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Biden's Approval Continues to Fall - The Baris National Poll
[Dave in Fla]

In my opinion, the best pollster in the business right now is Rich Baris. You can find his work at BigDataPoll.com and also follow along on his work at peoplespundit.locals.com. Rich was the most accurate pollster in 2020, one of the few who correctly polled Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and many other states. He is so good, that the polling industry purposely excludes him from averages, because he skews the narrative.

He has been doing national polling this year, mostly focused on Biden approval numbers, and the underlying factors supporting this approval. During 2021, his polling has been finding general approval of Biden driven solely by the Covid response. Other issues, such as immigration and the economy, are topics where the voters have disapproved of Biden for months, but Covid approval has held the overall approval above 50%.

Baris just completed the latest poll. This is a national poll of 2,010 respondents, and he oversamples to ensure that all participants answer the questions. He throws away responses that give approve/disapprove responses, then don't answer the rest of the survey. Results are weighted to account for demographics of the region based on voter files. This is a very solid methodology and a large valid sample size.

Importantly, this poll completed just before the debacle in Afghanistan, changes due to that event are not included. 1,792 of the respondents voted in 2020. Of them, 50.4% voted for Biden and 45.8% for Trump. So this survey is slightly more pro-Biden in demographics than the real 2020 vote results.

There is a lot of data in the crosstabs, but I want to focus on a few of the questions.

Right Track/Wrong Track

Overall, 36% think we are on the right track and 55% on the wrong track. This is driven by a distribution that can be seen throughout the rest of the survey. The group whose opinion has dramatically shifted is the Independents. Democrats think we are on the right track by 68%/23%. Republicans have a 10%/84% opinion on this metric. Independents have shifted hard to wrong track at 25%/61%.

Biden's Approval

Overall, Biden's approval is finally underwater, 47%/50%. This change is driven by a strong shift in Independents who now approve 40%/55%. When you dig deeper into the issues, you see that Covid is the only strong issue Biden has, and that is slipping, barely over 50%. Mask, mandates, and lockdowns are going to drive this subsample down over the next few weeks and months. As inflation and the rent moratorium issue begin to hit pocketbooks, his weak numbers on the economy will erode. Finally, the foreign policy number is going to drop dramatically, since this poll occurred before Afghanistan.

(approve/disapprove percentage)
Economy and Jobs - 46/50
Covid - 52/44
Immigration and Border - 38/56
Crime - 39/52
US/China Relations - 36/51
Foreign Policy - 38/52

Vaccines

The number of people who will not get the vaccine has remained steady for months. These people are hard no and so far no level of encouragement or coercion have successfully changed their minds. 22% have no plans to get vaccinated, with 30% of both Republicans and Independents being a "no" on this issue. Broken out by race, the largest group who won't get vaccinated are Blacks at 24% followed by Whites at 22%.

Looking further into vaccine related issues, we find:

Don't trust the mRNA vaccines - 28%/64%
Oppose employers firing for not being vaccinated - 54%/40%
Oppose schools mandating the vaccine for students - 55%/38%
Oppose stores/restaurants mandating vaccines for customers - 50%/45%

What I find interesting in these numbers is that there is a very high distrust in the vaccines, despite the government and media efforts to assure us that they are safe and effective. This will drop as more information about vaccine failure enters the awareness of the public. Also, despite a large majority thinking the vaccines can be trusted, they still don't support mandating them. This is very different from public opinion on issues like the measles vaccine where 90%+ of the public supports mandatory vaccination for children.

Civil War

Finally, Baris polled to see if people think a Civil War is coming. The question asked was, "How likely is it the United States of America is headed for another civil war - or, widespread political violence that leads to significant division?"

60% of the respondents think that this is somewhat or very likely.

Regarding what the result of this division will be, those who think it is likely that the divisions can be solved without upheaval are the minority 40%/48%. But people are not onboard with a national divorce. Support/oppose a peaceful separation is 30%/39%.

Expect to see other approval polls to track toward Baris's results in the next two weeks. This has been a trend for 2021, where Baris is the first to pickup on and report shifts in Biden approval.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 03:28 PM




Comments

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1 Look out below!

Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 02:29 PM (VJsqe)

2 First!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 20, 2021 02:29 PM (z5Vrg)

3 Nothing will happen as long as the folks have Netflix.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 20, 2021 02:29 PM (JTpIQ)

4 Dang

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at August 20, 2021 02:29 PM (z5Vrg)

5 Which falls faster Afghanistan or Joe Biden?

Posted by: jrg at August 20, 2021 02:29 PM (PT7MS)

6 I'm still flabbergasted that the Junta is trying to flip the script and make it seem like they are just reacting to this thing that just happened out of nowhere, like some sort of act of god natural disaster.

Incredible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 02:30 PM (GOGEo)

7 No mean tweets is no way to run a country.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 20, 2021 02:31 PM (RLLZj)

8 Man, I'd love to see the post-Afghanistan poll numbers from this guy.

Look out below!!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 02:31 PM (mdjgu)

9 Top 20!

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 20, 2021 02:31 PM (gTc91)

10 Great information Dave in Fla. Thanks for this!

Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 02:32 PM (VJsqe)

11 Grempht.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 20, 2021 02:32 PM (LBiAf)

12 47% of the country still approving of that senile clusterfuck is a prime example of why it is time to split off from the blue states.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 20, 2021 02:32 PM (no9qU)

13 Cheer me up, Dave.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:33 PM (yQpMk)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 20, 2021 02:34 PM (arJlL)

15 What do it really matter what Xiden's polling is? They are aligned with Big Military/ Big Tech/ Big Pharma/ Big Corp, so they essentially rule us. They won't let us have a civil war.

Posted by: jane galt at August 20, 2021 02:34 PM (B2mhs)

16 So even the guy who came up with The Gong Show says Biden is plummeting?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 02:34 PM (mR6Gs)

17 Time for Joe to retire to the Villages. Oh wait, he hates Florida and everybody in it.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 02:34 PM (v0R5T)

18 Rich was the most accurate pollster in 2020, one of the few who correctly polled Pennsylvania, Wisconsin


Considering our opinion of those contests, this doesn't seem like a strong endorsement. Unless he was spot on for Georgia and Nevada.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (yQpMk)

19 I think Biden is toast unless Trump runs again.

The nation already knew Biden was senile, they backed him anyway.

My fear is Biden is so vulnerable, Trump feels he's a shoo-in.

Trump is better on the sidelines as a gadfly. Th guy we loved at the rallies just seemed to hand the reigns over to Kushner to actually govern.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (YsTC1)

20 BREAKING: Unidentified Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt exonerated in internal probe

Yeah and what makes that even more unbelievable is what someone pointed out here a few days ago:

He leaned out a window and shot into a crowd including fellow officers, hitting her in the neck. He could have just as easily gunned down a cop, or just some random person. His actions violated just about every known rule and procedure for shooting that has existed for the last 100 years in law enforcement.

But exonerated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (KZzsI)

21 Biden is exactly what Big Disney et el wanted.

An animatronic with their hands up his ass.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (yrol0)

22 "...He is so good, that the polling industry purposely excludes him from averages, because he skews the narrative."

And this quote from Dave in FL, in a nutshell, is why the polling industry needs to be burned to the ground. Them, and the media that pay them to put this garbage out.

These guys continue to get paid, even though we know that they're wrong, because they aren't getting paid for accuracy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (mdjgu)

23 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?

Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)

24 Gee, so many people don't trust what our government has said about the safety of this vaccine. Imagine that. If they were being straight with us, wouldn't they have called this experimental treatment an... experimental treatment... rather than "vaccine"?

Posted by: itsacookbook at August 20, 2021 02:36 PM (yPxXc)

25 Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (YsTC1)

You concern is noted.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 02:36 PM (AiZBA)

26 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)



An Absolute Triumph.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:36 PM (yQpMk)

27 We getting so much content today. I want pudding.

Posted by: Draki at August 20, 2021 02:36 PM (8ni2U)

28 I missed the Biden speech.

I assume he just shit in his hand and smeared it on the lectern?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (4fSQf)

29 He is heading underwater, not fast enough

Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (znIQ9)

30 I saw a report that out of the 20K kids forcibly inject in Oz that two died. Not sure if it is accurate or not...but that is substantially higher then the lethality of kids for COVID which is basically 0.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (DpkTQ)

31 "An Absolute Triumph.
Posted by: G'rump928"

I knew it! That's my Resident!

Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (Tnijr)

32 The civil war is already here. People just catching up with the rest of us.

Posted by: Draki at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (8ni2U)

33 So the interesting take away for me is the part about the majority of both sides thinking there is going to be civil unrest. Also the majority of both sides thinking that they don't want a division in the country. To me this means that both sides are looking for a fight that they win

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (z79tQ)

34 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

35 Finally, Baris polled to see if people think a Civil War is coming. The question asked was, "How likely is it the United States of America is headed for another civil war - or, widespread political violence that leads to significant division?"

60% of the respondents think that this is somewhat or very likely.

++++
Some years ago - maybe 2018 - I saw a poll question like this and thought to myself that it didn't matter what the actual distribution of results was.

If this question is being asked seriously as a part of mainstream polling, something is so fucked up and so broken that the answers themselves almost don't matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (DCdYk)

36 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)

For a person with a low bar, he came in way under the bar. Then called on 5 left wing news orgs for pre-arranged questions with rehearsed answers. Does that answer your question

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (GPwVZ)

37 The cone is half full.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (/hXfz)

38 I watched tv last night - every other ad was for the clot shot.

I mean that's normal right? Not, you know, propaganda or anything...right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (DpkTQ)

39 Polling is interesting to me only the extent it gives hope that the population is getting red-pilled. Until enough people see through the narrative and all the levers used to promote it, we will remain in the minority.

Posted by: Iris at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (DibdT)

40 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)


We are so totally f'd.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (AiZBA)

41 The fact that he's above zero shows we've got too many dumb fucks in this country.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

42 34 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

-----
It's uncanny, really.

Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (VJsqe)

43 23 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)

"Yes!! Yeeeees!!! OHGODOHGODOHGOD YEEEEESSS!!!"

- Jen Rubin

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (dfRN6)

44 The fact that he's above zero shows we've got too many dumb fucks in this country.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

Ribbit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (GPwVZ)

45 "Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see"

Something like that, and sometimes I'm not too sure about myself.

Nobody voted for these saboteurs, I've been convinced of the queering of the elections for a long time. It is remarkable, they have shit in their messkit this time and it is one for the ages.

Things are so fucked up now, it actually does interfere with their ability to fuck things up. So we got that goin' for us, which is nice.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (IG8lb)

46 We always knew there would come a test which would overwhelm his ability to process facts and make decisions. Just didn't know it would be this soon.

Maybe it's for the best. Sometimes you just need to rip the bandaid off.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (4fSQf)

47 I want pudding.

#ME TOO!!

Posted by: Sleepy Joe at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (ymirg)

48 Cheer me up, Dave.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:33 PM (yQpMk)


That's Mannix' department.

Posted by: spindrift at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (h5TKJ)

49 Hey, Dave, quick question for you.

When you have states that don't track party affiliation in registrations, how are they polled? Is everyone in those states an "independent?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (DCdYk)

50 As said downstairs if shit gets real in Afghanistan and start seeing mass bodies it will put him in a death spiral

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (znIQ9)

51 I watched tv last night - every other ad was for the clot shot.

Yeah they are really pumping billions into promoting this thing, its kind of shocking and disturbing. One has to wonder, why?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (KZzsI)

52 Why should I believe a poll?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (1w13T)

53
Who goes down faster? Biden or Harris?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (Xo5lP)

54 Basement.

That's where this administration's approval numbers really are. A dank, moldy and dark basement. With rats.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (BFigT)

55 The pants are half empty.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (/hXfz)

56 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)
.......

He'll get 91 million votes in the next election!

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (v0R5T)

57 Is it: DiFL, DiFla, or Floridave?

Posted by: SFGoth at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (KAi1n)

58 Don't trust the mRNA vaccines - 28%/64%
Oppose employers firing for not being vaccinated - 54%/40%
Oppose schools mandating the vaccine for students - 55%/38%
Oppose stores/restaurants mandating vaccines for customers - 50%/45%



I'm confused on the whole good/bad thing here, Egon.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

59 To me this means that both sides are looking for a fight that they win

The left needs the productive class even if they don't like us, because we make the goods and services they want.

As they control leviathan right now they believe, and they talk about this, that they could kill a bunch of his and cow the rest. Which is sadly probably true. But...if they do this they know they lose their prosperity.

So the question on the left is, how do they subdue the productive class and reduce us to serfdom without something that destroys their federal trough.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (DpkTQ)

60 in fairness 60 percent of the country could not say who fought the civil war

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (kEWpi)

61 I missed the speech. Did he knock it out of the park? Do a bang up job? Absolutely the best speech of his life?
Posted by: f'd at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (Tnijr)
++++
No. It was a slurring, stuttering, mumbled, lie-filled fiasco. He did much better - wildly better - on Monday. He actually improved in terms of the slurring right before they called it off and he shuffled off stage. The questions and answers were all scripted and in a specific order that he openly read off of a list. It was a debacle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (DCdYk)

62 51 I watched tv last night - every other ad was for the clot shot.

Yeah they are really pumping billions into promoting this thing, its kind of shocking and disturbing. One has to wonder, why?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (KZzsI


Either profits on Pfizer stocks or forced infertility to reduce global population.

Take your pick.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (4fSQf)

63 But people are not onboard with a national divorce. Support/oppose a peaceful separation is 30%/39%.


That's because people haven't thought about it or could imagine something like that happening. No prominent pundit or politician would ever bring it up either.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (qH6FZ)

64 >>>I saw a report that out of the 20K kids forcibly inject in Oz that two died. Not sure if it is accurate or not...but that is substantially higher then the lethality of kids for COVID which is basically 0.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (DpkTQ)

=======

But at least they won't kill grandma now. Especially the two dead kids. So, win-win.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (KQDOS)

65 Who goes down faster? Biden or Harris?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (Xo5lP)


On a dick? Harris.

On a prepubescent girl? Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (Zz0t1)

66 53
Who goes down faster? Biden or Harris?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (Xo5lP)


DOWN GOES HARRIS! DOWN GOES HARRIS! DOWN GOES HARRIS!

Posted by: Zombie Howard Cosell at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (Ti+Tv)

67 The cone is half full.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (/hXfz)
........

The scoop is on the sidewalk.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (v0R5T)

68 He leaned out a window and shot into a crowd including fellow officers, hitting her in the neck. He could have just as easily gunned down a cop, or just some random person. His actions violated just about every known rule and procedure for shooting that has existed for the last 100 years in law enforcement.

But exonerated.


Must Keep The Narrative That You Don't Professionalize Until You Federalize.

If you let word get out that the feds are trigger happy gun slingers, it makes the defund the local police narrative harder to sell.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (+LCoQ)

69 Still of opinion like in Spain1930s the Communists will take too much control and that could set off a ACW II

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (znIQ9)

70 Support/oppose a peaceful separation is 30%/39%

Those are low numbers. Since the links don't work for me, what are the other alternatives?

Kick the shit out of them: 31%?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (IAPGA)

71 So the question on the left is, how do they subdue the productive class and reduce us to serfdom without something that destroys their federal trough.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (DpkTQ)
++++
The ones at the tippy-top don't care. They'll take a bigger share and let the rest - the ones who got them where they are - starve and die. They don't care how shitty the hill is, so long as they're king of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (DCdYk)

72 That's because people haven't thought about it or could imagine something like that happening. No prominent pundit or politician would ever bring it up either

Gutless Abbott should have put a Texas Independence referendum to the people the day the SC said its fine if a president is elected through fraud.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (DpkTQ)

73 Why the hell would I take a test?!

Posted by: ChoccyChoccyChip at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (ufJfM)

74 The speech was so good that Jen Rubin announced she is pregnant with Joe's child, by miracle.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 02:41 PM (oWBc3)

75 @50

>>As said downstairs if shit gets real in Afghanistan and start seeing mass bodies it will put him in a death spiral.


That's more than likely the reason that US troops are not venturing forth to retrieve US citizens and instead saying, fuck you, you're on your own and oh by the, the ticket home is going to cost you two thousand samolians.


There needs to be a reckoning.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (GOGEo)

76 Who goes down faster? Biden or Harris?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM (Xo5lP)

I bet Harris is trying her best to take Biden down as fast as possible.

Posted by: Draki at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (8ni2U)

77
Biden polls are underwater you say?
I want to see those polls at crush depth.

Posted by: YIKES! at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (t6XCL)

78 Who goes down faster? Biden or Harris?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM


Obviously Harris.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (m+jkK)

79 Those are low numbers. Since the links don't work for me, what are the other alternatives?



Burn Their Children's Laughter is polling at 41%.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (yQpMk)

80 But no mean tweets!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (a3Q+t)

81 Serious question, how could anyone have correctly polled the 2020 election results in PA and Wisconsin. No one knew until after the voting was paused in the middle of the night how many votes would be required to beat Trump.

Posted by: Richard at August 20, 2021 02:42 PM (txieD)

82 Support/oppose a peaceful separation is 30%/39%.

That's because people haven't thought about it or could imagine something like that happening. No prominent pundit or politician would ever bring it up either.
Posted by: lowandslow at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (qH6FZ)

Which leaves 31% don't know? Undecided?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (oHd/0)

83 C'mon man.

They're little tiny clots. Microclots. They don't do any harm.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (xopIz)

84 Looked at Drudge, just to see what they have at the top line.

Biden? Afghanistan?

Nope. Musk as second richest person in the world. Not even anything about the press conference in tiny letters, red or otherwise, at the top left of the page.

Submitted without further comment.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (mdjgu)

85 Those are low numbers. Since the links don't work for me, what are the other alternatives?



She's already short-stroking!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (yQpMk)

86 Thanks for the 411, Dave. This is good news. I still don't understand how anyone gives Mr Potato Brain any high marks for covid handling. The mind boggles.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (Vxu+H)

87 So the question on the left is, how do they subdue the productive class and reduce us to serfdom without something that destroys their federal trough.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:40 PM (DpkTQ)

Fake elections that trick the productive people into thinking they really lost. That's why the truth about Arizona and such is banned on social media.

Posted by: Draki at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (8ni2U)

88 Great article, Dave.

Now, say it with me: "I can't wait for 2021 to be over!"

......Too soon?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (FXW3a)

89 The speech was so good that Jen Rubin announced she is pregnant with Joe's child, by miracle.

TOO OLD. I wouldn't hit that with Hunter's dick. And trust me, he isn't picky

Posted by: Pedo Joey Biden at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (DpkTQ)

90 But at least they won't kill grandma now. Especially the two dead kids. So, win-win.
Posted by: Swingin' for the downs

The narrative, at least in parts of my family, has now changed:

I must get the shot to protect the grandchildren. Who, as noted above, have a statistically zero chance of dying from the rona.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (mD/uy)

91 On the National Divorce, the Right would be happy wth such an arrangement, but it would drive the Left insane.
They have to rule over us in order to be happy.

That's whats driving 90% of the vaccination stuff, it's about "them" knowing their place.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (YsTC1)

92 Remember, these polls are carefully massaged to make sure they aren't as low as Trump got.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (KZzsI)

93 51 I watched tv last night - every other ad was for the clot shot.

Yeah they are really pumping billions into promoting this thing, its kind of shocking and disturbing. One has to wonder, why?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (KZzsI)

And what was missing from those ads that is legally required in every other medical ad? Disclaimers!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 20, 2021 02:44 PM (KbCG3)

94 Food stamps and Netflix are the modern bread and circuses. Keep the masses distracted while everything falls to shit.

Posted by: Guzalot at August 20, 2021 02:44 PM (prSvo)

95 cut and paste fail.


I'll just go out and come back in again.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:44 PM (yQpMk)

96
TOO OLD. I wouldn't hit that with Hunter's dick. And trust me, he isn't picky
Posted by: Pedo Joey Biden at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (DpkTQ)



We rate this statement as TRUE, actually.....

- Snopes

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

97 I watched tv last night - every other ad was for the clot shot.

Yeah they are really pumping billions into promoting this thing, its kind of shocking and disturbing. One has to wonder, why?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:38 PM (KZzsI)
++++
So that people will quit sending dog muzzles to public health officials?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:44 PM (DCdYk)

98 I'm going to get a jump on this:

Biden is out.
Harris becomes first female President!!!!!
Hillary appointed as VP.
Harris didn't kill herself.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (BJKQV)

99 That's where this administration's approval numbers really are. A dank, moldy and dark basement. With rats.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 02:39 PM


In a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (m+jkK)

100 I must get the shot to protect the grandchildren. Who, as noted above, have a statistically zero chance of dying from the rona.

I think it is admitted by the CDC now that the clot shots do NOT stop you from spreading Wu Flu. They reduce the severity of the symptoms you get (for up to 6 months).

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (DpkTQ)

101 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITCH MCCONNELL at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (Pzzpr)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

102 Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (YsTC1)

Hi Mr or Ms name I've never seen before. Everything you just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (Vxu+H)

103 Baris is The Man!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (0dtij)

104 If this question is being asked seriously as a part of mainstream polling, something is so fucked up and so broken that the answers themselves almost don't matter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:37 PM (DCdYk)

Concur Joe.
The fact it has risen in the national consciousness is a big deal.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (axyOa)

105 The narrative, at least in parts of my family, has now changed:

I must get the shot to protect the grandchildren. Who, as noted above, have a statistically zero chance of dying from the rona.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (mD/uy)

For any of your family members that smoke, shove a carton up their ass, tell them to quit and say you are doing it for the grandkids.

Posted by: Roy at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (Ti+Tv)

106 And what was missing from those ads that is legally required in every other medical ad? Disclaimers!

Yep, I'm sure there is some waiver somewhere to exclude them for this shot. FOR THE CHILDREN!


"We rate this statement as TRUE, actually.....
--Snopes"

"We rate this statement as TRUE, actually....."
--The Washington Post, 2 days earlier

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (KZzsI)

107 Though the trend is heartening, the overall numbers are still very alarming to me. I feel like anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together ought to have the negatives in the 80/20 range, on all counts. The overreach and mismanagement over covid and the economy and border should be nowhere near parity; it should be decidedly lopsided against what President Puddinhead is doing.

Posted by: red speck at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (gS3OW)

108 Did you stay awake thru your whole speech grandaddy?

Posted by: A toddler in Arkansas at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (1w13T)

109 Biden is out.
Harris becomes first female President!!!!!
Hillary appointed as VP.
Harris didn't kill herself.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (BJKQV)

Pelosi will never allow Hillary to be VP... she wants the job herself.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (oHd/0)

110 @93

>>And what was missing from those ads that is legally required in every other medical ad? Disclaimers!


And that's the beauty of pimping and EUA vaccine, without FDA approval, technically, there is nothing derogatory about the vaccines to disclaim.


This is all bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (GOGEo)

111 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

112 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITCH MCCONNELL at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (Pzzpr)[i/]



You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

113 I see MUMM is channeling Ben Roethlisberger.

Posted by: spindrift at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (h5TKJ)

114 saw a report that out of the 20K kids forcibly inject in Oz that two died. Not sure if it is accurate or not...but that is substantially higher then the lethality of kids for COVID which is basically 0.
====

ERs are full!!1!!1 Children dying by the millions!!1!!

Posted by: MSM at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (dFDFl)

115 John Kirby: We have no idea how many Al Qaida are in Ghani, but they have a presence.

Reporter: But Biden just said we killed them all in Ghani.

Kirby: Uh uh uh, what he means is they don't have enough people in Ghani for force projection or something.

https://bit.ly/3z6HBXM

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (UW2ZS)

116 I think it is admitted by the CDC now that the clot shots do NOT stop you from spreading Wu Flu. They reduce the severity of the symptoms you get (for up to 6 months).

And, what's worse: make you more vulnerable to other illnesses, including mutant variants of Covid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (KZzsI)

117 I think it is admitted by the CDC now that the clot shots do NOT stop you from spreading Wu Flu. They reduce the severity of the symptoms you get (for up to 6 months).
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:45 PM (DpkTQ)


Color me skeptical. Everything reported about this virus has been obfuscated. I'm at the point of believing nothing.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (AiZBA)

118 She's already short-stroking!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM


Sorry, not feeling it.

Posted by: Steiner at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (a3Q+t)

119
"We rate this statement as TRUE, actually....."
--The Washington Post, 2 days earlier
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (KZzsI)


We rate this statement as TRUE, actually.....

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

120 I must get the shot to protect the grandchildren. Who, as noted above, have a statistically zero chance of dying from the rona.

Right now the greatest controllable risk for children in the US is RSV - being brought in by our spherical Guatemalan friends (along with COVID).

So...you could respond that they need to keep the kids away from illegals if they care about their health.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (DpkTQ)

121 Economy and Jobs - 46/50
Covid - 52/44
Immigration and Border - 38/56
Crime - 39/52
US/China Relations - 36/51
Foreign Policy - 38/52

Aw come on man. When you look at the data in every single category I'm up. Sometimes by double digits. Only in covid am I down and just barely.

Evergreens on both sides of the island agree, the Biden plan is working. You can see that the African people think that too. Hey have you tried Ren & Stimpy's new ice cream? Mann it smells great like a little girl's hair in spilltime. I got to go. No questions.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (w5raC)

122 Billion dollars worth of Blackhawks, is another way to say it.

And now he's considering air strikes to destroy it all. Which is what Trump told him to do.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (4fSQf)

123 MUMM alert ^^^^

BTW, both url's are 404's.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (qZdIZ)

124 C'mon man.

They're little tiny clots. Microclots. They don't do any harm.
Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 02:43 PM (xopIz)
........

Tell that to the steel plate in your head.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (v0R5T)

125
National divorce?
Imagine Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the other territories being on their own.

Posted by: YIKES! at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (t6XCL)

126 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD
+++

The ads in 2022 and 2024 are going to be brutal for Biden and Democrats.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (YsTC1)

127 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)


What the ... ?

Posted by: Patrick Kane wakes up in an uncomfortable place at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (h5TKJ)

128 I see in the news that that cowardly cop or sheriff's deputy or whatever he was, Scot Peterson, who was the "resource officer" at the time of the shootings at the school in Parkland, FL, is going to have to stand trial for 17 counts of murder. He was the cop who heard the gunshots and then hid in the parking lot instead of trying to stop the shooter.

It will be interesting to see what the jury decides.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (k4dH2)

129 "Which leaves 31% don't know? Undecided?"


Or pretending it's not an issue. Take a look at some of the so-called rightwing pundits that choose to pretend everything's fine and if we just vote harder things will work out. And in the mean time are to scared to move away from the Beltway, LA or NY. They cry on Twitter how ridiculous the state/local leadership is but refuse to leave.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (qH6FZ)

130 Posted by: Hylian

___

One thing the father of lies loves to do is sow discord among those who follow God.

Funny, so do trolls.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (3P/5p)

131 @115

Kirby: No, what I thought you said, Is I was alright spider.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (GOGEo)

132 If they keep this up, I'll consider death from COVID a sweet ending.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (4fSQf)

133 It's almost 16:00. I'm having a beer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (DCdYk)

134 Right now the greatest controllable risk for children in the US is RSV - being brought in by our spherical Guatemalan friends (along with COVID).

So...you could respond that they need to keep the kids away from illegals if they care about their health.
Posted by: 18-1

That is a no-go my friend. DIL wouldn't be able to have her cleaning ladies over if that is the case.

Grandpa however. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 02:48 PM (mD/uy)

135 Blackhawks will go to China and Russia.

Posted by: runner at August 20, 2021 02:49 PM (w45mR)

136 Riddle me this. If Trump runs again, what do Independents do? I'm not sensing a wholesale move to Trump.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 02:49 PM (kbvR/)

137 Imagine Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the other territories being on their own.
Posted by: YIKES!
___

They are.

They just don't know it yet.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 02:49 PM (3P/5p)

138 135 Blackhawks will go to China and Russia.
Posted by: runner at August 20, 2021 02:49 PM (w45mR)

They'll beat China easily, but the Rooskies will take them into overtime.

Posted by: Roy at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (Ti+Tv)

139 I struggle with this concept of us cutting and running from a country and then thinking we have a right to bomb them to ameliorate our mess. If Biden does this the Americans left there go from screwed to totally fucked.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (oWBc3)

140 Blackhawks will go to China and Russia.

Comrade, that is fake news.

But, I must say these choppers are more comfortable to ride on then a bear.

Posted by: Totally Not Vlad Putin at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (DpkTQ)

141 So how does one get polled these days? I used to answer them whenI had a land line. I cannot remember getting one on my cell phone, which admittedly has been added to the No Call list a couple of times. How do they find people, and how do they adjust if they still only use land lines?

Posted by: Catherine at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (wakSB)

142 @AndrewDesiderio 30m

NEW: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing call with House lawmakers just now said Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul, according to multiple people on the call. Austin called it "unacceptable."
This statement alone from Austin contradicts a lot of what Biden just said at the White House about Americans not having a hard time getting to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
Pentagon Press Sec John Kirby addressed this just now, per @laraseligman:
"We've communicated to the Taliban that that is absolutely unacceptable and we want free passage through these checkpoints for documented Americans. ... By and large, that's happening."

After they stopped laughing....

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (cF8AT)

143 Posted by: Hylian

___

One thing the father of lies loves to do is sow discord among those who follow God.

Funny, so do trolls.
Posted by: SMH
++

At least give me some context, no idea what you're taking issue with.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (YsTC1)

144 47% of the country still approving of that senile clusterfuck is a prime example of why it is time to split off from the blue states.

--

This has been my mindset for quite a while now. We're not going to symbiotically come together as a country ever again, with just a difference on some edge issues. The divide is very deep and very diametrically opposed. I know many are in the "not one inch of ground" camp, but there's no way to reconcile, so I'm ready for a split.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (O+I8R)

145 Trump isn't going to run again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (KZzsI)

146 Since the start of the pandemic through August 18, 2021, a total of 361 children, ages 0-17, have died of COVID-involved disease, based on death certificates submitted so far to CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

ZERO have co-morbidity reports.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (yrol0)

147 93 And what was missing from those ads that is legally required in every other medical ad? Disclaimers!

I have noted that, too. They won't run an ad for boners or indigestion without a 20/80 split on Product Name/Side Effects ratio.

And yet... "Get your shot! It's safe! Everyone's doing it!" Without any mention whatsoever about deleterious effects, deaths, maiming, or even a note about talking to your doctor beforehand.

Posted by: red speck at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (gS3OW)

148 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)



7% of our inventory.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (yQpMk)

149 > She's already short-stroking!

This is why I'm nervous about using a pump shotty for home defense. Whenever I run the thing on a range or in the field, I don't have much problem, but I don't have confidence it'll be the same if I'm lurching out of bed at 0200 and my adrenaline is through the roof.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (UW2ZS)

150 Riddle me this. If Trump runs again, what do Independents do? I'm not sensing a wholesale move to Trump.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 02:49 PM (kbvR/)


That's because there was not a wholesale move away from him.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (AiZBA)

151 136 Riddle me this. If Trump runs again, what do Independents do?

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 02:49 PM (kbvR/)

They moan about how neither candidate is up to their super-awesome standards and how they can't believe that any of the rest of us are stupid enough to be taken in by them. And they they vote Democrat.

Same as always.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (BJKQV)

152 I think Biden is toast unless Trump runs again.

The nation already knew Biden was senile, they backed him anyway.

My fear is Biden is so vulnerable, Trump feels he's a shoo-in.

Trump is better on the sidelines as a gadfly. Th guy we loved at the rallies just seemed to hand the reigns over to Kushner to actually govern.
Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (YsTC1)
Are you a life long conservative?

Did you support Real President Trump in 2016?

Do you just hate mean truthful tweets?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (w5raC)

153 @136

>>what do Independents do?

I personally don't believe that anyone is independent in this day and age.

50 years ago when the two parties where aligned on most meat and potato issues, and the Democrats weren't bug fuck insane.

Today?

No fucking way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (GOGEo)

154 @AndrewDesiderio 30m
NEW: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing call with House lawmakers just now said Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul, according to multiple people on the call. Austin called it "unacceptable."
This statement alone from Austin contradicts a lot of what Biden just said at the White House about Americans not having a hard time getting to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
Pentagon Press Sec John Kirby addressed this just now, per @laraseligman:
"We've communicated to the Taliban that that is absolutely unacceptable and we want free passage through these checkpoints for documented Americans. ... By and large, that's happening."
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (cF8AT)
++++
And this is somehow even worse. They can't - or won't - even commit to one set of lies. They're openly pointing fingers and contradicting each other in public and on short time intervals. Astounding, how badly this is all going.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (DCdYk)

155 Hey, has Saint Comey come out from behind the curtain to share his deep thoughts on his buddy Biden's cluster****?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (O+I8R)

156 Since the start of the pandemic through August 18, 2021, a total of 361 children, ages 0-17, have died of COVID-involved disease, based on death certificates submitted so far to CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

ZERO have co-morbidity reports.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (yrol0)



Which is odd since I remember the first one having leukemia.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (yQpMk)

157 The ads in 2022 and 2024 are going to be brutal for Biden and Democrats.
Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:47 PM (YsTC1)

At this rate, there will be no meaningful national elections by NOV 2022.

Posted by: golfman at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (H6twj)

158 Riddle me this. If Trump runs again, what do Independents do? I'm not sensing a wholesale move to Trump.
Posted by: Marcus T
++

Too many people have just made up their mind, that's the problem. If Biden vs. Trump again in 2024, probably the same result.

A new face has a better chance, someone like DeSantis.



Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (YsTC1)

159 Senile Joe could eat a kitten on national television Jen Rubin would shriek with delight.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (cSyAR)

160 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)
.......

Christmas came early.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (v0R5T)

161
NEW: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing call with House lawmakers just now said Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul, according to multiple people on the call. Austin called it "unacceptable."
This statement alone from Austin contradicts a lot of what Biden just said at the White House about Americans not having a hard time getting to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
Pentagon Press Sec John Kirby addressed this just now, per @laraseligman:
"We've communicated to the Taliban that that is absolutely unacceptable and we want free passage through these checkpoints for documented Americans. ... By and large, that's happening."

After they stopped laughing....
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (cF8AT)


But that masturbatin' guy told me that this WOULDN'T HAPPEN because the Taliban CARED about how they were viewed on the WORLD STAGE.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

162 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)


**kicks skid on Huey**
Damn!!!

Posted by: General Nuyen at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (axyOa)

163 And this is somehow even worse. They can't - or won't - even commit to one set of lies. They're openly pointing fingers and contradicting each other in public and on short time intervals. Astounding, how badly this is all going.

I'm quite amused by how quickly everything disintegrated into everyone pointing fingers at everyone else, like the Spider-Man meme.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (ZGrMX)

164 I've gotten to talk with a lot of wine moms who claim both of these points, at the same time:

1) We need a living wage - it isn't fair that some people get paid so little. And really is $15/h too much?!?

2) Thank Gaia I found Maria. Can you believe some American wanted $15/h to clean my house?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (DpkTQ)

165 > spherical Guatemalan friends

It's funny because it's true.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (UW2ZS)

166 An Absolute Triumph.

Making a note here: huge success.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (nfrXX)

167 The Separation # is better than I would have expected. Go Team Divorce!

Posted by: Some jerk at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (zcT9k)

168 He leaned out a window and shot into a crowd including fellow officers, hitting her in the neck. He could have just as easily gunned down a cop, or just some random person. His actions violated just about every known rule and procedure for shooting that has existed for the last 100 years in law enforcement.

But exonerated.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:35 PM (KZzsI)


What I'd been saying since the videos first surfaced - and why I actually thought it had to be a congressman. I couldn't believe a LEO would walk into a hallway, finger on trigger, and fire with the potential of a cop being the backstop, or any number of other people being possibly hit from a miss or ricochet. I'd think his fellow cops would want his ass gone. The man has no business near a gun.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (wAnMi)

169 So frustrated reading Twitter. People act like Presidents have never negotiated treaties that the next President had to carry out. Trump would never have done this. The incompetents at State and in the military maybe.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (5HBd1)

170 Support/oppose a peaceful separation is 30%/39%.

I reckon that means things are going to get sporty.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (mbFEM)

171 We should send Romney to the Taliban in exchange for Americans.

Ok,ok. You twisted my arm. You can have Meghan McCain too.

Fine! You can have Jennifer Rubin but no more!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:53 PM (4fSQf)

172 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)


So, coming soon, "Black Hawk Up", wherein BHes terrorize civilians?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 02:53 PM (ZGrMX)

173 Gong!!!!

Posted by: Barris Polling at August 20, 2021 02:53 PM (9AWuc)

174 WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: Biden's Poll Numbers at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (guGkK)

175
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Rocky Road aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And Love will steer the stars.

Posted by: The Biden Administration at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (a3Q+t)

176 Thank Gaia I found Maria. Can you believe some American wanted $15/h to clean my house?!?

Yeah there's a ton of that out there, little sneaky tee hee statements about finding someone to clean their gutters for a six pack of Hamm's or come do landscaping for cheap. Meanwhile screaming that businesses need to pay a "living wage".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (KZzsI)

177 Did you support Real President Trump in 2016?

Do you just hate mean truthful tweets?
Posted by: Joe Biden

++

Voted Trump 2016 and 2020.

Pretty silly you can't handle any criticism.

People are allowed to like other conservatives. I like DeSantis. Is he a closet liberal? Does that make me a troll?

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (YsTC1)

178 I personally don't believe that anyone is independent in this day and age.

Everyone that I know voted for Biden also voted for Hillary.

And based on their NOT going on about voting for Biden, I suspect a number of the Hillary voters I know pulled the lever for Trump in 2020.

Based on the numbers the FNM claims it makes no sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (DpkTQ)

179 Riddle me this. If Trump runs again, what do Independents do?

Posted by: Marcus T


Take a razor blade and cut down the tracks, not across.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (OCTRt)

180 I'm quite amused by how quickly everything disintegrated into everyone pointing fingers at everyone else, like the Spider-Man meme.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (ZGrMX)
++++
This is related to the one cardinal rule taught at all colleges and all institutions. It is the central tenet of the modern corporation and of large organizations:
First, ascertain that it is someone else's fault.

That's it. That's the driving force. The prime mover.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (DCdYk)

181 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban

He must have given them a lot of "contractors" to fly them, too.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (DMQdU)

182 I struggle with this concept of us cutting and running from a country and then thinking we have a right to bomb them to ameliorate our mess. If Biden does this the Americans left there go from screwed to totally fucked.

The only thing pretendent Biden is going to bomb the tollybon with is pallets of cash.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (w5raC)

183 Thank God for these polls(pointing out the obvious) especially the one on Civil War. With the president and his entire administration at every level calling me the biggest threat to safety of this country and what they'd like to do to us, I would have never guessed we are headed for a civil war.

Thanks Rich Baris!

....this ranks right up there with people that constantly regurgitate "the republicans are shit and useless"!
Yeah thanks for the scoop guys!

Posted by: JROD at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (0jZnq)

184 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)



Great. Let's hope none of them ever learn to read.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (guGkK)

185 158 Black Hawks for the Tollybon, and 10% off on Hunter's toe paintings.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (buTO7)

186 Biden won't be their candidate. Harris won't be either. Biden won't run and Harris won't survive the primary.

So Trump vs fresh face. Based on the trolling it sounds like Trump wins.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (kbvR/)

187 At least that will work.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (w5raC)

188 I personally don't believe that anyone is independent in this day and age.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 02:51 PM (GOGEo)

"Independent" is now just means that someone who doesn't pay attention to politics until three months before the election and then votes for the candidate with the most appealing ads.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (BJKQV)

189 When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Rocky Road aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And Love will steer the stars.
Posted by: The Biden Administration at August 20, 2021 02:54 PM (a3Q+t)


^this^ x 1000

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (AiZBA)

190 81 Richard Itake a shot at it
Polls weren't the determining factor, they knew electronically how the votes were counting, stopping it to collect those boxes off the warehouse, and streets to get ahead of what was being added.
5 states that "stopped" the counts only for the next hour Sundowner to gain the lead.

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (znIQ9)

191 So frustrated reading Twitter. People act like Presidents have never negotiated treaties that the next President had to carry out. Trump would never have done this. The incompetents at State and in the military maybe.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
++

No one buys it, even the liberal media is dismissive of Biden trying to lay this at Trump's feet.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (YsTC1)

192 So Trump vs fresh face. Based on the trolling it sounds like Trump wins.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (kbvR/)

Not a typo.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (BJKQV)

193 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban


It's ok. I'm sure we took the keys.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

194 Huge story... leaked memo shows Biden promised Boris Johnson and G7 leaders in June that the US would maintain enough of a security presence in Afghanistan that they would keep Kabul safe - then failed to keep that commitment

https://bit.ly/3j3Xskh

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (UW2ZS)

195 I'm not worried about the Taliban being terribly effective with high tech US equipment. We don't build stuff to be hardy but to be extremely effective. They'll break and ruin and discard that all within a year.

What bothers me is that the US military apparently didn't think they should gather that crap up and bring it home.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (KZzsI)

196 It should be ZERO TRILLION!!!

Posted by: Gonzotx at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (yPZmp)

197 > spherical Guatemalan friends

It's funny because it's true.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (UW2ZS)
........

That's why they come to America, to go on Weight Watchers.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (v0R5T)

198 This pretty brunette in a white top and plaid skirt has no trouble believing that polls are reflecting significant distrust and division:
https://is.gd/u6IHmX

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (DCdYk)

199 Come mister Tally-bon, tally me bananas.
Jihadi come and me wan go home.

Posted by: Roy at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (Ti+Tv)

200 Meanwhile screaming that businesses need to pay a "living wage".

The people making these statements do have an answer though - "I'm not rich unlike those business owners!"

Note these same wine moms live in million dollar homes, send their kids to private schools, and prior to covid took two overseas vacations a year.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (DpkTQ)

201 When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Rocky Road aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And Love will steer the stars.
Posted by: The Biden Administration


♪ This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius ♫

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (OCTRt)

202 Maybe if we stopped spending a trillion dollars on playing in the sand we could fix a bridge or two over here.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (4fSQf)

203 Afghanistan is an indictment of anit-Trumpers, i.e., the self-proclaimed ruling class. Going back to Clinton, who did not take Bin Laden when proferred to him, to Bush who embroiled us in two perpetual wars, to Obama who simultaneously maintained the wars while supporting the most extreme Islamic nations on the planet. Trump the outsider had to be eliminated because he was not part of the disaster club responsible for these decisions across decades, so he was free to call BS on everyone from the Intelligence agencies, State Dept., and Military behind our industrialized failures.

Posted by: iandeal at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (MGjjz)

204 The man has no business near a gun.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM


In another situation, pictures show him covering other officers with his muzzle and finger on the trigger.

Not to mention leaving his weapon behind in the sh*tter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (a3Q+t)

205 If Trump runs, it will be Trump/Desantis. If he doesn't, Desantis/Pompeo.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) lays down his marker at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (yQpMk)

206 And what was missing from those ads that is legally required in every other medical ad? Disclaimers!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 20, 2021 02:44 PM


Disclaimers are only there to avoid being sued. They have special legislation to avoid being sued. Therefore, no need for disclaimers.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (EughT)

207 What bothers me is that the US military apparently didn't think they should gather that crap up and bring it home.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (KZzsI)
++++
Bringing it home may not have made logistical or financial sense. I don't know. It sure is pretty fucking expensive to move equipment that far.

But not destroying it is an unacceptable failure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (DCdYk)

208 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)


Just yesterday they only had non-armed copters. So what's on tomorrow's menu, F-22's? Thank the Lord that place is landlocked, or they'd have an aircraft carrier and a couple of nuclear subs.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (wAnMi)

209 Huge story... leaked memo shows Biden promised Boris Johnson and G7 leaders in June that the US would maintain enough of a security presence in Afghanistan that they would keep Kabul safe - then failed to keep that commitment

https://bit.ly/3j3Xskh
Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (UW2ZS)



That was like 5 DAYS ago...C'MON man.....

- Spongebrain Shitpants

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

210 There is nothing contradictory about saying I will get the vaccine voluntarily and I oppose making it mandatory.

I want it duly noted for the record that I want to live in the most boring times possible, not interesting ones.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (mf5HN)

211 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban


Good luck getting or keeping them in the air.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (OCTRt)

212 I want it duly noted for the record that I want to live in the most boring times possible, not interesting ones.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (mf5HN)
+++++
You don't get to choose.

Posted by: The Chinese Curse at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (DCdYk)

213 Not to mention leaving his weapon behind in the sh*tter.

"He sounds like promotion material to me!"
--DC government

I'm sure he made sure that he had his phone, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (KZzsI)

214 Interesting data. I think it's starting to dawn on people that shit is well and truly broken.

Posted by: CppThis at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (UewuT)

215 The Biden crew wanted the US military out by 9/11 because it would make for a great speech and photo op, and ignored internal warnings that the Taliban would do exactly what they did, civilians be damned.

It could turn into a bloodbath, it's up to the Taliban. More pointedly, can the Taliban keep their people in line while civilians try to get out on one of the few planes we'll be able to fly.

Biden's speech today was full of bullshit and false promises, with a fast expiration date. It'll be overtaken by facts on the ground, which Biden can't control.

Doctor Jill was a little off on Joe's meds, and it showed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (ZHVt1)

216 The carpet installers who were suppose to be here between 8:00 and 12:00 just finished after arriving at 2:30. It's been so long since we ordered it I forgot what it looked like.

Don't really like it now that's down on the floor. Who can tell from little samples? Glad we just did the dining room before pulling the trigger on the whole house.

Posted by: jwest at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (/BlEx)

217 Support/oppose a peaceful separation is 30%/39%.

I reckon that means things are going to get sporty.
Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (mbFEM)

That question can be answered either way.

The question should be "Do you support or oppose separation?

Posted by: golfman at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (H6twj)

218 Too many people have just made up their mind, that's the problem. If Biden vs. Trump again in 2024, probably the same result.

A new face has a better chance, someone like DeSantis.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (YsTC1)

I love Trump but I'm leaning toward DeSantis myself. Trump was great but let himself be manipulated & didn't really accomplish a lot long-term. I'm just concerned that DeSantis could turn out to be a fake like the rest of them.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (BJKQV)

219 I've mentioned to some LIVs the fact they can't sue the clot shot makers. I've been told that is fake news. I asked them what was on the form they signed before they got the clot shot and the answer is, "I can't remember".

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (DpkTQ)

220 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo),


Hey! They be some of my peeps!

Posted by: Fauxihauntus at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (axyOa)

221 142 @AndrewDesiderio 30m

NEW: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing call with House lawmakers just now said Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul, according to multiple people on the call. Austin called it "unacceptable."
This statement alone from Austin contradicts a lot of what Biden just said at the White House about Americans not having a hard time getting to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
Pentagon Press Sec John Kirby addressed this just now, per @laraseligman:
"We've communicated to the Taliban that that is absolutely unacceptable and we want free passage through these checkpoints for documented Americans. ... By and large, that's happening."

After they stopped laughing....
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 02:50 PM (cF8AT)

Mostly peaceful beatings.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (KbCG3)

222 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)


The good news is that without maintenance not one will be flying by September 11.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (mbFEM)

223 How many rotary qualified pilots does the trolley bomb have?

The Blackhawks will be sold to China, Russia, Iran and whomever else is interested in American kit. The proceeds will be used to fund terrorism aimed at the US. So, in a round about way, we are paying for ourselves to be attacked again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (BFigT)

224 I'm not worried about the Taliban being terribly effective with high tech US equipment. We don't build stuff to be hardy but to be extremely effective. They'll break and ruin and discard that all within a year.

What bothers me is that the US military apparently didn't think they should gather that crap up and bring it home.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It will be sold to places like China and Russia.

I believe they also got a lot of expensive drone technology.

It will bankroll terror campaigns. Once again being a terror hub.

Thanks Biden.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (YsTC1)

225 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban

How many other Native Americas from other tribes?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (mR6Gs)

226 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban

At least 158 Tomahawk missiles ordered from Raytheon.

$$$!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (+LCoQ)

227 The man has no business near a gun.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (wAnMi)

-----------

What if the plan was to shoot one of the cops and Ashli got in the way?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (kTF2Z)

228
But PredictIt has Biden up by 20%!!!

*RIP Intrade*

Posted by: In before the troll at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (n+4am)

229 Bringing it home may not have made logistical or financial sense. I don't know. It sure is pretty fucking expensive to move equipment that far.

But worth it, because it saves money if you have to use it somewhere else. Unless you just figure you have a bottomless well of money to buy crap with and care nothing about using what you have.

It cost money to ship all that crap over the first time, and they were more than willing to spend it then.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (KZzsI)

230 There is nothing contradictory about saying I will get the vaccine voluntarily and I oppose making it mandatory.

I want it duly noted for the record that I want to live in the most boring times possible, not interesting ones.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM (mf5HN)

So noted.

Posted by: runner at August 20, 2021 02:59 PM (w45mR)

231 in january i told everybody i knew that would listen that biden would be out of office by the summer...the last day of summer in the northern hemisphere in 2021: september 22

Posted by: sound awake at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (Er0UY)

232 Poso says:

BREAKING: Infowars host Owen Shroyer charged over Jan 6 for standing on Capitol steps

https://bit.ly/3y7tGPP

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (UW2ZS)

233 86 Thanks for the 411, Dave. This is good news. I still don't understand how anyone gives Mr Potato Brain any high marks for covid handling. The mind boggles.

Wait until it comes out that:
1. There is no national standard for replications used on the Covid test, and...
2. The average is "As many as we need."

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (IAPGA)

234 God chose this time for us to be here.

To be witnesses.

He doesn't say it's going to be easy.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (3P/5p)

235 Oh dear Lord....

@CBSNews

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

https://tinyurl.com/yeuvxayc

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (cF8AT)

236 Bringing it home may not have made logistical or financial sense. I don't know. It sure is pretty fucking expensive to move equipment that far.

But not destroying it is an unacceptable failure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM (DCdYk)

Exactly

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (GPwVZ)

237 Hang with me here

Republicans take over the House in 2022.
Elect PDT as Speaker.

biden and the whore get impeached.


Winning!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (fwoDM)

238 It will be sold to places like China and Russia.

At least some of it will, yeah. And I'm sure they all want to study our drone tech, like frequencies, security, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (KZzsI)

239 No mean tweets is no way to run a country.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 20, 2021 02:31 PM (RLLZj)


No country for mean tweets.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (DWDek)

240 The Blackhawks will be sold to China, Russia, Iran and whomever else is interested in American kit. The proceeds will be used to fund terrorism aimed at the US. So, in a round about way, we are paying for ourselves to be attacked again.

So it will be available on Alibaba or eBay?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (+LCoQ)

241 195 I'm not worried about the Taliban being terribly effective with high tech US equipment. We don't build stuff to be hardy but to be extremely effective. They'll break and ruin and discard that all within a year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (KZzsI)

Or they'll sell it to China, Russia or Iran.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (BJKQV)

242 The aircraft taken are the most worry for me.
Shame I wasn't hanging around Afghanistan beginning of the week, might have been able to pick up a bad looking armored vehicle.

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (znIQ9)

243 NEW: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a briefing call with House lawmakers just now said Americans have been beaten by the Taliban in Kabul, according to multiple people on the call. Austin called it "unacceptable."
This statement alone from Austin contradicts a lot of what Biden just said at the White House about Americans not having a hard time getting to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
Pentagon Press Sec John Kirby addressed this just now, per @laraseligman:
"We've communicated to the Taliban that that is absolutely unacceptable and we want free passage through these checkpoints for documented Americans. ... By and large, that's happening."

This was known before Biden spoke. But they rushed him out there to get ahead of the news.

Why? Who knows?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (mR6Gs)

244 Oh dear Lord....

@CBSNews

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

https://tinyurl.com/yeuvxayc
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (cF8AT)



Dear CBS,

Blow that hot take out your ass and eat it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

245 biden and the whore get impeached.

Winning!


Waitress? I'll have what she's having

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (KZzsI)

246 This pretty brunette in a white top and plaid skirt has no trouble believing that polls are reflecting significant distrust and division:
https://is.gd/u6IHmX



Puts me in mind of my first day of junior high school.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (guGkK)

247 This pretty brunette in a white top and plaid skirt has no trouble believing that polls are reflecting significant distrust and division

*******

My Russian Facial Massage Therapist concurs:

https://tinyurl.com/jcfstde2

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (hQVBP)

248 As pointed out by some other poster. Pretty much all of the weapons and weapons systems could have been rendered useless with tank treads and willy pete. The Biden Junta wante them in muzzie terrorist and Iran's hands.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (w5raC)

249 "Independent" is now just means that someone who doesn't pay attention to politics until three months before the election and then votes for the candidate with the most appealing ads.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 02:55 PM (BJKQV)

Independent where I am means I get to vote in whichever primary I want and thus I'm independent so that I can have fun with primaries should I wish.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (mf5HN)

250 There is nothing contradictory about saying I will get the vaccine voluntarily and I oppose making it mandatory.

I had this discussion with someone recently.

Getting the vaccine should be like wearing seatbelts. I oppose laws requiring you to wear a seatbelt. But they save lives man! Yes they do, yet the law is still a violation of my freedom. Confused look from said LIV.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (DpkTQ)

251 FFS. Ned Price (State Dept. Spokesman) is recommending that all Americans stuck inside Afghanistan visit the State Dept. web site and fill out a Request For Rapid Rescue form.

The Twitterization of the world is complete.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (AiZBA)

252 I love Trump but I'm leaning toward DeSantis myself. Trump was great but let himself be manipulated & didn't really accomplish a lot long-term. I'm just concerned that DeSantis could turn out to be a fake like the rest of them.

I was leaning DeSantis weakly until I read Patrick Byrne's book about the election steal. Trump is *way* too trusting of his subordinates, even after he's been warned by multiple parties that the ones he's trusting are working against him. Now I'm all in on DeSantis pending him turning out to be playing a really long game.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (ZGrMX)

253 Shame I wasn't hanging around Afghanistan beginning of the week, might have been able to pick up a bad looking armored vehicle.
Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (znIQ9)



The HOA would never let you keep it on the driveway.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (guGkK)

254 Puts me in mind of my first day of junior high school.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (guGkK)
++++
Was it one of those movie junior high schools where everyone is in their 20s?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (DCdYk)

255 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo),


I guess the US will just have to buy more to replace them.

Posted by: M.I. Complex at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (BJKQV)

256 Dave, the links in your post are gebroken.

Posted by: Muad'dib - Shhhhh Baby, We're in New South Wales at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (sjdRT)

257 The MSM has a problem.

Being the Smart Set, how do the dig out of the hole: Not even we thought this guy was this dumb? (They knew, but isn't what they sold)

The only way is to avoid the question and report "Americans" have grown tired of Joe and his policies.

Therefore, they don't have to claim the 5th, and blame his policies.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (+nUir)

258 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban


Construction on the first casino began yesterday.

Posted by: Fauxihauntus at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (axyOa)

259 Lockheed Martin is closing its Sikorsky helicopter plant in Chester County. The Coatesville plant will close in March next year. Two hundred and forty employees are expected to lose their jobs. The company had intended to close it in 2019. However, it stayed open after pressure from then-President Donald Trump and other Pennsylvania elected officials. Chester County commissioners say they will focus on supporting employees, and coming up with plans for the 22-acre site. The company blames a downturn in the commercial helicopter sector. In a statement, it said: "We were unable to secure enough additional work to sustain operations."

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (RHGPo)

260 I want it duly noted for the record that I want to live in the most boring times possible, not interesting ones.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM


It's adorable that you think you might have a choice.

Posted by: Interesting Times at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (m+jkK)

261 242 And a MA Deuce for my truck

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (znIQ9)

262 Puts me in mind of my first day of junior high school.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (guGkK)
++++
Was it one of those movie junior high schools where everyone is in their 20s?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 03:02 PM (DCdYk)



GFY, numbnuts.

Posted by: Stockard Channing at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (guGkK)

263 Things are lining up fast to ensure that the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 is going to be a lollapalooza

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (mR6Gs)

264 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo),
.........

Obligatory:
Your tax dollars at work.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (v0R5T)

265 @CBSNews

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban


NYT the other day had that we deserved to lose in Afghanistan because we caused global warming that's hurting them.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (ZGrMX)

266 So 9/11.

America got the PATRIOT Act.

The Taliban got Afghanistan.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (ulgTA)

267 I was leaning DeSantis weakly until I read Patrick Byrne's book about the election steal. Trump is *way* too trusting of his subordinates, even after he's been warned by multiple parties that the ones he's trusting are working against him. Now I'm all in on DeSantis pending him turning out to be playing a really long game.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (ZGrMX)

I've only known anything about DeSantis for the last few months. Has he always been like this or is he just emulating Trump to get the nomination??

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (BJKQV)

268 FFS. Ned Price (State Dept. Spokesman) is recommending that all Americans stuck inside Afghanistan visit the State Dept. website and fill out a Request For Rapid Rescue form.

The Twitterization of the world is complete.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
___

And unlike video games, the people trapped are not going to come back to life...well, most of them anyway.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (3P/5p)

269 Getting the vaccine should be like wearing seatbelts. I oppose laws requiring you to wear a seatbelt. But they save lives man! Yes they do, yet the law is still a violation of my freedom. Confused look from said LIV.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (DpkTQ)


I am adamantly opposed to mandatory seat belt laws and if you ride in my car, you are wearing a seat belt because when I was 17 I rear ended someone and went face first into the windshield. It left a mark, literally, I have a scar above my left eyebrow, and psychologically.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (mf5HN)

270 Dave, did Baris ever offer his own take on the actual vote in 2020? Or is he part of this unprecedented silence/vacuum of pollsters/demographers/consultants after the stunning, and pretty implausible, Biden "victory"? He had detailed polling going on, of course.

Same question for Trafalgar. Have they ever done a detailed side/side of the official results, vs. their polling (which was correct in 2016)?

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (OTzUX)

271 If Trump runs, it will be Trump/Desantis. If he doesn't, Desantis/Pompeo.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) lays down his marker at August 20, 2021 02:57 PM


12th amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves"

So either Trump or Desantis would have to change states, otherwise in a close election it would be President Trump and Vice President Democrat Nominee
because the FL votes would count for President but not for Vice President.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (EughT)

272 This pretty brunette in a white top and plaid skirt

Puts me in mind of my first day of junior high school.
Posted by: Cicero

You wore a plaid skirt?

Parochial school?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (mD/uy)

273 Things are lining up fast to ensure that the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 is going to be a lollapalooza

Speaking of which, didn't they have an actual lollapalooza with the ok of...the Illinois state government?

But remember citizens, lockdowns and social distancing are the only way to stay safe!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (DpkTQ)

274 Shaka, when the approval fell.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (vuisn)

275 This pretty brunette in a white top and plaid skirt

Very nice. I love that kind of outfit, not sure what its called. Skirt Plus straps over the shoulder.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (KZzsI)

276 When Biden refuses to step down, how awkward is the whole, "We didn't mean that Biden fucked up Afghanistan," clean up going to be for the media?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (LvTSG)

277 2 things wrong about Trump
His .001% success rate in hiring choices.
His brain dead support the police.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (buTO7)

278 Overhead from a defense contractor: "Hey, Joe. We sort of need contracts to build new stuff, plus, get an R&D contract for advanced stuff.What can you do to help us out?"

"Well, how about we abandon a bunch of equipment in Afghanistan?"

Defense contractor, "Perfect! We not only build the replacements, we can also leverage the equipment falling into enemy hands into R&D contracts!"

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (FXW3a)

279 The Blackhawks are trivial compared to the drones left. Very similar to us losing dozens of F14s to the Iranians in 78.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (oWBc3)

280 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban

**

Those don't have any type of modern technology like encryption or targeting or the like on them, do they?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (ulgTA)

281 Very nice. I love that kind of outfit, not sure what its called. Skirt Plus straps over the shoulder.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (KZzsI)
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Yeah. It can be very cute.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (DCdYk)

282 "The only thing pretendent Biden is going to bomb the tollybon with is pallets of cash."

Oh, yes. The Madam Secretary Gambit.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (xopIz)

283 >You wore a plaid skirt?

Parochial school?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (mD/uy)


I lol'ed

Posted by: Muad'dib - Shhhhh Baby, We're in New South Wales at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (sjdRT)

284 @207

>>Bringing it home may not have made logistical or financial sense.

The base cost of the 158 blackhawks is 3.5 billion dollars, there is no cost-benefit analysis that would justify leaving them there.

Not to mention the technology and IP treasure trove China and Russia now have access to.

This catastrophe is going to have fare ranging and long lived repercussions.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (GOGEo)

285 I still want to know how it became the in thing for school girls in the US to wear the same thing sheep shaggers in Scotland wear.

And...apparently Japan as well?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (DpkTQ)

286 A comment on a blog had an imaginative suggestion: Appoint Donald Trump as special envoy to negotiate the release of the Americans in Afghanistan now. He's already had experience negotiating with the Taliban, their familiarity with him might lead them to take him seriously in a way no one in Biden's junta would be. Of course it won't be done - President Cadaver's only principle is never letting Trump accomplish anything - but it's the only original idea I've heard this week.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (DWDek)

287 I was leaning DeSantis weakly until I read Patrick Byrne's book about the election steal. Trump is *way* too trusting of his subordinates, even after he's been warned by multiple parties that the ones he's trusting are working against him. Now I'm all in on DeSantis pending him turning out to be playing a really long game.
Posted by: Ian S.


++

Way too many hiring fuck ups.

I mean, he begged Comey to stay on. Guy doesn't have much of a crap detector.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (YsTC1)

288 Biden made sure the Taliban had their booster shot.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (ulgTA)

289
Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo)


If only there was some way that DoD could have flown them out of Bagram...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (n+4am)

290 I was meh on seatbelts until I rode one of those crash simulators. It gives you a nice feel of the force of impact at 30mph. That convinced me, forever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (KZzsI)

291 When Biden refuses to step down, how awkward is the whole, "We didn't mean that Biden fucked up Afghanistan," clean up going to be for the media?

It won't happen. Kalorama is committed to pushing Biden out.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (ZGrMX)

292 This catastrophe is going to have fare ranging and long lived repercussions.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (GOGEo)
++++
Yes. Clinton handing over guidance technology in the Space Systems/Laurel debacle was pretty bad. This may end up worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (DCdYk)

293 I lean Trump over DeSantis only because DeSantis has the benefit of governing a red state and working with a GOP legislature, whereas Trump has the experience of getting reamed by a deep state and would be out for blood and vengeance

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (hQVBP)

294 There were no plans to bring all that stuff home. It was given to the "Afghan military."

So it's moot, at this point. Remember when Katrina hit Nawlins and it turned out there were 400 police on the payroll that didn't exist?

Yeah, like that. The "300,000" never existed. Just a big money laundering op.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (IG8lb)

295 Ned Price just saved the Afghan Christians!!!!

Posted by: James Earl Carter at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (flINI)

296 Neither of the two links work on this post

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

297 Independent where I am means I get to vote in whichever primary I want and thus I'm independent so that I can have fun with primaries should I wish.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (mf5HN)

In my state you can vote in whatever primary you want regardless of your party because we're absolutely the stupidest people you'd ever want to meet.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (BJKQV)

298 Pentagon: Only a couple hundred Americans have been evacuated in the last 24 hours.

https://bit.ly/3y50cSw

bideN SAID aMericAns WERe unimPeDeD By THE TAlibaN.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (UW2ZS)

299 Oh dear Lord....

@CBSNews

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

https://tinyurl.com/yeuvxayc
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (cF8AT)

And Biden just left all those pollutin', gas guzzlin' humvees for them to gather further strength. Another Biden-made disaster.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (KbCG3)

300 291 When Biden refuses to step down, how awkward is the whole, "We didn't mean that Biden fucked up Afghanistan," clean up going to be for the media?

It won't happen. Kalorama is committed to pushing Biden out.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (ZGrMX)

==========

Biden's not going anywhere. It's going to happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (LvTSG)

301 Those don't have any type of modern technology like encryption or targeting or the like on them, do they?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (ulgTA)

If they got any crypto, you can guarantee China would get it too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (Y5qcH)

302 And...apparently Japan as well?

England, too. I think the original thought was because its relatively cheap, that plaid cloth was inexpensive and forgiving on stains and such.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (KZzsI)

303 You know that she knows the "I can take my bra off underneath my blouse" move.
They all learn it in parochial school.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (vuisn)

304 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 02:46 PM (RHGPo),
.........

Obligatory:
Your tax dollars at work atwerk.
Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM


FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (m+jkK)

305 Oh dear Lord....

@CBSNews

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

https://tinyurl.com/yeuvxayc
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (cF8AT)
************
I would love to ask anyone that voted for Biden if they really believe this and do they realize what propaganda is.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (NpAcC)

306 Trump also had a GOP congress for a spell.

Don't blame only the 'deep state'.

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (3P/5p)

307 293 I lean Trump over DeSantis only because DeSantis has the benefit of governing a red state and working with a GOP legislature, whereas Trump has the experience of getting reamed by a deep state and would be out for blood and vengeance
Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (hQVBP)

Right. Like how Bush went from running Texas with a friendly legislature and then went to DC and got pwned left and right by Dems in Congress that he though were his buddies.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (BJKQV)

308 Biden gets what every government gets to destroy their plans: "Events, dear boy, events."

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet has Orwell was an Optimist Tee Shirts on Sale! at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (0QYMt)

309 Biden has decided not to attempt to continue the $300/week supplemental unemployment that end Sept 6.

Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (RHGPo)

310 293 I lean Trump over DeSantis only because DeSantis has the benefit of governing a red state and working with a GOP legislature, whereas Trump has the experience of getting reamed by a deep state and would be out for blood and vengeance
Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (hQVBP)

Drain the swamp needs to be more than a slogan. Trump's happy warrior dynamic was great, but now we need a warrior warrior.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (KbCG3)

311 Things are lining up fast to ensure that the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 is going to be a lollapalooza

Speaking of which, didn't they have an actual lollapalooza with the ok of...the Illinois state government?

But remember citizens, lockdowns and social distancing are the only way to stay safe!
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (DpkTQ)

By the way, there was no Covid "surge" as a result of either Lollapalooza OR Sturgis.
If Biden and his peeps were smart, they'd declare victory over Covid RIGHT NOW
But no, there are still a few quarters and dimes and nickels to shake out of the National Sofa....

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (mR6Gs)

312 >They all learn it in parochial school.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (vuisn)


I learned to help.

Posted by: Muad'dib - Shhhhh Baby, We're in New South Wales at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (sjdRT)

313 bideN SAID aMericAns WERe unimPeDeD By THE TAlibaN.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (UW2ZS)


He also said anyone who WANTED to come home, could.

So obviously anyone still there just doesn't want to come home.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (mbFEM)

314 The thing I'm puzzled by is the sailor outfits Japanese school girls wear. I cannot figure out the origins of that one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (KZzsI)

315 I would be very careful to conflate an argument made against Biden as being for Trump.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (VpIIl)

316 If the Blackhawks were ours as opposed to Afghanistans would think they are fully equipped.

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (znIQ9)

317 Biden left 158 Black Hawks for the Taliban
........

Did he tell the military to put cardboard FREE signs on them?

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (v0R5T)

318 a lot of new names, proclaiming trump is out and Desantis is in.

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (AwPyG)

319 > I was meh on seatbelts until I rode one of those crash simulators. It gives you a nice feel of the force of impact at 30mph. That convinced me, forever.

Agreed. It's a surprisingly nasty jolt.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (UW2ZS)

320 A comment on a blog had an imaginative suggestion: Appoint Donald Trump as special envoy to negotiate the release of the Americans in Afghanistan now.

**

A large part of why Afghanistan was handled the way it was after January was because of how Trump had handled it.

Pipeline closures, insulin prices increased, etc. etc. because Trump X policies regarding them, and because of that those polices MUST end. Orangeman bad.

Afghanistan is no different.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (ulgTA)

321 Christopher good question

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (znIQ9)

322 Can't you guys just order some flights home on delta.com?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (4fSQf)

323 State Department Spokesmen are a type of weasel.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (AiZBA)

324 You wore a plaid skirt?

Parochial school?
Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 03:04 PM (mD/uy)



We called them kilts, laddie.

Posted by: McCicero at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (guGkK)

325 It left a mark, literally, I have a scar above my left eyebrow, and psychologically.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:03 PM (mf5HN)

-----------

Kinda surprised you could reach the windshield.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (kTF2Z)

326 @314

Sailor Moon

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (AwPyG)

327 The muzzie terrorist attack, with FIB help of course, is going to be spectacular. Should do the trick of canceling the Bill of Rights.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (w5raC)

328 By the way, there was no Covid "surge" as a result of either Lollapalooza OR Sturgis.
If Biden and his peeps were smart, they'd declare victory over Covid RIGHT NOW


Yup. But Biden has never been smart, and it doesn't look like his handlers are very good either.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (ZGrMX)

329 You know that she knows the "I can take my bra off underneath my blouse" move.

I think that's one of the things girls learned in that day when the boys were all sent out of the Health Class. That and how to destroy a boy's heart.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (KZzsI)

330 166 An Absolute Triumph.

Making a note here: huge success.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 20, 2021 02:52 PM (nfrXX)

-----
I understood that reference.

Posted by: 496 at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (VJsqe)

331 50 years ago when the two parties where aligned on most meat and potato issues, and the Democrats weren't bug fuck insane.

Today?

No fucking way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


50 years ago was 1971. Who was Thomas Eagleton?

Decode your answer...now.
Bonus points if you can give an essay answer about Eugene McCarthy.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (vcOmj)

332 314 The thing I'm puzzled by is the sailor outfits Japanese school girls wear. I cannot figure out the origins of that one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (KZzsI)

It's an island nation. Everyone is a sailor.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (UuD2k)

333 Given a choice between Trump and DeSantis, right now I'd choose the latter.

Trump did his best, and honestly it wasn't enough.

But...I don't expect their to be a fair election in 2024 anyway so I see this as wishcasting.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (DpkTQ)

334 Biden's not going anywhere. It's going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


He's been waiting his whole life for this (and Jill)
I don't see him leaving short of a real medical reason.

Dems are really in a box. Probably the best shot is to make him lose the primary or convince him he's going to lose like LBJ figured out.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (YsTC1)

335 Trump VS De Santis is going to be troublesome.
DeSantis knows what he's doing, but he'll need Trump's yuuuuge base and must defer to him.

Trump/DeSantis would be unstoppable and Trump can be the figurehead and leave a lot f heavy lifting for DeSantis as VP

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (mR6Gs)

336 I was meh on seatbelts until I rode one of those crash simulators. It gives you a nice feel of the force of impact at 30mph. That convinced me, forever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM (KZzsI)


Being as untall as I am, I'm in the lovely position that if my front airbags go, my face and chest are likely to be shattered.

My only hope is that my OEM airbags provide some relief.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (mf5HN)

337 Oh dear Lord....

@CBSNews

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

https://tinyurl.com/yeuvxayc
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:00 PM (cF8AT)

I'm calling them PCBS from now on.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (mdjgu)

338 How likely is it the United States of America is headed for another civil war - or, widespread political violence that leads to significant division?"

60% of the respondents think that this is somewhat or very likely.

How likely?!! Witness summer of 2020 - it's already happening!

Posted by: InCali at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (MBmq2)

339 I learned to help.
Posted by: Muad'dib - Shhhhh Baby, We're in New South Wales at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (sjdRT)

Yeah, we all had to learn the "unsnap her bra with one hand without looking" move eventually.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (vuisn)

340 Biden's not going anywhere. It's going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (LvTSG)


Remember how the governor of Virginia had that picture in blackface (or in the Klan hood - he couldn't be sure) and everyone was out for blood and said he should resign? And then he didn't?

Like that.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (mbFEM)

341 lets see what falls faster, Bidens approval rating or his core body temperature.

Posted by: CB. just CB. at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (wFQsY)

342 @319

I mentioned before that if you worked in personal injury litigation for any amount of time, there are two things you won't do: (1) ride a motorcycle (2) not fasten your seatbelt

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (AwPyG)

343 Being as untall as I am, I'm in the lovely position that if my front airbags go, my face and chest are likely to be shattered.

My only hope is that my OEM airbags provide some relief.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (mf5HN


*still speechless

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (4fSQf)

344 30% for divorce is not bad at this point! Was probably single digits 20 years ago. Another year of inflation and what pronouns do you prefer? and we will have a majority.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (vN+oL)

345 @DailyCaller 9m

Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."

https://tinyurl.com/yk55m85y

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (cF8AT)

346 Drain the swamp needs to be more than a slogan. Trump's happy warrior dynamic was great, but now we need a warrior warrior.

**********

This. Trump 2.0 must be Godzilla in a very bad mood visiting Tokyo.

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (hQVBP)

347 323 State Department Spokesmen are a type of weasel.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 03:08 PM (AiZBA)

****

Ned also looks like he likes a good penis sip every now and then.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (flINI)

348 GOP Senate & House (spits).

Those rat bastards sell out faster than anyone.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (Jxqr2)

349 Sex Trafficking: The Underground Workings of it and Why It's Worse Than You Think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVH2oAKGDVY

Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (3P/5p)

350 50 years ago when the two parties where aligned on most meat and potato issues, and the Democrats weren't bug fuck insane.

60 years ago, maybe.
Nixon VS Kennedy

Both of their bases were filled with hard working people who loved their country.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (mR6Gs)

351 I want it duly noted for the record that I want to live in the most boring times possible, not interesting ones.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 02:58 PM


So, no mini-trampolines? No office chair you can spin in whilst shouting "Wheeeeeee!"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (a3Q+t)

352 "I want it duly noted for the record that I want to live in the most boring times possible, not interesting ones."

This is either a fib or you have wildly different definitions of boring and interesting.

Posted by: DaveA at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (FhXTo)

353 We have all the clocks.
They have all the time.

Posted by: Obligatory at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (1w13T)

354 Dems are really in a box. Probably the best shot is to make him lose the primary or convince him he's going to lose like LBJ figured out.
Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (YsTC1)


They could always just do widespread ballot fraud and get him re-elected.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (mbFEM)

355 and everyone was out for blood and said he should resign? And then he didn't?


I seem to recall all the leading lights of the FNM saying that if the President had an affair with an intern in the white house that of course he would have to resign. And then a little while later all claiming that sex was a private matter and why are you so obsessed with the president's sex life?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (DpkTQ)

356 340 Biden's not going anywhere. It's going to happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (LvTSG)

Remember how the governor of Virginia had that picture in blackface (or in the Klan hood - he couldn't be sure) and everyone was out for blood and said he should resign? And then he didn't?

Like that.
Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (mbFEM)

==========

Good example.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

357 @335

Pres and VP can't be residents of same state.

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (AwPyG)

358 Remember how the governor of Virginia had that picture in blackface (or in the Klan hood - he couldn't be sure) and everyone was out for blood and said he should resign? And then he didn't?

Andrew Cuomo says hi.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (ZGrMX)

359 I'd love to see a Trump 2.0 come out grim as death. No jokes. No barbs. No insults. No smiles. All business. If it ain't cracking skulls and draining swamps, it doesn't get said or done.

That would make me happy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (6FeV1)

360 345 @DailyCaller 9m

Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."

https://tinyurl.com/yk55m85y
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (cF8AT)


They are asking passengers who'd they vote for in 2024 before allowing them on board

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 20, 2021 03:12 PM (4fSQf)

361 Good thing for the Dems, Dominion has made polls irrelevent.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 20, 2021 03:12 PM (Bmy3R)

362 @DailyCaller
Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:10 PM (cF8AT)
++++
Great. I sure am glad and relieved that we're trucking out Afghan savages by the thousand while we stand around holding our dicks and tell American citizens "good luck."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 03:12 PM (DCdYk)

363 Off retard sock

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (4fSQf)

364 50 years ago when the two parties where aligned on most meat and potato issues, and the Democrats weren't bug fuck insane.


10 years ago any national Dems would have told you Biden policies were insane and no one would ever support that shit.

Hell Oblala publicly opposed gay marriage until 2012.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (DpkTQ)

365 Biden has decided not to attempt to continue the $300/week supplemental unemployment that end Sept 6.
======

That's all right. I got this.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (IytoW)

366 Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."
.........

We are all towel heads now.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (v0R5T)

367 The thing I'm puzzled by is the sailor outfits Japanese school girls wear. I cannot figure out the origins of that one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (KZzsI)

It's an island nation. Everyone is a sailor.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (UuD2k)


The US 6th Fleet.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (axyOa)

368 This is funny

https://tinyurl.com/3awx22wm


From James Wood's twitter

Posted by: naturalfake at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (Xo5lP)

369 335

Pres and VP can't be residents of same state.
Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (AwPyG)

Still time for Trump to move.
He has an Estate in New Jersey

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (mR6Gs)

370 Trump VS De Santis is going to be troublesome.
DeSantis knows what he's doing, but he'll need Trump's yuuuuge base and must defer to him.

Trump/DeSantis would be unstoppable and Trump can be the figurehead and leave a lot f heavy lifting for DeSantis as VP
Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM (mR6Gs)


How soon we forget.

Once upon a time we had a roaring economy, record low unemployment, NATO paying their share, Embassy in Jerusalem, Chy-na paying tarriffs. DJT was certainly not a failure.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (AiZBA)

371 Walter Kim (he wrote Up In The Air and Thumbsucker if the name sounds familiar) just nailed it:

The greatest alliance of oligarchic and corporate interests in human history combined to elect a US president and look what it came up with.

(Via the twats and I don't have the link handy to link)

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (mf5HN)

372 Fun fact:

Airbag legislation (yep, mandatory laws) require said airbags to protect unbelted passengers. That's why they are so damaging to - up to and including killing - smaller people and little kids.

Because they aren't designed and implemented to work in conjunction with seat belts, and all by an act of Congress.

The Smart People wrote the laws so that the airbags have to REPLACE seat belts.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (ulgTA)

373 191 So frustrated reading Twitter. People act like Presidents have never negotiated treaties that the next President had to carry out. Trump would never have done this. The incompetents at State and in the military maybe.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
_____________

It wasn't a treaty, since it was not ratified by the senate. It was an agreement, and one that didn't bind Biden.

Furthermore, there were all kinds of conditions in the agreement that the other side had to meet before the U.S. withdrawal obligations were triggered -- and those conditions weren't met. So Biden had wasn't bound by the agreement for that reason also.

Biden orchestrated this shit show. He did all of it. It did not have to be this way. No sane, reasonably competent person would have withdrawn like this, knowing the conditions on the ground. And Biden has been in charge of Afghanistan for many years -- during the 8 years of the Obama administration, this was one of the duties Obama gave him. And he's been getting briefings since he became the nominee in 2020, so there is no excuse for him to claim ignorance of how weak the Afghan Army was. He knew, he just decided to ignore it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (k4dH2)

374 Being as untall as I am, I'm in the lovely position that if my front airbags go, my face and chest are likely to be shattered.

My only hope is that my OEM airbags provide some relief.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:09 PM


Being as the OEMs are an AoSHQ, indeed intragalactic treasure, we can't risk it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (a3Q+t)

375 50 years ago was 1971. Who was Thomas Eagleton?


Used to, people would say 50 yrs ago and I'd think, I wasn't around. Now they say it and dayum, not only was I around, I was eight!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (OCTRt)

376 The front page of DailyMail is absolutely brutal to Biden. They are noting that Biden took questions from a pre-approved list.

CNN and NPR haven't come around to assessing Biden's 'press conference' just yet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (mdjgu)

377 I think a squirrel just threw an acorn at me. An acorn hit the ground right next to me. I looked up and saw a squirrel who angrily chittered at me, then ran away.

I'm doomed!

Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (UW2ZS)

378
I think the original thought was because its relatively cheap, that plaid cloth was inexpensive and forgiving on stains and such.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:06 PM (KZzsI)



As a side note, for Gray Man use, green/brown plaids can work surprisingly well as camouflage without LOOKING like camouflage.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (n+4am)

379 I still want to know how it became the in thing for school girls in the US to wear the same thing sheep shaggers in Scotland wear.

And...apparently Japan as well?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:05 PM


Plaid skirts have been the school girl uniform style since at least 1972 when I was in kindergarten, and I assume this goes back way further.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (EughT)

380 359 I'd love to see a Trump 2.0 come out grim as death. No jokes. No barbs. No insults. No smiles. All business. If it ain't cracking skulls and draining swamps, it doesn't get said or done.

That would make me happy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (6FeV1)

This is all I want of this world. A deadly serious Trump.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (KbCG3)

381 @347

Here's something I've never been able to figure out: the Archbishop of Canterbury.

He looks like the photo in the dictionary to define the word "pedophile." But he presided over Meghan and Harry's wedding, and there are some interesting photos where is leering at her. I'm not exaggerating--he's smirking and leering at her like a cartoon character.
He's an odd one.

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (AwPyG)

382 Yeah, we all had to learn the "unsnap her bra with one hand without looking" move eventually.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

The ones that fastened in the front threw me off for a time, I must admit.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (mD/uy)

383 Trump negotiated a withdrawal with the Taliban in May.

Biden said, IDGAF and ignored it.

Of course that was going to lead to a Taliban offense.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (DpkTQ)

384 I bet the Pentagon is including the Aussie C-17s just to boost their numbers.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (axyOa)

385 "60 years ago, maybe.
Nixon VS Kennedy"

JFK stole the '60 election, but there wasn't huge daylight between he and Nixon.

Not like now, where Biden is the Trojan Horse for a radical takeover of the country

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (ZHVt1)

386 Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."

https://tinyurl.com/yk55m85y
Posted by: Tami


I know this is the "biggest airlift in history" but in a typical day, there are both 50-60 arrivals AND departures from O'Hare...per hour.
And at the peak of the Berlin Airlift, there was a plane arriving in Berlin Airport about every minute.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (vcOmj)

387 158 Blackhawks at $5.9Million a copy equals... ahhh let's see carry the one and ah $932M.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (w5raC)

388 @cnnbrk 3m

President Biden will nominate Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China

Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (cF8AT)

389 Drain the swamp needs to be more than a slogan. Trump's happy warrior dynamic was great, but now we need a warrior warrior.

__

My biggest problem with Trump is he didn't drain shit.

The firings just never happened, except the people he brought in.

Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (YsTC1)

390
biden-the-invalid is exactly 78.75 years old, today

(that's 78 and three-quarters, for those of you in Rio Linda)

Posted by: Soothsayer did the maths at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (xWhqL)

391 That's all right. I got this.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at August 20, 2021 03:13 PM (IytoW)

Blacks and Latinoids are more likely to be unemployed so this hurts them more than whites so it's racist.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:16 PM (BJKQV)

392 Plaid skirts have been the school girl uniform style since at least 1972 when I was in kindergarten, and I assume this goes back way further.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (EughT)

Much further.

I think it's just the Irish influence in Catholic school education, that's all

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:16 PM (mR6Gs)

393 Hiring issues? Name one wrong hire on his economic team. That's the one he had the least interference on.

Second, people think there will be a civil war yet like the idea of a strong governor running for President. Does FL then become like TX? What foreign policy experience does DeSantis have? And who would he be beholding to, to get the money to run?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 20, 2021 03:16 PM (T7t+x)

394 President Biden will nominate Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and Nicholas Burns as ambassador to China
Posted by: Tami at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (cF8AT)


Good money says McConnell votes for them.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 03:16 PM (mbFEM)

395 Trump negotiated a withdrawal with the Taliban in May.

Biden said, IDGAF and ignored it.

**

And somehow the Democrats currently insist Biden was helplessly and hopelessly bound to Trump's concrete agreement and none of this is his responsibility.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:16 PM (ulgTA)

396 They are actually selling alcohol on the plane!

Whoohoo!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 20, 2021 03:16 PM (fwoDM)

397 377 I think a squirrel just threw an acorn at me. An acorn hit the ground right next to me. I looked up and saw a squirrel who angrily chittered at me, then ran away.

I'm doomed!
Posted by: bonhomme at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM (UW2ZS)

Oh, I know that they have been plotting against me too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 20, 2021 03:17 PM (UuD2k)

398 After all the taxes I've paid you'd think they would at least give me a gyrocopter.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:17 PM (v0R5T)

399 That would make me happy.

*********

Trump experiencing A Frank Castle like morphing into the Punisher would suit me fine.

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:17 PM (hQVBP)

400 We are going to import over a million Afghanis. The takeover will be complete.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 20, 2021 03:17 PM (Jxqr2)

401 Trump also had a GOP congress for a spell.
Don't blame only the 'deep state'.
Posted by: SMH - Dissidentin' in the USSA at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (3P/5p)


You thinking the GOP isn't the deep state?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (wAnMi)

402 Fun fact:

Airbag legislation (yep, mandatory laws) require said airbags to protect unbelted passengers. That's why they are so damaging to - up to and including killing - smaller people and little kids.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at August 20, 2021 03:14 PM


Also add in the kids who roast in the back seat.

If they are sitting next to you, you can't forget them, no matter how sleep deprived or running on autopilot you are.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (EughT)

403 I think a squirrel just threw an acorn at me. An acorn hit the ground right next to me. I looked up and saw a squirrel who angrily chittered at me, then ran away.

lol.. crazy little fuckers.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (nxdel)

404 Trump's second inauguration speech:

I'll keep this short. Some of you will not survive the day.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (kTF2Z)

405 Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."

**

So we're getting 5800 practicing Muslims out of this deal?

Hooray!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (ulgTA)

406 After all the taxes I've paid you'd think they would at least give me a gyrocopter.

You want a gyrocopter

You'll settle for a thank you

You'll get a reaming and a speech on how racist you are.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (DpkTQ)

407 Trump should just go full Batman. Billionaire vigilante.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (mbFEM)

408 I wore a plaid jumper or skirt from K-12th grade.

Loved wearing a uniform.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (fwoDM)

409 Black Hawks suck the gas. We'd pick up 2400 pounds, or 360 gallons of JP8 (kerosene, basically). Lasts about 2 hours, with a bit left in the tank. $$$ to fly.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (IG8lb)

410
Pelosi will never allow Hillary to be VP... she wants the job herself.
Posted by: Romeo13
----

Allowing Hillary in the room is akin to inviting Vito Carleone.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (pK7cg)

411 Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (AwPyG

He could be a pedophile but he's married to a woman and has been married to her for some time, I believe, so maybe he just leers at Meghan because she's an attractive woman?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 03:19 PM (ai5jE)

412 My biggest problem with Trump is he didn't drain shit.

The firings just never happened, except the people he brought in.
Posted by: Hylian at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (YsTC1)

Right. He was gamed by both the Republican party and the Deep State. He figured it out eventually, but by then it was too late. But I have to assume that this time he'd go in with his eyes open to all of that.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:19 PM (BJKQV)

413 Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at August 20, 2021 03:15 PM (vcOmj)

Fresno Air Terminal averages 5600 passengers a day...

F'n FRESNO on a normal day.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 20, 2021 03:19 PM (oHd/0)

414 The front page of DailyMail is absolutely brutal to Biden. They are noting that Biden took questions from a pre-approved list.
.......

I love them. They always print the sleazy pics of Hunter, too.

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

415 For the record I'm nowhere near bonhomme.

Biden has decided not to attempt to continue the $300/week supplemental unemployment that end Sept 6.
Posted by: SMOD at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (RHGPo)



It's not just the $300/week. It's extended UI benefits in sum. There are something like 7.5 million people who are going to be without any UI at all come the Sunday before Labor day.

I cannot *wait* to see how it's spun that it's Trump's fault that these people are getting through off UI entirely.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (mf5HN)

416
Loved wearing a uniform.
Posted by: nurse
-----

Hmm. I wore a uniform for 5 years. It had it's moments.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (pK7cg)

417 Psaki, why do all the Afghanis I meet wanna shake hands with the left one?

Posted by: Preznit Paste Eater at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (Jxqr2)

418 Even Kamala isn't dumb enough to let Hillary become VP.

If the Obama faction comes after you, you get smeared in the press and maybe arrested on some BS charge.

If the Clinton faction comes after you, you commit suicide with two gun shots to the back of the head.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (DpkTQ)

419 Pelosi will never allow Hillary to be VP... she wants the job herself.
Posted by: Romeo13
----

Allowing Hillary in the room is akin to inviting Vito Carleone.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.


Tonight, Kamala sleeps in the ditches....

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, your new Vice President at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (vcOmj)

420 The only number that counts is we 3.5 more years of this pencil-necked pudpuller.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (mmpUH)

421 Allowing Hillary in the room is akin to inviting Vito Carleone.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (pK7cg)

Tattaglia

Posted by: Boswell at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (5iUNf)

422 Trump's second inauguration speech:

I'll keep this short. Some of you will not survive the day.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (kTF2Z)

Better speech than that windbag Lincoln gave in PA.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (6FeV1)

423 I said earlier that Trump could move to NJ where he has a golf resort and mansion.

Or he could move to Pennsylvania or something.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (mR6Gs)

424 *waves at nurse ratched*

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (mf5HN)

425 @355 re: discovery of Clinton's affair.

That was really interesting, because if you look at the coverage leading up, it was all "of course he'd resign, if it was true" and you could tell the newsies all knew for a fact that it was true, and they were thinking they had to deep six him, which was a shame.

The we had the finger waving denial, and you could see everyone swallow hard, and switch to "our poor innocent president". But you could tell they knew the truth, and couldn't believe he was blustering it out.

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (AwPyG)

426 If they are sitting next to you, you can't forget them, no matter how sleep deprived or running on autopilot you are.
Posted by: Chuck C


We suggest you put something important in the back seat so you'll remember.
--The Ad Council

Oh, I don't know what I could put back there.
How about a kid? Is that important enough????

Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (OCTRt)

427 415 It's not just the $300/week. It's extended UI benefits in sum. There are something like 7.5 million people who are going to be without any UI at all come the Sunday before Labor day.

I cannot *wait* to see how it's spun that it's Trump's fault that these people are getting through off UI entirely.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (mf5HN)

==========

"Trump is magic and can make anything happen if he wants. That's why we should continue to attack him and prevent him from being in power."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (LvTSG)

428 Bold nood.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (xopIz)

429
I know this is the "biggest airlift in history" but in a typical day, there are both 50-60 arrivals AND departures from O'Hare...per hour.
And at the peak of the Berlin Airlift, there was a plane arriving in Berlin Airport about every minute.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative


Biggest airlift since Watergate.

Posted by: Carl Bernstein at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (63Dwl)

430
We call them "battlefield expendable."

Posted by: The Pentagon at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (1w13T)

431 The firings just never happened, except the people he brought in.

********

Trumps mistake was playing by the rules

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (hQVBP)

432 I wish he'd move to California, and knock some heads together.

Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (AwPyG)

433 Nurse I just read an article that Southwest airlines is fed up with the long hours, they are short staffed and tired. They are thinking of striking during Thanksgiving. I'm sitting here thinking great... now I have a tired pilot flying the plane and crabby flight attendants when I fly outta here on the 30th.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (nxdel)

434 It's not just the $300/week. It's extended UI benefits in sum. There are something like 7.5 million people who are going to be without any UI at all come the Sunday before Labor day.

boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:20 PM (mf5HN)

From what I've heard it's also that people don't have to prove that they've been looking for work to continue to receive UI. Or maybe that's just my stupid state.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (BJKQV)

435 ven Kamala isn't dumb enough to let Hillary become VP.

What if Kamala is tossed out before Joe?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (mR6Gs)

436 "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (KZzsI)

437 Allowing Hillary in the room is akin to inviting Vito Carleone.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Without the honestly, charisma, expertise, leadership and charm of Vito.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2021 03:22 PM (mD/uy)

438 Black Hawks suck the gas. We'd pick up 2400 pounds, or 360 gallons of JP8 (kerosene, basically). Lasts about 2 hours, with a bit left in the tank. $$$ to fly.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM


Just use that pointy thingie in front to get some more.

And if you'd use that windmill on top to generate electricity, you could fly for free!

Posted by: Alexandria! at August 20, 2021 03:22 PM (a3Q+t)

439 50 years ago was 1971. Who was Thomas Eagleton?
______________

He was a senator that McGovern picked to be his VP, but then it was reported that he'd had electro-shock therapy and been treated for depression, and the press portrayed him as a dangerous loon, and said McGovern hadn't vetted him properly. Eagleton withdrew, and was replaced on the ticket.

IIRC, he cried when he appeared to announce his withdrawal.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 20, 2021 03:22 PM (k4dH2)

440 Loved wearing a uniform.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 20, 2021 03:18 PM (fwoDM)

How does it look now?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 20, 2021 03:22 PM (Jxqr2)

441
only a lunatic favors the "divorce" option; give them ground and they only come back for more. you either keep a boot on the neck of leftists and globalists, or they put one on yours. I also wonder about the folks that think a civil war is likely, and do nothing to prepare their families and communities

Posted by: Grad School Fool at August 20, 2021 03:22 PM (Gsxq1)

442 Pentagon: "For the previous 24 hours, sixteen C-17s and one C-130 departed Kabul. These flights contained nearly 6,000 passengers including a couple hundred American citizens."

https://tinyurl.com/yk55m85y
Posted by: Tami


Here's what you do if you have balls and give a shit. Tell these cavemen that each plane will only take off if it's filled with American citizens. They sit there until they are. Once we're assured we've got a number that makes us happy, then and only then will you guys get a ride. Our suggestion? Go out there, find them, and escort them to the airport by any means necessary. Those that do go to the front of the line. Or you all get to sit here and find out what happens.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 20, 2021 03:23 PM (wAnMi)

443 If it's not the squirrels, it's the hummingbirds. Be careful out there, folks!

Posted by: wth at August 20, 2021 03:23 PM (v0R5T)

444 The percentages show that still too many will cave into professionals suits peeing all over their beds.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 20, 2021 03:23 PM (X04zC)

445 Remember 15 years ago, we were all appalled at the strongarm tactics of the TSA? Being called aside to be finger-raped by some asshole in a locked room at the airport, just because you wanted to fly to see your sick grandma?

Those are now known as "the good ol' days."

Posted by: qdpsteve (L2ZTs) at August 20, 2021 03:23 PM (L2ZTs)

446 The Daily Mail headline is not very nice:

Biden says he'll evacuate ALL US citizens from Afghanistan, insists allies have NOT questioned America's credibility and finally takes questions (from a pre-approved list) in speech he started 50 minutes late

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 20, 2021 03:24 PM (DCdYk)

447 The 60 electorate was so different from today. There was a primary system, but enough states selected their convention delegates by non-primary systems that the candidates did not have to appeal to the extremes of their party to win in the primary then tack back to the middle for the general election. Both parties had liberal and conservative wings, and to win the nomination you had to be moderately moderate in your moderation on everything except foreign policy where you had to be rabidly anti-communist, because that was America.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 20, 2021 03:24 PM (vN+oL)

448 From what I've heard it's also that people don't have to prove that they've been looking for work to continue to receive UI. Or maybe that's just my stupid state.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM (BJKQV)


Depends where you are, some states reinstated the look for work requirement a few months ago.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysterics at August 20, 2021 03:24 PM (mf5HN)

449 I think a squirrel just threw an acorn at me. An acorn hit the ground right next to me. I looked up and saw a squirrel who angrily chittered at me, then ran away.

lol.. crazy little fuckers.
Posted by: Jewells45
----

I recall a story of a woman who was doing some housework upstairs, hearing a shot, she ran downstairs, to find her father holding a .22 at an open window.

"What happened?!" she exclaimed. Her father replied, "I just shot a squirrel off of the birdbath". "Why did you do that?" she asked. Her father replied, "I didn't like his attitude."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2021 03:25 PM (bk3Sg)

450
It's ok. I'm sure we took the keys.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 20, 2021 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

Probably willowed.

They all 100% take crypto to enable the electronic brains of the engine and flight control systems. Those systems are tamper proofed black boxes that short/slag/disable themselves with attempts to hack or bypass.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (VcFUs) - at August 20, 2021 03:25 PM (VcFUs)

451 https://www.frontpagemag.com/after taliban win millions afghan migrants may not be deported who reach America or Europe daniel greenfield
Tens of thousands are fleeing every week
https://tinyurl.com/y4s45enw

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 03:27 PM (znIQ9)

452 They all 100% take crypto to enable the electronic brains of the engine and flight control systems. Those systems are tamper proofed black boxes that short/slag/disable themselves with attempts to hack or bypass.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (VcFUs) - at August 20, 2021 03:25 PM (VcFUs)

"*bing* Please say the pass phrase to enable flight systems"

".... uh..... Death to America?"

"*bing bong* Thank you. Flight systems enabled. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2021 03:29 PM (6FeV1)

453 Anyone here read the first two of William Gibson's new series, The Peripheral and Agency?


Jackpot, baby! Don't worry, though...future generations will feel bad about it and all, at least according to Gibson.


Or perhaps it's just make-believe. Better to believe so, anyhow.

Posted by: Fou Troll at August 20, 2021 03:29 PM (HLwmB)

454 Oh, I don't know what I could put back there.
How about a kid? Is that important enough????
Posted by: rickb223 at August 20, 2021 03:21 PM


I'm sure a bunch are parents intentionally doing it to plausibly get rid of an inconvenience, but not all of them are.

The legit ones could probably pass a lie detector that either 1) they had dropped the kid off; or 2) that it wasn't their turn to take the kid.

We really do run on auto-pilot without even realizing it, and combine sleep deprivation, a schedule change, and distraction at the wrong time and yes, it can happen.

The "important thing" they want you to put in the back seat is something that will interrupt the auto pilot if you don't have it: keys for your office, your work id, your laptop, etc.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2021 03:32 PM (EughT)

455 Now I'm all in on DeSantis pending him turning out to be playing a really long game.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 20, 2021 03:01 PM (ZGrMX)

Let's see what DeSantis does with Miami Dade defying his parental consent for masks in schools.

Posted by: clutch at August 20, 2021 03:32 PM (9UmRs)

456
"*bing bong* Thank you. Flight systems enabled. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 20, 2021 03:29 PM (6FeV1)

I LOL'ed. I sure hope not. I used to work with a dude that is a reserve squadron cdr for the army in a blackhawk unit. I asked him once aboit securing them from theft. That's what he told me. Takes a digital crypto key to even power up the ignition and control system. The whole damned bird is supposed to be like a software configured control system. According to him, they are just expensive large paperweights without that crypto.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (VcFUs) - at August 20, 2021 03:33 PM (VcFUs)

457 357 @335

Pres and VP can't be residents of same state.
Posted by: artemis at August 20, 2021 03:11 PM (AwPyG)
------------

My dream is tossed asunder.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 20, 2021 03:34 PM (Of5dT)

458 Trump, DeSantis, or whatever other Conservative nominated in 2024 will likely win all 50 States.

And lose by 150 points in the Electoral College because we didn't get the corrupt County and State Elections Board people cleaned up.

The only answer is prayer. Our only hope in in God. And He promised, if we call out to Him, He will deliver us.

Start calling out to Him. It's late; but He never sleeps.

Posted by: setnaffa at August 20, 2021 03:38 PM (lrLl2)

459 Her title...

Dear Godmother Bitch...then you should act like a happy North Korean...be sure to cry alot.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 20, 2021 03:39 PM (X04zC)

460 I identify politically as nationalist libertarian. I think I speak for a lot of independent-leaning types in saying that the neoconservatives had their day, but it's folly to pretend that it's 2003 in 2021. A whole lot of stuff has changed since then, starting with the entry into cultural relevance of the first post Cold War generation.

Posted by: CppThis at August 20, 2021 03:42 PM (UewuT)

461 The thing I'm puzzled by is the sailor outfits Japanese school girls wear. I cannot figure out the origins of that one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 20, 2021 03:07 PM (KZzsI)

The middy blouse was popular as a girl's school outfit at the end of the 19th century, when Japan was modernizing.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet has Orwell was an Optimist Tee Shirts on Sale! at August 20, 2021 03:51 PM (0QYMt)

462 starting with the entry into cultural relevance of the first post Cold War generation.
Posted by: CppThis at August 20, 2021 03:42 PM (UewuT)

I don't understand what that means; Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2021 03:52 PM (ai5jE)

463 Being the most accurate pollster in one cycle doesn't mean shit. A flawed process can yield a good result in a single cycle.

Baris may be good, but one accurate cycle doesn't prove it.



Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at August 20, 2021 04:02 PM (L9Ewk)

464 When people like you because they think you are likeable, they may turn to disliking you because they realize you are no longer likeable. If they rate you highly because of perceived competence, when you demonstrate incompetency - your stock is falling, and I say it never recovers on the attribute of competency. You always look at such a person remembering their failures - and that is a rut they never get out of. Given that it is a senile dementia patient we are talking about, he has no chance to repair the damage. Their only card left to play is sympathy.

Posted by: Emil Blatz at August 20, 2021 04:04 PM (7mRgx)

465 Can we just stop with having people with Ivy League degrees running the country?

How many times have they f'd every thing up and the go, "so sorry." Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, more Vietnam, Nation Building (Yeah baby! This time we got it right), More Nation Building, Nation Building not working out so well.

And I haven't even got rolling on the courts and Hawaiian judges, social engineering butt buggery, and these assholes acting like they are fucking royalty.

Posted by: LostInSpace at August 20, 2021 04:21 PM (ESLBo)

466 DeSantis is the Chris Christie of 2024.

And his team is infested with treacherous Never Trumpers who will abandon DeSantis once he pushes Trump out of the primaries.

Team DeSantis also keeps sending out concern trolls to bash Trump, which is a very bad idea. Disloyal fucks want me to support their guy? LOL nope.

We waited for a candidate to be like Trump for TWENTY EIGHT years, and now that we finally have him, we want to drop him and go with whatever is behind Door #2? That is just stupid.

If Trump enters the race, I will vote for no one but him. If he is knocked out of the primaries by disloyal Republicans, I will stay home on election day.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at August 20, 2021 04:27 PM (49Exr)

467 President and VP candidates and be neighbors if they want

Posted by: Skip at August 20, 2021 04:31 PM (znIQ9)

468 Put me down as a yes for civil war but a no for national divorce.

Why should they get to keep Oregon?

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 20, 2021 05:21 PM (ojwvu)

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