The Morning Rant

I normally just do screen-grabs of tweets rather than the tweets themselves, but I'm making an exception in this case because you have to look at the insanity in the thread:

I've been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in the American South.

If 2022 goes poorly, Evangelicals will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again.

Wake up.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) June 4, 2021

I'm scratching my head over what this idiot thinks is going to happen. The Democrats own both Houses of Congress and the Executive. He must think his team is going to get shellacked in the midterms. But if that happens, Biden's handlers will put the veto pen in his hand.

Progressives have been hyperventilating about the menace of the "far right" in this country since, oh, I don't know, the Nixon era. Maybe earlier. For decades, I've heard them issue dire warnings about the evil KKKristianist theocracy about to be imposed on the country. We're always just one short step away from Gilead.

Progressives actually believe this. Read the replies in the Twitter thread. They're completely insane. You'll feel like you've stumbled upon a bunch of rainbow-hued commies huddled around a campfire, roasting mashmallows for their s'mores and telling each other scary horror stories of the Coming Theocratic Apocalypse.

And this while they dominate the federal government, most big-city governments, the media, academia, entertainment, the arts, etc.

They actually believe our side controls the culture. I've read one of them claim that academia is "right-wing".

They actually believe that their side is powerless and oppressed.

Hells bells, even if the progressives controlled 99.9% of the country, they would still be crying like little bitches about how oppressed they are.

The mere existence of *one* dissenting voice, however small and faint, is completely intolerable to them.

It's not for nothing they're called snowflakes. They are emotionally and psychologically fragile, and many of them can only cope with life with the aid of anti-depressant and anti-psychotic medications.

Take "pride" month, for example. Why is it even necessary? It seems condescending somehow, rather like patting a 3-year-old toddler on the head and saying "my, what a big boy you are!" If someone has to keep telling you that you're wonderful, you're not wonderful.

But I suppose it's all of a piece with their "even though we own 99.9%, it's not enough" complaint. They trying to shout down the opposition. But I think what many of them are actually trying to shout down are their own consciences.

To them, we are the tell-tale heart beating beneath the floorboards:

Buh-BUM!
Buh-BUM!
Buh-BUM!
Buh-BUM!

Stunning & Brave:

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Wednesday Who Dis: AnnaSophia Robb and Joshua Jackson both star in the new Hulu true crime miniseries Dr. Death

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King Crab Legs in garlic butter!!!! pic.twitter.com/38gRQFDWcl
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Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:18 AM

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:18 AM (LvTSG)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:18 AM (JUOKG)

3 Man those crab legs look good.

Posted by: 496 at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (U1eOr)

4 Monkey!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (EjmvJ)

5 Not first!

And now I want crab legs in garlic butter.

Oh, well.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (m+jkK)

6 I dunno their names, but I think both of our mystery guests were in the 1960s TV series The Champions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (/XOcP)

7 Corgis called.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (EjmvJ)

8 This is why I don't carry a firearm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2021 10:20 AM (W2Pud)

9 Gorilla Pundit!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:21 AM (uxJPn)

10 Huh, those are soap opera people, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:21 AM (bDqIh)

11 6 I dunno their names, but I think both of our mystery guests were in the 1960s TV series The Champions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (/XOcP)

You are correct, sir! I'm impressed. That series only lasted, what, one or two years?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:21 AM (l9W6q)

12 8 This is why I don't carry a firearm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2021 10:20 AM (W2Pud)

I know! Batshit crazy, isn't it?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:22 AM (l9W6q)

13 Read the content and now I want king crab legs. And butter. And garlic.

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2021 10:22 AM (C9n84)

14 False prophet pastor is saying that like it's a BAD thing...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:22 AM (uxJPn)

15 10 Huh, those are soap opera people, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:21 AM (bDqIh)

British.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:22 AM (l9W6q)

16 Thank you OregonMuse/

You had people doing their best, but I'm so glad you are back.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2021 10:23 AM (u82oZ)

17 I'm thinking the preachers isn't all xe says he is.
Just a guess...but...no.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2021 10:23 AM (axyOa)

18 Willowed

I think Kimmel affected the ocare repeal effort. He motivated a lot of Dems to fight it and scared a lot of RINOs out of it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 10:13 AM (DlG3S)

The failure to repeal Gaylordcare belongs 100% to Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:24 AM (y7DUB)

19 Willowed

I'm reading that SCOTUS just handed down a unanimous ruling on an illegal alien case and ruled against the illegal alien.

Progress.
Posted by: WisRich at June 07, 2021 10:12 AM (G0vdT)

Doesn't make up for their other ruling that disallowed a deportation because the notice did not meet requirements. They sent the notice too many times. WTF?

Posted by: Just a side note at June 07, 2021 10:24 AM (2DOZq)

20 Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2021 10:23 AM (u82oZ)

Thank you, you're very kind.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (l9W6q)

21 Is today's 'who dis' chick's fucking lips broken? Not one smile or at least a facial expression that doesn't look like she just ate a toad?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (uxJPn)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Related: The Fauci votive candle.

https://bit.ly/3cofXMw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (d9FiS)

24 OM! Good to see ya.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

25 The failure to repeal Gaylordcare belongs 100% to Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:24 AM (y7DUB)

McConnell deserves more of the blame. Ryan got it passed through the House, only to have McCain kill it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (jOcSX)

26 Kid is out of surgery. Everything went well and she's high as a kite, currently.

LOL.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

27 John Pavlovitz would have been in favor of the results of the Fourth Crusade, had he lived in the early 13th Century.

Best of luck with recounting your "good" works here on the earth to your Creator in the hereafter.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (TNyrE)

28 I dunno their names, but I think both of our mystery guests were in the 1960s TV series The Champions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (/XOcP)

You are correct, sir! I'm impressed. That series only lasted, what, one or two years?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021

***
I didn't think it was even that long. My dim memory says it was a mid-season replacement show, and only ran about 12 episodes, but IMDb says they ran a full year, 30 episodes, 1968 to 1969. So it was contemporary with Trek.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (/XOcP)

29 No idea who the chick is, but the guy looks really familiar. I can't place him though.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (Ez6QX)

30 Preacher starts to make an interesting point then misses it completely.

If everyone really is treated equally, they aren't going to like not being special.

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (C9n84)

31 Who Dis is Nancy Kulp and Carl Sagan.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (PiwSw)

32 This is why I don't carry a firearm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2021 10:20 AM

I carry every day. This stuff is why I am also a gold member of the USCCA. If I ever have to draw I have their 24 hour number in my wallet. I would recommend them or one of the other similar companies to any who carries.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (JUOKG)

33 25 The failure to repeal Gaylordcare belongs 100% to Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:24 AM (y7DUB)

McConnell deserves more of the blame. Ryan got it passed through the House, only to have McCain kill it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (jOcSX)

========

It helps that he had McCain, who decided to fuck over the right because they get Trump elected.

Because McCain was an honorable man dedicated to principles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (LvTSG)

34 I sure that "preacher" is coming out this month and this is his way to support the Biden white supremecist, Christian hate meme.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (xEIoY)

35 Huh, those are soap opera people, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021

***
I think the guy was a regular on one of our soaps. General Hospital or something? Not sure.

She looks like one of the many blonde Italian starlets of the time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (/XOcP)

36 Read the wiki bio on John Pavlovitz. He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

37 Ripped from today's headlines!

Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready, and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organisation based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team: investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (d9FiS)

38 The Democrats controlled all three levels of the gov since the FDR days and FDR added SCOTUS to their control. We have just now got SCOTUS back but even the Republican nominees are shifting left like they always do when they get on the court.

And look where they have driven the country.

Posted by: Vic at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (mpXpK)

39 Ape in the morning > blurry boats

Posted by: Sock Monkey * canis canem edit at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (vkzpV)

40 McConnell deserves more of the blame. Ryan got it passed through the House, only to have McCain kill it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM

It was not mcconnell, it was mccain, murkowski and collins, they sided with democrats.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (JUOKG)

41 Kid is out of surgery. Everything went well and she's high as a kite, currently.

LOL.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

Oh, I missed it, what did she have surgery for?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (Ez6QX)

42 This is why I don't carry a firearm.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2021 10:20 AM (W2Pud)

Same here. It would be a Hobson's choice between blowing other people's heads off in rigteous anger or my own in utter despair.

NOTICE: This is not a post wherin I am contemplating suicide. It is for illustrative purposes only. When I do have the gas pipe in my mouth, you will know.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (2JVJo)

43 Take your violent imagery somewhere else. [CBD]

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (/MaDp)

44 28 I dunno their names, but I think both of our mystery guests were in the 1960s TV series The Champions.

***

I didn't think it was even that long. My dim memory says it was a
mid-season replacement show, and only ran about 12 episodes, but IMDb
says they ran a full year, 30 episodes, 1968 to 1969. So it was
contemporary with Trek.
i hear that the theme song, "we are the champions", went on to become a big hit, though.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (v3pYe)

45 Jesus warns us repeatedly of false prophets. I think Mr Pavlovitz qualifies .

Posted by: Just a side note at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (2DOZq)

46 The actor is a soap guy, Days maybe?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (xEIoY)

47 Whoever the actress is, she does not look happay. In any picture.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (u82oZ)

48 The mere existence of *one* dissenting voice, however small and faint, is completely intolerable to them.
Your comment makes me feel unsafe. Nazi.

Posted by: pep at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (v16oJ)

49 17 I'm thinking the preachers isn't all xe says he is.
Just a guess...but...no.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2021 10:23 AM (axyOa)

The pastor is Unitarian. In my book, I'm not sure that even qualifies as Christian.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 07, 2021 10:30 AM (mdjgu)

50 Can't wait for this to go hot. Pick you're targets wisely.

... and serpentine!

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2021 10:30 AM (C9n84)

51 This is why I don't carry a firearm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 07, 2021 10:20 AM

I carry every day. This stuff is why I am also a gold member of the USCCA. If I ever have to draw I have their 24 hour number in my wallet. I would recommend them or one of the other similar companies to any who carries.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:26 AM (JUOKG)

Not an option for Nurse or me, unfortunately.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:30 AM (Ez6QX)

52 John Pavlovitz is not in any sense Christian. He represents the far Left only.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:30 AM (6Je/Q)

53 The failure to repeal Gaylordcare belongs 100% to Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:24 AM (y7DUB)

McConnell deserves more of the blame. Ryan got it passed through the House, only to have McCain kill it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (jOcSX)

Ryan sat on his dead ass, more concerned with Russian collusion and an ethics investigation of Devin Nunes, instead of resubmitting what Gaylord vetoed. What he and Turtle came up with was so fucking inferior I can't blame McCain for turning thumbs down other than the high profile way it was done.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (y7DUB)

54 Read the wiki bio on John Pavlovitz. He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.
Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

So an Atheist.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (2DOZq)

55 Hells bells, even if the progressives controlled 99.9% of the country, they would still be crying like little bitches about how oppressed they are.

Panic porn is effective and addictive.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * canis canem edit at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (vkzpV)

56 25 The failure to repeal Gaylordcare belongs 100% to Paul Ryan.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:24 AM (y7DUB)

McConnell deserves more of the blame. Ryan got it passed through the House, only to have McCain kill it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:25 AM (jOcSX)

Ryan didn't resubmit it after McCain died. Because they knew McCain would vote against it and it was failure theater. Proving the people that screamed how the republicans in the House voted to repeal Obamacare dozens of times between 2010-2016 were wrong for attacking those that said the GOP in DC didn't want to repeal it, but just look like they were trying.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (G2zl5)

57 This makes me want to rant, but why bother? It's from "crunchycon" Rod Dreher in response to that white-hating Yale psychiatrist:

I don't ever want to see Donald Trump again. He had these people's number, in a way, but he did little or nothing effective to stop them. I want to vote for a presidential candidate who will move against these dirtbags and their institutions without mercy. Enough is enough. I'm not sure what can be done, but if we keep tolerating this, there is going to be violence, one way or another. I am not willing to sit here and listen to these aristocrats like Dr. Khilanani, and malignant institutions like Yale, turn people against me, my children, and my neighbors, because we are white.

https://tinyurl.com/9y769x7a

Oh, NOW you want a dirtbag? Please, name one social media dirtbag you've stood up for when they got suspended - Nick Fuentes, Lara Loomer, Michelle Malkin, Stephen Molyneaux, anyone? That's because you have no courage to support the type of person who would say the nonconciliatory, sometimes awful things to fight back against the Left.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (bDqIh)

58 I'm thinking the preachers isn't all xe says he is.
Just a guess...but...no.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2021 10:23 AM (axyOa)

I was an idiot and checked out that thread. Would you believe he is the least whacked-out clown on it? I wish we really were going to institute a Christian theocratic state, to give these fucking snowflakes a good, hard taste of TRUE tyranny.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (2JVJo)

59 Whoever the actress is, she does not look happay. In any picture.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (u82oZ)

See! It's not just me!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (uxJPn)

60 Man those crab legs look good.
Posted by: 496 at June 07, 2021 10:19 AM (U1eOr)

Gotta be almost as good as cicada butts in margarine.

And using the console in Brave, I managed to kill the annoying flashing banner ad on the main page. Ace gets more money from me, via the tip jar, than he would if I clicked on the damfool ads, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (t0Y57)

61 It was not mcconnell, it was mccain, murkowski and collins, they sided with democrats.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (JUOKG)

McConnell was the Majority Leader. That failure is on him. A key part of the job is getting the votes for these bills.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (jOcSX)

62 PAVLOV

I'm drooling.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (CWMF2)

63 Have a great day, everyone.

Chores await.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 07, 2021 10:33 AM (u82oZ)

64 Lizzy is correct, Rod Dreher eats ass. And so does Ed Driscoll, who posted that shit on Instapundit to troll the readers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:33 AM (uxJPn)

65 Ryan didn't resubmit it after McCain died. Because they knew McCain would vote against it and it was failure theater. Proving the people that screamed how the republicans in the House voted to repeal Obamacare dozens of times between 2010-2016 were wrong for attacking those that said the GOP in DC didn't want to repeal it, but just look like they were trying.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (G2zl5)

I never said Ryan doesn't deserve any blame. He should have resubmitted it after McCain died, and that's on him. But McConnell should never have allowed it to become the clusterfuck that it did because he didn't have control over the Senate GOP.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:33 AM (jOcSX)

66 Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (bDqIh)

I don't think he said he wanted a dirtbag. He wants someone who will do something about the dirtbags.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 07, 2021 10:34 AM (2DOZq)

67 >>Hells bells, even if the progressives controlled 99.9% of the country, they would still be crying like little bitches about how oppressed they are.

"They would never turn on us after they won, right?"
-- White Feminist Allies who are woker than anyone else

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:34 AM (bDqIh)

68 Read the wiki bio on John Pavlovitz. He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.
Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

A heathen Commie, then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 10:34 AM (t0Y57)

69 Among the various groups in America...political, religious, etc., if I were to choose a meeting where I would be confident that I would be welcomed as a Jew, and that Israel would be supported as a bastion of freedom, it would be a meeting of evangelicals.

I am deeply disappointed by many of my coreligionists who are catastrophically misinformed about evangelical Christianity.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (Q9lwr)

70 That Alaskan King Crab is my favorite part of a surf 'n turf meal.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (qZdIZ)

71 Rod Dreher is a cuck-faced piece of shit. He and the rest of the Never Trump crowd can burn in hell.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (jOcSX)

72 Looks like Stuart Damon. No clue who the girl is

Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (gLRfa)

73 61 McConnell was the Majority Leader. That failure is on him. A key part of the job is getting the votes for these bills.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (jOcSX)

==========

That we regularly have 3-4 iffy votes on signature legislation is a problem with leadership.

"This is legislation that will positively affect the country and make it easier for our side to win elections in the future because of its positive effects. If you lose your next election, that's fine. We'll have a spot for you somewhere in the RNC. Just vote the right way, and we'll take care of you."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (LvTSG)

74 oh yum King crab laigs!!

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (DJFLF)

75 A heathen Commie, then.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 10:34 AM (t0Y57)

Say what you will about the tenets of Marxist-Leninism, at least it's an ethos.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (6FeV1)

76 McConnell was the Majority Leader. That failure is on him. A key part of the job is getting the votes for these bills.
How exactly? McCain was a dead man walking, and I'm sure Collins and Murk have let it be known that any retribution directed at them will result in their immediate conversion to Democrat. I'm not saying he shouldn't have done it, only that it probably wouldn't have worked.

Posted by: pep at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (v16oJ)

77 46 The actor is a soap guy, Days maybe?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 10:29 AM (xEIoY)

GH, I think.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (l9W6q)

78 Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (bDqIh)

Dreher was and is an NR asshoe who fought Trump tooth and nail for four years because he thought Trump lacked dignity and was a mean, mean man. I guarantee you that had Trump actually done what Dreher claims he wants now, that nickelfucker would have been on the rhetorical ramparts screaming that Trump was an authoritarian bully and cooler heads needed to prevail.

There are a metric fuckton of people I want serious bodily harm to come to. Dreher is on the list.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (2JVJo)

79 I wish we really were going to institute a Christian theocratic state, to give these fucking snowflakes a good, hard taste of TRUE tyranny.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 10:32 AM (2JVJo)

It would be a very nice one.

Posted by: Stonn at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (xP36F)

80 who dese looks like a couple of Euros

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (DJFLF)

81
Oh, I missed it, what did she have surgery for?
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (Ez6QX)

Wisdom teeth removed.

She's babbling in the living room currently......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

82 So many false shepherds in churches. It is a sign of God's mercy that they haven't been struck by lightning.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (2xza5)

83 Odd thought about the 'who dis' lady: Lee Merriweather as a blonde.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (MIKMs)

84 You mentioned snowflakes so I will once again encourage everyone to at least support Tom MacDonald with a click on his latest "Snowflakes" on yoo-toob.

I spent too many hours watching "reaction videos" to his song and it was overwhelmingly "wow, he's right!" stuff.

Most of Snowflakes is stuff we already know and understand but Tom is taking it to millions who would otherwise never listen.

https://tinyurl.com/3fm3yd56

Posted by: Fool Otto at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (DB16e)

85 I want to vote for a presidential candidate who will move against these dirtbags and their institutions without mercy........................................A fair wish, but not a fair reading of the current state of play. Maybe Trump isn't the one who will go at them without mercy, but it is hard to find someone before Trump who would. As of now, DeSantis is the logical and only alternative choice, but his battles are easier than Trump's for many reasons.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (sX1BW)

86
That we regularly have 3-4 iffy votes on signature legislation is a problem with leadership.

Yup. This should have been an easy win, but because McConnell was too weak to control the caucus, the three in question were able to screw him over.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (jOcSX)

87 67 >>Hells bells, even if the progressives controlled 99.9% of the country, they would still be crying like little bitches about how oppressed they are.

"They would never turn on us after they won, right?"
-- White Feminist Allies who are woker than anyone else
Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:34 AM (bDqIh)

"They were right to turn on us. We deserve every bit of it."
-- White Feminist Allies a year from now, lustily cheering their demise to show they're still on the right side of history

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (KbCG3)

88 There's no accounting for taste but Insty is one of those sites I took off my bookmarks a long time ago.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (y7DUB)

89 69 Among the various groups in America...political, religious, etc., if I were to choose a meeting where I would be confident that I would be welcomed as a Jew, and that Israel would be supported as a bastion of freedom, it would be a meeting of evangelicals.

I am deeply disappointed by many of my coreligionists who are catastrophically misinformed about evangelical Christianity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (Q9lwr)

If you showed up at my SBC church on ANY given Sunday, you would get multiple offers of going out to lunch after service.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (6Je/Q)

90 >>I don't think he said he wanted a dirtbag. He wants someone who will do something about the dirtbags.

True, but in reality it takes someone who's willing to say things that will get them labeled as such by the Left. Trump is exhibit A. The type of fighter Rod imagines he wants will make him cringe, and he will denounce them as 'not one of us' and possibly a white supremacist.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (bDqIh)

91 Damn...the closest I'll get to having crab legs like that is licking the screen...which I just did.

Posted by: Tami at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (cF8AT)

92 I mentioned yesterday that I saw a nausea inducing commercial. A middle aged guy weeps as describes the loss of his husband (by death or abandonment is not clear). He then tells us that he's ready to move on giving us a Stuart Smalley-esque I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, dog gone it!, people like me self appraisal. Then he tells us that what he needs to jump start his search for love is Botox.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (d9FiS)

93 BTW, nurse, thank you for the seascape picture you sent me. I really needed it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (2JVJo)

94 82 So many false shepherds in churches. It is a sign of God's mercy that they haven't been struck by lightning.

No reason to waste a perfectly good lightening bolt... We have something better in mind

Posted by: Satan warming up hell at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (Zmnko)

95 I hated that the Left used the 'for the children' argument for Obamacare when CHIP has been available for decades . What's worse is I never heard anyone use that retort when arguing to repeal Obamacare.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (2DOZq)

96 36 Read the wiki bio on John Pavlovitz. He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.
Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

So he's not really a Christian, then?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (l9W6q)

97 Good news Sponge!

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:38 AM (Rvt88)

98 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 10:38 AM (arJlL)

99 I missed The Champions. I wonder if it was on TV where I lived back then?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (63Dwl)

100 Dreher is one of the Never Trumpers who are trying to worm their way back into positions of influence on the right now that they realize their grift is going away. They're going to start talking about how wonderful DeSantis is and how they always really supported him and blah blah blah.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (jOcSX)

101 Then he tells us that what he needs to jump start his search for love is Botox.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM

Dafuq?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (m+jkK)

102 Weird how eating insects gets an instant "yuck!" but if you put insects underwater, people can't get enough of them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (E+OcO)

103 Then he tells us that what he needs to jump start his search for love is Botox.
Yup, a dead face and few wrinkles is the bedrock of every solid relationship.

Posted by: pep at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (v16oJ)

104 "They actually believe our side controls the culture. I've read one of them claim that academia is "right-wing".

imo "we" still have the majority of culture (for certain values of "we" that include basic Christian beliefs, including our Bill of Rights).

Good article on Lincoln linked by JJ. I have some "lamentations" over the destruction of federalism that (in certain ways) happened under Lincoln's hand .. but that article points out many good things, set in that time frame, for "individual rights".

One thing though, Lincoln made a deal with the private railways, that gave the North advantages against the South ... but to the extent that was fine, for "defeating slavery" -- It did establish a "conglomerate of power" that requires government as a check.

Fast forward to our fed gov today, giving our tech to Google/Facebook in exchange for certain advantages (spying/tracking/control) over our freedoms. They united against We the People, instead of for a more noble "Free the Slaves" cause. (as in that "anti-future" comic above)

Lincoln article https://tinyurl.com/5f6nv8a9

Posted by: illiniwek at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (Cus5s)

105 Good news Sponge!
Posted by: Tonypete

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (arJlL)

106 He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.

LOL. I was just about to say that he's an heretic.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (xopIz)

107 Wisdom teeth removed.

She's babbling in the living room currently......
Posted by: Sponge

Glad everything came out ok. Pun intended.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (OCTRt)

108 Crab legs aren't Kosher are they? Oh well, doesn't matter, you'd be welcome in our church too.

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (C9n84)

109 Having visited a couple of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meeting places, I say they are really just Progressive social clubs, after all.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (6Je/Q)

110 OT yet not OT:

Has an intrepid reporter asked Kamala if she actually WANTS to reduce the flow of illegal migrants to the US?

Of course the answer is "no" but it would be interesting to watch her handle that one with double-talk and cackle.

Posted by: Zek at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (5RTdG)

111 I mentioned yesterday that I saw a nausea inducing commercial. A middle aged guy weeps as describes the loss of his husband (by death or abandonment is not clear). He then tells us that he's ready to move on giving us a Stuart Smalley-esque I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, dog gone it!, people like me self appraisal. Then he tells us that what he needs to jump start his search for love is Botox.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (d9FiS)

Maybe his "husband" skipped because he got all wrinkly in the wrong places. Shoulda used Viagra.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (t0Y57)

112 Good news Sponge!
Posted by: Tonypete

Seconded !
Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 10:39 AM (arJlL)

Much appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)

113 They're going to start talking about how wonderful DeSantis is and how they always really supported him and blah blah blah.------------------------It would be a shame if we let the Dreher's of the world turn us against DeSantis. We don't have to choose a side between Trump and DeSantis right now. I'm rooting for both.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (sX1BW)

114 86
That we regularly have 3-4 iffy votes on signature legislation is a problem with leadership.

Yup. This should have been an easy win, but because McConnell was too weak to control the caucus, the three in question were able to screw him over.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (jOcSX)

==========

Seriously, how hard is, "Oh? You're thinking of voting against what I want? I guess you can act on your own in your next election. Oh, and by the way, I had all of your committee assignments stripped the second you walked through the door. You can't even bring the pork home now. Send in Romney, Collins. I'm done with you."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM (LvTSG)

115 92 I mentioned yesterday that I saw a nausea inducing commercial. A middle aged guy weeps as describes the loss of his husband (by death or abandonment is not clear). He then tells us that he's ready to move on giving us a Stuart Smalley-esque I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, dog gone it!, people like me self appraisal. Then he tells us that what he needs to jump start his search for love is Botox.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 10:37 AM (d9FiS)

So... a Botox commercial?

Not SNL?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM (l9W6q)

116
*Gorilla*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM (n+4am)

117 If there are 52 (or whatever) genders, why do transgenders HAVE TO play on cis-gender female sports teams?

You tell us it's a non-binary world, right?

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM (HCeRP)

118 Oh, I missed it, what did she have surgery for?
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (Ez6QX)

Wisdom teeth removed.

She's babbling in the living room currently......
Posted by: Sponge

Has she discovered the back of her hand yet? If not, point it out to her. Hours of fun.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM (Rvt88)

119 RE the rainbow alphabet being forced on the public...

I'm kind of a name geek, like to see when certain given names become popular, then inevitably decrease in use. Most names follow a trajectory of a slow rise and then a slow fall. Some make a quick jump due to a pop culture influence, such as "Michelle" suddenly popping when the Beatles released that song, or the name "Cora" becoming current as a result of the publication of The Last of the Mohicans.

I saw one exception, and that was the name, Caitlyn, which made a sudden serious drop in the year 2015. What occurred that year? Bruce Jenner declared he was transitioning and adopting the name Caitlyn. American moms were so turned off by that action that the name became radioactive wrt their little baby girls.

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM (DJFLF)

120
Who dis:

Margret Thatcher and Barry Goldwater!

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (K2SnJ)

121 Incurable insecurity and projection-based paranoia so common to the Left. Remember the crazed warnings about Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson back in the 70s and 80s? They reflexively impute terrors to conservatives and do so without the slightest consciousness of history and experience. Not one of them has bothered to reflect on how Trump did nothing that they predicted (such as cancelling the election, the same thing they predicted Bush would do).

In fact, the democrats are doing almost everything Trump was accused of doing and every republican was expected to do (e.g., trample civil liberties).

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (0XkJ8)

122 Has she discovered the back of her hand yet? If not, point it out to her. Hours of fun.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:41 AM

And be sure to sneak a few minutes of video to embarrass her with later.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (m+jkK)

123

🙏

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

124 've been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in the American South.

Yeah, yeah, Church of Marx. Got it.

He seems like one of those guys who joins an organization just to tear it down from the inside.

He really should join the FBI. His talents are being wasted.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (dWwl8)

125 So, no comments on the faceless Kamala cookies? Decorated with a pearl necklace and all?

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (C9n84)

126 That Pavlovitz guy must have an insatiable urge to sip penis every time someone rings a bell.

Posted by: Roy at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (uW3z1)

127 Yup. This should have been an easy win, but because McConnell was too weak to control the caucus, the three in question were able to screw him over.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (jOcSX)

Noticing that McConnell has pretty much kept his mouth shut ever since that dust up with Trump when Mitch sided with the loony left - I think that reek coming from him is fear. He knows he stepped in it and no one is going to forget.

Posted by: Boswell at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (5iUNf)

128 I never said Ryan doesn't deserve any blame. He should have resubmitted it after McCain died, and that's on him. But McConnell should never have allowed it to become the clusterfuck that it did because he didn't have control over the Senate GOP.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:33 AM (jOcSX)

Not to argue with either of you two but by the time McPlanecrash croaked wasn't Congress on one of their pre election don't do a fucking thing time outs? My argument has always been that Eddie Munster ran out the clock on repealing it by design.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:43 AM (y7DUB)

129 We'll take a few videos, against her will, but she's taken a couple and sent it to friends via Snapchat, I think.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

130 57
...Oh, NOW you want a dirtbag? Please, name one social media dirtbag you've stood up for when they got suspended - Nick Fuentes, Lara Loomer, Michelle Malkin, Stephen Molyneaux, anyone? That's because you have no courage to support the type of person who would say the nonconciliatory, sometimes awful things to fight back against the Left.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:31 AM (bDqIh)

I read this over the weekend as well, and I'm glad you ranted about Dreher before I did. He's utterly useless. The whole time DJT was President, he hardly had a kind word to say about the man, so I put him in the NeverTrump category. *Now* the guy complains about the Deep State? As far as I'm concerned, he's a co-conspirator.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 07, 2021 10:43 AM (mdjgu)

131 If there are 52 (or whatever) genders, why do transgenders HAVE TO play on cis-gender female sports teams?

You tell us it's a non-binary world, right?
Posted by: JM

If there's 52 genders, why do they list covid deaths as male & female only?

Seems they don't science. At all.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2021 10:43 AM (OCTRt)

132
Read the wiki bio on John Pavlovitz. He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM

Do unitarians believe in God or just social justice?

Posted by: early Dolly Parton at June 07, 2021 10:43 AM (DzhEB)

133 That we regularly have 3-4 iffy votes on signature legislation is a problem with leadership.

"This is legislation that will positively affect the country and
make it easier for our side to win elections in the future because of
its positive effects. If you lose your next election, that's fine. We'll
have a spot for you somewhere in the RNC. Just vote the right way, and
we'll take care of you."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM

No, it's a problem with the voters who kept sending him back. There was no way mcconnell was going to reign in mccain, none.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:44 AM (JUOKG)

134 40 It was not mcconnell, it was mccain, murkowski and collins, they sided with democrats.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 10:28 AM (JUOKG)
The infamous 3 Democrats with an R after their name.

Posted by: Vic at June 07, 2021 10:44 AM (mpXpK)

135 127 Yup. This should have been an easy win, but because McConnell was too weak to control the caucus, the three in question were able to screw him over.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (jOcSX)

Noticing that McConnell has pretty much kept his mouth shut ever since that dust up with Trump when Mitch sided with the loony left - I think that reek coming from him is fear. He knows he stepped in it and no one is going to forget.
Posted by: Boswell at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (5iUNf)

==========

Imagine what state level representatives are hearing from their neighbors. They don't jet off to the state capitol for 280 days of the year. They go home.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

136 The original Unitarians broke off because they hated the orthodox Trinity, but now they're pretty much atheists. Funny how that works.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:44 AM (l9W6q)

137 If you showed up at my SBC church on ANY given Sunday, you would get multiple offers of going out to lunch after service.

It might be to that place across town that makes a great cheeseburger...

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2021 10:45 AM (nfrXX)

138 >>I guarantee you that had Trump actually done what Dreher claims he wants now, that nickelfucker would have been on the rhetorical ramparts screaming that Trump was an authoritarian bully and cooler heads needed to prevail.

There are a metric fuckton of people I want serious bodily harm to come to. Dreher is on the list.

Right there with ya, MPPP! His shock -- shock! -- Indian lady feels comfy lecturing about her desire to shoot and bury whitey is not convincing at all. I doubt he even now supports Christopher Rufo or FIRE.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:45 AM (bDqIh)

139 I look at the uni-party votes like this. They have no intention of every doing anything meaningful, one way or another. They let a few individuals decide who will be the bad guy or maverick for a week or two after some bill doesn't pass and that's that. Obamacare it was McCain and the usual suspects. This week it's Manchin.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 07, 2021 10:45 AM (4thlk)

140 I never said Ryan doesn't deserve any blame. He should have resubmitted it after McCain died, and that's on him. But McConnell should never have allowed it to become the clusterfuck that it did because he didn't have control over the Senate GOP.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:33 AM (jOcSX)

My "they" is Ryan and McConnell. Neither want it repealed. They just want to "fight" against it like they "fight" against abortion. I do put more blame towards Ryan, just for the fact that some here would get hostile whenever someone would say that the useless fucks in the house didn't actually want it repealed, and their votes on it when the Dems held the senate and/or Obama was still president was just theater.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 07, 2021 10:45 AM (G2zl5)

141 Just read the post on Loose Rounds about that shaved head fucker on InRangeTV.

Unsubscribed until Karl is gone.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:45 AM (uxJPn)

142 Wisdom teeth removed.

She's babbling in the living room currently......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Well, I'm glad it went well!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:45 AM (Ez6QX)

143 Wisdom teeth removed.

She's babbling in the living room currently......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

There are youtube videos of people just after dental surgery. Some are hysterical.

Posted by: Tami at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (cF8AT)

144 Saw where Listerene jumped on the rainbow flag bandwagon.

If that won't get the taste of dick outta your mouth, nothing will.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (OCTRt)

145 A major success for the right, politically, would be to return the federal government to the size and scope of 2008.

And the left runs around saying that would be the end of the world. Because obviously the world didn't exist before 2008.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (DpkTQ)

146 "I'm scratching my head over what this idiot thinks is going to happen."

Your Lefty Translator must be malfunctioning. I just got the new Projection 3.1 Upgrade. Please allow me:

"If 2022 goes poorly, Evangelicals will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again."

beep boop bop beep beep...

"We need 2022 to go well, so we can decimate the Evangelicals and ensure they never have equality under the law again"

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (83lwH)

147 What does that doofus pastor think evil evangelicals like me are going to do?
I'm baffled. I truly am.

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (cSyAR)

148 Has anyone had this happen? It's happened to me twice with the last 6 months.

I send something using the USPS. I get an email that says that it has been delivered.

But it hasn't. In the first case, it was before Christmas and the package I sent west was delivered around 11:00 pm while the official delivery time was 8:45pm.

I ordered something and it was supposed to be delivered Saturday, by 8:00pm. I get an email saying it's delivered. Nope. Was delivered this morning.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (xopIz)

149 I'm reading that SCOTUS just handed down a unanimous ruling on an illegal alien case and ruled against the illegal alien.

Progress.
_____________

Yep. Case was being hyped by all the usual suspects on the left, including the contemptible Lie-a-watha Warren, as a stealth way to give legal status to millions of illegals already living in the U.S., without having to pass a new amnesty law.

Case involved an El Salvador man who had entered the U.S. illegally, lived here for years, received temporary protected status (which allows him to stay, supposedly temporarily, but we all know they never leave), then tried to use his TPS to apply for permanent legal resident status. But the court said no, because he entered the U.S. illegally he is not entitled to apply for PLR status. Getting TPS doesn't magically make his illegal entry disappear.

9-0 decision against the illegal alien.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (k4dH2)

150 Pride goeth before the fall and something something.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (13h8h)

151 Speaking of soaps, my wife reminded me that a year ago this month she gave up The Y&R after having watched it from the jump. The Pride train killed it for her. I liked Victor but even he became a pussy in the later years.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (xEIoY)

152 The original Unitarians broke off because they hated the orthodox Trinity, but now they're pretty much atheists. Funny how that works.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:44 AM

I recall a WSJ article some years back discussing the huge controversy that arose among Unitarians when the leadership suggested putting out a statement that affirmed that they do believe in God. A large-ish faction couldn't even support that. So, yeah, pretty much a social club.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (m+jkK)

153 We'll take a few videos, against her will, but she's taken a couple and sent it to friends via Snapchat, I think.
Posted by: Sponge

After the same for my boy he was baffled by the truck door handle. I let him ponder it for a time for comedic value but eventually opened the door for him. The seat belt was another story entirely.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (Rvt88)

154 What does that doofus pastor think evil evangelicals like me are going to do?
I'm baffled. I truly am.
Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (cSyAR)

Live well, and be happy, without them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (6FeV1)

155 That's a Democrat Operative LARPing as a "pastor."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (Bmy3R)

156 That ain't no pastor, that's a commie.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (TKmok)

157
There are youtube videos of people just after dental surgery. Some are hysterical.
Posted by: Tami at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (cF8AT)

She's been pretty mellow, but thinks she sounds stupid. Nothing too wild as of yet.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

158 >>That we regularly have 3-4 iffy votes on signature legislation is a problem with leadership

Exactly. How is it Pelosi and Schumer can get the democrats to vote as a single bloc again and again?

Meanwhile, McConnell and House leaders promote GOPe squishes who will enable failure theater losses. When have these reliable GOP squishes been kicked off a committee? They only ever oot the "extremist" conservative ones.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (bDqIh)

159 Good morning, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (TdMsT)

160 Daytime television is a violation of the Geneva convention

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (6FeV1)

161 Rod Dreher is inconsequential, a man without substance. I stopped reading him long before his Trump Derangement Syndrome took over.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (RMGKK)

162
There's no accounting for taste but Insty is one of those sites I took off my bookmarks a long time ago.

There was a cob-logger who would start in on me every time I commented on one of his posts, usually with plain old garden-variety bullshit prog talking points. I can't recall his name, but he ran me off from Insty's.
I don't miss it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (HaL55)

163 Read the wiki bio on John Pavlovitz. He is a Unitarian Progressive Activist.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

I missed his retreat in April! I may never get my chakra balanced!

Posted by: BignJames at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (AwYPR)

164 The old joke is that the Unitarians believe in at most one God.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (xopIz)

165 I missed The Champions. I wonder if it was on TV where I lived back then?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2021

***
I'm pretty sure it ran on NBC, so if you had a local NBC affiliate, it might have been available.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (/XOcP)

166
After the same for my boy he was baffled by the truck door handle. I let him ponder it for a time for comedic value but eventually opened the door for him. The seat belt was another story entirely.
Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (Rvt8

She thanked the nurse that brought her out and buckled her in a million times......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

167 CHP arrested 2 connected to the road rage shooting of the 6 year old last month. The victim was white, and for absolutely no reason at all, there are no mugshots or racial description of the perps. No reason, just not newsworthy to report the race in EVERY incident, I guess.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (C2hDV)

168 I read this over the weekend as well, and I'm glad you ranted about Dreher before I did. He's utterly useless. The whole time DJT was President, he hardly had a kind word to say about the man, so I put him in the NeverTrump category. *Now* the guy complains about the Deep State? As far as I'm concerned, he's a co-conspirator.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 07, 2021 10:43 AM (mdjgu)

Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

169 I don't think most liberals can really do unemotional logical thinking.

Examples: I have a friend who is a gay man. He genuinely believes that Xiden's infrastructure plan will make electric cars for all possible in the very near future, that fossil fuels will be replaced by new technology immediately and, although he loves a good steak, meat is bad because killing animals is bad, so eating bugs is a-OK.

It's going to be a lot of fun when the government suddenly declareS that they have been in contact with ET, and they want us to stop using fossil fuels, stop reproducing, stop eating meat, we need a one world government and oh yeah, Jesus was an alien.

Posted by: shibumi at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (tjZg/)

170 158 >>That we regularly have 3-4 iffy votes on signature legislation is a problem with leadership

Exactly. How is it Pelosi and Schumer can get the democrats to vote as a single bloc again and again?

Meanwhile, McConnell and House leaders promote GOPe squishes who will enable failure theater losses. When have these reliable GOP squishes been kicked off a committee? They only ever oot the "extremist" conservative ones.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (bDqIh)

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To be fair, we are now getting his with stories about how both Manchin and Sinema aren't toeing the party line.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (LvTSG)

171 I liked Victor but even he became a pussy in the later years.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021

***
Victor -- Eric Braeden, formerly Hans Gudegast of The Rat Patrol?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (/XOcP)

172 84 You mentioned snowflakes so I will once again encourage everyone to at least support Tom MacDonald with a click on his latest "Snowflakes" on yoo-toob.

I spent too many hours watching "reaction videos" to his song and it was overwhelmingly "wow, he's right!" stuff.

Most of Snowflakes is stuff we already know and understand but Tom is taking it to millions who would otherwise never listen.

https://tinyurl.com/3fm3yd56
Posted by: Fool Otto at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (DB16e)

Thanks.
I watched the Eminem song, too.

Posted by: m at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (SJbY/)

173 If you showed up at my SBC church on ANY given Sunday, you would get multiple offers of going out to lunch after service.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (6Je/Q)

I hope it's in the south...I love good BBQ. Or biscuits and gravy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (Q9lwr)

174 The old joke is that the Unitarians believe in at most one God.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM

A buddy of mine used to do stand-up mumblemumble years ago, and one of his routines was The Agnostic Church. "And the pastor said 'let us pray'...everyone shrugged and then went home."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (m+jkK)

175 2022 is the most important election of our lifetime. This shit is said by National Review and the crazies on the left.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (DlG3S)

176 161 Rod Dreher is inconsequential, a man without substance. I stopped reading him long before his Trump Derangement Syndrome took over.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (RMGKK)

What has he done or said?

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (cSyAR)

177 168

Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

The first angle of attack will be Toxic Masculinity, followed quickly by racism. Bet on it.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (6Je/Q)

178 Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

They'll suck up and try to get DeSantis "on board" with the graft, and when he tells them to get bent, he'll be Worse Than Trump before sunrise.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (6FeV1)

179 So many false shepherds in churches. It is a sign of God's mercy that they haven't been struck by lightning.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (2xza5)

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The Good Lord is far more merciful than these ever so humanitarian wolves in sheep clothing.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 10:52 AM (RMGKK)

180 Wolfus one and the same. Been on the show for damn near 50 years.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 10:52 AM (xEIoY)

181 A major success for the right, politically, would be to return the federal government to the size and scope of 2008.

And the left runs around saying that would be the end of the world. Because obviously the world didn't exist before 2008.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2021

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How about returning it to the size and scope of 1938?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:52 AM (/XOcP)

182
Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

Florida is JUST LIKE North Korea!!!

- Jimmy Kimmel

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

183
That Pavlovitz guy must have an insatiable urge to sip penis every time someone rings a bell.
Posted by: Roy at June 07, 2021 10:42 AM (uW3z1)

And he keeps a bell in his pocket, for emergency use.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (n+4am)

184 Wisdom teeth removed.

She's babbling in the living room currently......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Out of curiosity what was the reason for trepidation about anesthesia? In my experience people doing it are pretty good. Although fatherly concern always beats the alternative...

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (y7DUB)

185 How about returning it to the size and scope of 1938?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Newsletter details if you would kind Sir.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (Rvt88)

186 This excuse of a pastor seems to be a BLM -type grifter that just happens to carry a cross and a bible.

Posted by: golfman at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (W145b)

187 Actually I think this pastor is expressing the Left's subconscious in the sense that they know they are -- in their insatiable totalitarian overreach -- inciting a radical blowback from typically decent and restrained Americans. But he doesn't want the regime to ease up, in fact he is hoping for more and proactive measures to disempower the citizenry.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (0XkJ8)

188 173 If you showed up at my SBC church on ANY given Sunday, you would get multiple offers of going out to lunch after service.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (6Je/Q)

I hope it's in the south...I love good BBQ. Or biscuits and gravy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (Q9lwr)

Yes it is... we have more excellent BBQ joints than can be visited in a month... coleslaw on the sandwich is our local custom...

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (6Je/Q)

189 A major success for the right, politically, would be to return the federal government to the size and scope of 2008.

And the left runs around saying that would be the end of the world. Because obviously the world didn't exist before 2008.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2021

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How about returning it to the size and scope of 1938?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:52 AM (/XOcP)

Well if we're dreaming, how about 1908?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (uxJPn)

190 Welcome back OM, I hope things are getting better for you health wise.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (6tAoI)

191 Exactly. How is it Pelosi and Schumer can get the democrats to vote as a single bloc again and again?

Meanwhile, McConnell and House leaders promote GOPe squishes who will enable failure theater losses. When have these reliable GOP squishes been kicked off a committee? They only ever oot the "extremist" conservative ones.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (bDqIh)

In fairness, Manchin may have just killed HB 1 (the voting bill). He and Sinema have both come out against killing the filibuster, so Schumer doesn't have full control over the party.

That said, a major problem is that the GOP spent so much time and effort over the decades building up the economic philosophy of the party that they have let differences on the social policy side widen. Additionally, the Dem losses after the passage of ObamaCare cleared away a lot of old Blue Dog dems who in the past might have cause headaches for Schumer.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (jOcSX)

192 >>What has he done or said?

My fault - ranted about him at #57.
I don't read him regularly, caught that quote on twitter.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (bDqIh)

193 147 What does that doofus pastor think evil evangelicals like me are going to do?

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:46 AM (cSyAR)

Vote for Republicans, I think.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (l9W6q)

194

John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz
�
2h
I don't care about bipartisanship, I care about protecting humanity.

If the fight for that humanity places me on one side of a partisan political line, that likely points to the inhumanity on the other side of it.

What a narcissistic douche. He is an evil cancer on the Church.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (C2hDV)

195 Speaking of soaps, my wife reminded me that a year ago this month she gave up The Y&R after having watched it from the jump. The Pride train killed it for her. I liked Victor but even he became a pussy in the later years.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks

He was old when I watched it before going to work on the afternoon shift in 1985.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (OCTRt)

196 Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

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That's my guess as well. They don't say much now, but I'm not really listening for their reactions to DeSantis either. I'm sure they'll start their denigration sermons in the lead up to November 2022.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (TNyrE)

197 I've never had anesthesia. Wisdom teeth is the only surgery I've had and all I got was novacane and the gas.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (Y5qcH)

198 So is commie pastor afraid that gays will be forced into conversion therapy, or that they won't be able to force someone to bake a cake they don't want to cake.

Maybe mentally dudes will be told to keep their testes.

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (cSyAR)

199 Prior to 2008 there were no roads or schools or hospitals or national parks or food safety inspectors. FACT!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (DlG3S)

200 1792

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (C2hDV)

201 How about returning it to the size and scope of 1938?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:52 AM (/XOcP)

Well if we're dreaming, how about 1908?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021

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Mister, we could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (/XOcP)

202 The guy is Stuart Damon who played Alan Quartermain on General Hospital for many years.

He was also in a famous TV play of Cinderella with Lesley Anne Warren that I remember watching when i was a kid

Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (HrMC1)

203 Asking for prayer. I think I tore my rotator cuff on Saturday. Leagues are just starting, and I'm probably done with tennis for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Ladyl at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (TdMsT)

204 Case involved an El Salvador man who had entered the U.S. illegally, ... Getting TPS doesn't magically make his illegal entry disappear.

Oh, so this is a different case than the one I described on the last thread. So that makes two nominally anti-immigration* unanimous decisions in a week.

* Yes, that term buys into the other side's framing but I don't care enough to try to wordsmith it right now.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (nfrXX)

205 To be fair, we are now getting his with stories about how both Manchin and Sinema aren't toeing the party line.
___________

Sinema may be against getting rid of the filibuster, but she's totes on board with that contemptible federal power grab known as the "We the People" bill, or H.R. 1. She has been running lots of commercials here in AZ touting how great it will be, and how it will "return power to the people" -- which is ludicrous, because what it will really do it give the feds control over all elections and make vote fraud permanent and legal, thereby ensuring that "the people" never again get to have a real voice in choosing their leaders.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (k4dH2)

206
The old joke is that the Unitarians believe in at most one God.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict

There was a professor of Quantum Chemistry at Berkeley who told students in his classes that he dealt with systems where the number of particles was "less than or equal to one". Reputedly brilliant; definitely "out there"...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (pNxlR)

207 Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

Half will attack him, the other half will suck up in hopes of getting a place of influence where they can push their own brand of "real conservatism" while undermining any America First agenda.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (jOcSX)

208 McConnell was the Majority Leader. That failure is on him. A key part of the job is getting the votes for these bills.
How exactly? McCain was a dead man walking, and I'm sure Collins and Murk have let it be known that any retribution directed at them will result in their immediate conversion to Democrat. I'm not saying he shouldn't have done it, only that it probably wouldn't have worked.
Posted by: pep at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (v16oJ)

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And if McConnell were serious he would have put the fear of God into that trio, they vote contra and they get disendorsed at the next election. He could have thrown them out to their Democrat friends to see how long they lasted.

What's more, McConnell had a chance to get rid of Murkowski when she was primaries out in 2010 instead he backed her against her challenger.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (RMGKK)

209 This excuse of a pastor seems to be a BLM -type grifter that just happens to carry a cross and a bible.
Posted by: golfman at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (W145b)

I don't think Unitarians carry crosses or Bibles.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (t0Y57)

210 I suspect the NeverTrumpers will be fans of DeSantis because (and get this) he is not Trump. They will then start saying DeSantis does things that Trump didn't do (and get this) it will all be policy oriented. And my biggest fear is they will poison the DeSantis well because they will throw their support behind him.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (sX1BW)

211 190 Welcome back OM, I hope things are getting better for you health wise.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2021 10:54 AM (6tAoI)

Thanks, my healing is slow but steady, thank God.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (l9W6q)

212 I liked Victor but even he became a pussy in the later years.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks

He was old when I watched it before going to work on the afternoon shift in 1985.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2021

***
Braeden/Gudegast guested on U.N.C.L.E. once, though not as a major villain. His career goes back to the mid-'60s at least.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (/XOcP)

213 Rod Dreher strikes me as borderline neurotic.

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (cSyAR)

214 What has he done or said?

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (cSyAR)

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He liked to be crunchy. That's all I remember him for.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (TNyrE)

215 If the gop were smart - I know , I know - say you want to return to the 2010 budget. That was a budget signed by Obama and written by Harry Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. If it was good enough for Obama, then it should be good enough for Biden.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (DlG3S)

216 Man those crab legs look awesome.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (6tAoI)

217 "I don't ever want to see Donald Trump again. He had these people's number, in a way, but he did little or nothing effective to stop them. I want to vote for a presidential candidate who will move against these dirtbags and their institutions without mercy. "

Is this a reboot? Plot seems awfully familiar

1) pull support away from the only proven effective leader
2) convince marks to roll the dice on Door#2 Masked RINO
3) fade to black with "aw shucks fooled again" soundtrack.

Is entertaining that Rod Dreher thinks he's being clever.

"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention" - Ramsey Bolton.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (83lwH)

218 Out of curiosity what was the reason for trepidation about anesthesia? In my experience people doing it are pretty good. Although fatherly concern always beats the alternative...
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:53 AM (y7DUB)

She's been put under 3 times now for surgeries and there have been no issues. It's just that she's my only child, so I worry about most everything involving her.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

219 A dude standing in a field nagging the sheep is not a "pastor".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (6FeV1)

220 coleslaw on the sandwich is our local custom...
Posted by: kraken

As God Himself intended.

He was old when I watched it before going to work on the afternoon shift in 1985.
Posted by: rickb223

My dormmates (guys and gals) watched Ryan's Hope, which of course we all renamed Ryan's Hog, every afternoon. (early mumble mumble 70's.)

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 10:57 AM (Rvt88)

221 Asking for prayer. I think I tore my rotator cuff on Saturday. Leagues are just starting, and I'm probably done with tennis for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Ladyl at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (TdMsT)

Oh, no! Prayers up, Ladyl.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (Ez6QX)

222 Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.

Doesn't matter.

Dominion + mail in voting.

The cheat will go on forever. Say goodbye to any R president unless the DNC/Soros/etc want a specific R president.

Posted by: shibumi at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (tjZg/)

223 The guy is Stuart Damon who played Alan Quartermain on General Hospital for many years.

He was also in a famous TV play of Cinderella with Lesley Anne Warren that I remember watching when i was a kid
Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2021

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And that was something like 1964, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (/XOcP)

224 Dreher left National Review for the Left years before it was cool to be a NeverTrumper

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (HCeRP)

225 157 She's been pretty mellow, but thinks she sounds stupid.
maybe you can convince her that the extra resonance due to the missing wisdom teeth will be just the thing she needs to make it big in mongolian throat singing.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

226 205 Sinema may be against getting rid of the filibuster, but she's totes on board with that contemptible federal power grab known as the "We the People" bill, or H.R. 1. She has been running lots of commercials here in AZ touting how great it will be, and how it will "return power to the people" -- which is ludicrous, because what it will really do it give the feds control over all elections and make vote fraud permanent and legal, thereby ensuring that "the people" never again get to have a real voice in choosing their leaders.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (k4dH2)

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Still better than Jeff Flake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (LvTSG)

227 This guy is a former Catholic, from Syracuse, and only started attending church after marrying. His brother is gay. Not sure when he moved to Raleigh, or what "mega-church" he worked in (he won't say, for some reason), but now he works as a social media influencer. It all adds up to grifting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (gjvx9)

228 Asking for prayer. I think I tore my rotator cuff on Saturday. Leagues are just starting, and I'm probably done with tennis for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Ladyl at June 07, 2021 10:55 AM (TdMsT)

TERRIBLE!!!!

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully it's just a strain and not a tear. The recovery time on that one is a long one.

Prayers......

🙏

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Lumping the muslims together with the rainbow crowd is the best idea I've heard all day. Closer the better.

Posted by: klaftern at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (r4sI4)

230 He who tells the people what to think does not need to be King.

It's been going on since the beginning of civilization. Egyptian Priests to Catholic Priests to the Present..... The DISGUSTING FILTH IN THE MEDIA.

We are 'herd' animals, we like to have leaders, to be led. Sometimes the Leaders are decen but most times, they're scum.

The Founders recognized this and inserted a distrrust of government, ALL government, into our Constitution. But the scum on the left have found a way around this.

The Media. They are control-free, answer to no one and do completely and totally as they please.

We fought and won against Big Goobermint. We are losing the War against the media.

Posted by: Uncle Rick at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (48/MM)

231 Still better than Jeff Flake..........................Better rack

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (sX1BW)

232 72 Looks like Stuart Damon. No clue who the girl is
Posted by: Tuna at June 07, 2021 10:35 AM (gLRfa)

You are correct, ma'am! Stuart Damon it is!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (l9W6q)

233 you'd be welcome in our church too.

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2021 10:40 AM (C9n84)

I knew nothing of evangelical Christianity until I went to college, where I met several people who were devout. Curiously, they were also some of the finest people I have ever met. I guess they were hiding their bigotry and hatred for others behind the curtain of kindness and charity and love of their fellow man that they demonstrated every day.

Weird.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (Q9lwr)

234 I thought the tell-tale heart was behind the wall.

I am going to have to read that again.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (ufFY8)

235 Manchin is their Mittens. It is kinda fun to watch them go apoplectic over it. Welcome to the club pal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (DlG3S)

236 210 I suspect the NeverTrumpers will be fans of DeSantis because (and get this) he is not Trump. They will then start saying DeSantis does things that Trump didn't do (and get this) it will all be policy oriented. And my biggest fear is they will poison the DeSantis well because they will throw their support behind him.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (sX1BW)

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So animated by the image of Trump that with Trump supporting DeSantis in very public ways, they won't be able to help themselves.

"I would support DeSantis, but he can't get rid of the stink of Trump as long as he allows Trump to support him. It is with a heavy heart that I must bow to principle and support Mike Pence for president."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

237 Glad your daughter is out of surgery and did well, Sponge.

Posted by: Ladyl at June 07, 2021 11:00 AM (TdMsT)

238
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Still better than Jeff Flake.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 10:58 AM (LvTSG)

So are hemorrhoids.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

239 What's more, McConnell had a chance to get rid of Murkowski when she was primaries out in 2010 instead he backed her against her challenger.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (RMGKK)

That and backing senile Thad Cochran were the worst examples of his RINO meddling. On the positive side of the ledger is keeping that piece of shit, Merrick Garland, from Supreme Court hearings although he was surely one of the 20 traitors who confirmed him as AG.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:00 AM (y7DUB)

240 what "mega-church" he worked in (he won't say, for some reason), but now he works as a social media influencer. It all adds up to grifting.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (gjvx9)

Fired from his youth pastor job in Charlotte.

Posted by: golfman at June 07, 2021 11:00 AM (W145b)

241
Well, well, according to the Australian (article is behing a paywall, read about it at the top of ZeroHedge), President Trump was going to order a presidential commission to investigate China *and our people) headed by Tom Cotton. The scientific part would be headed by a general from Ft. Detrick.

They were gonna haul in the likes of Peter Daszek, et all and Fauxci himself to explain their actions. Also, punish the hell out of China.

This information is almost certainly being leaked by Aussie intelligence. The Aussies are pissed. They know what went on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Mzdiz)

242 So many false shepherds in churches. It is a sign of God's mercy that they haven't been struck by lightning.
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at June 07, 2021 10:36 AM (2xza5)

I'd say it is the opposite. God talks about a loving Father correcting His children to bring them back on the path. That was the ultimate purpose of everything He allowed to happen to the Jews in the OT, not just "Take this."

That God hasn't sent a correction that will cause some to see is and change their ways may be a sign He has washed His hands of them, And while God doesn't want anyone to be lost, the sadness He feels on that last day won't be the same as the regret of those who chose to live against God experience.

Posted by: Bete at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Ojki1)

243 Asking for prayer. I think I tore my rotator cuff on Saturday. Leagues are just starting, and I'm probably done with tennis for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Ladyl

Ouch! Prayers up Ladyl for a swift recovery/healing.

Also, and possibly very related, DO NOT try everything on page 175 of The Joy of Sex. There's a typo there. Word to the wise. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Rvt88)

244 >>@johnpavlovitz
I don't care about bipartisanship, I care about protecting humanity.

I'll take Eric Metaxas over this person.
https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (bDqIh)

245 Lumping the muslims together with the rainbow crowd is the best idea I've heard all day. Closer the better.
Posted by: klaftern at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (r4sI4)

I've not cared, but what do our Chinese overlords think about homos?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

246 227 This guy is a former Catholic, from Syracuse, and only started attending church after marrying. His brother is gay. Not sure when he moved to Raleigh, or what "mega-church" he worked in (he won't say, for some reason), but now he works as a social media influencer. It all adds up to grifting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (gjvx9)

I think he wrote a book, too, or something.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (l9W6q)

247 The way that BS pastor highlights the South is at best virtue signaling and at worst, flat out racist.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (axyOa)

248 His brother is gay.

I guarantee he is gay, too. His entire timeline is gay. And if you don't enthusiastically support homosexuals like he does, then you hate them and want them dead.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (C2hDV)

249 Lumping the muslims together with the rainbow crowd is the best idea I've heard all day. Closer the better.
Posted by: klaftern at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (r4sI4)

The Rainbow crew will dig the free flying lessons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (t0Y57)

250 The sodomites went from "Pretty Please" to "Fuck You Suck It" real quick.

Once a "minority" gets special treatment say good bye to your freedoms.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (YxVzA)

251 I will stand by what I previously said. All nevertrump opposition to Trump boils down to immigration. If he had been all avoids the open borders and amnesty train then Kristol and George Will would have been praising his plain and direct way of speaking to the population

If they're starting to suck up to DeSantis they are looking for position and influence to start pushing it on him that "this is what you need to do to win," at the national level.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (G2zl5)

252 I thought the tell-tale heart was behind the wall.

I am going to have to read that again.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM

I thought that was the black cat. Heart was under the floorboards.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (m+jkK)

253 Oh, so this is a different case than the one I described on the last thread. So that makes two nominally anti-immigration* unanimous decisions in a week.
__________

Yes there have been two recent immigration cases where the SCOTUS has sided against the illegal aliens, 9-0. The most recent case (Sanchez, involving the illegal from El Salvador who tried to use his temporary protected status to get legal residency status) just came out this morning.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (k4dH2)

254 {{{{Ladyl}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

255 So animated by the image of Trump that with Trump supporting DeSantis in
very public ways, they won't be able to help themselves.---------------------------There is that. And now even Abbott has Trump's support. What is a NeverTrumper supposed to do? Maybe it will be Pence. The "He Deserved Better" rallying cry isn't quite "Remember the Alamo" but we will see.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (sX1BW)

256 242

That God hasn't sent a correction that will cause some to see is and change their ways may be a sign He has washed His hands of them, And while God doesn't want anyone to be lost, the sadness He feels on that last day won't be the same as the regret of those who chose to live against God experience.
Posted by: Bete at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Ojki1)

Romans I.

Posted by: kraken at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (6Je/Q)

257

The commission was killed at the last moment by desperate pleas from the economic team, led by Larry Kudlow. "Please, please, don't look for the truth, it will be bad for our business with China".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (Mzdiz)

258 Ladyl. Prayers for your full recovery, dearest.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (13h8h)

259 Thanks.
I watched the Eminem song, too.
Posted by: m at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM

Right on. I know millennials aren't flocking to the HQ or on a constant quest to be informed of facts. Tom is doing incredible work for the generation that needs to hear it most.

Posted by: Fool Otto at June 07, 2021 11:03 AM (DB16e)

260 Rod Dreher is inconsequential, a man without substance. I stopped reading him long before his Trump Derangement Syndrome took over.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 10:48 AM (RMGKK)
What has he done or said?
Posted by: Northern lurker at June 07, 2021 10:51 AM (cSyAR)

He formed and led that huge, influential; movement "Crunchy Conservatives". I think they ate cicadas or some such thing.
Then he joined the Greek Orthodx Church(NTTAWWT) cuz Roman Catholics were too icky for him.
And wrote about that a lot while eating cicadas and promoting "Crunchy Conservatism", which was mostly about adopting a left of center point of view.

He struck me as a guy who thought he should be a Leader of Social and Intellectual Import, but no one else did.

So, he ran around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to make it happen.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2021 11:03 AM (dWwl8)

261 Fired from his youth pastor job in Charlotte.
Posted by: golfman

Well, well, well. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 11:03 AM (Rvt88)

262 If 2022 goes badly, men/boys will have to use the men's room and only natural born females will be allowed to play women's sports Tyranny!.

Posted by: Ripley at June 07, 2021 11:03 AM (MxEKc)

263 I liked Victor but even he became a pussy in the later years.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (xEIoY)

Sharon is still fairly hot, but I like how Summer is always showing her nice rack.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (ufFY8)

264 Ahhh, youth pastor. So he is a leftist who found his place to introduce rot into the Church from the inside.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (C2hDV)

265 I recall a WSJ article some years back discussing the huge controversy that arose among Unitarians when the leadership suggested putting out a statement that affirmed that they do believe in God. A large-ish faction couldn't even support that. So, yeah, pretty much a social club.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (m+jkK)

I remember attending a wedding at All Souls Unitarian Church in NYC years ago. Right above the altar were two squiggly lines that symbolized the Cross. Gave me an idea of what I was going to see at the service.

Forrest Church was the pastor at the time. The guy admitted to an extramarital affair, and a good part of the church left after he refused to resign over it. The funny part is that most of the church stayed - they didn't care at all. Told me everything I needed to know about Unitarians.

The good thing about them, I suppose, is that I knew people who were reticent about going to church because they were once atheists, who were welcomed by the Unitarians. I always prayed that these people would eventually move up the ladder once they got used to going to church on Sundays.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (mdjgu)

266 @Breaking911 2m

BREAKING: FDA approves Aduhelm, first new drug for Alzheimer's in 20 years

https://tinyurl.com/y639oay7

Posted by: Tami at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (cF8AT)

267
Armenians. Kulaks. Wreckers. Jews. Tutsi. And many more.

When a regime becomes supreme, then it's failings have to be blamed on some ephemeral Emmanuel Goldstein and his crew of imaginary enemies. It's always a diaphanous gossamer of lies made life by iron will, to the endless suffering of the victims of those lies.

History always rhymes, and this stanza is ours. Buckle up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (yFG1M)

268 And my biggest fear is they will poison the DeSantis well because they will throw their support behind him.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 10:56 AM (sX1BW)

Doesn't matter; I'll continue to back him and still despise them.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (y7DUB)

269 This information is almost certainly being leaked by Aussie intelligence. The Aussies are pissed. They know what went on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Mzdiz)

They also know if India gets frisky, their part of the globe will get real dicey.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2021 11:05 AM (axyOa)

270 Victor -- Eric Braeden, formerly Hans Gudegast of The Rat Patrol?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (/XOcP)

Nearly every time I see him I tell Mrs. anchorbabe, "The apes must die!"

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 07, 2021 11:05 AM (ufFY8)

271 "I don't care about bipartisanship, I care about protecting humanity.

If the fight for that humanity places me on one side of a partisan political line, that likely points to the inhumanity on the other side of it." -Gay Unitarian Douchenozzle

This is simply a repetition of the ages-old war on classical philosophy through the lens of Roussieu.

The classical line of thinking was that humanity - created by God - has an order etched into them, and by delaying gratification and practicing the virtues, one can become a more whole human.

Roussieu's line of thinking is that belief in God, and anything resembling classical virtues is simply the fever dream of insane bigots and that the only way to achieve human wholeness is to satisfy every sort of indulgence whenever you want it.

So in a sense, he's not technically wrong, but like every other Progressive, employs a steady sense of wordfeels to hide his true desire for a world fueled by nothing less than pure will and gaslighting 24/7.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at June 07, 2021 11:05 AM (HK8/E)

272 "fade to black with 'aw shucks fooled again' soundtrack."

May I suggest: https://tinyurl.com/6phxp663

Also, I'm sure you get this a lot, but I just have to say what an honor it is to have Fen on this site. Fen's Law is my fav! And you are such an incredible human being. This is a momentous moment for me. Childhood dream come true.

I'm in MD next week, would you autograph my forehead?

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (83lwH)

273 From his bio...

(And it was Raleigh not Charlotte BTW)

And then, one day in 2013, he was fired.

"You don't fit here. You've never fit here," the head pastor told him.

Posted by: golfman at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (W145b)

274 Nooooooood!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (EjmvJ)

275
BREAKING: FDA approves Aduhelm, first new drug for Alzheimer's in 20 years

https://tinyurl.com/y639oay7
Posted by: Tami at June 07, 2021 11:04 AM (cF8AT)

But Biden said that all hospital beds will be full of Alzheimer's patients in 15 years.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

276 Well, well, well. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 11:03 AM (Rvt8

Sounds like a kiddie diddler, doesn't it? Lot of them on the left.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (t0Y57)

277 234 I thought the tell-tale heart was behind the wall.

I am going to have to read that again.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (ufFY

The murderer cut up his friend's body and put the pieces under the floorboards.

Including the heart.

Buh-BUM!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (l9W6q)

278 I don't care about bipartisanship either.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 11:06 AM (sX1BW)

279 >>So, he ran around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to make it happen.

IIRC, he has been pretty outspoken about the trans kiddie stuff.
- - -
Naturalfake -- Was it you who said your son was going into the oyster business? If so, this may be amusing to him -- found it after yesterday's food thread while persuing cookbook archive:

https://tinyurl.com/kj2j2k37

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 11:07 AM (bDqIh)

280 Kamala passed out large cookies in her image in frosting on a recent AF2 flight. Quite detailed in all other respects, her face was a featureless blob of frosting. Her two-strand pearl necklace was prominent and well-executed, however.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2021 11:07 AM (DMUuz)

281 Joe Manchin v Gaslight Inc nood

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021 11:07 AM (DJFLF)

282

Yes, the possibility of a nuclear exchange between India and China is now a possibility. From the leaks supposedly by those in DIA handling the defector and related there is this:

Our intel thinks the lab leak was accidental, but China made the decision to make lemonade out of lemons and spread it to the rest of the world.

India' govt has concluded the Wuhan virus was deliberate and a bio-attack on them in particular.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 07, 2021 11:08 AM (Mzdiz)

283 who is the female Who Dis?

I like her dress in pic 4 and the swimsuit in pic 7

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021 11:09 AM (DJFLF)

284 Lumping the muslims together with the rainbow crowd is the best idea I've heard all day. Closer the better.
Posted by: klaftern at June 07, 2021 10:59 AM (r4sI4)

I've not cared, but what do our Chinese overlords think about homos?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

They are big on the closet. Inside the closet, they don't care. You try to fly your freak flag, you get incarcerated or killed. Because China is asshoe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 07, 2021 11:10 AM (uxJPn)

285 "was supposed to be delivered Saturday, by 8:00pm. I get an email saying it's delivered. Nope. Was delivered this morning."

I get things from my local small post office ... they have to scan it with different scanners I think. Maybe someone got lazy and just scanned yours as "delivered" when they were really just receiving it. ... For smaller packages that fit in my mail box, I get the email when it arrives at my mail box, which is convenient, since it is a half mile from my house.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 07, 2021 11:10 AM (Cus5s)

286 "I suspect the NeverTrumpers will be fans of DeSantis because (and get this) he is not Trump."

They will support DeSantis until Trump is off the table, and then ditch him for a RINO. NeverTrumpism is not just about "Muh Principles" and #NoMeanTweets, it's about never having to commit to any action that might lose their table at Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 11:10 AM (83lwH)

287 9-0 decision against the illegal alien.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 10:47 AM (k4dH2)

You'd think that would strike fear in the heart of anyone considering crossing illegally now.

I hope that worm keeps turning.

Posted by: creeper at June 07, 2021 11:11 AM (XxJt1)

288 [Dreher] struck me as a guy who thought he should be a Leader of Social and Intellectual Import, but no one else did.

So, he ran around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to make it happen.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2021 11:03 AM (dWwl

Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 11:11 AM (l9W6q)

289 Thanks, Lizzy.

I sent that right to him.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 07, 2021 11:11 AM (dWwl8)

290 who is the female Who Dis?

I like her dress in pic 4 and the swimsuit in pic 7
Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021

***
British actress Alexandra Bastedo. She starred with Damon in The Champions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 11:12 AM (/XOcP)

291 NR basically became the Wuhan laboratory for glomming creative adjectives onto "conservative" to mean "not conservative".

Compassionate conservative
Crunchy conservative
Postmodern conservative

Call it "Loss-Of-Function" research.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 11:12 AM (6FeV1)

292 Nope. It was scanned into the local P.O. at 3 in the morning. "Out for delivery" all day.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 11:13 AM (xopIz)

293 283 who is the female Who Dis?

I like her dress in pic 4 and the swimsuit in pic 7

Posted by: kallisto at June 07, 2021 11:09 AM (DJFLF)

Heh. You'll have to wait until Wednesday.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 11:13 AM (l9W6q)

294 "This guy is a former Catholic, from Syracuse, and only started attending church after marrying"

If he only started attending church after marrying, he wasn't Catholic. I'm tired of the media and others acting like there's an ethnic element to Catholicism. If you're not meeting the most basic requirements of Catholicism -and that includes a weekly Mass obligation, as well as all Holy Days of Obligation- you're not Catholic. I don't care if your parents were. I don't care if you were baptized a Catholic, or made your First Communion in the church. So don't blame us for guys like this Pavlovitz

Posted by: Wally at June 07, 2021 11:14 AM (FJYfm)

295 Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 10:49 AM (l9W6q)

--------------------

They will have to, for he who pays the piper calls the tune and the paymaster will be anti-DeSantis.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 11:14 AM (RMGKK)

296 Victor -- Eric Braeden, formerly Hans Gudegast of The Rat Patrol?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 07, 2021 10:50 AM (/XOcP)

Nearly every time I see him I tell Mrs. anchorbabe, "The apes must die!"

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Well, Eric Braeden was also Dr. Charles Forbin in "Colossus: The Forbin Project". So he's got that going for him, too.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....Living on the prison planet at June 07, 2021 11:14 AM (vcOmj)

297 Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 11:12 AM (6FeV1)

OK, that was some funny shit right there.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 11:14 AM (l9W6q)

298
Let's see how all of the NeverTrump shitbirds deal with Ron DeSantis. I'll bet you anything they'll start dumping on him, too.
Posted by: OregonMuse

They'll probably demand he denounce Trump in order to garner their support.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 07, 2021 11:15 AM (63Dwl)

299 One of John Derek's ex-wives?

Posted by: Fox2! at June 07, 2021 11:16 AM (qyH+l)

300 China is somewhat socially conservative in regards to gay stuff. Probably around where we were in the 90s - no gay marriage or anything like that and gay stuff doesn't often show up in the media, but they do tolerate it since they have such a gender imbalance.
Presumably then China is just using globohomo to weaken the west, and like the Islamists would react if their puppets in the west tried to force globohomo on them.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2021 11:16 AM (DpkTQ)

301 299 One of John Derek's ex-wives?

Posted by: Fox2! at June 07, 2021 11:16 AM (qyH+l)

Heh. That doesn't narrow it down much.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 07, 2021 11:19 AM (l9W6q)

302 This information is almost certainly being leaked by Aussie intelligence. The Aussies are pissed. They know what went on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 07, 2021 11:01 AM (Mzdiz)

-------------------

I read somewhere that it's thought Pompeo is filling in Aussies on the details.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 11:22 AM (RMGKK)

303 294 "This guy is a former Catholic, from Syracuse, and only started attending church after marrying"

If he only started attending church after marrying, he wasn't Catholic. I'm tired of the media and others acting like there's an ethnic element to Catholicism. If you're not meeting the most basic requirements of Catholicism -and that includes a weekly Mass obligation, as well as all Holy Days of Obligation- you're not Catholic. I don't care if your parents were. I don't care if you were baptized a Catholic, or made your First Communion in the church. So don't blame us for guys like this Pavlovitz
Posted by: Wally at June 07, 2021 11:14 AM (FJYfm)

Technically you can't formally leave as of 2010.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at June 07, 2021 11:23 AM (z5Vrg)

304 If they're starting to suck up to DeSantis they are looking for position and influence to start pushing it on him that "this is what you need to do to win," at the national level.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 07, 2021 11:02 AM (G2zl5)

-----------------------

I think DeSantis knows how to win and doesn't need their advice or help since the NeverTrumpers don't represent any Republican voting blocks.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 07, 2021 11:32 AM (RMGKK)

305 WTF type of pants is trump wearing?

Posted by: Proud Moderate at June 07, 2021 11:33 AM (eY+2r)

306 How is it Pelosi and Schumer can get the democrats to vote as a single bloc again and again?

The only thing I can figure is that they control the voting machines and have a total lock on funding. So they can end someone's career if they wish, and Republicans are more widely supported and cannot rely on fraud to fix elections in most areas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 07, 2021 11:36 AM (KZzsI)

307 Heh. That doesn't narrow it down much.

Talk about someone with a type.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, world's most respected Fantasy Hero writer at June 07, 2021 11:36 AM (KZzsI)

308 Looks like folks have put together Stuart Damon and Alexandra Bastedo in "The Champions", so on to the trivia.

Stuart's still kicking but Alexandra passed away relatively young at age 67 in 2014.

Also, it appears there was a follow on TV movie to "The Champions". "Legend of the Champions" in 1983, pulling a respectable 7.6/10 on the IMDB rating scale.

Damon did play on General Hospital as Dr. Alan Quartermain. And a bit more obscurely, he played Tony Verdeschi's brother in a 2nd season episode of Space: 1999 as well as Parks in the 1st season ep, "Matter of Life and Death".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2021 11:36 AM (ZSK0i)

309 Heh. A bit more reading shows that "Legend of the Champions" was two Champions episodes cut together into the TV movie.

Long live Hollywood creative bankruptcy.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 07, 2021 11:38 AM (ZSK0i)

310 This was in my local online paper:

We are looking for poetry/spoken word to be preformed at the pride bbq! Themes of diversity, gender, sexuality, mental health, relationships, etc. under a LGBTQIA lens are preferred. Take this opportunity to share your work with the community.

Because you couldn't possibly be a poet who happens to be gay without addressing your sexual orientation/sarc. Somehow Walt Whitman managed it, but he's an old dead white guy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2021 11:52 AM (k39e/)

311 "If 2022 goes poorly, Evangelicals will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again."

Poor Pavlovitz.

Projection. He doesn't get that fomenting and stoking the mob's not getting him away from the guillotine when it starts dropping.

Posted by: JB71 at June 07, 2021 12:17 PM (l2max)

312 John Pavlovitz is a Unitarian-Universalist, probably the most progressive church in America. When somebody says-as he does " used to think I was a Christian" it's not going to be good.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2021 12:18 PM (k39e/)

313 The good pastor sure doesn't seem to love his neighbors, does he?

Posted by: West at June 07, 2021 01:09 PM (QY+6a)

314 I understand the anger at Dreher's never Trumpism. I think he did a lot of that schtick as click-bait and later regretted it. I also recall (I could be wrong) that he voted for Trump in 2020. At any rate, he may be "evolving".

Posted by: Martin Tell at June 07, 2021 01:10 PM (8OOiY)

315 John Pavlovitz is a Unitarian-Universalist, probably the most progressive church in America. When somebody says-as he does " used to think I was a Christian" it's not going to be good.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The Unitarian church I went to as a youth and sang christian songs in the choir is now a gay meat market.

So, yeah.

Posted by: West at June 07, 2021 01:11 PM (QY+6a)

316 Dreher is now in in Eastern Europe and had a good post today calling our Soros and liberal elites for trying to destroy traditional families in Romania. I can't seem to post excerpts, but it's worth a read. FWIW

Posted by: Martin Tell at June 07, 2021 01:17 PM (8OOiY)

317 Since White people no longer have equality under the law; I am wondering why I should care that groups I literally do not give a crap about are similarly deprived of their special privileges which they do nothing by abuse. GTFO if you do not like it.

Posted by: RandbotFan at June 07, 2021 04:14 PM (i7ZAA)

318 I think her name was Alexandra Bastedo from a TV show called 'The Champions' which was I think an ITV show inspired by their success with The Avengers.

Posted by: stv at June 07, 2021 07:56 PM (m4GYV)

319 Our local minor league team home game for June 20 is designated as "Pride Day". That apparently is more important than celebrating Father's Day to them.

Fuck baseball.

Posted by: nishdoogedacht at June 07, 2021 08:49 PM (UsbFe)

320 I'd know Baron Mikel Sicluna anywhere.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at June 08, 2021 05:00 PM (5CAq2)

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