Free Beacon: The AP Downplayed the Border Crisis to Appease Leftwing Groups and Open Borders Advocates

This is not a news organization. This is a political advocacy organization hiding itself inside the trappings of a news organization.

Typically, news organizations rush to cover crises, real or perceived. The Associated Press has taken a different tack, using its influential style guide to play down the human drama unfolding at the southern border.
While internal Customs and Border Protection documents repeatedly refer to an immigration "surge" at the border, according to records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the AP recommends journalists no longer use such descriptions to avoid offense and maintain supposed "neutrality."
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The move by AP, a response to left-wing activists who demanded gentler language from reporters when covering immigration, fundamentally changed how newsrooms across the country covered the Biden administration's response to a historical influx of migrants in the president's first 100 days in office. A range of outlets, from local newspapers to national publications like the Washington Post, look to the AP for language guidance.
The AP pressed news outlets in March to "avoid imagery conjuring war or natural disaster, which could portray migrants as a negative, harmful influence. Avoid emotive words like onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak, and stealth." But Customs and Border Protection officials told the Free Beacon that they hold weekly meetings they call "surge meetings" to discuss ways to process the thousands of migrants flooding into the country.
The use of the word "surge" in immigration-related stories was commonplace across a multitude of publications, including the AP itself, in the early days of the border crisis but drew criticism from activists as the Biden administration sought to dispel the idea that it is grappling with a full-blown crisis. America's largest wire service--and the standard-bearer for journalistic style through the AP Stylebook--bowed to the pressure campaign.
A March 25 Washington Post op-ed by the editorial director of the pro-immigration site Futuro Media revealed that AP changed its directive at the demands of activists. Julio Varela said in his column he complained to the AP about the use of words like "surge" in its immigration coverage, suggesting news outlets use "entering," "crossing the border," and "increase" instead.
The AP told Varela his complaint came at the perfect time: Editors there were already "discussing word choices internally" and just assembled a memo addressing concerns by Latino activists. Varela, pleased with the news, called on the rest of the media to follow suit lest they be accused of using a "dehumanizing term."
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Shortly thereafter, left-wing members of Congress such as New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.) told supporters that using the word "surge" is a "white supremacist idea."
The AP's recommendations were adopted by news organizations such as Politico, which asked its staff, among other things, to no longer describe the unprecedented flood of illegal immigrants to the southern border as a "crisis."

News organizations get heightened First Amendment protections, which, among other things, essentially permit them to defame public figures without consequence.

But these are no longer news organizations. They are partisan actors, every bit as partisan as the RNC, the DNC, Planned Parenthood and the various leftwing propaganda groups that pushed the Russia Hoax.

Why does AP have special first amendment protections that the RNC does not have?

It's time to take them away.

Posted by: Ace at 01:10 PM

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1 Close to first.

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2021 12:11 PM (0jZnq)

2 Hey, I was first!!!

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2021 12:11 PM (0jZnq)

3 Third!!!

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (0jZnq)

4 2d Look at DLAMP?

It is not like people were not told.

Posted by: sven at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (Lzpvj)

5 FOURTH!!!!

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (0jZnq)

6 Any claims there are large numbers of spherical Guatemalans crossing the border to get freebies are completely false!

Posted by: some spherical Guatemalan at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (DpkTQ)

7 FIFTH!!!!

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (0jZnq)

8 Rules for thee, but not for me. ~Democrats and Press, to be redundant (probably)

Posted by: Flyguy at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (3sOO0)

9 Give up, JROD?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:13 PM (2SdPm)

10 I would have been shocked if they did not.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:13 PM (V13WU)

11 Well, it IS the Associated With Terrorists Press.

Posted by: Toastrider at May 19, 2021 12:14 PM (6CrP2)

12 Again, I was unmoved at the thought of AP getting blown to bits when Israel his their building that also housed Hamas.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2SdPm)

13 they would not do it this way if all the boarder crossers were journalists who were gunna take their job

Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 19, 2021 12:14 PM (bTQ72)

14 The Press should lose those heightened 1st Amendment protections. After all, Biden himself said that "no Amendment is absolute"...

Posted by: Thrawn at May 19, 2021 12:15 PM (MBy9l)

15 Why did the Free Beacon waste so many (virtual) column inches on this?

I mean get real. You know what we are and what we do. Everyone knows. We don't care. Nothing will change us, and enough people will pretend to believe that we'll be fine. There are a few rubes who still think we're something we're not, but it's not a needle-mover either way.

Posted by: Applied Propaganda at May 19, 2021 12:15 PM (Jsjd7)

16 Again, I was unmoved at the thought of AP getting blown to bits when Israel his their building that also housed Hamas.
Posted by: blake

I think the IDF mishandled that just a bit:

You have one hour to vacate the building.

Did we say one hour? BOOM BOOM BOOM

Our bad.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Rvt88)

17 First wake-ups. SFW.

https://tinyurl.com/3v9m6539

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:16 PM (KnJdm)

18 Whoever though consolidating all News gathering into one or two organizations... clearly did not understand the concept of a Free Press.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 19, 2021 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

19 New York Post: A 224-pound Russian woman faces some heavy-duty justice for sitting on
her husband and strangling him to death with her massive buttocks during
a boozy dispute, a report said.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (xPl2J)

20 @9 blake-Yeah I did and went and told the others in the previous thread there was a nood. Gave up and did my duty.

Posted by: JROD at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (0jZnq)

21 They downplay the border and hype Jan. 6th. Enemy of the people.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (DB16e)

22 AOC was part of this propaganda effort. She was out there making the claim that using the word "surge" was unconscionable militaristic language.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (YYlyE)

23 I realize these things are original reportings, and I welcome places like Free Beacon looking into and publishing this stuff, but good grief, we know this already.

Does Free Beacon publishing it now do anything useful?

That's a real question, by the way. I don't know the answer, and if it does, then great. If not, then we're back to Bruce Willis standing at the broken window, looking down on the body he just tossed onto the cop's car.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (ilonU)

24 The press, all of them, for the most part, are partisan hacks. They should be dismantled first.

The IDF made a good start.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (jvt6t)

25 they would not do it this way if all the boarder crossers were journalists who were gunna take their job
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 19, 2021 12:14 PM (bTQ72)
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Yes, they would, because these are people who think they are much smarter than they actually are.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (2SdPm)

26 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

I'll start: atypical pneumonia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (Jsjd7)

27 The AP is the USA Today of New York Times.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (kTF2Z)

28 Associated With Terrorists Press

Posted by: f'd at May 19, 2021 12:18 PM (Tnijr)

29
using the word "surge" is a "white supremacist idea."

So is Squirt and Brawndo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 19, 2021 12:18 PM (63Dwl)

30 They should just call it a spurt. A spurt of immigration.

Because spurts are hot.

Posted by: Shemp Smith at May 19, 2021 12:18 PM (sWM8x)

31 >>What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

anal probe

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 19, 2021 12:18 PM (xPl2J)

32 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

I'll start: atypical pneumonia.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

AP's cake. It's a PA German thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2021 12:18 PM (Rvt88)

33 The AP is the USA Today of New York Times.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (kTF2Z)
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My favorite one of these I have ever seen in real life came from an English-language (sort of, anyway) car magazine from Poland. They were covering the Audi A8 executive sedan. Their headline for the article?

"The A8 Executive: The Cadillac of Audi"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Jsjd7)

34 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Anally Progressive

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (jvt6t)

35 The AP Style Guide is politicized and Republicans pounce!

Posted by: CBS/ABC/NBC/NYT/WaPo at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (VKHyk)

36 Weirdly, the Constitution and amendments has become a suicide pack as interpreted the Xiden, his Chinese Masters and Our Betters.

Imagine that.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (EERbD)

37 Any claims there are large numbers of spherical Guatemalans crossing the border to get freebies are completely false!
Posted by: some spherical Guatemalan at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (DpkTQ)

I wish it was the spherical Guatemalans crossing in my AO. We get the camo'ed up single adults wearing carpet shoes, carrying bags of drugs (and sometimes firearms) doing their damndest to not get caught.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (N3El/)

38 >>News organizations get heightened First Amendment protections, which, among other things, essentially permit them to defame public figures without consequence.

Well, I mean theoretically they don't... but in practice, they certainly do seem to!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (UPoLF)

39 26 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?
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Don't get me started, Yank.

Posted by: AP Hill at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (sWM8x)

40 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

anal probe
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 19, 2021 12:18 PM (xPl2J)
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Hardly!

Posted by: Shep! at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (2SdPm)

41 Any claims there are large numbers of spherical Guatemalans crossing the border to get freebies are completely false!
Posted by: some spherical Guatemalan at May 19, 2021 12:12 PM (DpkTQ)

We accept food stamps.

Posted by: Honduran tortilla vendor, Now Made in America! at May 19, 2021 12:20 PM (v0R5T)

42 The AP is the USA Today of New York Times.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (kTF2Z)
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My favorite one of these I have ever seen in real life came from an English-language (sort of, anyway) car magazine from Poland. They were covering the Audi A8 executive sedan. Their headline for the article?

"The A8 Executive: The Cadillac of Audi"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Jsjd7)

It craps out after 40,000 miles?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 19, 2021 12:20 PM (EERbD)

43 This is not a news organization.

Information Operatives for the Deep State. Just another branch of their military.

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:20 PM (UMXod)

44 'It was a fairly big "f*** you"': Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill' - as she wows on the cover of Harper's Bazaar

this from a chick whose team got beat by a bunch of U-15 boys in Dallas,TX

why can't the 15yo boys get paid as much as you?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (bTQ72)

45 Well, I mean theoretically they don't... but in practice, they certainly do seem to!

Well the Constitution does not extend them any extra protection but legally the courts have over time granted them greater protection than ordinary citizens. Which is not only outrageous, but unconstitutional.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (KZzsI)

46 Lots of local news stations get their stories from the AP. Which is why they all sound alike, and why they are all vapidly left.

Of course, all the reporters/writers/producers are leftists, so there's that as well.

Posted by: vyx at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (h1hWo)

47 I mean get real. You know what we are and what we do. Everyone knows. We don't care. Nothing will change us, and enough people will pretend to believe that we'll be fine. There are a few rubes who still think we're something we're not, but it's not a needle-mover either way.
Posted by: Applied Propaganda at May 19, 2021 12:15 PM (Jsjd7)

Sadly, this is the case. Leftists know what's going on. The media knows what's going on. We know what's going on. What's the point of even pretending to be outraged when everyone with an IQ about 85 is well aware of what is happening.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (UPoLF)

48 Our local paper relies heavily on the AP because their own limaceous journalists have the understanding of a chicken watching a card trick.

Posted by: f'd at May 19, 2021 12:22 PM (Tnijr)

49 Sarah Hoyt on style guides:

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/05/17/style
-sheet-peeps-style-sheet/

Posted by: zmdavid at May 19, 2021 12:22 PM (xqRaG)

50 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

They misspelled "make a hell of a lot more money"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:22 PM (KZzsI)

51 26 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

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American Pfirst!

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2021 12:23 PM (U1eOr)

52 Mocking these fascists is fun in out little part of the blogosphere but we need some scale. Think big!

I wonder if we could get a Congresscritter to attach a "Free Brawndo" provision to the next Obamaphone program renewal. When mockery goes big, it becomes a government program.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2021 12:23 PM (VKHyk)

53 I saw Spherical Guatemalans open for Menudo, I forget when.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2021 12:23 PM (v0R5T)

54 Does anyone want to explain Rapinoe that talent is only part of the story, and that the primary part of the story is audience? There's a way bigger audience for men's soccer (I am sure that's because of sexism, but whatever) and thus way more money to throw around?

Does anyone want to point out to Rapinoe that on a total-haul basis, women's soccer players actually take home *more* of the gross than their male counterparts?

Or instead of trying to explain that, does anyone want to ignore the stupid bitch instead?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:23 PM (Jsjd7)

55 >>Shortly thereafter, left-wing members of Congress such as New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D.) told supporters that using the word "surge" is a "white supremacist idea."<<

I am tempted to send an email to AOC alerting her that ICE and CBP actively employ surge preventers, every single day.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 12:23 PM (AMIL/)

56 "A spurt of Hondurans gushed past the Border Patrol and shot off in all directions."

See?

Posted by: Shemp Smith at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (sWM8x)

57 Well the Constitution does not extend them any extra protection but legally the courts have over time granted them greater protection than ordinary citizens. Which is not only outrageous, but unconstitutional.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (KZzsI)

I'm not aware of any, although I'm not an expert on the matter. Sullivan v NYT is not really about the media, it's about defamation law. In fact, that case had to do with an advertisement run in the NYT by a third party, not a news article.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (UPoLF)

58 "It's time to take them away."

And who, exactly, is going to do that?
Anybody?
Anybody?
Bueller?

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (V3EEC)

59 Biden has a "please clap" moment while speaking to Coast Guard class of '21
LOL

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (DB16e)

60 Speaking of the press lying, though, "press" and "lying" seem to be synonymous, these days, our local rag had an article about the lifting of the mask mandate in CA in June, and told us, with complete sincerity, from what I could tell, the reason for the delay was to give business time to get ready for the change and so people could adjust to the change.

Actually ran an article that made it seem like Daddy government was doing us all a favor by holding off on lifting the mask stupidity.

CA, by the way.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (2SdPm)

61 Daily Mail Headline top story (I'll translate) "Bibi tells Joe Mush Brain to Fuck Off"

Posted by: Archer at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (gmo/4)

62
Abunchof Poopyheads

Posted by: Midnight Tango Charlie Foxtrot at May 19, 2021 12:25 PM (w9Wax)

63 Lots of local news stations get their stories from the AP.

Our local paper used to get most of its news from UPI and USA Today. Now, it literally has USA TODAY in the mast head and is just a reprint of the same content with a tiny slice of local news tacked on. Its not even produced in town, nobody at the newspaper even works here except the website people.

In 2000 they built a huge new building for the Statesman-Journal, I think they used it like 5 years, then collapsed. Newspapers went from the highest point in their existence to essentially dead in less than a decade.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

64 Why does AP have special first amendment protections that the RNC does not have? It's time to take them away.

Thank the Supreme Court and their notion of Incorporation. Before that - the Bill of Rights was a strict limit on Federal power, and nothing more. The Anti-Federalists tried to warn of this, but nobody listened.

Posted by: Silver Bullet at May 19, 2021 12:25 PM (cCDc5)

65 The AP pressed news outlets in March to "avoid imagery conjuring war or natural disaster, which could portray migrants as a negative, harmful influence. Avoid emotive words like onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak, and stealth."

How about "swarm," "unwashed horde," "locusts," or "parasites?" Those are still OK, right?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:25 PM (YqDXo)

66 The virulent ideologues of the media have been hiding unchallenged behind their status as sacred and unassailable interrogators and arbiters of all news for far too long. This could end immediately if we had politicians willing to completely reject this status, break the habit of habitual deference and start treating them like the ignorant shills, hacks, fakes, liars, pretenders, whores and scum that they are. So simple.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:26 PM (h+3Ux)

67 this from a chick whose team got beat by a bunch of U-15 boys in Dallas,TX

why can't the 15yo boys get paid as much as you?

Or visa versa.

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:26 PM (UMXod)

68 63 In 2000 they built a huge new building for the Statesman-Journal, I think they used it like 5 years, then collapsed. Newspapers went from the highest point in their existence to essentially dead in less than a decade.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

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They never really changed from the Ace in the Hole days. They just gave themselves better press about it all, until the Internet showed the world how shitty they all are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:26 PM (LvTSG)

69 26 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?
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Megin Rapinoe?

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 19, 2021 12:26 PM (sWM8x)

70 67 this from a chick whose team got beat by a bunch of U-15 boys in Dallas,TX

why can't the 15yo boys get paid as much as you?

Or visa versa.
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:26 PM (UMXod)

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Just wait until the trannies decide to play soccer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

71 Glad this pandemic has opened some eyes across the country. Many people now understand their neighbors will quietly board the train.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (4fSQf)

___

Unlike Epstein, they killed themselves.

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (8ALgs)

72 By the way, if anyone is interested, it takes a long time to install VirtualBox on FreeBSD.

/I now return you to your regular discussions about getting off lawns

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (2SdPm)

73

Anal Prolapse >>> Associated Presstitutes

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (ND961)

74 this from a chick whose team got beat by a bunch of U-15 boys in Dallas,TX

why can't the 15yo boys get paid as much as you?

===========================
I think a Bobby Riggs type of challenge to Big Mouth Rapinoe is in order: The Texas U15 Boys Champs should challenge her team to a match. Broadcast it and the winner gets 100% of the broadcast fees. She stands a chance to make some truly big bucks ... or be embarrassed into silence.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (VKHyk)

75 "uh-huh...uh-huh...See? That's the 3 of hearts.

That's means we get 3 worms cuz I heart worms."

Posted by: Chicken Explaining a Card Trick to Joe Biden at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (EERbD)

76 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM (Jsjd7)

Arnold Palmer -- the person AND the beverage named for him. Said beverage is one of the greatest non-alcoholic beverages ever!

Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (mZUr4)

77 Speaking of the press lying, though, "press" and "lying" seem to be synonymous, these days, our local rag had an article about the lifting of the mask mandate in CA in June, and told us, with complete sincerity, from what I could tell, the reason for the delay was to give business time to get ready for the change and so people could adjust to the change.

How long does it take to remove a mask? And to remove signs requiring a mask?

I say again: we should've recalled Newsom a long time ago. The recall is the only reason he's abandoning the mask nonsense.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (YqDXo)

78 The media should be the first on the burn pit. It's time to remove any protection they have from lawsuits. They've demonstrably become an advocacy organization for the DNC. In fact, we should also revise their tax status.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (Tckfm)

79 74 I think a Bobby Riggs type of challenge to Big Mouth Rapinoe is in order: The Texas U15 Boys Champs should challenge her team to a match. Broadcast it and the winner gets 100% of the broadcast fees. She stands a chance to make some truly big bucks ... or be embarrassed into silence.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (VKHyk)

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She knows she'd lose, so she'd never take it up. And no media would promote the idea, so it would be like the challenge was never given.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

80 >>>Lots of local news stations get their stories from the AP.

Local news had some Chinese chick bemoaning microagressions and cultural appropriation. This was not AP sourced; it is endemic.

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (KnJdm)

81 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Assorted Pricks

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (jvt6t)

82 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

If she wants some of that sweet, sweet cash, why doesn't she just join the men's team?

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (/2aWP)

83 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Asinine Putzes

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 19, 2021 12:29 PM (nI1Kq)

84
What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:17 PM

Anna Puma

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 19, 2021 12:29 PM (DUIap)

85 I have no idea what happened with the quote in my #71 comment.
This is what it was supposed to be.....

. Newspapers went from the highest point in their existence to essentially dead in less than a decade.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

Unlike Epstein, they killed themselves.

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at May 19, 2021 12:29 PM (8ALgs)

86 26 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Anal Psaki

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2021 12:29 PM (U1eOr)

87 Too much: propaganda
Not enough: cute girls with freckles
https://is.gd/p1fgRA

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:29 PM (Jsjd7)

88 Glad this pandemic has opened some eyes across the country. Many people
now understand their neighbors will quietly board the train.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (4fSQf)

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, the local covid Karen will likely gleefully board the train. Oh, wait. I don't have mixed feelings.

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (KnJdm)

89 Anna Puma
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 19, 2021 12:29 PM (DUIap)

*snort*

She'll be coming for you.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (jvt6t)

90 This post got willowed this AM:

There was a good essay years ago on here or lgf, before the insanity, which detailed how the Saudis influenced the AP/UPI.

Basically, by financing an enormous operation to create moderated content for the Islamic world - they leveraged that funding into a control knob for the entire organization.
Posted by: Jean at May 19, 2021 08:13 AM (rFupn)

Posted by: Jean at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (yIJFm)

91 I say again: we should've recalled Newsom a long time ago. The recall is the only reason he's abandoning the mask nonsense.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (YqDXo)
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Our state legislature was perfectly content to have Newsom enact left wing policies the legislature wouldn't have to pay a price for. This is the only reason he wasn't reigned in by our legislature.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (2SdPm)

92 82 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

If she wants some of that sweet, sweet cash, why doesn't she just join the men's team?
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (/2aWP)

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Just declare herself a man, change her pronouns on Twitter, and she's on, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (LvTSG)

93 Newsmax gets a fair degree of content from the AP, and others. Just sayin

Posted by: Marcus T at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (Tckfm)

94 Downplayed?

Isn't it just "lied"? That is after all the AP's native tongue.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (vS7Dx)

95 ace .... um, RNC is a "partisan" organization?

Maybe a pale, meek, mumbling shadow of a partisan organization?

Just a quibble.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (OTzUX)

96 Assorted Pricks

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (jvt6t)

Agitation Propaganda.

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (KnJdm)

97 Divest and boycott Al Prezerra.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (+hPIb)

98 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

Only one thing to do: ban soccer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (YqDXo)

99 94 Downplayed?
Isn't it just "lied"? That is after all the AP's native tongue.
Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 12:30

"Without evidence"

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (U1eOr)

100 59 Biden has a "please clap" moment while speaking to Coast Guard class of '21
LOL

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (DB16e)

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"I love Coast Guard ... but forget, is it a soap deodorant?"

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (BhqmB)

101 OT: The Dullard in Chief insults Coast Guard Academy graduates as they don't offer the attention he seeks. BTW, they loved Trump.

"Why you're a real dull class. I mean, c'mon man is the sun getting to you? I would think you'd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap."

I guess they won't have the stellar career that Hunter did in the Navy.

Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (oiNtH)

102 Well, I mean theoretically they don't... but in practice, they certainly do seem to!

Well the Constitution does not extend them any extra protection but
legally the courts have over time granted them greater protection than
ordinary citizens. Which is not only outrageous, but unconstitutional.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (KZzsI
It's bonkers!

Posted by: Harry Sussex at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (BMmaB)

103 93 Newsmax gets a fair degree of content from the AP, and others. Just sayin
Posted by: Marcus T at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (Tckfm)

Most news is just repeating what they saw elsewhere without verification. The rest is usually intentional lies and propaganda.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (z5Vrg)

104 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?

Ass Pounding. Amateur Prostitute. Avid Phellatist.

Posted by: Don Lemon at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (9Fwwf)

105 'It was a fairly big "f*** you"': Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill' - as she wows on the cover of Harper's Bazaar

Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 19, 2021 12:21 PM (bTQ72)

She's doing Subway sandwich commercials now, so now I have to add Subway to the boycott list. Hubs told me I'll have us living like the Amish pretty soon.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (Ez6QX)

106 Newsmax gets a fair degree of content from the AP, and others.

All news agencies rely on other news agencies, you just have to be careful and comb through them to weed out the crap. Its usually pretty easy to do, and you can spot the story they are NOT telling most of the time (the dog that didn't bark).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (KZzsI)

107 Why does AP have special first amendment protections that the RNC does not have?
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I know this isn't what you were suggesting but I'm guessing if the RNC had those protections they would just use them against us.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (vS7Dx)

108 Many people
now understand their neighbors will quietly board the train.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (4fSQf)

Or worse. Report you to "the authorities."

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:32 PM (h+3Ux)

109 What other things with "AP" initials are better than the Associated Press?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Those of us in the Pompetus Corps know it as Amour Piercing.

Posted by: Maurice at May 19, 2021 12:32 PM (DMUuz)

110 92 82 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

If she wants some of that sweet, sweet cash, why doesn't she just join the men's team?
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:28 PM (/2aWP)
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Just declare herself a man, change her pronouns on Twitter, and she's on, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (LvTSG)

There shouldn't be men's and women's teams or athletic events. Just one league, one event, winner takes all.

As a bonus, we'd never hear about women's sports again. Yay!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (YqDXo)

111 The story of the little boy being murdered and dumped in the street in dallas is horrific

Posted by: Nckate at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (vDfNf)

112 so now I have to add Subway to the boycott list.

Subway is worth banning just because their food is poor. Everything is made from turkey and chicken processed into other meats anyway, except the tuna, which is not great and virally uncertain anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

113 What is AP's style guide for MAGA patriots?

"deplorables, racist Trump voters, insurrectionists, white supremacists, snake handler Christians, etc.". Only slightly more subtle, but the framing goes the opposite way for white Trump voters, or any not pushing TheNarrative of AP (which is the Narrative of the oligarch's design)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (Cus5s)

114 Hubs told me I'll have us living like the Amish pretty soon.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (Ez6QX)

Sounds like paradise. Watch the last 40 seconds or so.
https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (KnJdm)

115 Those of us in the Pompetus Corps know it as Amour Piercing.
Posted by: Maurice at May 19, 2021 12:32 PM (DMUuz)
++++
Isn't an "amour piercing" just a fancy, churched-up way to talk about genital jewelry?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (Jsjd7)

116 I have no doubt that if the Dems ever get their majority on the Supreme Court we will eventually learn that the First Amendment only applies to properly Trained Journalists.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (4a9Vv)

117 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

Only one thing to do: ban soccer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (YqDXo
Just ban separate but equal sports altogether. One soccer team for the USA. If she can make it, wonderful. If not, she can get a damn job. One basketball league. One football league. I don't see how Title IX is constitutional at the college/HS level.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (BMmaB)

118 88 Glad this pandemic has opened some eyes across the country. Many people
now understand their neighbors will quietly board the train.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 18, 2021 10:47 AM (4fSQf)

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, the local covid Karen will likely gleefully board the train. Oh, wait. I don't have mixed feelings.
Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:30 PM (KnJdm)

Dang, I like your neighborhood better than mine! I learned from the pandemic which neighbors will turn me in to the authorities so that I will get put on the train.

Posted by: Emmie at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (ofYez)

119 Once you realize there is no difference between the Democratic Party and the media, that they are all the same group with different roles, it all makes sense.

Posted by: Mr. Smartass at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (AbmsP)

120 I have no doubt that if the Dems ever get their majority on the Supreme Court we will eventually learn that the First Amendment only applies to properly Trained Journalists.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (4a9Vv)
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Nah. "Trained" is pretty open-ended.

"Licensed" is more likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (Jsjd7)

121 There shouldn't be men's and women's teams or athletic events. Just one league, one event, winner takes all.

Plus all the girl annoucners like softball lady at the Yankees would have genuine reason to be there. And now Sally Knooler, who played 1 inning in September for the Brewers at Shortstop!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (KZzsI)

122

Ring a Ding Ding Dong!

Posted by: Prince Albert at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (Re9MM)

123 Or worse. Report you to "the authorities."
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:32 PM (h+3Ux)

The police in our little burg of 100,000 get 600-700 calls per day about people/businesses not following the mask mandate.

And the cops are NOT happy about it. The problem: people can rat out others anonymously.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (YqDXo)

124 The AP has been an advocacy organization for a century at least.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (vS7Dx)

125 and instead of "surge", let's say "enriching the country"

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (4a9Vv)

126 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

Didn't they get beat like rugs by a boys soccer team or am I remembering wrong?

Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (oiNtH)

127 116 I have no doubt that if the Dems ever get their majority on the Supreme Court we will eventually learn that the First Amendment only applies to properly Trained Journalists.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (4a9Vv)

You bet. They'll offer a "certification." This has been discussed by Leftists for years.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (h+3Ux)

128 116 I have no doubt that if the Dems ever get their majority on the Supreme Court we will eventually learn that the First Amendment only applies to properly Trained Journalists.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (4a9Vv)

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Incorrect.

Properly accredited journalists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (LvTSG)

129 Maybe we can get the Israelis to bomb some US AP sites?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (/MaDp)

130 I will get put on the train.

Posted by: Emmie at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (ofYez)

These words make no sense to me. *types* *deletes*

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (KnJdm)

131 101 OT: The Dullard in Chief insults Coast Guard Academy graduates as they don't offer the attention he seeks. BTW, they loved Trump.

"Why you're a real dull class. I mean, c'mon man is the sun getting to you? I would think you'd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap."

I guess they won't have the stellar career that Hunter did in the Navy.

Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (oiNtH)

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He should have plagiarized John F'ing Kerry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Posted by: ShainS at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (BhqmB)

132 @Deplorable Jay, the Horde mind at work.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (BMmaB)

133 Even a blind squirrel stops a clock once in a while.

Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
If you have trouble taking sides with Israel against Hamas -- a terrorist group that subjects 2 million Palestinians to tyranny, hundreds of thousands of civilians to rocket fire, and children to treatment as human shields -- you should not be taken seriously as a human being.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 19, 2021 12:36 PM (VVEnO)

134 And the fact that no wetback was force vaccinated or returned to country of origin PROVES BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT that this whole covid bullshit was an op.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 12:36 PM (OCTRt)

135 Everything is made from turkey and chicken processed into other meats
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Hi.

Posted by: The Bacon at May 19, 2021 12:36 PM (vS7Dx)

136 AP??? Yeah, Baby!

Posted by: Austin Powers at May 19, 2021 12:36 PM (mZUr4)

137 Just ban separate but equal sports altogether. One soccer team for the USA. If she can make it, wonderful. If not, she can get a damn job. One basketball league. One football league. I don't see how Title IX is constitutional at the college/HS level.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 19, 2021 12:34 PM (BMmaB)

Or turn it around the other way. We have the NFL, maybe we should have a WFL.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:36 PM (YqDXo)

138
Another Pravda

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (Uh2oA)

139 Subway is worth banning just because their food is poor. Everything is made from turkey and chicken processed into other meats anyway, except the tuna, which is not great and virally uncertain anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

We go there once in a while when we're feeling lazy because it's literally the only fast food place anywhere near us. In my neighborhood there is Subway, a grocery store, a gas station, and two very, very overpriced restaurants.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (Ez6QX)

140 They went away from the licensing thing to just shutting out anyone who does journalism they don't like. They learned their lesson from using Drudge, who made sure the Clinton scandal didn't get forgotten. Now they just either ignore news broken by unbelievers or say its "misleading" or "edited". And any reporter who strays off the approved narrative gets shadowbanned, blocked, or banned from social media. Loses advertisers, loses monetization, gets thrown off Youtube, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (KZzsI)

141 Or worse. Report you to "the authorities."
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:32 PM (h+3Ux)

You said it better than I.

A heartbreaking thing is I now know which relatives will report us. I knew a couple already, but the number has grown.

Posted by: Emmie at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (ofYez)

142 ShainS - I forgot about Francois's comments. Even worse than Biden.

Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (oiNtH)

143 While other states are lifting mandates and restrictions, I see that Wretched Whitmer is trying to make hers permanent. That is one sciency bitch!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (kTF2Z)

144 What Marcus T mentioned is something I used to note here for years.

The "wires" are the lifeblood of "news", they are the source for 90% of the content. AP, Reuters, AFP, internationally, with a few others much smaller/less important.

The omission, distortion, heavy-handed editorial screening and mangling, including the "style guide" stuff, is why "news" hasn't remotely approached being actual news for a long time.

There actually are real journalists, usually low-ranking stringers and rotating bureau staff of the wires, most of the best - not Americans or west Europeans. I have personally witnessed how their hard, excellent work is distorted by the editorial level in NY, Paris, London - sometimes leaving them spitting and furious.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (OTzUX)

145 Crypto crash...Doggycoin down 47%!

Posted by: Fido at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

146 The AP is not unlike a bag. A bag of doucheness.

Thus endeth our lesson. Go in piece.

Posted by: Minuteman at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (RF6E+)

147 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

Didn't they get beat like rugs by a boys soccer team or am I remembering wrong?
Posted by: Cheri

By a 15 yr olds team.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (OCTRt)

148 Mossberg 930 SPX 12ga 18.5" Coyote Tan Pistol Grip 8rd; $1145; https://bit.ly/3wgzlCE

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (YYlyE)

149 Didn't they get beat like rugs by a boys soccer team or am I remembering wrong?
Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (oiNtH)

U16

Posted by: Squidward at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (Vzk5d)

150 All aboard for this train!!

Posted by: Lena at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (jvt6t)

151 134 And the fact that no wetback was force vaccinated or returned to country of origin PROVES BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT that this whole covid bullshit was an op.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 12:36 PM (OCTRt)

THIS.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:39 PM (YqDXo)

152 > By a 15 yr olds team.

Under 15s, actually. That means most of the team members were less than 15 at the start of season.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:39 PM (YYlyE)

153 A heartbreaking thing is I now know which relatives will report us. I knew a couple already, but the number has grown.
Posted by: Emmie at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (ofYez)
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I'm pretty sure I've got a lefty daughter that would turn me in.

Oddly enough, two of my cousins who lean Democrat probably wouldn't.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 19, 2021 12:39 PM (2SdPm)

154 101

"Why you're a real dull class. I mean, c'mon man is the sun getting
to you? I would think you'd have an opportunity when I say that about
the Navy to clap."

Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (oiNtH)

Dipshit doesn't understand the difference between the Navy and the Coast Guard.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (r1z5A)

155

Gonna have to be a gas station lunch today.

Sashimi or Balut? Both are lookin good...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (Re9MM)

156 Didn't they get beat like rugs by a boys soccer team or am I remembering wrong?
Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:35 PM (oiNtH)

After they got whomped something like 5-zip they claimed that "they weren't really trying."

Oh. OK. They just enjoy getting humiliated, then. They were supposedly playing to train for the women's competition. I guess they just needed practice at losing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (YqDXo)

157 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

U.S. Soccer was politely fibbing with its "more skill" statement. The truth is male players are faster and stronger, thereby providing a fan-preferred level of play.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (AMIL/)

158 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

159 The "wires" are the lifeblood of "news", they are the source for 90% of the content. AP, Reuters, AFP, internationally, with a few others much smaller/less important.

The omission, distortion, heavy-handed editorial screening and mangling, including the "style guide" stuff, is why "news" hasn't remotely approached being actual news for a long time. ...
Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2021 12:38 PM (OTzUX)
++++
Don't forget the influence peddling and money laundering. The clandestine private-sector bailout and enrichment of Reuters could easily fill a two-hour, edge-of-your-seat documentary. The amount of splitting, cross-funding, private equity, cross-border finance deals, dirty pool and various misbehavior that went into the Thomson/Reuters reorganization and recapitalization is breathtaking. There is an astronomical amount of hidden money, dirty money, corruption, finance/accounting games and power brokering happening in the wires (at least at Reuters, but there's no reason to think they're special).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (Jsjd7)

160 Trump responds to NY AG witch hunt ; "There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. But, make no mistake, that is exactly what is happening here." Ms. Letitia James may not have heard of Beria or know what to eat it with, but she sure is direct spiritual descendent.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (V13WU)

161 Ruger 1707 GP100 Standard 357 Mag 6" 6 Round Black Hogue Monogrip Stainless Steel; $750; https://bit.ly/3yipaPT

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (YYlyE)

162 It's weird seeing the country turned upside down by a bunch of snitches.

But they always get stitches, eventually.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (jvt6t)

163 Sashimi or Balut? Both are lookin good...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (Re9MM)

Literally anything > balut

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (Ez6QX)

164 "Texas U15 Boys Champs should challenge her team to a match. Broadcast it and the winner gets 100% of the broadcast fees. She stands a chance to make some truly big bucks ... or be embarrassed into silence."

ha, or have an average men's soccer team all self identify as trans, and none of the women would make the team. (but maybe "trans men" require hormone therapy to be in the women's Olympics? not sure on that point)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (Cus5s)

165
There are all kinds of moral arguments to be made for supporting Israel against Hamas, even if only in word, without material aid. That's the argument Ben makes, and it's a correct one, but WGAF?

The one that matters is that Israel is our ally and Hamas is our enemy. We should support our buddies when they go forth and kill the guys who hate us and want us dead.

It's a simple g-ddamned calculation, nobody is too stupid to make it, and if someone isn't making it, it's because they're not on America's side.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (Uh2oA)

166 >>>After all, Biden himself said that "no Amendment is absolute"...

Posted by: Thrawn at May 19, 2021 12:15 PM (MBy9l)
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Reality is perception
Perception is reality

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (MqU4d)

167 Gonna have to be a gas station lunch today.

Sashimi or Balut? Both are lookin good...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (Re9MM)

Warm shrimp cocktail.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (Vzk5d)

168 >>> Those of us in the Pompetus Corps know it as Amour Piercing.
Posted by: Maurice at May 19, 2021 12:32 PM (DMUuz)

Ok space cowboy.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (cqcfX)

169 DOW _down - 275.32 (0.81%)
NASDAQ _down - 77.03 (0.58%)
S&P 500 _ down - 22.64 (0.55%)

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (MqU4d)

170 Subway tv ad: if a man knocked a bitches lunch away it's violence. Fuck em.

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (00bXd)

171 Ms. Letitia James may not have heard of Beria or know what to eat it with, but she sure is direct spiritual descendent.
Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (V13WU)
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She probably has his portrait on her wall.

Posted by: zmdavid at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (xqRaG)

172 Under 15s, actually. That means most of the team members were less than 15 at the start of season.

Thanks. We'll update our stories to note it was an under-23 team, like all other Olympic men's teams.

Posted by: The AP at May 19, 2021 12:43 PM (AytXr)

173 "Why you're a real dull class. I mean, c'mon man is the
sun getting to you? I would think you'd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap."

Posted by: Cheri at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (oiNtH)

Dipshit doesn't understand the difference between the Navy and the Coast Guard.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (r1z5A)

Hunter, not Joe, is the Biden who is knowledgeable about the clap.

Joe knows the Marine Corps doesn't clap because corpses can't clap, right?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:43 PM (YqDXo)

174 If women athletes want to make the big bucks they need to get into porn.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 19, 2021 12:43 PM (/MaDp)

175
But they always get stitches, eventually.

Posted by: Jak Sucio

Sigh, sadly not if there is a "D" after their name.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (r1z5A)

176 After all, Biden himself said that "no Amendment is absolute"...
Posted by: Thrawn at May 19, 2021 12:15 PM (MBy9l)
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He's right, of course. That's why there's an amendment process. But everyone knows, "No amendment is absolute, but if we want to change one we need to go through the rigorous Constitutional processes to make the changes we think are necessary" is definitely *not* what he meant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (Jsjd7)

177 know=> knows

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (V13WU)

178 This just in: Emerald Robinson reports Kevin McCarthy is STILL living with Democrat opinion maker, Frank Luntz.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (VKHyk)

179 Gonna have to be a gas station lunch today.

Sashimi or Balut? Both are lookin good...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (Re9MM)
.......

You might want to stick with Twinkies.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

180 Yeah that's why Davidson, dude who got his ween hacked off and wears a skirt now, is winning LPGA mini tours. He wants to play the full tour which the LPGA is very reluctant to allow. They're in a bad place: say no and the usual bots and loonies freak out online and protest the games, say yes and a man wins the LPGA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

181 Subway is worth banning just because their food
is poor. Everything is made from turkey and chicken processed into other
meats anyway, except the tuna, which is not great and virally uncertain
anyway.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

We go there once in a while when we're feeling lazy because it's
literally the only fast food place anywhere near us. In my neighborhood
there is Subway, a grocery store, a gas station, and two very, very
overpriced restaurants.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:37 PM (Ez6QX)

++++I was at a kid's birthday party a couple weeks ago where they had trays of assorted Subway 3" sandwiches along with various add-ons. They were surprisingly pretty good and very fresh. Or maybe I was extra hungry.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (Q5gg0)

182 My procedure is to assume whatever news I read is false or inaccurate and work backwards from there to determine the truth. That's from years of reading my Mother's National Enquirer as a kid.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (mesZS)

183 I like those hot dogs that roll around on those steel rollers all day

Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (bTQ72)

184 Trump responds to NY AG witch hunt ; "There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime.

If the entire Federal gov't and its assorted intelligence agencies couldn't gin something up in four years, what does pipsqueak New York think it can do?

Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (vOGqy)

185 Remember how MAGA vehicle parades always devolved into a bunch of rednecks chasing down black people.

No? I could have sworn the media reported they were concentrated white supremacy parades.

Well, the pro Palestinian vehicle parade in L.A. devolved into a bunch of attacks and Jew chasing. MSM is predictably silent.

https://bit.ly/3bCj82G
https://bit.ly/2Ror3di

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:46 PM (YYlyE)

186 180 Yeah that's why Davidson, dude who got his ween hacked off and wears a skirt now, is winning LPGA mini tours. He wants to play the full tour which the LPGA is very reluctant to allow. They're in a bad place: say no and the usual bots and loonies freak out online and protest the games, say yes and a man wins the LPGA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

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Say no, and Leftist Twitter is mad at you for a week before they find another target.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:46 PM (LvTSG)

187 "No amendment is absolute, but if we want to change one we need to go through the rigorous Constitutional processes to make the changes we think are necessary" is definitely *not* what he meant.

Yeah, and he didn't mean "every amendment has exceptions such as slander and libel in free speech" either. He meant "we can just ignore parts of them when we choose to"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:46 PM (KZzsI)

188 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill'

U.S. Soccer was politely fibbing with its "more skill" statement.
The truth is male players are faster and stronger, thereby providing a
fan-preferred level of play.

Posted by: Gref

100%! Asses in the seats pay her salary.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (r1z5A)

189 Ruger 1707 GP100 Standard 357 Mag 6" 6 Round Black Hogue Monogrip Stainless Steel; $750; https://bit.ly/3yipaPT

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:41 PM (YYlyE)

I love mine and I would not trade it for anything.

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (KnJdm)

190 > I like those hot dogs that roll around on those steel rollers all day

Watching those greasy dogs roll back and forth IS oddly satisfying.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (YYlyE)

191 >>>They're in a bad place: say no and the usual bots and loonies freak out online and protest the games, say yes and a man wins the LPGA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)
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Karnak says, four women golfers with a tow sack.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (MqU4d)

192 She probably has his portrait on her wall.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (xqRaG)

doubt it. she most likely never heard of him. the fact that this has been nazi and soviet standard procedure, and that everyone can see through her (would not discount base racial animus here either), and that she did not invent it will be shocking news to her.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (V13WU)

193 Trump responds to NY AG witch hunt ; "There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. ...
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (vOGqy)
++++
For anyone interested in the philosophy of anything, Trump's point here is exactly, 100% spot on.

Just systems investigate crimes to find the persons involved.
Unjust systems investigate persons to find any crimes they've committed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (Jsjd7)

194 can we get Israel to bomb the rest of AP's buildings?

Posted by: Unclefacts at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (ihUzW)

195 I like those hot dogs that roll around on those steel rollers all day

And the soy burgers with the microwaved buns. Oddly they aren't bad tasting, even though you know they are some obscenity of food and science.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (KZzsI)

196 Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill.

This is news? She was saying the same thing during the last Olympics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (k39e/)

197 say yes and a man wins the LPGA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

He ain't no Paige Spiranac.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (ufFY8)

198 know=> knows

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (V13WU)

Nose > know=> knows

Posted by: Tucan Sam at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (KnJdm)

199 Joe knows the Marine Corps doesn't clap because corpses can't clap, right?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:43 PM (YqDXo)

If Joe spoke to a group of Marines, I'd wager a lot of $$$ he'd call them 'jarheads' and 'gyrenes' before he was done.

Speaking of Marines, I'll bet both Joe and Kamala asked their schedulers a month or so ago, "Why isn't one of us doing the commencement address at the Marine Corps Academy?"

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (AMIL/)

200 I like those hot dogs that roll around on those steel rollers all day
Posted by: will choose a nic later at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (bTQ72)
.......

If they're kinda dry use a bunch of those little ketchup packets.

Posted by: wth at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

201 193 Trump responds to NY AG witch hunt ; "There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. ...
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (vOGqy)

Lavrenty Beria 2.0

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (h+3Ux)

202
LOL, I hope the LGPA has fun with this before it destroys their entire sport in about ten more minutes.

And I used to think lady golfers were hot in those little numbers they flit around in. Only reason to watch it. But one beefy ladyboy in a skirt would ruin the whole thing. Apples and barrels.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (Uh2oA)

203 Just wait until the trannies decide to play soccer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

Don't trannies already dominate soccer, around the world?

Except I think they still call it men's soccer. Or football.

Same difference.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (ilonU)

204 180 Yeah that's why Davidson, dude who got his ween hacked off and wears a skirt now, is winning LPGA mini tours. He wants to play the full tour which the LPGA is very reluctant to allow. They're in a bad place: say no and the usual bots and loonies freak out online and protest the games, say yes and a man wins the LPGA.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:44 PM (KZzsI)

I love it. Heighten the contradictions (sp? contradicktions?). Make the enemy live up to xis/xer own rules.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (YqDXo)

205 He ain't no Paige Spiranac.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (ufFY

++++
Yum.
https://is.gd/aShKqe

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (Jsjd7)

206 I like those hot dogs that roll around on those steel rollers all day

Posted by: will choose a nic later

slo joe walked by one of those machines and said: "Hey! Their rerunning my favorite TV show!"

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (r1z5A)

207 Sashimi or Balut? Both are lookin good...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 19, 2021 12:40 PM (Re9MM)

McOysters!

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (U1eOr)

208 203 Don't trannies already dominate soccer, around the world?

Except I think they still call it men's soccer. Or football.

Same difference.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (ilonU)

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futbal.

Racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

209 Jeb! - Please clap.
Joe - Man, what a dull class. Clap, you sumbishes...

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (+hPIb)

210 >>>MSM is predictably silent.

https://bit.ly/3bCj82G
https://bit.ly/2Ror3di
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:46 PM (YYlyE)
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This is our world. What shall we do, what shall we do?

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2021 12:49 PM (MqU4d)

211 Watching those greasy dogs roll back and forth IS oddly satisfying.
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This means you're gay.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (/MaDp)

212 If the entire Federal gov't and its assorted intelligence agencies couldn't gin something up in four years, what does pipsqueak New York think it can do?
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2021 12:45 PM (vOGqy)

have you seen her ? she is on a search and destroy mission

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (V13WU)

213 1A is absolute**
2A can have 1000 exceptions and regulations
- MSM

** not applicable to conservatives

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (l6F7l)

214
Say no, and Leftist Twitter is mad at you for a week before they find another target.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:46 PM (LvTSG)

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I think we're past those considerations. They'll say yes. Gleichschaltung.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (Uh2oA)

215 Breaking News!!!
Here are some of the recipes in the Biden White House anti-beef, climate change safe "Cicada Cookbook" to be released later today:

"Cicada -Kale Surprise Omelette"

"Cicada Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Sorghum"

"General Xi's Cicada"

"Banana Split Topped with Fried Cicada Crunchies"

"Cicada Tea served with Cicada Crumpets and Clotted Cream"
New Slogan: Eat healthy. Eat Cicada!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (EERbD)

216 she is after Cuomo too, but that is because she wants his seat

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (V13WU)

217 Subway is worth banning just because their food
is poor.

Subway is fine when you get tired of good sandwiches.

Posted by: Wawa at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (9Fwwf)

218

Maine Corpse Academy?

You mean them coon poon hounds are necros?

Christ, don't tell Hunter...

Posted by: Joey Bidet at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (ND961)

219 > This means you're gay.

Dammit.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (YYlyE)

220 100%! Asses in the seats pay her salary.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 12:47 PM (r1z5A)

I see the problem then. All her fans are lesbos. She's mistaking SIZE of asses for amount of asses.

Maybe for wimminz soccer they should do like the airlines, make the Large Marge types buy two seats.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (ilonU)

221 Isn't there something silly like 7 media companies in the ENTIRE WORLD?

That means MONEY TALKS and if you want a job, you better tote that line because being blackballed in an industry with 7 options is a SMALL world.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

222 And I used to think lady golfers were hot in those little numbers they flit around in. Only reason to watch it. But one beefy ladyboy in a skirt would ruin the whole thing. Apples and barrels.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

When his dong hangs below his skirt....

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (OCTRt)

223 Dammit.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (YYlyE)
++++
Don't worry. I have the cure.
https://is.gd/PQIOUv

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (Jsjd7)

224 196Megan Rapinoe slams U.S. Soccer for insisting that male players earn more because they 'require more skill.

This is news? She was saying the same thing during the last Olympics.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (k39e/)

More folks pay to see the guys, therefore more revenue. The gals, as I understand it, get a higher percentage of the gate than the guys do anyway.

Posted by: Javems at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (8SSHh)

225 Would be awesome if a tranny took Rapinoes spot on the national womYns soccer team.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (l6F7l)

226 1A is absolute**
2A can have 1000 exceptions and regulations
- MSM

You're thinking of the MSM of about 30 years ago. The modern leftist that inhabits the newsroom is pretty skeptical of the first amendment.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YYlyE)

227 213 1A is absolute**
2A can have 1000 exceptions and regulations
- MSM

** not applicable to conservatives
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (l6F7l)

"Offer void where prohibited by law." Which soon will be everywhere.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YqDXo)

228 Hamas killed a Homosexual Leader for having gay sex. Where is the LBQRTDHJINFDESCNMUYG community uproar ???

Posted by: James at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (yVV7Q)

229 Speaking of Marines, I'll bet both Joe and Kamala asked their schedulers a month or so ago, "Why isn't one of us doing the commencement address at the Marine Corps Academy?"

LOL, yeah, someone should schedule that for them.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (CcOog)

230 If Joe spoke to a group of Marines, I'd wager a lot of $$$ he'd call them 'jarheads' and 'gyrenes' before he was done.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 12:48 PM (AMIL/)

Hey fellas! I love eating crayons too!

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (+hPIb)

231 Metric Feetsball

Posted by: Archer at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (gmo/4)

232 "This is not a news organization. This is a political advocacy organization hiding itself inside the trappings of a news organization."

Well, name one tat isn't. This country would be a lot better off if we could get rid of the myth of unbiased news. There never was such a thing.

Posted by: Drerbrerard at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (LMzpI)

233 224

Yep. About triple the percentage vs men. But a high percent of close to zero is still close to zero.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (l6F7l)

234 More folks pay to see the guys, therefore more revenue. The gals, as I understand it, get a higher percentage of the gate than the guys do anyway.
Posted by: Javems at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (8SSHh)
++++
Yup. In terms of the "portion of gross that goes home with the players," women players earn more than men. The gross is just way smaller because the audience is wildly smaller.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (Jsjd7)

235 225 Would be awesome if a tranny took Rapinoes spot on the national womYns soccer team.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (l6F7l)

I would be ecstatic if that were to happen.

Young Rapinoe could go home to her husband.

Oh. Wait.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YqDXo)

236 > Don't worry. I have the cure.

Hallelujah.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (YYlyE)

237 213 1A is absolute**
2A can have 1000 exceptions and regulations
- MSM

** not applicable to conservatives
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (l6F7l)

==========

The Founders hadn't considered the high capacity Twitter. The 1st Amendment only counts towards hand cranked printing presses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

238 Subway is worth banning just because their food
is poor.

Subway is fine when you get tired of good sandwiches.
Posted by: Wawa at May 19, 2021 12:51 PM (9Fwwf)

I may have to flaunt my Quiznos privilege today...

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (Ez6QX)

239 I would be ecstatic if that were to happen.

Young Rapinoe could go home to her husband.

Oh. Wait.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YqDXo)

I might watch a game, then, just for the lulz.

Posted by: 4 at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (KnJdm)

240 DOW _down - 275.32 (0.81%)
NASDAQ _down - 77.03 (0.58%)
S&P 500 _ down - 22.64 (0.55%)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2021 12:42 PM (MqU4d)

Buy teh Cripstoe. I hear it's totes stable.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (ilonU)

241 228 Hamas killed a Homosexual Leader for having gay sex. Where is the LBQRTDHJINFDESCNMUYG community uproar ???
Posted by: James at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (yVV7Q)

========

Can't fight everything.

*shrugs*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

242
Would be awesome if a tranny took Rapinoes spot on the national womYns soccer team.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:52 PM (l6F7l)

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That would indeed be hilarious.

I'm waiting for the first tranny to actually kill a female competitor during play. Fallon Fox already came close once.

It's gonna be funny watching the sports press cheer whoever it is for his lethal athletic prowess when it happens.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (Uh2oA)

243 "It's time to take them away."

And who, exactly, is going to do that?
Anybody?
Anybody?
Bueller?
Posted by: Eat The Eloi at May 19, 2021 12:24 PM (V3EEC)

No one. Trump didn't have the stones, and I have no doubt DeSantis will bend over, too.

"The media is the enemy of the people" turned out to be an even sicker joke than "lock her up."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (2JVJo)

244 217 Subway is worth banning just because their food
is poor.
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Irish judges declared that Subway bread is not bread but a pastry. (something to do with licensing)

Posted by: Braenyard at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (MqU4d)

245 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will grant interviews only to 'Black or Brown journalists,' local reporters say

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (iTXRQ)

246 All fast food is kinda shitty.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (l6F7l)

247 Zastava Arms AK-47 ZPAP M70 Poly Furniture, 1.5mm; $980; https://bit.ly/3v3X3Su

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (YYlyE)

248 There never was such a thing.
Posted by: Drerbrerard at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (LMzpI)

How dare you, sir!

By the way, those poor Cubans really deserve better than being butchered by Spain, don't you think?

Posted by: The Ghost of William Randolph Hearst at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (CcOog)

249 Hailey Davidson probably looked better when he was not pretending to be a woman:

https://celebpie.com/hailey-davidson-transgender/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (k39e/)

250 Megan Rapinoe, needs to shut up and go back to scissoring her partner in between their bouts of domestic drama.

Posted by: Archer at May 19, 2021 12:56 PM (gmo/4)

251 215 Breaking News!!!
Here are some of the recipes in the Biden White House anti-beef, climate change safe "Cicada Cookbook" to be released later today:

"Cicada -Kale Surprise Omelette"
"Cicada Chocolate Chip Pancakes with Sorghum"
"General Xi's Cicada"
"Banana Split Topped with Fried Cicada Crunchies"

"Cicada Tea served with Cicada Crumpets and Clotted Cream"
New Slogan: Eat healthy. Eat Cicada!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 19, 2021 12:50 PM (EERbD)

The Cicada Beans Cicada Cicada and Cicada does not have much Cicada in it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 12:56 PM (yrol0)

252 You're thinking of the MSM of about 30 years ago. The modern leftist that inhabits the newsroom is pretty skeptical of the first amendment.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YYlyE)

Except for themselves. Anyone else yes, especially those they want to claim don't qualify as "the press"

Posted by: Buzzion at May 19, 2021 12:56 PM (G2zl5)

253 From late in the last thread:
Biden, misquoting Chairman Mao.

"There's a saying we use in a different context, a Chinese saying, it says, 'Women hold up half the world.'"

The actual quote is "Women hold up half the sky." An American POTUS, using a Mao quote in a way that's supposed to be inspirational. Un-be-fucking-lievable.

https://bit.ly/3hEoYEO

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (YYlyE)

254 The Founders hadn't considered the high capacity Twitter. The 1st Amendment only counts towards hand cranked printing presses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

This isn't as satirical as it sounds. The only reason the Left haven't explicitly made the argument that speech is more dangerous now because it can travel the world in seconds is because they control the majority of the net.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (vS7Dx)

255 I was at a Quizno's once when the clerk loudly announced, "I have a small meatball for Lauren, and a large Italian for Meghan."

I thought I had stumbled into a matchmaking service.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (m45I2)

256 249 Hailey Davidson probably looked better when he was not pretending to be a woman:

https://celebpie.com/hailey-davidson-transgender/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 12:55 PM (k39e/)

I actually gasped outload and wife came running into room

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (yrol0)

257 I won't ever hear Biden say "come on, man!" because I don't listen to Biden and haven't for a long time. But when I read about it I'm reminded how jejune that expression is. What serious adult says this?

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (h+3Ux)

258 And I used to think lady golfers were hot in those little numbers they flit around in.

Golf is objectively dull -- if soothing -- to watch, all that's left is cuties in skirts.

Irish judges declared that Subway bread is not bread but a pastry.

Yeah the sugar content is supposedly too high for the official law defining bread.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (KZzsI)

259 1A is absolute**
2A can have 1000 exceptions and regulations
- MSM

** not applicable to conservatives
Posted by: Joe XiDen

'No Amendment is absolute!'

And just like that, Bia Den put slavery BACK on the table.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (OCTRt)

260 She's doing Subway sandwich commercials now, so now I have to add Subway to the boycott list. Hubs told me I'll have us living like the Amish pretty soon.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM

They've really gone downhill from Jared, haven't they?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (OssQ4)

261 Lori Lightfoot. That's one scary looking dude right there.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (CcOog)

262 The actual quote is "Women hold up half the sky." An American POTUS, using a Mao quote in a way that's supposed to be inspirational. Un-be-fucking-lievable.

https://bit.ly/3hEoYEO
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (YYlyE)

Yeah that's pretty much endgame right there. I mean we thought Anita Dunn was bad in 2009 - this is a whole new level.

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (vS7Dx)

263 The actual quote is "Women hold up half the sky." An American POTUS, using a Mao quote in a way that's supposed to be inspirational. Un-be-fucking-lievable.

https://bit.ly/3hEoYEO
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (YYlyE)
++++
I wish this was unbelievable. This is not only believable, it isn't even surprising.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (Jsjd7)

264 The problem with the fishing expedition against Trump is that there's no downside for the NY AG. The worst thing that happens to her is she finds nothing and has to settle for merely dragging Trump's name through the mud. No matter how abusive she is, she'll never be punished in any way.

Posted by: zmdavid at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (xqRaG)

265 253 From late in the last thread:
Biden, misquoting Chairman Mao.

"There's a saying we use in a different context, a Chinese saying, it says, 'Women hold up half the world.'"

The actual quote is "Women hold up half the sky." An American POTUS, using a Mao quote in a way that's supposed to be inspirational. Un-be-fucking-lievable.

https://bit.ly/3hEoYEO
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (YYlyE)

I've always liked "Power flows from the barrel of a gun"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (z5Vrg)

266 And just like that, Bia Den put slavery BACK on the table.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (OCTRt)

It is called illegal immigration. It is modern days slavery.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (yrol0)

267 The modern leftist that inhabits the newsroom is pretty skeptical of the first amendment.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YYlyE)

That First Amendment thing, that's bonkers.

Posted by: Harry, the Idiot formerly a prince at May 19, 2021 12:59 PM (h+3Ux)

268 Sickening. The idiot vegetable "president" allegedly spoke with Bibi and, absurdly, said he expected "de-escalation" as a ceasefire approaches. (apparently he didn't talk to Hamas, they don't seem to have received the memo)

And Israeli MinDef reportedly stepping up operations with the threat of a cease-fire hanging over everything.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2021 12:59 PM (OTzUX)

269
It is called illegal immigration. It is modern days slavery.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (yrol0)

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Indeed. I make this point a lot to idiots who try to portray our system as being humane.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:59 PM (Uh2oA)

270 I am a Futbol fan. I played in HS, coached my kids when they were younger. The whole 9 yards.

And I legit tried to watch womens soccer, but it is a fucking joke. Unwatchable. They can run fairly fast and shit. But the quality of ply is garbage. The kicks are 1/2 the power of a male kicking. The dribbling is laughable. Corner kicks barely make it to the goal area. Its like watching middle school boys play.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 19, 2021 12:59 PM (l6F7l)

271 No matter how abusive she is, she'll never be punished in any way.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (xqRaG)

Same for the rest of the Left. They occupy a permanent catbird seat.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (h+3Ux)

272 The actual quote is "Women hold up half the sky." An American POTUS, using a Mao quote in a way that's supposed to be inspirational. Un-be-fucking-lievable.

https://bit.ly/3hEoYEO
Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:57 PM (YYlyE)

Women hold up half the sky and about 6 cars because they do not like the right turn on RED.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (yrol0)

273 Okay, you guys joke, but there really is a cicada cookbook, although not put out by the White House.

It's called "Cicada-licious." Here you go, and you're welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/cicadalicious

Posted by: bluebell at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (wyw4S)

274 It is called illegal immigration. It is modern days slavery.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (yrol0)
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Our nanny Consuela and our maid Maria would certainly tell you that they find their conditions perfectly agreeable.

Posted by: Political Class at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (Jsjd7)

275 226 1A is absolute**
2A can have 1000 exceptions and regulations
- MSM

You're thinking of the MSM of about 30 years ago. The modern leftist that inhabits the newsroom is pretty skeptical of the first amendment.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (YYlyE)

Yeah, a Prog-majority SCOTUS would rule the 1A does not permit public statements that are "intentional disinformation that could lead to the public being harmfully misled about medical and political topics." Or something like that.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (AMIL/)

276 Hailey Davidson probably looked better when he was not pretending to be a woman

Good luck finding his name before the sex change. Or anything about him before it, like his record in PGA and past. Even Wikipedia has no info on the dude.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (KZzsI)

277 She's doing Subway sandwich commercials now, so now I have to add Subway to the boycott list. Hubs told me I'll have us living like the Amish pretty soon.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 19, 2021 12:31 PM (Ez6QX)

Wouldn't you just love to know the endorsement deal she signed with them and then have it compared to other male athletes? She'd probably keep her carpet licker shut but you could almost certainly stir her fans into a rage.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (G2zl5)

278 228 Hamas killed a Homosexual Leader for having gay sex. Where is the LBQRTDHJINFDESCNMUYG community uproar ???
Posted by: James at May 19, 2021 12:53 PM (yVV7Q)

(taps his GAS-meter) Nope. Nothing.

Question: how did Yasser Arafat get away with that crap then?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (YqDXo)

279 Probably should have saved that for the food thread.

Posted by: bluebell at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (wyw4S)

280 Women hold up half the sky and about 6 cars because they do not like the right turn on RED.
Posted by: rhennigantx

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Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this.

Posted by: 496 at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (U1eOr)

281 Harry, the Idiot formerly a prince

==

if I may , Harry the Idiot, formerly HRH Prince idiot.

Posted by: runner at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (V13WU)

282 275 Yeah, a Prog-majority SCOTUS would rule the 1A does not permit public statements that are "intentional disinformation that could lead to the public being harmfully misled about medical and political topics." Or something like that.
Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (AMIL/)

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"Did SCOTUS just create a whole new Department of DisInformation?"

"I'm not sure..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

283 Indeed. I make this point a lot to idiots who try to portray our system as being humane.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 12:59 PM (Uh2oA)

Live under the threat of the cartels. Owe you half assed job to the company that can deport you at will.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (yrol0)

284 Women hold up half the sky and about 6 cars because they do not like the right turn on RED.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (yrol0)

LOL

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (Uh2oA)

285 But girl pole vaulting is awesome, am I right?

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (iTXRQ)

286 I just wish "Women would hold up half the Republic" can we just have them do that?

Posted by: Archer at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (gmo/4)

287 BP admits to intercepting a record number of illegals crossing the southern border in April -- over 170,000.

And remember, only about 10% of the people crossing get intercepted and counted by BP, so the real numbers are astronomical.

But yeah, don't call it a "surge" because that might offend some leftist. Call it a tsunami instead.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (k4dH2)

288 The kicks are 1/2 the power of a male kicking. The dribbling is laughable. Corner kicks barely make it to the goal area.

Which is odd, because women can kick really hard, their lower body strength isn't much different than men's.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

289 But girl pole vaulting is awesome, am I right?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:01 PM (iTXRQ)

Yes

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (ifmtJ)

290 George C. Scott was a good Scrooge...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (LvTSG)

291 287 BP admits to intercepting a record number of illegals crossing the southern border in April -- over 170,000.

And remember, only about 10% of the people crossing get intercepted and counted by BP, so the real numbers are astronomical.

But yeah, don't call it a "surge" because that might offend some leftist. Call it a tsunami instead.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (k4dH2)

Look on the bright side here. The eventual breakaway narco-states are destabilizing to the enemy regime.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 01:03 PM (z5Vrg)

292 288 The kicks are 1/2 the power of a male kicking. The dribbling is laughable. Corner kicks barely make it to the goal area.

Which is odd, because women can kick really hard, their lower body strength isn't much different than men's.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

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Proportionally? Because women's legs tend to be shorter than those of men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:03 PM (LvTSG)

293 I just wish "Women would hold up half the Republic" can we just have them do that?

Some of them kinda do, depending on how you define "hold up"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:03 PM (KZzsI)

294 I would define "the press" under the First Amendment as printed publications wholly owned by residents of the cities in which they are published. No conglomerates.

Other forms of expression would still be protected as speech under the 1st, but the special protection Ace mentioned should only be extended to entities described above.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at May 19, 2021 01:03 PM (0V/8D)

295 261 Lori Lightfoot. That's one scary looking dude right there.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (CcOog)

Back on her home planet she's considered to be a looker.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (YqDXo)

296 Because women's legs tend to be shorter than those of men.

There might be something to that. Plus you don't only kick with your legs. I know that sounds crazy, but its like how you don't only throw with your arms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (KZzsI)

297 288
Which is odd, because women can kick really hard, their lower body strength isn't much different than men's.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

Their hips are different. Could be mechanically related like that, or related to having more difficulty building muscle mass.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (z5Vrg)

298 "There's a saying we use in a different context, a Chinese saying, it says, 'Women hold up half the world.'"

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So...wives taking forever to get ready for a dinner-date is a global constant...?

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (+hPIb)

299 Back on her home planet she's considered to be a looker.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I've been to Massillon OH. You're right.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (Rvt88)

300 Lori Lightfoot seems to be aggressively attempting to look as strange and unattractive as possible. She doesn't have to look like a balding bug-eyed alien, but she chooses to emphasize all those features.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (KZzsI)

301 I just wish "Women would hold up half the Republic" can we just have them do that?

Know why women excel at anthropology?
Because they excel at digging up the past.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (OCTRt)

302 So...wives taking forever to get ready for a dinner-date is a global constant...?
Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock

"Okay, I'm ready!"

Still 20 minutes until the car pulls out of the garage.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (Rvt88)

303 Women hold up half the sky and about 6 cars because they do not like the right turn on RED.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (yrol0)

They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (YqDXo)

304 You think that Jacob Marley was visited by a spirit that he just ignored?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

305 I've always liked "Power flows from the barrel of a gun"
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (z5Vrg)

Yep. Truth stated by an evil man is still truth.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:06 PM (ifmtJ)

306 What national woman's soccer team was found to be composed of nearly, if not all, of men. Some islamic country a the were entirely covered except for faces.

Posted by: Javems at May 19, 2021 01:06 PM (8SSHh)

307 Working in the media is a slog. For the most part, salaries are fairly low. So the reporters, producers, writers et al, are usually from fairly well to do families who subsidize their kiddos till they make it to the bigs. Radio and TV in the early days drew most of their staff from the print media, who at least usually had a local connection to the market they where employed in and had a stake in the dumb asserie that was and is local politics. There is a lot more, but I don't want this to sound like a dissertation...

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 01:06 PM (r1z5A)

308 295 261 Lori Lightfoot. That's one scary looking dude right there.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 19, 2021 12:58 PM (CcOog)

Back on her home planet she's considered to be a looker.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (YqDXo)

I am Groot.

Posted by: Groot at May 19, 2021 01:06 PM (mdjgu)

309 You are a really dull class, he said. I mean, come on man, is the sun getting to you? I would think youd have an opportunity when I say that about the Navy to clap.

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (yrol0)

310 308 I am Groot.
Posted by: Groot at May 19, 2021 01:06 PM (mdjgu)

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I bet this is canon, but can Groot also only write "I am Groot"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (LvTSG)

311 You think that Jacob Marley was visited by a spirit that he just ignored?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

*Blinks*

Maybe? There are no hard and fast rules for the supernatural, who gets a second chance and who doesn't. Life is unfair.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (ifmtJ)

312 The kicks are 1/2 the power of a male kicking. The dribbling is laughable. Corner kicks barely make it to the goal area.
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Which is odd, because women can kick really hard, their lower body strength isn't much different than men's.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

Guess it depends on what they're kicking. And "lower body strength" is a relative term, that obviously depends on WHAT part of the lower body is under discussion.

When my daughter was younger, I took her to soccer games played by an older girl who was playing high school ball, and was offered a major university scholarship. I had hoped my daughter would take some interest in athletics. Unfortunately I think the experience backfired, because gameplay was terrible and boring and featured maybe one or two girls on the field at a time with any skill. The rest were... well, they played like girls.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (ilonU)

313 "Ok, I'll hold up half the sky. Just give me a minute to get ready."

*Sky falls*

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (kTF2Z)

314 311 You think that Jacob Marley was visited by a spirit that he just ignored?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

*Blinks*

Maybe? There are no hard and fast rules for the supernatural, who gets a second chance and who doesn't. Life is unfair.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (ifmtJ)

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Watching Scott's A Christmas Carol while dealing with a slow afternoon at work. Thoughts be bouncin'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (LvTSG)

315 I bet this is canon, but can Groot also only write "I am Groot"?

What would be funny is if he wrote like 72 books of poetry and literature but nobody knew about it until they catch him with a quill in his hand.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (KZzsI)

316 Women hold up half the sky and about 6 cars because they do not like the right turn on RED.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (yrol0)

They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (YqDXo)

Aldi shopping FTW!

Posted by: Catherine at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (41zFX)

317 Without knowing Israel's strategery and operational check-list, hard to say how they should react to Biden's idiotic behavior.

But Bibi surely realizes Israel is now essentially in the position against which it planned, as a prudent worst-case approach, with the collapse of the US. Possible that such planning didn't include the broad and deep rapprochement with the Sunni Arab states that is now part of the picture, so that's a plus.

But now we will have 4 fucking years of these idiot children actively enabling Iran and its proxies. I see no reason for Israel to go through the kabuki as though this is 1973-2020 any longer (even with the ups/downs along that way).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 19, 2021 01:09 PM (OTzUX)

318 Former President George W. Bush paints portraits of immigrants to 'change the tone' of immigration debate

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:09 PM (iTXRQ)

319 Watching Scott's A Christmas Carol while dealing with a slow afternoon at work. Thoughts be bouncin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (LvTSG)

Nobody could sell 'bah, humbug' like Scott. Love that version.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (ifmtJ)

320 I think women should chime in with what chuckleheads men are here when we start complaining, its not like we aren't idiots or anything. Instead of just being really quiet or leaving the thread.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

321 I ran into a Palestinian vehicle parade on Sunday, lots of feral-looking maniacs waving the flag of their imaginary country while hanging out the windows of their Audis, Beemers and Benzes.

I'm not sure who their protest is aimed at or what they want us to do. But if they truly think Israel "stole" their country, shouldn't they go back and try to steal it back?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (HrMC1)

322 319 Watching Scott's A Christmas Carol while dealing with a slow afternoon at work. Thoughts be bouncin'.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (LvTSG)

Nobody could sell 'bah, humbug' like Scott. Love that version.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (ifmtJ)

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My first time. He's a damn fine actor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

323 320 I think women should chime in with what chuckleheads men are here when we start complaining, its not like we aren't idiots or anything. Instead of just being really quiet or leaving the thread.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

They're doing that passive aggressive thing. Doesn't work so well on the internet as it turns out.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (z5Vrg)

324 Men who claim to be women in order to play womens sports are just weenies. They couldn't cut it in the mens sports so they might as well mop up the opposition as a man pretending to be a woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (k39e/)

325 315 I bet this is canon, but can Groot also only write "I am Groot"?

What would be funny is if he wrote like 72 books of poetry and literature but nobody knew about it until they catch him with a quill in his hand.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (KZzsI)

...

When it is time for Groot to transition, he will be permitted to say "I am girl"

Posted by: TexasDan at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (ohOLP)

326 I bet this is canon, but can Groot also only write "I am Groot"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:07 PM (LvTSG)

I would assume writing isn't in his skill set.

When he poops, is it everything BUT fiber?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (ilonU)

327 They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at

Don't forget being surprised that they have to pay once the groceries are scanned. Followed by 5 minutes finding the correct card and pin number.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (q2jCh)

328 It's all right, CRT. I know they're just joking with us.

Right, boys? RIGHT?????

Posted by: bluebell at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (wyw4S)

329 >They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay

my favorite is when you're behind Grandma in line and she slowly and methodically goes thru her coin purse to pay in exact change

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (iTXRQ)

330 320 I think women should chime in with what chuckleheads men are here when we start complaining, its not like we aren't idiots or anything. Instead of just being really quiet or leaving the thread.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

Lol!

Posted by: Emmie at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (ofYez)

331 Nobody could sell 'bah, humbug' like Scott. Love that version.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (ifmtJ)

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My first time. He's a damn fine actor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

Yep. He really sells Scrooge as a real person, with a brain and his own mind....I'm almost sympathizing with him in the first half.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (ifmtJ)

332 Nobody could sell 'bah, humbug' like Scott. Love that version.

Its my favorite. The scariest one is the older B/W one with Alistair Sim. Although Scrooged is a favorite of mine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (KZzsI)

333 They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Last week I had the unfortunate luck to be behind two tweakers who seemed to having an awful hard time with their stolen card...took them like 10 minutes to figure out they weren't getting any cash back.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (r1z5A)

334 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (kTF2Z)

335 318 Former President George W. Bush paints portraits of immigrants to 'change the tone' of immigration debate
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:09 PM (iTXRQ)

Juan the Roofer
Jorge the Mower

Posted by: uncle handsy Joe at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (yrol0)

336 292 288 The kicks are 1/2 the power of a male kicking. The dribbling is laughable. Corner kicks barely make it to the goal area.

Which is odd, because women can kick really hard, their lower body strength isn't much different than men's.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

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Proportionally? Because women's legs tend to be shorter than those of men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:03 PM (LvTSG)

There's a reason females aren't place kickers or punters on big college and pro football teams, and it has nothing to do with discrimination against females.

Posted by: Gref at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (AMIL/)

337 331 My first time. He's a damn fine actor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

Yep. He really sells Scrooge as a real person, with a brain and his own mind....I'm almost sympathizing with him in the first half.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 19, 2021 01:11 PM (ifmtJ)

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Half of the outrageous stuff said by Scrooge, played meanly in every other version, come out as jokes with Scott. He's the only one laughing, of course, but it really helps humanize him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (LvTSG)

338 They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (YqDXo)

This, but also the excavation of the money or card to simply make the purchase. It doesn't occur to them to have it ready. They wait until the final item is tallied. Only then do they dig. Inside the purse, inside the inside purse, inside the plastic sleeve.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (h+3Ux)

339 I think women should chime in with what chuckleheads men are here when we start complaining, its not like we aren't idiots or anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Chest thumpers and guys that are always in a dick measuring contest are not Morons.

But us BSers are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (Rvt88)

340 I think women should chime in with what chuckleheads men are here when we start complaining, its not like we aren't idiots or anything. Instead of just being really quiet or leaving the thread.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

I will do that as soon as they complain about something untrue. My female friends are not of the woke or mainstream variety for a reason.

Posted by: Catherine at May 19, 2021 01:12 PM (41zFX)

341 News organizations get heightened First Amendment protections

Do they? I thought that all citizens have the same First Amendment rights.

I mean, sure, some have their rights violated but I was unaware that there is any case law granting "official" press status to some and not others.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 19, 2021 01:13 PM (yQpMk)

342 There's a reason females aren't place kickers or punters on big college and pro football teams, and it has nothing to do with discrimination against females.

That's a lie, Kathy Ireland was one of the best kickers in football!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 19, 2021 01:13 PM (KZzsI)

343 Men who claim to be women in order to play womens sports are just weenies. They couldn't cut it in the mens sports so they might as well mop up the opposition as a man pretending to be a woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (k39e/)

The silliest is that 40 something year old dude who's dominating wimminz basketball. I mean, good grief, the thought has occurred to me, if I got into better shape, which sport might I compete in, as a woman?

Might be fun. For me. No one wants to see me in women's clothing (athletic or otherwise), but slap a little makeup on me, I could pass.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 01:13 PM (ilonU)

344 316 Women hold up half the sky and about 6 cars because they do not like the right turn on RED.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 19, 2021 01:00 PM (yrol0)

They also hold up lines in grocery stores as they fumble through 50 coupons, looking for the right one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:05 PM (YqDXo)

Aldi shopping FTW!
Posted by: Catherine at May 19, 2021 01:08 PM (41zFX)

Recently I had to get a document notarized. Two women were ahead of me, getting some agreement between them notarized. When the notary turned up, before one of them would sign the document, she stood there and read Every. Effing. Page. of the document, as though she'd never seen it before. And this, after the two women had stood chatting for 5-10 minutes while they waited for the notary. Apparently, the idea of reading the document THEN had not occurred to one of them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:14 PM (YqDXo)

345 There's a reason females aren't place kickers or
punters on big college and pro football teams, and it has nothing to do
with discrimination against females.

Posted by: Gref

HEY! There was that girl last year whose kick made it all the way to the 20!

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at May 19, 2021 01:14 PM (r1z5A)

346 Hah. It was the Iranians. Eight members of the women's soccer team were men "awaiting" sex change...https://tinyurl.com/pexr9edc

Posted by: Javems at May 19, 2021 01:15 PM (8SSHh)

347 My wife complains about the old men at the grocery store walking slow right in the middle of the aisle.
My wife grocery shops like a marine battalion taking a beach - on a mission. Although she never served.

Posted by: Archer at May 19, 2021 01:16 PM (gmo/4)

348 343 Men who claim to be women in order to play womens sports are just weenies. They couldn't cut it in the mens sports so they might as well mop up the opposition as a man pretending to be a woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 19, 2021 01:10 PM (k39e/)

The silliest is that 40 something year old dude who's dominating wimminz basketball. I mean, good grief, the thought has occurred to me, if I got into better shape, which sport might I compete in, as a woman?

Might be fun. For me. No one wants to see me in women's clothing (athletic or otherwise), but slap a little makeup on me, I could pass.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 19, 2021 01:13 PM (ilonU)

You know, my driver's license lists my sex as "F." For 20 years I've tried to correct that, but every time the new license says "F."

Idea ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

349 You know, my driver's license lists my sex as "F." For 20 years I've tried to correct that, but every time the new license says "F."

Idea ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

...

This would make a great comedy sketch, and would get all the people in the sketch cancelled.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 19, 2021 01:18 PM (ohOLP)

350 Former President George W. Bush paints portraits of immigrants to 'change the tone' of immigration debate
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:09 PM (iTXRQ)

LOL the tone

Plus they're still calling it plain old "immigration"

That rat bastard shitstain

Posted by: ... at May 19, 2021 01:19 PM (vS7Dx)

351 My wife complains about the old men at the grocery store walking slow right in the middle of the aisle.

My favorite is people who park their carts on one side of the aisle, then, holding onto the cart reach for stuff on the other side of the aisle.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:20 PM (YqDXo)

352 Former President George W. Bush paints portraits of immigrants to 'change the tone' of immigration debate
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 19, 2021 01:09 PM (iTXRQ)

"Wanted" posters?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 19, 2021 01:21 PM (YqDXo)

353 Their [women's] hips are different.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 19, 2021 01:04 PM (z5Vrg)

Yes they are. They most certainly are. And ladies -- we like 'em that way!!!!!

Posted by: Doof at May 19, 2021 01:24 PM (mZUr4)

354 Journalism is about covering important stories.
With a pillow, until they stop moving

Posted by: gilbar at May 19, 2021 01:41 PM (A4WXu)

355 You know, my driver's license lists my sex as "F." For 20 years I've tried to correct that, but every time the new license says "F."

Idea ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Is there an olympics spot you'd be interested in

Posted by: Jean at May 19, 2021 01:47 PM (yIJFm)

356 "Put on the train", taken to the "camps"--so cute.
Love to have some beknighted simp tell me I'd have to do either. We'd have a daisy of a time.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 19, 2021 02:06 PM (KATBx)

357 News organizations get heightened First Amendment protections, which,
among other things, essentially permit them to defame public figures
without consequence.
That's not true. Some early decisions following NYT v. Sullivan suggested it might be, but recent SCOTUS decisions reject any special privilege for news organizations.
Citizens United v. FEC:
There is no precedent supporting laws that attempt to distinguish
between corporations which are deemed to be exempt as media corporations
and those which are not. We have consistently rejected the proposition
that the institutional press has any constitutional privilege beyond
that of other speakers.
(Quotation marks and citation omitted.)

Posted by: MJW at May 19, 2021 02:47 PM (uRRpl)

358 The Anarchist Press(AP) hiding the truth like they always do

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 19, 2021 05:10 PM (FLiOE)

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