The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 9/30/21

Good morning, kids. Thursday and honestly, with everything else that is happening, it seems almost pointless and stupid to get all excited about the seeming collapse of both this infrastructure bill and the insane socialist transformation bill. For all intents and purposes, despite the transparent illusion that "republican democracy" and "robust debate in the world's greatest deliberative body" continuing to be played out to the masses, it is indeed a sham. Our governmental system is a corrupt, one-party bureaucratic state, now rapidly devolving into a totalitarian tyranny. We can no longer delude ourselves otherwise; the truth is now out in the open, having been exposed to millions and confirmed to millions more by President-in-Exile Trump. Frankly, there are more than a few links that scare the hell out of me for their implications to each and every one of us.

First, while Vanilli Milley, a fat, fruit salad-festooned fraud who makes Idi Amin look like Audie Murphy, struts, preens and crows about his alleged patriotism by declaring Trump to be Hitler (and worse, colluding with Malig-Nancy Pelosi to seize power a la Gen. Jack D. Ripper), we have the horrendous story of a real officer, gentleman and patriot declared an "enemy of the people" and chucked into the Garland Archipelago to rot alongside the scores of others still rotting there as January 6th political prisoners.

Stu Scheller Sr. and Cathy Scheller, parents of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, spoke out against the U.S. Military's decision to throw their son in the brig after he spoke out against military leadership over President Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout.
Cathy Scheller said that they don't know what the charges are against their son, although Stu Scheller Sr. suggested that it was tied to his son's decision to break a gag order that he was under.
"Probably a week or two ago, or maybe it was a week ago, they put him under a gag order. They took away his right to post, to talk on social media, to email, to text," Stu Scheller Sr. told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. "He shared it with America. And he knew this weekend, when he posted again and he broke his silence, that they were probably going to arrest him on Monday. So, he is a very intelligent man. He understands what's going to happen to him."
"And I said last night on a program, Tucker, his crime was speaking truth to power, and power couldn't handle it."

Right there is a quote-of-the-year contender, not just about this issue but about the entirety of the madness consuming us. From the sacred we now go to the profane, in the form of former Obama apparatchik Kathleen "Supercilious" Sebelius:

Sebelius said, "I think what [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden has done is -- [blah, blah, blah, blah, verbal boilerplate fellatio of Biden's shriveled yutzick, etc.] -- But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives. So I think the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has been walking a line of balancing science and safety and security at every step along the way. Hoping that the mass majority of the American public would follow that lead."
She added, "It's a lot like secondhand smoke. You have a right to be a smoker. The science is very clear what smoking will do to you, what cancer will be caused, what kinds of health conditions. You have a right to be a smoker. You don't have a right to smoke next to my desk, to blow smoke on people, on my children, to force me to live in a housing facility where I am subjected to more smoke. That is a line that we have in this country, which delineates what your individual rights are. I think we're looking at very much the same situation. OSHA, you're absolutely right, has always provided guidance and mandates about safety in a workplace. This is not a safe workplace if I'm working with a person that may make me and my family sick. That's not acceptable."

Aside from the knob-gobbling and semen-guzzling which I deleted in the interest of preserving your breakfast and sanity, which was shot to hell by the balance of that pull quote, the abject stupidity of using secondhand smoke as a metaphor for the unvaccinated is radiant. Secondhand smoke being just as dangerous if not more dangerous than the inhalant itself has more or less been debunked. I cannot remember where I saw it but I recall reading a very good essay (or maybe it was a George Carlin rant?) identifying the war on smokers as an opening salvo in the current drive of the war on liberty. First it was smoking sections, then you could only smoke at the bar, then only outdoors, then you had to be 50 feet away from the patio, and on and on and on until you could no longer even smoke in your own home.

But this horrendous hag's words are more than a mere warning of totalitarian overreach (which is sure to come). Her words can kill. And history has shown time and again that words indeed do kill. When you start labeling people as carriers of plague, disease and death and a threat to "the children," how long before some insane Karen (BIRM) pulls a James Hodgkinson on some unmasked passerby in the street?

Those are just two things that I did not want to get lost in the sauce with the hoopla over the apparent Hindenburg-ing of these multi-trillion dollar fiascos. But it is consuming a lot of real estate, whatever the kabuki/bukkake theatrics or the actual machiavellian maneuverings backstage so I suppose it is worth mentioning.

""At some point, all of us, regardless of party must ask the simple question -- how much is enough?" [WV Sen Joe] Manchin said. "What I have made clear to the President and Democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can't even pay for the essential social programs, like Social Security and Medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity. . . "
"Overall, the amount we spend now must be balanced with what we need and can afford -- not designed to reengineer the social and economic fabric of this nation or vengefully tax for the sake of wishful spending," Manchin continued. "While I am hopeful that common ground can be found that would result in another historic investment in our nation, I cannot -- and will not -- support trillions in spending or an all or nothing approach that ignores the brutal fiscal reality our nation faces."
Manchin concluded, "If there is one final lesson that will continue to guide me in this difficult debate ahead, it is this: America is a great nation but great nations throughout history have been weakened by careless spending and bad policies. Now, more than ever, we must work together to avoid these fatal mistakes so that we may fulfill our greatest responsibility as elected leaders and pass on a better America to the next generation."

Wow. Our hero. Joe's Man-Chin I guess is not a glass jaw. As the great Milton Friedman PBUH once said,

"The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

I guess even Milton Friedman could not predict that it's politically and incredibly financially profitable for the wrong people to do the wrong thing AND keep getting re-elected for decades. While I was tempted to put in the Autistic Green Jesus "blah, blah, blah" but I think we all can infer it from the utter horse shit coming out of Manchin's mouth. That said, I guess he knows he'd be shit-canned in his next election for voting us over the cliff, but would he? West Virginians should've dumped his ass years ago but still for whatever reasons they persist.

Meh, I don't mean to dump all over him. And despite my thoughts above, that $3.5 trillion bill is chock full of crap that will be the final nail in the coffin of whatever vestige of our freedom is left. But for him to go on about "fiscal responsibility" is as insulting as Kathleen Supercilious. Joe Manchin as well as virtually every other REPUBLICAN senator and congressman has voted time and time again to raise the debt ceiling, borrow trillions, waste trillions and excoriate the citizenry for not "paying our fair share" (puke). Where was Manchin back then? Where were the Republicans? Yes, I guess it's all well and good that for whatever reasons he and McYertle are letting the Democrats form the circular firing squad and torpedo this madness.

But what happens in 2022 and 2024 if by some miracle Dao-Min Yen contracts dementia and we take over the shooting match again? Do you think the GOP will not only not borrow trillions on their own let alone propose bills that CUT spending, pay down the debt and abolish the bureaucracy?

So, okay, pass the popcorn, as Kyle Smith gloats. But it's a temporary reprieve either this time around or in the coming months and years. Unless things radically change. One way or another.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Bank customers are not subjects of the federal government. Banks do not work for the IRS. This is an invasion of privacy. Wyoming's people literally will find alternatives to traditional banks just to thwart access to their personal information -- not because they are trying to hide anything, but because they are not willing to share everything."
Sen. Lummis Confronts Yellen Over IRS Plan to Force Banks to "Rat on Their Customers" Every $600-Plus Transaction
"Egalitarians seek the radical transformation of our society."
The Menace of Moralism
Rep Louie Gohmert: "Make no mistake, the evil, deadly, coordinated globalist attacks we are currently witnessing on ivermectin will go down in history as a vicious crime against humanity."
The Coordinated Attack on Ivermectin Is a Crime Against Humanity
"Hollywood veteran Greg Ellis delivers a gripping, first-person account of family breakdown - and the forces fueling it."
The Respondent: Exposing the Cartel of Family Law
"It also sued another mother of a special-needs student who runs a blog that published portions of the records. The documents are billing records showing how FCPS paid Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm that hired now-Virginia gubernatorial candidate McAuliffe as a top advisor, to do much of what parents say is the school system's dirty work, including seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by special-ed parents who allege that their children were systematically physically abused by educators."
Fairfax Schools Sues Special-Ed Parents, Demanding "Damages" for Publicizing Embarrassing Records the Schools Gave Them (Eichmann Sues Israel for Unlawful Imprisonment, Kidnapping - jjs)

$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION, DEBT CEILING/BUDGETARY INSANITY

"Definition of fiscal insanity." (what about the trillions and trillions in society-killing, government-empowering waste you and your colleagues eagerly voted for for decades??? - jjs)
Joe Manchin Deals Death Blow To Biden's $3.5 Trillion Agenda
"The End Times are upon Joe Biden and the Democrats. Without some kind of miracle, Biden's entire agenda is ready to collapse into a heap of smoking rubble." (the "miracle" is usually RINOs rushing in to be bipartisan - jjs)
Republicans Get Out of the Way as Democrats Form a Circular Firing Squad
Kyle Smith: "Let me get this straight: nutjob Democrats almost unanimously back a cockamamie supervillain scheme to remake an evenly divided country into a socialist wonderland with a $4.3 trillion spending extravaganza -- but they might just blow the whole thing, and a stupid infrastructure package too, because of petty infighting? I'm loving it!"
Get the Popcorn! It's Wonderful to Watch Dems Rip Each Other Apart
"Accept it, Democrats. There are rules and you cannot get your way all the time."
Senate Parliamentarian Rejects Democrats' "Plan B" to Insert Amnesty in Infrastructure Bill
"State power at all costs -- trillions, if need be."
$3.5 Trillion Democrat Fantasies
"Democrats control the entire government -- the Senate, the House and the White House. They intend to sideline Republicans and go it alone to slam American families with historic tax hikes and borrowing," McConnell added. "So they will need to raise the debt limit on a partisan basis as well."
Cuck Schemer Claims Senate "Cannot" Use Reconciliation to Raise Debt Ceiling
"What are you talking about?"
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Sharply Responds To Reporter Asking About Debt Ceiling
"America has a massive infrastructure problem. The Democrats would exchange new pipes for progressive pipe dreams."
"Biden's 'Build Back Better" B.S.
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"Stu Scheller Sr. and Cathy Scheller, parents of Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, spoke out against the U.S. Military's decision to throw their son in the brig after he spoke out against military leadership over President Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout."
Parents of Imprisoned Marine: "His Crime Was Speaking Truth to Power, and Power Couldn't Handle It"
"Charges have not even been filed yet by the Marine Corps. We don't even know why he's in jail other than breaking a gag order, so it's kind of hard to mount a defense if we don't know what he's being charged with," Stu Scheller Sr. told the DCNF. (he's going to be made an example of by the junta - jjs)
Jailed Marine Who Demanded Accountability For Afghanistan Offered To Resign Honorably But Was Rejected
"Are you embarrassed by the book?"
GOP Congressman Confronts Vanilli Milley For Talking To Woodward
"Initially, according to reports, the flight was cleared to land in New York City but the destination was later changed to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., before being disallowed altogether." (I actually know the guy running this rescue program and he has got to be beside himself with rage - jjs)
Biden Junta Bars Flight Carrying Americans From Kabul From Entering U.S.
"This was a war we could have and should have won."
A Marine's Reflection on Afghanistan
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"However, over one-third of Democrats believe that Americans should lose their job for rejecting the vaccine -- the highest 'yes' percentage of all groups."
Poll: Majority Voters Say People Should Not Lose Their Job for Rejecting the Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine
"We're getting tired of protecting people who do not want to protect themselves and get vaccinated." (and the tree of liberty is parched, asshole - jjs)
L.A. City Council To Vote On New, Massive Vaccine Requirement
"Sixty-six parents would pull their kids the day before the Ankeny school district's Oct. 1 student count date, and some would reenroll the Monday after the count, which would result in more than $465,000 in lost funding,"
Parents Threaten to Pull Students and Funding Over Mask Mandate, Could Cost District Over $400,000
"The scary part about Fauci's redefining 'fully vaccinated' is the implications it has for those impacted by Biden's vaccine mandate. Will people who've had their two doses of Pfizer and Moderna not be considered fully vaccinated and face termination under Biden's vaccine mandate?"
Of Course: Quack-enstein Fauci Revises the Definition of "Fully Vaccinated"
"Self-appointed pope of all New Yorkers [Yokel] Hochul appeared at a megachurch to preach her [Chinese] COVID doctrines, saying 'I need you to be my apostles' for preaching universal vaccination to the unsaved."
New York Governor Confirms Chinese Covidianism is a Pagan Cult
Is she that stupid to use secondhand smoke, the allegedly toxic effects of which have generally been debunked, to make this claim? Meh, it's not even that. It's the making of the unvaccinated into carriers of plague and death that gets into blood-libel territory. How long before someone in an environmental suit kills an unmasked stranger because of talk like this? Absolute reprehensible cvnt.
Supercilious Sebelius: Unvaccinated Are "Like Secondhand Smoke" -- They Can Make Me and My Family Sick
"Anti-vaccine passport bills are a step in the right direction, but they do not go far enough."
Vaccine Mandates: A Tale of Two Legal Battles

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"That's not a free country. It's not a free country at all," DeSantis said. "In fact, I mean, I wonder why we would still have the same diplomatic relations when they're doing that. Is Australia freer than China, communist China, right now? I don't know. The fact that that's even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails with some of this stuff."
DeSantis Suggests Cooling Diplomatic Relations With Australia Over "Off-the-Rails" Chinese COVID Lockdowns
"As far as [Chinese] COVID pandemic leadership -- who wore it better? Joe Biden or Donald Trump?"
Choosing Senility Over Substance
"Instead of spreading 'democracy' by bombing foreign nations, America will be spreading 'health' by delivering vaccines produced by untouchable pharmaceutical conglomerates to some of the poorest countries in the world. Is that what some are now calling the vaccine- or [Chinese] COVID-industrial complex?"
Vaccinate for Global Democracy? The US Empire Turns Therapeutic
"The repetition of the big lie, suppression of facts and lack of personal experiences have skewed perceptions on [Chinese] COVID."
Are Perceptions of Chinese COVID Changing?
"The result is the Rome Declaration, posted on September 23, with 7,200 signatures from doctors and researchers. They are demanding a restoration of the doctor/patient relationship, an end to political intrusion into the practice of medicine, and a restoration of their rights to prescribe treatment under the principle of 'First do no harm.'"
We Must Insist on Autonomy in the Practice of Medicine Before It's Too Late
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
While millions of unvaccinated third world, real disease-carrying peasants, criminals and terrorists have the welcome mat, and instant citizenship with automatic Democrat Party voter registration with all the trimmings from Tio Azucar, rolled out for them . . .
Whistleblower: Biden Junta Plans to Terminate Unvaccinated Border Patrol Agents
"A source within Customs and Border Protection notes the unofficial apprehension record shows more than 1,646,000 for the year as of Wednesday."
Border Patrol Breaks All-Time Migrant Apprehension Record in 2021
Texas mayor Pete Saenz: "It was working under Trump, call it whatever you want to call it, but it was working."
A Border Town's Democrat Mayor Has Had Enough
"Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to step in and halt the reimplementation of Remain in Mexico while the case makes its way through the courts. SCOTUS denied the plea, requiring DHS to reinstate Remain in Mexico. Now, as the agency is supposed to be reinstating the program, Mayorkas said in a statement that DHS will end Remain in Mexico, again, "in the coming weeks" via 'a new memorandum.'" (aka "meme-o-random" - jjs)
Biden's DHS Planning to End Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy, Again
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has a duty under the law to protect the U.S. border, so why won't he do it?"
Biden's Border Lies Show Contempt For Constitution
Dear Lord, it's a gaggle of self-gassing fake Jooz who equate massive illegal alien invasions with FDR turning away real refugees from Hitler.
Protesters Confront Mayorkas's Wife, Unfurl 30-Foot Emergency Blanket Outside D.C. Home: "Biden Presidency Trump Policy"
"Despite the cliche, words are not cheap. They are quite costly when those in high office choose them so poorly."
The High Cost of Biden's Foolish Border Rhetoric
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Sean Davis: "Democrats on the January 6 inquisition are setting up a massive and murky legal fight over executive privilege, legal experts and insiders told The Federalist."
House Democrats Use January 6 Inquisition To Provoke Major Court Battle Over Executive Privilege
"The obstruction charge on which the government is relying so heavily may, in fact, be unconstitutional as applied to most of the Jan. 6 defendants."
The Government's Case Against Many Jan. 6 Defendants is in Legal Jeopardy
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"This is proof of overt acts and statements made in furtherance of the illegal but thus-far uncharged conspiracy.
John Durham Dissects a Smear Campaign
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
Lloyd Billingsley: "California completes the institutionalization of voter fraud."
You've Got Mail
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"This dispute originated in June 2020 when a non-black student asked Plaintiff to grade his 'Black classmates' differently than other students. Plaintiff rejected this request . . .
UCLA Prof. Gordon Klein Sues After Suspension and Smears For Refusing Preferential Exam Treatment For Black Students
"CAPA Global, a major study abroad program, is employing lecturers to teach a mandatory lesson on 'unconscious bias,' full of critical race theory."
Major Study Abroad Program CAPA Global Mandates Left-Wing Propaganda Webinar
"We need to bulldoze the education establishment and privatize schools." (we need to privatize society and the individual -- just like those white slave owners did in the Constitution - jjs)
It's Time To End Government-Run Schooling
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"In a C-SPAN video, Harris stands and nods calmly while a female student launches into a minute-long harangue in which she accuses Israel of 'ethnic genocide and displacement of people.' In response, Harris said the young woman's 'truth' 'cannot be suppressed.'"
Veep Throat Harris Tacitly Endorses George Mason Student's Anti-Semitic Rant
"Nourhan Mesbah faces calls to resign from student Democrats across the country."
College Democrats Leader Under Fire For Anti-Semitic Tweets
"Why the Left thinks it's perfectly acceptable for Jews to die in the name of Palestinian 'self-determination.'"
The Murderous Anti-Semitism of the Effort to Kill Iron Dome
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Abortion giant NARAL's anti-law enforcement position sparks backlash."
"Punk" McAuliffe Ally: Defund the Police and Pay for Abortions
Daniel Greenfield: "The number of black murder victims rose 62% in one year."
Black Lives Matter Killed 2,000 Black People
We replaced the Angel of Death with a female (on paper) doppelganger. Except her nipple rings are rusty 10-penny nails.
Second Yokel Hochul Appointee is a Titty Caca AOC-Backed Maoist Who Wants to Defund NYPD
"Alexandra Souverneva is charged with felony arson to wildland. Authorities suspect she started other fires, too." (the root cause is still climate change, h8trz! - jjs)
California's "Fawn Fire" Allegedly Started By Student-Turned-Shaman Claiming She Boiled Bear Urine To Drink
"We will need incarceration for as long as we have people who need to be incarcerated."
The Fallacy of Elder Parole
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"O'Neill, who served as the 43rd Police Commissioner from 2016 to 2019, addressed the America China Public Affairs Institute (ACPAI) three times during his tenure, speaking at the "Police Commissioner Luncheon" in August 2016, September 2017, and November 2018."
De Bolshevik's Police Commissioner and Chinese COVID Advisor Spoke at Chinese Communist Party Influence Group Seeking "Law Enforcement Cooperation"
"The American public deserves much better than what Secretary Haaland's Department of Interior is delivering."
Watchdog Group Sues Interior Department Over Access To Secretary Deb Haaland's Schedule
POLITICS
" . . . Not so good."
How's the Anti-Trump Doing?
"A moderate Republican House member [a.k.a. rat-bastard scum RINO criminal] told The Post that between 22 and 24 GOPers were expected to support the $1.2 trillion bill as of Wednesday night, despite instructions from party leadership to oppose it."
Biden Booed at Congressional Baseball Game as Hopes Fade for Infrastructure Bill (if only he brought zombie James Hodgkinson pour encourager les autres - jjs)
"Biden's most recently revealed Afghanistan lie is just the latest in a string of outright falsehoods and deceptions the White House is resorting to in the face of failure."
So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden Governs Through Obvious, Ham-Fisted Lies
"Get your eyepatch and cutlass ready."
National Lie-Like-a-Democrat Day
"If further proof were needed that white leftists don't believe a word they say when it comes to their great concern for racism and diversity, look at Matthew Dowd."
Matthew Dowd Proves White Democrats Don't Care About Advancing Ethnic Minorities
"Mandela Barnes hobnobs in Bay Area with liberal prosecutor [and diseased spawn of literal terrorists] Chesa Boudin, state lawmaker who wants to abolish ICE." (perfect timing; I could be moving to Wisconsin within a year - jjs)
Dem Senate Frontrunner Fundraises With Radical San Francisco Liberals to Flip Wisconsin
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
So, they're a publisher and not a platform. Time to break them the hell up.
YouTube Announces It Will Ban All "Anti-Vaccine" Content
"Historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected," the Lancet Journal wrote in a piece on how "the silence, shame, and stigma surrounding menstruation are increasingly being challenged from various cultural domains."
Lancet Journal Apologizes After Referring to Women as "Bodies With Vaginas" in Latest Edition
Mollie Hemingway: "This is a common technique of moral blackmail, regularly used by the left to silence opposition to progressivism's march through American institutions."
Left-Wing Media Borg Orchestrates Yet Another Bogus Hit On Tucker Carlson
"A blistering New York Times report on Sunday raised questions about Ozy, a digital media company aimed at millennials and founded in 2013, and whether the company was being honest about how many people it reached through its various products."
Ozy Media Executive Apparently Impersonated YouTube Executive, Company Allegedly Inflates Site Statistics. Company Defends Itself
"CNN landed an Emmy Tuesday in the breaking news category, one of seven the network captured on night one of the News and Documentary Emmy Awards."
XiNN Rewarded With Emmy For Downplaying Violence Of Floyd Riots
"The ethical corruption of our national new media has extended to a degree that once would have seemed unimaginable."
What the Press is Leaving Out About the Arizona Election Audit
"Where are the American journalists defending the First Amendment?"
Pope-Fiction Pope Calls an American TV Network Satanic for Criticizing Him
ABORTION
"The new organization will be lead by Pro-Life San Francisco founder Terrisa Bukovinac, who also served temporarily as president of Democrats for Life of America."
Ahead of Women's March, Feminists, Liberals, LGBTQ Persons to Announce New Pro-Life Group
"Aborting reason."
My Body, My Choice
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Tickets will be sold exclusively to spectators residing in China's mainland, who meet the requirements of the [Chinese] COVID-19 countermeasures," the IOC said. "Specific requirements on [Chinese] COVID-19 countermeasures for spectators from China's mainland and the details of ticketing arrangements are under discussion and development, and will be released to the public in due course once they are finalized."
No One Outside of China Allowed to Attend 2022 Winter Games in Beijing
"The consequences of the collapse of a large corporation like Evergrande, however, are different in a command economy than they would be here."
The Mother of Real Estate Bubbles Looms in China
"The Biden [junta] urges 'Iran to provide the IAEA with needed access without further delay.'"
Iran Denies UN Inspectors Access to Key Nuclear Site
"Sen. Hagerty slams Biden for ignoring sanctions meant to halt pipeline."
Classified Briefing on Nord Stream Pipeline Renews GOP Concerns That Biden Is Caving to Russia
"The English-speaking world has had it with China." (too bad Australia is now acting worse than the filthy, evil Chi-Coms - jjs)
The AUKUS Treaty: 30 Years of Calm
"It involves a 'sovereign and democratic Palestinian State.'"
Joe Biden's Prescription For Ensuring Israel's Future
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"League hopes to build 'baseball ecosystem' in China." (great, the Peking Pangolins will be in the Western Division - jjs)
MLB Ships Jobs to China To Build Closer Relationship With CCP
"'Honor' -- which was sold by Huawei last November to skirt Trump-era sanctions -- still retains links."
Biden Security Agencies Oppose Blacklisting Chinese Gov't Tech Firm.
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "The persecution Christians suffered at the hands of Muslims over the course of just one month."
Christians Buried or Burned Alive by Their Muslim Parents
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"By 2031, over three-quarters of taxpayers earning between $100,000 and $200,000 will see higher tax expenses."
Federal Analysis Shows Democrat Tax Bill Will Break Biden's Promise To Not Raise Middle-Class Taxes
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
We won't see it for another 10 years, just like the disastrous effects of global warming. Lather, rinse, repeat in 2031. Seriously, this is another front in the assault on private property and freedom by the Globalists.
So Where's That Crisis Leftists Predicted After the Eviction Moratorium Expired?
"DeSantis has emerged as one of the most prominent political leaders against pandemic restrictions and mask mandates. . . Texas, led by Governor Greg Abbott, has also led the country in preventing businesses and communities from being held back by pandemic restrictions."
DeSantis' Florida and Abbott's Texas See Most Improved Housing Markets
"The Fed adjusted its inflation prediction from 3.4 percent in June to 4.2 percent."
Fed Heads Increase Inflation Predictions as Dems Push for $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill
"Instead of trying to expand the regulatory state, Congress should think about the massive economic growth if crypto was addressed by thoughtful legislative consideration instead of piecemeal regulation."
Congress Moves in the Wrong Direction on Cryptocurrency Policy
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"That's racist."
Report: Too Many White People Studying Racial Disparities in Health Care
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"A price on carbon guarantees electricity will be harder to come by."
Despite Europe's Energy Woes, Senate Democrats Want to Follow Its Carbon Pricing Lead
"This winter, the U.K.'s wrongheaded energy policy may test public devotion to environmentalism."
Will Britain Shiver?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Though I personally would be very saddened if Lucy was prevented from launching, that loss would be well compensated for by having the federal government out of business. The evil and corruption promoted by it far outweighs the good work done by several minor space missions."
Government Shutdown Threatens Lucy Asteroid Mission
"This research only makes the geological and climate history of Mars more puzzling. Though the geological evidence strongly suggests lakes and liquid water once existed on Mars, and this research strengthens that conclusion (as indicated by the highlighted sentence above), no model of the planet's climate has ever satisfactorily created a situation where that was possible. Either there are factors about Mars' ancient history we have not yet identified (likely) and don't yet understand (very likely), or the planet's geology was formed by processes alien to Earth and thus not yet recognized by us."
Flooding From Crater Lake on Mars
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Victor Davis Hanson: "Orwell would say of the woke Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, LeBron James, or Ibram Kendi -- and their supposed unwoke, but similarly rich enemies, "It was impossible to say which was which.""
Our Porcine Two-Legged Wokeists
Christian Toto: "Podcast giant goes 'all in' on freedom vs. vaccine mandates, plays Nazi card."
Did Joe Rogan Just Become the Media's Public Enemy No. 1?
"There are more and more of these moments because intellectually honest leftists are suddenly realizing that everything they thought they knew was wrong."
Another Leftist Gets Red-Pilled by the Truth
". . . Or perhaps the second ugliest library, after LBJ's."
The Obamas Break Ground on the Nation's Ugliest Presidential Library
HITHER & YON
"Alluring and exciting at first, it is ultimately not worth the time expended. It lacks focus and is over-reliant on shock value."
Netflix's Clickbait Unfortunately Lives Up To Its Name

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 06:45 AM (yrol0)

2 I called the dogs

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 06:46 AM (yrol0)

3 Good morning everyone

Posted by: Skip's Phone at September 30, 2021 06:46 AM (GVlkG)

4 And which Democrat will save us, since we know the GOPe won't.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 06:46 AM (1c5s7)

5 And I got a podium

Posted by: Skip's Phone at September 30, 2021 06:46 AM (GVlkG)

6 Can we leave it grey? It matches my mood.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at September 30, 2021 06:46 AM (Bmy3R)

7 Eau mai!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus Belli) at September 30, 2021 06:47 AM (l7Kbv)

8 I like the new look even if it's accidental. Good morning all! Timesheet submitted. Now we wait and see if the government shuts down and I have to stay home.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 30, 2021 06:47 AM (rF7rL)

9 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at September 30, 2021 06:48 AM (YJG+R)

10 Thnks JJ. Hppy bthdy

Posted by: Ian Deal at September 30, 2021 06:48 AM (5ZCZY)

11
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2021 06:48 AM (DUIap)

12 The Grey. This is a good look. I approve.

Posted by: Liam Neeson at September 30, 2021 06:48 AM (Do5/p)

13 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 06:48 AM (nR2nR)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (arJlL)

15 Mornin', all! How many folks who got the shots will be signing up for the subscription model, do y'all think? I imagine those goal posts are on fire even after the addition of wheels from all the friction.

Thanks for the newz, JJ! Everyone stand your ground . . .

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (c8cE2)

16 blah, blah, blah, blah, verbal boilerplate fellatio of Biden's shriveled yutzick, etc
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That is very nicely done right there. What a summation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (+IIqY)

17 Wow, a grey morning.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (88xKn)

18 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Then take away their cars and drivers licenses. I don't want other people putting my life at risk.

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (Tnijr)

19 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 30, 2021 06:50 AM (u7pQw)

20 If the government shuts down does that end the COVID pandemic?

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 06:50 AM (iFMeW)

21 Hi JT!

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 30, 2021 06:50 AM (yEBFM)

22 Remy's "People Will Die" video seems appropriate here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 06:50 AM (iFMeW)

23 Then take away their cars and drivers licenses. I don't want other people putting my life at risk.
Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (Tnijr)

I could die in a bank holdup.

Outlaw banks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 06:50 AM (/EuRN)

24 Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at September 30, 2021 06:51 AM (3D/fK)

25 The IRS can get transaction information on a target by subpoena anytime they can show cause. They don't need this information.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 06:51 AM (1c5s7)

26 She added, "It's a lot like secondhand smoke. You have a right to be a smoker. The science is very clear what smoking will do to you, what cancer will be caused, what kinds of health conditions. You have a right to be a smoker. You don't have a right to smoke next to my desk, to blow smoke on people, on my children, to force me to live in a housing facility where I am subjected to more smoke.
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And thus she references one of the early stages of "trust the science" when science has nothing to do with it. Smoking is bad for you. Second-hand smoke is unpleasant and smells bad and can act as an irritation for those with asthma. It has never been demonstrated to cause cancers or long-term health effects among non-smokers. Yet exactly this - the risk of cancers and long-term health effects among non-smokers - was used to justify public-place smoking bans. And it probably isn't true. But it was politically useful, so it became true. And property rights took a deathblow.

And Sebelius should know better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 06:52 AM (+IIqY)

27 And to add to that Forbes help-a-reporter request I posted at the end of the last thread, it lacked any mention of this being exactly the right time for a cold and flu uptick.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 30, 2021 06:52 AM (BE6Ms)

28 Cathy Scheller said that they don't know what the charges are against their son, although Stu Scheller Sr. suggested that it was tied to his son's decision to break a gag order that he was under.

Lt. Col Scheller knew the risk he was taking. He had turned in his resignation and it was just a matter of waiting things out. He chose otherwise and accepted the consequences.

Now this could be the brass trying to apply pressure along the lines of "fall in line and we'll get you out sooner." Or it could be the higher ups wanting to Make An Example out of him.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 30, 2021 06:53 AM (rF7rL)

29 Thanks for the newz, JJ! Everyone stand your ground . . .
Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse.

May I sit down ?

Posted by: JT at September 30, 2021 06:53 AM (arJlL)

30 When the Biden Admin comes out and says the vaccine doesn't work and masks don't work, I'll finally concede the need to take the vaccine to protect the lives of others...wait.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 06:53 AM (iFMeW)

31 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at September 30, 2021 06:53 AM (arJlL)

32 wow, VDH has sure gotten all tough-talkin' now that he can't look down his nose at that gauche President Trump any more.

g'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 30, 2021 06:53 AM (jDHSU)

33 What I have made clear to the President and Democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can't even pay for the essential social programs, like Social Security and Medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity

MAY 21, 2014
Social Security benefits could be cut by 25 percent if Congress does not act soon, Social Security Administration Chief Actuary Stephen Goss warned a Senate panel Wednesday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 06:54 AM (yrol0)

34 >>> "Christians Buried or Burned Alive by Their Muslim Parents"

If that's not demonic I don't know what is.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 06:54 AM (45fpk)

35 Gag orders are garbage and violate first amendment rights.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 06:54 AM (iFMeW)

36 Now do second hand pot smoke.

As long as the government is protecting me from other people, how about putting a fence around the hood?

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 06:54 AM (Tnijr)

37 If that's not demonic I don't know what is.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 06:54 AM (45fpk)

The family that preys together, stays together. (Well, mostly.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 06:55 AM (/EuRN)

38 >>What's NAC?

OTC amino acid supplement that's been on the market since the 60's, it has antiviral properties and is being used as a prophylaxis to fight COVID.

There are studies showing it's effectiveness, a number of big pharma companies have been undertaking trials with it and are probably readying a COVID pill utilizing it so of course the OTC version has to be removed from the market.

Anything that's cheap and or OTC has has to be eliminated to continue the Op and Scam.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2021 06:55 AM (cLlDU)

39 Humans are walking bags of pestilence. And we are NOT at the top of the food chain. If you want to be "safe," get yourself a sealed environment, don't touch anyone or anything and grow your own food. Idiots.

Posted by: itsacookbook at September 30, 2021 06:56 AM (yPxXc)

40 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 06:56 AM (VtwaX)

41 Isolated societies have always been the strongest. It is known.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 06:56 AM (iFMeW)

42 This $600 banking rat-out. So if you buy a stove it goes on your permanent record?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 06:57 AM (45fpk)

43
Oh, no, I worked too hard at it for you to willow this!

Jill Biden tries to keep her political identity out of the classroom and has said that many of her former students in Virginia had no idea she was married to the vice president. She also did not talk about it. Secret Service agents accompanied her for security, but she had them dress casually and tote backpacks in an attempt to blend into the campus environment.

I'll bet that her SS handlers were as aces at blending in with their "Hello, Fellow Students!" as their compadres were at the 9/18 event it DC.

"Say, these new Beats earpieces sure do convey an authentic sense of 'being there' for this Vanilla Ice rapper fellow's 'live at Costco' performance! Is he a favorite performer of yours, too, fellow community college students?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2021 06:57 AM (pNxlR)

44 If the government shuts down does that end the COVID pandemic?
Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 06:50 AM (iFMeW)
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No.

A media shutdown, though, would.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 06:57 AM (+IIqY)

45 Morning peeps. Who's idea was it anyway to have a "government?" That person needs to answer some questions.*

*I know the answer

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 06:57 AM (BFigT)

46 Sebelius has the typical leftist nanny state attitude that once you leave your house you must be protected from all possible danger and it the govt. and everybody's responsibility to make sure you are safe at all times. The freedom loving, grown up position ought to be leaving your house means you assume the risk of living in the real world, and often it can be unpleasant, even dangerous so learn to deal with it.

Unfortunately, a distinct majority of American view the former as what freedom is all about. Govt. taking care of you.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2021 06:57 AM (MxEKc)

47 " ... identifying the war on smokers as an opening salvo in the current drive of the war on liberty. ... "

I was saying that for the last few decades, guess what everyone told me, until I just shut up ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 30, 2021 07:00 AM (jDHSU)

48 Gag orders are garbage and violate first amendment rights.
Yes, but when you are property of the military you give up certain rights.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 30, 2021 07:00 AM (rF7rL)

49 This $600 banking rat-out. So if you buy a stove it goes on your permanent record?
Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 06:57 AM (45fpk)
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If you buy almost anything, it does. It is a panopticon, pure and simple. In fact, it will go on your record twice in most cases for most people:
1. The credit card transaction when you bought the stove
2. The online payment from your bank to the card company

This way, they know rather a lot: that you could afford the stove, who you bought it from, when you bought it, which bank you used to buy it, and which bank you use to pay off the other bank, how quickly you paid it off, etc.

It's oppressive at every level.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:00 AM (+IIqY)

50 What's NAC?

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:00 AM (VtwaX)

51 Marxist collectivism (on paper) envisioned a universal proletariat and the death of aristocracy.

American collectivism envisions universal aristocracy and the death of the proletariat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 07:02 AM (/EuRN)

52 What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?

I suppose I should read the article.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:03 AM (45fpk)

53 "The End Times are upon Joe Biden and the Democrats. Without some kind of miracle, Biden's entire agenda is ready to collapse into a heap of smoking rubble."

--

I wish I could find some solace in the above, but I don't. I'm very uneasy, you might say. There is only one thread we're hanging by between what is now a battered, burned-out cinder that is America with full-on socialism via the Democrat's $3.5T bill. One measly thread. And if they are true to form, and they always are, that thread will be broken down and they'll find a way to get what they want. They are Terminators.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021 07:03 AM (O+I8R)

54 I think it's telling how many people have latched onto the health aspects of vax vs. nonvaxed. Health aspects being whatever weird, nonsensical theory they come up with.

A smart and motivated opposition party would be pointing a lot of this shit out and making hay.

But....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 07:04 AM (BFigT)

55 Fauxi says boosters are for keeping people healthy not alive.

WTH is going on???

Nothing makes sense anymore.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2021 07:04 AM (oT1NJ)

56 What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?

"Fuck you", explained the bureaucrat

Posted by: In Exile at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (kzzyk)

57 Mornin' again, all,

Emmie, did everything work out with your husband's hospital visit?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (/XOcP)

58 Sebelius has the typical leftist nanny state attitude that once you leave your house you must be protected from all possible danger

and it the govt. and everybody's responsibility to make sure you are safe at all times.

Now do Chicago.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (VtwaX)

59 Fauxi says boosters are for keeping people healthy not alive.

That doesn't even make sense.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (45fpk)

60

Yellen replied that the IRS wants to collect "comprehensive information" about individuals to add to the "wealth of information about individuals" it already has.

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (Tnijr)

61 55 Fauxi says boosters are for keeping people healthy not alive.

WTH is going on???

Nothing makes sense anymore.

Posted by: four seasons at September 30, 2021 07:04 AM (oT1NJ)

==========

"We will destroy your livelihood if you refuse our vaccine that won't decrease your chance of death but might decrease your chance of getting the sniffles."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (LvTSG)

62 56 What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?

"Fuck you", explained the bureaucrat
Posted by: In Exile at September 30, 2021 07:05 AM (kzzyk)

==========

"This man has appropriated my culture."
-Henry Hill

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:06 AM (LvTSG)

63 So, they're a publisher and not a platform. Time to break them the hell up.
YouTube Announces It Will Ban All "Anti-Vaccine" Content

Time to find every single instance that they've ever been incorrect about anything and sue them, and their parent Alphabet, into the ground.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:06 AM (nR2nR)

64 63 So, they're a publisher and not a platform. Time to break them the hell up.
YouTube Announces It Will Ban All "Anti-Vaccine" Content

Time to find every single instance that they've ever been incorrect about anything and sue them, and their parent Alphabet, into the ground.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:06 AM (nR2nR)

========

Do other vaccines still cause autism according to their platform?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:07 AM (LvTSG)

65 Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller did not hang himself.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:07 AM (yrol0)

66 American collectivism envisions universal aristocracy and the death of the proletariat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 07:02 AM (/EuRN)
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Regardless of what it may have originally "envisioned," this is what socialism always engenders.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:08 AM (+IIqY)

67
While Scheller may have been required to keep quiet as a condition of his uniform, if he sees manifestly irresponsible or illegal acts that endanger him, his comrades in arms or the nation he has sworn to protect, I would think it is his duty to speak out, regardless of that order.

He is serving under a criminal regime. Sure, they will use "the rules" to break him. But it does not negate the facts of who the players are.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:08 AM (s2VJv)

68
Taking one for the team so you do not have to!

"Alluring and exciting at first, it is ultimately not worth the time expended. It lacks focus and is over-reliant on shock value."
Netflix's Clickbait Unfortunately Lives Up To Its Name

Not unlike picking up wrapped gifts and shaking them in order to determine what is inside, it was. The order in which the packages were shaken was important.

The package of interest was not shaken until the very last episode, rendering the six hours required to view every episode prior to that point a meaningless waste of your time.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2021 07:08 AM (pNxlR)

69 "WTH is going on??? Nothing makes sense anymore."

They're lying pointlessly because they have no idea what actual leadership looks like. The siren song of "Somebody must do something" is drawing us closer and closer to the rocks.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 07:09 AM (iFMeW)

70 " What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?"

'Yellen replied that the IRS wants to collect "comprehensive information" about individuals to add to the "wealth of information about individuals" it already has.'

If this does not convince you that the Federal Government want to rule your life, nothing will. They are not even afraid to say it.

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:09 AM (Tnijr)

71 "and it the govt. and everybody's responsibility to make sure you are safe at all times.

Now do Chicago.

Posted by: rickb223"

The govt. taking guns from rural flyover people will keep the people of Chicago safe.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (MxEKc)

72 What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?

They're going after billionaires.

No shit. Reported reason.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (VtwaX)

73 "'Yellen replied that the IRS wants to collect "comprehensive information" about individuals to add to the "wealth of information about individuals" it already has.'

Remember, the right to an abortion is actually based in a right to privacy.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (iFMeW)

74
What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?

I suppose I should read the article.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:03 A

if it's not reported, people will die!
- Remy

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (DUIap)

75 What is the stated reason for this $600 reporting? What argument are they using?
I suppose I should read the article.
Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:03 AM (45fpk)
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They claim - preposterously - that it will help catch high-net-worth individuals who cheat on their taxes, presumably by finding people living beyond their official means.

But that $600 is a big red flag for me, and it should be obvious to anyone who has worked as an independent contractor: that's the reporting threshold for 1099 work. If you do more than $600 worth of work for someone, you have to declare it. If you sell more than $600 worth of goods, you have to declare it.

The main purpose is panopticism, but the practical purpose isn't rich tax cheats, it's you - the guy who does an odd job but doesn't declare it, who sells knickknacks on eBay but doesn't declare it, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (+IIqY)

76 OTC amino acid supplement that's been on the market since the 60's, it has antiviral properties and is being used as a prophylaxis to fight COVID.

There are studies showing it's effectiveness. . . .
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2021

***
Lifeextension dot com has it for $10.50/60 tablets. Is it worth taking if you're already doing D3, C, and zinc daily, and pony paste once a month?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (/XOcP)

77 The charade must continue. They went all in
Can't stop now

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (/6GbT)

78 'Yellen replied that the IRS wants to collect "comprehensive information" about individuals to add to the "wealth of information about individuals" it already has.'

If this does not convince you that the Federal Government want to rule your life, nothing will. They are not even afraid to say it.

--

It's right there in the Constitution! The Federal Gov't has explicit rights to every individual's financial transactions, whenever the whim strikes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021 07:11 AM (O+I8R)

79 76 Lifeextension dot com has it for $10.50/60 tablets. Is it worth taking if you're already doing D3, C, and zinc daily, and pony paste once a month?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (/XOcP)

I saw Pony Paste open for the Stone Ponies at The Village Gate in '69.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:11 AM (s2VJv)

80 "I saw Pony Paste open for the Stone Ponies at The Village Gate in '69."

Did they do "Mustang Sally"?

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:12 AM (Tnijr)

81
Fauxi says boosters are for keeping people healthy not alive.

Fook Juneteenth -- what this country needs is to celebrate Guy Fauxi Day.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2021 07:12 AM (pNxlR)

82 Regardless of what it may have originally "envisioned," this is what socialism always engenders.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:08 AM (+IIqY)

Yup. I suppose my point is that you can't have one without the other, unless you eradicate both. No aristocracy, no working class, just unclassified citizens left free to do as they see fit: in a word, Liberalism. The repudiation of class distinction and illegitimate authority.

If we're all Proles, it doesn't work. If we're all entitled Lords, it doesn't work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 07:12 AM (6FeV1)

83 I saw Pony Paste open for the Stone Ponies at The Village Gate in '69.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021

***
Was Linda Ronstadt still with the Stone Poneys then?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:13 AM (/XOcP)

84 The people who are playing by the rules, the people who have been vaccinated, deserve to go back to normal, Martinez said.

Now do illegal aliens
and drug dealers
and people that steal less than $1000

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:13 AM (yrol0)

85 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at September 30, 2021 07:13 AM (Adlwz)

86 Was Linda Ronstadt still with the Stone Poneys then?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:13 AM (/XOcP)

What a voice.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:13 AM (45fpk)

87 A government that kills 7 little kids and lets the people who did it call it a "righteous strike" is not going to be concerned about me. The little people are just in the way.

Posted by: itsacookbook at September 30, 2021 07:14 AM (yPxXc)

88 "and people that steal less than $1000"

They have to report it if it's over $600.

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:14 AM (Tnijr)

89 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Then take away their cars and drivers licenses. I don't want other people putting my life at risk.
Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 06:49 AM (Tnijr)

I hate to say it but Sebelius is right. We need to fire everyone in government. They have no right to impact other people's lives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:14 AM (nR2nR)

90 Lifeextension dot com has it for $10.50/60 tablets. Is it worth taking if you're already doing D3, C, and zinc daily, and pony paste once a month?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:10 AM (/XOcP)

--

I just posted at the end of Pixy that I recently picked up a few bottles of NAC from Life Extension, along with the others you mentioned. I figured 1) it's supposed to help with healthy lung function and 2) it must be somewhat effective or the fed gov't wouldn't want to deny it to me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021 07:14 AM (O+I8R)

91 I saw Pony Paste open for the Stone Ponies at The Village Gate in '69.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:11 AM (s2VJv)

She ran calling Wildfire

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:14 AM (yrol0)

92 80 "I saw Pony Paste open for the Stone Ponies at The Village Gate in '69."

Did they do "Mustang Sally"?
Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:12 AM (Tnijr)

They did "A Horse with No Name," "Wildfire" and a good cover of "Dead Skunk."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:15 AM (s2VJv)

93 Clip from Israeli TV
90% of CV hospitalizations (60+) are vaccinated people.

https://tinyurl.com/37y8d6sf

Posted by: McCool at September 30, 2021 07:15 AM (BqBIh)

94 The $600 plan is to destroy the cash economy for normals. Illegals don't bank so they won't be affected. This is this era's Stamp Tax.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 30, 2021 07:16 AM (oWBc3)

95 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

--

This is such utter horse**** that it's making blood squirt out of my eyes.

1. Vaxxed can still transmit.
2. Vaxxed can still catch covid.
3. If I'm not sick, I'm no threat to anyone.
4. Fall into a wood chipper, Sebelius.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021 07:16 AM (O+I8R)

96 Yup. I suppose my point is that you can't have one without the other, unless you eradicate both. No aristocracy, no working class, just unclassified citizens left free to do as they see fit: in a word, Liberalism. The repudiation of class distinction and illegitimate authority.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 07:12 AM (6FeV1)
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Yup. The American system. America is not and never was a "classless society." Such a thing is impossible. What we were, for a time, was a class-irrelevant society. Your conditions of birth didn't dictate where you ended up, your ability did. You could fall from great heights or rise to them. It didn't matter. Class was fluid and mobile. Sure, there were folks like the NY Socialite crowd, and the Southern land baron crowd, and the Newport industrialist crowd (all with various overlaps) and you couldn't get into those cliques without some pseudo-aristocratic pedigree - but they also never really mattered. Those same people would deal with you - the rich outsider of ability - just the same, though they wouldn't invite you to their stupid parties.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:16 AM (+IIqY)

97 It is likely, for a real complete regimen, that you would need at least a third dose

complete regimen
very very complete regimen
most excellent complete regimen
and finally
surprise secret fully operational complete regimen

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:16 AM (yrol0)

98
I seem to recall a pretty good Irish band circa '78-'79 called Horslips which we at my college radio station would zoom to the top of the charts like Dire Straits.

Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:17 AM (s2VJv)

99 So, if I buy a new 50" flat screen TV, I'm on the list at the IRS??

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2021 07:17 AM (88xKn)

100 5. Nothing we've done impacted the most recent variant - Delta. Numbers went up and then went back done. Nothing else has changed.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 07:17 AM (iFMeW)

101 They did "A Horse with No Name," "Wildfire" and a good cover of "Dead Skunk."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:15 AM (s2VJv)

Loudon Wainwright the Third

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:17 AM (yrol0)

102 99 So, if I buy a new 50" flat screen TV, I'm on the list at the IRS??
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2021 07:17 AM (88xKn)

Second look at "slightly warm, off the back of a truck?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (s2VJv)

103 I just posted at the end of Pixy that I recently picked up a few bottles of NAC from Life Extension, along with the others you mentioned. I figured 1) it's supposed to help with healthy lung function and 2) it must be somewhat effective or the fed gov't wouldn't want to deny it to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021

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Multiple good points, Lady in Black.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (/XOcP)

104 and 2) it must be somewhat effective or the fed gov't wouldn't want to deny it to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021 07:14 AM (O+I8R)
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If you want an example of what not only shattered trust, but perverted trust looks like, look no further than this simple sentence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (+IIqY)

105 I figured 1) it's supposed to help with healthy lung function and 2) it must be somewhat effective or the fed gov't wouldn't want to deny it to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I appreciated the Life Ext. info in the earlier post. Got mine ordered. Something to keep along side my pony-paste and other related coof sundries in the medicine cabinent.

Posted by: lizabth at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (L3Rsz)

106 Col. Scheller's donor box account is up to nearly $1.5 million, which should ease the civilian transition. The problem now is getting him out of jail.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:19 AM (1c5s7)

107 Best Lipps band? Lipps Inc of course. Stevie Greenberg is still making money off of Funkytown.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 30, 2021 07:19 AM (flINI)

108
In order to monitor every $600 purchase of 330 million people, you'd have to hire a literal army of bureaucrats/enforcers.

And now you know why they want to do away with cash.

CONTROL. And I don't mean Janet Jackson.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:19 AM (s2VJv)

109 I find it touching that people that want me to die as soon as possible are so concerned about my health and well being.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2021 07:19 AM (MxEKc)

110 It's Joe Man-Balls-on-Chin.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 07:20 AM (y7DUB)

111 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (s2VJv)

That's how my dad got a Pioneer receiver back in the day. Speakers, too.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2021 07:20 AM (88xKn)

112 I don't get the $600 reporting rationale. The feds already have access to every electronic transaction. Someone put this bug in Yellen's ear. She's not smart enough to come up with something this stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 07:20 AM (BFigT)

113 @76

>>Lifeextension dot com has it for $10.50/60 tablets. Is it worth taking if you're already doing D3, C, and zinc daily, and pony paste once a month?

Since I don't know your particular medical situation or history, I won't tell you should take it as a COVID prophylaxis, all I will say is, people have been using it for that purpose and the fascists are clamping down on it.

So if you can get it and want to try it, get it now, because you probably won't be able to get it in the future.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 30, 2021 07:21 AM (cLlDU)

114 106 Col. Scheller's donor box account is up to nearly $1.5 million, which should ease the civilian transition. The problem now is getting him out of jail.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:19 AM (1c5s7)

When they threaten him with 30 years in the brig or a fine, it's going to be significantly north of $1.5 million. And I'm shocked that Go Fuck Me has not shit him down, if that's where the account is. Or the bank itself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:21 AM (s2VJv)

115 In order to monitor every $600 purchase of 330 million people, you'd have to hire a literal army of bureaucrats/enforcers.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

87,000 new IRS agents are 'paid for' in the bill. Good times! Nancy sez zero cost. Then she made the WHITE POWER sign with her claw.

Posted by: lizabth at September 30, 2021 07:21 AM (L3Rsz)

116 Second look at "slightly warm, off the back of a truck?"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (s2VJv)
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Or just cash. I use cash extensively, because the credit card company/big bank panopticon sucked before the IRS decided to try to get involved.

They might make a note of your cash withdrawals and that, too, will be an indicator of your subversion - but they will not know where all the money went unless you tell them (say, by using a supermarket discount club card). Use cash in your daily life wherever you can. If you do an odd job, demand cash payment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:21 AM (+IIqY)

117 Sebelius has the typical leftist nanny state attitude that ~~once you leave your house you must be protected from all possible danger and it the govt. and everybody's responsibility to make sure you are safe at all times~~ you should do as your betters demand.

Edited for accuracy. The left doesn't give a damn about your safety. That's the lie they use to make enslavement more palatable to the whine moms. They want to control your life because it amuses them to do so. It amuses them more when it makes your life less.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:21 AM (nR2nR)

118 The second-hand smoke analogy is dumb. It would only make sense (sorta) if vaccinated people could not shed virus and infect others. But we know that's not true.

Vaccinated people shed the virus. In fact, studies have shown that they can shed more virus than infected unvaccinated people, and that they can shed it when they're showing no symptoms, which makes them even more dangerous to be around than the un-vaxxed.

A vaccinated person is just as likely, and in some cases more likely, to infect another person than an unvaccinated person is.

So the vaccinated person is blowing smoke in other people's faces too. In some cases, they're blowing more smoke, and they're doing it when you're not aware of it, which makes it harder to avoid.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2021 07:22 AM (k4dH2)

119 "people that want me to die as soon as possible are so concerned about my health and well being."

We'll keep you comfortable, resuscitate you if that's what is desired, then we'll have a discussion about what happens going forward.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 30, 2021 07:22 AM (iFMeW)

120 I find it touching that people that want me to die as soon as possible are so concerned about my health and well being.
Posted by: Ripley

Ha..that's an excellent point.

Posted by: lizabth at September 30, 2021 07:22 AM (L3Rsz)

121

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 30, 2021 07:23 AM (K2SnJ)

122 Free Stu! And fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Guzalot says FJB at September 30, 2021 07:24 AM (prSvo)

123 . . . I recently picked up a few bottles of NAC from Life Extension, along with the others you mentioned. I figured 1) it's supposed to help with healthy lung function and 2) it must be somewhat effective or the fed gov't wouldn't want to deny it to me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 30, 2021

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Just ordered a bottle. I'm curious to see what if anything it will do for me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:24 AM (/XOcP)

124 111 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:18 AM (s2VJv)

That's how my dad got a Pioneer receiver back in the day. Speakers, too.
Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2021 07:20 AM (88xKn)

Classic Sefton story. Living in Chelsea with two friends in the early 80s. VCRs back then were all the rage and hugely expensive. My buddy comes in one night with a heavy box and through his shit eating grin told us he scored a VCR off the back of a truck for $50.

We opened the box and I saw that the lights on the panel were on. Huh? After peeling off the plastic wrap and a cable TV cable(?) we saw it was a picture of a VCR taped to some nailed together two-by-fours wrapped in Saranwrap. We laughed our asses off. My buddy, who was a very streetwise juvey as a kid said "Meh, it was good street theater."

Yeah, right!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:25 AM (s2VJv)

125 The use of cash is what they are after. I do it all the time, but what happens when they ask - and they will - exactly where did this cash withdrawal go, or this one? The IRS can make your life miserable pretty easily.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 30, 2021 07:25 AM (oWBc3)

126 I think the $600 IRS reporting is a redux of the failed bill to require citizens to send a 1040 to anyone they paid $600. Such as the kid down the street who mows the grass, baby sitters, handyman etc. Remember when the Dems proposed that rule along with major fines to any individual who did not send a 1040 or did not report the income on their taxes?

Posted by: Jen the original at September 30, 2021 07:26 AM (AxGZN)

127 Was Linda Ronstadt still with the Stone Poneys then?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:13 AM (/XOcP)

Seems like she amscrayed soon after Different Drum.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 07:26 AM (y7DUB)

128 And now you know why they want to do away with cash.

CONTROL. And I don't mean Janet Jackson.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:19 AM (s2VJv)
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It's a control dream come true, but there are problems, especially in this country. Even in places with far fewer obstacles than here, cashless transitions have failed (notably Sweden and Hong Kong). For us in particular, there are three huge obstacles:
1. The preferred identity groups - notably the black population - uses a lot of cash. They even have a stupid word for this "underbanked," Switching to cashless would piss off a lot of Democrat power centers.
2. We're the reserve currency, and a lot of US cash is used abroad. That cash has to be able to repatriate or it is worthless. If it can't be circulated, it can't function properly.
3. The US government pays for a *lot* of perfidious, corrupt and evil things overseas with pallets of Benjamins. If we go cashless, it becomes a whole lot harder to finance that, because - like example 2 - it can't repatriate and circulate effectively.

Our ruling class's need to misbehave is likely greater than their need for additional marginal control.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:27 AM (+IIqY)

129 Trump fired CL and Gov Noem calls it all a lie.

A regular day. Next!

Morning Mouth Breathers

Posted by: weirdflunky at September 30, 2021 07:27 AM (cknjq)

130 116 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:21 AM (+IIqY)

Like I said, this is why they want to move to a cashless society. It's not just about the $600. It's about WHAT you buy with it. Like 32 ounce sodas, and guns...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:27 AM (s2VJv)

131 128 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:27 AM (+IIqY)

130 me

Yup.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:28 AM (s2VJv)

132 In 1840, before compulsory public schools existed, literacy rates were about 90 percent.

But today? According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54 percent of U.S. adults 16-74 years old about 130 million people lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:28 AM (yrol0)

133 All the shit going on in Australia is completely NORMAL!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFTHoNmaWgk

Australia has been a police state since before their independence. Helen Dale even quotes Sargon (Carl Benjamin) that the best description of Australia is a [luxurious] open air prison.

There have been successive royal commissions over the past 40 years on police "corruption" in: Queensland, NSW, and Victoria.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 30, 2021 07:29 AM (nLrWw)

134 Sometimes, .gov wants to amend or make law to retroactively cover, what it is they've already long been doing. Not sure why particularly since laws don't seem to apply anymore. Loose ends? But this may be an example. There are a gazillion laws that already apply already to financial jiggery-pokery.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 30, 2021 07:29 AM (Ysuy6)

135 $600 wont be squat soon. The way inflation is going we will be reporting bread purchases.

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:29 AM (Tnijr)

136 The Garland Archipelago needs to become a viral meme. Nice, JJ!

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 30, 2021 07:30 AM (vAHT7)

137 Meh, it was good street theater.

Yeah, right!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:25 AM (s2VJv)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:30 AM (yrol0)

138 Like I said, this is why they want to move to a cashless society. It's not just about the $600. It's about WHAT you buy with it. Like 32 ounce sodas, and guns...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:27 AM (s2VJv)

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Maybe they can come up with a tattoo or a patch that can be worn on clothes to track people who don't use the banking system correctly... also good for identifying vax resistant proles

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 30, 2021 07:31 AM (flINI)

139 In 1840, before compulsory public schools existed, literacy rates were about 90 percent.

But today? According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54 percent of U.S. adults 16-74 years old about 130 million people lack proficiency in literacy, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:28 AM (yrol0)
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Public education is an abject failure by any conceivable standard except one. That one exception is John Dewey's standard, and he is the inventor of our modern education system, which came into being during the 20th century.

"The mere absorbing of facts and truths is so exclusively individual an affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat."

Mission Accomplished.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:31 AM (+IIqY)

140 137 Meh, it was good street theater.

Yeah, right!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:25 AM (s2VJv)

ha
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:30 AM (yrol0)

That was 1985 and I still rib my buddy about plywood VCRs!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:31 AM (s2VJv)

141 in fairness, the marine ltc understood what he was doing when he did what he did.

Posted by: confederatefifth at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (K3ZCc)

142 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Now do AIDS.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (VtwaX)

143 Was surprised that Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller's lawyer is Tony Buzbee. Buzbee ran for mayor of Houston and lost to Sylvester Turner.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (NpAcC)

144 138 Maybe they can come up with a tattoo or a patch that can be worn on clothes to track people who don't use the banking system correctly... also good for identifying vax resistant proles
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 30, 2021 07:31 AM (flINI)

And Jews...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (s2VJv)

145 I keep thinking of St. Augustine's description of his own education.

He felt like it ended when his teachers completed teaching him how to read and they started trying to teach him how to think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)

146 On the theory the gubbmint is watching cash withdrawals more than they admit, I've made a habit of storing a little cash at home for a couple of years. I know several people who keep gold coins in addition to paper money. It's like a savings account, which hardly earn any income anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (1c5s7)

147 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

So all those illegals bringing diseases here like RSV...that's ok?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (DpkTQ)

148 If Australian and New Zealand get any more tyranical, NR will have to increase the cruises.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 07:33 AM (y7DUB)

149 Something I was wondering the other day: has there been any information about Russia's COVID response? Did they shut down, force masks, start vaccinating? Did they have a lot of deaths? I really can't remember seeing ANY reporting on what's going on over there regarding the virus.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at September 30, 2021 07:33 AM (aW5/6)

150 Now, as the agency is supposed to be reinstating the program, Mayorkas said in a statement that DHS will end Remain in Mexico, again, "in the coming weeks" via 'a new memorandum.

What the hell does that mean? Just write a memo and poof! he can end Remain in Mexico? A nation of laws my shiny white ass. Laws mean nothing. They don't like them, they break them or make new ones. Just like that.

Posted by: Jewells45 at September 30, 2021 07:33 AM (nxdel)

151 the thing with the no cash society is that they have the ability to just 0 out your cash, che chicom digital currency has an expiratin date

Posted by: confederatefifth at September 30, 2021 07:33 AM (K3ZCc)

152 142 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Now do AIDS.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (VtwaX)

Dude, we need to invent some sort of signal jammer transmitter that can cut into these interviews and insert responses like that directly to the miscreants in question.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (s2VJv)

153 141 in fairness, the marine ltc understood what he was doing when he did what he did.
Posted by: confederatefifth at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (K3ZCc)

Well, then we should just let the authoritarian bulldozer bury him I guess.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (mdgQ7)

154 JJ
De Bolshevik's Police Commissioner and Chinese COVID Advisor Spoke at Chinese Communist Party Influence Group Seeking "Law Enforcement Cooperation"

Links back home!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (yrol0)

155 $600 wont be squat soon. The way inflation is going we will be reporting bread purchases.
Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 07:29 AM (Tnijr)
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And I'm pretty sure the feds are OK with that. The more information about you they have, the more control over you they have as well. I barely use my debit/credit card anymore, just for that reason.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (ZIoLS)

156 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Now do AIDS.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (VtwaX)

Another Fauci success story!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (y7DUB)

157 The government protestors should have known the government would imprison them for months without charges.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (mdgQ7)

158 And I'm pretty sure the feds are OK with that. The more information about you they have, the more control over you they have as well. I barely use my debit/credit card anymore, just for that reason.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (ZIoLS)
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Yes. This is about building out the panopticon and squeezing guys doing odd jobs and running eBay stores. Their stated purposes are a laugh and a half.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (+IIqY)

159 Heres a link to the story:

https://tinyurl.com/j52yy65c

De Bolshevik's Police Commissioner and Chinese COVID Advisor Spoke at Chinese Communist Party Influence Group Seeking "Law Enforcement Cooperation"

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (yrol0)

160 "We need to bulldoze the education establishment and privatize schools."

I've been advocating this for 13 years, using the term "bulldoze". Someone has been reading the AoSHQ comments.

Posted by: jwest at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (/BlEx)

161 First 10 minutes of news browsing today.
Yahoo finance: 2 Fed Reserve Presidents, Boston and Dallas, resign after evidence they've been trading securities in cases under their review.
Insty: 131 Federal judges have been trading securities in cases under their review. Excuse: they didn't know they owned the stock, or it was insignificant.
In my opinion, nobody who works for a salary and has an IQ over 100 is ignorant of what stocks they own.
I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.

Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (4780s)

162 Our ruling class's need to misbehave is likely greater than their need for additional marginal control.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:27 AM (+IIqY)

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It appears that the ChiComms intend to foist the Digital Yuan on the world and make it the next Reserve Currency. I expect all countries to criminalize paper/coin and crypto.

Black market substitutes and barter will be made great again ... Long vodka and toilet paper!

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (vAHT7)

163 It's the Crazy Years, my friends.

Posted by: zombie Robert Heinlein at September 30, 2021 07:36 AM (a3Q+t)

164 142 "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Now do AIDS.
________________

Yep, and notice they also never make this argument about the masses of illegals swarming over the border infected with covid, TB, measles, etc.

Back during the Obama administration, a bunch of U.S. kids got sick, and some even died, from Honduran flu, a respiratory virus brought into U.S. classrooms by illegal alien kids. Remember the left's outrage about that? Of course not, because there was none. It was raaaaacist to even mention it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2021 07:36 AM (k4dH2)

165 154 JJ
De Bolshevik's Police Commissioner and Chinese COVID Advisor Spoke at Chinese Communist Party Influence Group Seeking "Law Enforcement Cooperation"

Links back home!
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:34 AM (yrol0)

Fixed. Thanks

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:36 AM (s2VJv)

166 "There are more and more of these moments because intellectually honest leftists are suddenly realizing that everything they thought they knew was wrong."
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And for every single one of them, at least 10,000 more are being stamped out by the universities.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:37 AM (+IIqY)

167 >>"We're getting tired of protecting people who do not want to protect themselves and get vaccinated."

Hoo-boy.
OK, now do this with, say, STDs, unwanted pregnancies or the obese. Quite a template -- they could apply it to whatever "sin" - real or imagined - they decide is the hot, new "epidemic."

--"We're getting tired of protecting people who do not want to protect themselves and use condoms."

-- "We're getting tired of protecting people who do not want to protect themselves andeat the foods we advise them to eat."

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (bDqIh)

168 159 Heres a link to the story:

https://tinyurl.com/j52yy65c

[snip title]

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (yrol0)

LOL. I knew where that link was going from the title alone. Natalie and Raheem have a really obvious style.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (nLrWw)

169 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (NpAcC)

170 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (NpAcC)
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That's an unusually high score for baseball.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:39 AM (+IIqY)

171 Lancet Journal Apologizes After Referring to Women as Bodies With Vaginas in Latest Edition

I saw Bodies with Vagina open for Pussy Riot in Moscow in 1999.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:39 AM (yrol0)

172 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.
Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (4780s)
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Don't think it was a mistake, but definitely a minority-view approach.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:39 AM (1c5s7)

173 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (NpAcC)

And then they promptly forfeited.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:40 AM (45fpk)

174 I keep thinking of St. Augustine's description of his own education.

He felt like it ended when his teachers completed teaching him how to read and they started trying to teach him how to think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)

That seems about right to me. The purpose of education is to get you to a level where you can absorb information, apply reason, and come up with your own conclusion.

The way to destroy education is to get people to want to put the books down and never read again. (Hence why generations of English teachers have inflicted Ethan Frome on students.)

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 07:40 AM (PNszx)

175 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.

Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (4780s)

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[Insom, please pick up the white privilege courtesy phone ...]

Yeah, we're all feeling like suckers now. And when there's no longer an incentive to obey the law (#Soon), Imma gonna target my political/oligarchic betters/enemies exclusively -- good and hard.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 30, 2021 07:40 AM (vAHT7)

176 And for every single one of them, at least 10,000 more are being stamped out by the universities.
Posted by: J

how many in the world do you think have beliefsffounded upn something other than their friends?

Posted by: confederatefifth at September 30, 2021 07:40 AM (K3ZCc)

177 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.
Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (4780s)
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It depends on your standards. From a practical standpoint, in the world of the past 40-50 years, it does make you a sucker. There's no other way to interpret the events. I am a sucker, too. It's a lousy thing to realize.

But your soul is intact.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:41 AM (+IIqY)

178 Like I said, this is why they want to move to a cashless society. It's not just about the $600. It's about WHAT you buy with it. Like 32 ounce sodas, and guns...

What did they say ?
You will own nothing and be happy....

Posted by: McCool at September 30, 2021 07:41 AM (BqBIh)

179 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.
Posted by: F

then you did so for the wrng reasn

Posted by: confederatefifth at September 30, 2021 07:41 AM (K3ZCc)

180 169 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (NpAcC)

Nadar was awarded 4 runs for shitting himself on a walk in the 3rd inning.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

181 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.

Oh, I don't think so.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 07:42 AM (45fpk)

182 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.
Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (4780s)

Never too late to be a pirate.

We didn't fail the law, the law failed us. No more point in respecting it but to do the minimums to keep yourself out of prison.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 07:42 AM (PNszx)

183 >> "But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives"

Hello, Afghan refugees anyone?
Already spreadding the measles in NoVA and sexually assaulting women and children.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2021 07:42 AM (bDqIh)

184 Mmm, enjoying a chocolate glazed donut with my coffee right now.

Posted by: dantesed at September 30, 2021 07:43 AM (88xKn)

185 But your soul is intact.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:41 AM (+IIqY)

And that's one thing that can't be taken away by force.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 07:43 AM (PNszx)

186 There are more and more of these moments because intellectually honest leftists are suddenly realizing that everything they thought they knew was wrong.

Leftwing though is rather negative on the notion of being intellectually honest.

They even include the notion that since reality is malleable, if leftwing policies are failing it is because not everyone believes in them - so the answer is NOT to rethink your policies, but instead to double down harder and force everyone to think like you.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:43 AM (DpkTQ)

187 I wouldn't cheer to quickly about Manchin. He's just looking for a lower number that's easier to hide behind. Rumor in Washington is its ~$1.5 trillion. A bill that size will still rely on punitive tax increases. Get ready to hear how the "rich" will pay for it.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (VpIIl)

188 In my opinion, nobody who works for a salary and has an IQ over 100 is ignorant of what stocks they own.
I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.

Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM
Exactly, if you are buying or selling an individual stock there is no way you don't know what stock it is.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (FIrEF)

189 Fear not!

Our love child (once we figure out how to make one) will save the (green) day!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg & David Hogg at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (a3Q+t)

190 Yahoo headlines-

GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson tried to blame ISIS-K attack on the military's 'woke social experiment,' baselessly tying the deadly bombing to Critical Race Theory

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (NpAcC)

191 But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives

Remember when the ebola nurse came back to the US, and the Obama regime and the FNM said the government has no authority to force people to quarantine?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (DpkTQ)

192 Animal Farm seems to be gaining in popularity as a modern allegory, overtaking 1984, which is at it should be.

It always surprised me a little, that a dedicated socialist could author the primary warnings in literature to modern people. Orwell might have been fascinated by the Marxist fire but he clearly saw it's dangers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (1c5s7)

193 Police Corruption in Oz (wikipedia articles).

Queensland https://tinyurl.com/4pbdvjbp

NSW https://tinyurl.com/5sezj668

The report on Victoria came in just before COVID so "there wasn't time to implement any of it".

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (nLrWw)

194 Manchin continued. "While I am hopeful that common ground can be found that would result in another historic investment in our nation ...

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There it is ... it's never wasteful government spending and grift to favored groups and vote buying with money we don't have, it's INVESTMENT! Ah, the ghost of Bubba past.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 30, 2021 07:46 AM (vAHT7)

195 >>Like I said, this is why they want to move to a cashless society. It's not just about the $600. It's about WHAT you buy with it. Like 32 ounce sodas, and guns...

Have you seen the WEF credit card that rates the impact of your purchases and tracks your carbon footprint? Pretty sure it prevents "bad" purchases after you've reached your eco-limit for the month.

It's not just the ability to track, it's that they would be able to turn on and off your ability to purchase.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2021 07:46 AM (bDqIh)

196 How dis St Augustine describe his lawn?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:46 AM (mdgQ7)

197 Exactly, if you are buying or selling an individual stock there is no way you don't know what stock it is.
Posted by: Cicero Skip at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (FIrEF)
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Eh, if you're a day-trader using a lot of automation, I can concede the possibility. You buy and sell based on signals, and some of that can be automated. You can do a bit batch and then sell it again and not know every line item in it.

But in that case, you're not an investor, you're a trader. And you're not holding things for more than a few days in most cases. You don't own a stock and hold onto it without knowing it's there. You might have a really diverse portfolio and not remember *everything* in it, but if you have a significant position in anything, you do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:46 AM (+IIqY)

198 169 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:38 AM (NpAcC)

Death toll ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 30, 2021 07:46 AM (nLrWw)

199 >>> "When you call Pfizer's COVID-19 Jab Hotline..."
https://is.gd/CuZSUd

Trust the experts!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2021 07:47 AM (ACi07)

200 GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson tried to blame ISIS-K attack on the military's 'woke social experiment,' baselessly tying the deadly bombing to Critical Race Theory
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (NpAcC)

Well, it isn't actually baseless. Everything has an opportunity cost. EVERYTHING. Time spent in the military on CRT is time not being spent on target acquisition techniques.

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2021 07:47 AM (mbFEM)

201 It always surprised me a little, that a dedicated socialist could author the primary warnings in literature to modern people. Orwell might have been fascinated by the Marxist fire but he clearly saw it's dangers.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (1c5s7)
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He was a communist, and an avowed one. Then he started observing and thinking. Read "The Road to Wigan Pier" - that was the beginning of his transformation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (+IIqY)

202 GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson tried to blame ISIS-K attack on the military's 'woke social experiment,' baselessly tying the deadly bombing to Critical Race Theory

Early on during the WoT the left bitched endlessly that we were forcing Christianity on 'Stan and Iraq. Their evidence? Well...they didn't have any as usual, but the point was that Christianity would turn Muslims against us.

But apparently pushing woke and big gay on them is just a normal thing though - because there is nothing pious Muslims like more then gay marriage and radical feminism.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (DpkTQ)

203 Dude, we need to invent some sort of signal jammer transmitter that can cut into these interviews and insert responses like that directly to the miscreants in question.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

One reason I'm never invited to parties? I won't hesitate to drop a turd in a punch bowl if the situation calls for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (VtwaX)

204 This whole "no right to make people sick" is about the California law that pretty much legalized knowingly giving someone AIDS, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (LvTSG)

205
Is there any news from Emmie about her husband at the ER?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (pNxlR)

206 They even include the notion that since reality is malleable, if leftwing policies are failing it is because not everyone believes in them - so the answer is NOT to rethink your policies, but instead to double down harder and force everyone to think like you.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:43 AM (DpkTQ)

And the more you get into the causal relationships of how moral subjectivism shapes their worldview, the more you realize that they will come to the exact opposite conclusion to anyone using an objective philosophy.

The claim that they love science is especially risible, since the scientific method is only valid in an objective, external reality. If reality is observer-based an internal, there's no reason an experiment that failed once won't succeed next time, without changing a single variable.

It's easily disproven, yet, you can't defeat it with reason. You can't reason them out of it, because they weren't reasoned into it.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (PNszx)

207 But what people don't have a right to do is make other people sick, put other people in jeopardy, risk other people's lives, risk children's lives

Sebelius, baby, that horse left the barn when Faucistein funded his private bioweapons program in a lab he knew to have poor security in a country unable to regulate research activity. The "safety" issue isn't vax or masks, both of which are highly debatable as to impacts on your safety, its lots more fundamental.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (1c5s7)

208 If a Governer started distributing Ivermectin to his/her citizens as a prophylatic against COVID-19 what would District of Chaz do?

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (J7wri)

209 169 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.

BREAKING: After an overnight count of absentee runs, the final score has been adjusted to Repubs 13, Dems 20,000.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (dfRN6)

210 209 169 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.

BREAKING: After an overnight count of absentee runs, the final score has been adjusted to Repubs 13, Dems 20,000.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (dfRN6)

=========

"We are happy with the results and look forward to a clean, honest rematch next year."
-Kevin McCarthy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:50 AM (LvTSG)

211 Get ready to hear how the "rich" will pay for it.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (VpIIl)

They're already saying the cost of the $3.5T bill is 0. Per mile vehicle taxes, per head livestock taxes, per this tax, per that tax...billionaires are gonna take it hard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:50 AM (nR2nR)

212 209 169 Repubs. beat the Dems 13-12 in last night's baseball game.

BREAKING: After an overnight count of absentee runs, the final score has been adjusted to Repubs 13, Dems 20,000.
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If this were the American sport it is proposed to be there would have been Fuck Joe Biden chants instead of boos.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:50 AM (J7wri)

213 >>> 208 If a Governer started distributing Ivermectin to his/her citizens as a prophylatic against COVID-19 what would District of Chaz do?
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (J7wri)

I'm sure we can think of something.

Posted by: Top Men and Whammen of the Eff.Bee.EYE at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (ACi07)

214 Orwell might have been fascinated by the Marxist fire but he clearly saw it's dangers.

He got to see full blown socialism in person in Spain.

The left works by incrementalism. The best way to turn people against it is to push the end state in front of them.

If somehow we could present the world of 2021 to the people of 1991 (year picked due to end of the cold war) just about everyone from right to left would claim the politics of 2021 was a nightmare and that the architects of it should swing.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (DpkTQ)

215 Wasn't sebelius a republican at one point?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (mdgQ7)

216 Remember when the ebola nurse came back to the US, and the Obama regime and the FNM said the government has no authority to force people to quarantine?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:45 AM (DpkTQ)

That was Ebola, not the most deadliest disease to ever affect mankind which only kills very old people with 17+ co-morbidities.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (nR2nR)

217 Let's say there is a small town and put up a sign ' vaxxed not welcome here'. Does it suffer the wrath of govt?

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (/6GbT)

218 It's the Crazy Years, my friends.
Posted by: zombie Robert Heinlein at September 30, 2021

***
Your 1940 predictions of 1969 news headlines are pale tapioca compared to what we have now, Bob.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (/XOcP)

219 208 If a Governer started distributing Ivermectin to his/her citizens as a prophylatic against COVID-19 what would District of Chaz do?
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (J7wri)

Thermonuclear warfare.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (mdgQ7)

220 >I seem to recall a pretty good Irish band circa '78-'79 called Horslips which we at my college radio station would zoom to the top of the charts like Dire Straits.

Oh well.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

OMG Horslips!! Love them, haven't listened to them in years

Posted by: squeakywheel at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (NXy9v)

221 I won't hesitate to drop a turd in a punch bowl if the situation calls for it.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM

So, I can count on your vote for Governor in 2022?

Posted by: Beto at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (a3Q+t)

222 He was a communist, and an avowed one. Then he started observing and thinking. Read "The Road to Wigan Pier" - that was the beginning of his transformation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:48 AM (+IIqY)

The beginning of his "transition" (weird word choice, sine he was never an authoritarian, so not ever a communist in the political sense) was his Spanish Civil War service, watching the political antics of the communists with whom he served. He hated authoritarian politics to begin with, and came to despise communism in all its forms watching the Trotskyites in action.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (1c5s7)

223 >>> 215 Wasn't sebelius a republican at one point?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (mdgQ7)

You mean like the Bushes?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (ACi07)

224 ... The left works by incrementalism. The best way to turn people against it is to push the end state in front of them. ...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (DpkTQ)
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Nah, that's just wingnut doomcasting based on the absurdity of the "slippery slope" fallacy.

Posted by: The Press, Your Teachers, Politicians, Preachers, et. al. at September 30, 2021 07:53 AM (+IIqY)

225 215 Wasn't sebelius a republican at one point?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (mdgQ7)

"I know, right?"

-- Matthew Dowd

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:53 AM (s2VJv)

226 Many conservative blogs & conservative writers are ignoring the part of Manchin's statement yesterday that they'd prefer to wish away:

Manchin said "We need to start by repealing Trump's 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy, that's something all Democrats can agree on. If we do that, I think we could get a GOOD RECONCILIATION BILL PASSED BY THE END OF THE YEAR. But the tax statutes are complex, and you can't just rush tax reform through in a few days."

Posted by: mnw at September 30, 2021 07:53 AM (Cssks)

227 215 Wasn't sebelius a republican at one point?
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She is Cruella De Vil of 101 Dalmatians (she's kinky) and manager of the very successful Obamacare Web Site roll out. She's a somebody.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:53 AM (J7wri)

228 Holy crap! Biden just incinerated 20 million people in FL and south GA!

GOP: Well, if DeSantis didn't allow Ivermectin as a COVID treatment, Biden wouldn't have had to punish them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:54 AM (mdgQ7)

229 The beginning of his "transition" (weird word choice, sine he was never an authoritarian, so not ever a communist in the political sense) was his Spanish Civil War service, watching the political antics of the communists with whom he served. He hated authoritarian politics to begin with, and came to despise communism in all its forms watching the Trotskyites in action.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 07:52 AM (1c5s7)
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Yes. He was an avowed communist, but only in the end-state - that stateless variety. In Spain, he learned just how impossible that notion was, and how bad the path toward it would be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:54 AM (+IIqY)

230 It's easily disproven, yet, you can't defeat it with reason. You can't reason them out of it, because they weren't reasoned into it.

Yep. The point I always come back to is that during the Obama years the left constantly blamed the failed economy on people talking it down.

Then Trump got elected, made a number of changes, and we had the best economy in American history.

And the left looks at that and basically just claims it didn't happen.

An objective ideology might come back and say there are more important things then economic growth but acknowledge cutting back regulations spur growth. But that is not the modern left.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:54 AM (DpkTQ)

231 Don't think it was a mistake, but definitely a minority-view approach.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I never thought so, and I was never a goody two shoes type. But the overriding approach was that it was ok to fuck with myself, but to try my best to not fuck over someone else.

Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:55 AM (4780s)

232 >> In order to monitor every $600 purchase of 330 million people, you'd have to hire a literal army of bureaucrats/enforcers.

You're kidding, right?

The credit card companies today have algorithms that analyze user activity and quickly identify purchases that don't fit your profile, flag them af fraud, etc.. The IRS would create their own algorithms to flag any purchases that they have decided are noteworthy so that their staff only focuses on these citizens' financial transactions.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2021 07:55 AM (bDqIh)

233 So when I withdraw $600 from the bank, the feds get notified. Then it would be fair to report money orders sent south of the border by the Lowes parking lot labor crew. The ones not being forced to get a clotshot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2021 07:55 AM (C1Lsn)

234 I have to hand it to the Maoists. They played the long game.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:55 AM (mdgQ7)

235 215 Wasn't sebelius a republican at one point?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (mdgQ7)

"I know, right?"

-- Matthew Dowd
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:53 AM (s2VJv)

***

Eggggzackly

Posted by: Ana Navarro at September 30, 2021 07:56 AM (flINI)

236 Nah, that's just wingnut doomcasting based on the absurdity of the "slippery slope" fallacy.

Gay marriage will never have any impact on you breeders so why are you being h8ters? -- Gabriel Malor on this blog

Bake that cake breeders! -- Gabriel Malor now, somewhere

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:56 AM (DpkTQ)

237 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.

Oh, I don't think so.
Posted by: grammie winger

Every time I want to let my freak flag fly and go Vlad the Impaler, God has a way of saying, "Remember Me?"

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:56 AM (VtwaX)

238 The credit card companies today have algorithms that analyze user activity and quickly identify purchases that don't fit your profile, flag them af fraud, etc.. The IRS would create their own algorithms to flag any purchases that they have decided are noteworthy so that their staff only focuses on these citizens' financial transactions.
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All credit card companies are headquartered in Delaware, The Loan Shark State.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:57 AM (J7wri)

239 >>> 235 215 Wasn't sebelius a republican at one point?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (mdgQ7)
"I know, right?"
-- Matthew Dowd
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 07:53 AM (s2VJv)
***
Eggggzackly
Posted by: Ana Navarro at September 30, 2021 07:56 AM (flINI)

I am the leader! Step aside, bishes!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at September 30, 2021 07:57 AM (ACi07)

240 >>> 208 If a Governer started distributing Ivermectin to his/her citizens as a prophylatic against COVID-19 what would District of Chaz do?
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (J7wri)
_______________

Biden would sign an EO, or have the CDC issue an edict, that the unauthorized (by the federal government) distribution of ivermectin is now a federal felony, punishable by death.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2021 07:57 AM (k4dH2)

241 I guess if you believe the enemy has won, and you are a complete shitweasel, you become an enthusiastic supporter of the enemy to try to dodge the purges.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:57 AM (mdgQ7)

242 177 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.
Posted by: From that time at September 30, 2021 07:35 AM (4780s)

If those around you ignore the laws and get away with it, like Kevin Clinesmith, and you continue to obey, you're the fool. Until order is restored, take every advantage you can and ignore any law that doesn't please you.

Posted by: jwest at September 30, 2021 07:57 AM (/BlEx)

243 So when I withdraw $600 from the bank, the feds get notified. Then it would be fair to report money orders sent south of the border by the Lowes parking lot labor crew. The ones not being forced to get a clotshot.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2021 07:55 AM (C1Lsn)
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I am not sure of that, actually. It would depend on the vagaries in the insane bill. If you got that $600 from an ATM? Absolutely. If you walked up to the counter and did a cash withdrawal? I'm not sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:58 AM (+IIqY)

244 241 I guess if you believe the enemy has won, and you are a complete shitweasel, you become an enthusiastic supporter of the enemy to try to dodge the purges.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:57 AM (mdgQ7)

========

I'm just gonna keep snarking on the internet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

245 It is easier to get MJ than IVM.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 07:58 AM (mdgQ7)

246 236 Nah, that's just wingnut doomcasting based on the absurdity of the "slippery slope" fallacy.

Gay marriage will never have any impact on you breeders so why are you being h8ters? -- Gabriel Malor on this blog

Bake that cake breeders! -- Gabriel Malor now, somewhere
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Ahh the protected class that nearly genocided America's entire hemophiliac population cuz butt love.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (J7wri)

247 I've completed the first draft of my religious exemption request. I'll let it sit over the weekend, then, I guess, submit it on Monday. The deadline to get it in is 10/15 and the deadline to take the clot shot is 11/15. I wonder if I'll still have a job come Thanksgiving.

Sure, I can give in and take the J & J deal. But I am planning to retire and take SS and pension soon anyhow -- I was hoping to hang on until Jan. 2023. Wouldn't I feel stupid if I got seriously sick after the shot, when I could just let them fire me, collect unemployment and my other retirement bennies, and get away to a saner place?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (/XOcP)

248 The glass isn't half empty. It's shattered.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (S1hrL)

249 >>> 237 I am really regretting having tried to live as ethical a life as I could. This seems to have been a mistake.

Oh, I don't think so.
Posted by: grammie winger

Every time I want to let my freak flag fly and go Vlad the Impaler, God has a way of saying, "Remember Me?"
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:56 AM (VtwaX)

Heh. This sounds vaguely familiar.

... why am I remembering that vid Ace posted a while back with the young man flashing his junk, and the older man entering the store behind him, and he opens with just a little tap-tap-tap on the young feller's shoulder ...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (ACi07)

250 The credit card companies today have algorithms that analyze user activity and quickly identify purchases that don't fit your profile, flag them af fraud, etc...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2021 07:55 AM (bDqIh)

My credit card flagged my wife's payment to her dentist...whom she sees quarterly...as fraud.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (nR2nR)

251 So, I can count on your vote for Governor in 2022?
Posted by: Beto

Sure thing Pancho Vanilla. Sure thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (VtwaX)

252 I guess if you believe the enemy has won, and you are a complete shitweasel, you become an enthusiastic supporter of the enemy to try to dodge the purges.

This is pretty traditional actually. Many lower level leaders will just jump sides to the strong horse when it looks like there will be a new dictator/leader/ruling party. Hell, its what happened in 'Stan.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (DpkTQ)

253 Anyone post a link to LtCol Scheller's legal defense yet?

They're currently at almost $1.5M of their $2M goal.

https://tinyurl.com/5cwen2fs

Seems like a good crew.

Posted by: McLurkerson at September 30, 2021 08:00 AM (wNDOJ)

254 I am not sure of that, actually. It would depend on the vagaries in the insane bill. If you got that $600 from an ATM? Absolutely. If you walked up to the counter and did a cash withdrawal? I'm not sure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 07:58 AM (+IIqY)

If the ATM limit is not set below $600 already, it will be. The teller will hand you a form to fill out to explain where you got the money you are withdrawing, and what you are going to spend it on.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:01 AM (mdgQ7)

255 240 >>> 208 If a Governer started distributing Ivermectin to his/her citizens as a prophylatic against COVID-19 what would District of Chaz do?
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (J7wri)
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Biden would sign an EO, or have the CDC issue an edict, that the unauthorized (by the federal government) distribution of ivermectin is now a federal felony, punishable by death.
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Maybe, but edicts without inforcement is bold talk from mentally disabled pedophile old man.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:01 AM (J7wri)

256 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (/XOcP)

Praying for you and all the horde in this situation

If everyone is being as reluctant as possible it may make them back off.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at September 30, 2021 08:01 AM (oEn12)

257 "BREAKING: After an overnight count of absentee runs, the final score has been adjusted to Repubs 13, Dems 20,000."

Impressive win, especially considering the Dems didn't even bother to show up.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2021 08:02 AM (MxEKc)

258 Well, it isn't actually baseless. Everything has an opportunity cost. EVERYTHING. Time spent in the military on CRT is time not being spent on target acquisition techniques.
Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2021 07:47 AM (mbFEM)
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F&F played the Ronny Jackson clip this morning and that's exactly what he was getting at. Then I see the Yahoo headline and shake my head at the brainwashing and propaganda that goes on with every headline from every news source.

No wonder we're n the situation we are at. You can't avoid being blasted by negative headlines towards conservatives if you own a computer

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:02 AM (NpAcC)

259 >>> 255 240 >>> 208 If a Governer started distributing Ivermectin to his/her citizens as a prophylatic against COVID-19 what would District of Chaz do?
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:49 AM (J7wri)
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Biden would sign an EO, or have the CDC issue an edict, that the unauthorized (by the federal government) distribution of ivermectin is now a federal felony, punishable by death.
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Maybe, but edicts without inforcement is bold talk from mentally disabled pedophile old man.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:01 AM (J7wri)

We're right here.

Posted by: Top Men and Whammen of the Eff.Bee.EYE at September 30, 2021 08:02 AM (ACi07)

260 Iran is blocking United Nations inspectors from accessing cameras and monitoring equipment at one of its key nuclear sites, the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) disclosed on Monday.

The Karaj nuclear site in northern Iran houses the regimes main centrifuge manufacturing facility. In late June, an unidentified drone attack severely damaged the site. Tehran initially blamed Israel for the attack.

The regime tried to downplay the extent of the destruction, but later satellite images showed evidence of a significant fire or an expulsion at the site. The damage to the facility was a notable setback for Iran as the centrifuges from the factory were being deployed to produce near-weapons-grade uranium.

Jewish lightning??

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (yrol0)

261 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (/XOcP)

Let them fire you, then sue for wrongful termination. That is what my lawyer advised. But I got my exemption, so it is moot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (mdgQ7)

262 253 Anyone post a link to LtCol Scheller's legal defense yet?

They're currently at almost $1.5M of their $2M goal.

https://tinyurl.com/5cwen2fs

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What is donorbox? I hope it's not a woke stater like gofundme

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion (oEn12) at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (oEn12)

263 I'd suggest, live your life to your moral compass as well as you can.

Obey the junta and our illegitimate government to the extent you have to avoid arrest* - but give laws no particular moral weight.

This actually reminds me of that 80s song... https://youtu.be/i17mgRK3GX8

Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (DpkTQ)

264 An objective ideology might come back and say there are more important things then economic growth but acknowledge cutting back regulations spur growth. But that is not the modern left.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:54 AM (DpkTQ)

Exactly. You can reason with someone who is objective. You can compare data, quibble about priority, etc.

You can't reason with subjectivism. Any attack on the idea is an attack on the self, and against the whole of reality (actually, the bubble they live in). Cognitive dissonance drives them to try to shut you up and ban your ideas.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (T8QNX)

265 But I got my exemption, so it is moot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (mdgQ7)

Do you have to test?

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (/6GbT)

266 Bank tellers, the new managers, who get to scrutinize our $600 and over purchases. Suppose they don't approve of what we're purchasing? They get to deny the withdrawal? That's what happens next.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (S1hrL)

267 If the ATM limit is not set below $600 already, it will be. The teller will hand you a form to fill out to explain where you got the money you are withdrawing, and what you are going to spend it on.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:01 AM (mdgQ7)
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Source of funds: regular income; you have the ETF records of my paycheck
Purpose of funds: cash reserve

Anyone sensible keeps track of any significant cash sum like this anyway. The absurdly unjust and oppressive policy of civil asset forfeiture dictates prudence even without this bill. I have some cash on hand, just in case. Each envelope has the pay stub, bank statement and withdrawal receipt for the transaction packed with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (+IIqY)

268 187 I wouldn't cheer to quickly about Manchin. He's just looking for a lower number that's easier to hide behind. Rumor in Washington is its ~$1.5 trillion. A bill that size will still rely on punitive tax increases. Get ready to hear how the "rich" will pay for it.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (VpIIl)

It has always been a safe bet to guess that Manchin will cave; it's just a matter of when.

Happy to be proven wrong, but I haven't been yet on that score.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (mdjgu)

269 If the ATM limit is not set below $600 already, it will be.

The teller will hand you a form to fill out to explain where you got the money you are withdrawing, and what you are going to spend it on.

I got it from your dad and I'm gonna spend it with your mom.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (VtwaX)

270 Yes. He was an avowed communist, but only in the end-state - that stateless variety
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Since his only transition was from disliking communists and communism to detesting it. Orwell was never a communist, in any form, and he became actively anti-communist after Spain.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (1c5s7)

271 Bank tellers, the new managers, who get to scrutinize our $600 and over purchases. Suppose they don't approve of what we're purchasing? They get to deny the withdrawal? That's what happens next.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:04 AM (S1hrL)

What are you buying?

Guns.

Denied.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:05 AM (mdgQ7)

272 So... the IRS will be building a huge complex and hiring thousands of new employees to track $600 transactions. With this "new" branch of the IRS I presume there will be an "enforcement" section complete with MRAP's, automatic weapons and the legal authority to curb stomp citizens coming out of Best Buy with their new iPhone.

Wonderful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 08:05 AM (BFigT)

273 Jewish lightning??
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:03 AM (yrol0)

Mossad-brand lightning can strike the same place as many times as I feels the need to.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 08:05 AM (T8QNX)

274 Bank tellers, the new managers, who get to scrutinize our $600 and over purchases. Suppose they don't approve of what we're purchasing? They get to deny the withdrawal? That's what happens next.

Posted by: Ziba

You want to see war brought to your doorstep? Fuck with my money.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (VtwaX)

275 My employer said i would be subjected to other measures such as "masking or periodic testing" but so far has not specified anything.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (mdgQ7)

276 >>Biden would sign an EO, or have the CDC issue an edict, that the unauthorized (by the federal government) distribution of ivermectin is now a federal felony, punishable by death.

Based on what he did with the other meds, he'd likely go after the pharmaceutical company(s) supplying the ivermection, either buy them out, pressure them to stop selling to FL, or shut them down. Just look at how CVS and Walgreens were recruited into this tyranny by instructing all of their pharmacists to refuse to fill valid prescription for ivermectin. They have inserted themselves into the doctor-patient relationship, and I have no doubt they did this at the request of the Biden admin/CSC/NIH.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (bDqIh)

277 If the ATM limit is not set below $600 already, it will be. The teller will hand you a form to fill out to explain where you got the money you are withdrawing, and what you are going to spend it on.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:01 AM (mdgQ7)

I hand money out to the homeless and POC as penance for being white, and responsible. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (nR2nR)

278 Fuck Joe Biden and his "democratic palestinian" pipedream.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (1c5s7)

279 "The teller will hand you a form to fill out to explain where you got the money you are withdrawing, and what you are going to spend it on."

I'm going to Nunya and they only take cash.

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (Tnijr)

280 187 I wouldn't cheer to quickly about Manchin. He's just looking for a lower number that's easier to hide behind. Rumor in Washington is its ~$1.5 trillion. A bill that size will still rely on punitive tax increases. Get ready to hear how the "rich" will pay for it.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 30, 2021 07:44 AM (VpIIl)

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Will there be enough time to even negotiate a new, significantly reduced, deal with the progressive left before everyone gives up and just starts campaigning for 2022? They have until, what, Christmas?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (LvTSG)

281 What are you buying?

Transition surgery for my daughter.

Here take an extra thou.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:07 AM (mdgQ7)

282 Everyone Gets (The) Shot.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 08:07 AM (6FeV1)

283 So... the IRS will be building a huge complex and hiring thousands of new employees to track $600 transactions. With this "new" branch of the IRS I presume there will be an "enforcement" section complete with MRAP's, automatic weapons and the legal authority to curb stomp citizens coming out of Best Buy with their new iPhone.

Wonderful.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 08:05 AM (BFigT)
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I suspect that most of the tens of thousands of new IRS agents - and that number will only grow, not shrink - will wear jackboots instead of green visors. And they won't be stomping people coming out of Best Buy. That would be counter-productive. They'll be doing pre-dawn raids against specific targets, on their whim and at their sole discretion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:07 AM (+IIqY)

284 The ruler of the P.A., Mahmoud Abbas, is wildly unpopular; he is known to be corrupt, with a family fortune of some $400 million. Still he clings to power. He is now entering the seventeenth year of his four-year term.

Coming to a small North American Republic near you!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:07 AM (yrol0)

285 What are you buying?

Your mom.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (VtwaX)

286 Core inflation now at it's highest level since 1983. But don't worry, it's "transitory". GDP is about to start taking a hit. Without Democrats $3.5 trillion in funny money, the mask is going to get ripped off.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (VpIIl)

287 I'm going to Nunya and they only take cash.
Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (Tnijr)

But it's a business trip, so you can probably expense it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (6FeV1)

288 We're right here.
Posted by: Top Men and Whammen of the Eff.Bee.EYE
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The FIBs are in over they're heads with false flag ops for Nanzi. There are only 65k of them. Over half man a desk. Not really a problem considering the rest of them are accountants with guns.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (J7wri)

289 Louis Gohmert is absolutely correct calling the war on Ivermectin a "crime against humanity". India has proven its efficacy.

Can you even still buy Ivermectin in pill form in the U.S.?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (1c5s7)

290 with a family fortune of some $400 million.

That is where all of that "aid" went.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (mdgQ7)

291 Adam Schiff
@RepAdamSchiff

YouTube's curbing of anti-vaccine content is a strong first step.

But this doesn't mark the end of our fight against deadly misinformation.

These policies must be enforced.

And we must keep pushing for other companies to follow suit.

What do you say, @Amazon and @Facebook?

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

292 I got it from your dad and I'm gonna spend it with your mom.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:04

this sounds like Kurt Schlicter

Posted by: Cicero Skip at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (FIrEF)

293 What are you buying?

Your mom.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (VtwaX)

Every day for a month.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (6FeV1)

294 First I bang your mom. Then I bang my step mom. Then my sister in law. Then some hookers. Then some Chinese spy. Then my niece.

Phhhwwww I LOVE COKE!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at September 30, 2021 08:09 AM (DpkTQ)

295 You want to see war brought to your doorstep? Fuck with my money.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:06 AM (VtwaX)

I cash a check for $15k. They ask me what it was for and I told them hookers and blow.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:09 AM (yrol0)

296 "...Mayorkas said in a statement that DHS will end Remain in Mexico, again, "in the coming weeks" via 'a new memorandum.'" (aka "meme-o-random" - jjs)"

Have you noticed how the Biden Junta tells the Third World peons that our border is closed? They make statements like, "Do not come," Do not come now," and "The border is closed."

Do any of them tell the peons that if they do cross the border and turn themselves in to US Border Patrol, they WILL immediately be sent back across the border into Mexico or to their claimed native country? Not that I've heard. The Junta issues no-penalty warnings. So why not get to the border at any cost to take the excellent odds of being admitted "temporarily?"

Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2021 08:09 AM (AMIL/)

297 Napolitano and Sebelius Call for Do-Over on Flu Vaccine Debacle - Oct 28, 2009

This is why, when Kathleen Sebelius says, 'You must get the vaccine,' I said, no, ma'am. I have three times the IQ you do. I am much more informed, educated, and smart than you are, plus you're from the government and you work for Obama and you've got an agenda behind this. You're really not that concerned about people's health, you're concerned about pushing an agenda and your job in pushing the agenda is helping create panic and then being able to control people.

I'm sorry. I'm not going to be controlled. I'm not going to be a member of the herd.

https://bit.ly/3m9t6ND

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (Do5/p)

298 Adam Schiff
@RepAdamSchiff

Totalitarian much?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (45fpk)

299 291 Adam Schiff
@RepAdamSchiff
YouTube's curbing of anti-vaccine content is a strong first step.
But this doesn't mark the end of our fight against deadly misinformation.
These policies must be enforced.
And we must keep pushing for other companies to follow suit.

What do you say, @Amazon and @Facebook?
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

now do Kiss Kiss Fang Fang

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (yrol0)

300 Auto in shop again. Five weeks to wait for parts.

Car rental companies love this.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (S1hrL)

301 296 Do any of them tell the peons that if they do cross the border and turn themselves in to US Border Patrol, they WILL immediately be sent back across the border into Mexico or to their claimed native country? Not that I've heard. The Junta issues no-penalty warnings. So why not get to the border at any cost to take the excellent odds of being admitted "temporarily?"
Posted by: Gref at September 30, 2021 08:09 AM (AMIL/)

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"You will be dipped in pig fat and let loose in an alligator infested swamp on the Mexican side of the border. It will be televised."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

302 @RepAdamSchiff
YouTube's curbing of anti-vaccine content is a strong first step.
But this doesn't mark the end of our fight against deadly misinformation.
These policies must be enforced.
And we must keep pushing for other companies to follow suit.
What do you say, @Amazon and @Facebook?
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (NpAcC)
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Bluntly illegal in every respect. The government cannot outsource illegal activity to the private sector in order to launder that activity and make it legal.

Good thing we're a nation of laws.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (+IIqY)

303 290 with a family fortune of some $400 million.

That is where all of that "aid" went.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021 08:08 AM (mdgQ7)

Whats his name was worth about $1.5 BILLION

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (yrol0)

304 Since his only transition was from disliking communists and communism to detesting it. Orwell was never a communist, in any form, and he became actively anti-communist after Spain.
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Wasn't he a cop in Burma at some point?

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (J7wri)

305 302 Bluntly illegal in every respect. The government cannot outsource illegal activity to the private sector in order to launder that activity and make it legal.

Good thing we're a nation of laws.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (+IIqY)

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You crack me up, Joe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

306 Core inflation now at it's highest level since 1983. But don't worry, it's "transitory".
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Doesn't that just piss you right off? Inflation to come is built into the economy right now. One example, from yesterday's JP Morgan (Michael Cembalest) write up that Pixy posted: Truck driver incomes are going to need to go up, a lot, to attract drivers. And rail rates will start to accelerate soon as well (in fact I'm wondering if Union Pacific might not be an inflation hedge stock).

We are fucked, as my econ professor used to put it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (1c5s7)

307 "You will be dipped in pig fat and let loose in an alligator infested swamp on the Mexican side of the border. It will be televised."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

Don't sock the regulars, Zod.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (6FeV1)

308 "What are you using this cash for?" "Hookers and blow baby, hookers and blow".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (C1Lsn)

309 290 with a family fortune of some $400 million.

That is where all of that "aid" went.
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He's a piker compared to Arafat, who died with a fortune estimated at more than a billion dollars.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (k4dH2)

310 307 "You will be dipped in pig fat and let loose in an alligator infested swamp on the Mexican side of the border. It will be televised."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

Don't sock the regulars, Zod.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (6FeV1)

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It was homage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

311 Wasn't he a cop in Burma at some point?
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yup

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:12 AM (1c5s7)

312 300 Auto in shop again. Five weeks to wait for parts.

Car rental companies love this.
Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (S1hrL)

I saw a Bentley at the shop when my wifes car got hit. It had been there 15 months for a tail light.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:12 AM (yrol0)

313 I'm thinking that it is more sinister. They are looking to see who you are donating money to: church, politician, organization, GoFundMe, AOSHQ, etc.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 30, 2021 08:11 AM (lD3vL)
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They are looking to build a perfect panopticon and anything else they get - like squeezing little guys doing odd jobs or selling at flea markets - is just icing on the cake.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:12 AM (+IIqY)

314 $79 billion for the IRS buys a lot of bureaucrats and their handlers.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:13 AM (S1hrL)

315 Whats his name was worth about $1.5 BILLION
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:10 AM (yrol0)

***

Yassir Homofat

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 30, 2021 08:14 AM (flINI)

316 You did get a receipt from your church for those donations didn't you?

Posted by: f'd at September 30, 2021 08:16 AM (Tnijr)

317 upthread

"...intellectually honest Leftist..."

An oxymoron if ever there was one.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:16 AM (S1hrL)

318 Currently a SAR is generated with $10k - and "structuring" is a crime of making less than $10k transactions to avoid that.

So what will the structuring limit be when $600 is the amount that triggers reporting?

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2021 08:17 AM (mbFEM)

319 $79 billion for the IRS buys a lot of bureaucrats and their handlers.
Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:13 AM (S1hrL)
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It does - though not as much as they think, after everyone in the chain soaks their beaks - and it is a staggering quantity of money.

Depending on whose manipulated numbers you use, the GM bailout - a bailout of one of America's largest industrial concerns - cost between $11 and $40 billion. They are now putiing at least double that toward an IRS expansion.

Scale - and dollar figures - have lost all meaning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:17 AM (+IIqY)

320 Medicine does that, they Columbus everything," said Monica McLemore, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who is pictured in the article wearing a shirt that reads

Educated & Blaccinated.

Fucking Idiot shirts were out of stock that day at Crazy Shirts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:17 AM (yrol0)

321 Ahh the protected class that nearly genocided America's entire hemophiliac population cuz butt love.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 07:59 AM (J7wri)

How did Mabe get to be a coblog? Was he ever arguably sane or conservative?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 08:18 AM (y7DUB)

322 Scale - and dollar figures - have lost all meaning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:17 AM (+IIqY)

***

A trillion here, a trillion there and soon you're talking real money.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 30, 2021 08:18 AM (flINI)

323 Let them fire you, then sue for wrongful termination. That is what my lawyer advised. But I got my exemption, so it is moot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021

***
The labor lawyer I talked to was not sanguine about the success of such a case, though when I told him who my employer was (one of the biggest in the state) he said it would interest him more. He advised me to bargain with HR and try to reach an accommodation.

He was willing to spend an unpaid 15 minutes of phone time with me when I had only called to see if that was the kind of suit he would handle. If it comes down to a lawsuit, I know who to call.

I'm glad you got your exemption, though!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 08:19 AM (/XOcP)

324 Every day I realize I'm getting closer and closer to the day the only free people will live in the sewers and eat illegal-meat (rat) burgers a la Demolition Man.

Posted by: Lrrr at September 30, 2021 08:19 AM (6siEC)

325 The only danger ever shown for "second hand smoke" occurs in an environment where radon is present. Radon alone can be inhaled but then will mostly also be exhaled and not stay in the lungs for long. The breakdown products of radon are particles which can stick to tars and dust.

If large, long term quantities of the tar particles in "second hand smoke" are also present the these daughter particles can get stuck on them and the be inhaled and stay in the lungs. Dust also can carry them also. Radon and the daughter particles emit alpha or beta particles which are very short range and so they must be in intimate contact to harm a cell and change it into a cancer cell.

The danger is smoke and dust in the air with radon. Any smoke or dust.

Posted by: geoffb at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (r//c2)

326 Overheard at lunch yesterday from a woman at the next table.
I got my booster a couple weeks ago. You know the first shot went fine but with the second my arm swelled to 3 times it size and persisted that way for 3 days. With the booster I was ok until about 2am and then became very ill. Called my doc and he told me to take Tylenol. He said it was a great indicator that I now have the antibodies to fight the virus.
WTH. I'm guessing she'll go in for another booster or 10.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (2NHgQ)

327 They are looking to build a perfect panopticon and anything else they get - like squeezing little guys doing odd jobs or selling at flea markets - is just icing on the cake.

We have seen how that has worked so well with the drug and human trafficking cartels.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

If they're not coming down on them, it's because they're getting a cut from them.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (VtwaX)

328 Panama warning 60,000 migrants heading to the US. They said they warned the Biden administration months ago.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

329 326 Overheard at lunch yesterday from a woman at the next table.
I got my booster a couple weeks ago. You know the first shot went fine but with the second my arm swelled to 3 times it size and persisted that way for 3 days. With the booster I was ok until about 2am and then became very ill. Called my doc and he told me to take Tylenol. He said it was a great indicator that I now have the antibodies to fight the virus.
WTH. I'm guessing she'll go in for another booster or 10.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (2NHgQ)

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"Think critically. Be independent. Do whatever the authorities tell you to do."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

330 Saw this on Gab.

Lauren Boebert
@LaurenBoebert

2h
�
The Boys & Girls Club was a big part of last night's Congressional Baseball Game.

So of course Joe Biden showed up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 30, 2021 08:20 AM (nR2nR)

331 Orwell would say of the woke Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, LeBron James, or Ibram Kendi and their supposedly unwoke, but similarly rich and privileged enemies,
It was impossible to say which was which.

Napoleon and Pilkington played the ace of spades simultaneously.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:21 AM (yrol0)

332 Who's gonna cry over $1.5 trillion when it coulda been $3.5 trillion?

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:22 AM (S1hrL)

333 Every day I realize I'm getting closer and closer to the day the only free people will live in the sewers and eat illegal-meat (rat) burgers a la Demolition Man.
Posted by: Lrrr at September 30, 2021 08:19 AM (6siEC)

That movie is looking more like prophecy.

Incompetent elitists with near-infinite hubris, an infantilized, sexless society kept in fake prosperity, no competition, weapons tightly controlled, leaders plotting to murder dissidents, etc.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 30, 2021 08:23 AM (T8QNX)

334 Israeli cops fatally shoot Pali woman trying to stab them in Jerusalem's Old City.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 30, 2021 08:23 AM (UHVv4)

335 324 Every day I realize I'm getting closer and closer to the day the only free people will live in the sewers and eat illegal-meat (rat) burgers a la Demolition Man.
Posted by: Lrrr at September 30, 2021 08:19 AM (6siEC)

But what are the three shells for?

Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (mbFEM)

336 We have needed him these past 18 months more than ever. Glad that he did not have to live through this nightmare of totalitarianism, but extremely depressed that he could not live to be our light in this darkness.

https://bit.ly/3m9t6ND

The medical people there gave her antibiotics, did not test her, she was told that the test for swine flu is pretty expensive, they can't do it for everybody, takes a awhile and so forth, you could die before we find out - no, they're not told that, but I mean that's what people think. They're being led to believe they're going to die if they get the virus. If they get this flu, they think they're going to die. That's what this has all created.

So the bottom line is the medical people then report a swine flu case. Now, if this is true and it's happening all over the place then the number of cases is being hyped. And I don't doubt that it is. I don't doubt that the number of H1N1 cases out there is being hyped. And for many of the same reasons that AIDS was and still is hyped in Africa. Everything in Africa is called AIDS. The reason is they get aid money for it, AIDS is the biggest pot that people throw donation money into.

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (Do5/p)

337 New IRS building will be mostly gender specific "bathrooms", safety meeting rooms, EV charging stations, ... sorry, I fell asleep...

Posted by: klaftern at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (taPSh)

338 If somehow we could present the world of 2021 to the people of 1991 (year picked due to end of the cold war) just about everyone from right to left would claim the politics of 2021 was a nightmare and that the architects of it should swing.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 30, 2021 07:51 AM (DpkTQ)
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This. Very much this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (1c5s7)

339 My employer said i would be subjected to other measures such as "masking or periodic testing" but so far has not specified anything.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 30, 2021

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If they'll offer me the testing deal, I can do it a couple of times to lull their suspicions. Then I'll try what I did this summer: Ignore any requests for an appointment, and if I do make one, cancel it the day before and make another for two weeks hence. Then cancel that one, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (/XOcP)

340 3 shells shit my pants!

Posted by: Stupidshit Joe at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (/6GbT)

341 I wonder how much cash is currently in circulation that never makes it to a bank? It's gotta' be billions... big billions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 08:26 AM (BFigT)

342 Israeli cops fatally shoot Pali woman trying to stab them in Jerusalem's Old City.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 30, 2021 08:23 AM (UHVv4)
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Jake Sullivan starts formal mourning and asks Meat Puppet to order flags to half-mast.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 30, 2021 08:26 AM (1c5s7)

343 Child star, Tommy Kirk, of Old Yeller and The Shaggy Dog has died aged 79; I haven't looked up his IMDB bio yet to see what else he might have been in as well.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 30, 2021 08:26 AM (UHVv4)

344 "A moderate Republican House member [a.k.a. rat-bastard scum RINO criminal] told The Post that between 22 and 24 GOPers were expected to support the $1.2 trillion bill as of Wednesday night, despite instructions from party leadership to oppose it."

Remember that when you're hectored to vote harder next November.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 08:26 AM (y7DUB)

345 Currently a SAR is generated with $10k - and "structuring" is a crime of making less than $10k transactions to avoid that.
So what will the structuring limit be when $600 is the amount that triggers reporting?
Posted by: blaster at September 30, 2021 08:17 AM (mbFEM)
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The fucking SAR. What a damn joke. And the structuring limit is probably 20 bucks.

On the SAR, here's a bit of perspective for how big it *should* be now, all other things being equal:
From an FDIC limit basis, it was originally 50%. Today, that would be a $125k SAR threshold.
From a median income basis, it was originally 101.3% of median income. Today, that would be a $68.5k SAR threshold.
From a per-capita GDP basis, it was originally 191% of per-capita GDP. Today, that would be a $121k SAR threshold.

This shows two things. First, median income has not tracked the economy (this is known, and why Trump's middle-class and lower-class income gains were so remarkable), and second that the SAR limit should be at least 7x greater than it is, by the most conservative measure and it should reasonably be 12x greater.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 30, 2021 08:26 AM (+IIqY)

346 Speaking of numbers, what's another 60,000 illegals?

Suck harder, America.

Posted by: Ziba at September 30, 2021 08:27 AM (S1hrL)

347 I got my booster a couple weeks ago. You know the first shot went fine but with the second my arm swelled to 3 times it size and persisted that way for 3 days. With the booster I was ok until about 2am and then became very ill. Called my doc and he told me to take Tylenol. He said it was a great indicator that I now have the antibodies to fight the virus. . . .
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 30, 2021

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My barber (Vietnam vet, over 70 I think) had the coof last year. This spring he got the first shot (!) and it knocked him for a loop. Then he went and got the second, and it knocked him flat again. You'd think the first experience would teach him, but --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (/XOcP)

348 343 Child star, Tommy Kirk, of Old Yeller and The Shaggy Dog has died aged 79; I haven't looked up his IMDB bio yet to see what else he might have been in as well.
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Oddly, I am distantly related to him via my grandmother's sister.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (J7wri)

349 347 My barber (Vietnam vet, over 70 I think) had the coof last year. This spring he got the first shot (!) and it knocked him for a loop. Then he went and got the second, and it knocked him flat again. You'd think the first experience would teach him, but --!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (/XOcP)

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"Think critically. Be independent. Do whatever the authorities tell you to do."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

350 Breaking Aviation News & Videos
@aviationbrk
American Airlines passenger arrested at Miami Airport after opening emergency exit and climbing onto wing.
https://tinyurl.com/3kxj7jd6

Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

351 The democrats barely have a majority, and they are pushing their agenda like mad.

The GOP had the house and senate, and, instead, chose to kick everything back to the Democrats, because they disliked PDT.

I sincerely hate Paul Ryan. In the life of the Republic, he probably needs to go down as the guy who completely sold us down the river when we had a chance to, perhaps, save what little remained of the country.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (2SdPm)

352 348 343 Child star, Tommy Kirk, of Old Yeller and The Shaggy Dog has died aged 79; I haven't looked up his IMDB bio yet to see what else he might have been in as well.
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Oddly, I am distantly related to him via my grandmother's sister.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (J7wri)

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So when is the inheritance check arriving?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

353 341 I wonder how much cash is currently in circulation that never makes it to a bank? It's gotta' be billions... big billions.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 08:26 AM (BFigT)

US underground economy is $2 Trillion. About the size of Italy GDP.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 30, 2021 08:29 AM (yrol0)

354 Feels like a Friday today. If I can tiptoe out a little early, I'll go fill up at a local service station with ethanol-free gas at a reasonable (compared to Exxon, that is) price. It'll cause me to get home pretty late, but I think it's worth it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 08:29 AM (/XOcP)

355 You could tell the $3.5 trillion was never going to happen as soon as they linked it to passing the infrastructure bill and pretended that was somehow leverage on Senate Dems like Manchin. That was just Pelosi/Biden delaying taking their loses.

Manchin might be a weasel, but he was never going to be like, "Oh, so you give me $15 Billion for roads in West Virginia so I can buy some votes, and then I slit my political throat by giving you $3.5 trillion for a bill that closes all the coal mines in my state? Deal!"

Posted by: Match Checksout at September 30, 2021 08:30 AM (dYe5S)

356 New IRS building will be mostly gender specific "bathrooms", safety meeting rooms, EV charging stations, ... sorry, I fell asleep...
Posted by: klaftern at September 30, 2021 08:24 AM (taPSh)

May I suggest hallway shitter alcoves and nooks?

Posted by: EPA at September 30, 2021 08:30 AM (4I/2K)

357 355 Manchin might be a weasel, but he was never going to be like, "Oh, so you give me $15 Billion for roads in West Virginia so I can buy some votes, and then I slit my political throat by giving you $3.5 trillion for a bill that closes all the coal mines in my state? Deal!"
Posted by: Match Checksout at September 30, 2021 08:30 AM (dYe5S)

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I don't even think he's going to run for re-election.

I have no idea what's going on in his head other than a spark of conscience, which rings false to me. The guy is a weasel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

358 355 Posted by: Match Checksout at September 30, 2021 08:30 AM (dYe5S)

Who was the asshole Dem that bought the line of no federal abortion funding in Obamacare and then afterwards Obama said "sucker!!" ?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 08:31 AM (s2VJv)

359 > US underground economy is $2 Trillion.

Holy shit. No wonder the IRS wants to clamp down on $600 transactions.

*of course they could just print more money since that's how we pay for things in the fed now

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 30, 2021 08:32 AM (BFigT)

360 In the 90's the MSM caused a huge panic about Alar and some remote possibility causing uptick in cancer if you consumed huge amounts. Huge outcry of wine moms resulted in apples being removed from stores and destroyed, even if they had not been sprayed with Alar and health ans safety conscious moms just stopped buying them for a long time just to be sure.

Now these same type of people, in response to media panic, are lining up for a shot of questionable need, effectiveness and safety for themselves and their kids because the govt and MSM tell them it is safe.

So many people are easily panicked lemmings and gladly do what they are told by the ruling class.

Posted by: Ripley at September 30, 2021 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

361 >>> 350 Breaking Aviation News & Videos
@aviationbrk
American Airlines passenger arrested at Miami Airport after opening emergency exit and climbing onto wing.
https://tinyurl.com/3kxj7jd6
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

Generic FL Man, or Shatner?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2021 08:33 AM (ACi07)

362 I sincerely hate Paul Ryan. In the life of the Republic, he probably needs to go down as the guy who completely sold us down the river when we had a chance to, perhaps, save what little remained of the country.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (2SdPm)

On 11/9/2016 that pencilnecked pile of shit stood with PDJT and the Turtle and said he looked forward to passing a strong Republican agenda. And that's exactly what he did, suckers.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at September 30, 2021 08:33 AM (y7DUB)

363 361 >>> 350 Breaking Aviation News & Videos
@aviationbrk
American Airlines passenger arrested at Miami Airport after opening emergency exit and climbing onto wing.
https://tinyurl.com/3kxj7jd6
Posted by: redridinghood at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

Generic FL Man, or Shatner?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 30, 2021 08:33 AM (ACi07)

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Lithgow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding religion in the USSR with Andrei at September 30, 2021 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

364 Who was the asshole Dem that bought the line of no federal abortion funding in Obamacare and then afterwards Obama said "sucker!!" ?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 08:31 AM (s2VJv)

Stupak? (D)ipshit, retired northern MI

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 08:34 AM (/6GbT)

365 Jailed marine ltc resembles Matthew McConnaughey.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American at September 30, 2021 08:35 AM (4I/2K)

366 My barber (Vietnam vet, over 70 I think) had the coof last year. This spring he got the first shot (!) and it knocked him for a loop. Then he went and got the second, and it knocked him flat again. You'd think the first experience would teach him, but --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM

Why the hell are people who have had SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 getting the shot? The least bit of research shows that if you recover from SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, you have antibodies and are protected from future strains of the virus/disease.

This whole Plandemic has proven that the vast majority of people are deliberately ignorant sheep who will do whatever the government or media tells them to do, even putting their own lives at risk and the lives of those they care about.

Government has a history of lying about everything to do with a virus/disease and the "vaccine" for it? No problem! Everyone just gets in line for the boxcars to get shot up with an dangerous, experimental and inefficient drug, where no one can hold anyone accountable for severe adverse reactions.

Posted by: Tall Cool Gentleman in a Black Suit at September 30, 2021 08:36 AM (Do5/p)

367 American Airlines passenger arrested at Miami Airport after opening emergency exit and climbing onto wing.
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Was William Shatner on the flight too??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 30, 2021 08:36 AM (UHVv4)

368 >>>I have no idea what's going on in his head other than a spark of conscience, which rings false to me. The guy is a weasel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

His re-election is a pretty long time away (in political terms) and he's got a fairly good chance of winning so long as he doesn't do something memorable with consequences that linger in his state until then ... like passing AOC's Green New Deal, which is what the 3.5T hides. And he can always switch to GOP whenever he wants.

Posted by: Match Checksout at September 30, 2021 08:36 AM (dYe5S)

369 Lithgow.

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Yes, great old reference.

Posted by: SH (Non-Expert) at September 30, 2021 08:37 AM (sX1BW)

370 As for Manchin: I'll take a win where I can get it. Let him stake out a position and let's US hold him to it.

$600 bank law proposal: 600 is the threshold for issuing 1099. That's why it was chosen. Second, barter and cash will explode. Thus, when said law dies not raise projected revenue, a new law mandating cash exchanges will be passed.

Right now, yiu can't go into a bank and make a deposit in cash to an account you're not on. Wife and I have separate accounts. She can't deposit $20.00 into my account at the window.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 30, 2021 08:37 AM (vpE+b)

371 Nood cloud

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 08:38 AM (/6GbT)

372 371 Nood cloud
Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 08:38 AM (/6GbT)

"E pleb wha...?"

- - Cloud William

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 08:40 AM (s2VJv)

373 364 Who was the asshole Dem that bought the line of no federal abortion funding in Obamacare and then afterwards Obama said "sucker!!" ?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 08:31 AM (s2VJv)

Stupak? (D)ipshit, retired northern MI
Posted by: A dude in MI at September 30, 2021 08:34 AM (/6GbT)

BINGO

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 30, 2021 08:41 AM (s2VJv)

374 Manchin is now demanding that the Hyde Amendment be included in any reconciliation bill.

That's a pretty big "fuck you" to the hard left.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at September 30, 2021 08:41 AM (jOcSX)

375 If you consider NAC (N-Acetyl-Cysteine) to be a valuable tool in your immune support arsenal, time to stock up. On Sept 3 I paid $14.60 for a bottle of 1000mg, count of 120.

I decided this morning after reading that its OTC status is in jeopardy (Amazon is no longer selling it) to go ahead and pick up a couple more bottles, just in case it becomes extinct.

Pretty much out of stock in all pharmacies including Walmart, and online isn't much better. I did find the same bottle I ordered for $77 (didn't buy). Two online shops had a banner once I reached checkout telling me I could not use paypal to pay for NAC. Huh.

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at September 30, 2021 08:44 AM (HeKhk)

376 352 348 343 Child star, Tommy Kirk, of Old Yeller and The Shaggy Dog has died aged 79; I haven't looked up his IMDB bio yet to see what else he might have been in as well.
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Oddly, I am distantly related to him via my grandmother's sister.
Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:28 AM (J7wri)
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So when is the inheritance check arriving?
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Who knows. My wife's family has a mysterious aunt who made some serious money in CA who has her estate being researched for heirs. Its all the talk in upstate NY. Can't wait.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 30, 2021 08:58 AM (J7wri)

377 Speaking of political climate, ala Milton Friedman, I guess when you have half the country shouting "Fuck Joe Biden" the politicians kinda get the picture.

Posted by: PJ at September 30, 2021 09:01 AM (G1dq6)

378 Joe Biden's Prescription For Ensuring Israel's Future
It involves a "sovereign and democratic Palestinian State."

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 30, 2021 09:03 AM (Q87rR)

379 Oh, c'mon. Manchin might lose his next race (if he even runs - he'll be 7

, but it won't be over a freaking spending bill. Sinema could conceivably be worried about the bill affecting her chances, but I doubt it.

Fact is, most people and all Democrats don't get upset about spending. My question is why did they vote "wrong," here?

I can't believe they were bribed by private interests... The corporate sector is on board with anything the Big Blue Machine does. I can't believe they struck bargains with McConnell... The GOP has nothing more to offer a Democrat, and I'm quite sure they don't oppose these bills strongly, if at all, anyway.

My only explanation is that it really was just failure theater for the stupid idiots to watch and rage about, and that they are the designated Judas goats... I wonder if Schumer bribed them to take the beating, or if it was just pro forma team-play on their parts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 30, 2021 09:27 AM (cTqLg)

380 545 Not A Cop

I used to get a printout every month, with hundreds of SARs summarized on it-- & that's in one of the smallest federal judicial districts.

Unless there was a Mount Everest on it, my impression was that the IRS wasn't interested.

SARs mostly come into play when some OTHER crime, i.e., money laundering of drug proceeds, is already under investigation. Then you have a look at the SARs.

If folks are concerned that the feds are going to jump all over investigating $600 bank transactions, all I can say is that that wouldn't be consistent with what I saw. I retired 3 years ago, but I suspect nothing has changed regarding SARs.

Posted by: mnw at September 30, 2021 09:58 AM (Cssks)

381 GM all. Thanks JJ.

Posted by: MIMimi aka Mimi or MI if you're into the brevity thing at September 30, 2021 10:07 AM (wamUX)

382 It's called a "Billy Mitchell" event.

Posted by: obsidian at September 30, 2021 12:07 PM (DcUHp)

383 Smarterer, not harderer. We need a positive presentation of changing the status quo spending, otherwise our pitch is to take away the punchbowl at the party, which is clearly a losing proposition. We also need to shift the electoral balance to create a larger majority to minimize RINO power. Read anything from the Moynihan Report in 1965 to Heather Macdonald today on the importance of supporting the family in fixing our dysfunction. That is the positive vision of spending that will shift the electoral balance. Vouchers instead of DOE is the first step.

Posted by: Larry Dressler at September 30, 2021 02:00 PM (W0MsY)

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