Report: Two New York Times Insiders Claim A "Top Editor" Deliberately Quashed Any Investigation Into the Origins of the Wuhan Virus

First, some background from Ashley Rindsberg reporting at Unherd:

In the opening months of the pandemic, the lab leak hypothesis was actively discredited by the media and scientific establishment, with anyone associated with it smeared as "racist". The question we have to ask now is how, and why, did this happen?

To a great extent, I believe the answer lies with the world's most powerful news outlet, the New York Times. At the start of the pandemic, the Times set the news and policy agenda on the lab leak hypothesis, discrediting it and anyone who explored it. The Times did so while taking money from Chinese state-owned propaganda outlets, such as China Daily, and while pursuing long-term investments in China that may have made the paper susceptible to the CCP's strong-arm propaganda tactics in the first months of the pandemic.
As someone who has spent years researching the history of the Times, I was struck by the paper's markedly pro-China bent at the start of the pandemic. It opposed Trump's travel ban to and from China as "isolationist". It all but ignored the unparalleled success of China's arch-enemy, Taiwan, in containing the virus. It downplayed China's economic war against Australia, whose prime minister early on questioned the CCP story on the pandemic's origins. And it celebrated China's success in battling Covid-19, taking the CCP's absurd mortality numbers at face value, reporting in August 2020 that 4,634 Chinese people died from the virus and, six months later, that there were 4,636 total deaths. That in a country of 1.4 billion people only two people died of Covid-19 in the half a year defies logic and common sense. Still, the Times legitimised the CCP numbers by printing them as hard fact.

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Over the months, the Times’s coverage grew even more strident --and more in line with Chinese propaganda. In February 2020, it gave a platform to zoologist Peter Daszak, publishing an opinion piece by him which claimed that the pandemic was caused by "road-building, deforestation, land clearing and agricultural development". Daszak argued that "discovering and sequencing" viruses like Covid-19 in labs like the one in Wuhan should be a priority.
The Times, which used Daszak as a key source in over a dozen articles, has never mentioned that Daszak's organisation funded the Wuhan lab, in particular research into bats and coronaviruses, a flagrant conflict of interest. Crucially, there was no mention of this when a reporter interviewed Daszak this February, following his return from a heavily criticised WHO investigation into the virus's origins. (Danszak later recused himself from the investigation because of the conflict of interest.)
But the Times also never revealed that Daszak was a favoured source for another outlet: China Daily. The state-owned media organisation, along with Xinhua and sister outlet Global Times, repeatedly quoted Daszak to assure readers of China's full cooperation in the search for the virus’s origins -- and to discredit the possibility of a lab leak.
In fact, the Times appears to have been so enthusiastic in its attempts to discredit the lab leak hypothesis that Chinese propaganda outlets promoted its reporting on social media. In April 2020, for instance, the Times published an article claiming the Trump Administration’s investigation into a lab leak "has echoes of the Bush administration’s 2002 push for assessments saying that Iraq had weapons of mass of destruction." Within minutes, a China Daily columnist retweeted the story and parroted its central claim.

The article goes on to note that not only does (or did) the New York Times take money from China to run a propaganda insert in the New York Times itself, but the New York Times also bragged about the lucrative publishing ventures it was launching in the Chinese market.

In other words: China had kompromat on the New York Times. And they in fact leveraged this kompromat to pressure the New York Times regarding reporting they considered anti-China, as the article notes.

Read the whole thing.

And now to the claim that a New York Times senior editor ordered that there be no investigation into the origins of covid-19, reported by Dominic Greene at SpectatorWorld.

A top editor at the New York Times instructed Times staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID-19, two Times employees confirmed today.
'In early 2020,' a veteran Times employee tells me, 'I suggested to a senior editor at the paper that we investigate the origins of COVID-19. I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus. There was resistance to running anything that could suggest that [COVID-19 was manmade or had leaked accidentally from a lab].'
[Even as evidence of a lab leak was building, the Times], according to two well-placed sources, refused to investigate the biggest story of our time. Instead, senior editors are alleged to have suppressed efforts to probe the virus's origins, and the Times led the charge to dismiss any questioning of the WHO’s now-discredited line as conspiracist or even 'racist'.
'It was considered a conspiracy theory,' confirms a second Times insider who was in a senior position on a different section at the time, and also proposed an investigation. 'It was untouchable everywhere. The fact that Trump embraced it, of course, also made it a no-go.'
'The idea was considered dangerous,' my first source agreed. They suggest that the Times's editors weren't motivated by domestic politics in an election year, or even by a hatred of Donald Trump that ran so deep as to dispose them to trust the WHO and the Chinese government over the Trump administration.
In the years before COVID-19, revenue from China was an integral part of the Times's business model....
In November 2019, it emerged that China Daily had failed to disclose to federal authorities millions of dollars in payments to US outlets including the Times and the Washington Post. In August 2020, the Times quietly scrubbed the China-funded advertorials from its website. Still, in October 2020, the Times ran an op-ed by Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong's Executive Council, justifying the repression of anti-government protests in the Hong Kong SAR.

Tucker Carlson picks up on that little nugget that The New York Times deleted all the Chinese propaganda articles it ran -- paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, at a rate of $100,000 per month - soon after covid-19 broke out.

Almost as if they strongly suspected China created the virus, and they wanted to hide the evidence of their long-term collusion with the Chinese Communist Party.

He also recounts all the apparently-uncompensated propaganda on behalf of the CCP that the New York Times, CNN, and NBC/MSNBC ran.

As someone keeps saying -- I think Instapundit frequently repeats it, though I don't know if it's original to him -- the media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM

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1 We already know the origin. An investigation would be silly. ...as would reporting it.

Posted by: The NYT at August 04, 2021 11:17 AM (AytXr)

2 The Motherfucking Media are motherfuckers.

Posted by: Mark in Sandy UT at August 04, 2021 11:17 AM (DTI8p)

3 Editors, Publishers, enemies of the People.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:18 AM (V6f9+)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at August 04, 2021 11:18 AM (kgZr/)

5 Who/what does CCP not own?

Posted by: EveR at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (MUpk6)

6 Brave truth tellers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

7 The media lies 24/7.

Even when they remain silent.

Still lying.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (/1l9x)

8 Tucker's scowly face is funny in the vid thumbnail, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (V6f9+)

9 5 Who/what does CCP not own?
Posted by: EveR at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (MUpk6)

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Our potted plants. I'm pretty sure our potted plants are free.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

10 As someone keeps saying -- I think Instapundit frequently repeats it, though I don't know if it's original to him -- the media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.

Posted by: Ace at 12:17 PM

It goes back farther than that. At least to the 1930s with Walter Duranty and Stalin, and the fool whose name I cannot forget who essentially persuaded the US to abandon Batista and ensured Castro's victory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (s2VJv)

11 All the news, and paid propaganda, that we decide to print.

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2021 11:21 AM (AwYPR)

12 11 All the news, and paid propaganda, that we decide to print.
Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2021 11:21 AM (AwYPR)

All the news that fits the meme, we print.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:21 AM (s2VJv)

13 Tucker always makes these faces like he's just been told his colonoscopy results are in and show he's 3 months pregnant. I wonder if he practices these in a mirror.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 11:22 AM (QU5/8)

14 When did once liberal newspapers decide that being liberal wasn't far enough to the left and they needed to go full communist?

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 04, 2021 11:22 AM (cSyAR)

15 Tucker Carlson picks up on that little nugget that The New York Times deleted all the Chinese propaganda articles it ran -- paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, at a rate of $100,000 per month - soon after covid-19 broke out.

it's always worse than we thought

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 04, 2021 11:22 AM (2o90I)

16 In November 2019, it emerged that China Daily had failed to disclose to federal authorities millions of dollars in payments to US outlets including the Times and the Washington Post. In August 2020, the Times quietly scrubbed the China-funded advertorials from its website. Still, in October 2020, the Times ran an op-ed by Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong's Executive Council, justifying the repression of anti-government protests in the Hong Kong SAR.
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I know it's not directly comparable, but this strikes me as a damn sight more severe than what they prosecuted Flynn for (even if Flynn had actually done it, which he didn't). An alleged FARA technicality got a multi-year, multi-million-dollar investigation, while actual undisclosed foreign financing of our news organs didn't raise so much as an eyebrow.

But rule of law and honest agents and good governance and whatnot. Nothing to see.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (3p5uk)

17 An interesting effect that the last 18 months has had on me.... I can no longer be surprised by the culture or the government.... and a constant state of anger and outrage.. becomes something else.

Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (6Je/Q)

18 They turned idiocracy into a documentary in 2009-2017....

Zhou Bai-Dan will make Firefly one this decade.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (Lzpvj)

19 my shocked tits:

(@) (@)

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (sJHOI)

20 I'll file this tectonic plate shifting shocker of a news story with the one declaring water is wet. The NYT as a news source is scum.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (O+I8R)

21 So, the New York times is actually guilty of what Dems accuse Guilliani of... being a paid Foreign Agent.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (oHd/0)

22 It's not the crime, it's the coverup of the coverup.

Posted by: huerfano at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (MzKgG)

23 An interesting effect that the last 18 months has had on me.... I can no longer be surprised by the culture or the government.... and a constant state of anger and outrage.. becomes something else.
Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (6Je/Q)
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Default distrust and contempt, with little room for surprise.

If you're me, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (3p5uk)

24 9 TheJamesMadison

I bl the dogs want no part of them, either.

Posted by: EveR at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (MUpk6)

25 "the media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party" -- Word, but also don't forget that in 2020 this was mostly about hating on OrangeManBad and sabotaging his reelection. Literally EVERYTHING the fake news media did and said was to oppose Trump no matter what he said or did. Thought experiment: Had Trump said that the virus was naturally occurring, would the fake news media have screamed "NO IT WASN'T, IT WAS MADE IN A CHINESE LAB"? Tough choice for the media there. Do they choose to parrot their Chinese Masters, or do they succumb again to their hysterical Trump-hate and oppose him at all costs?

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

26 he media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.

master/slave

from every level

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (2o90I)

27 but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.

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I dunno.

Theyve been pretty fucking open about it.

Watching Jon Cena apologize ...in Mandarin ... was the pinnacle of Chinese dick sucking.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (8XRCm)

28 So, the failing NYT secretly sold out space in its newspaper (and editorial control), to China.

Makes sense. The NYT doesn't make money and probably would have folded years ago absent skullduggery such as this. Wonder how much money domestic and foreign governments give national media to prop it up and turn them into propaganda.

Posted by: Revenant at August 04, 2021 11:24 AM (wsx8x)

29 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

30 The "Top Editors" are teh reason why every publication is magically on the same exact page on every single subject.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (qLTTY)

31 13 Tucker always makes these faces like he's just been told his colonoscopy results are in and show he's 3 months pregnant. I wonder if he practices these in a mirror.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 11:22 AM (QU5/

Maybe, especially now since the "Tucker face" has become a meme.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (5aFbR)

32 Tell me again why calling the media the 'enemy of the people' is wrong?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

33 Geez! The NYT covers up two communist genocides in a century and, right away, you're all upset!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (d9FiS)

34 Tell me again why calling the media the 'enemy of the people' is wrong?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
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Because they are never punished.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (3p5uk)

35 The NYTimes didn't have to be paid to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CCP.

But we all knew this to be true long ago.

Posted by: Blor Utar, from Zimtok-5 at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (xxG/v)

36 33 Geez! The NYT covers up two communist genocides in a century and, right away, you're all upset!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (d9FiS)

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They're only off on this count by 2. Is that really so much to get on about?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

37 Daily COVID Deaths in Sweden Hit Zero, as Other Nations Brace for More Lockdowns tinyurl.com/2zvt9bh2

A year ago Sweden did indeed look pretty scary - 8th worst of all countries. Today, Sweden is in 42nd place.
Sweden's situation is improving over time. Many of the nations ahead of Sweden on the bad list (France, Portugal, Spain, US, UK, Poland, Italy, Belgium, and Hungary) have had extreme lockdowns. What was their pay-off?

Explain it to me again - why do the brilliant people making government policy think more lockdowns are the solution?

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (G3I8H)

38 The NYT is a shill for the Chinese government!?!?

The hell you say.

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (88xKn)

39 https://tinyurl.com/yxw2vuvy

Sailor Navy says torched the Goodman Ricky identified...

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (Lzpvj)

40 NYT.... a new motto: "Defending Commies Since 1917"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (b4FbH)

41 traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.

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Ace, slight edit, that should read, "traitorous history of collusion with Communists."

MSM colluding with the CCP is merely the most recent example of the long history of collusion.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (2SdPm)

42 Almost as if they strongly suspected China created the virus, and they wanted to hide the evidence of their long-term collusion with the Chinese Communist Party.

Then they figured out it was easier to just bury news about China's evil than to cover up their previous connections and propaganda

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (KZzsI)

43 37 Explain it to me again - why do the brilliant people making government policy think more lockdowns are the solution?
Posted by: Evil Incarnate at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (G3I8H)

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Because they have a hammer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

44 > I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus.

And the little wiener backed down? It's hilarious how "journalists" like to pretend they're fearless, hard-nosed, relentless people who'll track a story wherever it goes. In real life they're lazy groupthinkers who'll quit as soon as their editor says, "that might be dangerous."

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (i0wNm)

45 33 Geez! The NYT covers up two communist genocides in a century and, right away, you're all upset!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (d9FiS)

The other one was LAST century... so.. one per century!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (oHd/0)

46 Explain it to me again - why do the brilliant people making government policy think more lockdowns are the solution?
Posted by: Evil Incarnate at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (G3I8H)
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Because it isn't about COVID.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (3p5uk)

47 Oh c'mon. We had the lab leak origin figured out in thirty minutes.

Posted by: Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (Wm5SB)

48 19 my shocked tits:

(@) (@)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (sJHOI)

If you can do a strike-through with the ampersands, you have Cuomo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (s2VJv)

49 Seem to recall that the NYT ran a pro-Communism series, with one of the entries being a lengthy story on how sex is so much better under Communist rule.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (bDqIh)

50 An interesting effect that the last 18 months has had on me.... I can no longer be surprised by the culture or the government.... and a constant state of anger and outrage.. becomes something else.
Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (6Je/Q)

Anger and despair for me. Today was brief anger. It's usually despair.

Tell me again why calling the media the 'enemy of the people' is wrong?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

If you call someone your enemy, it is an admission that you look upon them as an opponent who must be fight against at every turn, with no let-up, until they are destroyed. No mercy, no quarter.

Tell me whom, save DeSantis, will treat the MFM as an enemy?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (2JVJo)

51 That doesn't seem like something an NYT editor would do. /s

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (bkUtD)

52 If you can do a strike-through with the ampersands, you have Cuomo.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (s2VJv)
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(@) (@)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (3p5uk)

53 Because it isn't about COVID.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (3p5uk)
Can someone please get this guy to stop being so...*reasonable*???

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (DJFLF)

54 48 If you can do a strike-through with the ampersands, you have Cuomo.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (s2VJv)

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Let's make that happen:

( @ ) ( @ )

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

55 I'm gobsmacked at the amount of collusion between NYT and the commies, from Russia to China and back. It seems very much like a teenybopper having a crush on the bad boy, not understanding what could happen in the long run.

Maybe folks need to quit buying their crap, eh?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (okGHj)

56 >>>(@) (@)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Well, there goes my lunch.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (bkUtD)

57 I'm sure the next story is free from bias, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

58 49 Seem to recall that the NYT ran a pro-Communism series, with one of the entries being a lengthy story on how sex is so much better under Communist rule.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (bDqIh)

Even the Beatles' "Back in the USSR" was a pretty good sarcastic dig at the Commies. More than any editorial from the Slimes ever did.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (s2VJv)

59 If China told the US/Fauci about the virus leak, and struck a deal to keep their silence, then the US is going to be culpable for all of this.

Posted by: m at August 04, 2021 11:30 AM (fVJPF)

60 Australian PM tells reporter it's on you if you die from the jab because you didn't get your GP to clear you. And anyway, you need to break a few eggs when you're making a Zero Covide omelet, amirite?

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2021 11:30 AM (DJFLF)

61 It's not shocking that they are bought. It's shocking how cheap they were.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 04, 2021 11:30 AM (G2zl5)

62 NYT: China's Very Own Paper of Record. It goes well with their takeover of American farmland. And their takeover of half of Congress.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (O+I8R)

63 I certainly hope Tucker stays as this current Tucker.

As it stands now, he's a national treasure.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)

64 I'm gobsmacked at the amount of collusion between NYT and the commies,
from Russia to China and back. It seems very much like a teenybopper
having a crush on the bad boy, not understanding what could happen in
the long run.
It's worse than that. They're more like an adult female pursuing Charles Manson in prison. They know what he is, they just don't care.

Posted by: pep at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (ZsR3z)

65 n interesting effect that the last 18 months has had on me.... I can no longer be surprised by the culture or the government.... and a constant state of anger and outrage.. becomes something else.
Posted by: kraken
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Cold, unadulterated loathing.

Kept in check.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (FmP4o)

66 The same people who demand to see Trump's tax returns will fight to the death to hide theirs.

Because they don't want you to know they are paid significant sums via 1099, not W-2 from who they pretend to work for.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (jIL4c)

67 >>> Explain it to me again - why do the brilliant people making government policy think more lockdowns are the solution?
Posted by: Evil Incarnate at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (G3I8H)

Lockdowns are the solution to the problem of uppity peasants. They believe this because it is correct. ... until it isn't.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (EXfvD)

68 The burning times clock is at 11:59

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (M+Lyo)

69
Oh c'mon. We had the lab leak origin figured out in thirty minutes.
Posted by: Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby

And we would have gotten away with it, too, were it not for you meddling kids!

-- the CCP

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (pNxlR)

70 ( @ ) ( @ )

Too perky. Unlike his meatball brother, the guv doesn't hit the gym often enough and gravity has Nadlerized his gubernatorial moobs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (QU5/8)

71 With the exception of Lennon ( suffering from the Yoko Effect), the Beatles were comparatively pretty politically unobjectionable, with an exception or two.

Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (6Je/Q)

72 I'm gobsmacked at the amount of collusion between NYT and the commies, from Russia to China and back. It seems very much like a teenybopper having a crush on the bad boy, not understanding what could happen in the long run.

Its gotten way worse with the Chinese though, at least as far as I can tell. They were all sweet on the Russians but they'd run stories on how Ruskies did terrible stuff, too. China gets the white wash constantly.

I think the difference is money. Chinese money, and Chinese advisors. We'd have never allowed Soviets to build college campus bases, we'd never have allowed Soviets to put advisors onto boards of companies and media outlets. We'd never have allowed Soviets to dictate to film companies what they can and cannot show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (KZzsI)

73 It's not shocking that they are bought. It's shocking how cheap they were.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 04, 2021 11:30 AM (G2zl5)
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This. What I found most shocking during the Trump era was not that the government was for sale, but how cheaply it could be bought. I learned during that time that *I* could afford to buy some mid-high guys in the government. I don't have the connections and so can't actually do it - but when I learned that little 'ole me could have cut a check for Bolton (IIRC), I will admit to being genuinely astonished.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (3p5uk)

74 Explain it to me again - why do the brilliant people making government policy think more lockdowns are the solution?

Posted by: Evil Incarnate at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (G3I8H)
Honestly, I think the American government looks at the protests in Europe and sees an opportunity for Worst Terrorist Attack Ever v2.0, and a pretext for the next phase.

Posted by: drerbrerard at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (Uzh5E)

75 https://tinyurl.com/yxw2vuvy

Sailor Navy says torched the Goodman Ricky identified...

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 11:26 AM (Lzpvj)

Huh. "Ryan Mays"...not the name I was expecting. Be interesting to see what surfaces about him. Fucking asshole, hope he gets a firing squad.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (V6f9+)

76 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

pasties?

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (AwYPR)

77 The media has a long history of getting into bed with murderous regimes. Remember CNN had a bureau in Baghdad before the 2003 invasion. The price of having that bureau there was CNN's complicity in covering up for Saddam's misdeeds.

How many similar arrangements are for media companies around the globe?

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2021 11:33 AM (5aFbR)

78 "All The News That's Fit To Print"

"Democracy Dies In Darkness"

Posted by: mrp at August 04, 2021 11:33 AM (Pqytn)

79 Most left wingers think the Chicoms are the good commies, that prove that communism can work if we only give it a chance

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2021 11:33 AM (GPwVZ)

80 The NYT. A leftist Mexican owned rag running Chinese propaganda in America.

Posted by: Barr Durham at August 04, 2021 11:34 AM (s2zwS)

81 Also, the combination tells you that the Red China influence is essentially complete. The NYT is the State/LE paper and the WaPo is the Party/IC paper. And both are deeply in bed with Red China, which means both organizations (well, all four) are.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:34 AM (3p5uk)

82
the fool whose name I cannot forget who essentially persuaded the US to abandon Batista and ensured Castro's victory.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Herbert Matthews?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2021 11:34 AM (63Dwl)

83 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (3p5uk)

Its not about ongoing payments... its about Kompromat.

Keep proof of the little payments they took, so they don't feel they can increase the price.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (oHd/0)

84 Most evil song of the last 200 years:
"Imagine" by John Lennon
or
"The Internationale"?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (V6f9+)

85
Old NYT slogan: "All The News That's Fit To Print"

New NYT slogan: "Don't Break My Rice Bowl, H8rs!"

Posted by: mrp at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (Pqytn)

86 Its not about ongoing payments... its about Kompromat.

Keep proof of the little payments they took, so they don't feel they can increase the price.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (oHd/0)
++++
The Kompromat is the core of it, I suspect - the people involved want to get paid, but the Kompramat is the opening play in all cases.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (3p5uk)

87 79 Most left wingers think the Chicoms are the good commies, that prove that communism can work if we only give it a chance
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2021 11:33 AM (GPwVZ)

My take is that they are barbaric Godless monsters who have taken Communism to its' logical conclusion... but hey, that's just me....

Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (6Je/Q)

88 "The Times did so while taking money from Chinese state-owned propaganda outlets, such as China Daily, and while pursuing long-term investments in China that may have made the paper susceptible to the CCP's strong-arm propaganda tactics in the first months of the pandemic."

China's government murdered north of 60 million people in the 60's. You don't do that without strong-arm government officials.

New companies who engage with China are not doing this passive "oh no, we took their money and now we have to do what they say." They are 100% willful collaborators.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (HK8/E)

89 For all of his faults, Osama was a family man.

-NYT

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (fDqO+)

90 It was the NYT's "Red Century" series in 2017:
https://tinyurl.com/8hcf4fap

From the Federalist: Has anyone else observed a striking pattern in the New York Times recently? They've hosted a series of fond, nostalgic recollections about the good old days of twentieth-century Communism . . .

The overall thrust of the series is summed up in a call to try Communism again, but maybe this time try not to have any gulags. No,really:

This time, people get to vote. Well, debate and deliberate and then vote --and have faith that people can organize together to chart new destinations for humanity. . .

We may reject the version of Lenin and the Bolsheviks as crazed demons and choose to see them as well-intentioned people trying to build a better world out of a crisis, but we must work out how to avoid their failures.

And this was back when they were all upset about the alleged Trump collusion with RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (bDqIh)

91 Huh. "Ryan Mays"...not the name I was expecting. Be interesting to see what surfaces about him. Fucking asshole, hope he gets a firing squad.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (V6f9+)

Going to be interesting to see what kind of case they have against him.... taking a YEAR to even arrest someone, says they probably don't have much.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:36 AM (oHd/0)

92 If there ever was an entity more deserving to be charged with sedition and treason it is the New York Times.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 04, 2021 11:36 AM (qoLdL)

93 75 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (V6f9+)

He strove to be a SEAL, it is interesting to me that they are rather silent on command failure which was plainly evident in the circumstances.

Posted by: sven at August 04, 2021 11:36 AM (Lzpvj)

94
It's not shocking that they are bought. It's shocking how cheap they were.
Posted by: Buzzion

All the think tanks with their scribblers churning out model U.N.-worthy essays about "bold solutions" are just as bought.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (pNxlR)

95 If there ever was an entity more deserving to be charged with sedition and treason it is the New York Times.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 04, 2021 11:36 AM (qoLdL)
++++
Many, many times across entire generations of its feculent history.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (3p5uk)

96 It goes back farther than that. At least to the 1930s with Walter Duranty and Stalin, and the fool whose name I cannot forget who essentially persuaded the US to abandon Batista and ensured Castro's victory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM (s2VJv)
-------------

More than likely, the same people who ditched Batista also advocated for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (2SdPm)

97
The NYT has a good food section, with good recipes.

That is their only importance.

Let's be real, here. Nobody except a few silly queens in Manhattan takes it seriously as a news source. And sure, they use it as the primary source for their own papers' and networks' reportage, but nobody outside of themselves takes that crap seriously, either.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (JN3xP)

98 Most evil song of the last 200 years:
"Imagine" by John Lennon
or

"The Internationale"?
Sorry, but I'm going to have to go with Muskrat Love.

Posted by: pep at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (ZsR3z)

99 It's almost as if all of our ruling class betters are traitorous whores owned lock, stock, and pedophile by the Chinese Communist Party ... or something.

Posted by: ShainS at August 04, 2021 11:38 AM (Eg4A3)

100 Somebody's got to pay for all those high priced opinion writers

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2021 11:38 AM (/Kf1Y)

101 ORANGE MAN BAD. And if a couple hundred thousand Americans have to die to prove my point, so be it.

They probably aren't subscribers, anyway. *sniff*

Posted by: NYT Editors at August 04, 2021 11:39 AM (ePZfA)

102 Sorry, but I'm going to have to go with Muskrat Love.
Posted by: pep at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (ZsR3z)
++++
Imma just leave this here.
https://tinyurl.com/j668wy8a

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:39 AM (3p5uk)

103 GA gov. gestapo have started to send out messages and calls to people in the state informing them they are being watched and inquiring whether or not they are complying with quarantine house-arrests.

This shit is new.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 11:39 AM (EXfvD)

104
More than likely, the same people who ditched Batista also advocated for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:37 AM (2SdPm)

And the same people who killed Ngo Dinh Diem demanded the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. It's a pattern with these douchebags.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2021 11:40 AM (JN3xP)

105 #4 Wear skin suit

or

Cover the news, with a pillow, until it is smothered.

Both apply to NYT

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2021 11:40 AM (yrol0)

106 Layers and layers of fact fuckers.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 04, 2021 11:40 AM (sWM8x)

107 hen the Times gets bought, they STAY bought.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:41 AM (x9dMP)

108 The bigger story by far is that apparently noone in the US IC/LE Apparatus has the China beat.

Or Alternatively the US LE/IC Apparatus much like the governing class are simply CCP vassals.

Either way, we're all f****d.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2021 11:41 AM (y2uBB)

109 Most evil song of the last 200 years:

Sussudio by Phil Collins. I really hate that stupid song.

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 11:41 AM (88xKn)

110 >>Most evil song of the last 200 years:

4 Non Blondes have to be in the running.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:42 AM (x9dMP)

111 103 GA gov. gestapo have started to send out messages and calls to people in the state informing them they are being watched and inquiring whether or not they are complying with quarantine house-arrests.

This shit is new.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 11:39 AM (EXfvD)

Wut?

Fuck. I'm definitely counting my blessings that I was able to flee there before this latest round of nonsense. Of course Louisiana has its own set of problems, but I haven't seen what you've described here...yet.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2021 11:42 AM (5aFbR)

112 Perhaps not evil, but this way up there in terms of unpleasantness for music of the past couple centuries:
https://youtu.be/NhjwgD-c260

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:42 AM (3p5uk)

113 2 The Motherfucking Media are motherfuckers.
_____________

Enemies of the people, as a wise orange-hued man once noted.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:42 AM (k4dH2)

114 Ga gov. callers are asking if people are symptomatic and completely separately if they are complying with quarantine house-arrests. They are making lists.

I guess I'll have to search for someone's attic to hide in when they come for those untainted by the injections.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 11:42 AM (EXfvD)

115 109 Most evil song of the last 200 years:

Sussudio by Phil Collins. I really hate that stupid song.
Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 11:41 AM (88xKn)

" Do You Believe in Love"... Cher

Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:43 AM (6Je/Q)

116 May those who deliberately lied about this contract some creeping flesh eating crud until they are walking skeletons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 11:43 AM (PcLRn)

117
Fuck. I'm definitely counting my blessings that I was able to flee there before this latest round of nonsense. Of course Louisiana has its own set of problems, but I haven't seen what you've described here...yet.
Posted by: Thrawn

You'll be nonplussed when ravenous packs of nutria break down your back door, then?

Good to know!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:43 AM (pNxlR)

118 Simmmmmmply Haaaaving a Wonderful Christmas Tiiiiiime x infinity

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 11:43 AM (qLTTY)

119 Super conservative Republican governor of Arkansas says he wishes he had NOT signed a bill that bans mask mandates.

Voter harder everyone.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (RCDSE)

120
Loving You.

Minnie Ripperton.

There are parts of that song only my dog can hear.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (8XRCm)

121 How about "Don't worry, be happy."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (PcLRn)

122 84 Most evil song of the last 200 years:
"Imagine" by John Lennon
or
"The Internationale"?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:35 AM (V6f9+)
------------

Imagine. 100%. People let it permeate culture because it was somewhat happy dopey catchy, but if you really listen to what Lenin, I mean Lennon, is advocating, it is equal parts impossible and insidious.

But woo-Beatles-maaaan. And I'm mocking that *as* a Beatles fan myself. Ono ruined them.

"Culture" tried to implement everything Lennon laid out in this siren-song to communism, and the more they tried to implement it, the messier and uglier and farther from utopia we were all dragged. And here we are today.

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (ePZfA)

123 OT: lol, took longer than I expected ..... fed judge shuts down Abbott's/TX effort to suppress mass illegal migration via transportation restrictions.

Related, "encounters" with illegals by BP/others, a sort of crude index of volume of border crossing, at record levels, and still rising.

But you probably already knew all this, from the GOP incumbents screaming at the top of their lungs about it.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (OTzUX)

124 64 I'm gobsmacked at the amount of collusion between NYT and the commies,
from Russia to China and back.
They're more like an adult female pursuing Charles Manson in prison. They know what he is, they just don't care.
Posted by: pep at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (ZsR3z)

"Hey, so maybe the NYT is colluding with China to cover up their genocides, but I read this shiny new media corp that was founded by a former NYT editor, so I'm clean."

I honestly wonder how many graduates from the Frankfurt school openly run or play a major part of (i.e. diversity and inclusion chair) some sort of media conglomerate.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (HK8/E)

125
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:43 AM (pNxlR)

I think I've noted this before, but you have one of the maybe top-five nics at AoS. I laugh every time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (JN3xP)

126 Perhaps not evil, but this way up there in terms of unpleasantness for music of the past couple centuries:
https://youtu.be/NhjwgD-c260

Turrible. Just turrible.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (QU5/8)

127 Perhaps not evil, but this way up there in terms of unpleasantness for music of the past couple centuries:
Disallowed. It's not really music, now is it.

Posted by: pep at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (ZsR3z)

128 >>Loving You.

Minnie Ripperton.

>There are parts of that song only my dog can hear.

La la la la la

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (x9dMP)

129 Demon on my shoulder says...Fuck you.

The Angel on the other shoulder says.....War.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (qoz/n)

130 Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (OTzUX)

Abbott needs to declare a State of Emergency due to Covid and the INVASION of illegals.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (oHd/0)

131
Imagine. 100%. People let it permeate culture because it was somewhat happy dopey catchy, but if you really listen to what Lenin, I mean Lennon, is advocating, it is equal parts impossible and insidious.

It is the very essence of somnambulant stupidity from the get go.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (pNxlR)

132 Imagine. 100%. People let it permeate culture because it was somewhat happy dopey catchy, but if you really listen to what Lenin, I mean Lennon, is advocating, it is equal parts impossible and insidious.
___________

He didn't believe it himself. When somebody asked Lennon once why he didn't live as the song suggested, he got annoyed and replied "it's just a f*cking son, man."

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (k4dH2)

133 109 Most evil song of the last 200 years:

Tainted Love by Soft Cell

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (M+Lyo)

134 Loving You.

Minnie Ripperton.

There are parts of that song only my dog can hear.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 04, 2021 11:44 AM (8XRCm)
------------

Doot-un-doot-un-doo-doo. Aaaah.

Posted by: that hunter guy off of South Park with throat cancer at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (ePZfA)

135 he got annoyed and replied "it's just a f*cking son, man."
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (k4dH2)

Clown nose on and off wasn't invented by Jon Stewpid

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (qLTTY)

136 Do they know it's Christmas.. Drives me wacko

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (Zmnko)

137 "it's just a f*cking song" (not son).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (k4dH2)

138 >>Tainted Love by Soft Cell

Great cover of a great song...just, played to death.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (x9dMP)

139 ~~(@)~~ ~~(@)~~
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 04, 2021 11:23 AM (sJHOI)

If you can do a strike-through with the ampersands, you have Cuomo.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:28 AM (s2VJv)

Attempted.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)

140 The NYT has a good food section, with good recipes.

That is their only importance.

Yes I did enjoy their food and travel sections. Lifestyle, if you will. And it was from the NYT, months before the Covide clusterfark...that I learned the Italian leather industry had been taken over by Chinese immigrants and displaced Italians were not happy.

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (DJFLF)

141 You'll be nonplussed when ravenous packs of nutria break down your back door, then?

Good to know!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:43 AM (pNxlR)

I'm going to be counting on them for protein when Slow Joe locks us down completely.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (5aFbR)

142 Scotus told Biden he cannot extend the moratorium on rent. Biden said LOLGF and did it anyway. Abbott should do the same. But wont because that is not who we are or something.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (RCDSE)

143 Most evil song of the last 200 years:

Tainted Love by Soft Cell
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (M+Lyo)

I take it back its 1 800 kars for kidz

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (M+Lyo)

144 Ga gov. callers are asking if people are symptomatic and completely separately if they are complying with quarantine house-arrests. They are making lists.

I guess I'll have to search for someone's attic to hide in when they come for those untainted by the injections.
Posted by: banana Dream

If your phone number isn't in my contacts list, the phone doesn't get answered. You can leave a message. Doesn't mean I'll listen and return it. Just means you can leave a message.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (rmsWT)

145 This pretty girl with kinky hair and a brief top hears enough lies and thus never reads the NYT:
https://is.gd/wq0pEg

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (3p5uk)

146 Tainted Love by Soft Cell

Great cover of a great song...just, played to death.
Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (x9dMP)

That song makes me want to put my head through a wall to make it stop......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

147 >>Imagine. 100%. People let it permeate culture because it was somewhat happy dopey catchy, but if you really listen to what Lenin, I mean Lennon, is advocating, it is equal parts impossible and insidious.

THIS

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (bDqIh)

148 How about Do They Know It's Christmas?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (m+jkK)

149
Gawdawful Ear Worms as Weapons of War

An AoSHQ Thread Exclusive!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (pNxlR)

150 142 Scotus told Biden he cannot extend the moratorium on rent. Biden said LOLGF and did it anyway. Abbott should do the same. But wont because that is not who we are or something.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (RCDSE)

=========

Trump never did anything like this, which makes him a tyrant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

151 148 How about Do They Know It's Christmas?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (m+jkK)

Moron minds

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (Zmnko)

152
As Beavis and Butt-Head said, the Beatles ruined music.

As to "Imagine?" Sure, it's an asinine little piece of shit, and John Lennon was a stupid and facile little Commie.

But the kind of person who likes that song is just as stupid, facile, and asinine as it is.

But the people who actually carried out the plan don't listen to music.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (JN3xP)

153 Pina Colada Song is the worst 3 minutes in human history.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (vN+oL)

154 Or....

(@) (@)

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

155 It's looking like Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM was a lot more prescient than many thought.

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (Fs5vw)

156 the democrat party partnered with china to launch a bioweapon on the united states disguised as a lab leak on the world to get trump out of office and it worked and they got away with it and now to make it all go away china will offer to plead guilty to the lesser charge of an accidental leak and cover with an offer of one trillion dollars as restitution to the world which the democrats will swoon over and what wont be reported widely is that the one trillion figure will be spread over ten years and will come mostly in the form of debt relief

Posted by: sound awake at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (BQ5+M)

157 153 Pina Colada Song is the worst 3 minutes in human history.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (vN+oL)

Damn you!

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (Zmnko)

158 Trump never did anything like this, which makes him a tyrant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)
---------------

For all the lefts caterwauling about fascism under PDT, they sure seem to embrace it under Biden.

Funny, that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (2SdPm)

159 That cheerleader Hey Ricky song.
G*d I hate that song.

Posted by: Bosk who also misses the heck out of Jackstraw at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (FgPjD)

160 >>That song makes me want to put my head through a wall to make it stop......

Ever hear Elle King do it? Rockabilly version. Pretty good.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (x9dMP)

161 Most evil song of the last 200 years:

Tainted Love by Soft Cell
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (M+Lyo)

Zombie by that lesbian band wins that award for me.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (Zz0t1)

162 Damn you!
Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (Zmnko)
--------------

Here, have some lime in your coconut.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (2SdPm)

163 Anything by Wings or ELO.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (x9dMP)

164 Bonhomme Richard arsonist link in my sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (UHVv4)

165 By the way, for all the sheepeople complaining about DeSantis and other's who will not mandate masks: No one is telling you,can't wear a mask idiot. Fuck wear 3

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (GPwVZ)

166

Ever hear Elle King do it? Rockabilly version. Pretty good.
Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (x9dMP)

No. I do have the original on my phone and it comes up occasionally.

I'll have to look for that one.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

167
sound awake

Let your inner "Machines for Sale" freak flag fly!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (pNxlR)

168 This pretty girl with kinky hair and a brief top hears enough lies and thus never reads the NYT:
https://is.gd/wq0pEg
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (3p5uk)

Surprised you are not a fan of The Chive

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (M+Lyo)

169 #164 with photo

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (UHVv4)

170 In a sense, the left accepting Chinese bribes isn't news. Not even the right accepting that money would be news. What is news is the sudden push by the WHO and the WaPo to find the "truth' behind the Chinavirus. The CCP is understandably furious, and these aren't people you can cross safely.

We live in very interesting times.

Posted by: trev006 at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (bh1G9)

171 >>That cheerleader Hey Ricky song.

Toni Basil

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (x9dMP)

172 Opus #4.....The Art of Noise.

It can be Exlax for the brain.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (qoz/n)

173 Damn you!
Posted by: It's me donna

Here, have some lime in your coconut.
Posted by: blake

But drink it all up.

Don't worry. Be happy.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (rmsWT)

174 >>> Trump never did anything like this, which makes him a tyrant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:48 AM (LvTSG)
---------------

For all the lefts caterwauling about fascism under PDT, they sure seem to embrace it under Biden.

Funny, that.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (2SdPm)

Always descending on the right but landing on the left. My poor rendition of the famous quote.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (EXfvD)

175 163 Anything by Wings or ELO.
Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (x9dMP)

Now, you're just bringing us down, man.

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (88xKn)

176 "Duper's delight" is the smug smile that a shitty liar can't help but give away.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (/hXfz)

177 Let your inner "Machines for Sale" freak flag fly!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (pNxlR)

I loved machines for sale

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (M+Lyo)

178 " Do You Believe in Love"... Cher

--

Holy smokes, that's an awful song. Gawd awful. When I'm asked for songs I hate, these are the winners:

99 Luft Balloons
Lay Lady Lay
Key Largo

I'm gonna have to add that Cher abomination to the list.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (O+I8R)

179 168 Surprised you are not a fan of The Chive
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (M+Lyo)

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The Chive lost me when, in the space of about 24 hours, they put up a post about how awesome they were for staying out of politics and then another post about how evil repealing Net Neutrality was.

Haven't been back since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

180 Nearly 7K illegals/day encountered in July. Which is normally a much slower time of year - hot months are all historically less traffic. And note this is just those who are availing themselves of what is now literally, effectively, suspension of all immigration law and entry restrictions and sovereignty. The ones just walking into the BP "processing centers" and then moving on to their new life-time homes, without so much as a (laughable) court summons to hear their "case".

The rest, probably lower in number but significant, of course don't show up in these figures.

Man, those mid-terms are gonna be something!

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (OTzUX)

181 Here, have some lime in your coconut.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 11:50 AM (2SdPm)

drink 'em both up

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (AwYPR)

182 That cheerleader Hey Ricky song.

Toni Basil
Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (x9dMP)

She was kinda hot at the thyme.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (z7bLh)

183 142 Scotus told Biden he cannot extend the moratorium on rent. Biden said LOLGF and did it anyway. Abbott should do the same. But wont because that is not who we are or something.
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Yep, and noted "constitutional law expert" Barry Obama publicly admitted on multiple occasions that the president does not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally grant amnesty to large classes of illegal aliens -- but then did it anyway, because he had an election he needed to win.

The left is always willing to ignore the constitution when it serves their lust for more power.

And sadly, the SCOTUS is always willing to let them get away with it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (k4dH2)

184 Most evil song of the last 200 years:

Muskrat Love

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (rmsWT)

185 171 >>That cheerleader Hey Ricky song.

Toni Basil

I think it's hey Mickey

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (Zmnko)

186 Surprised you are not a fan of The Chive
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 04, 2021 11:51 AM (M+Lyo)
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Their site is a cluttered, tracker-ridden resource pig that is difficult to navigate and way up its own ass. It's as bad as the sites for major newspapers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (3p5uk)

187 Oh come on, no one's mentioned that "What's going on?" song yet?

"And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (bDqIh)

188 Marx was an idiot, Mao was a fool. The way to destroy the west isn't with commerce or infiltration. Its just bribery. Back up a truck full of money from selling cheap carcinogenic crap to Americans to the door of someone and 9 out of 10 will do whatever you ask.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (KZzsI)

189 I know this is super old news, but I watched a Netflix documentary on the poor pizza delivery guy who ended up with a bomb collar on. I remembered hearing vaguely that some crazy chick with a Masters in Teaching was the culprit and feeling supremely dissatisfied that that was it.

Turns out woman was a supremely crazy weirdo who was smart, but not nearly as smart as she thought. She had in her thrall another crazy weirdo who was smart, but not as smart as he thought. He was also lazy and aimless. That guy was most probably the bomb maker.

Added to this mix was a child molester, a drug dealer, and a hooker. The pizza delivery guy's co-worker may also have been involved somehow.

There's still debate whether the delivery guy was involved. The hooker says he was a regular of hers and she recommended him in exchange for some cash and crack. The state has a witness that put him at a pre-planning meeting, and there's the fact the delivery guy said a couple black guys put the collar on him, which wasn't true.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (UW2ZS)

190 Gloria Jones' Northern Soul version of Tainted Love is quite good.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (qLTTY)

191 >>Oh come on, no one's mentioned that "What's going on?" song yet?

My first choice.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:54 AM (x9dMP)

192 Actually, the impending divorce between the CCP and the baizou left leaves me wondering. Did China actually leak the Hunter Biden laptop by having one of Hunter's whores steal it? The explanation that Hunter brought it in always seemed a bit too convenient.

Posted by: trev006 at August 04, 2021 11:54 AM (bh1G9)

193 He didn't believe it himself. When somebody asked Lennon once why he didn't live as the song suggested, he got annoyed and replied "it's just a f*cking son, man."
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:46 AM (k4dH2)
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I'm not surprised. He ran headfirst into a brick wall of hating his own success. I blame Ono for that, too. It's what Commies do.

If he'd lived to present day, he'd be one of the most insufferable "white guilt" scolds out there. *shudder*

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 11:54 AM (ePZfA)

194 > Marx was an idiot, Mao was a fool. The way to destroy the west isn't with commerce or infiltration. Its just bribery. Back up a truck full of money from selling cheap carcinogenic crap to Americans to the door of someone and 9 out of 10 will do whatever you ask.

Did you bang your shoe on the desk as you typed this?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (UW2ZS)

195 Hey Mickey is catchy. It's nowhere near the worst song.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (qLTTY)

196 156 the democrat party partnered with china to launch a bioweapon on the united states disguised as a lab leak on the world to get trump out of office and it worked and they got away with it and now to make it all go away china will offer to plead guilty to the lesser charge of an accidental leak and cover with an offer of one trillion dollars as restitution to the world which the democrats will swoon over and what wont be reported widely is that the one trillion figure will be spread over ten years and will come mostly in the form of debt relief
Posted by: sound awake at August 04, 2021 11:49 AM (BQ5+M)

Where was Gina Haspel and her patriotic CIA through all this? Chris Wray? Bagpipe Bill snack Barr?

Posted by: WhyBanned at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (YkawN)

197 Hey Ricky was the Weird Al parody.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (PcLRn)

198 Enemy. Of. The. People.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (KbCG3)

199 : It's me donna at August 04, 2

That's the one.
Dude at work always cranks it when he hears it on the radio.
I just laugh and get out of hearing distance.

Posted by: Bosk who also misses the heck out of Jackstraw at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (FgPjD)

200 Anything by Wings or ELO.

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True story. My mom ran over our neighbor's weiner dog accidentally while Silly Love Songs was playing. Any time I hear that song, I flashback to the bump...bumb...as mom ran over the dog with the front wheels, then the back before she said, "what was thaaat?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (O+I8R)

201 Did you bang your shoe on the desk as you typed this?

Just my own head

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (KZzsI)

202 She was kinda hot at the thyme.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (z7bLh)

Are we going to pepper this thread with puns?

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (qLTTY)

203
"And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (bDqIh)

If that's the song by that other lesbian band, that's #2 on my list of songs that should be destroyed by fire.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Sources Say and thus it's a lie even though I want to believe so very very much.

I'd completely forgotten about The New York Times and the Mystery of the Deleted Propaganda Articles.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (mf5HN)

205 Madonna has some insidious ear worms.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (x9dMP)

206 Man, those mid-terms are gonna be something!

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (OTzUX)

Hell yeah!

Posted by: Chamber of commerce at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (yA9R3)

207
Just my own head
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (KZzsI)

That was MY SKULL!!!! I'm SO WASTED!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

208 "why do the brilliant people making government policy think more lockdowns are the solution?"

Because lockdowns are solution to THEIR problem (us) and not our problem (contagion).

They aren't stupid, they are evil.

I'm in DC and the level of corruption is staggering. These people have wandered off The Path so far that they've forgotten there is a path. It's all about vanity and greed now.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (49Exr)

209 4 Non-Blondes

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (PcLRn)

210 The rest, probably lower in number but significant, of course don't show up in these figures.
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Only about 10% of the total number of illegal border crossers "encounter" U.S. law enforcement, and so those are the only ones who get counted in the official government numbers.

The Biden administration admits to "encountering" one million illegal border crossers in the first six months of this illegitimate administration. That means that there were likely close to 10 million illegal aliens who actually entered the U.S. during that period.

That means we could have 20 million illegal aliens entering the U.S. each year for the next four years.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (k4dH2)

211 China is behind everything from trannies, to censoring, to blm, to not protecting criminals, to vote fraud, to open borders, et al

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (ySQBZ)

212 when the democrats finally get their wish...and america officially splits in two along the red/blue axis...does anybody want to bet which 2 types of buildings will be the first to go up in flames in the red states...hint: they will both be strongly associated with the 1st and 14th amendments...

Posted by: sound awake at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (BQ5+M)

213
I love ELO. So screw.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (s2VJv)

214
The explanation that Hunter brought it in always seemed a bit too convenient.

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NEVER underestimate the stupidity of crackheads.

Posted by: fixerupper at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (8XRCm)

215
That 4-Non Blondes song, lol. What a stupid song. And the overwrought vocals. Again, lol.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (JN3xP)

216 No amount of corruption shocks me anymore.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (yQpMk)

217 "The way to destroy the west isn't with commerce or infiltration. Its just bribery."

With the dollars we spent at Walmart. SMH. If only we had seen that one coming.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (49Exr)

218 142 Scotus told Biden he cannot extend the moratorium on rent. Biden said LOLGF and did it anyway. Abbott should do the same. But wont because that is not who we are or something.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (RCDSE)

While Supremes are out of session... if I was Robert's I'd call them INTO Session, tomorrow.

but he won't, because he is a coward.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (oHd/0)

219 Toni Basil

I think it's hey Mickey
Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (Zmnko)
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Bing. And she is actually an awesome choreographer / dancer.

Should look her up on the YouTubes sometimes. Worth your while.

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (ePZfA)

220 And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (bDqIh)

If that's the song by that other lesbian band, that's #2 on my list of songs that should be destroyed by fire.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

Whew...thought she was trashing Marvin Gaye.

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (AwYPR)

221 > My mom ran over our neighbor's weiner dog accidentally while Silly Love Songs was playing.

Aww. I had a wiener dog when I was a kid. We had to leave her in the Philippines when we left. She was a good dog. She was fiercely loyal, and a snuggler. She also did a great job when we had a home invasion robbery. She woke up my parents and they were able to scare away the fucks.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (UW2ZS)

222
It's worse than that. They're more like an adult female pursuing Charles Manson in prison. They know what he is, they just don't care.
Posted by: pep at August 04, 2021 11:31 AM (ZsR3z)

They definitely care, they get wet panties over absolute evil.

My dad was a CO at the prison where Manson was incarcerated. Interacted with the fucker every single day, daily prisoner counts, taking him to the infirmary, searching the cell for contraband etc. According to Pop, Manson always had a full slate on visiting day, year after year, mostly of women who swooned over him.

Also, Manson HATED to be called "Chuck", so when he acted up, which was a daily thing, he got a big dose of "Yeah whatever, Chuck".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (n+4am)

223 Well I'll just spill the wine.
and take some girl.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 11:58 AM (qoz/n)

224 Silly Love Songs is a dumb, annoying song but... I like it because of why it was written and recorded. Lennon criticized McCarthy for writing silly love songs when the world was such a mess and they had a Higher Calling to write obnoxious protest crap. So McCarthy did Silly Love Songs to flip off Lennon.

And in my opinion the world needs love songs more than protest songs. Not because we ought not ever protest, but because the people writing the protest songs are fools with not enough life experience to even know what to protest about.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

225 I love ELO. So screw.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (s2VJv)

You must like The Beatles then.

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (88xKn)

226 I love ELO. So screw.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (s2VJv)

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*fistbump*

Posted by: fixerupper at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (8XRCm)

227 Man, those mid-terms are gonna be something!

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (OTzUX)

"I know, right?!"

- - Dao-Min Yen

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (s2VJv)

228 I like The Chive but it's gotten bloated and preachy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (V6f9+)

229 >>I love ELO. So screw.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM )

You don't get to touch the Stereo.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (x9dMP)

230 Blonde isn't just a hair color; it's a state of mind.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (a3Q+t)

231 228 I like The Chive but it's gotten bloated and preachy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (V6f9+)

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What do they preach about these days?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (LvTSG)

232 ELO >>> The Beatles

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (z7bLh)

233 126 Perhaps not evil, but this way up there in terms of unpleasantness for music of the past couple centuries:
https://youtu.be/NhjwgD-c260

Turrible. Just turrible.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 04, 2021 11:45 AM (QU5/

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Cat was playing that on a piano yesterday.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (Wpbgs)

234 If anyone is still believing the modern media or not believing in anything they don't report on will soon receive their full payment for that folly.

All of this that came before has led us to currently denying the people the rights enshrined in the Constitution.

A free press has been seized and manipulated to bring down the only country in which a free press is enshrined as sacred.

Nice going folks.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (wb4G5)

235 225 I love ELO. So screw.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (s2VJv)

You must like The Beatles then.
Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (88xKn)

All of Abbey Road, half of Sergeant Pepper, and about a third of the rest of the catalog.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (s2VJv)

236 With the exception of Lennon ( suffering from the Yoko Effect), the Beatles were comparatively pretty politically unobjectionable, with an exception or two.
Posted by: kraken at August 04, 2021 11:32 AM (6Je/Q)

Harrison always had a hair up his ass about the RCC. "Awaiting On You All" from All Things Must Pass and "P2 Vatican Blues" from Brainwashed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (2JVJo)

237 True story. My mom ran over our neighbor's weiner dog accidentally while Silly Love Songs was playing. Any time I hear that song, I flashback to the bump...bumb...as mom ran over the dog with the front wheels, then the back before she said, "what was thaaat?"
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 11:55 AM (O+I8R)

So, yer Mom was pretty hard on the weiner?

/runs out of thread giggling...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (oHd/0)

238 4 Non-Blondes
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM (PcLRn)

Worse than waterboarding.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

239 I love half of ELO. Half of it is super thick disco crap. But half of it is really good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (KZzsI)

240 Cat was playing that on a piano yesterday.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (Wpbgs)
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That is the perfect description of Schoenberg. Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (3p5uk)

241 Tomorrow the cat's going to play;

I grow my fingernails long so they click when I play the piano

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (Wpbgs)

242 205 Madonna has some insidious ear worms.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (x9dMP)

Wouldn't surprise me what with all of the kinky shit she must've been into. No amount of ivermectin can get rid of them.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (DTX3h)

243 Speaking of Blonde...

Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.

Why? Because it's extremely sexually explicit, apparently.

I am...intrigued.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

244 Our potted plants. I'm pretty sure our potted plants are free.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 11:20 AM

We wouldn't be abused if we were free.

Posted by: Harvey's potted plants at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (a3Q+t)

245 When did once liberal newspapers decide that being liberal wasn't far enough to the left and they needed to go full communist?
Posted by: Northernlurkerish

Commie?

No, sorry. China is not communist anymore. They are fascist. And loaded. Money can buy a lot of things. Or so I'm told.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (vogZ4)

246 >>half of Sergeant Pepper

That LP is crap.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (x9dMP)

247 Pina Colada Song is the worst 3 minutes in human history.

It is horrible. I always got a kick out of it in a way though because the message of the song is cheating is good for your relationship.

Posted by: Biergood at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (FQWHA)

248 the media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party.- Ace

It is probably too much to hope that some day the NYT editorial staff will be marched through the streets with shaved heads.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (SmFPm)

249 "When I'm asked for songs I hate, these are the winners"

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
https://tinyurl.com/2w3rf7kw

It's like meeting your *current* wife on a dating site.

No. Just no.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (49Exr)

250 Abbott should do the same. But wont because that is not who we are or something.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (RCDSE)
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Abbott's primary constituent is himself.

He knows if he does it, he will have every state media outlet juxstaposing his doing so against stock footage of people's belongings flung out into front yards and curbsides, crying children, single moms, sour-faced community organizer -slash- ministers...

Doing what's right despite biased optics is a tall order.

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (ePZfA)

251 New York Times: Enemy of the People

Posted by: Methos at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (kOpft)

252 "And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
And I say, hey-ey-ey
Hey-ey-ey
I said "Hey, a-what's going on?"
Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 11:53 AM (bDqIh)

I never "got" that hook. What kind of a song asks what's going on?

It's called reality, motherfucker. Observe something. All you're doing is telling people you're an ignoramus. But perhaps I'm being too literal.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (qLTTY)

253 239 I love half of ELO. Half of it is super thick disco crap. But half of it is really good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (KZzsI)

Essentially Face the Music, all of New World Record and most of Out of The Blue.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (s2VJv)

254 206 Man, those mid-terms are gonna be something!

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 11:52 AM (OTzUX)

Hell yeah!

sorry but those arent going to happen...do you really think that the same democrats capable of partnering with china to launch a bioweapon on the united states disguised as a lab leak on the world will allow themselves to be pummeled in the midterms...

Posted by: sound awake at August 04, 2021 12:02 PM (BQ5+M)

255 You must like The Beatles then.

They had some fun pop songs. The problem with the Beatles is not that they were so awful, its that their fans think they were the Voice Of God, the greatest innovators in the history of music, groundbreaking heroes of genius.

They were a fun pop band that started taking themselves too seriously and fell apart. Like U2 should have.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:02 PM (KZzsI)

256 Posted by: Biergood at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (FQWHA)
Posted by: Turkish at August 04, 2021 12:01 PM (49Exr)

Jinx!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:02 PM (49Exr)

257 Bing Crosby did "Hey, Ricky"??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 04, 2021 12:02 PM (UHVv4)

258 Madonna has some insidious ear worms.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (x9dMP)

And ears aren't the only place she has them. Oh!

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM (qLTTY)

259 Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.

Why? Because it's extremely sexually explicit, apparently.

I am...intrigued.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

She hangs naked on my wall.

I'm interested in this movie of which you speak.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

260 I love ELO. So screw.

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Ditto and *fist bump*.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM (O+I8R)

261
mid terms, boy is that 2019 thinking

the Ds will not let go of power

see exhibit HR1 and how biden is acting on the border

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM (bTQ72)

262 239 I love half of ELO. Half of it is super thick disco crap. But half of it is really good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (KZzsI)
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That clinking, clanking sound.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:04 PM (Wpbgs)

263 >>>206 Man, those mid-terms are gonna be something!

It'll be another round of theater, where the Democrats steal another election from the unwashed masses.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:04 PM (VWp7G)

264 44 > I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus.

And the little wiener backed down? It's hilarious how "journalists" like to pretend they're fearless, hard-nosed, relentless people who'll track a story wherever it goes. In real life they're lazy groupthinkers who'll quit as soon as their editor says, "that might be dangerous."
Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 11:27 AM (i0wNm)

Michael Hastings and Gary Webb I think served as examples.

Posted by: WhyBanned at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (YkawN)

265 They were a fun pop band that started taking themselves too seriously and fell apart. Like U2 should have.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:02 PM (KZzsI)

U2 went downhill after they thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (88xKn)

266 Pina Colada Song is the worst 3 minutes in human history.

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Ah man, I like that song. Part nostalgia, I guess. Lyrics are bad (let's cheat on each other, then laugh about it!), but it's catchy! *snaps fingers*

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (O+I8R)

267 I love ELO. So screw.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2021 11:57 AM

What does ELO have to do with Al Goldstein?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (a3Q+t)

268 Think this is on case where it's really that simple: the constantly drugged-up, reckless and irresponsible Hunter abandioed the aptops.

If it's anything more, my bet would be that in his damaged brain's subconsciously, Hunter wanted to get caught -- because it was being used against him, because he finally wanted to free of being his dad's designated bagman, etc.. Just look at what he's done on recent years, he's been doing more outrageous things, just daring his dad to cut hom loose -- the sleeping w/his SIL (and her sister), likely sleeping w/his niece, knocking up a stripper then abandonning her, running off and marrying that South African instagram babe after about a week. Any of these would be a huge scandal for a politician. None of them worked, so he dropped off a laptop full of evidence during his dad's presidential run -- psychiatrists/psychologists could have a field day with all of this.

*Think of the resentment Hunter feels about his dad always talking about sainted brother Bau while Hunter has spent his entire adult like doing the family's dirty work. The laptop is the ultimate "FU, daddy!!" move, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)

269 Its been overplayed and turned into a lame anthem now but that Elton John song about Marilyn Monroe is really sad because it delves into what a tragic life she led. She was a pretty good actress but never really got a shot at it. She was raped and molested over and over again as a youngster and just figured that's all she was good for. Then when she feared she was getting too old to be pretty and desirable she killed herself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (KZzsI)

270 I said....Take a walk on the wild side....not the insane side.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (qoz/n)

271 That is the perfect description of Schoenberg. Well done.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (3p5uk)

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That'd be a fun "man on the street" bit.

IS THIS A POLYTONAL COMPOSITION
-OR-
IS IT JUST A CAT PLONKING KEYS?

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (ePZfA)

272 Lambda Chi variant!!! Stay safe.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (TKmok)

273 Heard a new song today, has kind of an Elvis vibe:
https://tinyurl.com/ftnbprt7

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (r+sAi)

274 Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.

Why? Because it's extremely sexually explicit, apparently.

I wonder if they're going to go with the two urban legends of there being a MM BJ film and her lesbian encounter with Elizabeth Short.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (2JVJo)

275 The new York times and the sulzberger family are the same.

You would be better off saying that the it is the sulzbergers doing this.

Posted by: Y5 at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (/vi7S)

276 >>>U2 went downhill after they thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Posted by: dantesed

Amen. They were great early on, but they went woke a few years later.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (VWp7G)

277
And in my opinion the world needs love songs more than protest songs. Not because we ought not ever protest, but because the people writing the protest songs are fools with not enough life experience to even know what to protest about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 11:59 AM (KZzsI)

This. Although, most protest songs are in fact, totally cynical grabs for attention, audience and money. None of these fuckers actually believe that they'll make the least bit of difference, politically. But there's a lot of stupidly evil hippies and stoners out there who will willingly shell out $ for a shitty protest song, which the artist can bang out in an afternoon over three strummed guitar chords, without having to do the hard work of crafting a good pop tune.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (n+4am)

278 Scotus told Biden he cannot extend the moratorium on rent. Biden said LOLGF and did it anyway. Abbott should do the same. But wont because that is not who we are or something.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at August 04, 2021 11:47 AM (RCDSE)

SCOTUS DID NO SUCH THING! Not even the eye heroin is helping how furious I am on the reporting on this.

Here is what actually happened. The plaintiffs won on the district court level. DOJ applied for a stay of the order pending appeal to the DC Circuit. The district court granted the stay. Plaintiffs petitioned for lifting of the stay to the DC Circuit. DC Circuit denied the petition. Plaintiffs filed an emergency petition for lifting of stay to SCOTUS. SCOTUS denied that petition.

Kavanaugh issued a statement with the order denying the application in which he set out why he believed that the CDC had no authority to do that but he voted to leave the stay in place as it would be expiring on July 31.

That is not an opinion of the Court. It has NEVER gone up on merits and the stay remained in place. SCOTUS has never ruled on this.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (mf5HN)

279 MIRROR UNIVERSE LIZ CHENEY HANDS at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (Pzzpr)
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You dick!!

Posted by: jeff spicoli's brother at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (UHVv4)

280 >>They were great early on, but they went woke a few years later.

Pretty sure Rattle and Hum is where it all went wrong.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (x9dMP)

281 The laptop is the ultimate "FU, daddy!!" move, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)

I like this theory - but drugs are bad mmmkay also explains it.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (qLTTY)

282 Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.

--

Did they cast Marilyn as a black woman yet?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (O+I8R)

283 see exhibit HR1 and how biden is acting on the border
Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM

The unConstitutional eviction extension?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (a3Q+t)

284 U2 was good up to Joshua Tree, and had a couple good songs after that but around Boy they started to think they were Profound and Had A Responsibility. I prefer bands like AC/DC who understand their job is to have fun, make music, and make people happy. Stop thinking you're special; you're not. Stop making speeches at your concerts. People want to hear you play music. Nobody came because they think Bono is the wisest mana live.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (KZzsI)

285 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE LIZ CHENEY HANDS at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (Pzzpr)
You dick!

Posted by: jeff spicoli's brother at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (UHVv4)

286 Movie will show it was Marilyn banging Jack Kennedy with Bobbie as towel boy

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (PcLRn)

287 Has any song by Culture Club been mentioned yet?

Posted by: Tofer732 at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (kUGet)

288 Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)

It's the strangest thing!

That entire post is blank! I can't read a single word of it!

Posted by: the MSM at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (ePZfA)

289 Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)
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Don't forget stepmom.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (Wpbgs)

290 >>>
U2 went downhill after they thought they were the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (88xKn)

Getting a slave camp running ex-computer manufacturer turned crappy phone manufacturer to force their music on everyone wasn't the best move. In hindsight.

Posted by: banana Dream at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (EXfvD)

291 >>>Pretty sure Rattle and Hum is where it all went wrong.
Posted by: garrett

Spot on. And I was a YUGE fan of them in high school and college. Always put on great shows, but man, did they collapse spectacularly.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (VWp7G)

292 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE LIZ CHENEY HANDS at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (Pzzpr)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

293 282 Did they cast Marilyn as a black woman yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (O+I8R)

====

Not quite

Ana de Armas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

294 "Super conservative Republican governor of Arkansas says he wishes he had NOT signed a bill that bans mask mandates."

He was taken down into the Capitol basement to view The Egg

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (49Exr)

295 I'm not sure I believe Marilyn killed herself. There's a pretty convincing book that Bobby Kennedy had her put down. And while that would be tinfoil hat territory, I don't think it's such a crazy thought these days.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (5HBd1)

296 >>>Did they cast Marilyn as a black woman yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black

Ilhan Omar is MARILYN!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (VWp7G)

297 Don't know the current official "guess" about ratio of - what to call them, "double illegal border crossers"?, that is, those who choose to evade all contact with BP, and do things the old-fashioned way - to the hordes just streaming across openly at various points and being "processed", but especially in the summer, it's very unlikely to be greater than 1.0, likely much less.

Bottom line, there's a de facto suspension of many basic categories of immigration law, not just in terms of internal enforcement, but basic sovereignty and even the existence of a border.

And I hope I don't have to get even more heavy-handed in my sarcasm about the mid-terms? Seems like I might.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (OTzUX)

298 259 Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.

Why? Because it's extremely sexually explicit, apparently.
I am...intrigued.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (LvTSG)
She hangs naked on my wall.
interested in this movie of which you speak.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM (Zz0t

Cancel Netflix. Honestly, types, deletes Cancel Netflix. If you want to watch porn. Watch porn.

Posted by: WhyBanned at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (YkawN)

299 I just had a most pleasant trip the DMV to get a title on a used car I bought and renew the tags on my other vehicles. Essentially no customers were there.

I really lucked out.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)

300 "Super conservative Republican governor of Arkansas says he wishes he had NOT signed a bill that bans mask mandates."

wait! is this the same super conservative that blocked the no trannies in girls sports??

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 12:10 PM (bTQ72)

301 >>>Then when she feared she was getting too old to be pretty and desirable she killed herself.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (KZzsI)
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That's most plausible explanation I've read.
I think Deep State did it because the Kennedy's couldn't keep their mouths shut. (pillowtalk)

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:10 PM (Wpbgs)

302 Did they cast Marilyn as a black woman yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (O+I8R)

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That's not woke enough anymore.

They're going to get Marilyn Manson to play as a trans-womyn Marilyn.

Posted by: the MSM at August 04, 2021 12:10 PM (ePZfA)

303 Ana de Armas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

And me likey

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:10 PM (qLTTY)

304 ====

Not quite

Ana de Armas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

The rug won't match those curtains.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

305 I completely believe Marilyn killed herself because it fits so perfectly the tragic arc of her life. It makes me sad just to think of her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (KZzsI)

306 U2 was good up to Joshua Tree, and had a couple good songs after that but around Boy they started to think they were Profound and Had A Responsibility. I prefer bands like AC/DC who understand their job is to have fun, make music, and make people happy. Stop thinking you're special; you're not. Stop making speeches at your concerts. People want to hear you play music. Nobody came because they think Bono is the wisest mana live.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I still am in awe of the magnitude of hubris involved with that album they force downloaded onto your phone whether you wanted it or not.

Posted by: Biergood at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (FQWHA)

307 Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.
--
Did they cast Marilyn as a black woman yet?
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (O+I8R)

Probably why the suits hate it. Also, the whole lesbian affair with JFK comes off as clumsy and forced. Casting Jackie as a tranny might've made it all a bit more organic.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (wAnMi)

308
Cancel Netflix. Honestly, types, deletes Cancel Netflix. If you want to watch porn. Watch porn.
Posted by: WhyBanned at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (YkawN)

I don't have it. Wife does. I'm convincing myself that the payment comes from HER part of our earnings.

I've spoken my peace about it.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

309 >>They're going to get Marilyn Manson to play as a trans-womyn Marilyn.

That 'Wax My Girl Balls!' guy, from Canada.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (x9dMP)

310 Ilhan Omar is MARILYN!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (VWp7G)

Stacey Abrams

Posted by: BignJames at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (AwYPR)

311 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)

Buy did you wear a mask?

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (88xKn)

312 Love old sox

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (wAnMi)

313 The rug won't match those curtains.

Didn't on Marilyn, either. She was bottle blonde, look at older pictures of her when she went by her real name Norma Jean

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (KZzsI)

314 242 205 Madonna has some insidious ear worms.

Posted by: garrett at August 04, 2021 11:56 AM (x9dMP)
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She looks like she needs a bath

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (Wpbgs)

315
Not quite

Ana de Armas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at August 04, 2021 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

The rug won't match those curtains.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Plus, she'd have to gain about 30-40 lbs. NO Hollywood actress in her prime is gonna agree to that.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 12:12 PM (n+4am)

316 "When I'm asked for songs I hate, these are the winners"

That song that makes you want to suicide. "I have a fast car something something".

Not going to link it, as a public service.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:12 PM (49Exr)

317 The Shitberger family has always been traitorous self hating Holocaust denying trash.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:12 PM (y7DUB)

318 I still am in awe of the magnitude of hubris involved with that album they force downloaded onto your phone whether you wanted it or not.

Giving away your album to free to people isn't necessarily ego. The ego part was the thought that they were so popular, so huge, and so beloved that everyone would want their album for free. Plus, they probably thought it was super cutting edge and young people would think they were cool again. That's where the ego comes in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (KZzsI)

319 That is not an opinion of the Court. It has NEVER gone up on merits and the stay remained in place. SCOTUS has never ruled on this.
Posted by: alexthechick

Our wonderful press. Not only evil, BUT incompetent and incoherent!!!

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (GZ/yK)

320 None of them worked, so he dropped off a laptop full of evidence during his dad's presidential run -- psychiatrists/psychologists could have a field day with all of this.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:05 PM (bDqIh)

I get all of that, but Hunter has SS protection partly to stop him making these sorts of decisions all by his lonesome. The Kennedys had a poor girl lobotomized for less (which is one of many reasons the Bidens are a step down in evil for Democrats).

Posted by: trev006 at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (by5uQ)

321 She hangs naked on my wall.
interested in this movie of which you speak.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:03 PM (Zz0t

Dude.
It must have been awfully gamey in your room for a few years.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (wAnMi)

322 Stand by REM

Never got over hearing that one for the first time. It was like life as I know it had ended and something else dreadful had taken its place.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (qLTTY)

323 "Spectrum is Red."

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 04, 2021 12:14 PM (vuisn)

324
Dude.
It must have been awfully gamey in your room for a few years.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (wAnMi)

Much like Homer Simpson and his sandwich...........WORTH IT!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

325 best excuse ever

EXCLUSIVE: 'I took my bikini off because it got wet!' Italian model says she 'regrets' posing topless with Jack Brooksbank on a vintage speedboat after four hour lunch in Capri and apologises to Princess Eugenie left at home with their five-month-old son

Posted by: will choose a nic later at August 04, 2021 12:14 PM (bTQ72)

326 " media is not covering up for China primarily to cover up for China, but to cover up for themselves and their long, traitorous history of collusion with the Communist Chinese Party."

True -- but also to bash Trump, who was taking steps to stop China's malice on many fronts.

Trump .. MAGA

Media/Dems/WHO/UN/FBI? -- pro globalist -- pro China ... anti-MAGA.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (Cus5s)

327 >>Ilhan Omar is MARILYN!

Heh, but did you see BBC cast Jodi Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (bDqIh)

328 Giving away your album to free to people isn't necessarily ego. The ego part was the thought that they were so popular, so huge, and so beloved that everyone would want their album for free. Plus, they probably thought it was super cutting edge and young people would think they were cool again. That's where the ego comes in.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I had no problem with them giving it away. I had a problem with them forcing it onto my phone without my consent.

Posted by: Biergood at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (FQWHA)

329 That is not an opinion of the Court. It has NEVER gone up on merits and the stay remained in place. SCOTUS has never ruled on this.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM

Another of AtC's invaluable contributions to the scamps of The Horde.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (a3Q+t)

330 >>>Stacey Abrams
Posted by: BignJames

Maybe for the Lauren Hutton film, what with the gap tooth and such.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (VWp7G)

331 Bc it will most likely get willowed and I don't feel like defending it and there's a music bent to this thread, but...

Is there anyone with a more simplistic catalog of songs that is universally beloved than Tom Petty? I like a ton of what he does but there is just no broken ground there.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KbCG3)

332 Clutch Cargo sounds like a 50's newspaper adventure strip with beautiful art and full color Sunday edition

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KZzsI)

333 EXCLUSIVE: 'I took my bikini off because it got wet!' Italian model says she 'regrets' posing topless"

Smart girl, subverting the Streisand Effect to her own ends.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (49Exr)

334
I had no problem with them giving it away. I had a problem with them forcing it onto my phone without my consent.
Posted by: Biergood at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (FQWHA)

But, they're SOOO AWESOME!!!! you MUST want it!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

335
Heh, but did you see BBC cast Jodi Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (bDqIh)

I can't wait for the BBC to cast Michael Fassbender as Malcolm X.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (n+4am)

336 This Land Is Your Land- Woodie Guthrie.

One of the most subversive songs of the last 100 years. Right there with Imagine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (fDqO+)

337 Our wonderful press. Not only evil, BUT incompetent and incoherent!!!
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at August 04, 2021 12:13 PM (GZ/yK)

It's driving me spare mainly because this is one of the few areas where explaining what SCOTUS did and did not do isn't really that difficult.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (mf5HN)

338 I like most of U2's Actung Baby.

And some of their later work, not all by a long shot.

I have mixed feelings. They crawl up their own ass too much, mostly due to Bono. But they also try to write songs ABOUT something, which is not a bad thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at August 04, 2021 12:17 PM (V6f9+)

339 >>>Heh, but did you see BBC cast Jodi Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn?
Posted by: Lizzy

Shut up! Seriously? Didn't know Henry VIII went that way.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:17 PM (VWp7G)

340 Based on my knowledgeable sample size of Arkansas governors of three people, all Arkansas governors are scumbags.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 04, 2021 12:17 PM (bP+Qa)

341 had a problem with them forcing it onto my phone without my consent.

And took a software update to delete.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:18 PM (fDqO+)

342 Clutch Cargo sounds like a 50's newspaper adventure strip with beautiful art and full color Sunday edition
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KZzsI)

Cargo was the 2nd and largely ignored album by Men at Work.

https://youtu.be/eZkOn0-yt9E

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

343 340 Based on my knowledgeable sample size of Arkansas governors of three people, all Arkansas governors are scumbags.
Posted by: Buzzion at August 04, 2021 12:17 PM (bP+Qa)

=========

Federal Republicans > Average State Republicans

I mean...state Republican machines suck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 12:18 PM (LvTSG)

344 Casting Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino in Norma Jean & Marilyn was genius; two different girls to show her before and after becoming Marilyn. That was back when Mira could get work because she let loathsome toad Firestein slobber over her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:18 PM (KZzsI)

345 >>I get all of that, but Hunter has SS protection partly to stop him making these sorts of decisions all by his lonesome.

They didn't stop him from all of his drug-fueled orgies with family, strippers and the women provided to him by foreign agents. They didnt stop him from lying on the paperwork while purchasing a gun.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:19 PM (bDqIh)

346
Another of AtC's invaluable contributions to the scamps of The Horde.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (a3Q+t)

And boobs!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

347 Radar Love.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 12:19 PM (qoz/n)

348 332 Clutch Cargo sounds like a 50's newspaper adventure strip with beautiful art and full color Sunday edition
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KZzsI)

Cartoon I watched in the 60's... on a Black and White TV. Was amusing because it was animated where they drew the bodies, but then would use actual lips superimposed on the characters to make them look like they were talking.

Really was kind of creepy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 12:20 PM (oHd/0)

349 > The Kennedys had a poor girl lobotomized for less (which is one of many reasons the Bidens are a step down in evil for Democrats).

I don't know. If a Kennedy says, "Hey, your sex drive is off the charts and you need to slow down." I'm pretty sure that means you can't be left alone with anything; golf clubs, doorknobs, children, farm animals, zoo animals, smooth rocks, sharp rocks.

If they hadn't lobo'd that chick, who knows what diseases her activities would have unleashed on the world.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 12:20 PM (UW2ZS)

350
Is there anyone with a more simplistic catalog of songs that is universally beloved than Tom Petty? I like a ton of what he does but there is just no broken ground there.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KbCG3)

I still think the majority of his success was The Heartbreakers, which were a FANTASTIC backing band. The rest of the music world thought so too, which is why it seemed like they were the studio band on damned near every hit song for almost 20 years.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 12:20 PM (n+4am)

351 Cargo was great, and Colin Hay is still great solo.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:20 PM (KZzsI)

352 >>Shut up! Seriously? Didn't know Henry VIII went that way.

Also, Phylicia Rashad's daughter, who is also an actress, played Joan of Arc on Broadway.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2021 12:20 PM (bDqIh)

353 Lauren's gap tooth was sexy.
(the mind wanders)

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:21 PM (Wpbgs)

354 Is there anyone with a more simplistic catalog of songs that is universally beloved than Tom Petty? I like a ton of what he does but there is just no broken ground there.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KbCG3)

Not "universally beloved," but every damned BROOOCE song sounds the same.

And everything is Reagan / Bush / Trump's fault.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (2JVJo)

355 She might have sterilized the Kennedy Klan with a super STD.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (PcLRn)

356 Well, the Israeli ivermectin study is a good start, but we need a quadruple blind, 100,000 cohort long term study that shows at least a 100% improvement before we will consider ivermectin!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (fDqO+)

357 334
I had no problem with them giving it away. I had a problem with them forcing it onto my phone without my consent.
Posted by: Biergood at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (FQWHA)

But, they're SOOO AWESOME!!!! you MUST want it!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

And thus why removing it fully, not just deleting it but still having it in your library to download it again, became such a popular search request.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (bP+Qa)

358 Alex the chic thank you for clarifying the CDC decision. I better understand now also why Levin was upset with Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (Fa7xV)

359
the only U2 song worth listening to more than once in a lifetime is When Love Comes to Town

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (FX+dV)

360 I still think the majority of his success was The Heartbreakers, which were a FANTASTIC backing band. The rest of the music world thought so too, which is why it seemed like they were the studio band on damned near every hit song for almost 20 years.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 12:20 PM (n+4am)

Yup, just like all the MoTown stuff which was all about the Funk Brothers.

Or all the stuff done by the Wrecking Crew...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 12:22 PM (oHd/0)

361 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (yQpMk)

Buy did you wear a mask?
Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2021 12:11 PM (88xKn)

I did not. In fact, except for one black family, no one was masked.

Meemaw Ivy has not reimposed any mandates here in Alabama.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 12:23 PM (yQpMk)

362 Take a Bono skiing month is coming up!

Posted by: klaftern at August 04, 2021 12:23 PM (r4sI4)

363 Really was kind of creepy.

Yeah there was a special name for that, like funimation, and it was horrible every time. Like the Star Trek animated show which had some of the worst, cheapest Hanna Barberra animation ever foisted on the public, but the difference was ST had great stories.

I still think the majority of his success was The Heartbreakers, which were a FANTASTIC backing band.

Every single one of the Heartbreakers credit their success to Petty and consider him akin to a glowing 1000 foot golden musical god. So there's something more to him than it might seem initially.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:23 PM (KZzsI)

364 SCOTUS DID NO SUCH THING! Not even the eye heroin is helping how furious I am on the reporting on this.

Here is what actually happened. The plaintiffs won on the district court level. DOJ applied for a stay of the order pending appeal to the DC Circuit. The district court granted the stay. Plaintiffs petitioned for lifting of the stay to the DC Circuit. DC Circuit denied the petition. Plaintiffs filed an emergency petition for lifting of stay to SCOTUS. SCOTUS denied that petition.

Kavanaugh issued a statement with the order denying the application in which he set out why he believed that the CDC had no authority to do that but he voted to leave the stay in place as it would be expiring on July 31.

That is not an opinion of the Court. It has NEVER gone up on merits and the stay remained in place. SCOTUS has never ruled on this.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (mf5HN)

PFFFT. You think you're some sort of expert on any of this? Please.

Listen to me, people. I have special privileges to know stuff and tell you stuff you should know.

Posted by: Chris Cuomo at August 04, 2021 12:24 PM (ePZfA)

365 Clutch Cargo sounds like a 50's newspaper adventure strip with beautiful art and full color Sunday edition
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:16 PM (KZzsI)

Sadly it was a weird AF late 50's "cartoon" that avoided traditional animation by using a technique they called Syncho-Vox (sp?) that filmed an actor's mouth and superimposing it on a static (or mostly static) drawing. So, you'd see this bizarre mouth sort of floating over a face. It fascinated the hell out of me.

https://youtu.be/UTQI_XjoSSY

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 04, 2021 12:24 PM (wAnMi)

366 Also, there has been a lot made that COVID-19 was not like other engineered viruses, claiming that the virus backbone would show it was engineered. Of course, not stated was that there are many methods to "manipulate" viruses that are not apparent. There is even a scientist famous for inventing a method to modify a virus that leaves it looking unmodified. This nonsense about the difference between being 'engineered' and 'manipulated' is analogous to a discussion of the question of "how many angel can fit on the head of a pin".

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2021 12:24 PM (RHGPo)

367 346 Another of AtC's invaluable contributions to the scamps of The Horde.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2021 12:15 PM (a3Q+t)

And boobs!
color me confused. i was under the impression that scamp was the one that's not lefty.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at August 04, 2021 12:25 PM (v3pYe)

368 Where I think heads should roll is in the attempts of the Trump Administration to determine the origins of the SARS-COv2 virus. Discussions at the State [?] Dept, when the idea of investigating the Wuhan Lab came up, there were comments like .. "that will unearth a virtual Panadora's Box that nobody wants opened." There were parts of the government (unknown to Trump) that knew all about the funding and activities in regard to coronavirus research at the Wuhan Lab and wanted knowledge of it to be suppressed, mostly because it was prohibited, if not illegal. These people need, at a minimum, to be excised from our government.

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2021 12:25 PM (RHGPo)

369 The fact is Biden completely ignored the court and most of the real constitutional law community. Though not an opinion, Kavanaugh was very clear on the constitutional issue. I think it was Professor Turley who stated he was shocked Biden actually found anyone to agree with him because what he did is really subversion.

Democrats don't GAF. They've ignored law and constitution on the border and in so many other areas. They just went after the Alaska oil leases by defying a process and settled law on environmental review. They are letting nothing stand in their way. What are Republicans doing? Trying to convince you they have a super smart infrastructure deal. Which really means they are getting bent over the couch for a fiver. Again.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 04, 2021 12:25 PM (sOXXq)

370 243 Netflix is producing a movie about Marilyn Monroe titled Blonde (directed by the guy who did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), and the executives apparently hate the movie right now.

Why? Because it's extremely sexually explicit, apparently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, hunting lycans with Kate Beckinsale at August 04, 2021 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

The problem must be that the explicit scenes involve adults. Throw some tween twerking and titties in and they'll sign off.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 04, 2021 12:26 PM (DTX3h)

371 There is a Question/Answer PDF file referenced on the Wikipedia page for Wuhan Lab, where Chinese officials plainly state that they didn't use the BSL-4 lab at Wuhan for coronavirus studies because it wasn't completed until the beginning of 2021. They used either BSL-3 or BSL-2 (a BSL-2 lab has been compared to the environment of a dentist's office).

Tucker did seem to make a muddle of this situation.

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2021 12:26 PM (RHGPo)

372 The problem must be that the explicit scenes involve adults. Throw some tween twerking and titties in and they'll sign off.

Marilyn ran away from the various foster homes she was in as a young teen to get away from molesting fathers, so there's plenty of opportunity for their favorite porn.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:27 PM (KZzsI)

373 color me confused. i was under the impression that scamp was the one that's not lefty.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at August 04, 2021 12:25 PM (v3pYe)

The scamps of the Horde are all y'all. Lefty and Scamp are my boobs as named by Eris.

Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:27 PM (mf5HN)

374 If you read the text of the eviction ban, it only applies to eviction for nonpayment of rent. And only if the tenant can prove they are in a high covid area and will have to move to a shelter. And they have to be below an income threshold, have reduced income due to covid, be making some of the rent payment, and prove they are trying to get government assistance to pay the rent.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:27 PM (fDqO+)

375 Lefty and Scamp are my boobs as named by Eris.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:27 PM (mf5HN)

Dear Penthouse Forum. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 04, 2021 12:28 PM (2JVJo)

376 My favorite saying lately, and one I use as often as possible:

What is the difference between a crazy conspiracy theory and a well known fact? About three months to a year and a half. And the time keeps getting shorter.

Posted by: rd at August 04, 2021 12:28 PM (Z32m1)

377 Nobody came because they think Bono is the wisest mana live.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:07 PM (KZzsI)

Went to Bono's RED charity concert in NYC a few years back...it was INSUFFERABLE! Bill Clinton and Bill Gates were there, just because. Miley Cyrus sang and I about lost my dinner. Only good thing about the whole affair was Mrs. Boswell, who got snockered and was the life of the party.

Posted by: Boswell at August 04, 2021 12:29 PM (5iUNf)

378 You thought the single U2 forced onto all Apple owners was bad? It was nothing compared to the forced "Bono for Apple Maps" update.

All the streets had no names.

I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 12:29 PM (ePZfA)

379 I hated Scamps, they were supposed to be low end weak daedra in Morrowind but they were tough and mean and had magic resistance, and swarmed on you so that... why are you all looking at me like that?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:29 PM (KZzsI)

380 Which is why abbott should ignore the court ruling in the illegals case.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (fDqO+)

381 "claiming that the virus backbone would show it was engineered. Of course, not stated was that there are many methods to "manipulate" viruses that are not apparent."

Not to mention that we are in an age where a biological WMD attack would justify a nuclear counter-strike. So there would be great incentive to create and engineered virus that appeared to be a natural disaster.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (49Exr)

382 It is funny that $100,000 a month is enough to get the times to bend over

Posted by: Y5 at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (/vi7S)

383 I've reached the point of not bothering to even respond when everyone goes off about midterms/voting is useless.

We'll see.

But whether or not you want to believe it, there is a metric shit ton of voters who will be voting against Democrats in 2022, unless there is a change in the direction. The Biden/Dem policies are hated by everyone. Independents hate them, even Democrats hate them.

The polling is consistent in showing this trend, even in the biased polls.

I acknowledge that the Dems may not give a shit and will just steal it all again. But if/when they do, the fraud and in the face public nature of it will make 2020 look like a model of election integrity.

Voters might do nothing about another election being stolen, but they WILL vote. And as of this moment, they will be voting against Democrats in significant numbers.

/rant off, please return to normal pessimism and despondency

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (NzxDa)

384 How are those earth shattering audits going?

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:31 PM (qLTTY)

385 As unpredictable as a R rated sex scene.

As what's name said in which ever movie.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 04, 2021 12:31 PM (qoz/n)

386 It's driving me spare mainly because this is one of the few areas where explaining what SCOTUS did and did not do isn't really that difficult.
Posted by: alexthechick

Well, you did it in two paragraphs. Although you don't have a fancy journalisming degree from an Ivy League school so maybe that's why you can string complete sentences together.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at August 04, 2021 12:31 PM (GZ/yK)

387 404_Not_Found@4_04_Not_Found

This is great

https://tinyurl.com/wmthbc4r

Brit with bullhorn mocking line of police in riot gear, face shields and a mask

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 04, 2021 12:31 PM (2o90I)

388 rant off, please return to normal pessimism and despondency
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (NzxDa)

***

I like the cut of your jib, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (flINI)

389 382 It is funny that $100,000 a month is enough to get the times to bend over
Posted by: Y5 at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (/vi7S)

Really? It is the NYT. They have won Pulitzers for publishing anti-american tripe for free.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (fDqO+)

390 How are those earth shattering audits going?
Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:31 PM (qLTTY)

The TPS coversheets are taking longer than expected.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (yQpMk)

391 Dave in Fla, my sarcasm about the mid-terms leaves the entire election integrity issue aside. And it assumes a normal, that is big, GOP "win".

So what's left to be sarcastic about?

The utility or significance of such an election result. Miracles are possible, but don't seem likely.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (OTzUX)

392 It is funny that $100,000 a month is enough to get the times to bend over
Posted by: Y5 at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (/vi7S)

I was surprised by that as well. But how do we know it was only $100,00?

Posted by: Ziba at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (S1hrL)

393 If you read the text of the eviction ban, it only applies to eviction for nonpayment of rent. And only if the tenant can prove they are in a high covid area and will have to move to a shelter. And they have to be below an income threshold, have reduced income due to covid, be making some of the rent payment, and prove they are trying to get government assistance to pay the rent.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:27 PM (fDqO+)

Or, in other words, the CDC directly making enough of a muddled situation that the only people who will prosper, is Lawyers.

Who are the ones who wrote the damn thing in the first place.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 12:33 PM (oHd/0)

394 So I'm working on something. Journaslamists. Does that scan?

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:33 PM (qLTTY)

395 Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 04, 2021 12:09 PM (5HBd1)

Michael Medved of all people did a deep dive into this story. According to his research, the way the barbiturates entered her system were not by mouth. They had to be administered via the orifice on the other end.

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2021 12:33 PM (DJFLF)

396 378 You thought the single U2 forced onto all Apple owners was bad? It was nothing compared to the forced "Bono for Apple Maps" update.

All the streets had no names.

I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 12:29 PM (ePZfA)

-----

It's over on One Tree Hill.

Posted by: ShainS at August 04, 2021 12:33 PM (t47Zb)

397 Yeah, but you would think they would demand more.

That is the thing about traitors that give away so much for a few dollars.

Posted by: Y5 at August 04, 2021 12:33 PM (/vi7S)

398 "Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (NzxDa)"

You are 100% correct. I haven't seen a cogent argument to the converse.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 04, 2021 12:34 PM (sOXXq)

399 De Blasio is now threatening to separate parents from children.

https://bit.ly/3jkrAXz

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2021 12:34 PM (UW2ZS)

400 392 It is funny that $100,000 a month is enough to get the times to bend over
Posted by: Y5 at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (/vi7S)

I was surprised by that as well. But how do we know it was only $100,00?
Posted by: Ziba at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (S1hrL)

Komoprat. You document what they did when taking a small bribe, for a small favor... eventually you have enough to have leverage over them.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 12:34 PM (oHd/0)

401 Kavanaugh issued a statement with the order denying the application in which he set out why he believed that the CDC had no authority to do that but he voted to leave the stay in place as it would be expiring on July 31.

That is not an opinion of the Court. It has NEVER gone up on merits and the stay remained in place. SCOTUS has never ruled on this.
Posted by: alexthechick at August 04, 2021 12:06 PM (mf5HN)
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Thank you for the clarification.

SCOTUS, rather than say, "Nah, brah, can't do that, and don't do it in the future" punted on putting FedGov on notice.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at August 04, 2021 12:34 PM (2SdPm)

402
Which is why abbott should ignore the court ruling in the illegals case.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (fDqO+)

A flood of State Troopers in the border regions, pulling over every charter bus on the road, for comprehensive safety inspections.

Make the fucking Feds try to force a state to ignore road safety, which is absolutely a state's responsibility.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 04, 2021 12:34 PM (n+4am)

403 NOOD

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 04, 2021 12:35 PM (VWp7G)

404 The utility or significance of such an election result. Miracles are possible, but don't seem likely.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (OTzUX)

Test case is the Calif Recall election.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 04, 2021 12:35 PM (oHd/0)

405 Wiki says:

"The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested."

That's 15 months from now. Anything can happen in 15.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 04, 2021 12:36 PM (49Exr)

406 CUMHO IS JUST A PEOPLE PERSON RAAWWK!

Posted by: Propaganda Parrot at August 04, 2021 12:38 PM (l9dys)

407 390 How are those earth shattering audits going?
Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:31 PM (qLTTY)

The TPS coversheets are taking longer than expected.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2021 12:32 PM (yQpMk)

Was wondering the same thing. I guess they're auditing the audit. And then that audit will have to be audited. And then........

Posted by: Justsayin' at August 04, 2021 12:38 PM (Fs5vw)

408 It's high time to let Lefty and Scamp out of their cages.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 04, 2021 12:38 PM (Wpbgs)

409 It is funny that $100,000 a month is enough to get the times to bend over

Its also evidence for a pet theory of mine that woke businesses are able to keep doing so despire collapsing customer support and ratings, because China is propping them up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 04, 2021 12:41 PM (KZzsI)

410 Why, it's almost like the entire American media is owned by Chy-Nah!

Posted by: Sharkman at August 04, 2021 12:42 PM (PAaiG)

411 Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 04, 2021 12:30 PM (NzxDa)

Keep doing what you do.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 04, 2021 12:47 PM (y7DUB)

412 394 So I'm working on something. Journaslamists. Does that scan?
Posted by: ... at August 04, 2021 12:33 PM (qLTTY)
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There was a time that the AoS Stylebook included the following entry:

JournoIslam. The religion of hit-piece.

Posted by: reason at August 04, 2021 12:48 PM (ePZfA)

413 Why not name names? Is it so hard to figure out who the "top editor" at the NYT is/was? Here's the list: https://tinyurl.com/4p9565r9

Posted by: mercury at August 04, 2021 01:19 PM (l7rT0)

414 Dean Baquet is executive editor, Joseph Kahn, managing editor. Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor.
Steve Duenes, deputy managing editor and Matthew Purdy, deputy managing editor.

Or perhaps one of these:

Jia Lynn Yang, national editor
Patrick Healy, Politics editor

Someone else can probably do a better job of crossing out the ones here that are not truly "top" ...

But Dean Baquet is the most likely person since this was/is a really big ----- no, MASSIVE ----- decision to participate in the coverup of the greatest humanitarian disaster since ... well ... the Ukrainian genocide they covered up. Weird. Almost like ... there are marxists working at the NYT or ... maybe Maoists.

Anyway we need to arrest more people who were taking selfies in the Capital building in January.

Posted by: mercury at August 04, 2021 01:19 PM (l7rT0)

415 The New York Slimes has been covering up for the enemy since it covered up for Lenin, Stalin and Castro

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 04, 2021 06:30 PM (wGqjj)

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