus. I hope Shecky Schumer wears some extra large clown shoes to go with those goofy glasses perched in another zip code at the end of his schnozz.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (y7DUB)

469 IMPOSSIBLE There are about 1.4 total Elec cars in US. Selling 2.6 Million in one year would required about 40 to 50 new gas plants or about 20 new nukes.

Translation: Get used to rolling blackouts.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (C+evo)

470 Jen: Well, I'm also happy to repeat that we have the first female Treasury secretary and a team that's surrounding her," Psaki said.

Does this mean that they are going on a shopping spree?
Posted by: Observer

THERE goes the family budget.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (shN6a)

471 Now for a heartwarming story, losses on short positions has cost investors (primarily institutional) over 70 billion dollars so far this year. The average profit per month for short sellers is about 2.7 billion dollars per month to give perspective. So about two years of profits are down the drain for professional short sellers.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y36qcbtd

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (pO7gM)

472 Mitt 84% approval from Utah Dems

64% dis from state Repubs

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (5QBw6)

473 IMPOSSIBLE There are about 1.4 total Elec cars in US. Selling 2.6 Million in one year would required about 40 to 50 new gas plants or about 20 new nukes.

Translation: Get used to rolling blackouts.
Posted by: Observer

Even in your vehicle!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:22 AM (shN6a)

474 So GM is going all electric by 2035. Do I recall correctly that the GM President is a big time lefty?
Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (G0vdT)
*************
Have these people even thought about the fact that if you're living in a state that borders on the gulf coast you can lose power for 2 weeks if a hurricane hits no matter what the hurricane is categorized as.
How is an electric car going to help me when I have to evacuate and my car won't start because I have no electricity?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

475 Now for a heartwarming story, losses on short positions has cost investors (primarily institutional) over 70 billion dollars so far this year. The average profit per month for short sellers is about 2.7 billion dollars per month to give perspective. So about two years of profits are down the drain for professional short sellers.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y36qcbtd

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (pO7gM)

So that wealth distribution that the left says is so good for us is now bad for us?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2021 09:22 AM (xfb67)

476 DavePortnoy@stoolpresidente

I see you're following me now. @vladtenev. I'm coming for you and I'm never stopping.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:23 AM (cF8AT)

477 474 Have these people even thought about the fact that if you're living in a state that borders on the gulf coast you can lose power for 2 weeks if a hurricane hits no matter what the hurricane is categorized as.
How is an electric car going to help me when I have to evacuate and my car won't start because I have no electricity?
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

==========

You will die like a good plebe.

Now shut up and eat your gruel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

478 Despite the distrust of media, the narrative is still controlled by them, with help from Google. Google is still over 90% of that market (searches a big part, but also other control) ... and even if people in polls say they distrust, they only catch some of the big lies. The Big Lie is presented on a platform of smaller lies.

For example ... Global Warming ... OK, we won't all die in five years, BUT we do have to stop producing (that dirty black) "carbon". People (en masse) just accept, over time. The Central Planners have this figured out, and they are now ready to crush dissent, to help motivate those that are "deniers". The Karens will help sniff out the resistance.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 09:23 AM (Cus5s)

479 DavePortnoy@stoolpresidente

I see you're following me now. @vladtenev. I'm coming for you and I'm never stopping.
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:23 AM (cF8AT)
================

One bite, everybody knows the rules

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 09:24 AM (mZUr4)

480 469 IMPOSSIBLE There are about 1.4 total Elec cars in US. Selling 2.6 Million in one year would required about 40 to 50 new gas plants or about 20 new nukes.

Translation: Get used to rolling blackouts.
Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (C+evo)
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What's good for California is good for the rest of the nation. N'est-ce Pas?

Posted by: WisRich at January 29, 2021 09:24 AM (G0vdT)

481 471 Now for a heartwarming story, losses on short positions has cost investors (primarily institutional) over 70 billion dollars so far this year. The average profit per month for short sellers is about 2.7 billion dollars per month to give perspective. So about two years of profits are down the drain for professional short sellers.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y36qcbtd
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (pO7gM)

Short selling is typically somewhat stable profits followed by spectacular blowups.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at January 29, 2021 09:24 AM (Zm+LZ)

482 475 https://preview.tinyurl.com/y36qcbtd

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (pO7gM)

So that wealth distribution that the left says is so good for us is now bad for us?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2021 09:22 AM (xfb67)

=========

No, it was fine when the federal government was pumping up stocks, keeping them unnaturally high through the pandemic and lowered economic activity, but it's bad when regular people make the losses happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

483 Translation: Get used to rolling blackouts.
Posted by: Observer

Even in your vehicle!

Except it won't be rolling.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (C+evo)

484 Now for a heartwarming story, losses on short positions has cost investors (primarily institutional) over 70 billion dollars so far this year. The average profit per month for short sellers is about 2.7 billion dollars per month to give perspective. So about two years of profits are down the drain for professional short sellers. ...
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (pO7gM)
++++
Shorting is risky. Very risky. Technically, the downside is undefined and the upside is capped at 100%. It's a real pity that people who dislike hedge funds for whatever reason (that crosses the political spectrum) have figured that out, too, and figured out that if enough people play it doesn't actually cost very much to screw with them...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (UZVEt)

485 How is an electric car going to help me when I have to evacuate and my car won't start because I have no electricity?
Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

Electric cars only exist because people aren't very adept at connecting dots. This is more of that.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (y7DUB)

486
Thanks for the update from nature.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 09:20 AM (VP4Cd)

________

You're welcome. Amid all the turmoil life goes on. Watching a little finch pecking away at the nyger seed pouch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (mht8P)

487 1. They are different coins. They are mined, so limited supply (complicated process, more than I can really explain). Dogecoin is a novelty. Ethereum is the second most traded coin after Bitcoin.

2. I use Coinbase. It's a bank so you have to go through a setup process but once you have an account it's easy to use.
3. I would wait. Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin are all near record levels right now.

Posted by: brak at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (cG+eD)

488 Srsly, burn the house down now:

https://tinyurl.com/yydll69t

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (bDqIh)

489 Have these people even thought about the fact that if you're living in a state that borders on the gulf coast you can lose power for 2 weeks if a hurricane hits no matter what the hurricane is categorized as.
How is an electric car going to help me when I have to evacuate and my car won't start because I have no electricity?
Posted by: redridinghood

200 miles in an EV for a hurricane bug out isn't shit. And then you have a dead battery.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (shN6a)

490 Who on here knows crypto and is willing to put us some basic information/opinion?

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 09:13 AM (NqxJG)

It's the tulip bubble, minus the pretty flowers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (mzC78)

491 On who's side?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:16 AM (UZVEt)

What a fucking circus. I hope Shecky Schumer wears some extra large clown shoes to go with those goofy glasses perched in another zip code at the end of his schnozz.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:21 AM (y7DUB)
***********
The Democrats. He's blaming Trump for his actions.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

492 I have a better chance of guessing that guy's password than I have at making money from crypto.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (wGxSf)

493 492 I have a better chance of guessing that guy's password than I have at making money from crypto.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (wGxSf)

========

So you're telling me that there's a chance...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

494 Of course to drive these cars, you will have to log into the dashboard with your ID and password. And then you will probably have to login all your passengers as well. They don't only have to know where your car is they want to know where you and your friends are too.

Posted by: CapeFear at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (4PDMt)

495 The big joke about climate change is that all that carbon from fossil fuels eventually makes its way to the surface naturally. Far more oil and natural gas has been released by natural processes than mankind could ever hope to capture.

We're only using the stuff that got trapped in geological formations and was slowed in this process.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (xfb67)

496 They are different coins. They are mined, so limited supply

What state or country are they mined in?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (shN6a)

497 474 No electricity, no problem. Backup chain drive with pedals. Good for the cardio.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at January 29, 2021 09:27 AM (I58tH)

498 Good morning, JJ and Horde,

What are we up to, 8 masks and Bologna Virus shots every hour on the hour?

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 29, 2021 09:27 AM (CUR+x)

499 I guess that everyone who voted for the junta wants to live in sod huts, eat roots and have their identity stripped.

Welcome to The Dark Ages Redux, The Definitive Directors Cut.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 09:27 AM (jvt6t)

500 >>>Take a lesson from long-besieged law-abiding gun owners. It is about making the free exercise of once Constitutionally-protected rights expensive and burdensome to the point of self-elimination.
Posted by: 4

Ah, yes, very good point, thank you.

Posted by: Pony Tail at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (7TT6M)

501 @The_Real_Fly

SEC COMMISSIONER COMPARES $GME SQUEEZE TO CAPITOL RIOT

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yxrx8fzw

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (cF8AT)

502 478 illiniwek,
There is a difference what people express on polls and what they actually do. Often a very substantial difference. In real life, people undermine all authority--think of teenagers and parents if you will. We have cultivated an elite of know nothings that think because they are elites--that they are smarter than the general populace. The rectification will not be pleasant but Karens and their behavior won't survive it. In East Germany, roughly 10 percent of the population were informers and the regime fell in months after the Soviet troops were pulled out.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (pO7gM)

503 OK, we won't all die in five years, BUT we do have to stop producing (that dirty black) "carbon"

There gets a point where the CO₂ is so low that plants die.

I think we need plants. At least we need plants more than we need Climate Activists.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (C+evo)

504 It seems appropriate an airhead would be climate czar.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at January 29, 2021 09:29 AM (lgiXo)

505 It's almost time for the art thread, and since JJ left us unsupervised, the best we could do is talk about electric cars, bully birds, and pretend to understand BitCoin.

Man, Biden ruins EVERYTHING!

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 09:29 AM (mZUr4)

506 499 I guess that everyone who voted for the junta wants to live in sod huts, eat roots and have their identity stripped.

Welcome to The Dark Ages Redux, The Definitive Directors Cut.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 09:27 AM (jvt6t)

If you're ever in Iceland, you should tour the sod houses. Makes you feel like a Hobbit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2021 09:29 AM (xfb67)

507 SEC COMMISSIONER COMPARES $GME SQUEEZE TO CAPITOL RIOT

Video: https://tinyurl.com/yxrx8fzw
Posted by: Tami

The left are equivalent to fourth graders.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:29 AM (shN6a)

508 @vladtenev
We stand in support of you, our customers. Democratizing finance for all means giving more people access, not less. We'll keep monitoring market conditions and will update this Help Center article with the latest changes.

That's from Robin Hood's CEO on Twitter. What's amusing are the replies. There is a fair amount of "fuck you and your ass-covering for the hedge funds" but a lot of people chatting back and forth with each other in the replies on where to move their money when their trades settle, because they're abandoning the platform.

People using the thread you started to try to bail out your situation in order to discuss how to leave quickly and where to go must be humiliating for them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:30 AM (UZVEt)

509 NOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!

Posted by: Doof (Invested in Sonic the Hedge Fund) at January 29, 2021 09:30 AM (mZUr4)

510 It's almost time for the art thread, and since JJ left us unsupervised, the best we could do is talk about electric cars, bully birds, and pretend to understand BitCoin.

Pull my finger.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:31 AM (C+evo)

511 Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2021 09:29 AM (xfb67)

==============

I'd like to, but I think they'll be here soon enough.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at January 29, 2021 09:31 AM (jvt6t)

512 NOOD.

pfaggy art.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

513 Does anyone know why, on Brave, I can't view any twitter links...all it does is ask me to sign-in but I can view all twitter links on Chrome? Is there a setting I need to change on Brave?

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:31 AM (cF8AT)

514 most of those short selling losses are (imo) due to the fed gorilla throwing its weight (trillions in QE) to prop up zombie companies. The legit use of shorting is squashed. It is the Greenspan Put writ large. Markets must be propped up (even as private small business must be squashed with shut down).

The GME thing sounds like it is finally the small guy winning (maybe it is) ... BUT the fed is propping up failures ... zombies get their bonds bought, to "save the markets". imo that breaks before DOW 50k, but the real pro shorters are staying away, for the most part ... because of the fed gorilla.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 09:31 AM (Cus5s)

515 gooder and harderer!

Short-sellers are sitting on estimated losses of $70.87 billion from their short positions in U.S. companies so far this year, data from financial data analytics firm Ortex showed on Thursday.
Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at January 29, 2021 09:15 AM (5QBw6)

Alternate headline: Traditional investors set to gain $70.87 billion in naked short kerfuffle.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (yQpMk)

516 >>I see you're following me now. @vladtenev. I'm coming for you and I'm never stopping.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE VLAD CALLED HIS APP "ROBINHOOD" BUT ONE OF THE BIG RETAIL INVESTORS THEY SCREWED THIS WEEK IS THE GUY WHO STARTED A FUND (BARSTOOL FUND) THAT'S RAISED MILLIONS FROM WEALTHY CELEBRITIES TO GIVE TO SMALL BUSINESSES ACROSS AMERICA TO HELP THEM SURVIVE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (bDqIh)

517 484, Joe Mannix,
If you read WSB posts on reddit, these are by and large Millenials who have turned against the financial behemoths. Both Bernie bros and Trump supporters are equally present and the hedge fund managers have no natural resistance to group swarming activities. These folks grew up on gaming and being screwed by gaming companies and now are ready to play a game with the financial industry.

Think reindeer herds and hungry wolves in winter.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (pO7gM)

518 Embarrassing moment #579--doing an ammo inventory and discovering a drastic shortage of en bloc clips. Pretty easy to rectify, I bet. But still embarrassing.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (KATBx)

519 Srsly, burn the house down now:

https://tinyurl.com/yydll69t
Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2021 09:25 AM (bDqIh)
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Yikes. That looks like something I do when decorating my house for Halloween.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

520 Beautiful pictures of nature:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (VP4Cd)

521 Does anyone know why, on Brave, I can't view any twitter links...all it does is ask me to sign-in but I can view all twitter links on Chrome? Is there a setting I need to change on Brave?
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:31 AM (cF8AT)

Yes, there is a setting to allow embedded twitter. Also one for FB and linkedin.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2021 09:33 AM (yQpMk)

522 The key is self education and buying bit by bit to increase your insulation from society.Posted by Whig

I can attest to this.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at January 29, 2021 09:34 AM (cCxiu)

523 Get this... he lied!

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 08:42 AM (946rW)

Politicians lie? Now I have seen everything.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:34 AM (KnJdm)

524 In East Germany, roughly 10 percent of the population were informers and the regime fell in months after the Soviet troops were pulled out.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (pO7gM)

The fall of the Berlin Wall was a great day for freedom and a very depressing day at the State Department. It was the fruition of what Reagan accelerated and even the Bush Crime Family couldn't stop it.

Now it's like a vague memory.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 09:34 AM (y7DUB)

525 >>> "Enforce a state-wide mask mandate or we won't help you feed hungry poor families in your state and they'll starve to death." In the words of a friend @jamisonvid: "it's pure evil".

https://tinyurl.com/y6xfwvgw (Gab link)
Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:15 AM (cF8AT)

You are either free or you're not. People, States have a choice to make. Is there anything from uncle sugar worth both literally and figuratively muzzling your populace? I would say no.

Those golden chains they've bound you with should of been thrown off well before the 2020 coup.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 29, 2021 09:35 AM (FdmAd)

526 What state or country are they mined in?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2021 09:26 AM (shN6a)

"Mining" of crypto = running umpty-ump computer cycles to generate some huge random number out of a set of "permitted" random numbers. It is Marx's Labor Theory of Value applied to the "labor" of microprocessors.

What happens to your fortune in Bitcoin if there is a Carrington Event? Even if the "coin" is stored in non-volatile memory, how can you access any of it, to buy, say, food?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 29, 2021 09:35 AM (mzC78)

527 If you read WSB posts on reddit, these are by and large Millenials who have turned against the financial behemoths. Both Bernie bros and Trump supporters are equally present and the hedge fund managers have no natural resistance to group swarming activities. These folks grew up on gaming and being screwed by gaming companies and now are ready to play a game with the financial industry.

Think reindeer herds and hungry wolves in winter.
Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:32 AM (pO7gM)
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Yup. Plenty of commies on WSB. Odd alignment of interests. The commies are in because "eat the rich" and the non-commies are in because "fuck the entitled elite." In this case, those targets are the same people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 29, 2021 09:36 AM (UZVEt)

528 There gets a point where the CO2 is so low that plants die.

I think we need plants. At least we need plants more than we need Climate Activists.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM

I've read that if you were running a greenhouse for optimal plant growth, you'd artificially increase CO2 levels to the 600ppm level. Obviously, if we're now at 400 ppm, crop yields will increase with higher levels.

Posted by: Pennsylvania Conservative at January 29, 2021 09:36 AM (N/gDA)

529 "The rectification will not be pleasant but Karens and their behavior won't survive it." whig

thanks for that ... I saw that term mentioned (by you probably) before, and noted it as something I need to look into. Of course we are not Germany, and the overthrow of USA has been largely a big PsyOp, largely successful via decades in schools and infiltration even of churches. ... But "rectification" may be the proper way of framing our current struggle ... idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 09:37 AM (Cus5s)

530 53 Watched the video clip of the father in Loudon VA confronting the School Board over school shutdown.
He was great! A good example of what we can and should do on the local level. An army of one, multiply that by millions and you've got a force which is better than nothing.
Posted by: Ziba at January 29, 2021 07:43 AM

Just think of Mark Robinson. In 2018, he gave a magnificent from-the-heart speech at a Greensboro City Council meeting regarding gun rights. Two years later, he is the first AA ever elected to the position of Lieutenant Governor of NC.

Posted by: Moonbeam at January 29, 2021 09:37 AM (qe5CM)

531 This morning it is cold out, and cold especially here in the dining room where sra blaster and I work from home.

Sliding glass door there seemed drafty. Took some plastic painter tarp and taped it up. Immediate warming of the room, and the tarp is bulged out from the pressure.

Guess it needs some caulk...

Posted by: blaster at January 29, 2021 09:37 AM (ZfRYq)

532 Take a lesson from long-besieged law-abiding gun
owners. It is about making the free exercise of once
Constitutionally-protected rights expensive and burdensome to the point
of self-elimination.

Posted by: 4

Ah, yes, very good point, thank you.

Posted by: Pony Tail at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (7TT6M)

Again, they can only do that if we allow it.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 09:39 AM (946rW)

533 Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 09:28 AM (C+evo)

That point varies quite a bit depending on plant species, but about at 150 ppm CO2 plant growth is reduced from "normal". Interestingly, we were at around 180 ppm about 200 years ago and now were at around 414 ppm. So, its not hard to imagine that plant growth may have been limited for a while.

People with actual greenhouses boost the CO2 to around 700-1500 ppm to stimulate plant growth and production. They use natural gas or propane burners or chemical reactions. This makes the greenhouse warmer more than the sunlight through the glass effect.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 29, 2021 09:39 AM (xfb67)

534 Yes, there is a setting to allow embedded twitter. Also one for FB and linkedin.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 29, 2021 09:33 AM (yQpMk)

I think that's the one that I turned off the other day so ace's posts with tweets in them don't cause the refresh to jump around.

Don't think that's the problem because even when I had it set to 'allow' I still couldn't view any links that sent me to twitter.

Posted by: Tami at January 29, 2021 09:39 AM (cF8AT)

535 Dan traded in his soul, and got nothing in return except to spend eternity in outer darkness.

Posted by: Observer at January 29, 2021 08:45 AM (C+evo)

Coming to the defense of Liz Cheney was really really dumb; some misplaced concept of chivalry and respect for fake authority.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

I suspect that someone put a ~~bug~~ Bush in his ear.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:42 AM (KnJdm)

536 Coming to the defense of Liz Cheney was really really dumb; some misplaced concept of chivalry and respect for fake authority.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at January 29, 2021 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

I suspect that someone put a bug Bush in his ear.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 09:42 AM (KnJdm)

Dan Crenshaw is a tool of the establishment and always has been. Plus he is a freaking history illiterate who is as brainwashed as any lefty. I never was fooled by the eye patch.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at January 29, 2021 09:45 AM (946rW)

537 526 AOP, like anything else, it is a way to exchange something valued by people without engaging in barter. People find it useful for making transactions via distance that are difficult to track unlike credit card or paypal transactions. Some are speculators.

The history of money has a funny past but basically every civilization develops some medium of exchange because bartering is a messy and inefficient way to exchange physical goods and services in the real world.

Posted by: whig at January 29, 2021 09:45 AM (pO7gM)

538 In fairness to the "DHS Warning" when the government stomps all over the nuts the fundamental rights of its citizens (massive voter fraud, selectively prosecuting conservatives, stonewalling investigations of Democrats, prosecuting meme creators, etc etc etc) you may pick up "chatter" that people are pissed.

Posted by: Zek at January 29, 2021 09:47 AM (w/5KC)

539 "running a greenhouse for optimal plant growth, you'd artificially
increase CO2 levels to the 600ppm level. Obviously, if we're now at 400
ppm, crop yields will increase with higher levels."

greenhouses can go higher than that even .. I saw 750-1500 recommended one place. and--- "It has been reported that submarine personnel exposed continuously at 30,000 ppm were only slightly affected, provided the oxygen content of the air was maintained at normal concentrations" .. so toxicity is not a problem.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 09:52 AM (Cus5s)

540 " "It has been reported that submarine personnel exposed continuously at 30,000 ppm were only slightly affected, "

Bubbleheads.

How would one notice any effects?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 09:56 AM (S7VTO)

541 It has been reported that submarine personnel exposed continuously at 30,000 ppm were only slightly affected, "

Bubbleheads.

How would one notice any effects?
==
hypercarbia/hypercapnia

if it comes on slowly, you can adjust for it metabolically. There can be sxs eventually delirium, and death. I don't know about the submarine study but I wonder how long there were exposed? Hours or months? Interesting.

I'm sure an intensivist could explain it.

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 10:05 AM (H9BF+)

542
"Mining" of crypto = running umpty-ump computer cycles to generate some huge random number out of a set of "permitted" random numbers. It is Marx's Labor Theory of Value applied to the "labor" of microprocessors.

What happens to your fortune in Bitcoin if there is a Carrington Event? Even if the "coin" is stored in non-volatile memory, how can you access any of it, to buy, say, food?
==
what happens if you fortune is stored in a 401k in US dollars and the dollar busts, the govt collapses, breaks up?

Diversification. I wouldn't put a fortune in crypto. But I am thinking about spreading a couple of hundred bucks on some small coin just to see what happens over time.

I think the trend will be for the younger folks to distrust regular money. Demographically, there will be pressure for crypto to increase in value - until the government steps in to make it illegal.

Bit coin is price wise off the table already. Not going to risk that kind of money.

Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 10:11 AM (0R4H+)

543 this speculative attack on hedge funds is nothing compared to the coming speculative attack on the US Dollar via Bitcoin

imagine if there is no way to print more money for bailouts?

That's what a bitcoin currency standard means.

Posted by: Jose at January 29, 2021 10:16 AM (L9Ewk)

544 "Bit coin is price wise off the table already. Not going to risk that kind of money.
Posted by: simplemind at January 29, 2021 10:11 AM (0R4H+)"

Bitcoin is an assymetric bet, you don't need to risk much for massive gains.

Even if it only displaces the market cap of gold, that's a 20X gain from where it is now.

Posted by: Jose at January 29, 2021 10:18 AM (L9Ewk)

545 this is the CDC link that mentioned the submarine thing ... I think that level was for extended times .. they mentioned "signs of intoxication at 50k level for thirty minutes" ... I see their ref is from 1951, US Navy.

https://tinyurl.com/y3ffrscw

Posted by: illiniwek at January 29, 2021 10:19 AM (Cus5s)

546 "It has been reported that submarine personnel exposed continuously at 30,000 ppm were only slightly affected, "

Bubbleheads.

How would one notice any effects?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 29, 2021 09:56 AM (S7VTO)

The gay sex activity levels would be retarded.

Posted by: 4 at January 29, 2021 10:26 AM (KnJdm)

547 It's not a coincidence that no Republican has won any meaningful elected office since Oregon went to mail in ballot only elections.

Posted by: portlandon at January 29, 2021 11:15 AM (+oR7L)

548 Bizarre times indeed, thanks JJ

Posted by: Summer of Love at January 29, 2021 11:18 AM (FJrl0)

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