Revealed: Both CNN and MSNBC Paid the Antifa Leader $35,000 for His Video of the Riots He Encouraged and Took Part In

"Burn this mother down," he encouraged his fellow rioters, and then talked a cop into letting them into the Capitol.

Which is supposedly the greatest crime of the past two centuries. Worse than the Holocaust, really.

He was a professional coaching raw amateurs about how to riot.

He was an architect of "the terror" Jake Tapper and the slightly-less-partisan AOC say happened that day.

And CNN, and MSNBC, paid him a lot of money for that terror.

They are terror-financiers.

A federal magistrate judge has turned down prosecutors’ effort to block a man accused of participating in the Capitol riot from using Twitter and Facebook, but ordered him to end his involvement with a business he founded that the Justice Department says promotes and glorifies violent protests.
The defendant, John Sullivan of Utah, has maintained that he attends raucous demonstrations as a journalist, sharing videos through his Insurgence USA website and social media platforms. Sullivan’s defense attorney even filed invoices with the court showing that CNN and NBC each paid Sullivan’s firm $35,000 last month for rights to video he filmed of chaotic scenes outside and inside the Capitol, including the deadly shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

By the way, Politico claims the political affiliation of this Black Lives Matter activist is "murky," because their Black Lives Matter pals say he's not one of them.

Of course they say that. And of course Politico repeats, without skepticism, the unproven claims of the media's allied paramilitary forces.

CNN Paid Leftist Who Stormed The Capitol $35,000.

Corporate media is FUNDING what they call "terror." https://t.co/iXxKDvXkrL
— James Lindsay, increasingly relevant (@ConceptualJames) February 17, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 01:53 PM

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1 First

Posted by: clutch at February 17, 2021 01:53 PM (9UmRs)

2 Ace, thank you.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 17, 2021 01:53 PM (O9w8z)

3 Sedition! Treason!! Impeach CNN

Posted by: LASue at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (Ed8Zd)

4 "Insurrection" for hire.

Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (KnJdm)

5 Sullivan's creation in "Insurgence USA", isn't that "insurrection"?

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (ONvIw)

6 I read it was like 70k.

All part of the game, giving money to people they approve of to do their work.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (ifmtJ)

7 Why has this guy not been waterboarded? I want all his financial records exposed going back 5 years. How about cell phone traces? Txt msgs? I bet there is WAY more here than has come out.

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (uo2jO)

8 If we're going to drone strike XiNN I'll need to set the dvr up...

Posted by: Unclefacts at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (ihUzW)

9 Drone strikes indeed. Media first.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (jvt6t)

10 3 Sedition! Treason!! Impeach CNN
Posted by: LASue at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (Ed8Zd)

=========

I believe that CNN has okayed the use of drone strikes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

11 If I carry a pencil to a riot, can I escape prosecution too?

Posted by: LASue at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (Ed8Zd)

12 It's good to know they're using actual footage now from the terrorists they pay. Those photoshops from Iraq were embarrassing.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (ohOLP)

13 6 I read it was like 70k.

All part of the game, giving money to people they approve of to do their work.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (ifmtJ)

==========

"I will fight the NRA as a gay man. Pay me."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

14 "Burn"? Why, yes.

Burn it down.

Scatter the stones.

Salt the earth where it stood.

h/t AllenG

Posted by: creeper at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (XxJt1)

15 Wasn't this guy immediately released upon someone posting bail?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (puu6v)

16 But yeah, the Media needs to be Purged.

Sadly the NKVD of the US is the FBI and they work for the Democrats.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (ifmtJ)

17 Wait 'til you find out how much they paid James Hodgkinson, Rand Paul's neighbor, and the Vegas shooter ...

Posted by: ShainS at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (6nN7e)

18 It's all an op

Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2021 01:57 PM (DJFLF)

19 I prefer Insomniacs human pinata treatment.

Posted by: Max Power at February 17, 2021 01:57 PM (Hucnr)

20 Dirty Deeds.

https://youtu.be/cAk4OAAzZBs

Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 01:57 PM (KnJdm)

21 Dude probably works for the CIA. This is just a way to pay him off that looks legal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (xfb67)

22 What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (R/m4+)

23 So now the alphabet Media are paying leftists to promote their agenda and ratings? Why are they not being indicted and investigated?

Posted by: Czech Chick at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (haWye)

24 Their violence is speech. Profitable speech.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (VVEnO)

25 The media is basically just a slush fund for liberals to use as bribes and payoffs to their own. Chelsea's high-paying media job? The Obamas Netflix deals? Obama's boom deal? Etc. Etc.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (H5knJ)

26 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

27 No way! Next you'll tell me that NBC News faked an exploding gas tank and deceptively edited the George Zimmerman 911 call.

Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (mZUr4)

28 Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (xfb67)

FBI informant.

Posted by: Bosk at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (SWbVS)

29 So wait, the guy who led in the NPR reporterette is trying to claim he is a reporter? BTW, I didn't know being a reporter is defense against being a participant in a crime.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (+4D1M)

30 They are terror-financiers.

-----

"This -- along with giving comfort to, aiding, and abetting your enemies -- is all protected by the 1st Amendment (or what's we smirkingly refer to as "American Suicide Pact)!"

Posted by: ShainS at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (6nN7e)

31 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (9gDA7)

32 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

She'd make me go ape

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (ifmtJ)

33 Reposted because kinda on point.

The cow formally known as Bette Midler twatted about the storms in Texas and implied that there are God's retribution against the evil Cruz and Cornyn. It is a mental illness and conservatism the only cure.
Posted by: Cheri

The public debate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez v. CNN analyst Asha Rangappa

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 17, 2021 02:00 PM (VVEnO)

34 15 Wasn't this guy immediately released upon someone posting bail?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (puu6v)

IIRC, he wasn't even charged at first.

Posted by: CN at February 17, 2021 02:00 PM (ONvIw)

35 FBI informant.

***

Don't be silly you wacky conspiracy theorist.. There's no precedent of that with the Proud Boys or Oathkeepers.

Posted by: Lysenko's Wonder Kulaks - Call your parents at February 17, 2021 02:00 PM (hsOar)

36 Buying footage from criminals recording their crimes is an interesting business practice.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (H5knJ)

37 As Mr. Limbaugh would say: "paid agents of Rent-A-Mob."

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (49Dnm)

38 There is so much questionable shit going on in all the collected videos, yet only 3% of the public seems to be aware of it. Too bad we don't have a free press that's looking into any of it.

I knew something was up on 1/5 when the guy on twatter showed video of the DC police escorting shuttle buses full of antifa into town. I could just never imagine it would boil down to an inside job. I gotta hand it to the left, they never fail to amaze me at how low they'll sink.

Posted by: clutch cargo at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (46GDR)

39 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

You sir, are a Great American!

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (4I/2K)

40 CNN dipped into the Kronkite fund.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (Y577q)

41 The IRS will ensure that he can take a tax credit for the full amount too.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (ch6++)

42 Wasn't this guy immediately released upon someone posting bail?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (puu6v)

Yes. We have a three strikes policy before considering a meeting on discussing requesting bail of a BLM/Antifa member.

Posted by: DOJ at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (+4D1M)

43 26 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

she aint no Hedy

Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM (6iURM)

44 26 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

Not quite kbdabear material TJM...

Is there such a thing as "peak" Jessica Lange...I think not!

Posted by: browndog at February 17, 2021 02:02 PM (BgMrQ)

45 Apologies for the late question, I am at work: Iowahawk was nevertrump? Last I heard he was supposed to be pretty squared away but that's been a few years.

Posted by: Citizen sans nation at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (yQokc)

46 she aint no Hedy
Posted by: REDACTED at February 17, 2021 02:01 PM

That's Hedley!

Posted by: Hedley Lamar at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (ejd/p)

47 So there was a leftwing media freelancer involved in the events of Jan. 6. How many FBI agents? How many registered Demoncrats?

Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (lgiXo)

48
She'd make me go ape
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (ifmtJ

Isn't that identity theft?

PunkMonkey might have something to say about that.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (9gDA7)

49 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange
Sorry, but Wynona Ryder on the steps had a greater oscillation amplitude.

Posted by: pep at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (v16oJ)

50 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange
Sorry, but Wynona Ryder on the steps had a greater oscillation amplitude.
Posted by: pep at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (v16oJ)

a friend would share pics/video...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (ifmtJ)

51 I think there is a third corner to this media/paid insurrectionist triangle, the FBI is involved it's just not been revealed yet. I'm sure somebody won't be able to refrain from boasting about it eventually.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (hpVf/)

52 He's one of the Loud Boys.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (63Dwl)

53 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

1/4 of our energy production is fairy dust and unicorn piss, aka, green energy. The wind turbines are frozen solid.

No state income tax doesn't play a part in the current situation. Energy production is private enterprise.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (G0G8s)

54 In the spirit of goodwill and friendship:

https://tinyurl.com/ycqkdx67

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (+4D1M)

55 She'd make me go ape
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 01:59 PM (ifmtJ

Isn't that identity theft?

PunkMonkey might have something to say about that.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (9gDA7)

There is a mulitverse of monkeys

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (ifmtJ)

56 The Zapruder heirs got 16 million. Of course, they had to sue and go through arbitration to get that amount.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (OafoN)

57 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets

-
It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (VVEnO)

58 That was for JamesMadison.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (+4D1M)

59 I said it before, and I'll say it again:

D-LAMP was a prophet without honor.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (2JVJo)

60 50 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange
Sorry, but Wynona Ryder on the steps had a greater oscillation amplitude.
Posted by: pep at February 17, 2021 02:03 PM (v16oJ)

a friend would share pics/video...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (ifmtJ)

==========

We need a showdown of step descension.

Winona v Jessica v Brie Larson

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

61 Just found out about Rush. He was a believer and is now with his lord and savior,
Gone too soon. The great ones never seem to stick around for long.

Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (UUBmN)

62 I would add Jessica to my harem.

Posted by: Bosk at February 17, 2021 02:06 PM (SWbVS)

63 Winona v Jessica v Brie Larson
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

Win / Place / Show...

Posted by: browndog at February 17, 2021 02:06 PM (BgMrQ)

64 "Buying footage from criminals recording their crimes ..."

Seems to me it was more of a commission.

Posted by: navybrat, semper paratus at February 17, 2021 02:06 PM (w7KSn)

65 49 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange

I remember those dressing room scenes from Tootsie well

Posted by: InCali at February 17, 2021 02:06 PM (9AFWN)

66
Energy production is private enterprise.
Posted by: rickb223

I'm sure they'd like to change that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2021 02:06 PM (63Dwl)

67 I saw A Multiverse of Monkeys open for Birdsongs of the Mezozoic at TT the Bear's in '92.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 02:06 PM (2JVJo)

68 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

This seems to be some of the most ignorant shit I've read in a long time.

State income tax has NOTHING to do with this. It's not a government entity, the power companies. They CHARGE for their services.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:08 PM (9gDA7)

69 KTRH is now whining about "price gouging". Remember, boys and girls, the market does not set prices. The POLICE set the prices.

What's this BULLSHIT about Americans believing in freedom and free markets? The ONLY thing Americans know how to do is to LIE, LIE, and LIE again and again and again.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 02:08 PM (49Dnm)

70 We need a showdown of step descension.

Winona v Jessica v Brie Larson
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

We do need this.
There was an 'actress' of the adult variety named Blondi, I think. She had the most jiggle I ever saw.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:09 PM (ifmtJ)

71 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

I don't remember which season I'm on now, but the earlier seasons of American Horror Story, she was prominently featured. She's aged like a woman her age should. Which is to say, I don't think she's butchered herself with plastic surgery, and still looked great. For a woman her age. Which isn't young.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2021 02:09 PM (oQ94s)

72 There's a book to be written about 1/6, if one wanted to put in the 1000 hours of research necessary to compile the lies and duplicity of the democrats and the msm.

All the data has been compiled. Arrest records, affiliations, social media presence, etc.
Video evidence of the capital police letting "rioters" into the building that runs counter to the narrative and the 20 seconds of violence they show on a loop forever.

Of course, once the case was cogently made that 1/6 wasn't what it's been built into, that writer would have no place to get published, nor would a web host allow the info to stay up for long.

But we know.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:09 PM (z79tQ)

73

Multiverse of Monkeys on the keyboards. Multiverse of Monkeys!

Posted by: Peter Frampton at February 17, 2021 02:09 PM (63Dwl)

74 When your ratings are in the shitter you do what you have to do to get them out of the shitter.

$35K was a bargain.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 17, 2021 02:09 PM (3H9h1)

75 59 I said it before, and I'll say it again:

D-LAMP was a prophet without honor.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (2JVJo)

I think I understand your point but he was no prophet. Everyone knew the same and basically agreed with his viewpoint but honored the site's request to refrain from the language he was using. It was a different time. He unfortunately ignored that request.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:09 PM (2DOZq)

76 68 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.

Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

This seems to be some of the most ignorant shit I've read in a long time.

i thought the NYT was campaigning against misinformation. Maybe I was wrong.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 17, 2021 02:10 PM (lgiXo)

77 23 So now the alphabet Media are paying leftists to promote their agenda and ratings? ...
Posted by: Czech Chick at February 17, 2021 01:58 PM (haWye)

Chick, I think it has been going on a LONG time. PIEOTUS superpower is to make them reveal themselves. Evil always reveals itself, eventually. Why? Malignant narcissism.

I have been busy today, did not know about Rush's passing. To see that patriot receive the award from the hands of the Real FLOTUS brought tears to my eyes. May he rest in peace. I will not read the evil calumny written by the twitter scum.

Posted by: Flyover - RRIP at February 17, 2021 02:10 PM (Rbu5d)

78 I will never be convinced that there were any Trump voters in the crowd that stormed the Capitol building. It was a completely wrong demographic, hooded and horned thugs. Trump's voters are older, wiser and more measured.

MAGA hats were as much a prop that day as masks were in Portland, Seattle, Atlanta etc.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:10 PM (hpVf/)

79 OT Paul Shanklin the comedian who created many of Rushs parodies posted a sweet statement on Facebook about Rush. He was with Rushs program for 28 years.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (kQOtv)

80 This is really OT but yesterday I took the Paul Anka Integrity SAT test and laughed me silly head off. The only problem is when I try to access the original audio to Anka's tirade, the linkage doesn't work for me.
I wonder if someone has the link to the the Thing that started it all?

Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (DJFLF)

81 lol. Our economist just advised the Fraud and Democrats $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill, isn't, and will have a net negative effect on the economy, with some of that negativity coming next year when we can least afford it.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (VpIIl)

82 BTW, I didn't know being a reporter is defense against being a participant in a crime.
____________

It's not.

Especially when the "reporter" is saying shit like "let's burn this MF down!" That's actual incitement, unlike what Trump said.

But as we know, laws only apply to the right these days, so this criminal will probably get off with a slap on the wrist, like that lawyer who fabricated evidence and perjured himself in the Flynn case, and got a $100 fine and a stern talking to for his crimes.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (k4dH2)

83 No problem so problematic that more taxes and government officials can't fix.

Posted by: Lysenkos Bagged Lettuce, 100% abortion free and only tested for safety using abortions at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (1+b9Z)

84 Speaking of monkeys, by the way, the Ape's bill of particulars from this morning's Morning Report is brilliant!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (VVEnO)

85 KTRH is now whining about "price gouging". Remember, boys and girls, the market does not set prices. The POLICE set the prices.

What's this BULLSHIT about Americans believing in freedom and free markets? The ONLY thing Americans know how to do is to LIE, LIE, and LIE again and again and again.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 02:08 PM (49Dnm)

Texas' PUC said earlier that electricity prices should rise during this shortage. Eat Me!

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (4I/2K)

86 What's happening in Texas is what happens WHEN you buy into the green new deal.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (9gDA7)

87 Paid agitator and creator of news content.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (gDJlP)

88 @51:

I suspect so as well and hate that only because I so wanted this to be a tiny show of force by dissident Americans. If Congress has a 9/11 sideshow on the insurrection op, don't expect this guy to be a show trial witness. Now where's the 9/11 commission on voter fraud? Oh, yeah, that's not who we are (clutches pearls, puckers vagina).

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 02:12 PM (puu6v)

89 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 17, 2021 02:05 PM (2JVJo)

Uh oh. You've invoked the unmentionable name.
Prepare yourself.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:12 PM (z79tQ)

90 The Zapruder heirs got 16 million. Of course, they had to sue and go through arbitration to get that amount.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at February 17, 2021 02:04 PM (OafoN)

I heard recently, the powers that be pretended the thing didn't exist, and it was something like 1975 before Gerry Rivers, of all people, broke the story of its existence.

And I don't know if there are STILL frames missing, but the earlier versions released had missing frames that the govie claimed were not missing, and who are you gonna believe, us or those konspiracy kooks.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2021 02:12 PM (oQ94s)

91 Really, to guarantee a drone strike, shouldn't we start a rumor that there were unfettered conversations going on in the stairwells of the CNN building in Atlanta and the bathrooms of the Washington Post and NYT?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 17, 2021 02:12 PM (a/dOO)

92 including the deadly shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

Do we know this to be true?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 17, 2021 02:12 PM (DkFt0)

93 That antifa leader was thrown out of BLM protests after being accused of being a police provocateur
He suddenly switched from being a Mormon conservative to antifa
Weird huh?

Posted by: Proud Moderate at February 17, 2021 02:12 PM (O9TJJ)

94 This insurrection was brought to you by CNN.

Posted by: Desultory joe at February 17, 2021 02:13 PM (L9P9s)

95 Why has this guy not been waterboarded? I want all his financial records exposed going back 5 years. How about cell phone traces? Txt msgs? I bet there is WAY more here than has come out.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at February 17, 2021 01:55 PM (uo2jO)

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You crack me up. FBI to investigate one of their own operations? You mean like the FISA abuses?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:13 PM (hpVf/)

96 His company is even called Insurgence USA, but Trump was tried in the Senate for doing what this fucker actually did.

Kill the fucker.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 02:13 PM (0bGEp)

97 HK MR762A1 LRP III .308/7.62x51mm, 16.5" Barrel, Vortex Viper PSTII, BLK/FDE, 20rd; 75 benjamins; https://bit.ly/3rWpGPo

Posted by: bonhomme at February 17, 2021 02:13 PM (UW2ZS)

98 Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

This seems to be some of the most ignorant shit I've read in a long time.

i thought the NYT was campaigning against misinformation. Maybe I was wrong.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 17, 2021 02:10 P

Response to that person... It puts more money in our own pockets and less in Union and political coffers. Any more questions?

Posted by: LASue at February 17, 2021 02:14 PM (Ed8Zd)

99 The MSM paid them. I wonder if the MSM planted them because they knew about the op. It would surprise me not in the least.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 02:14 PM (UZVEt)

100 69 KTRH is now whining about "price gouging". Remember, boys and girls, the market does not set prices. The POLICE set the prices.

What's this BULLSHIT about Americans believing in freedom and free markets? The ONLY thing Americans know how to do is to LIE, LIE, and LIE again and again and again.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 17, 2021 02:08 PM (49Dnm)

The contracts for natural gas are set by paper pushers. We've always temporarily intervened with the market in a national emergency. It's not a black and white / all or nothing issue. There is a time and place.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:14 PM (2DOZq)

101 Wasn't this guy immediately released upon someone posting bail?
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 17, 2021 01:56 PM (puu6v)

Was it Kamala?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (hpVf/)

102 OrangeMan(Bad) = TRUE

Posted by: NPC_10010010 at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (EP9Nq)

103 iA federal magistrate judge has turned down prosecutors' effort to block a man accused of participating in the Capitol riot from using Twitter and Facebook, but ordered him to end his involvement with a business he founded that the Justice Department says promotes and glorifies violent protests.
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So now the DoJ can just fire you from your own business if they don't like what you say? That's a chilling development.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (UZVEt)

104 lol. Part 2. Also, current Fraud policies are going to lead to a decline in hourly wages, slower overall wage growth, less disposable income, slower job growth (and perhaps negative growth), slower business growth, manufacturing losses, energy cost increases and encroachments by foreign countries like China into various markets.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (VpIIl)

105 One day in the future Democrats will say the parties "switched" and that [current day] conservatives are the Real Antifa.

They will call their opponents Republicantifa.

You may now return to the present day.

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (uEbPt)

106 Unrelated to anything, I started a fast today. For the next 10 days, my main "food" source is powdered greens, in water.

Tastes like liquid baby bowel movement.

Egad... 9 1/2 more days of this.....

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (oQ94s)

107 > This seems to be some of the most ignorant shit I've read in a long time.

I think AOC's "Texas is a result of not implementing the Green New Deal" is more ignorant, but it's a close call.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 17, 2021 02:15 PM (UW2ZS)

108 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don't* pursue a Green New Deal.
Wrangler at February 17, 2021 02:00 PM (VVEnO)

"Gaia gets very amgery when you don't enact my policy preferences!" Truly, one of my favorites.

I will give Titty Caca credit for mastering the shameless gaslighting game so effortlessly.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (DXFDM)

109 Yes it is all so true
PLUS better he also collected big from Soros
Maybe he is also a secret Qanon member too

Posted by: Proud Moderate at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (O9TJJ)

110 I was wondering if that was just what he was saying or if it was substantiated and lookie there actual receipts.

Thoughts and prayers, Horde, we may be getting an ice storm tonight and, needless to say, it's OMG WE'RE GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIEEE right now.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (GbPPJ)

111 Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (VpIIl)

Expect food prices, especially citrus, to skyrocket this year because if this freeze also. 2021 is shaping up to be at least as ugly as 2020.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (1lKRm)

112 Damn, just heard about Rush. This is painful, especially at a time like this.

This world will be a little emptier without him On the other hand he is probably sharing a cigar with the big guy and other greats in the other.

Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (MxEKc)

113 Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation

So the thesis is that if we had a state income tax, we'd have power? Ask Californians how that works out for them and get back to me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (H5knJ)

114 "Gaia gets very amgery when you don't enact my policy preferences!" Truly, one of my favorites.

I will give Titty Caca credit for mastering the shameless gaslighting game so effortlessly.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (DXFDM)
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This is the best of all possible worlds.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 17, 2021 02:17 PM (UZVEt)

115 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:17 PM (9gDA7)

116 Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Lol. California.

Posted by: LASue at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (Ed8Zd)

117 More likely they paid him $35,000 to start something and catch it on video.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (+4qIQ)

118 115 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:17 PM (9gDA7)

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Let's start small.

Is she the dumbest person to ever represent her own district?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (LvTSG)

119 So the thesis is that if we had a state income tax, we'd have power? Ask Californians how that works out for them and get back to me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (H5knJ)

In CA, you get brown outs and heroin junkies shitting on your doorstep! Yea, income taxes!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (1ISKN)

120 "Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation"

I've heard worse analogies, but right now none of them come to mind.

Ask states with an income tax if this works out.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (VpIIl)

121 Expect food prices, especially citrus, to skyrocket this year because if this freeze also. 2021 is shaping up to be at least as ugly as 2020.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (1lKRm)

Except it's in the 80s in Florida.

The power of DeSantis compels.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (GbPPJ)

122 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:17 PM (9gDA7)

She gives SJL an honest run for the money.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:19 PM (4I/2K)

123 And I tempted the gods. I was on the phone with someone on the east coast, not 30 minutes ago, and said "nah, we hardly ever get snow here, in fact it's probably about 40 right now."

As I type, freakin' snow is falling at a 45 degree angle.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2021 02:19 PM (oQ94s)

124 I will say that I find the explanation that Texas not having an income tax being the cause of the power outages far more convincing than the direct connection of wind power failing in icy conditions.

It just makes sense.

#ScienceAllNightintheBoudoir

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

125 To heal America, I present, peak Jessica Lange:

https://tinyurl.com/4mhxjxvm

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets

With respect, Peak Jessica Lange was this line from Mark Steyn's review of The Passion of the Christ:

"[a]nd Jesus is stalked by someone who's a cross between Nosferatu and Jessica Lange in All That Jazz."

Great review of that great movie, if you ever have a few moments: https://www.steynonline.com/3957/the-passion-of-the-christ

Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 02:19 PM (0bGEp)

126 The parody that is now the public square, major institutions, and most non-"conservative" public voices is simply jaw-dropping.

Imagine how dumbed down much of the public is, that the "press" can carry on this absurd fantasy campaign of "insurrection", as if there was any connection to Trump, or any attempt to seize power, or any effort to kill, or even any significant mayhem, when the whole thing comes down to still-unexplained behavior by the Capitol Police (not just closing access to the Capitol, a simple and easy thing to do) and the actions of known s**t-stirrers (like the one in the post - and others).

Not that it will get serious traction - but this is crude, stupid lying and propaganda that contradicts all common sense (Trump rallies attract a mature adult crowd, with no know record or likelihood of violent behavior).

This is claiming that extraterrestrials have landed on the Mall and are controlling Americans via their smart phones. It's that absurd.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:20 PM (OTzUX)

127 What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Not much and a long time ago.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 17, 2021 02:20 PM (KAi1n)

128 78 I will never be convinced that there were any Trump voters in the crowd that stormed the Capitol building. It was a completely wrong demographic, hooded and horned thugs. Trump's voters are older, wiser and more measured.
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There were LE officers who reported that they saw young people dressed in black with black backpacks coming into D.C. the night before, and they appeared to be coordinating the action.

It sounds very much like the way antifa operates. It's very likely that the bombs planted at the RNC and DNC headquarters were leftist operations, and much of the trouble at the Capitol was instigated by antifa or other leftist groups. We know that several of the people who were urging others to break windows and push into the building were lefty activists. There were some actual Trump supporters there, but they probably didn't realize that a false flag operation was going on -- and they were not armed, so it was not an "insurrection" as the media has falsely claimed.

There's a whole lot that we don't know and probably never will know about what really happened, because the left and the media (BIRM) won't let it get reported to the public.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:20 PM (k4dH2)

129 Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation

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State taxes obviously means non-frozen windmills.

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh at February 17, 2021 02:20 PM (O+I8R)

130 State income tax has nothing to do with what's occurring now. We also have a rainy day fund that had about 11 billion in it until a recent 2 billion dollar transfer to the Highway fund and Covid handling related departments in Nov 2020.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:21 PM (2DOZq)

131 Anybody want to pay me $35,000 to be a political activist? I can do some work with that budget.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:21 PM (W+kMI)

132 Democrats are stuffing a $15 an hour minimum wage increase that's going to kill already struggling businesses. The NY FRB noted in their most recent report the state level increase in NY and NJ are killing businesses that are already struggling.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (VpIIl)

133 So this shit head helped cause a murder, all for his own monetary gain, and he was still left go with no bail. Let the historians note this for when they need to write the "causation" section of the history books.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (PMV2g)

134 Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (GbPPJ)

Which means high prices, but at least the stuff will be somewhat available as opposed to becoming unobtainium.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (1lKRm)

135 Is this Rangappa chick the drooling cretin former prosecutor or spook who has astonished and amazed with her ignorance and stupidity for years on the twatters?

Just imagine - imagine - the stupidity and ignorance it requires to say that about income taxes and power grid - and imagine a country or a public square where such idiocy is not instantly and completely career-ending.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (OTzUX)

136 122 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:17 PM (9gDA7)

Cowboy hat congresswoman has to be in the running as does Auntie Esther.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (lgiXo)

137 Big Foot on the hairy knoll.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

138 HK MR762A1 LRP III .308/7.62x51mm, 16.5" Barrel, Vortex Viper PSTII, BLK/FDE, 20rd; 75 benjamins; https://bit.ly/3rWpGPo

Posted by: bonhomme

I was told there would be no math on the blog.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (0bGEp)

139 120 "Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation"

I've heard worse analogies, but right now none of them come to mind.

Ask states with an income tax if this works out.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (VpIIl)

Clearly property taxes lower temperatures causing windmills to freeze.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (Zm+LZ)

140 121 Expect food prices, especially citrus, to skyrocket this year because if this freeze also. 2021 is shaping up to be at least as ugly as 2020.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (1lKRm)

Except it's in the 80s in Florida.

The power of DeSantis compels.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (GbPPJ)

Especially as California is now out of the citrus business mostly, due to idiotic water policy. Where I live used to have LOTS of various fruit trees, now its all nuts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (oHd/0)

141 Maybe we can heat the frozen windmills in Texas using natural gas?

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (VpIIl)

142 >>> Expect food prices, especially citrus, to skyrocket this year because if this freeze also. 2021 is shaping up to be at least as ugly as 2020.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (1lKRm)

Florida citrus can't be doing too bad during all this. Savannah GA has actually warmed. It hasn't got under mid 50s for a while now. And we'll be in the 70s tomorrow.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (q54f8)

143 Except it's in the 80s in Florida.

The power of DeSantis compels.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (GbPPJ)

Heh

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (2DOZq)

144 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:17 PM (9gDA7)

Let's start small.

Is she the dumbest person to ever represent her own district?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (LvTSG)

You're basically trying to determine the biggest whore in the whorehouse/city/nation/world.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (oQ94s)

145 143 Except it's in the 80s in Florida.

The power of DeSantis compels.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (GbPPJ)

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I felt that this weekend. It was nice.

Now I'm back in SC where it's...ugh..50 degrees. I might as well just freeze to death right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (LvTSG)

146 What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Not much and a long time ago.
Posted by: SFGoth

If ever.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (G0G8s)

147 Zapruder filmed an event that happened. He was not out in the street, inciting people to shoot at Kennedy. This guy incited a riot and they paid him for it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (5HBd1)

148 So this shit head helped cause a murder, all for his own monetary gain, and he was still left go with no bail. Let the historians note this for when they need to write the "causation" section of the history books.
Posted by: Rbastid at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (PMV2g)

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I thought the FBI was looking for "instigators?"

Why is this asshole not being arrested?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (FMoYW)

149 Hawai'i was just an ice bound hunk of rock until they imposed income taxes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (VVEnO)

150 >>> Except it's in the 80s in Florida.

The power of DeSantis compels.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (GbPPJ)

Right, the SE temps have actually been following an inverse trend.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (q54f8)

151 133 So this shit head helped cause a murder, all for his own monetary gain, and he was still left go with no bail. Let the historians note this for when they need to write the "causation" section of the history books.
Posted by: Rbastid at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (PMV2g)

Well, it did turn out to be mistake to have a public trial after the Boston Massacre.

Posted by: King George.. at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (oHd/0)

152 115 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.
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I'd wager that Ilhan Omar is even dumber. I'd be surprised if her IQ even cracks triple digits.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (k4dH2)

153

Especially as California is now out of the citrus business mostly, due to idiotic water policy. Where I live used to have LOTS of various fruit trees, now its all nuts.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (oHd/0)

Pistachios take more water to process than any other crop IIRC.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (2DOZq)

154 115 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.
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As a Brave And Courageous and Successful Wahman who is the Bestest Evarrr, she is setting a new standard for stupid. proof that political monopolies on districts results in idiots getting elected to office. Fortunately for us AOC insists on running her big donkey mouth without filter instead of being a good little House Rep and voting "yes" over and over while reciting the bullet points for today.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (W+kMI)

155 Asha Rangappa@AshaRangappa_
Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

well, I guess when the left gets rid of the SALT tax deduction caps we could institute a state income equal to the federal income tax so that everyone in Texas could take a deduction and pay no federal income tax. it would bring in enough money to eliminate property taxes, give everyone free electricity, and maybe a new V8 F150, basically from Uncle Sam's ass. is that what you meant Asha Rangappa?

Posted by: x4 at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (oA+QO)

156 Democrats are stuffing a $15 an hour minimum wage increase that's going to kill already struggling businesses. The NY FRB noted in their most recent report the state level increase in NY and NJ are killing businesses that are already struggling.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (VpIIl)

Further proving they don't actually give a flying fuck about America, the working class OR the economy. They just want to pander to the noisy fucks in their base, DAMNED the consequences.

Joe Biden being in power will be the worst thing to happen to this country since Jimmy Carter. He will make Owebama look like Reagan, almost.

#WASTF

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (9gDA7)

157 Patti Murray is the dumbest politician ever. Number 2 is waaaaay back in the rankings.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (hS+kz)

158 Everyone everywhere should clog the FBI lines with just this one thing. This is insanity.

Posted by: LeftyMagnet at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (MDmZt)

159 Think of all the real estate that would be available if we just had an income tax in Antarctica.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (1ISKN)

160 Ray Charles did a great version of America the Beautiful.

Posted by: dartist at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (+ya+t)

161 But AOC is proudly stupid.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (lgiXo)

162 "Just imagine - imagine - the stupidity and ignorance it requires to say that about income taxes and power grid - and imagine a country or a public square where such idiocy is not instantly and completely career-ending."

The Italians once elected a stripper to office, IIRC

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (5HBd1)

163 HK MR762A1 LRP III .308/7.62x51mm, 16.5" Barrel, Vortex Viper PSTII, BLK/FDE, 20rd; 75 benjamins; https://bit.ly/3rWpGPo

Posted by: bonhomme

I was told there would be no math on the blog.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (0bGEp)

That's not math. That's genuine frontier gun-gibberish, decipherable by a chunk* of the readers here

*chunk is a substitute for a fraction, which would be math of a manner

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (z79tQ)

164 160 Ray Charles did a great version of America the Beautiful.
Posted by: dartist at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (+ya+t)

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Because he's a white supremacist. Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

165 137 Big Foot on the hairy knoll.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 17, 2021 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

Why are you bringing Moochelle into the conversation?

Posted by: BifBewalski - yuck at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (VcFUs)

166 159 Think of all the real estate that would be available if we just had an income tax in Antarctica.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (1ISKN)

And we can solve global warming by abolishing state income taxes elsewhere!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (Zm+LZ)

167 Especially as California is now out of the citrus business mostly, due to idiotic water policy. Where I live used to have LOTS of various fruit trees, now its all nuts.
Posted by: Romeo13

How do they handle their nuts without water?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (G0G8s)

168 Maybe we can heat the frozen windmills in Texas using natural gas?
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (VpIIl)

Didn't the natgas freeze up too?

Everyone is passing around a prediction from one of the weather services in January saying that February was going to be well above average. I wonder, and this is even more of a WAG than I usually make which is saying something, if the Zoom meetings to say so did you winterize oh yeah sure by the power plants was influenced by those predictions. Eh, it's going to be warm, why bother?

I could be very wrong on that but still. I wonder.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (GbPPJ)

169 BLM is like Hamas / Islamic Jihad to Democrat PLO. They secretly fund and direct them to do all the dirty work. And then Dems pretend they are operating independently and without their knowledge.

Posted by: runner at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (W8e/N)

170 Calling AOC "dumb" is fun, but misses the point. Her handlers are incredibly shrewd.

She is the most well known House member - possibly even more known than Pelosi.

And young idiots all adore her. But she's "dumb".

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (uEbPt)

171 Winona I have no dog in this hunt but Winona Descending Stairs; https://tinyurl.com/49ttsfb7

Posted by: Javems at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (8SSHh)

172 Old formula.

Posted by: runner at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (W8e/N)

173 >>> Especially as California is now out of the citrus business mostly, due to idiotic water policy. Where I live used to have LOTS of various fruit trees, now its all nuts.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (oHd/0)

That reminds me. I see a huge billboard on my way home, in what looks like a large cow pasture:

NUT MILK
IS NOT MILK

I'm with ya buddie, can't stand the stuff.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (q54f8)

174 How do they handle their nuts without water?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (G0G8s)

Anyone else want to take a crack at this one?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (Zm+LZ)

175 113 Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation

So the thesis is that if we had a state income tax, we'd have power? Ask Californians how that works out for them and get back to me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2021 02:16 PM (H5knJ)

You have to surrender your Worldly Goods to appease Gaia, or else she will take her revenge on you. And you do that by giving all of your money to the Self Appointed Servants of Gaia, your politicians. They will see that good things are done with it, you can trust them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (bxPTJ)

176 I want Toothy AOC to give an economic discussion on why Venezuela just said socialism isn't working, has brought about failure and it's privatizing businesses as a result. I want pointed, economic answers. Not freshman-in-college "they did it wrong!" answers.

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (O+I8R)

177 171 Winona I have no dog in this hunt but Winona Descending Stairs; https://tinyurl.com/49ttsfb7
Posted by: Javems at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (8SSHh)

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To be fair, I think that all three are winners in the contest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

178 The minimum wage helps unions. Union contracts are written so wages are a function of the minimum wage. If the MW goes up union wages go up. That is why unions give money to the Dems, Dems always have their backs. It has nothing to do with he mythical single mother working at Burger King. That woman is already making well over $15 an hour when adding in welfare, food stamps, Section 8 etc.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (hS+kz)

179 I thought lefties hated the gig economy?

Posted by: ProfShade - Ashli Babbit report? at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (71N/p)

180 The former Capitol Police chief letter states the trouble-makers arrived (before anyone who stayed to hear Trump's entire speech could have arrived at the Hill) with weapons, protective gear, communications. Obvious, obvious non-Trump s**t-stirrers. Even he (and he seems pretty sad, like Capitol Police always have, even though I hear they've become a bit more professionalized in recent years) notes that this event was nothing like recent pro-Trump events on the Hill, when nothing much happened.

There are selfies of two pro trouble-makers, one's a Russian or Ukrainian emigre, at the faux-insurrection and also at ..... flashpoints in Ukraine, and somewhere else in the world. Together. Somebody on the twatters posted 3 selfies of this pair from different recent world events.

FFS, people. Ridiculous. Just don't know how we come back from collapsed institutions and a populace so dumbed down that this kind of crude transparent propaganda doesn't generate an enormous backlash.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (OTzUX)

181 But AOC is proudly stupid.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (lgiXo)

But doesn't KNOW she's stupid.

She's very dangerous because she thinks she's highly intelligent.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (9gDA7)

182 How do they handle their nuts without water?
Posted by: rickb223

slap hot iron to them. same as in town.

Posted by: x4 at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (oA+QO)

183 "Further proving they don't actually give a flying fuck about America, the working class OR the economy. They just want to pander to the noisy fucks in their base, DAMNED the consequences.

Joe Biden being in power will be the worst thing to happen to this country since Jimmy Carter. He will make Owebama look like Reagan, almost.

#WASTF
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:25 PM (9gDA7)"

People don't realize that what we are currently riding is the Trump wave. If Trump didn't have the economy in historically good shape before the Chinese Bio Attack on our country, we would be close to finished. What they also don't realize is The Fraud and Democrats have not really even gotten started on the destruction yet. But sentiment and sight lines on policy are starting to move things in the background- in a very negative way. Markets also move based on confidence, and watching a dribbling, cognitively declining old liberal scorching his way across our country isn't exactly inspiring confidence.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (VpIIl)

184 Imagine walking around with the solution to "everything"?

And the solution to everything is ban a bunch of shit, take everyone else's money, and force them to live in crime-infested squalor while getting rich and retiring every night to your orgy palace?

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (uEbPt)

185 Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (GbPPJ)

The logistics to get the natural gas were screwed up by both physical btreak down and planning break down. Contract price went from $4 to $400.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (2DOZq)

186 Here's a question for y'all. If two news organizations pay a known agitator five figures to cause an incident that will 100% run on the 24/7 loop, is said incident really news?

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (W+kMI)

187 81 lol. Our economist just advised the Fraud and Democrats $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus bill, isn't, and will have a net negative effect on the economy, with some of that negativity coming next year when we can least afford it.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:11 PM (VpIIl)

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To be a prophet, it's almost as if all you have to do is study history.

Posted by: ShainS at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (zmV4u)

188 TX has no income tax but sales tax is high and property tax is at RUFKM levels. They get you one way or another.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (hS+kz)

189 There were rumors airline stocks were sold short prior to 911 to get a big win after 911 because of 911.

Look for weather related short selling by YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS.

AND BI DEN CRIME FAMILY

Posted by: torabora at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (zejeg)

190 Big Foot on the hairy knoll.

--

Mooch? Chunk Uygur? Alan Grayson?

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (O+I8R)

191 Asha and AOC the combined brain power of a potato clock.

Posted by: Archer at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (gmo/4)

192 Just a reminder that Texas doesn't have a state income tax. Curious to hear from my Texas friends how they think that impacts the current situation
_____________

LOL, yeah it was the lack of income tax that caused the problem, not TX devoting 25% of its energy grid to windmills that froze up and couldn't function during the cold weather.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (k4dH2)

193 Now I'm back in SC where it's...ugh..50 degrees. I might as well just freeze to death right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (LvTSG)

You're being spotted 40 degrees a lot of the country would like.
A little like bitching that the loaner at the Ferrari dealership is a Alfa Romeo.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (z79tQ)

194 Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (hS+kz)

And then the Fed Govt. raises the wages for federal contractors to match the Union wages under the Davis-Bacon Act, then the states follow what the Feds do, then the local govts, and eventually everyone else.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (1ISKN)

195 notsothoreau - Ciccolina, the "little fleshy one", elected in the 80s, I think. But Italy has had 3,478 governments since Mussolini fell in '43, so a stripper in the parliament is mild stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:31 PM (OTzUX)

196 117 More likely they paid him $35,000 to start something and catch it on video.
Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at February 17, 2021 02:18 PM (+4qIQ)

He and his producer were on CNN before the 6 Jan rally, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were given the assignment after that first interview.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 17, 2021 02:31 PM (4tiP2)

197 Here's a question for y'all. If two news
organizations pay a known agitator five figures to cause an incident
that will 100% run on the 24/7 loop, is said incident really news?

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (W+kMI)

I wonder if Ashli Babbitt's family has a lawyer who would like to pose such interesting questions to CNN and MSNBC.

Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 02:31 PM (KnJdm)

198 Didn't the natgas freeze up too?"

No, it didn't - that is misinformation being spread by ERCOT and repeated by the AP. The AP's story is a clever piece of misinformation, and they got it from ERCOT, which is very motivated to cover up their failure. I'll borrow some explanation from Chuck DeVore, who has a clear short synopsis on how the failures actually happened;
ERCOT crashed the grid through mismanagement, the crashing of the grid is what knocked some thermal generating plants off line. Not the cold. Now ERCOT is fudging the timeline as to what happened (and trying to keep people from looking at the actual details) to cover
up the mismanagement that caused the entire thing to happen.

The short term failure came at about 1 AM Monday when #ERCOT should have seen the loads soaring due to plummeting temperatures and arranged for more generation. Texas came very close to having a system wide outage for the whole state (ERCOT area, about 85% of the state) due to not arranging for more generation.
This tripped the grid, knocking some reliable thermal plants (gas and coal) off line.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (bxPTJ)

199 Were the "cops" who were waving people into the Capitol really capitol police?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (dNzKv)

200 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (LvTSG)

You're being spotted 40 degrees a lot of the country would like.
A little like bitching that the loaner at the Ferrari dealership is a Alfa Romeo.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:30 PM (z79tQ)

Yeah, this.

WTF man?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (9gDA7)

201 Ashley Babbit's husband should sue xinn,mslsd and sullivan for involvement in his wife's death.

Posted by: Bosk at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (SWbVS)

202 is said incident really news?

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (W+kMI)

Good question. Nothing is news. Everything is lies. They want to control your mind as well as your body.

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (uEbPt)

203 Here's a question for y'all. If two news organizations pay a known agitator five figures to cause an incident that will 100% run on the 24/7 loop, is said incident really news?

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (W+kMI)

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"We formerly untalented and unpublished hacks prefer the term "script.'" -- Fusion Glenn Simpson, Ben Rhodes, and JournOListers everywhere

Posted by: ShainS at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (zmV4u)

204 Steyn has a pretty good column up today about Rush:

https://www.steynonline.com/11078/the-indispensable-man

Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (0bGEp)

205 200
WTF man?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (9gDA7

========

Bad joke. I got plenty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

206 First everyone complains TX is too hot. Now you complain its too cold. Sheesh some people are never happy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:33 PM (hS+kz)

207 NUT MILK
IS NOT MILK

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Kamalala at February 17, 2021 02:34 PM (z79tQ)

208 Goes to show it was Antifa that set off the riot as I believe and saw on the Ashlii death video

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2021 02:34 PM (Cxk7w)

209 Razorfist is off Twitter and Youtube.
Seems like his girlfriend (hopefully ex-gf) hacked his account.

Dunno what comes next for him. His stuff is still up on Unauthorized.tv

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (uxJPn)

210 Marcus T., of course you are almost certainly right.

Capital "went on strike" during the Obamanation, for the same reason capital flees Latin American countries and parks in Miami banks, even to this day.

Trump's removal was possibly the worst thing that happened in American history, in terms of actual ultimate consequences and opportunity costs. Remains to be seen, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (OTzUX)

211 What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Im going with nothing snd never.

Posted by: LASue at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (Ed8Zd)

212 Antifa is just an idea though. How can an idea get paid $35k?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (hS+kz)

213 I wonder if any of the holdouts for normalcy have got it through their thick heads yet - the Left is playing for keeps now. This Sullivan character is not going to jail. There are two classes of people in America. The ruling class, and the serfs. Guess what - we ain't in the ruling class. Sullivan was serving the ruling class - he'll come out of this clean as a whistle.

Posted by: Main Street at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (ViF0c)

214 from Chuck DeVore, continued:
the long term problem:
In the last 4-5 years, Texas lost a net of 3,000 megawatts of thermal out of a total installed capacity 73,000 megawatts today. We lost the thermal power because operators couldn't see a return on investment due to being undercut by wind and solar, which is cheap for two reasons - it's subsidized and it doesn't have to pay for the costs of grid reliability by purchasing battery farms or contracting with gas peaker plants to produce power when needed, not when they can. Meanwhile, Texas has seen a growth of 20,000 megawatts of wind and solar over the same period to 34,000 megawatts of installed capacity (they rarely perform anywhere close to capacity). This subsidized state and federal) wind and solar have pushed reliable thermal operators out of business or prevented
new generation from being built as operators can't make money off of the market. This reduced the capacity margin - grids must have excess capacity to ensure stability.
Texas is experiencing what California has - with California affecting the entire Western Interconnection due to its policies. Blackouts are a feature of the push to have more unreliable backup.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (bxPTJ)

215 Nuclear power plants are legally required to shut down if they do not have an electrical feed from offsite. They have onsite emergency generators and, of course, can produce their own electricity. But if they lose the feed from off site, they have to shut down until it is restored.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (1ISKN)

216 I was going to say that AOC is the dumbest politician ever to hold office, but LORD there have been some pretty fucking dumb politicians elected to office.

She's not the dumbest, just the proudest of her stupidity.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not using Okta to secure logins (Unlike Parler) at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (SchxB)

217 How is this any different than CNN/MSNBC paying somebody to ignite and burn down a federal building (or any building), film themselves doing so, and claiming they're just "journalists" filming the event for the news? It's completely absurd.

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh at February 17, 2021 02:35 PM (O+I8R)

218 170 Calling AOC "dumb" is fun, but misses the point. Her handlers are incredibly shrewd. She is the most well known House member - possibly even more known than Pelosi. And young idiots all adore her. But she's "dumb".
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AOC is a stupid under-educated product of the contemporary public schools who runs her mouth without a filter. In the Nineties her only connection to the Democrat party would be serving drinks and blow jobs at party meetings. She's a political child of this century though, so her radical ideological Tourette's Syndrome is marketed as wonderful, instead of being the mindless provocation and true hindrance to "unity" that it is.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (W+kMI)

219 ========

Bad joke. I got plenty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

Truer words, n' shit.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (9gDA7)

220 also looks like Razorfist's vids are also still up on Bitchute

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (uxJPn)

221 "Didn't the natgas freeze up too?

Everyone is passing around a prediction from one of the weather services in January saying that February was going to be well above average. I wonder, and this is even more of a WAG than I usually make which is saying something, if the Zoom meetings to say so did you winterize oh yeah sure by the power plants was influenced by those predictions. Eh, it's going to be warm, why bother?

I could be very wrong on that but still. I wonder.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:26 PM (GbPPJ)"

It's the moisture in natural gas that generally freezes up. It's a little bit of a science because temperatures/pressure change some of calculations. But it's Texas, so there should be things like glycol absorption systems, molecular sieves, methanol injection, etc. If not, they're idiots.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (VpIIl)

222 Bad joke. I got plenty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

V-v-v-very f-f-f-unny

Posted by: Jordan61, freezing her ass off in the PNW at February 17, 2021 02:37 PM (Ez6QX)

223 From Jack Posobiec - "Muslims demand Biden apologize for comments on Uighur genocide"

https://tinyurl.com/3hsunzrf

I never knew there was such a thing as "East Turkistan Government in Exile."

Sounds like it might work for Trump Nation...

Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2021 02:37 PM (DJFLF)

224 RIP Rush.

I remember my grandma (Mom's side) talking about him in the 80's. She always said 'He should run for president- he'd beat them all!'

They were old school Reagan Democrats.

Posted by: Mother Horta, looking for love at February 17, 2021 02:37 PM (lmikk)

225 The FBI/CIA and a host of "resistance fighters" committed treason/sedition against their chief executive for four years, and Barr Durham covered up for them. How much of a surprise would it be if FBI/CIA were involved in ushering Antifa to the WH to run this PsyOp? --
The scripts were written ... Trump had 300K (?) peaceful protesters after an obviously stolen election ... that had to be countered, and our DeepState has trained for just such PsyOps (running coups in foreign countries, now in the USA). The Narrative is Set ... Trump sent his army after Congress .... Leader of the Senate wants him prosecuted and is vocal about it. ... That is not normal ... that is DeepState showing its fangs. -- (when do we find out who was breaking the windows and mugging for cameras, getting interviews ... besides Sullivan?)

Posted by: illiniwek at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (Cus5s)

226 202 is said incident really news?
Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (W+kMI)

The Reichstag fire made front pages around the world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (bxPTJ)

227 Did PROGDA cancel Razorfist too?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (HaL55)

228 Good info, Tom Servo. Saw DeVore's comments somewhere, didn't really read them. Was hard for me to believe that even this outlier weather pattern couldn't be handled, that is that the grid/generation capacity hadn't been structured to handle it.

DeVore is a transplanted CA guy who I believe gave up on CA, after being one of the last/only voices of reason in office.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (OTzUX)

229 Describing an alleged exchange with the governor that has not been previously reported, Democratic Assemblyman Ron Kim told CNN that he received a call on his cell phone from the governor last week as he was bathing his children at home.

"Gov. Cuomo called me directly on Thursday to threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa [DeRosa] and what she said. He tried to pressure me to issue a statement, and it was a very traumatizing experience," Kim said. Cuomo proceeded to tell the assemblyman that "we're in this business together and we don't cross certain lines and he said I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me," according to Kim.

Believe it or not, from CNN:

https://tinyurl.com/y6vp45dw

Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (cF8AT)

230 The pumps on the natgas lines used to be powered by the gas in the pipe. Switched to external electric which failed when the grid failed when the bird blenders iced up.

Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (FhXTo)

231 Didn't the natgas freeze up too?"

No, it didn't - that is misinformation being spread by ERCOT and repeated by the AP. The AP's story is a clever piece of misinformation, and they got it from ERCOT, which is very motivated to cover up their failure. I'll borrow some explanation from Chuck DeVore, who has a clear short synopsis on how the failures actually happened;
ERCOT crashed the grid through mismanagement, the crashing of the grid is what knocked some thermal generating plants off line. Not the cold. Now ERCOT is fudging the timeline as to what happened (and trying to keep people from looking at the actual details) to cover
up the mismanagement that caused the entire thing to happen.

The short term failure came at about 1 AM Monday when #ERCOT should have seen the loads soaring due to plummeting temperatures and arranged for more generation. Texas came very close to having a system wide outage for the whole state (ERCOT area, about 85% of the state) due to not arranging for more generation.
This tripped the grid, knocking some reliable thermal plants (gas and coal) off line.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:32 PM (bxPTJ)

Every bit of this.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (4I/2K)

232 I see that Biden told a questioner at a townhall that he would not sign an EO to excuse $50,000 (per student) of student debt, because he doesn't believe he has that authority -- although he would be willing to go as high as $10,000 w/o congressional input.

Why does this remind me of Obama saying that he wouldn't give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens because the constitution does not allow him to do that unilaterally -- and then doing it anyway, because it was politically expedient.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (k4dH2)

233 Thanks for the explanations re: Texas. Presume rant here about how it's nearly impossible to get just plain old information about anything anymore.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (GbPPJ)

234 Mark
https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless
Den Beste archives

Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (FhXTo)

235 They also shut down refineries in Texas because of the strain on the Nat Gas system. So get ready for a spike in gasoline prices.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (1ISKN)

236 Rush's show playing an old parody of "The Wanderer". Ted Kennedy singing "The Philanderer". Classic!

Posted by: Doof at February 17, 2021 02:40 PM (mZUr4)

237 It's the moisture in natural gas that generally freezes up. It's a little bit of a science because temperatures/pressure change some of calculations. But it's Texas, so there should be things like glycol absorption systems, molecular sieves, methanol injection, etc. If not, they're idiots.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (VpIIl)

Almost no nat gas plants "froze up", that's a lie. ERCOT crashed the grid and kicked a bunch offline, which caused them to go through the shut-down restart procedure, which takes time. Now they are blaming the Freeze for that, even though it's ERCOT's mismanagement, not the weather itself, which caused the shutdowns.

Of course the AP is doing everything it can to hide the actual causes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:40 PM (bxPTJ)

238 Makes more sense the NG shutdown was power and not freeze related.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (VpIIl)

239 "When power production fails because green energy doesn't work well in inclement weather, that means that more green energy would fix the problem. Also, women have penises." ( Sticks fingers in ears and makes yabba yabba yabba noises while drooling)

Posted by: azjaeger at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (3/XaG)

240 I see that Biden told a questioner at a townhall that he would not sign
an EO to excuse $50,000 (per student) of student debt, because he
doesn't believe he has that authority -- although he would be willing to
go as high as $10,000 w/o congressional input.
I'd really like to hear his explanation of why $10k is okay, but $50k isn't. What is the constitutional principle in play?

Posted by: pep at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (v16oJ)

241 I bet you can convince the libs in Austin now that the grid incorporation of green power has to be readjusted. Strike while the iron is freezing.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (2DOZq)

242 My truck radio has been out last two weeks

I'm heartbroken

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (Cxk7w)

243 162 "Just imagine - imagine - the stupidity and ignorance it requires to say that about income taxes and power grid - and imagine a country or a public square where such idiocy is not instantly and completely career-ending."

The Italians once elected a stripper to office, IIRC
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She was a popular porno star there, still managed to look hot after being ridden like all of Caesar's cavalry horses. The woman ran for office on the pledge that she would expose here breasts in parliament, which she did while giving a speech. Proof that all the fun stories about the Italian Renaissance were probably true. Bringing her up in a political discussion with the Woke crowd might be worth it just for the woke heads exploding.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (W+kMI)

244
Of course the AP is doing everything it can to hide the actual causes.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:40 PM (bxPTJ)

Because the NARRATIVE is the green nude eel, not truth.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (9gDA7)

245 I see that Biden told a questioner at a townhall that he would not sign an EO to excuse $50,000 (per student) of student debt, because he doesn't believe he has that authority -- although he would be willing to go as high as $10,000 w/o congressional input...

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (k4dH2)

Everybody knows that the Constitution has a dollar limit for unconstitutional actions.

Posted by: DR.WTF at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (AiZBA)

246 It's the moisture in natural gas that generally freezes up. It's a little bit of a science because temperatures/pressure change some of calculations. But it's Texas, so there should be things like glycol absorption systems, molecular sieves, methanol injection, etc. If not, they're idiots.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (VpIIl)

That stuff goes in the bucket of stuff I kinda sorta know exists and that it's important and I can nod and go I understood some of those words but no, no, I do not know what all of that means.

Needing stabilizers for automobile gasoline became a HUGE fight in a fan fic community years ago because someone finally lost their shit about people writing post apoc fic where 20 years later people were fueling vehicles from the gas hauler they found.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (GbPPJ)

247 A question for NGU... As a VA doctor, how many patients do you have?

Just found out my VA doc has over 1300 patients in a conversation earlier today. That's quite an incredible load of patients for one doctor, wouldn't you say?

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (R5lpX)

248 Mark Stein has a very nice write up about Rush.

Posted by: Inogame at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (EILju)

249 So TX is doing what CA has done, sort of: actively destroying actual power-generating capacity in favor of subsidized unicorn pretend-power-generating capacity.

Americans can no longer look at Germany's idiotic energy policies and smirk.

Americans can no longer look at Germany's/EU's idiotic migration policies and smirk.

Americans can no longer look at a Zimbabwean "election" and smirk (the whole planet is info-suppressed and dumbed-down too much for it to happen, but oh for a foreign government to react to a US/UN/EU election observer's mission that finds their process to lack integrity ....).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (OTzUX)

250 /off Horta sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (lmikk)

251 Where I live used to have LOTS of various fruit trees, now its all nuts.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 17, 2021 02:23 PM (oHd/0)

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You now need groves and forests and then factories to make almond milk. Our forebears were smarter, they let the cows do it.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (hpVf/)

252 ( Sticks fingers in ears and makes yabba yabba yabba noises while drooling)
Posted by: azjaeger at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (3/XaG)

Hey Kid, you got a bright future ahead of you!
How'd you like a journalism degree?

Posted by: MSNBC at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (z79tQ)

253 Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:40 PM (bxPTJ)

How are you so certain it's a complete lie?

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:44 PM (2DOZq)

254 163 That's not math. That's genuine frontier gun-gibberish, decipherable by a chunk* of the readers here
czech colt johnson is right.

Posted by: Anachronda Johnson at February 17, 2021 02:44 PM (sGtp+)

255 What is the constitutional principle in play?

Posted by: pep at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (v16oJ)

Yeah! What's the constitutional principle in play?

Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 17, 2021 02:44 PM (KnJdm)

256 Now I'm back in SC where it's...ugh..50 degrees. I might as well just freeze to death right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:24 PM (LvTSG)

You're being spotted 40 degrees a lot of the country would like.
A little like bitching that the loaner at the Ferrari dealership is a Alfa Romeo.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

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This^

Posted by: SMH at February 17, 2021 02:44 PM (toBA3)

257 I read the full EO on climate change and it is pretty fucking scary. It is a few thousand words long but boils down to women and minorities are suffering from climate change the most so everyone else needs to be punished in order for those groups to achieve equity by destroying our economy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:44 PM (hS+kz)

258 Left: Minorities are too stupid to get government IDs!
Minorities are too stupid to use the internet!

Right: That is pretty racist. Minorities are perfectly capable of getting ID and using the internet.

Minorities: The right is racist.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2021 02:45 PM (dNzKv)

259 Her handlers are incredibly shrewd. She is the most well known House member - possibly even more known than Pelosi. And young idiots all adore her. But she's "dumb".

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They're stupid too. Smarter than AOC and the media, but still stupid.

This is a silly, ignorant, weak country full of idiots. So superficial and asinine that even a drooler like Cenk Uygur looks "shrewd" by comparison to the gen-pop.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2021 02:45 PM (0WKYs)

260 Everybody knows that the Constitution has a dollar limit for unconstitutional actions.
Posted by: DR.WTF at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (AiZBA)

Yeah, at 10k + 1.00 it goes from a misdemeanor to a felony.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:46 PM (z79tQ)

261 You now need groves and forests and then factories to make almond milk. Our forebears were smarter, they let the cows do it.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:43 PM (hpVf/)

Do you know how hard it is to get the extraction devices attached to an almond's teats?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 17, 2021 02:46 PM (jOcSX)

262 It's the moisture in natural gas that generally freezes up. It's a little bit of a science because temperatures/pressure change some of calculations. But it's Texas, so there should be things like glycol absorption systems, molecular sieves, methanol injection, etc. If not, they're idiots.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (VpIIl)

From the wellhead into a gathering system to a gas processing plant is where the freeze ups happen. There are efforts to de-liquefy the gas along that route but the effects of residual moisture are cumulative, like fatbergs in a sewer system.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:46 PM (4I/2K)

263 251 You now need groves and forests and then factories to make almond milk. Our forebears were smarter, they let the cows do it.
once tried to convince jr. chronda that cats were labor-saving devices for turning cat food into cat poo. "suppose you had to do it by hand," i said. he didn't go for it, but it seems to me there's a short slippery slope from almond milk factories to artistan hand-crafted cat poo.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at February 17, 2021 02:46 PM (sGtp+)

264

Needing stabilizers for automobile gasoline became a HUGE fight in a fan fic community years ago because someone finally lost their shit about people writing post apoc fic where 20 years later people were fueling vehicles from the gas hauler they found.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (GbPPJ)

Maybe they also found a semi trailer full of STP fuel additives.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:47 PM (2DOZq)

265 *242 My truck radio has been out last two weeks

I'm heartbroken

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2021 02:41 PM (Cxk7w)*

I know, Skip. Sad day

Posted by: kallisto at February 17, 2021 02:47 PM (DJFLF)

266 Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (GbPPJ)

Natural gas has to be treated before it can be sold commercially. They remove any H2S and other sulfur compounds, then remove any hydrocarbon liquids that can be sold as more valuable products (propane, butane). Then it's mostly methane with a little ethane. The they remove any water and add the odor.

I hate it when people say they smell methane. Methane is odorless. They add the odor to natural gas, otherwise you'd never smell a leak.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:47 PM (1ISKN)

267 I'm helping.

Ralph Wiggum voice

Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2021 02:48 PM (FhXTo)

268 204 Steyn has a pretty good column up today about Rush:

https://www.steynonline.com/11078/the-indispensable-man
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Steyn is a good man, and a good friend. He should have his own national show; I thought him the best of all the Rush substitutes.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:48 PM (W+kMI)

269 If not, they're idiots.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:36 PM (VpIIl)

As I understand it the TX generating companies had a choice between preparing for cold weather, or making electricity cheaper. Guess which one they picked. Because, hey, global warming, we don't need to prepare for cold.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 17, 2021 02:48 PM (dNzKv)

270 I may go sign up for some college courses and take out $10k in loans. Then drop the classes. If Biden forgives the loans great. If not I pay back the $10k. Worst outcome is Im out a few bucks in interest but for a possible $10k win that is a worthwhile risk. Only way to win in New America is by cheating. We are in the USSR circa 1970s where everyone and everything was corrupt as it was the only way to survive.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (hS+kz)

271 I'd really like to hear his explanation of why $10k is okay, but $50k isn't. What is the constitutional principle in play?
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He didn't really say. He just said he didn't feel that he has the authority to authorize the $50k expenditure w/o congressional approval, but somehow he does have the authority to authorize the $10k expenditure w/o congressional approval.

It's probably in one of those secret penumbras or emanations, somewhere near the Good 'N Plenty clause of the constitution. You know, the clauses that are only visible to Dims.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (k4dH2)

272 They add the odor to natural gas, otherwise you'd never smell a leak.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:47 PM (1ISKN)

Yeah, natural gas leak.

*looks around furtively*

Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (KnJdm)

273 Back in the 90s there was a weather event that almost resulted in, well, an enormous catastrophe. Friend involved with the natgas industry told me about it.

A pumping station (I think in WV) failed, during an extreme cold event that covered the country from OH eastwards.

Gas transportation is also a "grid" that can fail when a major node fails. The possible implications of the WV failure included *loss of natgas to medium-sized cities*.

Quietly, govt. authorities and legal teams were assembled to explore the implications of *evacuating entire small cities* and letting the massive infrastructure damage occur that was unavoidable without gas.

Of course it didn't happen, fortunately, which is why you never heard about it or remember it. But it was a pretty close call.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (OTzUX)

274 They're stupid too. Smarter than AOC and the media, but still stupid.

This is a silly, ignorant, weak country full of idiots. So superficial and asinine that even a drooler like Cenk Uygur looks "shrewd" by comparison to the gen-pop.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2021 02:45 PM (0WKYs)

Yet we're now staring down the barrel of "her" idea, the GND. It will be our life within a year.

The fact that any of them are "dumb" isn't relevant to a fucking thing except it feels sort of good to say it.

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (jBRLB)

275 *looks around furtively*

Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (KnJdm)

Sounds a little gay.

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (jBRLB)

276 so basically, 'You supply the photos, we'll supply the war'

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (uS2EJ)

277 "Gov. Cuomo called me directly on Thursday to threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa [DeRosa] and what she said. He tried to pressure me to issue a statement, and it was a very traumatizing experience," Kim said. Cuomo proceeded to tell the assemblyman that "we're in this business together and we don't cross certain lines and he said I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me," according to Kim.

Believe it or not, from CNN:

https://tinyurl.com/y6vp45dw

Posted by: Tami at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (cF8AT)

He should be made to resign IMMEDIATELY

Posted by: JoeF. at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (HrMC1)

278 Dude probably works for the CIA. This is just a way to pay him off that looks legal.
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Jeff Zucker works for he CIA.

Posted by: underestimating the Horror since 1965 at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (SlWHM)

279 Power's up, internet's down. Internet's up, power's down.

Dis shit CRAY!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (7Q7Ca)

280 There are selfies of two pro trouble-makers, one's a Russian or Ukrainian emigre, at the faux-insurrection and also at ..... flashpoints in Ukraine, and somewhere else in the world. Together. Somebody on the twatters posted 3 selfies of this pair from different recent world events.

FFS, people. Ridiculous. Just don't know how we come back from collapsed institutions and a populace so dumbed down that this kind of crude transparent propaganda doesn't generate an enormous backlash.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 17, 2021 02:28 PM (OTzUX)

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The media is making sure none of this gets out. Who needs politburo censorship when the "handmaidens" will do it willingly to endear themselves to their lords and masters.

They ridiculed the right as reliving The Handmaid's Tale and yet they are wearing the bonnets.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (hpVf/)

281 >>> Winona I have no dog in this hunt but Winona Descending Stairs; https://tinyurl.com/49ttsfb7
Posted by: Javems at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (8SSHh)

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To be fair, I think that all three are winners in the contest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at February 17, 2021 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

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Extra points for legs and daisy dukes. Jessica gets the win.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (CKRdI)

282 That's a RIDICULOUS amount of $$$$$!

...When all they needed to do was run some video of a cannon firing on a Kentucky gun range and say that white supremacists were attacking the capitol.

Posted by: ABC News at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (La3Ki)

283 "That stuff goes in the bucket of stuff I kinda sorta know exists and that it's important and I can nod and go I understood some of those words but no, no, I do not know what all of that means.

Needing stabilizers for automobile gasoline became a HUGE fight in a fan fic community years ago because someone finally lost their shit about people writing post apoc fic where 20 years later people were fueling vehicles from the gas hauler they found.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 17, 2021 02:42 PM (GbPPJ)"

There is a lot more science and engineering involved than most people know. They generally write it off as "it's oil and gas, duh". But it is a lot more involved and also takes a lot of hard work, risks and financial wizardry to make it all work. BTW I just checked with a bunch of operators across Texas counties. Not a single one had any freezing related failure. It was power where it happened...

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 02:51 PM (VpIIl)

284 In all the years I listened to Rush, I never heard him stutter or mis-speak once. That's a pro.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 17, 2021 02:51 PM (jvt6t)

285 Sounds a little gay.

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (jBRLB)

I'll take your word for it.

Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 02:51 PM (KnJdm)

286 Just use a windmill to make fresh gasoline from the stale stuff. No problem.

Posted by: klaftern at February 17, 2021 02:52 PM (RuIsu)

287 Only way to win in New America is by cheating. We are in the USSR circa 1970s where everyone and everything was corrupt as it was the only way to survive.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

Okay.
Now never say that out loud again. Just do it. Gots an old employee that is now on food stamps (whatever it's called) and is getting rent subsidies. Says he's living higher than he ever did working 60 hours/week.

Posted by: MkY at February 17, 2021 02:52 PM (5hF5V)

288 Sullivan is like BLM's black ops spy. When caught, they disavow him.

Posted by: Election Fraud Has Consequences at February 17, 2021 02:52 PM (fUm2i)

289 Here's a question for y'all. If two news organizations pay a known agitator five figures to cause an incident that will 100% run on the 24/7 loop, is said incident really news?
Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 02:29 PM (W+kMI)

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Fake News and manufactured consent. Who knew Chomsky would agree with Trump?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 02:52 PM (hpVf/)

290 The left is not stupid. At least no the ones working behind the scenes. They are evil but not stupid. Every policy the left dreams up becomes reality eventually. 5 years ago the idea of banning air travel would have been laughed at. Today it is serious policy proposal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:52 PM (hS+kz)

291 Rush program replaying a call from 13 year old Olivia. She and her family took a seven week long vacation to visit every historical location in the Rush Revere books.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 17, 2021 02:53 PM (UGuYD)

292 Can sullivan deny the use of his video, because copyright?

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2021 02:53 PM (5ZHS+)

293
Forget guns and ammo. We need thousands of fedoras with press credentials stuck in the hatband.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (gT6EJ)

294 Anybody else noticing that the two things the Dems said they would want to do that are arguably mostly popular, the $2k checks and student loan payoffs, they seem very reluctant to do? But anything unpopular except to the hardest of their base, they are all over it? Whyzat? Doesn't make sense, does it?

Posted by: azjaeger at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (3/XaG)

295 Once the natgas leaves the processing plant, it's good to go for the transmission lines. Mercapatan is added at the city gate distribution systems.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (4I/2K)

296 Forget guns and ammo. We need thousands of fedoras with press credentials stuck in the hatband.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (gT6EJ)

And violin cases.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (z79tQ)

297 How is this any different than CNN/MSNBC paying somebody to ignite and burn down a federal building (or any building), film themselves doing so, and claiming they're just "journalists" filming the event for the news? It's completely absurd.

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh

They would almost certainly say they didn't pay him ahead of time to do the deeds, but rather just paid him after the fact for his footage. Thereby removing themselves from being a prior cause of the mayhem.

Whether or not they had a relationship with him that predated 1/6/2021 is the question that answers whether they would be held criminally or civilly liable for his actions.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 02:55 PM (0bGEp)

298 They add the odor to natural gas, otherwise you'd never smell a leak.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:47 PM

Sometimes, the smeller's not the feller.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at February 17, 2021 02:56 PM (EP9Nq)

299 279 Power's up, internet's down. Internet's up, power's down.

Dis shit CRAY!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:50 PM (7Q7Ca)

Just got my power back at 11:00 am after down for 48hrs. Also no cell phone service in my area. ( I'm going to drop AT&T because of it or rather get Verizon because they remained in service)

Now I'm concerned about the rain we've had today because it's supposed to freeze at night for a couple more days. I've been through an ice storm before. Not a pretty picture.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:56 PM (2DOZq)

300 In all the years I listened to Rush, I never heard him stutter or mis-speak once. That's a pro.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 17, 2021 02:51 PM (jvt6t)

He did, but when he did, he owned it. He took responsibility. He stood proudly by his actions. Every. Time.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:56 PM (7Q7Ca)

301 294

They are doing the $2k checks. And they will do loan forgiveness. Anyone who thinks Biden - or really his handlers since he has no clue why is happening - gives a shit about his authority should call me about a cool oceanfront beach house in Kansas I have for sale.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at February 17, 2021 02:56 PM (hS+kz)

302 How are you so certain it's a complete lie?
Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 02:44 PM (2DOZq)

think about it analytically - all the affected nat gas plants came back online within 24 hours, even though the weather was 20 degrees colder by that point. If it was the cold that was the problem, that could not have happened. But the wind generators didn't.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:57 PM (bxPTJ)

303
The fact that any of them are "dumb" isn't relevant to a fucking thing except it feels sort of good to say it.
Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 02:49 PM (jBRLB)

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Oh, no it doesn't.

The mediocrity of my overlords bothers me to no end. If I'm to be reduced to servitude, I'd appreciate it if my oppressors were smarter than this. The insult is almost worse than the injury.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2021 02:58 PM (0WKYs)

304 ...should call me about a cool oceanfront beach house in Kansas I have for sale.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

I might be interested. Which ocean?

Posted by: MkY at February 17, 2021 02:58 PM (5hF5V)

305 Anybody else noticing that the two things the Dems said they would want to do that are arguably mostly popular, the $2k checks and student loan payoffs, they seem very reluctant to do? But anything unpopular except to the hardest of their base, they are all over it? Whyzat? Doesn't make sense, does it?
Posted by: azjaeger at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (3/XaG)

Same reason why Republican legislative majorities refused to do the things they've promised for decades.

They don't intend to do any of it. Lies, all the way down.

They've also got the Lucy With The Football schtick going on, but corporate media keeps them blaming powerless Republicans rather than their own criminal leadership.

Representative government died over a decade ago, at least. Now, the political class only represents itself and its cronies.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at February 17, 2021 02:58 PM (TOCce)

306 NBC radio, while announcing the death of Rush, called his program "hate filled and racist".

Cocksuckers.

Posted by: jwest at February 17, 2021 02:59 PM (/BlEx)

307 Mercapatan is added at the city gate distribution systems.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:54 PM (4I/2K)

It's always amazed me how well humans can smell mercaptans. Dogs have like a million times better sense of smell than humans, but mercaptans we can smell down into the parts per billion range. It's like there was some sort of evolutionary advantage to knowing who farted.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 17, 2021 02:59 PM (1ISKN)

308 https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless
Den Beste archives
Posted by: DaveA at February 17, 2021 02:39 PM (FhXTo)

Thankee

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 02:59 PM (uxJPn)

309 "Gov. Cuomo called me directly on Thursday to threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa [DeRosa] and what she said. He tried to pressure me to issue a statement, and it was a very traumatizing experience," Kim said. Cuomo proceeded to tell the assemblyman that "we're in this business together and we don't cross certain lines and he said I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me," according to Kim.

This is like a rape allegation. It's their word against his. The court of today's media, they're lying because he's Cuomo and they will NEVER admit they were wrong about their 'darling.'

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at February 17, 2021 02:59 PM (7Q7Ca)

310 Did PROGDA cancel Razorfist too?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at February 17, 2021 02:38 PM (HaL55)

I think it's relationship drama. His GF posted some shit on Twitter, complaining about Razor watching porn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Logan Tiberius Edwards (2012-2021) at February 17, 2021 03:00 PM (uxJPn)

311 Gov. Cuomo called me directly on Thursday to threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa [DeRosa] and what she said. He tried to pressure me to issue a statement, and it was a very traumatizing experience," Kim said. Cuomo proceeded to tell the assemblyman that "we're in this business together and we don't cross certain lines and he said I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me," according to Kim.

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Sure sounds like they've tied some rotting chum around his neck and thrown him to the sharks.

Posted by: Lady in Black - GODSPEED Rush Limbaugh at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (O+I8R)

312 NOOD y'all.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (3H9h1)

313 Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2021 02:57 PM (bxPTJ)

Tom Servo Johnson is right! ERCOT and Texas' PUC are spinning ridiculous ass-covering bullshit.

Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (4I/2K)

314 you can bet if someone, say a member of the Proud Boys, was interested in selling video of an event to CNN or MSNBC for 35K, both of them would've howled about 'checkbook journalism' 'information should be free' etc

but a commie with video, and the cash comes out

Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (uS2EJ)

315 Oh, no it doesn't.

The mediocrity of my overlords bothers me to no end. If I'm to be reduced to servitude, I'd appreciate it if my oppressors were smarter than this. The insult is almost worse than the injury.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2021 02:58 PM (0WKYs)

Well that's why I said "sort of". I think it's cathartic for a lot of people. But it misses the point.

Posted by: ... at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (jBRLB)

316 Power is up long enough for a pot of goulash. Boom. Living my best frozen life.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (jvt6t)

317 I think it's relationship drama. His GF posted some shit on Twitter, complaining about Razor watching porn.

Nothing says "she's a keeper" like taking a private spat public.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (H5knJ)

318 there's a short slippery slope from almond milk factories to artistan hand-crafted cat poo.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at February 17, 2021 02:46 PM (sGtp+)

I'm guessing you haven't seen the show Tirdy Works...

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 17, 2021 03:01 PM (+PdXu)

319 "From the wellhead into a gathering system to a gas processing plant is where the freeze ups happen. There are efforts to de-liquefy the gas along that route but the effects of residual moisture are cumulative, like fatbergs in a sewer system.
Posted by: Count de Monet THAWING in exile at his Fortress of Solitude at February 17, 2021 02:46 PM (4I/2K)"

Yes and there are numerous ways to protect it starting at the wellhead. There are also processes and systems to catch any accumulations or ice balls that may develop. It's not really expensive and should be a fundamental part of any well design

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at February 17, 2021 03:02 PM (VpIIl)

320 I wonder if Ashli Babbitt's family has a lawyer who would like to pose such interesting questions to CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: 4 at February 17, 2021 02:31 PM (KnJdm)

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No standing, according to CJ Roberts.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at February 17, 2021 03:03 PM (hpVf/)

321 Rush program replaying a call from 13 year old Olivia. She and her family took a seven week long vacation to visit every historical location in the Rush Revere books.

Posted by: Jen the original

There was a caller on the replay show this morning who was a single mother of 4 who was fired from a job at a medical supply company because "she was not qualified enough to be making as much money as they were paying her." She worked hard for two years based on her listening to Rush's lessons on not being a victim, and ended up starting her own company and then buying the company that fired her. She was also an immigrant to the US. Pretty touching call. She gave a ton of credit to Rush but of course he gave it right back to her.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 17, 2021 03:03 PM (0bGEp)

322 274 Yet we're now staring down the barrel of "her" idea, the GND. It will be our life within a year.

The fact that any of them are "dumb" isn't relevant to a fucking thing except it feels sort of good to say it.
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The Hard Left are a bunch of stupid, ignorant people making stupid, ignorant policy so they can give themselves tongue baths on social media on how wonderful they all are. A few of them know exactly how their ideas will turn out in the end, but most of them are gentrified or suburban children of privilege (their term, not mine) who don't know what they wish for and wouldn't like it if it did occur. The fact that some of their ideas can become national policy is not proof of their intelligence, it is proof on how morally, politically, and ideologically corrupt the Beltway has become.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 17, 2021 03:04 PM (W+kMI)

323 306 NBC radio, while announcing the death of Rush, called his program "hate filled and racist".

Cocksuckers.
Posted by: jwest at February 17, 2021 02:59 PM (/BlEx)

To be fair they are being consistent. They blamed Rush for the Oklahoma bombing also. And by they , I don't mean just nobody newsreaders but President Clinton. I will definitely act like a Leftist when that douchebag dies.

Posted by: C 137 at February 17, 2021 03:04 PM (2DOZq)

324 Sullivan set it up, cheered the Trump supporters on to do his dirty work, got Ashlii killed, whooped it up with his camera crew their false flag was a success.
President DJT got blamed for it all by the Democrats who know what really happened.

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2021 03:05 PM (Cxk7w)

325 TX is a prime example of utilities putting their priorities into appearing green instead of spending money and time building their infrastructure to deliver their product when people and businesses need it the most.

Posted by: Justsayin' at February 17, 2021 03:10 PM (Fs5vw)

326 I followed one of the sidebar links and ended up on Twitter earlier and saw someone "conservative" complaining about Tucker supposedly diss'ing the Biden's Love.

By accident I saw the episode where Tucker said that their love was as real as climate change. The whole episode was about Journalists, not Jill and Joe, who may actually love each other for all anyone knows. But hearing "journalists" gush and gush and gush and GUSH really was enough to send anyone to a breaking point. First, does any one of them know what happens between them when they aren't "on"? Of course not. Second, at what point is this news?

Posted by: Synova at February 17, 2021 03:12 PM (BD/yx)

327 Not getting a new thread yet no one is here

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2021 03:13 PM (Cxk7w)

328 What luck to be at just the right spot to get the murder of Ashli Babbitt on tape , plus collect 70 grand!

Posted by: E.M.F. at February 17, 2021 03:16 PM (sL87y)

329 Many states now have laws requiring that someone who commits a violent crime, and then makes money by telling his story to the public in a book/movie/etc. must forfeit that money to the victims or their families.
Does DC have such a law? Because this 70 grand is probably covered by it and ought to be seized. And likewise any Antifa terrorist or organizer who profits from coverage of his crimes.

Posted by: jdgalt at February 17, 2021 04:22 PM (3SFo/)

330 Go for it, Ashli! I'll be right behind you!

Cha-ching!

Posted by: John Sullivan at February 17, 2021 04:56 PM (QY+6a)

331 Time to use the RICO laws against these terrorists.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at February 17, 2021 09:43 PM (EcD5Y)

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