The Morning Report - 3/4/21 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Thursday, and as the Left continues its purge against Andrew "Angel of Death" Cuomo, albeit to cover up his mass murder of the elderly which would implicate four other key Democrat governors and in essence the party and its policies itself, a number of stories across several categories gel around the much more crucial story: the consolidation of power into absolute power by the Democrat-Leftist-Globalist axis.

First up, late last night the House passed this H.R. 1 bill, the so called "For the People Act" which guts the already festering corpse of the 9th and 10th Amendments by essentially nationalizing elections. I guess by "people" they mean their people. In perpetuity.

The bill creates a nationwide automatic voter registration program, which would likely result in double-registrations and the registration of non-citizens. In fact, H.R. 1 explicitly exempts from prosecution people who are "not eligible to vote in elections for Federal office but [were] automatically registered to vote" (Sec. 1015).
It allows felons who have completed their incarceration to vote. H.R. 1 also includes a new program providing for public financing of federal elections, matching small-dollar donations 6 to 1. The match would kick in for each grassroots contribution to a candidate up to $200. A $200 donation to a House candidate would garner a $1,200 match in public funds for a total contribution of $1,400, for example.The bill would reduce the number of members on the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5. Democrats argue that this will allow the commission to avoid deadlock and do its job, but Republicans warn that this would make the FEC a "partisan weapon."
The bill would also require politically-active organizations, including 401(c)3 nonprofits, to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more; expand the definition of election-related communication; and reduce the influence of independent expenditure-only "super PACs." Such campaign finance regulations would limit Americans' ability to band together to advocate political causes they believe in.
While Democrats' railing against "dark money" has convinced Americans there is something inherently sleazy about groups of Americans spending money to advocate for causes they believe in, Americans do not lose their right to free speech when they enter the political arena. The mandated disclosure of an organization's donors, in particular, undercuts this fundamental right.

Well, thank goodness when this winds up at the Supreme Court, the justices will do their duty and the sanctity of the United States Constitution will prevail. If you believe that, I have a shit-ton of preferred stock from the Dr. Seuss Publishing Company I can let you have, cheap. The second story is supposedly a scratch formation of the 1st SS Panzer Division along with the Ozark goobers who buggered Ned Beatty in Deliverance are planning to storm the Capitol tomorrow. Full disclosure: my Secret Q-Anon Bullwinkle Enigma-to-Yiddish decoder ring deciphered the message "eep-opp-ork-ah-ah" as "don't forget to drink your Ovaltine, snap Titty Caca AOC's bra strap, and give Pelosi noogies hard enough to melt botox." Seriously, does anyone with half a functioning brain really believe this crap? Well, if it keeps the National Guard in DC eating salmonella-tainted Spam with iron filings and rat droppings while bivouaced in a garage, then that's the cost of freedom I suppose.

The U.S. Capitol Police have increased security because they obtained intelligence with a supposed credible threat against Capitol Hill.The attack is reportedly going to happen on March 4th, which is the original presidential inauguration day.

The United States Capitol Police Department is aware of and prepared for any potential threats towards members of Congress or towards the Capitol complex. We have obtained intelligence that shows a possible plot to breach the Capitol by an identified militia group on Thursday, March 4. We have already made significant security upgrades to include establishing a physical structure and increasing manpower to ensure the protection of Congress, the public and our police officers.Our Department is working with our local, state, and federal partners to stop any threats to the Capitol. We are taking the intelligence seriously. Due to the sensitive nature of this information, we cannot provide additional details at this time.
Nothing has happened since January 6th. Nothing close has happened since January 6th. Nothing happened on Inauguration Day! The Capitol Police already said they do not have a timeline to remove the barbed wire fencing around Capitol Hill. FOX 5 saw an email saying the National Guard could stay in DC until the fall... I am not the only one who can see through this power grab.

There is no Q-Anon, there is no threat to the government from "white supremacists" or "insurrectionists." The only racists and insurrectionists that exist are in the Democrat Party and the Leftist movement, who not coincidentally are in fact the very insurrectionists who have actually destroyed election integrity that they accuse us of wanting to do by insisting on voter ID among other things, and it is they who rigged the election and have seized control. So, institutionalize the degradation of laws that protect the franchise and now turn the already weaponized law enforcement and security agencies that took out President-in-Exile Trump against anyone and everyone who dares call them out on it.

Democrats attempted to impeach Trump even after he left office, and the January 6 riot fuels their ongoing jihad against Trump and his supporters. Led by Joe Biden, Democrats have now branded them as domestic terrorists. For Biden AG pick Merrick Garland, terrorist acts are only committed during the day, like the proceedings of January 6. For his part, Wray feigns an even-handed approach.
"We don't care what ideology motivates somebody," Wray told senators Tuesday. "We don't care whether it's left, right, up, down, diagonal or any other way. If the ideology is motivating violence and violates federal law we're coming after it." Again Wray leaves room for reasonable doubt.
The FBI boss kept rather quiet during riots across the nation in of 2020, headed by the Antifa-BLM axis. If the live-streamed murder of police officer David Dorn drew any outrage from Wray, nothing appears in the record. On Wray's watch, the FBI is also stonewalling the homicide investigation of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, gunned down last year in California.
Clinton crony James Comey spearheaded FBI operations against Donald Trump. Comey crony Christopher Wray will spearhead FBI operations against Trump supporters. Trump saw it coming back in 2019. "They're not after me, they're after you," he said. "I'm just in the way."

I have to admit, I'm torn. Part of me thinks we have to do whatever we can, however we can to try and claw back politically from this; we can't just knuckle under and give up. But in the face of the Enemy now completely ignoring anything that even remotely resembles Constitutionality and worse, a Judicial system that has no problem rubber stamping the fraud (I refer you to Oregon Muse's outstanding rant yesterday on this depressing angle) and thugs and enforcers outside of government eager to be Junior "G" Men - "G" for Gestapo - I cannot see a way forward that entails elections or any sort of normal, civil discourse. Indeed, that is as dead as the nation formerly known as the United States of America.

Pray. And keep your powder dry.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The bill passed 220-210, with every Republican voting against it (and two not voting) and every Democrat but one voting for it. This kind of rank partisanship on an elections bill should worry Americans, and so should the specifics of what the bill does."
House Passes Bill Gutting Election Integrity, Free Political Speech
"Why are parents desperate to return their precious offspring to the degenerate hands of the public-school system?"
The Case for Closing Public Schools... Indefinitely
"The pervasive myth of our time is that the Left desires equality. Critical race theory teaches that white people are a class enemy."
Have You Tried Not Being White?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Perfect excuse to keep the national guard there and further the fear campaign put forth by the @joebiden administration and the fake news media."
U.S. Capitol Police Obtain Intelligence of "Possible Plot" By a Militia to "Breach the Capitol"
Lloyd Billingsley: "Christopher Wray will spearhead Dems' offensive against Trump supporters in the wake of January 6."
FBI Goes Totally Comeytose
"According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, most Americans say Democrats are using the Capitol riot 'as an excuse to silence political voices on the right.'" 
Americans See Through Democrats' New War on Terror Rhetoric
"The contempt shown to these soldiers by their Washington, DC, masters is as sickening as the rancid slop they've been served."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Pawns
"Reading between the lines -- and paying special attention to what the government refuses to say -- tells us that we've been fed propaganda, not facts."
What We Know and Don't Know About the Events of January 6th
"Republicans are 'the party of ethnic cleansing,' said Colin Kahl."
Biden Nominee for Top Defense Post Attacked GOP in Incendiary Tweets
"What kind of movement are we building when we say 'Black lives matter' but the freedom fighters and the families are being left behind." (suckers! - jjs)
Mike Brown's Father and Ferguson Protesters Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter
ANGEL OF DEATH ANDREW CUOMO MASS MURDER AND SEX ABUSE SCANDALS
"Dave Rexrode, RGA executive director, requested 'any and all' communications between the two governors and/or their staffs 'regarding nursing homes and long-term care facilities' from August 15 to September 15, 2020."
 Governors Group Seeks Coordination Links Between Angel of Death Cuomo, Whitmer on Chinese Coronavirus Policy
Lindsey Boylan, who first accused Cuomo of sexual harassment: "How can New Yorkers trust you @NYGovCuomo to lead our state if you 'don't know' when you've been inappropriate with your own staff?"
Angel of Death Cuomo Won't Resign: "Never Done Anything in My Public Career That I Have Been Ashamed Of"
Some think that this Virgil Sleaze-ozzo in Albany will wind up unscathed, but if the Mengele brigade is out to abort him, you might want to reconsider.
Planned Parenthood Promotes "Investigation" into Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Andrew Cuomo
"The governor promised to fully cooperate with an investigation into the allegations, noting that though his lawyers told him not to discuss the matter until the review is over, he wanted New Yorkers to hear his thoughts directly from him." 
Angel of Death Cuomo Says He's "Embarrassed" By Allegations, Denies Touching Anyone Inappropriately
Innuendo is not an Italian suppository...
Accuser's Lawyer Says Cuomo Spread "Falsehoods and Inaccurate Information" at Press Conference
"He saw [Chinese] COVID not as a problem to be solved but as an opportunity to be taken."
Angel of Death Cuomo's Misdeeds Highlight Democrats' Skewed Priorities
"Cultural memory stays alive best through those with the longest memories. If we let them offer it, we gain a sense of stability, history, and of our place in time and space."
Angel of Death Cuomo's Nursing Home Scandal Also Killed Priceless Cultural Memories
OTHER DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST & RINO SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS
Despite holding this influential role and continuing to advise [so-called quote-unquote] 'President' Biden, Baker's Twitter account contains posts with racist, anti-white sentiment."
Biden's African-American Advisor Sent Racist, Anti-White Tweets
I'm not saying these charges are conveniently timed, but...
Rep. Ronny Jackson Made Sexual Remarks, Drank Alcohol While Serving As White House Physician, DOD Report Says
"What do they know and when did they realize he was mentally unfit to be [quote-unquote so-called] 'president?'"
Investigate Biden Insiders for Crimes Against the Republic
POLITICS
BIDEN: "I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do..."
WATCH: White House Cuts Video Feed After Joe Biden Asks for Questions
"Two separate polls, Rasmussen and Harvard/Harris, show that more Americans believe the country is on the wrong track than the right track."
No Honeymoon: The Enthusiasm for Biden's So-Called Quote-Unquote "Presidency" Appears to Match the Enthusiasm for His Campaign
Victor Davis Hanson: "Who has been right about Donald Trump's final demise in the last five years?"
Trumpism -- Without Trump?
"Democrats in particular are destroying the institution by doing this - - we don't meet, we don't debate, we don't amend," Roy said Monday in a statement. "But even a number of my GOP colleagues are now complicit and have given in to the Democrats' recklessness."
GOP Congressmen Call Out Colleagues For Voting By Proxy, Claim It Could Render Congress "Permanently Dysfunctional"
"It's unfortunate that the aspirations of people in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., should be held hostage by national political circumstances, but that's the reality they must deal with if they're to learn to live as a state in the union."
Puerto Rico Statehood Bill Introduced. Can D.C. Statehood Be Far Behind?
"Indeed, researchers state that the brain is still developing into the mid-20s, with moral reasoning and abstract thought coming later in the cycle than previously thought. At 16, your brain is still in its prime developmental stages."
Progressive Dems Unsuccessfully Push to Lower Voting Age to 16
"The company - - Design Foundry - - told Forward it 'had no idea that the design resembled any symbol, nor was there any intention to create something that did.'"
CPAC's "Nazi Rune" Stage Designed by a Liberal Company Which Has Worked For Biden, MSNBC
"The frightening thing to us about all this is how many Americans have fallen for the show and all its production values -- the lockdowns, mask mandates, the vaccine, every new reason to continue all the nonsense."
Why Democrats Are Scared
"The time is now for social conservatives to imagine what a re-conceived America would look like and how it could be achieved."
In Search of Moral Order
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"H.R. 1 will permanently alter voting in America by nationalizing all the changes made in blue states during 2020, opening the way to massive fraud."
House Democrats Pass Bill to Change American Voting Forever
"A blatant power grab."
The Dems' Voting Fraud Encouragement Bill
Molly McCaughey: "HR 1 is being sold as a reform to make voting easier. In truth, it makes cheating easier."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Election "Reform" Would Make 2020's Chaos the Norm
"Behind the scenes at the swamp's latest show trial (with special scorn reserved for Senator Bill Cassidy)."
A Swamp Tale: The Bizarre Final Hours of "Impeachment Fail 2.0"
"Democrats promised Georgia wins would put $2,000 checks in the mail." (you fucked up; you trusted them! - jjs)
Georgia Dems Backtrack on Promise to Deliver $2,000 Stimulus Checks
"In the sixty-four-page order, Judge Jeff Weill not only calls for a new election but also finds evidence of fraud and criminal activity, in how absentee ballots were handled, how votes were counted, and the actions by some at the polling place."
Massive 78% Of Mail-In Ballots Proved Fraudulent, Mississippi Judge Orders Election Do-Over
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The Supreme Court's allowance of disclosure is a precedent for future abuses by prosecutors nationwide. Nobody's tax returns can truly be confidential anymore."
Nobody's Tax Returns are Confidential Anymore
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"The governor's spokeswoman would not deny that she intends to lift the mask mandate on Friday, when the order is set to expire -- but would not confirm the news either."
Sources: Alabama to Join Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Others in Eliminating Mask Mandates This Week
"Mississippians don't need handlers. As numbers drop, they can assess their choices and listen to experts. I guess I just think we should trust Americans, not insult them."
Mississippi Gov Fires Back After Biden Mocks Lifting Lockdowns as "Neanderthal Thinking"
"[So-called quote-unquote] 'President' Biden lambasted the governors for engaging in 'Neanderthal thinking.' Yes, that's how far we have fallen."
Texas, Mississippi and the Free States
"This is the worst shape the mental health of our youth has ever been in," Marshall said. "My daughter's got two little kids at home. I've got to tell you - - she's stressed, I'm stressed, my wife is stressed - - because we know we know our kids should be in school. We're stressed that our kids aren't learning, right?"
Sen. Roger Marshall: Mental Health Problems Are Bigger Threat to America than Chinese Coronavirus
"CDC continues to relegate policymaking to value judgments instead of hard data."
CDC's New Policy of No Quarantine After Vaccination Puts Great Stock in Speculation
"Why is it that adults get to pack into planes and they do it safely with masks, but kids are last in the reopening plan? That is an abuse of power."
Johns Hopkins Medical Expert: All Airports Would Be Shut Down if They Had to Follow Joe Biden's Chinese COVID Rules for Schools
David Marcus: "Closing the schools seemed like the obvious right choice, but I was wrong and now I know why."
Why I Was Wrong a Year Ago About Closing Schools
"Visibly taken aback by the question Psaki noted that 'first, we simply disagree, and not just me or the president, but the head of our equity task force and our health and medical team for a couple of reasons.'"
White House Facing Questions Over Whether Prioritizing Teachers For Vaccine Violates "Equity"
"A year later it's clear that most media and government experts were dead wrong."
Lockdowns: Which 'Experts' Were Right?
"The blue state governors are being rewarded by Congress for shutting their economies."
22 Governors Revolt Against Blue State Bailout Bill
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Daniel Greenfield: "Jamal Khashoggi hated America and Jews. That's why Biden loves him."
Biden Unveils Policy Honoring Osama bin Laden's Old Friend
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"During that period, the agents also arrested a previously deported rapist." 
1,600 Migrants Arrested Over Three Days in Single Texas Border Sector
"Biden's current policies have not only created a crisis of processing and holding at the border, and the use of what it's calling 'soft-sided facilities,' which are actually tents, NBC News reports it's leading to the spread of [Chinese] COVID-positive individuals into and across the United States."
Authorities "Recommend" That Chinese COVID-Positive Migrants Be Quarantined
"Let me tell you, when I'm talking to the Border Patrol agents, I talk to folks on the border regularly, and everyone tells me that we're slammed, that we have reached a surge point again. Just two weeks ago we were apprehending about 3,600 per day, which is really well above what even Jeh Johnson said was a crisis level."
GOP Congressman Predicts 120,000 Illegals Apprehended Monthly, 30,000 to 100,000 "Got-Aways"
"The problem is so much worse than they want you to know."
Tucker Carlson Video: Exposing the Left's BIGGEST Lie About Illegal Immigration
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"In addition to readily censoring conservatives, the social media platform has also cracked down on users sharing [Chinese]COVID-19 'misinformation.'"
CONFLICT: Fauci's Daughter is a Software Engineer at Twitter, a Company Which Suspends People for Disagreeing With Her Father
"The Biden [junta] has set its target on destroying the oil and coal industry, including pipelines, for over forty days since they took office. Not once have they provided any scientific data to justify the destruction."
Will Purported Journalists Ever Ask for Scientific Data Justifying the Destruction of America's Economy?
"They canceled Ryan Anderson's book on transgenderism, but they're fine with selling works that normalize pedophilia."
Amazon's Double Standard on Book Bans
"'I used to love working here,' Donald McNeil Jr. wrote. 'Now I'm so discouraged. Such a mean, spiteful, vengeful place where everyone is looking over his/her shoulder.'"
Reporter Forced Out of New York Times Reveals the Newsroom's Internal Culture War
"I suspect a majority of the students were horrified by this call for impeachment, but most were too cowardly to stand up to the bullies and vote against it. Instead, they bowed their heads and violated their personal ethics so as to avoid causing trouble for themselves. This cowardice is probably the biggest reason the blacklisting attempts by the left across America are working. People are afraid, and are also too timid to stand up to fight back."
Today's Blacklisted American: Non-Profit Blackballs Student for Daring to Defend Free Speech
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The prosecution of Strickland, the McCloskeys, and Rittenhouse looks like a witch hunt meant to bolster calls for radical gun-control legislation."
The Left's Campaign Against Self-Defense
ABORTION
"'It's time for this decision to be overturned in the Supreme Court,' Arkansas State Republican Rep. Mary Bentley, one of the bill's co-sponsors, told her colleagues in reference to Roe v. Wade."
Arkansas Legislature Sends Bill That Would Almost Completely Ban Abortion To Governor
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"If we break out the Iranian issue from the overall Middle Eastern issue, we run the risk of losing the two achievements, namely of separating the Palestinian issue, which removes it as a veto over everything else, and the Sunni cooperation with Israel, which is unique in its openness."
Kissinger: Biden Must Uphold Trump Admin's "Brilliant" Success in the Middle East
"...Americans' overall favorability rating of the country - - which perpetuates genocide against Uyghurs, targets the U.S. with information and economic warfare, and spawned and spread [Chinese] COVID-19 - - hit an all-time low of 20%."
POLL: Dems Three Times More Likely to Express Favorable View of Genocidal CCP Than Republicans
Consulting with Dao-Ming Yen...
China Plans Sweeping Electoral Changes to Ensure Only "Patriots" Hold Power in Hong Kong
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The bill would rescind two decades-old military force authorizations Congress passed in 1991 and 2001."
So-Called Quote-Unquote "President" Biden's War Powers Are Under Threat From a Bipartisan Senate Bill
"Instead of intimidating service members for expressing normal political beliefs, military leaders should investigate whether military personnel are being recruited by extremists on both ends of the spectrum." (what "both ends?" - jjs)
Biden's Plan to Root "Extremists" Out of the Military Looks Like a Political Operation
"University touts extensive cooperation with Chinese organizations deemed security risks."
Stanford Opens Chinese Studies Center With CCP Ties
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"ICNA and terror-related imam set up booth to mission-ize to flea market goers."
Exploiting Jesus to Convert Vulnerable Christians to Radical Islam
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"...And Biden's massive stimulus bill won't help matters."
Inflation Will Destroy the Middle Class
"What some people don't know is how union leadership has continued to cozy up to progressive politicians pushing policies that are antithetical to the interests of the rank and file."
Unions Must Stop Prioritizing Politics Over Jobs
"As [a] candidate, Elaine Luria argued nationwide minimum wage would hurt small businesses."
Swing District Dem Flip-Flops on Minimum Wage
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The unfunded mandates in their bill, H.R. 1280, would cost police departments hundreds of millions of dollars -- the equivalent of taking 3,000 cops or more off the streets. Our men and women in uniform deserve better."
Democrats Pass Bill Critics Say Defunds Police and Reject Proposal to Condemn Calls to "Abolish" Police
"An effort to recall the Los Angeles district attorney reveals a growing rift."
In Tinseltown, a Glimmer of Hope on Law and Order
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Conservative groups up pressure on moderate Dems to block Becerra."
Senate Committee Deadlocks on Becerra Nomination
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Your papers, please...
In Los Angeles Schools, a Student's Digital Papers Might Not be in Order
"You are quoted twice in the last eight months," the email said, in part. "I know that Maryam is a common Iranian name, but I will not make any assumptions without a legitimate method," the email continued. "Could you tell me how you racially self-identify or point me to a citation on your identity?"
Mother Says She's Being Targeted By California's Largest Teachers Union After She Pushed For School Reopening
"...But SCOTUS remains the ultimate arbiter."
Biden Pushes Racially Focused College Admissions
"Democrats are seeking to provide $7.6 billion over the next 10 years toward a program that prioritizes the interests of teachers unions over getting students back into classrooms now."
Teachers Unions Want to Stay Home Forever, and Democrats' Chinese COVID Bill E-Rate Expansion Would Help Them Do It at Your Expense
"...Or better yet, 'White Abolitionists.'"
New York Public School Urges Parents to be "White Traitors"
"Is there anything worse for black K-12 students who want to become engineers than teachers who think they can't meet the same standards as their classmates?"
The Left's Vision of Equity Will Cripple a Generation of Minority Students
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) contends that melting sea ice, caused by global warming, is causing the polar bear population to decrease..."
Report: Polar Bear Population Increasing
In a drought year, is the state doing anything to mitigate the inevitable fires?"
California Wildfire Season is Just Around the Corner
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Can women argue that the Equality Act violates their constitutional right to privacy?"
The Coming Clash Between Roe v. Wade and the Equality Act
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"America is entering its very own Mao-like Cultural Revolution. The iconoclasm of the left's culture war isn't a side effect, it's the point."
The Cancellation of Dr. Seuss Should Disturb You, Because You're Next
"Schumer argued that like the central character in Green Eggs and Ham, who resisted the dish until he actually tried it, Americans would enjoy Obamacare once they were forced to enroll in it."
WATCH: Cuck Schemer Used Green Eggs and Ham to Sell Obamacare
"Every day in America, panels of experts are hurting people, erasing traditions, writing rules, rewriting history, and burning the leftovers. On Monday, they came for Dr. Seuss - - and with him, all of us."
The "Experts" Have Finally Come for Dr. Seuss, for Our Childhoods and for Our Children - - But We Know Their Secret
"The campaign against Theodor Geisel takes cancel culture to new lows."
How the Woke Stole Childhood
Christian Toto: "Colbert and Meyers can't see the dangers tied to erasing our cultural institutions."
Late Night Laughs at Cancel Culture Crushing Dr. Seuss, the Muppets
"For those looking to understand how we got here, Stephen Soukup's new book is the best place to start."
How Wokeness Captured Big Business
"Now I gotta watch what the fuck I say."
 Bill Burr Defends Gina Carano
Larry Elder: "Repudiating false narratives."
The Case Against Reparations
"This process begins by establishing whether a friend or relative is a liberal or a leftist. If it turns out that he or she is a liberal, it is worth engaging in respectful dialogue on the issues of the day. If the friend or relative is a leftist, you can probably only talk about innocuous subjects such as the weather (though not about global warming) or sports (though not about players taking a knee during the national anthem)."
Is Your Friend a Liberal or a Leftist? Ask These Questions to Find Out

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1 good morning horde

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2021 07:22 AM (nUhF0)

2 a first, by golly!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 04, 2021 07:23 AM (nUhF0)

3 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:23 AM (yrol0)

4 Good morning, horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 04, 2021 07:25 AM (U7wke)

5 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 04, 2021 07:25 AM (u7pQw)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at March 04, 2021 07:26 AM (S6skK)

7 These governors, county commissioners and city mayors who all demanded unconstitutional lockdowns, forced institutionalizations and other things that could not ever be passed by legislation should also take full responsibility for the outcomes.

There is a reason why the Founders did not make provision for these kinds of direct attacks on liberty and freedom against We The People - because it would be tyranny. And tyrants rarely suffer the consequences for their evil.

There must be eye-for-an-eye consequences for using the powers of the police state to compel people to do things that harms or even kills them.

Maybe that will cause the next batch of petty tyrants and despots a moment of reflection before making decisions that kill thousands, destroy millions and cost trillions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 07:26 AM (J5FvS)

8 Morning!

Posted by: WisRich at March 04, 2021 07:26 AM (qKfc+)

9 The questions to ask friends to determine whether they're liberal or leftist are good ones, but I think I'd have to do it in bits and pieces. Otherwise, lunch would be like an interrogation rather than a friendly get together.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:27 AM (VP4Cd)

10 Good morning, all. Kudos (in all seriousness) to GOPe leader McCarthy for keeping all his troops on the reservation on the almost straight party-line vote on this "election" monstrosity - not that elections matter anymore.

Perhaps related - I wonder what these guys know that the rest of us don't, given that they're projecting the USA to lose 228-million in population by 2025, as well as the remaining denizens of this dirt losing about 70% of our purchasing power.

https://www.deagel.com/forecast

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 07:27 AM (NYS7S)

11 Mornin'! Ain't it always the way. Up early to do normal stuff, and the normal stuff gets canceled by a water main break that thankfully does not affect my residence. *shrug* Moar covfefe!

Thanks for the rundown, JJ, and Happy Birthday!

Posted by: Catherine -- who generally doesn't curse. at March 04, 2021 07:27 AM (T4sri)

12 Remember back in 2017 with the House, the Senate and the Presidency how the GOP-led House did this same thing....immediately passed legislation that ridiculously tilted the balance of power in their favor?
...
...
...me neither.
In fact for two whole years they did absolutely not a m.f. thing.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at March 04, 2021 07:27 AM (ZNZjb)

13 Good morning horde.

Posted by: iandeal at March 04, 2021 07:28 AM (vgGyZ)

14 Well at least Biden didn't say "Neanderthal thinking" in a tweet. As we all know it's cool for the president to be an insulting dickbag to half the country as long as it's not in a mean tweet.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 07:28 AM (OjOHC)

15 11 Posted by: Catherine -- who generally doesn't curse. at March 04, 2021 07:27 AM (T4sri)

Did you have to stop counting votes?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:28 AM (s2VJv)

16 Otherwise, lunch would be like an interrogation rather than a friendly get together.

What ever happened to that tradition that has been passed down for generations: Polite conversation doesn't involve talk of sex, religion or politics.

You bring any of those up at the risk of ruining lunch - and possibly more.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 07:30 AM (oQqL8)

17 There isn't one damned thing that's currently going on in this country that is good. Jesus, I simply can't believe what's happening.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:31 AM (O+I8R)

18 Play marching band music today.

Posted by: CapeFear at March 04, 2021 07:31 AM (4PDMt)

19 Good morning!

The attack is reportedly going to happen on March 4th, which is the original presidential inauguration day.

Yeah, OK. I'll believe it when it happens.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 04, 2021 07:31 AM (5XK0y)

20 Good morning. What fresh hell...

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 04, 2021 07:32 AM (yEBFM)

21 The U.S. Capitol Police have increased security because they obtained intelligence with a supposed credible threat against Capitol Hill. The attack is reportedly going to happen on March 4th, which is the original presidential inauguration day.

We can expect this sort of utter bullshit at least 1x every other month from now on. It's all part of the Op.

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 07:32 AM (NYS7S)

22 18 Play marching band music today.
Posted by: CapeFear at March 04, 2021 07:31 AM (4PDMt)

Sousa or Wagner? Hmm...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:33 AM (s2VJv)

23 Morning peeps. Beautiful weather (finally) has arrived in the Bluegrass. I got a yuge brush pile ready to go.

It occurs to me that one of the reasons Cuomo is on the hot seat is the persistent poking he received from one Janice Dean of FOX. I think her voice had a little more volume because of that. I'm not saying she and she alone was the cause of Party Tit's downfall, but she sure helped.

Now, if there were other like minded media or political personalities in the states where the governors made similar decisions that would ramp up accusations you might see some movement there as well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 07:33 AM (3H9h1)

24 Is it possible that the Democrats (again) employ Antifa members dressed up as Trump supporters to do political theatre on March 6th?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:33 AM (VP4Cd)

25 Has fuzznuts Wray's white supremacist insurrection happened yet? Brilliant move by fatass Chuck Grassley to inflict this turd on the country. Vote Harder gets us more of this if Dominion allows it.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 07:33 AM (y7DUB)

26 Close the government day care indoctrination centers permanently.

Little Johnny Methcook and Little Sally Glasspipe ain't learning nothing positive anyways.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 04, 2021 07:34 AM (mEC7p)

27 12 Remember back in 2017 with the House, the Senate and the Presidency how the GOP-led House did this same thing....immediately passed legislation that ridiculously tilted the balance of power in their favor?
...
...
...me neither.
In fact for two whole years they did absolutely not a m.f. thing.
Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at March 04, 2021 07:27 AM (ZNZjb)

The only thing they did was a giant decomposing thumbs down on the Trump agenda, and then 50 of them decided to retire before 2018 and hand the House to the Enemy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:34 AM (s2VJv)

28 ISWYDT and happy March 4th bday. JJ

Posted by: CapeFear at March 04, 2021 07:34 AM (4PDMt)

29 Thank God we were able to install those two fearless vanguards of Originalism and justice on the Supreme Court before Trump was routed from office.

Posted by: Homo Viator at March 04, 2021 07:35 AM (H8QX8)

30 So, what's the likelihood that HR1 will pass the Senate and be signed by the phony president? I don't know what's going to stop them, since they have the #s to do any f'n thing they want. Oh wait, like JJ said, we can rest assured SCOTUS will tell them it's unconstitutional and to get their grubby, filthy, rotten, corrupt, disingenuous, unscrupulous hands off of states' election systems. We could hardly be any closer to civil war than we are now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:35 AM (O+I8R)

31 24 Is it possible that the Democrats (again) employ Antifa members dressed up as Trump supporters to do political theatre on March 6th?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:33 AM (VP4Cd)

I doubt it. There isn't the cover of a mass rally of actually Trump supporters to blame. That said, they can railroad some idiots with a ham radio somewhere in the woods like they did in Michigan against some yokels who didn't like Whitmer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:36 AM (s2VJv)

32 "For the People Act"
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Or as Lauren Boebert called it: "For the Swamp Act"https://tinyurl.com/44m9fhpm[Heard Mark Levin blowing gaskets over this Tuesday ...]

Posted by: ShainS at March 04, 2021 07:36 AM (WqPYg)

33 My kingdom for a line feed ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 04, 2021 07:36 AM (WqPYg)

34 I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that at some point in the next 4 years Kamala will be President.

Posted by: Caliban at March 04, 2021 07:36 AM (HgGBT)

35 For the People, act!

https://tinyurl.com/9knuk38w

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 04, 2021 07:36 AM (LvTSG)

36 Is it possible that the Democrats (again) employ Antifa members dressed up as Trump supporters to do political theatre on March 6th?

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If anything happens at all, there is a very high probability of that happening. Nothing...nothing...is real. Everything from the left is psyops. That's not conspiracy; it's truth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:37 AM (O+I8R)

37 The JJ content is another level. If I read all of it, my first post would be on his blog tomorrow.

Posted by: Quint at March 04, 2021 07:37 AM (OqDgx)

38 Sorry, March 4th because the 75 million people who voted for Trump simply because they're White Supremacists all KNOW that March 4th was the original inauguration date and figure it would be a good day to storm the Capitol./s

Q Anon is crazy. Is their a letter which we can apply to the crazy leftist conspiracies? How about "S" Anon for "Stupidity Anon"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:37 AM (VP4Cd)

39 more gaslighting from the Capitol police

they would welcome the attack

they wouldn't let on they knew, just get ready

total bullshit gaslighting

Posted by: REDACTED at March 04, 2021 07:37 AM (6iURM)

40 Progressive Dems Unsuccessfully Push to Lower Voting Age to 16

Please add in consent and alcohol!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:38 AM (yrol0)

41 Sorry. Typo. Meant "Is there..." not their.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:39 AM (VP4Cd)

42
According to some flyers Gateway Pundit has up, March 6th is supposed to be some worldwide antifa event.

Posted by: Bill from Attainder at March 04, 2021 07:39 AM (N/gDA)

43 41 Sorry. Typo. Meant "Is there..." not their.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:39 AM (VP4Cd)

Their is no there they're...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:39 AM (s2VJv)

44 >>>March 6th is supposed to be some worldwide antifa event.

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and the troops will protect them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 04, 2021 07:40 AM (29q5W)

45 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: tbodie at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (Xr3y2)

46 According to some flyers Gateway Pundit has up, March 6th is supposed to be some worldwide antifa event.
Posted by: Bill from Attainder at March 04, 2021 07:39 AM (N/gDA)

These WHITE SUPREMECISTS are EVERYWHERE I tell you!!
- Top. Men. at your FBI

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (NYS7S)

47 Nobody on G*d's green earth is aware of what the "original" inauguration date was. Leftists pull this stuff out of their backsides, these obscure references, and run with them. Just like the CPAC stage and its hidden precursor NAZI symbol.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (O+I8R)

48 "Why are parents desperate to return their precious offspring to the degenerate hands of the public-school system?"

There are different answers to this in each case but responsible conservative prospective parents should plan on either homeschooling their children or being able to afford to send them to a good private school when considering having children. Life isn't fair but trying to find a suitable public indoctrination center is playing Russian roulette with your own flesh and blood. This isn't the 50s or 60s any more...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (y7DUB)

49
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (MIuvZ)

50 I'm sure a couple of MAGA cosplayers will show up at the fence near the Capitol today. That's all that's needed to kick the retribution phase into gear.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (3H9h1)

51 Did you have to stop counting votes?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:28 AM (s2VJv)

Nah, this is MO, where water leaks only cancel school.

And a good thing did get done yesterday. At least once a semester, a homeschool co-op stands on the steps of a city church and prays the Rosary for an end to abortion while the kids parade the sidewalk with pro-life signs. Not a single insult hurled or disagreement with the local populace was had, and the neighborhood is decidedly liberal. Many waves, thumbs-up gestures (with the proper appendage, not the one reserved for our current junta) and other signs of support. I'm old enough to remember when the "smart" set thought fighting abortion was divisive. At least in MO, this fight brings many together.

Posted by: Catherine -- who generally doesn't curse. at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (T4sri)

52 Some of the commie donk reps have fled the Capitol fearing for their lives. DC is in turmoil. A 21st century Gallieni is needed. Biden* commandeers all DC cabs to drive the National Guard out to meet the invading forces. Not finding any, they can at least get a decent meal.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (I58tH)

53 For The People. And the children. Not for those 75 million non-people. And their children.

Posted by: f'd at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (CHpW3)

54 The judges ruling revealed that sixty-six of eighty-four absentee ballots nearly 79 percent cast in the June runoff were fraudulent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

55 "H.R. 1 will permanently alter voting in America by nationalizing all the changes made in blue states during 2020, opening the way to massive fraud."

Funny how alterations to elections up to this point required Constitutional Amendments.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 07:43 AM (6T7Go)

56 At this point it seems pretty clear "QAnon" is a put up job, organized to excuse fences, troops, domestic surveillance etc.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 04, 2021 07:44 AM (29q5W)

57 46 According to some flyers Gateway Pundit has up, March 6th is supposed to be some worldwide antifa event.
Posted by: Bill from Attainder at March 04, 2021 07:39 AM (N/gDA)

These WHITE SUPREMECISTS are EVERYWHERE I tell you!!
- Top. Men. at your FBI
Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (NYS7S)

If Nidal Hassan targeted the Hoover Building... they'd still have no motive or would point the finger at a redneck angry about Obamacare.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:46 AM (s2VJv)

58 I'm sure a couple of MAGA cosplayers will show up at the fence near the Capitol today. That's all that's needed to kick the retribution phase into gear.

Fine, give them the Ashlii Babbit treatment. They get their orgasm in killing who they feel is a Trump supporter, and it creates a new wing of the Antifa movement that is an analog of Islamic suicide bombers.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 07:46 AM (p7S+d)

59 Fuck Vaccine Equity

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:47 AM (yrol0)

60 mornin yall

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at March 04, 2021 07:47 AM (6Pqz7)

61 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 07:47 AM (arJlL)

62 Q was always a leftist op. The quodverum crowd denounced it then copied it and elaborated on its fictions with political thriller detail.

54 The judges ruling revealed that sixty-six of eighty-four absentee ballots nearly 79 percent cast in the June runoff were fraudulent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

Where were the asshole judges back in November?

As for Mike Pence talking about election fraud and blaming his inaction on the capitol "siege" Fuck you, Mike you spineless POS. You'd have used any excuse to shiv Trump and the GOP voters, then you had the temerity to attend the fraudulent inauguration. Go away Mike.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 07:47 AM (ONvIw)

63 No Hitler & Son today.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 07:48 AM (arJlL)

64 Thank God we were able to install those two fearless vanguards of Originalism and justice on the Supreme Court before Trump was routed from office.
Posted by: Homo Viator at March 04, 2021 07:35 AM (H8QX

Between the Federalist Society and the Gas Chamber of Krony Kapitalism, Top Men have made some brilliant alignments. Decisions like that have the stench of THE ARCHITECT on them.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 07:48 AM (y7DUB)

65 Good morning

>>"Why are parents desperate to return their precious offspring to the degenerate hands of the public-school system?"

That's a dumb question, really.
First, kids need to see and have fun with their friends again. The social isolation is damaginging them.

Seccond, getting kids back inschool enabled parents to get back to work 100%/

Third, depending on the governor's policies, school shutdown orders have affected private schools's ability to be open; if oublic schools re-open then private schools are also open.

Yes, public schools suck and no one should put their kids in them. Punishing kids right now amidst a bunch of other pandemic issues (job losses, etc) and then saying "Well schools suck anyway!" is piling on. I would imagine a lot of parebts who still have kids in public schools are figuring out how to change that, but in the meantime, we need to get the economy up and running and kids back in a healthy socially life.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 07:48 AM (bDqIh)

66 The local DC news was hyping the story of how we have white supremacists in the military and what a danger to the country it is last night. The gaslighting is frightening.

Posted by: Iris at March 04, 2021 07:48 AM (6lKe4)

67 Maybe it will be the passage of HR1 (Highway Robbery 1) that will make red state governors finally throw down the gauntlet and break away from this out-of-control, illegitimate federal government. Hey, I have to have some hope...

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:49 AM (O+I8R)

68 Illegal Aliens >28Million

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:49 AM (yrol0)

69 As for Daniel Greenfield's piece...American liberal Jews don't care. TO is all about BLM and antifa, with Trump and conservatives branded as fascists. Go talk to them, Dan, see where it gets you.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 07:50 AM (ONvIw)

70 67 Maybe it will be the passage of HR1 (Highway Robbery 1) that will make red state governors finally throw down the gauntlet and break away from this out-of-control, illegitimate federal government. Hey, I have to have some hope...
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:49 AM (O+I8R)

If actual election thievery in their states made them get angry at us for demanding they throw out the Biden electors, this ain't gonna do anything.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:51 AM (s2VJv)

71 66 The local DC news was hyping the story of how we have white supremacists in the military and what a danger to the country it is last night. The gaslighting is frightening.
Posted by: Iris at March 04, 2021 07:48 AM (6lKe4)

Of course.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 07:51 AM (ONvIw)

72 so who is going to the inaguration today ? Q

Posted by: teejee at March 04, 2021 07:52 AM (g741k)

73 Good morning. What fresh hell...
Posted by: Rosasharn

Bide Pod is ready to take questions.....

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 07:52 AM (arJlL)

74 Nobody on G*d's green earth is aware of what the "original" inauguration date was.

Nearly all ~~Texans~~ residents in Texas didn't know that two days ago was Texas Independence Day.

Very few people know when Daylight Savings start.

Many men struggle to remember the birthdate of the wife, or the anniversary date.

But we all know Tax Day.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 07:52 AM (p7S+d)

75 The federal government has gone rogue. Pray and start hounding your state legislators. If the abomination HR1 passes the Senate, the states are the only things that can save us.

Posted by: itsacookbook at March 04, 2021 07:52 AM (yPxXc)

76 As we all know it's cool for the president to be an insulting dickbag to half the country as long as it's ~~not in a mean tweet~~ NYC or LA.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 04, 2021 07:52 AM (U7wke)

77 As for Mike Pence talking about election fraud and blaming his inaction on the capitol "siege" Fuck you, Mike you spineless POS. You'd have used any excuse to shiv Trump and the GOP voters, then you had the temerity to attend the fraudulent inauguration. Go away Mike.

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This. I saw that yesterday and it enraged me. I have such loathing for him, and every other R puke who did nothing in the face of this obvious election theft. I always thought he was a decent man (I keep making that mistake about a lot of these useless dirtbags), but I was wrong. He would've said anything to excuse himself from actually dealing with what happened in an honest manner. And he did so because he didn't want Trump reelected either. He can pound sand.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:53 AM (O+I8R)

78 Mr. Hick, the long-standing problem in this country is that too many people work for our government or their institutions, like schools. There is no mechanism before an election (heh) for them to suffer for their decisions. You drive unemployment to whatever percent? Maybe your salary should go down to some percentage. Even this week ADP reported that on 117k private sector jobs were created in January, an awful number. But no worries, 103k government jobs were added. Now I know it can't be a direct relationship, but does anyone think the 117,000 will pay enough taxes to support nearly as many government workers?

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 07:53 AM (QZ/dC)

79 Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 07:48 AM (bDqIh)

Well said; Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 07:53 AM (VP4Cd)

80 Illegal Aliens >28Million

Easily. I'm pretty confident that the number of people living in the former United States is > 400 million.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 07:54 AM (BtX4s)

81 67 Maybe it will be the passage of HR1 (Highway Robbery 1) that will make red state governors finally throw down the gauntlet...
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:49 AM (O+I8R)

Thank you for that shot of black humor.

Anyway, by the time anything could ever be done, those states will be blue.

Posted by: Homo Viator at March 04, 2021 07:54 AM (H8QX8)

82

Q started out as a troll on 4chan that took on a life of its own. Now the left is just using it as opportunity to put boot heels on necks.

Posted by: StefanH at March 04, 2021 07:54 AM (Rs1lL)

83 The Feral Govt closing down and hunkering in for an attack is laughable and pathetic.
When do the national divorce discussions begin?

Posted by: Some dope in pa at March 04, 2021 07:54 AM (EM0pH)

84 Any reasonable prosecutor would indict trump for inciting the threat of violence that may happen today.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 07:55 AM (4+MtS)

85 The local DC news was hyping the story of how we have white supremacists in the military and what a danger to the country it is last night. The gaslighting is frightening.

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The gaslighting isn't nearly as frightening as the number of idiots that fall for it. Gaslighting wouldn't have any effect if we had enough intelligence left in this country. Common sense. Awareness. Critical thinking. Anything!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:56 AM (O+I8R)

86
54 The judges ruling revealed that sixty-six of eighty-four absentee ballots nearly 79 percent cast in the June runoff were fraudulent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

Well that can't be true. Why just yesterday we were being told here that yes some fraud happen but in no way could it have been significant to swing the election. It was all Trump being mean and alienating people.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 07:57 AM (G2zl5)

87 Hey. I'm outside the capitol...and there's nobody here. Didn't you guys get the memo?

Posted by: BignJames at March 04, 2021 07:57 AM (AwYPR)

88 If the abomination HR1 passes the Senate, the states are the only things that can save us

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Amazing what great interest I have taken in state government the last couple of months. Guys that run my state are of great integrity like Mike DeWine, and Larry Householder. It's uphill all the way.

Posted by: Lewis Medlock at March 04, 2021 07:58 AM (98lYd)

89 Fur The People Act -- Bunny costumes for everyone!!

Apparently, the House passed essentially this same bill last year too. And as long as at least one of Manchin/Sinema refuses to dump the filibuster, it ain't going anywhere in the Senate this time either.

Not to mention it straight up violates the Constitution, though Roberts et al can just declare it a tax or something.

Seriously, I ain't real worried about this bill. But it does declare their evil intentions clearly. Okay, another of them.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 07:58 AM (F0YaR)

90 Ugh, every refresh barfs up the image of that shriveled raisin of a crazy lady. Oh, how I hate that evil woman. I know I shouldn't hate. But all I see is evil, and wicked.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:58 AM (O+I8R)

91 If actual election thievery in their states made them get angry at us for demanding they throw out the Biden electors, this ain't gonna do anything.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 07:51 AM (s2VJv)

The cowardice by the Repuke state legislatures in rubber stamping the fraud shows the type of spinelessness we've become conditioned to, not to mention lack of preparation. I'm sure that interfered with meetings with the all important donor class.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 07:59 AM (y7DUB)

92 82

Q started out as a troll on 4chan that took on a life of its own. Now the left is just using it as opportunity to put boot heels on necks.
Posted by: StefanH at March 04, 2021 07:54 AM (Rs1lL

I still laugh at the people here that believes it as definitely true. Yes it's good that some people look at it and then decide to start searching for their own information and rejecting the media lies, but it was always crap.

My favorite is the nutter that swore Q was real but then it became corrupt because Kushner took it over.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 07:59 AM (G2zl5)

93 I wonder if the FBI and other intelligence agencies that are putting out these red alerts about impending white nationalist insurrections and terrorist attacks are losing whatever credibility that they had left. Do they even care? Do they believe their own propaganda?

I never liked the massive intelligence/security buildup after 9/11 fearing it would lead to what we are seeing today. If we ever get the govt under control again all those agencies need to see huge spending/personnel cuts. And no more secret budgets either. I'd rather take my chances with terrorist attacks than have these Deep State operatives watching, tracking and scheming against us and ever increasing security shakedowns.

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 07:59 AM (MxEKc)

94 I always thought he was a decent man (I keep making that mistake about a lot of these useless dirtbags), but I was wrong.

Pence is what he is - a spineless establishment dick. He only took the VP spot because he was losing in early polling to be re-elected as Gov of Indiana. He's the same guy that spent campaign funds to pay personal bills back as a state rep.

People need to stop projecting - and see these pukes for what they are, not what folks wish they were.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 04, 2021 08:00 AM (sMMcg)

95 Amazing what great interest I have taken in state government the last couple of months. Guys that run my state are of great integrity like Mike DeWine, and Larry Householder. It's uphill all the way.
Posted by: Lewis Medlock

Could be worse Lewis - I run into Katshit often in the grocery. Another reminder of the great men who deign to rule over us.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:00 AM (Rvt88)

96 I'd rather take my chances with terrorist attacks than have these Deep State operatives watching, tracking and scheming against us and ever increasing security shakedowns.
Posted by: Ripley

True terrorists are the least of our worries these days.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:02 AM (Rvt88)

97 "Joe Biden has fewer functioning brain cells than a Neanderthal and continues to listen to clowns like Fauci, who's been wrong at every turn, but he's got the nerve to criticize states who abandon mandates that aren't supported by science? Screw him," one source familiar with the forthcoming order changes in Alabama told Breitbart News.

Evidently governor Ivey has staff that lurk here.

Posted by: BifBewalski - i like living here at March 04, 2021 08:03 AM (VcFUs)

98 if there is no q the how do you explain the shootout between the white hats and the reptilians in germany at the server farm in underneath neuschwanstein and their escape with flying unicorns?

dumbasses

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:03 AM (4Jold)

99 Pence was about as non-Trump as Trump's veep could have been - career pol, vanilla bland, uncharismatic, uninspiring. And in the end spineless and establishment. How the hell that choice was made fits in well with all the other questions re baffling personnel hires the last four years. But gosh I sure can't wait for Trump 2024. All that "winning" will make up for the onslaught of REAL action the dems will be ramming thru the next 4.

Posted by: Cringe Biscuit at March 04, 2021 08:04 AM (ZNZjb)

100 Media pushing their insane made-up bs hard while dc agencies telling employees that there's no threat.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:04 AM (ySQBZ)

101 The gaslighting isn't nearly as frightening as the number of idiots that fall for it. Gaslighting wouldn't have any effect if we had enough intelligence left in this country. Common sense. Awareness. Critical thinking. Anything!
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 07:56 AM (O+I8R)

And who on "our side" denies the media claims? The "right wing" acceptance of this might be the hardest thing to take. A hideous betrayal for what purpose? Money? Cowardice?

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:05 AM (ONvIw)

102 Could be worse Lewis - I run into Katshit often in the grocery. Another reminder of the great men who deign to rule over us.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:00 AM (Rvt8

The grocer should have crates of rotten vegetables to throw at that whiffle haired piece of shit. Along with questions about how much he knew about John Weaver's Sandusky proclivities.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:06 AM (y7DUB)

103 Gestapo outside of gubmint? Gimme a break. Read the sidebar bit from Candace about her 10 friends being harassed by the FIB just for attending Trump's 1/6 rally.

Over 300 arrested by the fibbies so far for 'entering' the Capitol building. Many being held without bail.

Yeah, we don't have to look outside of gubmint at all to find a plentitude of Gestapo types.

Must be part of that 99% good guys that Hannity blathers on about incessantly.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 08:06 AM (F0YaR)

104 Mike Pence (born 1959), like his (former) boss, is a Boomer CivNat. They were (and still are) incapable of doing anything, or even thinking about doing anything, that falls outside of the very small, well defined set of things in the Civic Nationalist toolbox - write your CONgressman, campaign, voter harder, trust the Courts, etc.

When confronted with the obvious theft of a national election they reached into their limited toolbox and found nothing that said "In Case Of Massive Systemic Failure..." because Civic Nationalists don't believe Massive Systemic Failures can happen because rules, because Constitution, because MUH NORMZ.

Pence (and Trump) were both disappointments, on that score, of course, but at least it's understandable as we're all products of our raisin'. That they seem to have learned fuck-all from this process however, is disqualifying for future leadership.

We may, at some point, be able to afford civics people again. But now is not the time for that.

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 08:07 AM (NYS7S)

105 The odd thing is why anyone is concerned about an insurrection. Ace recommended a book yesterday called Last Stands. While not light, it is a brisk read. I made reference to a statement in the introduction that was made in reference to nations perishing. Basically, "I when all the men in a country are petitioners, lackeys, or slaves and every woman a whore, that country is finished." Think about the proportion of our countrymen and women in these categories, with the description of woman not to be confused with being sluttish alone. We are in trouble.

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:07 AM (QZ/dC)

106 >>"Now I gotta watch what the fuck I say."

Good luck with that, Bill Burr!

He is very funny, but pretty much all of his jokes qualify as "offensive" to the type of people who went after Carano.

A few years back he was chatting with Conan about how weird it was that Bruce Jenner became Caitlan overnight, and immediately everyone switched the pronouns, etc.. The joke was about **the way reality flipped in the blink of an eye**, not about Jenner, that a guy like him still thought of Bruce as the awesone dude who won all those Olympic medals. Aaaaand Burr was immediately branded "transphobic."

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:07 AM (bDqIh)

107 Was Q ever right about anything? Rather, was it ever specif enough about anything to be right? I heard it made some predictions/hints about the Ukrainian mess behind impeachment fiasco 1, but anybody that followed govt.workings closely probably could have dug up enough info to make some vague conjectures.

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 08:08 AM (MxEKc)

108 "Why are parents desperate to return their precious offspring to the degenerate hands of the public-school system?"
The Case for Closing Public Schools... Indefinitely
_______
Finally. A conservative writer who sees it. This is our best chance to kill the monster, and I cannot understand why others don't get that.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 04, 2021 08:08 AM (7X3UV)

109 I'm pretty surprised that so few get the communist progression.

1. Crisis
2. Chaos
3. Top down solution
4. Statism

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:09 AM (ySQBZ)

110 the thing is that for some reason ds or the communists or whoever abscnded with the presidency was so worried about another run of Trump that they decided that had to win no matter what, which they did.

Now they have what they wanted but they were so blatant in the theft that they know that everybody knows what they did, they do not have the mandate they need, nobody is going to bow.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:10 AM (4Jold)

111 Happy Birthday to me, a right-wing militia riding velociraptors is going to storm the Capitol and install Trump as GEOTUS?! No? Awuuuu.....

Posted by: pookysgirl, wistful at March 04, 2021 08:10 AM (XKZwp)

112 And what's the evidence that masks make a difference?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:10 AM (ySQBZ)

113 110

China

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:11 AM (ySQBZ)

114 112 And what's the evidence that masks make a difference?
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:10 AM (ySQBZ)

I knew the minute that mask were required after the vaccine it was all one big FAKE.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:11 AM (yrol0)

115 And what's the evidence that masks make a difference?
Posted by: dagny

Nada. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2021 08:11 AM (6J/xZ)

116 110

China
Posted by: d

maybe

It is something but who knows what it is.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:12 AM (4Jold)

117 And what's the evidence that masks make a difference?
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:10 AM (ySQBZ)

SHUT UP, YOU SCIENCE DENIER!!! Fauci "exaplained"

Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 08:12 AM (NYS7S)

118 Happy Birthday to me, a right-wing militia riding velociraptors is going to storm the Capitol and install Trump as GEOTUS?! No? Awuuuu.....
Posted by: pookysgirl

Happy birthday!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2021 08:12 AM (6J/xZ)

119 Good morning morons Thanks JJ

Membeh voting?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2021 08:12 AM (EZebt)

120 103 Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 08:06 AM (F0YaR)

Gnu:

I'm referring to colleagues, employers, neighbors and even one's own family who are totally on board with the communism. Considering the teenybopper who ripped her own mother on Twitter for the insidious hate-crime of being beaten up unprovoked on January 6th, I'd say that average citizens are happy to be amateur Gestapo agents for the regime.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 08:12 AM (s2VJv)

121 whatever it is this is going to be fun

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:13 AM (4Jold)

122 99> ..."How the hell that choice was made fits in well with all the other questions re baffling personnel hires the last four years."

IIRC Pence was chosen because is was low key swamp. Trump didn't pick him. Pence was selected FOR Trump, as were most, if not all, of his administration. I still think this was Trump's biggest mistake. For him to let this type of "administrative task" go on behind his back while he wheeled and dealed with heads of state was poor management. I think Trump thought it wouldn't matter in the end as that's how he ran his business. He made deals while the "little people" tended to the details.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:13 AM (3H9h1)

123 Qu'est-ce que c'est Q ?

Posted by: teejee at March 04, 2021 08:13 AM (g741k)

124 "Why are parents desperate to return their precious offspring to the degenerate hands of the public-school system?"
The Case for Closing Public Schools... Indefinitely
_______
Finally. A conservative writer who sees it. This is our best chance to kill the monster, and I cannot understand why others don't get that.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 04, 2021 08:08 AM (7X3UV)

Same reason Congress largely gets re-elected even with approval ratings in the teens. The belief that they all suck "except for mine." I have had maddening conversations to this effect over the past year, and the excuses flow rapidly. "Well, I can't homeschool." "It's not that bad here." Etc, etc. I've given up. So many can't see the forest for their tree.

Posted by: Catherine -- who generally doesn't curse. at March 04, 2021 08:13 AM (T4sri)

125 115 I always hit the dollar aisle, and I'll try products and if they're any good, I'll stock up a little because they're usually closeouts. Picked up some Canuck mouthwash, and the label says "helps fight mask breath".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 04, 2021 08:14 AM (I58tH)

126 remember, if we ever do get zampolits it is important that you invite him to your office for tea before setting out.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:14 AM (4Jold)

127 but he's got the nerve to criticize states who abandon mandates that aren't supported by science?

This is the problem. The misapplication of "science" into public policy.

If "science" told me that putting antibiotics into my chickens would prevent a certain disease, and the cost of the antibiotics was good insurance against the risks, then I could use that knowledge to decide to apply that to my chickens.

The problem here is: People are not chickens; people are of the Imago Dei, and in either case we are not the disposable property of politicians.

When politicians stop seeing us as sovereign individuals with our own minds, hearts and souls and see us as chattel, or worse, prisoners in need of constant micromanaging, then we get what we are seeing today.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:15 AM (d6jw5)

128 in fairness, the masks have been good for ugly chicks.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:15 AM (4Jold)

129 We absolutely had a color revolution.

Deep state incited "grassroots" uprising. People demand the government stops the uprising. Government grabs more power to crush the uprising. Government does not relinquish their new power.

They faked the entire uprising and the demands to crush the uprising.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (4+MtS)

130 is it too early for a negra modelo ?

Posted by: mr wizard at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (g741k)

131 The bill would also require politically-active organizations, including
401(c)3 nonprofits, to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more

Aren't churches 401(c)3 non-profits? And we're to report generous parishioners to the government? That doesn't sound oppressive at all.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (45fpk)

132 pookysgirl

Happy Birthday !

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (arJlL)

133 The attack is reportedly going to happen on March 4th, which is the original presidential inauguration day.

Yeah, OK. I'll believe it when it happens.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 04, 2021 07:31 AM (5XK0y)

===

I am shocked by the number of people who have parroted this noxious b.s to me personally

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 04, 2021 08:17 AM (EZebt)

134 I remember people saying that Pence looked Presidential. Maybe that is why Biden got 80 million votes because he looked Presidential. Does Kamala look Presidential to you? We will soon find out.

Posted by: Colin at March 04, 2021 08:17 AM (wA5CG)

135 in fairness, the masks have been good for ugly chicks.
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:15 AM (4Jold)

Maskne suggests otherwise.

Posted by: Catherine -- who generally doesn't curse. at March 04, 2021 08:17 AM (T4sri)

136 Was Q ever right about anything? Rather, was it ever specif enough about anything to be right? I heard it made some predictions/hints about the Ukrainian mess behind impeachment fiasco 1, but anybody that followed govt.workings closely probably could have dug up enough info to make some vague conjectures.

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 08:08 AM (MxEKc)

Some good educated guesses, lotsa bullshit. Like a fortune teller. Back during The Reign Of Error, there was a website that claimed to have deep lines into the WH and had lots of 'skinny' on the internal doings. I forget the name now, as I never paid them much attention.

They were running the same scam as Q.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 08:18 AM (F0YaR)

137 the abomination HR1 passes the Senate, the states are the only things that can save us.
Posted by: itsacookbook at March 04, 2021 07:52 AM (yPxXc)

RIP me

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 04, 2021 08:18 AM (/6GbT)

138 How far do you think someone could get with saying "I'm vaccinated" to the idiots at most stores and restaurants and then " you have no right to see my medical records" when they ask for proof?

I imagine most of these stupid fascists will say "it's our policy you must wear a mask no exceptions" into eternity.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 08:18 AM (G2zl5)

139 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

140 q is the magic eightball of 2020

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (4Jold)

141 Trump really fucked up by not firing everyone on day one and starting over.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

142 The Left will do their level best to destroy private/religious schools.

They cant tolerate alternatives to the gubmint indoctrination systems.

Posted by: McCool at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (BqBIh)

143 Farrakhan: This Vaccine Is A Vial Of Death

Louie Louie, oh no, you take me where ya gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (yrol0)

144 Again, the March 4th thing is all Pelosi and media bs. People working in DC and for navy, national guard, labor, dept of energy etc told .....yawn, no threat.

It's a lie.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (ySQBZ)

145 141 Trump really fucked up by not firing everyone on day one and starting over.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

No standing

Posted by: Courts at March 04, 2021 08:20 AM (/6GbT)

146 144 Again, the March 4th thing is all Pelosi and media bs. People working in DC and for navy, national guard, labor, dept of energy etc told .....yawn, no threat.

It's a lie.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:19 AM (ySQBZ)

So was the "insurrection" on Jan 6

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 08:20 AM (G2zl5)

147 And what's the evidence that masks make a difference?
Posted by: dagny

Nada. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch.

That may be true for physical health, but are crippling in mental health.

I'm still trying to figure out the proportions of the Venn diagram of masks being: Linus's blue blanket, A talisman against the Wuhan Death Miasma, I am a sheep, I do what I am ordered to do.

At the convergence of this is: Masks are the 21st century cargo cult.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:20 AM (Qq9he)

148 is it too early for a negra modelo ?
Posted by: mr wizard at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (g741k)

It's 17:00 somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

149 I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that at some point in the next 4 ~~years~~ months Kamala will be President.
Posted by: Caliban at March 04, 2021 07:36 AM (HgGBT)

FIFY

Posted by: Fox2! at March 04, 2021 08:20 AM (qyH+l)

150 >> We absolutely had a color revolution.

Yes, we did. Darren J Beattie was out there pointing out how, and by whom, this was being done for months leading up to the election and after. Those behind it continue to use these tactics, thanks to an empty suit POTUS, to push for a complete overhaul of government.

It is frightening watching it happen.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (bDqIh)

151 148 is it too early for a negra modelo ?
Posted by: mr wizard at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (g741k)

It's 17:00 somewhere.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

=======

Has no one heard of Irish coffee around here?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

152 Again, the March 4th thing is all Pelosi and media bs. People working in DC and for navy, national guard, labor, dept of energy etc told .....yawn, no threat.

It's a lie.
Posted by: d

if it were a thing they would have had the armory dispensing self defense staplrs, scissors, and officeflage.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (4Jold)

153 Commielala said she would not take Trump vaccine.

I bet she got hers before FDA approval.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (yrol0)

154 Pssst, have you heard about March 4th? It's a Thursday.

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (QZ/dC)

155 is it too early for a negra modelo ?
Posted by: mr wizard at March 04, 2021 08:16 AM (g741k)

Ummmmm........No.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (mEC7p)

156 "Some good educated guesses, lotsa bullshit. Like a
fortune teller. Back during The Reign Of Error, there was a website that
claimed to have deep lines into the WH and had lots of 'skinny' on the
internal doings. I forget the name now, as I never paid them much
attention.

They were running the same scam as Q.

Posted by: GnuBreed"

That was White House Insider and was obviously BS. Maybe he changed his identity to Q after 2016

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (MxEKc)

157 Reporter Forced Out of New York Times Reveals the Newsroom's Internal Culture War

Dude got railroaded, no doubt. But he was a bomb-throwing, TDS-inflicted, typical Slimes reporter and enemy of the people so fk him sideways with a pineapple.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (Bmy3R)

158 My city only offering vaccines to "census tracts" with the most covid. After over 75.

So racial.

But they don't want it.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (ySQBZ)

159 Happy Birthday to me, a right-wing militia riding velociraptors is going to storm the Capitol and install Trump as GEOTUS?! No? Awuuuu.....
Posted by: pookysgirl

https://youtu.be/_Qw-h_yZ1ZQ

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

160 How far do you think someone could get with saying "I'm vaccinated" to the idiots at most stores and restaurants and then " you have no right to see my medical records" when they ask for proof?

That is simple. Just put a mark on your forehead or wrist.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (AJWch)

161 Pssst, have you heard about March 4th? It's a Thursday.
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (QZ/dC)

March 4 fell on a Thursday during Hitlers rein. He did stuff on March 4.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (4+MtS)

162 "Why are parents desperate to return their precious offspring to the degenerate hands of the public-school system?"

There are different answers to this in each case but responsible conservative prospective parents should plan on either homeschooling their children or being able to afford to send them to a good private school when considering having children. Life isn't fair but trying to find a suitable public indoctrination center is playing Russian roulette with your own flesh and blood. This isn't the 50s or 60s any more...
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (y7DUB)

morning horde. getting a late start didn't want to get out of bed. the only downside to working at home. it's easier to sleep in.

regarding schooling, sure home schooling is preferred, but for those of us who can't it's imperative that we take a decided interest in what the schools are teaching. i feel like i've done a pretty good job keeping my son on the right path despite what his school, and his mom, have tried to plug into him when he's not with me. remember, we can beat a lot of the programing with active participation.

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (8D42x)

163 I never liked the massive intelligence/security buildup after 9/11 fearing it would lead to what we are seeing today. If we ever get the govt under control again all those agencies need to see huge spending/personnel cuts. And no more secret budgets either. I'd rather take my chances with terrorist attacks than have these Deep State operatives watching, tracking and scheming against us and ever increasing security shakedowns.
Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 07:59 AM (MxEKc)
++++
Ditto. I was with my dad when we watched Bush 43's address to the joint session following 9/11. When Bush mentioned creating the DHS and unified intelligence, my dad leapt up from his chair and started shouting at the television about how that was a dangerous, terrible, destructive idea. It made an impression on me. He was right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (Jsjd7)

164 The House bill on elections must go now to the Senate and is not eligible for reconciliation. So, the question is whether the Dems will risk nuking the filibuster to do it. If the Senate nukes the filibuster, then Katy bar the door--packing courts, legalization of illegals, and so on but that will probably destroy the remains of whatever regime legitimacy left.

BTW, if you are on Social Security and Medicare--under such situations, be afraid. Scotus has already ruled that both of those programs and their recipients are subject to changes in congressional law regarding benefits and even access to those programs. You have no individual right to these benefits even if you paid into the program throughout your life--your right is collective and subject to new laws passed by Congress, it is not vested.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (pO7gM)

165 in fairness, the masks have been good for ugly chicks.
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:15 AM (4Jold)

Good for ugly dudes too, I guess.

Masks are an abomination, but masks actually allow people to see the eyes of others more clearly and there are some people out there-both men and women who have beautiful eyes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (VP4Cd)

166 Morning all. So the spineless dems are running for the tall grass. Lord Almighty those people are stupid. These idiots are running the country. Unreal.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (nxdel)

167 >>I'm still trying to figure out the proportions of the Venn diagram of masks being: Linus's blue blanket, A talisman against the Wuhan Death Miasma, I am a sheep, I do what I am ordered to do.

I continue to be alarmed at how many more people I see in masks now than I did last summer. I would have thought most people would be sick of them and doubting the continued pandemic theater. Instead, it's being accepted as the new normal, I think?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (bDqIh)

168 Has no one heard of Irish coffee around here?

I'm Mexican.

Posted by: mr wizard at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (g741k)

169 =======

Has no one heard of Irish coffee around here?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 04, 2021 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

Fag.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

170 Good for ugly dudes too, I guess.

Masks are an abomination, but masks actually allow people to see the eyes of others more clearly and there are some people out there-both men and women who have beautiful eyes.
Posted by: F

it is better for ugly chicks

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (4Jold)

171 That they seem to have learned fuck-all from this process however, is disqualifying for future leadership.

We may, at some point, be able to afford civics people again. But now is not the time for that.
Posted by: Doctor.Boom at March 04, 2021 08:07 AM (NYS7S)

Right on. On a related note, is there a term for the phenomenon of those who lose wisdom through experience, i.e., the inversion of learning from suffering? It appears, incredibly, that Republicans seem to know less now than ever about the Left and how to fight them.

Posted by: Homo Viator at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (H8QX8)

172 There are different answers to this in each case but responsible conservative prospective parents should plan on either homeschooling their children or being able to afford to send them to a good private school ...
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 07:41 AM (y7DUB)
++++
Honestly, a mediocre or bad private school is still probably better than a public school at this point. It isn't a high bar to clear.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (Jsjd7)

173 If Trump fired everyone day one in 2017, they would have thrown him out of office, I think.

Posted by: Revenant at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (UelxP)

174 JJS, I get your drift but to me "Gestapo" means the ones wearing the uniform and bearing the shiny credentials.

The rest are just fellow travelers, lackeys, informers, quislings, collaborators...

Pick one or more.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (F0YaR)

175 Beto works in his requisite death cult talking point: Its hard to escape the conclusion that its also a cult of death You have folks literally upending civilization as we know it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:25 AM (yrol0)

176 The rest are just fellow travelers, lackeys, informers, quislings, collaborators...

Posted by: G

the guys trying to find the art

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:25 AM (4Jold)

177 Masks aren't going to affect my mental health. They don't even make me mad. They're just theater. A symbol of silliness.

What I find irritating is people who say, "oh, it's ok, we were wearing masks."

No, that didn't do shit.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (ySQBZ)

178 One unhappy thought occurred to me about the National Guard in Washington. The Democrats are not really worried about what happened on January 6th. They are worried about the reaction to something they are planning to do.

Does anyone know if the Guard in Washington are allowed ammunition or are they standing guard with empty rifles?

Posted by: JB1000 at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (Kf5r9)

179 Masks are an abomination, but masks actually allow people to see the eyes of others more clearly and there are some people out there-both men and women who have beautiful eyes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (VP4Cd)
++++
I have trouble making eye contact with masked people. Maybe I am the weird one, but I find the masks drop everyone into the Uncanny Valley and I don't even really see masked people in public as fully-formed human people. I have to force myself to make eye contact with masked people, and I don't usually do so. The exception is if I'm one-on-one with someone for a while (the dentist, my insurance agent, etc.) - the time involved allows me to overcome the Uncanny Valley problem, perhaps, but those transient interactions do not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (Jsjd7)

180 I continue to be alarmed at how many more people I see in masks now than I did last summer.

It's cold out there.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (45fpk)

181 In light of what is happening to the schools, I wish I could get across the concept of eliminating all public schools in favor of pure vouchers.

Parent(s) would receive a voucher in the ballpark of $20,000/yr/student. After that, it's up to the free market. The only provision for the parent to keep receiving the voucher is that their child passes the test at the end of the year for their grade level. If the kid fails, the parent has one year to catch them up and also pass the next year's test. If the child fails again, a professional education adviser gets the voucher and makes the decisions on how it's spent.

Existing schools would be bulldozed. No certification of anyone who wants to teach. Whoever the parent decides to hire to teach their kids handles everything.

If someone wanted to home school, they keep the money.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (/BlEx)

182 in fairness, if I am going to be arrested by the gestapo I want it to be guys in snazzy uniform, not some fag in birknstocks, rag wool socks, and a hoodie

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (4Jold)

183 178 No ammo. Yet.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (I58tH)

184 women who have beautiful eyes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (VP4Cd)

I didn't need BS mask mandates for a largely inconsequential virus to know this.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

185 "Two weeks to flatten the curve."
"HR 127 will never pass."
"The government will never attempt to seize guns."

Posted by: Bungholio needs Corn for his TP at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (jy6Rj)

186 damn and I love the football gaming so much

Washington Football Team replacing cheerleaders with coed dance team

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:27 AM (yrol0)

187 Considering the teenybopper who ripped her own mother on Twitter for the insidious hate-crime of being beaten up unprovoked on January 6th, I'd say that average citizens are happy to be amateur Gestapo agents for the regime.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 08:12 AM (s2VJv)

I'm increasingly appalled at incidents like that. My two daughters are libs but they'd never do something like that. At some point parents have to look in the mirror to figure out why things like that are happening.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:27 AM (y7DUB)

188 Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (4Jold)

Whatever.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:27 AM (VP4Cd)

189 The answer to 9/11 was quick venomous rage inflicted on those involved, ally or not. Instead we set up the Stasi for our own people. Way to go America.

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:27 AM (QZ/dC)

190 March 4 fell on a Thursday during Hitlers rein. He did stuff on March 4.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

He grew a goatee and was the beatnik fuhrer for a day.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 08:27 AM (arJlL)

191 "is your friend a Liberal or a Leftist?" As if anyone who even understands what " liberty" means could support Democrats at this point... F off with this sophistry. There are only 2 kinds of people- those brainwashed by popular media, and people that still have control of their own minds. The former can be made to believe anything. It isn't a consistent ideology you can get them to reconsider.

Posted by: Stinky Wizzleteats at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (Bpc14)

192 I find it more than a bit amusing that it is fine to go into your bank wearing a mask now

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (4Jold)

193 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

I am not responsible for the masks. Don't blame me; Just making an observation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (VP4Cd)

194 Whatever.
Posted by: F

yes?

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (4Jold)

195 165 in fairness, the masks have been good for ugly chicks.

Been saying for many months now, a lot of ugly people saw masks as a way of levelling the playing field. Soundfarfetched? Same sheeple were against opening salons, stylists and gyms.

Revenge of the dumpy and the homely.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (Bmy3R)

196 is it too early for a negra modelo ?
Posted by: mr wizard

Have you forgotten the audience you are asking?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (Rvt88)

197 Honestly, a mediocre or bad private school is still probably better than a public school at this point. It isn't a high bar to clear.

A friend of mine was able to get her kids into the catholic school yesterday. She wept.

She had made the decision to put all 3 in public school when the oldest couldn't go to catholic school because they didn't have the resources for his adhd years ago.

It was so INCREDIBLY awful.

Shes free now.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:29 AM (ySQBZ)

198 I am not responsible for the masks. Don't blame me; Just making an observation.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Oh;ok.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 08:29 AM (arJlL)

199 China now using anal swab Covid-19 tests for foreign travelers

All your ass are belong to us!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:29 AM (yrol0)

200 I am not responsible for the masks. Don't blame me; Just making an observation.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (VP4Cd)

Not shooting the messenger. Just adding my .02.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Been saying for many months now, a lot of ugly people saw masks as a way of levelling the playing field. Soundfarfetched? Same sheeple were against opening salons, stylists and gyms.

Revenge of the dumpy and the homely.
Posted by: G

that is why there is feminism

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:30 AM (4Jold)

202 Sen Johnson asks FBI official how many firearms were confiscated from suspects arrested at Capitol riot on January 6. 'To my knowledge, none,' official answers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (yrol0)

203 >>I have trouble making eye contact with masked people. Maybe I am the weird one, but I find the masks drop everyone into the Uncanny Valley and I don't even really see masked people in public as fully-formed human people.

Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (bDqIh)

204 Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:28 AM (Bmy3R)

Yes; It honestly sounds far fetched. I think it had to do entirely with fear, governmental control, keep the sheep in line more than anything to do with "Mask up everybody. We can't have you looking better than the chick over there does"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:32 AM (VP4Cd)

205 We need to start the leftist equivalent of Q. A Biden administration "insider" who knows deep dark secrets.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 08:32 AM (4+MtS)

206 Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.
Posted by: Lizzy

Interestingly, everybody is much more expressive with their eyes, which is a north asian thing,

north asian thang?

north asian ting?

?

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:32 AM (4Jold)

207 107 Was Q ever right about anything? Rather, was it ever specif enough about anything to be right? I heard it made some predictions/hints about the Ukrainian mess behind impeachment fiasco 1, but anybody that followed govt.workings closely probably could have dug up enough info to make some vague conjectures.
Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 08:08 AM (MxEKc)

Minor things, enough to rope people in for a big victory. Classic confidence game.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:32 AM (ONvIw)

208 177 Masks aren't going to affect my mental health. They don't even make me mad. They're just theater. A symbol of silliness.
What I find irritating is people who say, "oh, it's ok, we were wearing masks."
No, that didn't do shit.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (ySQBZ)

You're also not a child. I am sickened at the thought of the psychological torture all of this has done to the mental health of children.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 08:32 AM (G2zl5)

209 They can pass... and then new 2022 House will unpass.

Posted by: runner at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (7UCSd)

210 > with the Ozark goobers who buggered Ned Beatty

Excuse me? Those were Appalachian goobers.

Posted by: Offended Ozark Goober at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (QE98t)

211 Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (bDqIh)

This. Really makes taking care of small children in the ER much more difficult. Kids are not going to develop the ability to read faces.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (4+MtS)

212 179 I don't even really see masked people in public as fully-formed human people. I have to force myself to make eye contact with masked people, and I don't usually do so.

Same here on all of that. I know I should be worried that I don't see them as people anymore, but it's the truth. They are not people to me.

I have a grey-green ski mask with separate eyeholes and a small round hole over the nostrils and mouth. I often put a matching grey-green gaiter on under it, covering the nostrils and mouth exposed by the hole, and wrap-around sunglasses under it, with just the shiny black lenses showing theough the eyeholes. I look exactly like an alien in that getup.

And I *feel* like an alien, so it's perfect. Getting too warm for that getup now though.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (Bmy3R)

213 Private schools are better, but they, too, are subject to playing the indoctrination game albeit in a more subtle way. The most important difference is that the kids have real person to person contact and at this point that's what matters most, imo.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (S1hrL)

214 >>In light of what is happening to the schools, I wish I could get across the concept of eliminating all public schools in favor of pure vouchers.

I would love that, since our kid has been in private school since 3rd grade.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (bDqIh)

215 The only provision for the parent to keep receiving the voucher is that their child passes the test at the end of the year for their grade level.
---------

Herein lies the major problem with your proposal. Who writes the test? Having a test that all kids must take means they must all have the same curriculum. No homeschooler will agree to that. That is the main reason people homeschool, to get away from government-set curricula.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (/669Q)

216 That was White House Insider and was obviously BS. Maybe he changed his identity to Q after 2016

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (MxEKc)

Yeah, that's the one. And Q the same person(s)? Wouldn't surprise me a bit. P T Barnum described this as ' a sucker is born every minute' ; The trick was described in the book

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a public domain book.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 08:34 AM (F0YaR)

217 Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (bDqIh)

Yes, and it's terrible and designed to make one think of others as the enemy. The fascist state wants everyone (except those than can use as troops) to dislike each other for their own reasons and ends.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:34 AM (VP4Cd)

218 I had a person tell me she was wearing a mask knowing it was ineffective. She said it was a placebo. Had to tell her placebos work when you don't know they're a placebo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 04, 2021 08:34 AM (I58tH)

219 It is relatively easy to determine when Republicans lost their guts on Capitol Hill, trace it to the rise of the surveillance state.

Essentially, the Deep State has big data of pretty much everything and the ability to run google like searches for individuals that tie up who they talk to, how long, where their credit cards have been used , their geolocation, bill payments, text messages, email headers, credit ratings, and so on. This is the publicly admitted surveillance.

Then there is access via secret clearance files if they held a sensitive position in the military and/or government, which includes direct conversations with neighbors, admittance of wrongful acts, and so on. More questions as you go up the ladder.

Plus, add in the helpful folks at Googul, Microsofff, Fakebook, Ebay, Amazonia, and the myriad ad placement reporting that compile individual dossiers of search histories, emails including content, web site access, and so on. Android is basically a spyware program disguised as a phone operating system for example. How many of you actually trust that your microphone on your phone or smart tv/alexa/nest/and so on are actually off and not recording?

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 08:34 AM (pO7gM)

220 That is simple. Just put a mark on your forehead or wrist.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:22 AM (AJWch)

Microchip so you can be scanned and tracked

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:34 AM (ONvIw)

221 Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (bDqIh)

This. Really makes taking care of small children in the ER much more difficult. Kids are not going to develop the ability to read faces.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (4+MtS)

And then you have the 10 percent of children on the spectrum. Masks make me so livid at can barely have a civil conversation about them.

Posted by: Catherine -- who generally doesn't curse. at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (T4sri)

222 Masks are a weapon of Satan, we know this from their use in "harmless" rituals like Carnival and rituals of subjugation like burkas. We are the image of God and our faces are not to be hidden.

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (QZ/dC)

223 Who writes the test?

Who tests the testes ?

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (arJlL)

224 I had a person tell me she was wearing a mask knowing it was ineffective. She said it was a placebo. Had to tell her placebos work when you don't know they're a placebo.
Posted by: b

I dated a girl that said that about condom s

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (4Jold)

225 I've been anti-public school since I went from a public school in 7th grade to a private one in 8th. The difference was huge. Took me a year to even begin to catch up. And that was long before the decent into overt marxism and race war.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (ySQBZ)

226 And I *feel* like an alien, so it's perfect. Getting too warm for that getup now though.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (Bmy3R)
---------

You heard it here, folks. Guy Smiley is a lizard person.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (/669Q)

227 Oh, right. White House Insider. Forgot about that flim-flam artist.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (Bmy3R)

228 You heard it here, folks. Guy Smiley is a lizard person.
Posted by: b

he is in q?

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (4Jold)

229 217: Divide and conquer

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

230 Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (/669Q)

At least we won't eat you like those Reptilians!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (Bmy3R)

231 Question about "Q"

How much money did he/she/they scam from people? I know about their info op, but I can't remember if the movement was also cashing in on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (3H9h1)

232 Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.
Posted by: Lizzy

Kids, especially infants and the wee ones are particularly hard hit. They take most of the clues from facial features at that age.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:37 AM (Rvt88)

233 Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (bDqIh)

It also inhibits verbal communication. Muffles peoples voices. If you're in a loud environment you can't understand people. I bet a lot of people are shocked at how much of their verbal communication involved partial lip reading. And think about people with partial hearing loss.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 08:37 AM (G2zl5)

234 The only Q type shit left is quodverum, who are still saying " you have to be patient".

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:37 AM (ONvIw)

235 > A $200 donation to a House candidate would garner a $1,200 match in public funds for a total contribution of $1,400, for example.

If this passes, we need to all:

1) set up a campaign for the House
2) Set up a campaign consulting company, controlled by close friends or children.
3) Donate all our spare cash to our own campaigns. Every penny.
4) Collect matching funds.
5) Spend all the campaign funds on consulting fees with our captive companies.

See: Bernie Sanders, any number of others. The "campaign consulting" scam is the most lucrative one since the "charitable foundation" scam.

Posted by: Offended Ozark Goober at March 04, 2021 08:37 AM (QE98t)

236 At least we won't eat you like those Reptilians!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (Bmy3R)
--------

Thank you. I feel much better now.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:37 AM (/669Q)

237 10 seat majority in the house, a tied senate, a POTUS who barely won....obviously its a mandate to change the entire underpinnings of the republic.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 04, 2021 08:37 AM (6/LtX)

238 Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (QZ/dC

I agree with you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:38 AM (VP4Cd)

239 Question about "Q"

How much money did he/she/they scam from people? I know about their info op, but I can't remember if the movement was also cashing in on it.
Posted by: M

think the qs were mostly using aol and dial up which made it hard to use square.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:38 AM (4Jold)

240 How much money did he/she/they scam from people? I know about their info op, but I can't remember if the movement was also cashing in on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (3H9h1)

I don't know if he was fundraising off it. The quodverum people are always looking for money to go to CPAC and support their "research".

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:39 AM (ONvIw)

241 I've been anti-public school since I went from a public school in 7th grade to a private one in 8th. The difference was huge. Took me a year to even begin to catch up. And that was long before the decent into overt marxism and race war.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name

I went to a Catholic Grammar school and a public HS. Withe the exception of the math and science classes, I could have skipped HS on the strength of my Grammar School education.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 08:39 AM (arJlL)

242 The Deep State and Left, to the extent they are distinguishable, are ridiculous and insane. Expect the Mary Ellen White end o' the world forecasting now until the United States officially collapses, which such idiocy will hasten. Mock them ruthlessly. Assume everything they say is a fucking lie. Hate them. Shun them. Rejoice that their days are just as numbered as their Soviet and Nazi forebears.

White supremacy is the new Covid, which was the new Global Warming, which was the new End Times. There is no cooperating with psychotics. Step back and enjoy their permanent state of misery. Almost certainly we will be assured The Insurrection has been reset for Easter, then for the 4th, and on and on. Don't despair, laugh

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 04, 2021 08:39 AM (puu6v)

243 > Herein lies the major problem with your proposal. Who writes the test?

Yes. If our current education officials write it, the test will be long on wokeness and victimhood, short on logarithms, grammar, and genuine history.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 04, 2021 08:39 AM (QE98t)

244 I cannot think of one positive aspect of people wearing masks (except in the OR). The first time I wore one in the store I wanted to scream at the sight of everyone in masks. Hoping more states get on board with dropping the mandate. Of course, there will still be Karens but now one can tell them to FO.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 08:39 AM (S1hrL)

245 I've been anti-public school since I went from a public school in 7th
grade to a private one in 8th. The difference was huge. Took me a year
to even begin to catch up.

I had the same experience with my son. He had to scramble for nearly a year. My grandchildren go to a charter school now that routinely tests nearly a year ahead of the public schools. It's amazing what can be learned in an atmosphere of discipline, and a class size of 18.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (45fpk)

246 230 Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:35 AM (/669Q)

At least we won't eat you like those Reptilians!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (Bmy3R)

What's your position on Lectroids from the 8th Dimension?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (PiwSw)

247 Herein lies the major problem with your proposal. Who writes the test? Having a test that all kids must take means they must all have the same curriculum. No homeschooler will agree to that. That is the main reason people homeschool, to get away from government-set curricula.
Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:33 AM (/669Q)

The test is a necessary compromise so that the taxpayers get value for their money. Everyone can agree on certain standards that (for example) an 8 year old should be able to read and write at a certain level, they should be able to basic math, have a preliminary knowledge of geography and history.

Yes, it's not the ideal for every little snowflake, but we can't just give money away without checking the results.

Most existing home schoolers will be so far ahead of these standards that it wouldn't be a factor.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (/BlEx)

248 the thing is is, and why ugly chicks are the big winners, instead of being a bagger or a two bagger she has to wear her mask which has to be better than a bag.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (4Jold)

249 You heard it here, folks. Guy Smiley is a lizard person.

LOL!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (nxdel)

250 > Everyone can agree on certain standards

Sorry, but you are simply wrong here.

For one thing, reading, writing, and geography are now racist.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 04, 2021 08:41 AM (QE98t)

251 I was curious if "Q" managed to scam people. If they weren't they missed a golden opportunity to make bank.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:41 AM (3H9h1)

252 the thing is is, and why ugly chicks are the big winners, instead of being a bagger or a two bagger she has to wear her mask which has to be better than a bag.
Posted by: confederatefifth

The kink is half the fun.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:42 AM (Rvt88)

253 Everyone can agree on certain standards

Sorry, but you are simply wrong here.

For one thing, reading, writing, and geography are now racist.

Posted by: R

and math

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:42 AM (4Jold)

254 The essence is that the surveillance state is all around people and even if the Republican officeholder does not use digital at all, the surround staffers, family, and so on do. There is a famous short article of network analysis applied on who knew who that deciphered Paul Revere was the key nexus in the resistance in Boston before the Revolution.

https://tinyurl.com/3dbh8wzj

In my opinion, if Q was nefarious, it was logging who was accessing the q posts and adding that to network analysis via IP mapping as potential enemies of the state.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 08:42 AM (pO7gM)

255 251 I was curious if "Q" managed to scam people. If they weren't they missed a golden opportunity to make bank.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:41 AM (3H9h1)

That would have made Q traceable.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:42 AM (ONvIw)

256 I continue to be alarmed at how many more people I see in masks now than I did last summer.

==

I've thought that for all of 2020. As each month passed, more people were rigidly muzzled up. I just shook my head. But last Saturday, for the first time in nearly a year, I walked into Lowe's and 50% were not wearing them. It's odd that it felt surreal to see it, but it was just that...surreal. That's how far down the rabbit hole we've gone. I'm seeing actual faces!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 04, 2021 08:42 AM (O+I8R)

257 Jwest with another brilliant plan I see. Sounds like it's somewhere between his " we just need to pay congress more and that will make it better and end corruption," and "we need our soldiers to start raping" plans.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 08:43 AM (G2zl5)

258 So on cancelling Dr Seuss I see that Dr Seuss himself held all the "correct" liberal views throughout his life, and his estate, through his mistress/later wife, harassed pro-lifers for taking the message from Horton Hears a Who in the 90s.

If leftists actually learned about history this might concern them.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 08:43 AM (qlFIA)

259 The answer to 9/11 was quick venomous rage inflicted on those involved, ally or not. Instead we set up the Stasi for our own people. Way to go America.
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:27 AM (QZ/dC)

Face it, we got conned into supporting GWB and his expansion of the derp state; and now he and his good buddies the Clintons are laughing at us.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:44 AM (y7DUB)

260 I say a prayer asking forgiveness every time I have to put the face diaper on, because 1 Corinthians.

"For a man ought not cover his head, since he is the image and the glory of God" - 1 Corinthians 11:7

see also 1 Corinthians 15:49

And Genesis 1:26-27 for that matter.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:44 AM (Bmy3R)

261 see. Sounds like it's somewhere between his " we just need to pay congress more and that will make it better and end corruption," and "we need our soldiers to start raping" plans.
Posted by: B

that was funny

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:44 AM (4Jold)

262 257 Jwest with another brilliant plan I see. Sounds like it's somewhere between his " we just need to pay congress more and that will make it better and end corruption," and "we need our soldiers to start raping" plans.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 08:43 AM (G2zl5)

I'm glad you recognize the genius behind these plans.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:44 AM (/BlEx)

263 Virginia has religious exemptions to a lot of the assessments. Also how do they know the kids are taking the tests?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:45 AM (ySQBZ)

264 Q was nefarious as he told a lullaby lie, that everything was fine while the color war was being planned and waged against us. "Trust Jeff Sessions", and then semi-plausible explanations why Sessions could not prosecute the 1000 sealed indictments, as if it it was Moses entering the promised land. But yeah, he could be making a log of the gullible.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:45 AM (ONvIw)

265 how do they know the kids are taking the tests?
Posted by: d

have you seen their parents?

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:45 AM (4Jold)

266 @234:

The temptation is to attribute Q to the Deep Syate, but it's been too effective in numbing a rightfully outraged public to be the handiwork of retarded thugs. Probably a 4 Chan game of Dungeons and Dragons that got out of hand.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (puu6v)

267 249 You heard it here, folks. Guy Smiley is a lizard person.

LOL!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (nxdel)

"Throuple!!!!!"

- - Anita Dunn and The Gorn

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (s2VJv)

268 Virginia has religious exemptions to a lot of the assessments. Also how do they know the kids are taking the tests?
Posted by: dagny

Homeschooled kids in OH are exempt from the state mandated testing. But, they are welcome to participate if they choose.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (Rvt88)

269 265 how do they know the kids are taking the tests?
Posted by: d

have you seen their parents?
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:45 AM (4Jold)

The tests would be administered by the same agency that hands out the vouchers.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (/BlEx)

270 Virginia has religious exemptions to a lot of the assessments.

I have a funny feeling that religious exemptions for anything will soon be a thing of the past.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (45fpk)

271 Here in DC metro you ONLY see people in masks. Often Even those walking alone down deserted streets.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (ySQBZ)

272 Most existing home schoolers will be so far ahead of these standards that it wouldn't be a factor.
Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:40 AM (/BlEx)
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Of course, but that's not the point, as you know. Looking at your example, let's pick history. Would you want your kids tested against the government's version of history? I sure wouldn't.

Homeschoolers would not likely have a problem with general math and language testing, but beyond that, there's trouble. But I still wouldn't want a test set by the government.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (/669Q)

273 The Gorn
Posted by: J

he has been having night terrors ever since

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:47 AM (4Jold)

274 Morning all.

I saw Eep-Opp-Ork-Ah-Ah open for The Neanderthals in my friend's garage.

It was loud and horrible.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 04, 2021 08:47 AM (dfRN6)

275 229 217: Divide and conquer
Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

If math is racist, doesn't that fuck up their plan?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 08:47 AM (s2VJv)

276 It is relatively easy to determine when Republicans lost their guts on
Capitol Hill, trace it to the rise of the surveillance state.
Jan 6, 1999.

The left used the surveillance state to find out Newt was having an affair, and forced him out as Speaker. Then they found out Newt's chosen successor was also having an affair and forced him to turn down the Speakership.
Which left Denis Hastert. Who they knew was a pedophile but did not publicize And who in his time as Speaker ushered in nothing but failure that spread to almost every national Republican officeholder.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (qlFIA)

277 saw Eep-Opp-Ork-Ah-Ah open for The Neanderthals in my friend's garage.

It was loud and horrible.
Posted by: Z

yeah that jetsn girl did things.

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (4Jold)

278 251 I was curious if "Q" managed to scam people. If they weren't they missed a golden opportunity to make bank.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:41 AM (3H9h1)

I'm glad I retired before I was forced to do things I found unethical but trendy.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (ONvIw)

279 Stop all public education, give up on it, it's a failed experiment. Fire all the teachers, burn all the schools down. Let parents figure out how to get their kids educated - or not. Even if they never do anything at all and the kids grow up illiterate and ignorant, they still won't be any worse than what public schools are producing now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (bxPTJ)

280 "The only Q type shit left is quodverum, who are still saying " you have to be patient".

Posted by: CN "

Get on the trains. Trust the plan

Posted by: Ripley at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (MxEKc)

281 How long after they stop publishing those Dr. Seuss books do they become public domain?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (xfb67)

282 229 217: Divide and conquer
Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:36 AM (ONvIw)

If math is racist, doesn't that fuck up their plan?

You would think so, but they're OK with getting the wrong answer.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Serving all Americans, even the Neanderthals. at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (SchxB)

283 Well, since we're past 200 posts, here's a nice story about doctors and nurses in TX travelling in snowstorms to help deliver a premature baby:

https://tinyurl.com/ukw5s4u6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (VP4Cd)

284 What's your position on Lectroids from the 8th Dimension?

Never run into them. Reptillians are asshoes. The Tall Whites are OK, they leave us alone. They're afraid we're going to probe them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (Bmy3R)

285 263 dagny,
They don't. Essentially the entire testing regime has to change for any valid online assessments.

Multiple choice testbanks or even short answer are essentially useless for this sort of schooling because simply the monitoring of ips, video of students taking the exam in real time, and so on, becomes so onerous that no teacher will willingly use it except as a post hoc investigation. Not worth it on a quiz or even a bi weekly exam. Plus, a school administration has to be swift and sure to punish people with tech 'breakdowns' that might be caused by the student versus actual real ones.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 08:49 AM (pO7gM)

286 I was curious if "Q" managed to scam people. If they weren't they missed a golden opportunity to make bank.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:41 AM (3H9h1)

Two cons who scammed people for four years were those shitheads Brian Cates and Thomas Wictor. Empty promises of things that never happened. I think at least one of them landed an Epoch Times gig.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

287 Homeschoolers would not likely have a problem with general math and language testing, but beyond that, there's trouble. But I still wouldn't want a test set by the government.
Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (/669Q)

There is the tradeoff. If you want the government money, the kid takes the test. If you would rather just home school like it stands now, just refuse the money and teach the kid whatever you like.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:49 AM (/BlEx)

288 I have a funny feeling that religious exemptions for anything will soon be a thing of the past.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:46 AM (45fpk)
278 251 I was curious if "Q" managed to scam people. If they weren't they missed a golden opportunity to make bank.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 08:41 AM (3H9h1)

I'm glad I retired before I was forced to do things I found unethical but trendy.
Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (ONvIw)

This was not Q related.

Posted by: CN at March 04, 2021 08:49 AM (ONvIw)

289 Too bad Biden* didn't call us troglodytes. The Jimmy Castor Bunch could go on tour again.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 04, 2021 08:50 AM (I58tH)

290 I am sort of sad that biden does not seem to think that we are just as smart as rich kids

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:50 AM (4Jold)

291 It was a beautiful day here yesterday; sunshine, temps in the 50's, across the street, there was 20 or 30 kids all ages and sizes playing with a basketball and a basket, yelling, screaming laughing....not a mask on any of 'em.

All I could do was stand there and grin.

Posted by: JT at March 04, 2021 08:51 AM (arJlL)

292 Another nice story about a friendship between a 99 year old woman and a 17 year old which happened during the pandemic:

https://tinyurl.com/em9fjstb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 08:51 AM (VP4Cd)

293 Stop all public education, give up on it, it's a
failed experiment. Fire all the teachers, burn all the schools down.
Let parents figure out how to get their kids educated - or not. Even
if they never do anything at all and the kids grow up illiterate and
ignorant, they still won't be any worse than what public schools are
producing now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 04, 2021 08:48 AM (bxPTJ)

I get it, truly. But what I can't ignore are all the children for whom school is their only safe place. It's the only time they are not with their abuser. It's the only reprieve they have. We're talking little kids. If it were not for school, I do not know if I would be here today.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:51 AM (45fpk)

294 174 JJS, I get your drift but to me "Gestapo" means the ones wearing the uniform and bearing the shiny credentials.

The rest are just fellow travelers, lackeys, informers, quislings, collaborators...

Pick one or more.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 08:24 AM (F0YaR)

I was using it as a metaphor. But the inheritors of the Gestapo, the Stasi, relied on ordinary citizens to snitch on their neighbors and family members.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 08:51 AM (s2VJv)

295 There is the tradeoff. If you want the government money, the kid takes the test. If you would rather just home school like it stands now, just refuse the money and teach the kid whatever you like.
Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 08:49 AM (/BlEx)
--------

And here we are, back to the beginning.

It's always nice to think about vouchers, but the problem is they always come with strings attached.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (/669Q)

296 Empty promises of things that never happened.
If we want something to happen we need an organizational structure to achieve it that is not tied to the Republican party.

This requires money - lots of money. The hard left started smaller with some money from billionaires and laundered federal money, but now they have more money then they know what to do with.

Any time a Republican suggests something like this they get shot down by the GOPe, which is not surprising.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (qlFIA)

297 Does anyone know if the Guard in Washington are allowed ammunition or are they standing guard with empty rifles?
Posted by: JB1000 at March 04, 2021 08:26 AM (Kf5r9)

Many years ago, there was a demonstration outside of our Nike Hercules site, the admin site where the barracks were, not the actual launching area where the nukes were. We had two ROE that day. Lethal force authorized if fence pushing / climbing attempted where the nukes were. Empty magazines inserted for the admin area - beat the snot out of them to the point they had short term memory loss of the event and couldn't ID you in court.

I think the second one is what the NG has in D.C.

Posted by: BifBewalski - Psychological ROE at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (VcFUs)

298 Trust The Plan////

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

299 the snitches here are not so much nazi as stasi

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (4Jold)

300 Maybe that was the plan

Kids Now 10 Times More Likely to Die From Suicide Than the Chi-Com Virus

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:53 AM (yrol0)

301 The first Amendment says the right of the people to assemble and petition the government shall not be abridged. The fences and troops are an offense to the first amendment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 04, 2021 08:53 AM (29q5W)

302 276 18-1,
Plus you had congress critter Foley from Fla, the clerk of the House, and several republicans like Jim Kolbe that were overly 'involved' with the page program. Pederasty is a thing that destroyed the program on the House side but the blast from the Foley actions in 2006 helped destroy any momentum to keep the House in the fall elections despite Foley resigning his seat.

Robert Livingston apparently was a member of an exclusive sex club involving swinging in NO and had the shortest tenure of Speaker ever. Newt was brought down in part by the affair but also the backsplash from the impeachment that went nowhere in the Senate and lost the Republicans seats in the House.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 08:53 AM (pO7gM)

303 Didnt a teachers union recently make an argument that education is not a right ? (in defense of refusal to teach in person)

Seems to go against all the moral righteousness theyve been preaching for the last 30 years

Posted by: McCool at March 04, 2021 08:53 AM (BqBIh)

304 Q seems to be some pranksters making guesses about what might happen if we actually had white hats in the deep state. After their first few predictions didn't come to be it was clear to me it wasn't real.
And honestly this is a simple and powerful way to examine any group like that. Make me a prediction (that isn't obvious). Did it happen? You have my attention. Otherwise...get lost.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 08:54 AM (qlFIA)

305 just say fuck your $

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:54 AM (4Jold)

306 they do not have the mandate they need, nobody is going to bow.
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:10 AM (4Jold)

They don't need no stinking mandate. You'll be made to bow.

Posted by: Homo Viator at March 04, 2021 08:54 AM (H8QX8)

307 I saw a story out of a B'more yesterday that a kid who's mother thought was graduating had to restart high school, seriously. His class rank was 50th percentile but his GPA was .13; yeah, let that sink in. So now we have an 18 year old 9th grader in the same place that created this situation. How can this make sense to anyone? Why is the school still standing? How are the teacher unions there still allowed? Mind numbing.

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (QZ/dC)

308 Dr Gupta on the radio saying kids kept out of school will be JUST FINE mentally.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (ySQBZ)

309 It also inhibits verbal communication. Muffles peoples voices.

Sort of like an extension of the McGurk effect.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (GebTj)

310 The left used the surveillance state to find out Newt was having an affair, and forced him out as Speaker.

I thought it was a series of nuisance lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt Noot that forced him out. The lack of support from the GOPe types who hated him for including term limit in the Contract With America was my first clue that the Republican party wasn't nearly as patriotic as they marketed themselves.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 08:56 AM (y7DUB)

311 299 the snitches here are not so much nazi as stasi
Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (4Jold)

The way to fix that is to intimidate and threaten the snitches. Even suspected snitches. Most of us already know whom in our neighborhoods are the Karen Stasi.

Just saying. And not changing the nic as it is apropo.

Posted by: BifBewalski - Psychological ROE at March 04, 2021 08:56 AM (VcFUs)

312 Plus you had congress critter Foley from Fla
That one was pretty amazing. Foley sent sexual-tinged messages to an intern. Which was wrong of course. But it became as national issue in the whole election - hell you saw Dems gay baiting Republicans on the national level!!!

Dem Gerry Studds, who was having sex with an underage intern, never merited national concern and the FNM and the Dems gave him a standing ovation at one point.

And of course when Obama got elected he put a pedophile supporting man as his "safe schools czar"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 08:57 AM (qlFIA)

313 Didnt a teachers union recently make an argument that education is not a right ? (in defense of refusal to teach in person)

Please, please, please convince the Supreme Court of that argument so that way hundreds of billions of tax dollars aren't wasted on educating illegal aliens.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:57 AM (51ygH)

314 Dr Gupta on the radio saying kids kept out of school will be JUST FINE mentally.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (ySQBZ)

He needs to have a conversation with my granddaughter then. She was in tears every day of virtual learning. She did actual cartwheels when the school board announced they were going to in-person.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2021 08:57 AM (45fpk)

315 The way to fix that is to intimidate and threaten the snitches. Even suspected snitches. Most of us already know whom in our neighborhoods are the Karen Stasi.

I've seen little evidence that the Conservative movement has the will to be confrontational. Those that do will be culled from the herd.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 04, 2021 08:59 AM (sMMcg)

316 The NG has loaded weapons with an ROE to fire at will as long as they yell "He is breaching the capitol" before shooting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 08:59 AM (4+MtS)

317 307 GPA .13 is totally on the teachers. You could have the dumbest kid on the block and even a mediocre teacher's presentation would soak in a little.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at March 04, 2021 08:59 AM (I58tH)

318 Hollywoods Favorite Womens Charity, Times up, Spent $2.4 Million on Salaries, $19K on Actual Grants

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 08:59 AM (yrol0)

319 Hollywoods Favorite Womens Charity, Times up, Spent $2.4 Million on Salaries, $19K on Actual Grants
Non profits are one of the best for profit business models out there. Presuming you can secure funding from suckers or Uncle Sam.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:00 AM (qlFIA)

320 GPA zero point zero

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:00 AM (yrol0)

321 It's always nice to think about vouchers, but the problem is they always come with strings attached.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 08:52 AM (/669Q)

The strings are that the kid has to learn to read, write, make change for a dollar and all the other things any reasonable person expects from a basic education. We, as a society, need to provide an incentive to teach these kids so that we don't have to support them when they are adults.

Suburban schools are not a very big part of the problem. Urban schools, such as Baltimore, turn out kids that after 12 years of education can't do anything. I would actually provide more money ($30,000/yr) for inner city kids. Let the mother have the cash in exchange for schooling the kids. If she has 4 kids, that's $120,000/yr to work with.

But like I said, the kids have to pass the test.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 09:00 AM (/BlEx)

322 "There is no cooperating with psychotics."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 04, 2021 08:39 AM (puu6v)

...............
Straitjackets, padded cells and lots of medications are the only way to deal with them. When they run the country, you need the Borgias.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:00 AM (S1hrL)

323 312- It was not just one page, Foley did that serially with a number of pages, Kolbe took pages on extended camping trips, and so on.

The Gerry Studds episode occurred earlier in the 80's page scandal where several Republicans were caught with underage women, two Republican congress critters were caught--Bob Bauman soliciting same sex hookups at the Iwo Jima monument and Jon Hinson caught doing the same thing in the Longworth House Office Building bathroom.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:01 AM (pO7gM)

324 Dr Gupta on the radio saying kids kept out of school will be JUST FINE mentally.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (ySQBZ)

That's a really dumb thing for someone who knows fucking A well that there's a bell curve of outcomes; some good and some not so good.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:01 AM (y7DUB)

325 Gupta is a cnn commie

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 09:01 AM (ySQBZ)

326
I've seen little evidence that the Conservative movement has the will to be confrontational. Those that do will be culled from the herd.

Posted by: Roll Me Away at March 04, 2021 08:59 AM (sMMcg)

Not everyone that isn't a flaming communist traitor to our country is in the conservative movement. It just happens to align with about 98% of where I am. And we haven't met, so don't tell me I won't intimidate the coon dog shit out of a stasi at the drop of a hat.

Posted by: BifBewalski - Don't count me in with the get along group at March 04, 2021 09:01 AM (VcFUs)

327 I've seen little evidence that the Conservative movement has the will to be confrontational.
Human beings respond to incentives. Come to the specific attention of the left and you will be destroyed. Go along or stick to mere subterfuge to oppose the left and nothing will happen to you (well in the short term).

So...you get very little formal opposition.

Change that math and you change the country.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:02 AM (qlFIA)

328 313 Didnt a teachers union recently make an argument that education is not a right ? (in defense of refusal to teach in person)

Please, please, please convince the Supreme Court of that argument so that way hundreds of billions of tax dollars aren't wasted on educating illegal aliens.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 08:57 AM (51ygH)

You also have to look at the children and the parents, especially but not exclusively in the inner city. Black culture has decried education and bettering oneself through it as akin to being an Uncle Tom, not authentic or a race traitor. The indoctrination schtick and other crap from the administration is a giant disincentive to anyone who actually wants to be a teacher who actually wants to teach real subject matter.

A giant scam that is lethal to a thriving functional society.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 09:02 AM (s2VJv)

329 I think the second one is what the NG has in D.C.

More proof that the military is hostile to We The People and the US Constitution in particular.

And for all of those who believe that the military is the Holy Angelic Army of God, you are too stupid to be part of the conversation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 04, 2021 09:02 AM (2UA/a)

330 308 Dr Gupta on the radio saying kids kept out of school will be JUST FINE mentally.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (ySQBZ)

They will be just fine for the lefts purposes. Emotionless, easily manipulated foot soldiers. And people like Gupta are all too happy to use their credentials to advance totalitarianism.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:03 AM (4+MtS)

331 There is the tradeoff. If you want the government money, the kid takes the test. If you would rather just home school like it stands now, just refuse the money and teach the kid whatever you like.
Posted by: jwest

And here we are, back to the beginning.
It's always nice to think about vouchers, but the problem is they always come with strings attached.
Posted by: bluebell

If one refuses the money, is one taken off the property tax roll for schools? Because that's four times my city/county taxes.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2021 09:03 AM (6J/xZ)

332 313 Reuben Hicks, the Scotus has said it is not a Federal right, but if the state constitutions or law guarantee education as a right, then denial to some represents an equal protection violation if done by classification or an individual one if a person is singled out.

You want to get rid of it, then you had to eliminate it in state constitutions and laws.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:03 AM (pO7gM)

333 Every time I see the images of illegal aliens crossing the border wearing Biden t-shirts I have to change the channel.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 04, 2021 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

334 324 Dr Gupta on the radio saying kids kept out of school will be JUST FINE mentally.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (ySQBZ)

That's a really dumb thing for someone who knows fucking A well that there's a bell curve of outcomes; some good and some not so good.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:01 AM (y7DUB)

Number say much different. Clark County (Veags) ER visits by 16 YO and under for poisoning were up about 115% before they reopened schools.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:03 AM (yrol0)

335 I've seen little evidence that the Conservative movement has the will to be confrontational. Those that do will be culled from the herd.

hey, the hq was very confrontatiol, until the no word sodomizing in the threads guide was set by Ace

Posted by: confederatefifth at March 04, 2021 09:04 AM (4Jold)

336 Big fucking joke

108 illegals released by Border Patrol test positive for Covid

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:04 AM (yrol0)

337 108 illegals released by Border Patrol test positive for Covid
Spreading the diseases Americans won't spread.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (qlFIA)

338 teachers. You could have the dumbest kid on the block and even a mediocre teacher's presentation would soak in a little.

Assuming the child is trying at all. If he does nothing and is still advanced to the next grade, what is the use in trying. Why didn't mom notice he wasn't learning anything for 4 years? Why didn't she see report cards with all "F"s?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (4+MtS)

339 Dr Gupta on the radio saying kids kept out of school will be JUST FINE mentally.

The kids kept of public school and sent to private school instead, sure.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Serving all Americans, even the Neanderthals. at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (SchxB)

340 at the BEE:

Texas Removes Mask Mandate To Scare All The Californians Away

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:06 AM (yrol0)

341 JJ, I decoded QAnon's follow-up secret message:

bing-bang-walla-walla-bing-bang

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2021 09:08 AM (AMIL/)

342 Why didn't she see report cards with all "F"s?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (4+MtS)
--
I don't think they even give "F"s anymore. What they would do is set the kid up with an IEP ("Individualized Education Plan") which would lower the standards that the kid needs to meet. Schools get additional money for each student with an IEP.

So you end up with schools were the brightest / top of the class are OK (might have special programs, might have those special programs cut for being "racist") and the bottom which are filled with IEPs. The kids in the middle get nothing special.

Posted by: Revenant at March 04, 2021 09:08 AM (NJXJJ)

343 Nice herd immunity you got there.

Be a shame if something happened to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work phone at March 04, 2021 09:09 AM (7faTs)

344 327 I've seen little evidence that the Conservative movement has the will to be confrontational.
.............

How big does the critical mass have to get before Conservatives decide to do something other than handwringing? Vive la Resistance! /s

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:09 AM (S1hrL)

345 Thanks for the scoops, JJ
Good morning to all
A good sunrise and from a never ending slightly different angle... here comes the equinox. Blue sky abundant. It is great to be in NTX

I believe I am eligible for reparations due to certain congress members lack of candor. Perhaps we could negotiate my acceptance of future drivel in advance. I mean. Hey. I did not even get a kiss

Punch in and take a break

Posted by: CarpetheadLaRro at March 04, 2021 09:10 AM (+ITg4)

346 307 I saw a story out of a B'more yesterday that a kid who's mother thought was graduating had to restart high school, seriously. His class rank was 50th percentile but his GPA was .13; yeah, let that sink in. So now we have an 18 year old 9th grader in the same place that created this situation. How can this make sense to anyone? Why is the school still standing? How are the teacher unions there still allowed? Mind numbing.
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 08:55 AM (QZ/dC)

In Baltimore, not one boy in the entire school district could pass a test for math at grade level. We're talking thousands of kids.

By eliminating traditional schools and abandoning the education-industrial complex, we can get away with this crazy concept that teaching can be taught. Teaching is a talent, much like having the ability to sing. It's not something that can be bestowed on someone with an education degree.

The ability to connect with another human being and transfer knowledge, being able to make someone understand concepts and processes, is unique. As with singing, you can spend years getting a degree in music appreciation, but in the end, you'll still sing off key.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 09:10 AM (/BlEx)

347 Regarding kids in school, the literacy rate for colonial America with few formal schools was 80-90 percent. Schools do not make for literacy. The onus, as always, whether a school exists or not, is for the individual to want to learn rather than be a passive individual.

Ben Franklin who was penniless when he ran off to Philadelphia as a teenager learned 5 languages on his own more or less and founded a library by sharing books with others wanting to read and discuss.

Heck read the AOS book thread on the weekends and you see far more passion than you would in a class regarding books.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:10 AM (pO7gM)

348 Assuming the child is trying at all. If he does nothing and is still advanced to the next grade, what is the use in trying. Why didn't mom notice he wasn't learning anything for 4 years? Why didn't she see report cards with all "F"s?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (4+MtS)
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I assume that kid wasn't even trying at all. At least some of those tests had to be multiple choice, and random guessing would probably provide better than a .13 GPA. My guess is that the kid never even bothered to take most tests.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 09:10 AM (/669Q)

349 The kid's class rank was 62 out of 120, so there are 58 kids in worse shape. Place makes the Blackboard Jungle setting look like Sesame Street I bet. He was also on the Ferris plan, over 200 days absent in 4 years. Mom was busy. I'm all about their personal responsibility, but Baltimore taxpayers should get a refund here and all the "professionals" at the school get banned from education for life.

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (QZ/dC)

350 The only indoctrination I remember from prep school is the art teacher trying to convince us that modern art doesn't suck. But that was long, long time ago.

Posted by: Caliban at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (HgGBT)

351 Apparently McConnell's wife has been cited in an IG report for misuse of office as transportation secretary. I'll laugh if what gets McConnell out of office is his likely lobbying of Trump to give his wife a cabinet position.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (OjOHC)

352 We're living in Oceania.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (nakwk)

353 I was just looking at a chart of oil prices and realized that oil costs 50 per cent more now than it did on election day.

Thanks Biden.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (29q5W)

354 341 gref,
It was doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy do when translated into English.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (pO7gM)

355 I've seen little evidence that the Conservative movement has the will to be confrontational.

I don't think, as a whole, conservatives are looking for a fight. So, no, the movement isn't by definition "confrontational." But, and I've said this before, when people are personally inconvenienced, with something important like lack of food, electricity, or fuel for a significant amount of time they get agitated. Maybe even confrontational.

When the whip comes down, and it will, there will be whole populations of people and not just conservatives who will get very confrontational.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (3H9h1)

356 "[HR 1] would force states to adopt universal mail-in ballots, early voting, same-day voter registration, online voter registration, and automatic voter registration for any individual listed in state and federal government databases, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles and welfare offices, ensuring duplicate registrations and that millions of illegal immigrants are quickly registered to vote," Pence continued.

How the AP is spinning this for the Dems, "House Democrats pass sweeping voting and ethics legislation over unanimous Republican opposition."

Posted by: andycanuck at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (d6he9)

357 jwest, in all those years of homeschooling I would have been happy just to be able to write off the cost of my materials on my taxes. "Regular " teachers can, but homeschoolers can't.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (/669Q)

358 > Please, please, please convince the Supreme Court of that argument so that way hundreds of billions of tax dollars aren't wasted on educating illegal aliens.

That's not the argument.

The argument is that the teachers have to be paid, but they are exempt from actually teaching anything.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (QE98t)

359 I'll laugh if what gets McConnell out of office is his likely lobbying of Trump to give his wife a cabinet position.
I'll laugh when the left pulls a Gov McDonnell on him and spends years bankrupting McConnell/wife for stuff every current Obama cabinet member is doing.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (qlFIA)

360 Re HR 1

But hey, no more mean tweets.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work phone at March 04, 2021 09:14 AM (7faTs)

361 337 108 illegals released by Border Patrol test positive for Covid
Spreading the diseases Americans won't spread.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (qlFIA)

...........
The perfect excuse Fauxchi was looking for. He'll tell us today, masks until 2023.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:14 AM (S1hrL)

362 [HR 1] would force states to adopt universal mail-in ballots,
Remember states have no standing to demand free elections, BUT, the federal government can mandate every damn element of how the election is held in the name of stopping "voter suppression"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:14 AM (qlFIA)

363 I welcome the end of state-mandated masks, but worry that the same people who put them on becayse the government said so will now take them off because the government said so.

And my Atlanta-based Korporate Overlords have been quick to remind their serfs of just who really runs things. "Mask off? Nope."

Posted by: No Longer Amused at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (z2bDv)

364 The kid's class rank was 62 out of 120, so there are 58 kids in worse shape.

The folly of nuanced numbers. Step back for a moment, from looking at the difference between a cume of 0.13 and those in "worse shape" or even better shape, and you realize they are all of them condemned by the teachers union to a horrible position, illiterate in a world that only pays for pretty sophisticated skills.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (29q5W)

365 Here we go again. Shades of the PA Black Panther thugs in PA intimidating voters and DOJ conveniently drops all charges -- This time in Portland:

KGW8 found 31 of 90 protest cases have been dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice, despite warnings there would be "consequences for acts of violence."

Many of the charges included felonies. This is a local Portland news station reporting this. Link:

https://tinyurl.com/3e2d2mby

Hard talk, limp dicks.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (F0YaR)

366 If one refuses the money, is one taken off the property tax roll for schools? Because that's four times my city/county taxes.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2021 09:03 AM (6J/xZ)

No, because as a society, we all share in the value of educating all children. That way we minimize the number of bums and junkies in the later years - or so it suppose to be. I'm just trying to come with something that works better than the totally failed system we have now.

Posted by: jwest at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (/BlEx)

367 We all know that any bill with a cute name will do exactly the opposite of what the cute name says it will.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

368 Does anyone know when the vote on HR1 is scheduled for the Senate?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (VP4Cd)

369 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

Yep; They're all euphemisms that are very transparent to anyone paying attention. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 04, 2021 09:17 AM (VP4Cd)

370 So the Sunshine and Lollipops Bill will neither provide Sunshine OR Lollipops?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 04, 2021 09:18 AM (flINI)

371 356 andycanuck, the media is the Democratic party PR department.

The question is whether the Dems will nuke the filibuster in order to pass this. Even the Republicans Senators will balk at this bill because it will doom all of them from getting any more sweet grift even in currently safe seats.

So, it is a real test for Schumer and the few swing Dems like Sinema and Manchin whether or not to nuke the filibuster or to upset the left AOC coalition.

Nanzi's house is going to keep serving up these bills like a court packing bill, and so on to the Senate. I think in part, to cause the filibuster to die because each subsequent filibuster will cause the left to go nuts over the Senate balking over one or another leftist dream being stopped.

So why is Nanzi doing this? To undermine Schumer because with the filibuster gone, neither Schumer nor McConnell will have much importance anymore other than scheduling. Is it to placate the AOC coalition while not accomplishing what could be done? Dunno.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:18 AM (pO7gM)

372 Prices Law

The square root of the number of people in an organization do half the work.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:19 AM (yrol0)

373 When the whip comes down, and it will, there will be whole populations of people and not just conservatives who will get very confrontational.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (3H9h1)
............
When gas is $10/gal, elections are xcld, wearing triple masks, and money is worthless, then? It'll be too late. We'll be brain dead.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:19 AM (S1hrL)

374 So the Sunshine and Lollipops Bill will neither provide Sunshine OR Lollipops?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at March 04, 2021 09:18 AM (flINI)
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But definitely rainbows everywhere.

Posted by: bluebell at March 04, 2021 09:19 AM (/669Q)

375 The "Have You Tried Not Being White?" and the termination of advanced placement classes in K-12 stuff pretty-much boils down to "Don't be the Best You Can Be!"

How long will it take for kids and parents and workers, of all skin colors, to rebel? A looong time, if ever, it appears.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2021 09:19 AM (AMIL/)

376 In other words, the America First Act (were there actually one called that) would actually open the borders, sell out to China and embolden Iran, essentially putting America, in fact, Last.

See how this works?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

377 The argument is that the teachers have to be paid, but they are exempt from actually teaching anything.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 04, 2021 09:12 AM (QE98t)

Kinda like the SC ruling that the police slogan "Protect and Serve" doesn't really apply to the "protect" part?

The teachers are gonna win this one too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 04, 2021 09:20 AM (F0YaR)

378 I'm confused about HR1. We have been to,d each state has the leadership role on how they do elections, and that one state cannot challenge another's methods. So how can they tell a Texas they have to have auto registration and universal mail in?

Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (QZ/dC)

379 I always wondered how the Venezuela congress voted to give Chavez dictatorial powers. I don't wonder anymore.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (4+MtS)

380 "For the people" Act - Americans need not apply.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (nakwk)

381 I'm thinking of a new movie, News of the Retardo World.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (l5rNb)

382 So how can they tell a Texas they have to have auto registration and universal mail in?
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (QZ/dC)

Shut up, racist.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (4+MtS)

383 Blue State lockdowns have devastated school age children. Mental health claims, suicides, behavioral issues and other related problems have increased geometrically. Academic performance has suffered dramatically and proportionally as less in-person instruction is given. The job, wage and overall economic prospects for an entire generation of children has been greatly diminished.

This is the Democrats plan for America- to destroy it starting with your children. They want to make their occupation of government permanent, so you have no choices.

Parents know this better than anyone. You can't hide it. That's why they are trying to take all the decisions out of your hands with bills like H.R. 1, which will make corruption endemic to the system, so your voting against this despotism won't matter.

Any person who put a Democrat in power with their vote should think long and hard about their future, their children's future and our nations future. Because as long as Democrats rule, those will all slip further away.

It's time for people to think beyond politics.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (VpIIl)

384
(Car backfires.)

Congress-creatures: "Shriek, we're under attack!"

(Morbidly obese Capitol Police LARPing in military
gear open fire and shoot each other.)

(Headline: Deadly Rightwing Attack on Capitol.)

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (guId+)

385 Angel of Death Cuomo Won't Resign: "Never Done Anything in My Public Career That I Have Been Ashamed Of"

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Shameless.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (VVEnO)

386 The left's foot soldiers; Antifa/BLM are going to be the face of the administration for years to come. I fully expect large numbers of that bloc to be drafted into some civilian policy enforcement type organization. The purpose would be to enforce policies, such as mask mandates, limiting gatherings, etc. that are widely unpopular. The large urban areas are already doing much of this, so expect rural America to be the target of this effort soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (3H9h1)

387 I'm confused about HR1. We have been to,d each state has the leadership role on how they do elections, and that one state cannot challenge another's methods. So how can they tell a Texas they have to have auto registration and universal mail in?
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (QZ/dC)
++++
Because the rules are what they say they are and nothing else matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (Jsjd7)

388 375 Gref, the thing to watch is people moving with their feet. The people that care about their kid's education will move to somewhere more simpatico with learning or send their kids to virtual academies, home schooling, charter schools, private schools, and so on.

As mentioned above, conservatives avoid conflict so the easiest way to move your kids elsewhere. That will introduce leftist attempts like on vaccination to demand access to kids.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (pO7gM)

389 378 I'm confused about HR1. We have been to,d each state has the leadership role on how they do elections, and that one state cannot challenge another's methods. So how can they tell a Texas they have to have auto registration and universal mail in?
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (QZ/dC)

It's a tax.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (Zm+LZ)

390 By eliminating traditional schools and abandoning the
education-industrial complex, we can get away with this crazy concept
that teaching can be taught. Teaching is a talent, much like having the
ability to sing. It's not something that can be bestowed on someone
with an education degree.

This is wrong, in every respect. Coming from a family of teachers, as I do, I couldn't disagree more. Educating people to be teachers is obviously not the problem.

Our culture sends kids to literal hell, in Baltimore, in Chicago and in many other places. The primary issues in teaching are broken families, who themselves make
zero effort to teach their own children, and the self-serving teachers
unions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, registered Independent at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (29q5W)

391 Anybody catch the news that Elaine Chao abused her office as Sec. of Transportation? She used staff and her office to help benefit her family's business operations.
Note: Chao is the wife of.............. The turtle himself -- Mitch McConnell.
More snakes in the grass.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (N39Ws)

392 True Inauguration Day. Who in the world even knew. Such utter bs.

Posted by: LASue at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (Ed8Zd)

393 What in the world is Nazi wearing in that picture?

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (lgiXo)

394 Any person who put a Democrat in power with their vote should think
Reading through twitter those people work like this...
The Dems say they'll give me $2K. The Republicans do not. Democrats it is!
No consideration of where the money is coming from, or the implications of half the population forced to stay at home and collect government checks.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (qlFIA)

395 354 341 gref,
It was doo wah diddy diddy dum diddy do when translated into English.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:11 AM (pO7gM)

Thanks - I goofed that one up - needed more coffee before reading today's JJ intro paragraph! His earlier reference to the 1st SS Panzer Division distracted me.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2021 09:24 AM (AMIL/)

396 Because the rules are what they say they are and nothing else matters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (Jsjd7)

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One rule ... to rule them all.

Posted by: ShainS at March 04, 2021 09:24 AM (WqPYg)

397 Angel of Death Cuomo Won't Resign: "Never Done Anything in My Public Career That I Have Been Ashamed Of"

When you've been raised to treat women as objects, as I have no doubt he was, advising women to 'take the whole sausage' is simply referred to as "Tuesday."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

398 393 What in the world is Nazi wearing in that picture?
Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (lgiXo)

Not a mask. And neither is anyone nearby. Curious, no?

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at March 04, 2021 09:24 AM (nakwk)

399 385 Angel of Death Cuomo Won't Resign: "Never Done Anything in My Public Career That I Have Been Ashamed Of"

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Shameless.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 04, 2021 09:22 AM (VVEnO)

He was fucking and fucking with women at HUD 20 years ago!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:24 AM (yrol0)

400 Call it the AAA. Anti-American Act. That was easy.
and it will be easy for them.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:25 AM (S1hrL)

401 HR 1 carries in it a poison pill - since it requires that the SC now be under ethical violation rules and requires the Justices to recuse themselves on any small matter of conflict, if a state brings suit to the SC that HR 1 is unconstitutional, Dems will argue that the Justices can't rule on that as they must recuse themselves...because HR1 affects them. Very clever, but I don't think the SC bites on that - it would neuter them for all time.

Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2021 09:25 AM (w2LAm)

402 In the corporate world it is presumed that any employee can teach any other employee anything - they just need to learn the thing being taught first.

And this mostly works.

Interesting to compare that to the government schools were supposedly you need a master's degree in education to teach a fifth grader algebra.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:25 AM (qlFIA)

403 H.R. 1 is over 800 pages. Read it for yourself. It's a unconstitutional, tyrannical disaster for our country. That the media is fellating it as some type of reasoned measure is perhaps their most egregious, partisan, destructive, dishonest, ignorant feat yet- and that's saying a lot.

They either don't understand the implications in their ignorance, or they do and don't care. Either way, it's another reason to throw the media on the burn pit.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at March 04, 2021 09:25 AM (VpIIl)

404 Compare and contrast this avalanche of huge policy changing bills the leftists have pressed with when we held all three chambers How much did the gope get done by March 4? Im thinking 0

Posted by: LASue at March 04, 2021 09:26 AM (Ed8Zd)

405 I was just looking at a chart of oil prices and realized that oil costs 50 per cent more now than it did on election day.

Thanks Biden.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Price per barrel doubled since nov 2.
$32 to $64

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2021 09:26 AM (6J/xZ)

406 Very clever, but I don't think the SC bites on that - it would neuter them for all time.
Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2021 09:25 AM (w2LAm)

Court-packing as needed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 04, 2021 09:26 AM (Zm+LZ)

407 379 Cat Ass Trophy,
In all fairness to Venezuela, the previous big political parties had become so blatant in corruption that people voted in a strong man (Chavez) that had previously tried to launch an abortive coup against the regime that failed.

Chavez came to power with a popular majority to destroy the existing regime, no such thing has been demonstrated for Biden.

Chavez did it and in fine authoritarian fashion, like Erdogan, considers that democracy is a bus, when you reach your stop, you get off. Thus, ensuring the first election that gets you power is the last meaningful one.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:26 AM (pO7gM)

408 404 Compare and contrast this avalanche of huge policy changing bills the
leftists have pressed with when we held all three chambers How much
did the gope get done by March 4? Im thinking 0

Posted by: LASue at March 04, 2021 09:26 AM (Ed8Zd)

But, but, but judges!!!

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 04, 2021 09:27 AM (N39Ws)

409 Because the rules are what they say they are and nothing else matters.
I remember arguing with GOPers focused on process years ago that the other side just does not care about what the rules say...it is just what they can get away with.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:27 AM (qlFIA)

410 I should be able to register and vote in any and all states which I choose. It is racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic to say otherwise.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:27 AM (4+MtS)

411 HR1 is pretty much what I expected would be job #1 for the Democrats in the new Congress -- they have to enshrine all the cheating into the election system.

It will be filibustered in the Senate. Schumer can't avoid taking it up. The "power-sharing" agreement between McConnell and Schumer reportedly required Schumer not to nuke the filibuster.

I actually DONT think that Schumer will nuke the filibuster, this time. But as things go on, and as more and more bills get filibustered, the Left will push for the nuclear option.

Then -- if Schumer caves, there will be a "vote-a-rama" on all of the previously-tabled House bills.

Posted by: Revenant at March 04, 2021 09:28 AM (NJXJJ)

412 I'm confused about HR1. We have been to,d each state has the leadership role on how they do elections, and that one state cannot challenge another's methods. So how can they tell a Texas they have to have auto registration and universal mail in?
Posted by: Only Context at March 04, 2021 09:21 AM (QZ/dC)

It's a tax.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 04, 202

Or...
Doing anything else is a civil rights violation

Posted by: LASue at March 04, 2021 09:28 AM (Ed8Zd)

413 "Spreading diseases that Americans won't spread."

361 337 108 illegals released by Border Patrol test positive for Covid
Spreading the diseases Americans won't spread.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:05 AM (qlFIA

Posted by: No Longer Amused at March 04, 2021 09:28 AM (z2bDv)

414 This is wrong, in every respect. Coming from a family of teachers, as I do, I couldn't disagree more. Educating people to be teachers is obviously not the problem.

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Had the pleasure of attending a speech by Dr. Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb in the mid-80's. When asked about the EVEN THEN shortage of competent math and science teachers (particularly in physics), he replied that it's not necessarily those with a great grasp of the subject matter -- or those who are great communicators -- that make the best teachers: it's those who have a love of the subject and convey that enthusiasm for it to students.

Posted by: ShainS at March 04, 2021 09:29 AM (WqPYg)

415 No consideration of where the money is coming from, or the implications of half the population forced to stay at home and collect government checks.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 04, 2021 09:23 AM (qlFIA)
++++
Set that aside for a moment. They don't even consider that the two grand is itself an obvious lie. All of the other stuff is secondary compared to that, and it works anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 04, 2021 09:29 AM (Jsjd7)

416
When you've been raised to treat women as objects, as I have no doubt he was, advising women to 'take the whole sausage' is simply referred to as "Tuesday."
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

I immediately thought of this.

https://youtu.be/GlhOUyy4wbs

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2021 09:29 AM (OjOHC)

417 Actually, i why do I need to register to vote? What is this, Nazi germany? Show me your papers? I should be able to download and complete a ballot online and submit it without identifying information. As long as there is a check box where I swear I am only submitting one ballot, it is fine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:29 AM (4+MtS)

418 "HR 1 carries in it a poison pill - since it requires that the SC now be under ethical violation rules and requires the Justices to recuse themselves on any small matter of conflict,"

Flat out unconstitutional like most of the bill. But that's the point.

Congress cannot dictate the courts power by legislation or any other device. Nor can the federal government usurp electoral powers assigned in Article 1, Section IV Clause 1 powers of the Constitution.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at March 04, 2021 09:29 AM (VpIIl)

419 391 The IGs were and are mainly Obama holdovers and should have been fired when Trump took office. That being said, I have no doubt that Chao actions as DOT Secretary was full of ethical violations. It was her last chance probably to grift for the family McConnell crime syndicate. Think of her as Hunter without the sex angle.

That is the key to the Washington establishment--the right to grift from the public trough and peddle influence.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:30 AM (pO7gM)

420 Cuomo reminds me of an episode I had back in my days at a Catholic school. We were in the lunch room and the boys were having the usual goofball conversations and I piped up with "Eat my Baloney!" A teacher/administrator responded with "Everyone eats their OWN food!!!!"

We laughed on that one the rest of the lunch period.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

421 410 I should be able to register and vote in any and all states which I choose. It is racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic to say otherwise.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 04, 2021 09:27 AM (4+MtS)

Rush (RIP) had said for years that one of the big goals of the Left is to abolish elections. HR1 would essentially do that.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2021 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

422 geese have been flying over in past weeks, but first two just landed on the pond. They don't realize commies (or is it globalists using the commies?) took over the country.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 04, 2021 09:30 AM (Cus5s)

423 Who had Burning Dr Seuss on their bingo card?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 04, 2021 09:30 AM (yrol0)

424 Then -- if Schumer caves, there will be a "vote-a-rama" on all of the previously-tabled House bills.

Posted by: Revenant at March 04, 2021 09:28 AM (NJXJJ)

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... as well as hundreds of other bills written by Dem special interest lobbyists that are sitting in a file cabinet and would otherwise never see the light of day.

Posted by: ShainS at March 04, 2021 09:31 AM (WqPYg)

425 Satellite images seem to show Lil Kim is back to extracting plutonium. I guess Kim knows it's the "real" inauguration day today too.

Posted by: andycanuck at March 04, 2021 09:31 AM (d6he9)

426 No, because as a society, we all share in the value of educating all children. That way we minimize the number of bums and junkies in the later years - or so it suppose to be. I'm just trying to come with something that works better than the totally failed system we have now.
Posted by: jwest

Then I want 31 years of property taxes back. Because they broke the contract . Kids are dumber than shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2021 09:31 AM (6J/xZ)

427 NOOD!!!

Tarot art.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 04, 2021 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

428 Then I want 31 years of property taxes back. Because they broke the contract . Kids are dumber than shit.
Mission accomplished

Posted by: The teacher's union at March 04, 2021 09:32 AM (qlFIA)

429 Report: Polar Bear Population Increasing

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Woke-a-Cola will stop that!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 04, 2021 09:32 AM (VVEnO)

430 "Anybody catch the news that Elaine Chao abused her office as Sec. of Transportation? "

I like McConnell about as much as I would like the clap, but the charges are false and politically scurrilous. DoJ has already said they won't prosecute.

This is just more people trying to divide and conquer us.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at March 04, 2021 09:32 AM (VpIIl)

431 It is not whether Schumer caves, but rather whether a few Dem senators like Manchin or Sinema (both on record as against nuking the filibuster) stand tall. You have to have all 50 Dems plus Kamala to make the rule change via a nuclear option.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:34 AM (pO7gM)

432 418 Marcus T,
The counter argument by the Dems is the time place and manners language in the Constitution itself plus the 15th Amendment.

The key is whether or not the Senate will nuke the filibuster because a court packing bill will not be far behind that event.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:36 AM (pO7gM)

433 431. Manchin will fold for the right price. Not sure about Sinema, but she is a DEM so probably her too.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 04, 2021 09:36 AM (6/LtX)

434 If polar bear populations are increasing, their food sources populations are increasing too.

Posted by: jeff at March 04, 2021 09:37 AM (J2JqR)

435 Congress cannot dictate the courts power by legislation or any other device. Nor can the federal government usurp electoral powers assigned in Article 1, Section IV Clause 1 powers of the Constitution.
Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at March 04, 2021 09:29 AM (VpIIl)

I agree, Democrats are Constitutionally illiterate...so of course they had no problem writing legislation that usurps Art. 1 powers they don't posses. I just can't see HR1 surviving any suit brought on constitutional grounds because the SC would be saying they have no role any more if they uphold it.

Posted by: Boswell at March 04, 2021 09:38 AM (w2LAm)

436 "The counter argument by the Dems is the time place and manners language in the Constitution itself plus the 15th Amendment.

The key is whether or not the Senate will nuke the filibuster because a court packing bill will not be far behind that event.
Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:36 AM (pO7gM)"

I am not seeing the 15th Amendment angle. There seems to be enough jurisprudence and case law related to Article 1 that it would curb stomp any other argument. Plus if you look at potential outcomes, it would rob the states of rights duly assigned in the Constitution.

Posted by: Marcus T, Unforgiven at March 04, 2021 09:39 AM (VpIIl)

437 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
It is utterly embarrassing that "pay people enough to live" is a stance that's even up for debate.

Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD's workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep compromise - a big one, considering the phase in.

There is one thing Ocasio-Cortez's argument left out, though: Denmark doesn't have a nationally mandated minimum wage. Typically, trade unions work to keep wages above $20, but there is no federal wage, USA Today noted in a fact check last month.

Posted by: SMOD at March 04, 2021 09:40 AM (3aI0K)

438 The Elaine Chao IG report about relatively mild abuses of power and/or misuse of government resources is pretty telling on the DC system.

On one hand, the abuses are nitpicks and of the sort probably 95% of Cabinet secretaries also do, so it points outs that the lefty federal department functionaries probably just had a hard-on for hurting Mitch McConnell (Chaos's husband).

On the other hand, Chao has been in and around government leadership for multiple decades, so you'd like to think she would have learned by now not to misuse government resources ... but it seems the opposite. Then finally to top it off, no prosecution for misuse of government resources ... because? Certainly not because higher ups realized Mitch McConnell still has a bunch of power.

Posted by: The Ghost of Pandemic Present at March 04, 2021 09:40 AM (dYe5S)

439 Does the bill include the vaccine passport requirement? I don't think it matters, but I am curious.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:40 AM (S1hrL)

440
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Ahole Of Color @AOC

Posted by: Bastard Biden at March 04, 2021 09:41 AM (3aI0K)

441 167 I continue to be alarmed at how many more people I see in masks now than I did last summer. I would have thought most people would be sick of them and doubting the continued pandemic theater. Instead, it's being accepted as the new normal, I think?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:23 AM (bDqIh)

It's a symbol to show that you have Left Wing Goodthink, and you aren't one of those NAZI NAZI NAZIs that the Media and Twitter constantly scream about.

blargh.

Posted by: Allie at March 04, 2021 09:44 AM (PC3pt)

442 Upthread. HR1 carries a poison pill in it.
Correction: HR 1 is the poison pill to kill off free and fair elections and the country.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:46 AM (S1hrL)

443 436, The Dems will argue that people of color are disadvantaged from registering and voting with current rules via disparate impact analysis which has been recognized by Scotus as a valid indication of racial discrimination.

The rule of interpretive construction is that whatever is in the Constitution has to be read in such a way as to not conflict with later amendments. So, the fact that Motor Voter was not successfully challenged along with later HAVA actions regarding elections, give the patina of legality that Scotus, especially Dred Justice Roberts, cover to rule for the federal government.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:47 AM (pO7gM)

444 The past century has lined up elections at the edge of a pit with a pistol to the back of it's head.

2020 pulled the trigger and blew it's brains out.

H.R. 1 is just the boot to the back of election's lifeless body as it tumbles into the pit

Posted by: banana Dream at March 04, 2021 09:47 AM (OV00c)

445 Last night on Stacy on the Right she had on a labor expert who was describing the labor bill the Dems in the House are resurrecting to pass next week. It repeals all 27 Right to Work statutes currently in place and then makes any future Right to work laws passed by any state illegal. Forever. They passed this thing last October and it died in the Senate.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2021 09:48 AM (0OQSc)

446 People are wearing masks out of fear. Fear that has been instilled in them for going on a year now. It will take even longer for people to let go of that fear, if ever. They blinded the masses with fear and fake science. It always works.

Posted by: Ziba at March 04, 2021 09:50 AM (S1hrL)

447 203 >>I have trouble making eye contact with masked people. Maybe I am the weird one, but I find the masks drop everyone into the Uncanny Valley and I don't even really see masked people in public as fully-formed human people.

Masks greatly inhibit nonverbal communication, such as smiling, etc.. People act differently when masked.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 04, 2021 08:31 AM (bDqIh)

This. I find myself wandering through my workplace and stores looking at the floor because I can't tolerate looking at masked faces

Posted by: Diesel Jones at March 04, 2021 09:53 AM (Vu7A1)

448 433 Nick, the problem for a Dem senator is that once the filibuster is done, then the Senate becomes effectively a smaller House of Representatives and each member loses their individual powers which affects grifting and campaign funding (which some grift from directly).

I can actually see that fellow senior Dems encourage Sinema or Manchin from behind the scenes to screw up attempts to get rid of the filibuster and probably Schumer himself.

The power of the majority and minority leader is control over the floor of the Senate and the filibuster is part of that. So, senators get a lot of grift that House members don't so as prevent legislation as much as to pass legislation. Convert it to a straight party regime, it changes the nature of the deal with the majority and minority leader. The minority leader becomes like in the House, a non-entity. The majority leader, would more or less be a mere puppet of the majority.

The question is whether Dems are ready to declare democracy over until the Republicans begin to cheat as much as the Dems which happened in the Midwest and New York in rural areas during the 1870's to 1900 or so.

Posted by: whig at March 04, 2021 09:53 AM (pO7gM)

449 448. I agree. And for the right price, the 71 year old Manchin will fold like a cheap tent. Sinema is really all that stands in the way, as she will have to live with the real fallout.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at March 04, 2021 09:56 AM (6/LtX)

450 445 Last night on Stacy on the Right she had on a labor expert who was describing the labor bill the Dems in the House are resurrecting to pass next week. It repeals all 27 Right to Work statutes currently in place and then makes any future Right to work laws passed by any state illegal. Forever. They passed this thing last October and it died in the Senate.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 04, 2021 09:48 AM (0OQSc)

Every time Slow Joe and Jenny Psaki talk about the coming wave of green jobs, they refer to them as "good union jobs." The Dems will nuke Right-to-Work if they can, and all House bills for infrastructure and green crap will require only unionized employees get the jobs funded by the bills.

Posted by: Gref at March 04, 2021 10:01 AM (AMIL/)

451 "bivouaced" -- All 5 vowels in that word. As well as each of the first 5 letters of the alphabet.

Posted by: Eric at March 04, 2021 10:09 AM (CcbdU)

452 440
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

Ahole Of Color @AOC
Posted by: Bastard Biden at March 04, 2021 09:41 AM (3aI0K)

A-hole Of Chestiness.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 04, 2021 11:33 AM (s2VJv)

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