The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 11/1/21

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and a new month. For those wholly unaware a number of bellwether elections happen tomorrow, or more correctly have been happening for about a month already due to the insanity of early voting and mail-in ballots that even the like of hideous leftists like Jimmy Carter have rejected as banana republic bullshit. Though they were uncharacteristically quiet about it a year ago, but I digress. As I've said for a while now, the nation as it was is no more. Right now, as a society we're in some sort of bizarre zombie state, like Bruce Willis who just can't seem to turn the red knob and open the friggin' door. Some things have the appearance of normalcy and regularity - like elections - and yet many other things are completely alien. Or metaphorically speaking, we may not be actually dead but we're in a coma. And the odds of coming out of it diminish with each passing day.

I'm mixing metaphors like a Cuisinart here because I'm trying to avoid the hot topic of voting under these conditions, but alas, tis unavoidable. The opinions around here are both strong and colorful, to say the least. But the one thing that is inarguable is that America as it was founded, or at least as it appeared to be operating for the past 50 years or so is gone, goodbye. We are in fact not only a divided nation, but the rift is completely un-mendable. The two sides are not merely arguing about issues, even the most polarizing ones. What separates us is the very nature of our society itself; there is no common ground because the very ground we are on is viewed by the enemy as illegitimate, stolen and evil, which should make crystal clear to anyone just how they see we the people who live on it.

Despite what Peter Navarro and now Mollie Hemingway have documented regarding what happened a year ago, despite the confirmation that the accusations of Russian collusion that Donald Trump did not win 2016 fair and square were completely debunked by the very sham committee that was put in place to railroad him for that in the first place, despite the fact that what was termed as the darkest day in American history, January 6th, as an "insurrection" and a "coup" has all but been proven to have been a premeditated Reichstag Fire perpetrated by the Democrats and their allies -- despite all of the evidence that those who, after 100 years of trying, finally planted the communist flag on top of the Capitol Dome, some otherwise very astute pundits continue to think we who state these self-evident truths are crackpots who need to STFU.

Anton Chekhov famously said that if a gun appears hanging on a wall in the first act, it must be used in the second act. In the same way, the line is dangerously thin between warning about a peril and creating an atmosphere that makes that peril possible. Ever since last year's presidential election, the press and countless voices on social media have been worrying, ever more loudly and insistently, about a looming civil war.
The warnings come from both ends of the political spectrum, and Americans seem to believe them. But civil war is a rare and exceptional moment in the life of a civilization. We should be careful how we use such a term, lest fears of political catastrophe become self-fulfilling prophecies . . .
. . . Granted, you would have to possess an extraterrestrial complacency not to worry about America's divisions. On one side are Trump's ceaseless claims that the election was stolen, claims compounded by the unwillingness of many Republicans to counter his false assertions and denounce him for making them.

Stop right there. Apologies. Did I say "astute pundits?" In the case of Lee Siegel here at the usually decent City Journal, I meant "ass toot" (I didn't quote it because the paragraph after this one will make you rage-stroke). I usually get to spot one or two Pollyannas a week who are not NeverTrump stooges but who are reasonable and intelligent essayists. Unfortunately, this dreck was all I could find to illustrate my point. Continuing . . .

But is an epistemological crisis the same as finding ourselves on the brink of civil war? We might see through the more hyperbolic claims of division to find our way to some obvious and consequential bonds. The often-heard claim, for instance, that Americans essentially live in different countries is a disconnection from American reality -- a product of, to borrow a term from intellectual historian Arthur Lovejoy, a "climate of opinion" that sees portents of civil war everywhere. Someone in Vermont is just as likely to be listening, say, to country and western music as someone in Texas; you would quickly lose count of all the Honda CRVs bearing Black Lives Matter decals, on the one hand, and those with MAGA stickers, on the other. If the country ever comes together as one, the point of unity will probably be a large cheese pizza.

HO. LEE. FOOK. I think I just threw up in my mouth. Has Siegel ever heard of the Loudon County Schoolboard? Has he ever heard of Kyle Rittenhouse? Has he ever heard of the dozens of people still held in the Garland Archipelago? Has he ever heard of people purged for their political views, i.e. "cancel culture?" I imagine he has heard of Ashli Babbit; he views her as a rabid racist white supremacist insurrectionist who got what she deserved.

The conditions for a civil war simply do not exist. Since civil war is only one step removed from revolution -- if the South had chosen to overthrow the American republic rather than to secede from it, that would have been a revolution -- the conditions for a civil war must resemble those for a revolution. That is to say, each side has to have an army behind it; each side has to be prepared to wage war. . .
. . . Regardless of which political side wins three years from now, Americans should remove the flush of fever from their rhetoric. They should keep the rifle hanging on the wall and allow the next act in American political life, whatever it is, to be a peaceful one.

The level of jackassery in this essay is off the charts. It's a tossup as to which is more infuriating, his cluelessness or his arrogance. And I don't dismiss that this kind of writing is intentional agitprop, hamfisted as it obviously is to attempt to make folks believe him rather than their lying eyes. But it nevertheless is revelatory. You know, maybe Lee Siegel is right in his description of a civil war or the conditions for it. This isn't a civil war. This is more and more looking like the Warsaw Ghetto circa April 1943. One side sure as hell has an army behind it. The other does not. That is to say we the people being the other side. But unlike the doomed Jews, what we do have - thank God - is the second amendment and upwards of 200 million people who over the years have taken it to heart. What we are missing is that moment where we "Break Glass, Pull Handle" so to speak. The Jews of the Ghetto in '43 had that for sure, except all they had to fight with were a few pistols and Molotov cocktails. It's the Jews of '33 who for the most part didn't see it, or refused to see it, that ultimately lead to what happened 10 years later.

That's where we are, in a sense. I mean, even a few short years ago, even in the wake of the Obama Reign of Error, could anyone have imagined the nightmare that has transpired since and how things have played out for the past 20 months? The Left for sure wiped out so much of America. The one thing I suppose that we can be thankful for in a perverse way is that in doing so they wiped out the illusions of incorruptible and impartial safeguards and institutions that would always be on guard to protect our rights and freedom. Forget the so-called "Fourth Estate" which is the Fifth Column. I'll never trust our intelligence services, law enforcement, the courts, the FDA and anything coming out of any governmental agency ever again.

But just shut up with all this "civil war" garbage and play nice, right?

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My book,The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World, is available now at the link.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The Western voters might get the idea, of course completely unjustified, that the whole climate emergency is a scam, cooked up politicians and environmentalists to fleece them of their money. That might boost the populists and that, not energy poverty and hardship, is the real danger."
On the Brink of Triumph, Green Faces Its Nemesis
Roger Kimball: "Are we living through the 'dark' or 'black' comedy that elite opinion, which likes to smirk but hates happy endings, loves to wallow in?"
Low Characters in Ludicrous Situations
Victor Davis Hanson: "There is nothing like an old Bolshevik grinning that ossified American wokesters are stuck circa 1920s in the old Bolshevik Russia."
Who Eventually Won the Cold War?
We need sensible knife control, because if it saves just one life . . .
Man Dressed as the Joker Stabs at Least 17 People on Tokyo Commuter Train

AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

Worried about the shadow docket: "Were the standard otherwise, applicants could use the emergency docket to force the Court to give a merits preview in cases that it would be unlikely to take -- and to do so on a short fuse without benefit of full briefing and oral argument."
Barrett and Kavanaugh Join Supreme Court Liberals To Reject Stay Of Maine Vax Mandate Lacking Religious Exemption
"The FDA's war on kids is part of widespread institutional rot."
Regulatory Capture on Steroids
"This follows on the heels of the FDA's conspicuous lack of transparency about the vaccines' safety and efficacy findings in adults since its August 23, 2021 approval."
The FDA Failed In Its Duty To Ensure Vaccines Are Safe For Children
Miranda Devine: "Navarro writes that Fauci did 'more damage to this nation, President Trump and the world than anyone else this side of the Bat Lady of Wuhan.'"
Trump Aide Peter Navarro Exposes the Dangerous Doctor Fauci
"What happens when thousands of Chicago or New York cops are all let go? What about teachers and garbagemen and janitors and electricians?"
When the Regular Joes Shrugged
"A former cadet wanted to dedicate her life to protecting the freedoms of American citizens and defending the U.S. Constitution as an Army officer. The academy's [Chinese] COVID vaccine mandate ended that dream."
West Point Vaccine Mandate Is an Unlawful Order

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"As the West careens toward the [Chinese] COVID-centered anthill society, nobody defends the individual's personal autonomy."
Self-Ownership and the Right To Reject the Pharma-State's Hemlock
"Alabama Republican House Speaker Mac McCutcheon supports the governor's apparent cop-out demand that Biden's mandate be challenged in the judiciary rather than legislative action." (I expected a lot more from places like Alabama, but this is the state that gave us Jeff Sessionszzzz - jjs)
Alabama Republican Gov. Kay "Poison" Ivey is Blocking Efforts to Pass Ban on Chinese COVID Vaccine Mandates
"Defense contractors cannot afford to lose skilled workers in their zeal to be [Chinese] COVID compliers."
Do Vaccine Mandates Pose a Threat to National Security?
"Psaki emphasized that she did not have any 'close contact' with the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] or senior members of the White House staff since her family contracted the [Chinese] virus."
White House Press Secretary Piss-Hockey Psaki Tests Positive for Chinese Coronavirus
"The conversation then turned to Sen. Coons when [Bill] Maher said that traveling in red states is 'a joy,' and 'blue states are a pain in the ass for no reason.'"
Chris Coons: Pandemic "Not Done Until the World Is Safe," and Not Safe "Until the World's Vaccinated"
"The establishment's desire to obfuscate the virus's origins, coupled with the public's lack of curiosity, has been very damaging."
On the Origins of Chinese Covid-19
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Two polls show few Americans believe the January 6 riot was a 'coup' or 'insurrection.' And the numbers are declining."
Americans Don't Buy the Insurrection Narrative
"Why else does the left want chaos? Because social and economic breakdowns eventually breed resistance and protests. And the resistance provides an excuse to crackdown on the protestors. The crackdown, in turn, further intimidates the general populace into submission."
The Current Chaos: Incompetence or By Design?
Sinema was reportedly officiating the wedding for a friend when protesters gathered outside the venue, chanting and holding signs with phrases such as "Sinema Betrays Democrats" and "Sinema Sell-Out!' written on them, according to video of the incident.
VIDEO: Bride, Mother Beg Leftist Anti-Sinema Protesters to Stop "Ruining" Wedding
"Or is some sort of Hegelian communist 'synthesis' to be preferred?"
Should The Founding Principles of the United States Be Retained?
"Don't confuse America's genuine political divisions with the prospect of civil conflict." (clueless essay of the day - jjs)
It's Not Existential
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"So yeah, stopped a bill that I don't think parents should be telling schools what they teach."
McAuliffe: Parents Should Not Pick School Books -- "We Have Experts" Who Do That
Loudoun County mother: "My six year old somberly came to me and asked if she was born evil because she was a white person, something she learned in a history lesson at school."
Loudoun County Schools' Controversies Continue
"Kendi tweeted out a story about how white university applicants identified as people of color for better treatment. He deleted the tweet after realizing it didn't advance his argument of systemic white privilege."
Critical Race Guru Ibram X. Krement Deletes Tweet That Disproved His Life's Work On "White Privilege"
"Not only did he undermine the theories that have made him famous but he also outed himself as a 'transphobe.'" (see related link in the Feminazism section - jjs)
Ibram X. Krement Just Gave Away the Con
"What exactly is to blame for the record drop in enrollment across these districts? The districts are quick to blame the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic; that's not the only reason fewer parents want their children to attend these public schools, but you'd never know that to listen to them."
Blue State Blues: Record Number of Students Flee Nation's Largest Public School Districts
"China's funding for American universities remains the top concern for parents, with 70 percent expressing worry about Beijing's presence at U.S. schools. Around 65 percent expressed similar concerns about Saudi Arabia, followed closely by Qatar with 57 percent of those surveyed."
Most American Parents Unaware China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar are Major Donors to US Universities
"School District sought to reduce Asian enrollment at academically-elite public schools through supposedly race-neutral zip code criteria, and so far it's working."
"Boston Zip Code Quota Plan" Designed To Reduce Asian Enrollment Again Upheld by Federal District Court
Robert Spencer: "If an embattled teacher at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy High School in Kansas City had been doing something innocuous such as getting a lap dance from students, he would likely still be at work now. But this teacher made the mistake instead of speaking about his Christian faith in class, and specifically about his rejection of Islam and homosexuality."
Stasi in Kansas City: Student Denounces Christian Teacher to Authorities, Gets Him Suspended
"School boards are now in the culture war while progressive advocates falsely cry wolf to thwart reform."
Do Parents Have Rights?
". . . what's a shame is that people like Obama pretend wars over culture are irresponsible or "fake," all the while engaging in that very same war."
There's Nothing Fake About Parents' Outrage in America's Culture War
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's (D) has been on paid paternity leave since mid-August as the country's supply chain issues have worsened and other airlines besides American have announced woes of their own."
American Airlines Cancels 600+ Flights on Sunday
"Unfortunately, nobody in Washington seems to care what small business owners think, even though they're responsible for almost half of all the jobs in the country."
Big Government Crushes Small Business Dreams
Rep. Chip Roy: "As long as we depend on China and the rest of the world to keep our shelves stocked, our economic prosperity, our political liberty, and our national security are all in grave danger."
Supply Chain Issues Lead Brands To Cut Advertising Spend
"Biden also said during the press conference he would do more to stop government subsidies for oil production and spend more funding on subsidies for green energy."
Joe Biden Blames Russia and Saudi Arabia for Not Producing Enough Oil After Restricting U.S. Production
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"A border policy driven by recklessness, heedlessness, and incompetence -- and that's just for starters."
Biden Border Policy: Criminals Welcome
Victor Davis Hanson: "The American citizen is dying and is losing civilian control of the country. But some Americans won't go quietly."
As the Left Tries to Kill American Citizenship, Americans Fight For Their Ancient Rights
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The man behind the failed Ukraine impeachment saga has no idea what free speech is or why it's protected by the U.S. Constitution."
Turns Out Alexander "Bearclaw" Vindman is the Dopey Hack We All Thought He Was
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"One of the family members said his mother would ask him who he was, meaning she didn't recognize her own son. She hadn't voted since 2012 -- yet MyVote Wisconsin revealed she voted twice in 2020."
Wisconsin Elections Commission "Shattered" Laws By Telling Nursing Home Staffers To Illegally Cast Ballots For Residents
"The information on the ballots did not contain the voters' correct mailing addresses, which resulted in many people receiving other people's ballots. If voters did not notice the error, they could have inadvertently voted under the incorrect name, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer."
Suburb Of Philadelphia Mailed Out Nearly 700 Ballots To The Wrong People
"Remember, admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery."
7 Insane Things I Just Learned About How U.S. Elections Are "Rigged"
"Next time someone caricatures evidence of voting irregularities as a conspiracy theory, throw the book at them -- Mollie Hemingway's book."
How the 2020 Election Was Rigged
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security doubled down on its lie that Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation." (Elmer Fudd-looking stooge is a traitor - jjs)
Hayden Center Doubles Down On Blatant Lie That Hunter Biden's Laptop is "Russian Disinformation"
"The Israeli-American billionaire declined to comment because the Daily Caller is 'owned by a crazy..bad guy.' He then referred to the reporter asking the question as 'a nazi jew' who should "[g]o find a real journalist job.'"
Billionaire Mega-Donor at Center of Hunter Biden Art Sales Raises Ethics Concerns
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The Youngkin campaign condemned the incident, and Youngkin claimed that Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was responsible for planting the demonstrators."
North American Man-Boy Lincoln Project Takes Responsibility For Tiki Torch Hoax at Youngkin Rally
"McAuliffe took $350,000 donation from a foreign-owned company linked to an overseas money laundering probe."
Watchdog Hits McAuliffe With Campaign Finance Complaint Over Foreign Money
$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION, DEBT CEILING/BUDGETARY INSANITY
"Pelosi delayed a vote on the infrastructure bill on Thursday after the radical lawmakers in her party threw another round of fits about the legislation."
Biden, Pelosi, Sanders, and the Squad Are Squabbling Over a Bill They Never Promised in the First Place
"You don't get everything you ask for all the time. You are not so unrealistic to think the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is going to get everything he wants."
Energy Secretary Blows Off Biden's Failure To Pass Infrastructure, Claims He's Uniting Democrats
"The sweeping social spending bill keeps a ban on Arctic drilling as U.S. gas prices continue to soar under the Biden [junta]."
A Ban on Arctic Drilling Remains In Democrats' New Reconciliation Framework While Gas Prices Soar
POLITICS
"What's more, Republicans, believe it or not, have double-digit leads in dealing with border security, inflation, crime, national security, the economy, and, shockingly, on getting things done."
Chuck Todd: "Shocking" NBC Poll Shows 71% Believe U.S. Is on Wrong Track --"Scary News for the Democrats"
As Democrats contemplate the potential for a stinging loss in the Virginia gubernatorial election, the party appears to remain utterly tone-deaf to the feedback it gets through public polling as they rush to pass [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's spending bills. New polling from NBC, ABC, and Rasmussen demonstrate just how badly Democrats misinterpreted their mandate in 2020. (assuming the elections aren't rigged as they were in 2020 and GA; and so what "mandate?" - jjs)
How Low Can Joe Biden's Polls Go Before Democrats Tap the Brakes?
"Youngkin may be ahead 8 points in a single Fox News poll, but the data might suggest it's not reliable."
A Word of Warning on That Fox News Virginia Poll: Don't Be Complacent
"Are we looking at a major shift in America's political tectonic plates?" (that happened last November, and not electorally either - jjs)
Something Big is Coming
"The rumor appeared to start a short time later with a tweet from former Republican Nevada Chairwoman Amy Tarkanian, who claimed without presenting any evidence that Biden's possible accident was the topic of much discussion in Rome."
#PoopyPantsBiden Trends On Twitter As Far Right Sites Claim Bathroom Mishap Explains Long Meeting With Pope "Fiction" Francis
"Despite the fact that thousands of fans were doing the exact same thing, liberals think they've cracked the code as to why Trump did it: racism and white supremacy!"
Trump Does "Tomahawk Chop" at World Series and the Left Flips Out
Deroy Murdock: "Against this backdrop of holistic failure, why would anyone vote Democrat? Old habits die hard. But, as the saying goes, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results defines insanity."
Democrats Have Screwed Up Everything -- Stop Voting For Them!
"What was the purpose of this idiocy and what if they had gotten away with it?"
What to Make of Terry McAuliffe's Disgraceful Display in Virginia

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"I wonder what the folks organizing the tiki torch parade next to Glen Youngkin's campaign bus thought they were doing?"
Justice for Tiki Torches!
"The outcome of the Virginia Governor's race will tell us a lot about the prospects for the 2022 mid-terms, about the future of Biden's [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"] and about the mood of the electorate. All of those are important tea leaves to be read, but for conservatives who are interested in growing our political coalition, the race may provide a road map for how to win back the suburbs."
Virginia -- A Republican Road Map to Win Back the Suburbs
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Vote the Left out."
OK, Virginia Republicans, Independents, and Parents -- Put Up or Shut Up
"Never heard of lieutenant governor candidate Winsome Sears? Could it have anything to do with her being female, Black, conservative, and a Marine Corps veteran?"
The Other Virginia Race That Could Shock Democrats on Tuesday
"Despite thousands of nursing home deaths during his tenure, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy maintains a polling lead in a state where voters endorse strict lockdowns."
Pandemic Politics in the Garden State
"Now, James will be up against Gov. Kathy Hochul in what is set up to be an extremely competitive primary shaped by ideology, race and region."
#MeGovernor . . . Letitia James Seeks to Replace NY Governor She Helped Force Out
"James Kilcer showed even more courage when he accepted an award for valor from Sheriff Leon Wilmot in a 'Let's Go Brandon' shirt and iconic red 'Make America Great Again' cap."
Heroic Veteran Who Disarmed Burglar With Bare Hands Publicly Sticks It to Biden
"What has Barack Obama done to deserve his standing as a national moral leader?"
The Veneration of the Obamas
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Tucker Carlson called Liz Cheney a 'coward' after she declined to come on his show to discuss her criticism of his forthcoming documentary, 'Patriot Purge.'"
Tucker Carlson: Neocon Karen Liz Cheney Isn't Just a Liar, She's Also a Coward
This tells you they're scared shitless that the filthy lumpenproletariat have discovered political kryptonite. And of course blood-libeling Dems' enemies is always in fashion.
WaPo: CRT a "Phony" Issue to Enrage Americans, GOP a "Party of Thugs"
"The NYT's response, which was not published until after the male student had been found guilty of the crime, was to frame the case as if the important issue was not the rape of a teenage girl but rather the fact that Republicans were using it to make a political point about the district's preferred bathroom policies."
Writes Off Crimes That Hurt Dems Electorally As Mere "Local" Stories
"Americans think that the media is a significant contributor to the division and misinformation in the country."
I&I/TIPP Poll: Trust In Media Is In Free Fall
"The media believe they control reality by determining what the public sees or doesn't see."
Perception Is Not Reality, No Matter What the Liberal Media Say
"This sort of thing just isn't done, is it? I mean, using a vulgar expletive in any connection with a beloved [so-called quote-unquote "president"] like Joe Biden is beyond redemption. It's unprecedented. It's dangerous. Except when the same exact insult is applied to Donald Trump."
The AP Discovers the "Code" Behind "Let's Go Brandon" Cheer
"They're coming for you next: Jeffrey Horak, a surgeon in Minnesota with 32 years of experience, was fired by his hospital just nine days after he publicly told a school board it had no business mandating masks on little children, that such a decision belonged solely to the parents."
Today's Blacklisted American: Surgeon Fired After Telling School Board Its Mask Mandate on Kids Was Wrong
SECOND AMENDMENT
"New Mexico's Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office opened an investigation when a 42-year-old cinematographer was killed on October 21, 2021, after Baldwin discharged a prop gun."
Alec "Killer" Baldwin "Extremely Interested" in Limiting Use of Firearms on Film Sets
ABORTION
"Following the hour-and-a-half meeting as part of his trip for the G20 summit, Biden told the press that the Pope blessed his rosary and celebrated his Catholicism. He added that they discussed fighting climate change as part of the Build Back Better agenda."
Pope Fiction Blesses Biden, Says He Should Continue Receiving Communion Despite Pro-Abortion Policies
Bill Donahue: "Like everyone else, we at the Catholic League have no way of knowing whether Biden's remarks are accurate. But from what we know about the Vatican's handling of the meeting and Biden's long record of lying about many important matters, we are maintaining a healthy skepticism about the president's rendition."
What Pope Said to Biden Is Unconfirmed
"The court will consider challenges to the Texas six-week abortion ban."
Supreme Court Will Consider First Of Two Abortion Laws Today
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Minor violations include things like having a broken taillight."
Philadelphia Bars Cops From Pulling Over Drivers For Minor Traffic Violations
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"Our message to America is, if unrecognition continues, Afghan problems continue, it is the problem of the region and could turn into a problem for the world."
Taliban Calls On US To Recognize Their Government, Says Failure To Do So Could Have Consequences
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The global minimum tax would prevent corporations from operating overseas to avoid taxes. It's a position that [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has pushed for since taking office. By establishing a 15% global minimum tax rate, the U.S. would garner at least $60 billion more in revenue per year in the U.S. alone, an official told reporters." (that is bullshit, but why don't we cut US corporate taxes as much as possible to keep their money invested here . . . like President Trump did? - jjs)
G20 Leaders Announce Endorsement Of Global Minimum Tax On Day One Of Summit
"There were missed photo ops, elevator games, Mussolini references, White House [Chinese] COVID problems, and a strange rumor about his meeting with the Pope."
Biden's Weird Weekend in Rome
"Biden's ideologically driven energy madness is speeding the West's decline as Glasgow calls for even more of the same and Putin gloats."
Putin Has NATO Over a Barrel
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is very much prepared to take whatever action is appropriate at a time and place of our choosing by whatever means are appropriate to prevent and stop Iran from engaging in these activities or its proxies engaging in these activities."
Blinken Grilled On If Biden Putting Sanctions On Iran Will Stop Them From Trying To Kill Americans
"Its only place is in the dustbin of anti-semitism, and that is exactly how we shall treat it."
Israel's UN Ambassador Tears Up Biased "Human Rights" Report At UN General Assembly
"Terrorists in suits are taken to the cleaners."
Israel Designates 6 Palestinian NGOs as Terrorist Organizations
"Why is Musk expanding his investments in China?"
China Is Making Elon Musk the World's Richest Hypocrite
"Will sell Tesla stock right now."
Elon Musk Challenges UN To Explain How $6 Billion Can Solve World Hunger
"France has been and remains a sharply divided society still confronting its history of the World War II years."
Petain, Vichy, and Anti-Semitism
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Hyten's goals -- fast testing, fast development, and not fearing failure -- are all correct and laudable. But to suddenly turn a questionable story about a possible single successful Chinese hypersonic test flight, based entirely on anonymous sources, into 'hundreds' of flights, strongly confirms to me that the original story was planted by the military to create fear in Congress and the public so that both would eagerly give the military more money."
Vice Chairman of JCS: Not One, Not Two, But Hundreds of Chinese Hypersonic Tests
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "There are so many ways to kill, and jihadis try to utilize them all."
Poison Jihad: UK Lawyer Injects Food Items with Blood
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Buttigieg recently took several weeks of paid paternity leave."
After Paternity Leave, Peter Puffer Buttigieg Says "Nobody Gets Everything That They Want" On Dems Dropping Paid Family Leave
"Leftists have tried hard to mold the one-time jewel of a city into their socialist utopia."
As Bodies and Tent Cities Pile Up, Antifa-Ravaged Portland Learns Tourists Are "Afraid" of Their Utopia
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The Biden [junta] urged the court not to hear the appeal."
Supreme Court Will Hear Case Addressing Limits on EPA's Authority
"Seeking more than a trillion dollars from 'rich' countries this decade."
Globalists Use UN Green Climate Fund to Redistribute Wealth
All for no reason whatsoever since man's industrial activity has ZERO impact on climate, but, whatever.
Here's How America Reduced Emissions More Than Any Other Major Country Despite Leaving the Paris Accords
"Ah, the law or unintended consequences once again rears its ugly head. Too bad global warming activists never seem to admit it exists, even though it constantly bites them in the rear, time after time after time after time after time . . . "
Drop in Aviation During Chinese COVID Lockdowns Caused No Change in High Cirrus Clouds, Contrary to Predictions of Climate Models
"But the elites who claim to care most about the environment need to fly to Scotland and back for their grand summit. Any contradiction between their words and actions?"
Hypocrisy? Tens of Thousands Jet to Big Climate Summit in Scotland
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"A timely reminder from the Sun as to how much it influences conditions on the Earth."
Geomagnetic Storm Watch Issued for this Halloween
But volcanism has nothing to do with the climate, right?
With No Sign of Eruption's End, Ash Blankets La Palma Island
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Will we hear shrieks of "stone the heretic!" at this car crash on the intersectional intersection? And see the related link in the Education section.
Ibram X. Krement: "Horrifying" His Daughter Said She Wants to Be a Boy
"'How is this sanctioned? This is horrific,' one fan asked on social media. But we know the answer. Men physically beating up women has been sanctioned for a while now."
IRONY: "Inter-Gender" MMA Fight Horrifies Fans in Poland
"Ladies, go from cheap date to soul mate with this one neat trick."
Operation: Marriage Material
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"It's just a jump to the left, And then a step to the right, With your hands on your hips, You bring your knees in tight, But it's the pelvic thrust, That really drives you insane . . . "
"Let's Go Brandon" Now Has Its Own Dance
Daniel Greenfield: "The Sandinistas inspired a generation of Democrats. Where are they now?"
Marxism, Witchcraft, and Midnight Burials in Bernie's Favorite Socialist Regime
Christian Toto: "The [usually im-] Material Girl knows better than most why woke restrictions hurt creativity."
Madonna Slams Cancel Culture, Connects All the Vital Dots in the Process
HITHER & YON
"REVIEW: Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen."
Tapping Into Greatness

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:31 AM

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 06:31 AM (yrol0)

2 Morning!

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 01, 2021 06:32 AM (yEBFM)

3 I saw the nood in the last thread. Everybody else was eating breakfast. Thanks JJ!

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 01, 2021 06:33 AM (yEBFM)

4 morning horde. happy freaking monday...

if anyone has time, i'd appreciate a quick healing thought for my back. it decided to go out without me yesterday. so i'm on flexeril and sadly not heavy narcotics for pain...

anyways, coffee is ready, work and the content awaits.

Posted by: SturmToddler, blitzkreig the leftists (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 06:34 AM (8D42x)

5 New thread!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 06:34 AM (4I/2K)

6 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at November 01, 2021 06:35 AM (T7iTv)

7 We need DeSantis in 2024. Not a former Democrat.

Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 06:35 AM (2xGy+)

8 Jumps into the new thread while it's still below 10 comments

Good morning, all!

Posted by: NR Pax at November 01, 2021 06:36 AM (4olE8)

9 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at November 01, 2021 06:36 AM (u7pQw)

10
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 01, 2021 06:37 AM (nIqnY)

11 JJ Sefton, thank you for the good work. The Morning Report is my newspaper of record.

Posted by: LostInSpace at November 01, 2021 06:37 AM (hhbVv)

12 Good morning, Horde.

Good morning, JJ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:37 AM (DU+/6)

13 The Kyle Rittenhouse trial starts today.

Posted by: Grammie Winger's iPad at November 01, 2021 06:38 AM (zS8wQ)

14 Boker Tov Patriots

I got nothing. What new humiliation will biden subject the US to today?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2021 06:38 AM (GPwVZ)

15 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 01, 2021 06:39 AM (Gd0Mz)

16 Joe Biden's Shart Week

https://gab.com/Catturd

Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 06:39 AM (2xGy+)

17 11 JJ Sefton, thank you for the good work. The Morning Report is my newspaper of record.
Posted by: LostInSpace at November 01, 2021 06:37 AM (hhbVv)

**********

Same here. The WSJ (the editorial page, in particular) used to be my paper of record but I've moved past them as the paper of record.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 06:40 AM (xxG/v)

18 Some day I'm gonna understand how my glasses get so dirty while I'm sleeping.
Posted by: JT

gremlins.

Hi JT!
Posted by: Rosasharn

I suspected mice !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:41 AM (arJlL)

19 Hiya Rosasharn !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:41 AM (arJlL)

20 Good morning morons and thank you JJ

Yes, the critical differentiating factor is that we are all heavily armed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2021 06:41 AM (EZebt)

21 So the Karen screeching has persuaded Southwest Airlines to "investigate" the Lets Go Brandon announcement a pilot made the other day. Haha- good luck with that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 06:43 AM (ITJyK)

22 How much do Biden's diapers contribute to global warming?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 01, 2021 06:43 AM (cSyAR)

23 Turns Out Alexander "Bearclaw" Vindman is the Dopey Hack We All Thought He Was

Ace should get an award for naming him Bearclaw !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:43 AM (arJlL)

24

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 01, 2021 06:44 AM (K2SnJ)

25 Note that the image used herein is INCORRECT.

Do not squeeze the arm as the dose should go directly into the muscle of the deltoid area.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 06:44 AM (yrol0)

26 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 06:45 AM (OCTRt)

27 Yay another failure theater day tomorrow! Be sure to vote republican, we wouldn't want that dastardly democrat to win.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 06:45 AM (tp0J5)

28 The often-heard claim, for instance, that Americans essentially live in different countries is a disconnection from American reality -- a product of ... a "climate of opinion" that sees portents of civil war everywhere.
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Siegel was born in the Bronx, went to Columbia and went on to work for various magazines and papers. This helps contextualize some things. First is the academic difference without distinction in his thesis here. He argues that America's problems are not existential, but epistemological. We disagree, sometimes viciously, but we still share an existential basis as Americans.

I wonder if he has ever taken a road trip, let alone several. This country is vast and tied together by common Americanism, and this can - or could - be seen on your typical cross-country long haul. It started changing and the changes have been accelerating. There are still the major regional differences - the South is not the Midwest, etc. - but the greatest divide is now urban/rural or, likely more accurately, large/small. Most of our second-tier cities and small towns and rural areas are still in common with each other. The divide between them and the first-tier cities is huge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:45 AM (DU+/6)

29 Hiya, JT.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (DU+/6)

30 Has he ever heard of the dozens of people still held in the Garland Archipelago? Has he ever heard of people purged for their political views, i.e. "cancel culture?" I imagine he has heard of Ashli Babbit

You'd be surprised JJ, how many people have closed their ears to these facts. Lots of Americans just don't want to see the fascist totalitarians, operating in plain sight; they don't want to believe it is happening here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (ITJyK)

31 great write up as always JJ. oh side note, ordered your book from amazon yesterday can't wait to read it.

Posted by: SturmToddler, blitzkreig the leftists (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (8D42x)

32 If McAuliffe loses in Virginia they will pretend we should drop CRT (or not openly push for it everywhere) and listen to parents for a little while until this blows over. If he wins it will be open season on parents standing up to school boards.

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (MxEKc)

33 dam. I coulda been second, but I read the content.

Posted by: cicero skip at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (FIrEF)

34 An entire year has passed, and the GOP has not mounted any sort of offensive. They are still a bunch of quisling fucks too worried about upsetting the independents.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (tp0J5)

35 Hiya Mannix !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:47 AM (arJlL)

36 mornin yall. I can only hope that the Dems urgent spending bill negotiations go into 2022 and get committeed down to $1.49.

Posted by: f'd at November 01, 2021 06:47 AM (Tnijr)

37 An entire year has passed, and the GOP has not mounted any sort of offensive. They are still a bunch of quisling fucks too worried about upsetting the independents.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (tp0J5)
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I don't think the GOP are even collaborators doing what they need to do to maintain their positions under occupation. A generation back, maybe, but not anymore. Now they're just on the same side completely and share all the same common goals. There's a difference between a collaborator and an ally. Neither is acceptable, but one is worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:48 AM (DU+/6)

38 While Biden was pooping his pants, Trump was posing for pictures with hot blondes at Mar-a-Lago:

https://tinyurl.com/ym24t2c2

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 06:48 AM (xxG/v)

39 I just read an American Thinker article about McAuliffe. He is true pondscum.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 01, 2021 06:49 AM (cSyAR)

40 32 It'll be open season anyway. Hoover agents are already frothing at the mouth to do it. Well, minus the 99% good ham and Eggers who seem to be rolled by everything or something.

Posted by: Bete at November 01, 2021 06:49 AM (Ojki1)

41 Yeah, i'm going to vote in VA tomorrow. i hope it matters but i don't have a lot of faith in voting. and even when it does work, it seems that many on our side forget everything they ran on once they're in office.

so it might be a futile gesture, but i'll give it one more shot.

Posted by: SturmToddler, blitzkreig the leftists (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 06:49 AM (8D42x)

42 First Tier Cities are the least American places you can visit, and maybe your wallet will get out alive. Coffee.

Posted by: klaftern at November 01, 2021 06:50 AM (taPSh)

43 I wonder which Biden - during his drug-induced lucid periods - will like less. The massive, culture-wide, global popularity of "Fuck Joe Biden" and its hilarious meme counterpart of "Let's Go Brandon," or the perception (real or just for the LOLs - it doesn't much matter) that he's an incompetent globe-trotting pants-shitter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:51 AM (DU+/6)

44 While Biden was pooping his pants, Trump was posing for pictures with hot blondes at Mar-a-Lago:

But he pooped himself during a Papal audience; it wasn't just a routine pantspoop !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:51 AM (arJlL)

45 Mornin'! Here's to a week of kicking the school district completely to the curb and diving head first into school. Gonna need more covfefe!

Prayers up, Skip! Back pain is suffering that surely diminishes Purgatory time.

Have a great Monday, everyone, and thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at November 01, 2021 06:52 AM (XnnHY)

46 "The FDA Failed In Its Duty To Children" is another infuriating fact about this government. To require this vax for children simply to satisfy the Teachers Unions is an abomination. The death of every young myocarditis victim is blood on the hands of teachers, especially their union leaders.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 06:53 AM (ITJyK)

47 I just saw this about FascistBook's new corporate name and I am wondering if it is true: In Hebrew, does meta mean dead?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 06:53 AM (xxG/v)

48 Remember when Bush 41 hurled at a state dinner and it was news for weeks and everyone was hand-wringing about the perceptions of the American President worldwide and how it was a veritable crisis of leadership?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:53 AM (DU+/6)

49 Wait, he isn't poop Francis?

Well shit.

Posted by: Bidet, resident in chrf at November 01, 2021 06:53 AM (Ojki1)

50 Hiya Catherine !

(are you no cuss Catherine ?)

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:54 AM (arJlL)

51 Good morning horde
I can tell it's Monday

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 01, 2021 06:54 AM (TtR39)

52 What did Vindman do besides the obvious? Is there something new?

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 01, 2021 06:54 AM (DcKNO)

53 "What happens when thousands of Chicago or New York cops are all let go? What about teachers and garbagemen and janitors and electricians?"

Ok. Yeah. But what happens when all the techs and software devs that maintain the systems that count your money join them?

You are here...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at November 01, 2021 06:54 AM (MkuC5)

54 Does Air Force 1 have an adult size changing table?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 01, 2021 06:55 AM (cSyAR)

55 JJ

Link for the Coon quote on Maher:

https://tinyurl.com/6hh8hx95

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 06:55 AM (yrol0)

56 That's enough content to take hours out of my day.
Thanks but I've GOT to get some painting done.

Posted by: torabora at November 01, 2021 06:55 AM (qbjcJ)

57 Hiya Skiop !

Are you having back pain ?

See a chiropractor !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:56 AM (arJlL)

58 38 While Biden was pooping his pants, Trump was posing for pictures with hot blondes at Mar-a-Lago:
===============

Warning: that link goes to Facebook-owned Instagram.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 06:57 AM (ITJyK)

59 let's go brandon
F joe biden
let's go brandon

Posted by: vmom's blood soaked claws at November 01, 2021 06:57 AM (YZG/i)

60 55 JJ

Link for the Coon quote on Maher:

https://tinyurl.com/6hh8hx95
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 06:55 AM (yrol0)

Fixed. Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 06:58 AM (s2VJv)

61 An interesting trend in Morning Reports over the past year or so, accelerating recently, is the thematic distribution of articles. At this point, there is staggering overlap between one category and two others. Much of what's in the "Education, and What Passes For it" section could easily be sent to the "Culture Wars, National Suicide" or the "Feminazism, Trangender Psychosis, Homosexulaization, War or Masuculinity/Normalcy" section (or cross-posted between them). JJ has started doing this to some degree, including today.

Those three sections have become a Venn Diagram, with the culture war and sex politics circles now essentially fully covering the education circle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:58 AM (DU+/6)

62 Good morning all. I wonder if the Punk pulls this off and I think he will, how many parents will pull their kids out of the public schools?

Posted by: BeatleJewells45#FJB at November 01, 2021 06:59 AM (nxdel)

63 let's go brandon
F joe biden
let's go brandon
Posted by: vmom's blood soaked claws at November 01, 2021 06:57 AM (YZG/i)

i was hearing the let's go brandon chant on fox's pregame for the world series last night. had a hearty laugh about it.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:00 AM (8D42x)

64 47 I just saw this about FascistBook's new corporate name and I am wondering if it is true: In Hebrew, does meta mean dead?
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 06:53 AM (xxG/v)

Actually, it does. Met or Meta mean dead/dying.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (s2VJv)

65 There is no common bond.
Divorce.
We want a divorce.

Posted by: First Time? Hold My Montrachet... at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (z0Qxu)

66 Shamelessness allows London Breed to say that Walgreen's is closing stores because there are too many damn Walgreen's, and NO ONE in the media points out her utter stupidity.

The streets are safer with fewer cops and more criminals.

Oil prices are higher because OPEC is holding back oil.

Inflation is high because Americans buy too much.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (EZebt)

67 I just read an American Thinker article about McAuliffe. He is true pondscum.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 01, 2021 06:49 AM (cSyAR)

The ne plus ultra of pond scum, always rising to the top.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (4I/2K)

68 @37

>>Now they're just on the same side completely and share all the same common goals.

They are subcontractors who have gotten drunk on prevailing wage i.e. graft and corruption and just want to keep the crooked game going.

They are not the answer to any of our problems.

Alternatively...

They are a useless pile of dogshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (QuTE8)

69 I have no faith left in the Supreme Court. No matter the issue before it. By all accounts, Kavanaugh and Barrett appear to be abysmal choices. And now we're stuck with them until they die or leave the bench on their own accord.

Posted by: Lady in Black Magic at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (sVtYq)

70 61 Those three sections have become a Venn Diagram, with the culture war and sex politics circles now essentially fully covering the education circle.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:58 AM (DU+/6)

THIS. I have often said that so many things you assume are not connected are all interconnected and in some cases very closely.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (s2VJv)

71 The only thing Biden accomplished at G20 meeting was to get endorsement of his "minimum tax" idea. Of course, every country will ignore the agreement as soon as they leave town. The whole announcement was BS, including "and" and "or".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (ITJyK)

72 /Halloween nic

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (sVtYq)

73 I watched some local news this morning and the local NBC affiliate ran a segment on employment that they called, "The Big Quit." It's about how resignations have been accelerating over the past year. They called out some reasons which are surely true but I suspect not primary - things like crises shifting preferences, wanting better work/life balance, people looking at a major disaster like COVID and realizing they want to do something different, etc.

They didn't mention corporate culture, though, and I suspect that's a biggie. No one wants to work for someone who hates him. And America's corporations (and essentially all organizations over around 100 people) have made it clear that if you're not a woke-ass leftist, they hate you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (DU+/6)

74
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (/U27+)

75 Does anyone know if Brandon *actually* shat himself in front of Pontiff?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (7Fj9P)

76 With all the hand wringing and pearl clutching and fainting by the MSM over "Lets Go Brandon" has any of them bothered to ask:

1. Why it is so popular?

2. Why do so many people feel it's necessary to use a 'code" to say what they think?

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (MxEKc)

77 Sorry about not including the Instagram/FascistBook warning.

I'll remember to do so next time!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (xxG/v)

78 Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application.

If it worked for Liawatha, why not?

If a system can be gamed, play the game!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (yrol0)

79 Be gone Halloween nic.

Posted by: Jewells45#FJB at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (nxdel)

80 .... They are a useless pile of dogshit.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (QuTE

++++
No argument from me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (DU+/6)

81 Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (EZebt)
====================
Yeah, so?

Posted by: Ministry Of Truth at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (ITJyK)

82 Morning peeps.

Not only has America shit itself on the world stage but the unelected leader has as well. At least there's consistency where there's incontinency.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2021 07:04 AM (BFigT)

83 If a red southern state secedes, I will immediately buy a house there and move. Hoping for Texas or Florida. My current home state of GA is lost.

Posted by: Ironwood at November 01, 2021 07:04 AM (6YMId)

84 Good Morning, and thanks for the news J.J.

I can't believe I'm even saying this, but I'm still not sure I will vote tomorrow in VA. I promised myself that I would never vote for another Gope (rino) again after they stabbed us all in the back. But here we are once again, with the drumbeats of "we have to hold our nose to vote for the lesser evil" I find it hard to pull the lever for someone who pretty much refuses to say Trump's name, and thinks the election of 2020 was perfectly fine. And to be honest, I'm not sure any of it matters anymore since they have perfected the cheat. This is really sad for me because I have been very active in politics for over 30+ years, never missing an election

Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:04 AM (Up/Jb)

85 [Lee Siegel:] "The often-heard claim, for instance, that Americans essentially live in different countries is a disconnection from American reality ..."

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Well, somebody is disconnected from reality.

Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at November 01, 2021 07:05 AM (MtGJh)

86
The Democrats have a slim majority in the House and are tied in the Senate. Do you think that stops them from trying to pass the most lunatic legislation? They're not like the GOP. They don't care. They just keep plowing on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 01, 2021 07:05 AM (/U27+)

87 An entire year has passed, and the GOP has not mounted any sort of offensive. They are still a bunch of quisling fucks too worried about upsetting the independents.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (tp0J5)

The message I am receiving is that the national GOPe does not want my vote.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:05 AM (4I/2K)

88 I am a native American. I was born in Florida.

Posted by: f'd at November 01, 2021 07:05 AM (Tnijr)

89 Those three sections have become a Venn Diagram, with the culture war and sex politics circles now essentially fully covering the education circle.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 06:58 AM (DU+/6)
===
Pick any of several of Anthony Burgess' novels.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2021 07:05 AM (EZebt)

90 Does anyone know if Brandon *actually* shat himself in front of Pontiff?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

We'll have to wait for DOCTOR Jill's book to come out.

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:05 AM (arJlL)

91 I have no faith left in the Supreme Court. No matter the issue before it. By all accounts, Kavanaugh and Barrett appear to be abysmal choices. And now we're stuck with them until they die or leave the bench on their own accord.
Posted by: Lady in Black Magic at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (sVtYq)

It is amazing that the court passes on things that require quick decisions and then basically announces "what does it matter now?" by the time they hear the cases. Or they issue the ever prevalent "no standing" ruling. Meanwhile, on things we do win, they offer tailored decisions that guarantee continued lawsuits. Plus they allow Hawaiian judges to issue national injunctions. Yeah, SCOTUS is trash.

Posted by: WiNO at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (EpDzw)

92 Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application.

If it worked for Liawatha, why not?

If a system can be gamed, play the game!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (yrol0)

i'm liking this idea more and more.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (8D42x)

93 Vindman swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.

Vindman lied.

Posted by: torabora at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (qbjcJ)

94 Oh, The Federalist Society is worthless.

Posted by: WiNO at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (EpDzw)

95 Thanks, JJ!

An appropriate name for FascistBook and I can't help but to wonder about Zuckerberg's state-of-mind even more after he's chosen this name, given that he must understand Hebrew.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (xxG/v)

96 From Operation: Marriage Material link:

Style: Modesty = elegance. You don't need to be in full abaya, but please hide your belly button, the lower half of your buttocks, and any underboobs. I reject and disavow those atrocious g-string style bikini bottoms! Easier just to take a sharpie and write a big H and an O on each butt cheek, dear.

If this offends you, enjoy dying alone with your cats and your shriveled, sun-damaged behind.

Hah! Nice.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (Do5/p)

97 I thought the mandate in NYC started Fri. My mistake.

Posted by: Infidel at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (QC3yT)

98 92 Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application.
If it worked for Liawatha, why not?
If a system can be gamed, play the game!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (yrol0)

i'm liking this idea more and more.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (8D42x)

========

Who are you to say that its not their truth?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:07 AM (LvTSG)

99 Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application.

If it worked for Liawatha, why not?

If a system can be gamed, play the game!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:03 AM (yrol0)

I have a chart in a WWII book somewhere that can be modified to determine ancestry.

Posted by: WiNO at November 01, 2021 07:07 AM (EpDzw)

100 Go vote spypeach. It's the only tool you have, albeit broken. Like a hammer with a broken handle, it still works, just not very well.

Posted by: f'd at November 01, 2021 07:07 AM (Tnijr)

101 I have no faith left in the Supreme Court. No matter the issue before it. By all accounts, Kavanaugh and Barrett appear to be abysmal choices. And now we're stuck with them until they die or leave the bench on their own accord.
Posted by: Lady in Black Magic at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (sVtYq)

They also, are the ne plus ultra of pond scum.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:08 AM (4I/2K)

102 With all the hand wringing and pearl clutching and fainting by the MSM over "Lets Go Brandon" has any of them bothered to ask:
1. Why it is so popular?
2. Why do so many people feel it's necessary to use a 'code" to say what they think?
Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 07:02 AM (MxEKc)
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Of course. Analysis of prevailing trend is vital to any journalism enterprise or effort. This requires great analysis, which is under way. But this is not just a journalism requirement, it needs to be studied by psychologists. It is still generally early, but it appears to be a classic case of psychological projection. The people chanting "Let's Go Brandon" and it's foul-mouthed progenitor know that they - not the government - is to blame for much of the disaster with which we are now afflicted. They are protecting their own psyches by lashing out at a symbol onto which they project their own internalized mental damage. Those same people use "code" because they still have notions of decorum and decency that their nascent fugue states have not yet been able to erase.

To tackle the "Let's Go Brandon" problem, we need to tackle the root cause psychological damage amongst its chanters.

Posted by: Your Kid's Psychology Professor at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (DU+/6)

103 NJ people would be out of their minds to reelect Murphy. But I've come to realize there are far too many who want to have others tell them what they can and can't do as if they're children, who want their every movement directed and choreographed by a faceless group of dirtbag elected officials, who trust everything they're told by their "betters," who easily look past the crimes and gross hypocrisy of those same "betters" and see nothing wrong with it. You just can't fix that kind of stupid. I feel for the Horde who are stuck there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (sVtYq)

104
I absentee voted here in Pennsylvania. Too lazy to stand in line at the polls for an 'off year' election. No kids in the school system, but I did vote against the two (D)'s running for reelection to the school board.

Even if they've done an okay job of keeping the CRT and LGB stuff out of this school system so far...

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (dQvv7)

105 From Operation: Marriage Material link:

Style: Modesty = elegance. You don't need to be in full abaya, but please hide your belly button, the lower half of your buttocks, and any underboobs. I reject and disavow those atrocious g-string style bikini bottoms! Easier just to take a sharpie and write a big H and an O on each butt cheek, dear.

If this offends you, enjoy dying alone with your cats and your shriveled, sun-damaged behind.

Hah! Nice.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (Do5/p)

Whew! Side boobs are still okay.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (4I/2K)

106 I can't believe I'm even saying this, but I'm still not sure I will vote tomorrow in VA. I promised myself that I would never vote for another Gope (rino) again after they stabbed us all in the back. But here we are once again, with the drumbeats of "we have to hold our nose to vote for the lesser evil" I find it hard to pull the lever for someone who pretty much refuses to say Trump's name, and thinks the election of 2020 was perfectly fine. And to be honest, I'm not sure any of it matters anymore since they have perfected the cheat. This is really sad for me because I have been very active in politics for over 30+ years, never missing an election
Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:04 AM (Up/Jb)

spypeach, has youngkin not said anything about trump? I've seen numerous mcauliffe adds highlighting him saying he's in the trump mold and pretty sure at least one of them you can hear youngkin saying he's a trump republican or similar.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (8D42x)

107 I do think the idea that Russia and Saudi Arabia, and other major producers are not going to pump more oil so people can have gasoline to get to and from work, for example, is not right, Biden said

LETS GO BRANDON

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:10 AM (yrol0)

108 So at the G20 in Italy, Grandpa Diddlefingers said he'd make the trains run on time. In Italy. I'm running out of palms to facepalm with.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:11 AM (j+u5i)

109 Low Characters in Ludicrous Situations

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That sounds like a country and western song.

Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at November 01, 2021 07:12 AM (MtGJh)

110 Forgive me if you know this already, but the ostensible sports writers at Sports Nation work for Markos Molitsas, better known as "Kos" of Daily Kos.

In addition to his communist screed site, Daily Kos, he is an internet entrepreneur.

That's why you can find shocking stuff like that comment about Trump at those sites.

Posted by: Ministry Of Truth at November 01, 2021 07:12 AM (ITJyK)

111 It is amazing that the court passes on things that require quick decisions and then basically announces "what does it matter now?" by the time they hear the cases. Or they issue the ever prevalent "no standing" ruling. Meanwhile, on things we do win, they offer tailored decisions that guarantee continued lawsuits. Plus they allow Hawaiian judges to issue national injunctions. Yeah, SCOTUS is trash.

Posted by: WiNO at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM

Yep. Which is ridiculously depressing, since this has been *the* issue for why the GOPe has been telling us for decades now that we need to keep voting for them. To get conservative justices on the court.

So all those years we have been setting our principles aside and just voting for the lesser of two evils GOPe stooge in the Senate in order to try to get conservative justices has resulted in nothing. Instead of being able to say "well, the GOPe fucked us on every single political issue, but at least we have conservative justices", we're sitting here having been fucked on every single issue and having a trash SCOTUS. Brilliant.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (Do5/p)

112 From the Siegel piece:
But the simple fact is that one judge after another struck down Trump's legal efforts to prove fraud and overturn the election, and one attempt after another by Trump's people to demonstrate the validity of his claims outside the courtroom failed.
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True, but he utterly fails to assess why people - people who are fairly reasonable in general - don't care about that. Sure, the courts all said "nothing to see here, get out of my courtroom" but why doesn't that matter? Why does the court (the judicial systems generally) have no gravitas? Why do people increasingly not equate judicial decisions with justice or truth?

Siegel needs to consider that question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (DU+/6)

113 The instant a struggling nation realizes adopting a lower tax rate than the others manifests their own economic boomlet, the tax cartel will start to crack.

Same as OPEC.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (4I/2K)

114 I've heard too many near retirement age public servants in these mandate cities not to wonder if the real purpose of the mandate is to avoid paying the pensions these bankrupt blue cities cannot pay. Why else would "essential workers" who faced and avoided infection for nearly two years now be required to get a vaccine they apparently don't need?

Posted by: itsacookbook at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (yPxXc)

115 An appropriate name for FascistBook and I can't help but to wonder about Zuckerberg's state-of-mind even more after he's chosen this name, given that he must understand Hebrew.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 07:06 AM (xxG/v)

well, he's just as normal as the rest of us. who doesn't keep a bottle of sweet baby ray's on the nearest shelf?

other than Ace, since that's probably too much weight for the unstable shelving...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (8D42x)

116 Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (sVtYq)

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Yeah what she said!

Looking down on New Jersey is a vice I will never give up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (EZebt)

117 I promised myself that I would never vote for another Gope (rino) again after they stabbed us all in the back. But here we are once again, with the drumbeats of "we have to hold our nose to vote for the lesser evil

I'd suggest you consider the man and decide based on that.

From my view Youngkin doesn't look like a Cheney, and McAwful will bring pain to you and yours personally if elected if he is able.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (ESjRY)

118 Forgive me if you know this already, but the ostensible sports writers at Sports Nation work for Markos Molitsas, better known as "Kos" of Daily Kos.

And the popular SB Nation blog aggregator is a Vox Media thing, although they're pretty open about it.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (y+iNp)

119 112 True, but he utterly fails to assess why people - people who are fairly reasonable in general - don't care about that. Sure, the courts all said "nothing to see here, get out of my courtroom" but why doesn't that matter? Why does the court (the judicial systems generally) have no gravitas? Why do people increasingly not equate judicial decisions with justice or truth?

Siegel needs to consider that question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM (DU+/6)

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"Because racism."
-Siegel

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (LvTSG)

120
This is really sad for me because I have been very active in politics for over 30+ years, never missing an election

Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:04 AM

Please vote, the data is important for comparison next year to reveal fraud.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (dQvv7)

121 Low Characters in Ludicrous Situations

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That sounds like a country and western song.
Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at November 01, 2021 07:12 AM (MtGJh)

Think I'll slip on down to the Oasis.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (4I/2K)

122 Does anyone know if Brandon *actually* shat himself in front of Pontiff?
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

Demons trying to escape.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 01, 2021 07:15 AM (cSyAR)

123 So at the G20 in Italy, Grandpa Diddlefingers said he'd make the trains run on time. In Italy. I'm running out of palms to facepalm with.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:11 AM (j+u5i)

oMG, he didn't really say that did he?

ffs...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:15 AM (8D42x)

124 spypeach, has youngkin not said anything about trump? I've seen numerous mcauliffe adds highlighting him saying he's in the trump mold and pretty sure at least one of them you can hear youngkin saying he's a trump republican or similar.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:09 AM (8D42x)

He has done pretty much everything, as far as I can tell, to distance himself from Trump. I think it's only recently that he "appears" to be "okay" with Trump. He's a typical Rino, he will be better than McAwful, but I'm not sure how much.

Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:15 AM (Up/Jb)

125 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:15 AM (Zz0t1)

126 The left has ruined the world. Period.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:16 AM (Zz0t1)

127 NJ people would be out of their minds to reelect Murphy. But I've come to realize there are far too many who want to have others tell them what they can and can't do as if they're children, who want their every movement directed and choreographed by a faceless group of dirtbag elected officials
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This. Democrats and dead people vote for complete dirtbag candidates, like Governor Ferret, out of habit. If he wins by less than a 12 % margin, it is a Republican victory. Of course, even the Republican here is a Democrat in most other states. That's why NJ has the highest taxes in the nation, toughest gun laws, and an absolutely terrible economy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:16 AM (ITJyK)

128 Putin on pumping more oil

"Let's Go Brandon"

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 07:17 AM (MxEKc)

129 He has done pretty much everything, as far as I can tell, to distance himself from Trump. I think it's only recently that he "appears" to be "okay" with Trump. He's a typical Rino, he will be better than McAwful, but I'm not sure how much.
Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:15 AM (Up/Jb)

fair enough. tbh ,i'm torn on the use of voting anyway so i haven't looked hard. i know, i know, i should care, but like you said, between the gope and nova, i'm not sure it's going to matter a lot.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:17 AM (8D42x)

130 >>I've heard too many near retirement age public servants in these mandate cities not to wonder if the real purpose of the mandate is to avoid paying the pensions these bankrupt blue cities cannot pay.

This is my empathy level for urban center public servants-

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Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 07:17 AM (2xGy+)

131 "Everything the woke touches turns to shit."

Truer words have never been spoken.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 01, 2021 07:17 AM (DcKNO)

132 Hey, I agree with you that crt is bad, but we have an election coming up next year and we don't want to upset the independents. We will address it after the midterms.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:18 AM (b9shC)

133 From my view Youngkin doesn't look like a Cheney, and McAwful will bring pain to you and yours personally if elected if he is able.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (ESjRY)

Unless he has the balls of Desantis, I'm not sure he can stop any of the pain that's already being inflicted via the Vaccine mandates.

Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:18 AM (Up/Jb)

134 Item five in the marriage article - mindset - is the key to the whole affair. Everything else flows from that change. "I want a husband and family and want to keep both" has to be step one. That is comparatively rare. A lot of women want to get married. Far fewer want to be married, and the longer it takes to get to "get married" the worse the outcomes are. Age of first marriage continues rising, and continues correlating with higher divorce rates.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:18 AM (DU+/6)

135 The left has ruined the world. Period.

Each American taxpayer has paid about a mil since the end of the cold war. And almost all of it was wasted.

Imagine what the world looks like if some proto-Trump, with budget cutting chops. was elected in 1992?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:18 AM (ESjRY)

136 NJ people would be out of their minds to reelect Murphy. But I've come to realize there are far too many who want to have others tell them what they can and can't do as if they're children, who want their every movement directed and choreographed by a faceless group of dirtbag elected officials

That's what you get when you don't want to grow up.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:19 AM (OCTRt)

137
Oopsie! Vote totals not available until late next week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 01, 2021 07:19 AM (/U27+)

138 just saw this about FascistBook's new corporate name and I am wondering if it is true: In Hebrew, does meta mean dead?
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 01, 2021 06:53 AM (xxG/v)

Actually, it does. Met or Meta mean dead/dying.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (s2VJv)

Amongst everything else, zukerprick is not a very good Jew and never was.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2021 07:19 AM (GPwVZ)

139 This is my empathy level for urban center public servants-
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Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 07:17 AM (2xGy+)
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You must have had some great experiences with them to rate them so highly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:20 AM (DU+/6)

140 JT nothing unusual, but was 2 hrs lost finding out what I am supposed to do

Posted by: Skip's Phone at November 01, 2021 07:20 AM (TtR39)

141 I will be at the voting booth in NJ tomorrow by 6AM

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2021 07:20 AM (GPwVZ)

142 Regulatory Capture on Steroids

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As a prisoner in my own land now, that term has taken on a whole new meaning ...

Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at November 01, 2021 07:20 AM (MtGJh)

143 "Biden also said during the press conference he would do more to stop government subsidies for oil production and spend more funding on subsidies for green energy."
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When does he suggest that we just run our power plants by burning dollar bills? They're green, and at the rate he's inflating, will soon be worthless.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 07:21 AM (7X3UV)

144 NJ people would be out of their minds to reelect Murphy

There are plenty of people that WANT to be abused by their governor, but it is the people that in a couple of months will ask why they have to get a clot shot, or why their taxes went up, or why the guy that broke into their car got released with no charges that boggle my mind.

We have way too many voters that don't get that who they vote for actually has an impact on their lives.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:21 AM (ESjRY)

145 Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:04 AM (Up/Jb)

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Most of us here can relate, trust me. But after Nov. 3rd, one thing I did tell myself was that the only thing left was for me to vote in local and state elections. As we've all seen, a D governor can and will do tremendous damage. And that will affect you directly and in a much more immediate way. Will this guy be DeSantis? No, I see no sign of that. But McAwful will bring incredible disaster to VA. There's no doubt about it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:21 AM (sVtYq)

146 Murphy will most likely win in NJ
The sheeple here love being ruled over,
The press never holds him accountable and the GOP likes to lose with respect and dignity ala McCain and Romney.

Posted by: McCool at November 01, 2021 07:22 AM (BqBIh)

147
Actually, it does. Met or Meta mean dead/dying.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 07:01 AM (s2VJv)

Amongst everything else, zukerprick is not a very good Jew and never was.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2021 07:19 AM (GPwVZ)

He's forecasting.

Because the world is dying, not from 'climate change' but from vaccination and government overreach.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:22 AM (Zz0t1)

148 @103

>>NJ people would be out of their minds to reelect Murphy.

Murphy will win in a walk.

The demographics no longer support a GOP statewide victory.

We've also been "early voting" for two weeks so that's lot of time to manufacture a margin of victory.

As has been said, If Murphy and or Youngkin win, I'll eat my cummerbund.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:22 AM (QuTE8)

149 Dr. Jeffrey Horak was interviewed on Tucker Carlson recently, and I forget who posted the video but it was outstanding. A modest man, and hopeful for change, he was literally fired for Wrong-Think, but he nears no ill-will against his hospital employer or his town. He hopes they have sufficient replacement surgical care.

Inspiring man.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:22 AM (ITJyK)

150 Artists, [Madonna] told V Magazine, should "disturb the peace," adding that anyone who questions the narratives regarding the pandemic are punished.
"There's no debate, there's no discussion ... I want to disturb the fact that we're not encouraged to discuss it. I believe that our job is to disturb the status quo."
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Well, your job is to entertain. First and foremost. But she isn't wrong that "cancel culture" is artistically stultifying. Add into it the increasing use of AI (I can't prove it, but I certainly suspect it) in the music business, and you get cookie-cutter sameness across the board. It's boring and pointless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:23 AM (DU+/6)

151 Item five in the marriage article - mindset - is the key to the whole affair. Everything else flows from that change. "I want a husband and family and want to keep both" has to be step one. That is comparatively rare. A lot of women want to get married. Far fewer want to be married, and the longer it takes to get to "get married" the worse the outcomes are. Age of first marriage continues rising, and continues correlating with higher divorce rates.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:18 AM (DU+/6)

Marriage requires compromise on both sides if it is to work.

The longer someone lives "my life, my way", the less likely they are to going to be open to changing that life.

It's not just "wanting" to be married or have kiddos, it's having the flexibility to hang in there for the long haul. Bend not break and all that.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2021 07:23 AM (5NkmN)

152 Question for the gun savvy hordlings:

If you are an online gunstore/accoutrements seller, and you are out of guns, powder & primers, do you still have employees come to work?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:24 AM (OCTRt)

153 As has been said, If Murphy and or Youngkin win,
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you mean "Ciaterelli" not Murphy. I wouldn't correct you on such a minor point but you don;t want to have to eat a cummerbund

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:24 AM (ITJyK)

154 Madonna Slams Cancel Culture, Connects All the Vital Dots in the Process
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I wouldn't call her "creative" except in a secondary sense. What she is, is an instinctive cash cow.

That makes this a good sign. If Madonna is slamming cancel culture, it means she sees which way the tide has turned. I don't put that much weight on it, but it's something.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 07:24 AM (7X3UV)

155
Murphy will most likely win in NJ

Posted by: McCool at November 01, 2021 07:22 AM

Rated: False

A democrat governor has not won reelection in more then half a century in New Jersey.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (dQvv7)

156 If Youngkin were to pull off a win would the VA legislature work with him, or against him?

The answer to that question is key to whether or not voting in the first place is worthwhile.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (BFigT)

157 Healthy science is people constantly trying to disprove each other, and accepting that new data invalidates their theories.

What we have now is no different then what the Soviets had under Lysenko.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (ESjRY)

158 NPR is freaking out because the US is still exporting oil even though we made commitments to curb CO2 emissions. So, because we made the commitment, we should stop exporting oil to force other countries to curb emissions. Also, there are no other known uses for oil that the reporterette was taught in j school, so obviously none exist, or the answer is unknowable.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (b9shC)

159 I'm not smart enough to connect the dots but it was clear to me many years ago that state and local pensions systems were completely fubar'd, a legacy of a financial system and tax base that died a long time ago. The obligations are there, the money is not, and isn't coming back. Combined with the federal "dumpster fire on brown acid" economic policies it is clear that they are planning for a default or renege on debt or epic fail of some kind. It is inevitable, the only question is how it will he handled.

The lockdowns and purges, this is part of it I'm sure of that.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (uSkUN)

160 Watching clips of the Biden administration hacks on the Sunday talking hack shows pontificating the economy shutting down is a natural outcome of the Covid-19 pandemic and because of that there is zero that can be done to fix the epic supply chain meltdown that has resulted in shelves full of Biden and runaway inflation. Short version, not our fault and it is unreasonable to expect that they can fix it anytime soon. I think it fair to point out that the economy 10 months ago was the strongest it has ever been and that it only took them 10 months to bring it to a grinding halt. The reason the economy has collapsed and will remain collapsed is it suits their political purposes. This is all about degrading the free economy and replacing it with centrally controlled economy run by the Uniparty. This loopy multi trillion dollar phony infrastructure bill is the opening gambit to make this happen. Let's Go Brandon.

Posted by: LostInSpace at November 01, 2021 07:26 AM (ESLBo)

161 ... The longer someone lives "my life, my way", the less likely they are to going to be open to changing that life. ...
Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2021 07:23 AM (5NkmN)
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Yup. Marriage is restricting. What once was one now is two (and then three plus) and all the rules change. It isn't for nothing, there's a reason that married people are richer and live longer, too - but it is limiting and different and is an increasingly hard sell and decreasingly successful the longer it takes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:26 AM (DU+/6)

162 @153

>>you mean "Ciaterelli" not Murphy. I wouldn't correct you on such a minor point but you don;t want to have to eat a cummerbund

Yes, I completely bollixed that one.

I'm recovering from a cold so I'm going to blame that on TheraFlu.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:26 AM (QuTE8)

163 American culture tells women that they can have everything. A C Level job, two perfect kids, and a husband that can literally read their minds to give them everything they want - and that if you don't have that its probably the husband's fault.

This is...not healthy.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:27 AM (ESjRY)

164 154 That makes this a good sign. If Madonna is slamming cancel culture, it means she sees which way the tide has turned. I don't put that much weight on it, but it's something.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 07:24 AM (7X3UV)

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It probably means that the pillars of the cultural left have realized that cancel culture actually affects them more than people on the right. The powerful people on the right are far less likely to give a shit that they are trending negatively on Twitter, so they're less likely to bow to the mob.

It's predominantly the big people on the left who are more in danger. Their publicity people urge instant acquiescence because it could hurt the fanbase that they actually care about.

Until a leftist revolution actually takes complete control, the most in danger of falling to the leftist revolution are other people on the left.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:27 AM (LvTSG)

165 We have way too many voters that don't get that who they vote for actually has an impact on their lives.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:21 AM (ESjRY)
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This fact amazes me; voters simply do not connect the dots. They vote as a virtue signal, and then are outraged when their totalitarian candidate does totalitarian stuff.

Ignorance is killing our country, which is why we have a bigger problem than just the Democrat party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:27 AM (ITJyK)

166 Last night, was nice. We had to most kiddos show up in years for Trick or Treat. Mostly young so they were cute and the parents were having fun too.

No one wore a COVID mask as well. It was nice to see the children smiling. So, I guess the whole mask thing is mostly a dead issue here in Texas.

Advantage: The Lone Star State.

Then about the time the Dallas game came on the flood became a trickle. Priorities, people!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2021 07:27 AM (5NkmN)

167 oMG, he didn't really say that did he?

ffs...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at November 01, 2021 07:15 AM (8D42x)

Video of Joey Choo-Choo "making the trains run on time": https://tinyurl.com/bmvtp68w

Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:27 AM (wItF4)

168 Healthy science is people constantly trying to disprove each other, and accepting that new data invalidates their theories.

What we have now is no different then what the Soviets had under Lysenko.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (ESjRY)
++++
Science itself is disproof. You don't prove anything using the scientific method, you demonstrate congruence with your hypothesis and hope nobody comes around and disproves what you thought was right. Disproof is the heart and soul of the scientific process. Without disproof, it isn't science.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:28 AM (DU+/6)

169 We want a divorce.

The problem of course is that like a demented ex, they will never accept the divorce and keep demanding that we care for them. And the only restraining order they will understand is measured in caliber.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 01, 2021 07:28 AM (4olE8)

170 156 If Youngkin were to pull off a win would the VA legislature work with him, or against him?

The answer to that question is key to whether or not voting in the first place is worthwhile.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (BFigT)

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If Youngkin becomes governor, the House of Burgesses are going to be very different next year as well. I think it's actually far more likely that the House changes hands than the governorship since it's much harder to rig enough of the key 100 seats than it would be to ballot box stuff in a handful of places to ensure a statewide victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:28 AM (LvTSG)

171 Until a leftist revolution actually takes complete control, the most in danger of falling to the leftist revolution are other people on the left.

"It's not great afterwards, either" - Trotsky

Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:28 AM (wItF4)

172 I'm already entirely sick of the shift to "climate crises" from the "Covid crises."

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 01, 2021 07:29 AM (DcKNO)

173 This fact amazes me; voters simply do not connect the dots. They vote as a virtue signal, and then are outraged when their totalitarian candidate does totalitarian stuff.

I constantly have blue state LIVs telling me they are shocked, shocked, that the Dems they vote for are corrupt and do things that make their lives worse.

But next election...they pull the same lever...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:29 AM (ESjRY)

174 Happy Monday, horde!

>>We need sensible knife control, because if it saves just one life . . .

I know you're kidding, but this is how you get UK knife control policies where they proudly tweet out a picture of their confiscated weapons stash that includes butter knives, common household scissors and a spoon.

Guns and knives don't kill people, people kill people, and removing one type of weapon only means they'll find another. This tryly psycho dude in Japan stabbed, then sprayed acod, and the set the train on fire.

What we need is an insane* person control policy.

*the ones that used to be committed until "caring" progressive policy made sure they ended up on the streets.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 07:29 AM (bDqIh)

175 I'm already entirely sick of the shift to "climate crises" from the "Covid crises."

I'm hoping at this climate summit thing that Greta confronts Biden and he visibly shits himself. Bonus points if it somehow sprays on her.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:30 AM (wItF4)

176 "Someone in Vermont is just as likely to be listening, say, to country and western music as someone in Texas"

I live in Texas and listen to country music. People who say "country and western" either think the Sons of the Pioneers are still at the top of the hit parade or are just plain clueless and/or both.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at November 01, 2021 07:30 AM (eKhRG)

177 Watching clips of the Biden administration hacks on the Sunday talking hack shows pontificating the economy shutting down is a natural outcome of the Covid-19 pandemic and because of that there is zero that can be done to fix the epic supply chain meltdown that has resulted in shelves full of Biden and runaway inflation. Short version, not our fault and it is unreasonable to expect that they can fix it anytime soon. I think it fair to point out that the economy 10 months ago was the strongest it has ever been and that it only took them 10 months to bring it to a grinding halt. The reason the economy has collapsed and will remain collapsed is it suits their political purposes. This is all about degrading the free economy and replacing it with centrally controlled economy run by the Uniparty. This loopy multi trillion dollar phony infrastructure bill is the opening gambit to make this happen. Let's Go Brandon.
Posted by: LostInSpace at November 01, 2021 07:26 AM (ESLBo)

Why, it would take a magic wand or somesuch to set things right.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:30 AM (4I/2K)

178 Why does the court (the judicial systems generally) have no gravitas? Why do people increasingly not equate judicial decisions with justice or truth?

Siegel needs to consider that question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:13 AM

I remember Mark Levin's interview on Rush Limbaugh's show years ago when he was reviewing his book, Men In Black. Levin pointed out that the SCOTUS has a history of really bad people being justices and a history of really bad decisions. Segregation, internment camps, "wall of separation", abortion. All deemed "constitutional".

So yeah, I think people are finally waking up to the fact that the courts, like everything else in the country, are corrupt and worthless when it comes to justice and truth.

https://bit.ly/3mzto1A

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 07:31 AM (Do5/p)

179 Also, yesterday was my first Halloween in a place where I could get trick-or-treaters. I used to live in a basement apartment with the door around back, so nobody came. Before that I lived ground-level but still around back - so same problem. Now I live on a street and above ground like a normal person, so I got a couple of cheap decorations and some candy and hoped for some visitors.

I got 'em. It was nice. Normal. The older kids - the ones on the cusp of being too old to trick-or-treat anymore - were surly, the little kids were cute as hell, and most of them came on their own to ring the bell and get the treats. Their parents stood up on the street and watched to make sure everything was okay (and waved and shouted greetings), but the kids were by and large expected to go do it themselves.

It was nice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:31 AM (DU+/6)

180 Rated: False

A democrat governor has not won reelection in more then half a century in New Jersey.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 07:25 AM (dQvv7)
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The second point is absolutely correct, which is slightly amazing given how screwed up the state is, but proves the Uniparty theory I guess (no difference between the parties, here). Anyway, the first point is wrong: Murphy is well in the lead and nearly everyone expects him to win by a wide margin.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:31 AM (ITJyK)

181 "Someone in Vermont is just as likely to be listening, say, to country and western music as someone in Texas"

I live in Texas and listen to country music. People who say "country and western" either think the Sons of the Pioneers are still at the top of the hit parade or are just plain clueless and/or both.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at November 01, 2021 07:30 AM (eKhRG)

We like both kinds.

Posted by: Bob's Country Bunker at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (4I/2K)

182 Please vote, the data is important for comparison next year to reveal fraud.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 07:14 AM (dQvv7)

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I can't tell if that's snark or not (the best kind, of course), but it makes me chuckle in both interpretations -- for different reasons.

Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (MtGJh)

183 Seen on Gab...

Fun Fact: The name 'McAullife' is of Norse Irish origin and is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic 'Mac Amhlaoibh', meaning "Douche Canoe".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (T7iTv)

184 lmao

@thetimes
Social media users could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes 'psychological harm' under the government's new online harms bill

Ministers are looking to include so-called Twitter "pile-ons" as a possible offence

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (zzidh)

185 The left will accept divorce as long as we move out, but pay alimony, pay the mortgage, pay for repairs, pay the car payment and insurance. And do everything they tell us to.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (b9shC)

186 Has Siegel ever heard of the Loudon County Schoolboard? Has he ever heard of Kyle Rittenhouse? Has he ever heard of the dozens of people still held in the Garland Archipelago? Has he ever heard of people purged for their political views, i.e. "cancel culture?" I imagine he has heard of Ashli Babbit; he views her as a rabid racist white supremacist insurrectionist who got what she deserved.

Hate to tell you this, but it is very likely that because of the news embargo by the MSM, Siegel is very likely to be ignorant of any counternarrative. Lee probably suffers from lack of Theory of Mind so doesn't have the ability to even contemplate that he is living in a world of lies and that there is a world of challenges to what the Devil is offering.

Some data points: No one knows anything about the "Ashli Babbitt Society", my BiL dressed as a NASCAR driver Brandon Brown (very good duplicate of his Nomex suit) and no one at any of the parties understood the reference.

if it ain't on TV its not known.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (+LCoQ)

187 I live in Texas and listen to country music. People who say "country and western" either think the Sons of the Pioneers are still at the top of the hit parade or are just plain clueless and/or both.

Posted by: Colonel Travis

Fancy Like That ain't country. Sorry.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:33 AM (OCTRt)

188 We had a family costume, decided upon by Junior and organized by Dolley.

We were The Nightmare Before Christmas. Dolley was Sally, Junior was Jack, Second Junior was Zero (he refused to wear the costume so we stuck it on top of the stroller), and I was Oogie-Boogie.

I liked it because I had a whole mask that covered my head, and the costume was essentially a burlap sack that kept me warm in the descending cold. I couldn't really move, though, because anytime I raised my arms the velcro in the back unlatched.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:33 AM (LvTSG)

189 Operation: Marriage Material
_________

There was very little in that that my mother wasn't saying in the 60s. But Boomers don't listen.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 07:33 AM (7X3UV)

190 JT nothing unusual, but was 2 hrs lost finding out what I am supposed to do
Posted by: Skip's Phone

You work for biden ?

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:33 AM (arJlL)

191 Country music is just pop music with a slide guitar.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:34 AM (b9shC)

192 "Mainstreaming" mental illness, it's practically a civil right to be Insane these days.

Ever notice Medicare or Medicaid funds can't be used to treat the lunatics? Almost like there's a method to the ... madness

Posted by: Common Tater at November 01, 2021 07:34 AM (uSkUN)

193 This junta has no intentions of "fixing" the supply chain problems. They want the current situation to become the new normal. It's succeeding so far. Then, the only way out of the situation they put the country in will be to do what they want.

If the current situation continues through the winter with no general civil unrest, it's over. The Reset will have commenced. That little gizmo has no off button either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2021 07:34 AM (BFigT)

194 ho lee fook

Worse, it failed to investigate voter rolls for the hundreds of thousands there incorrectly, including more than 45,000 first-time voters whose names didnt match Department of Transportation records, among other issues.

WI 2020:
Joe 1,630,866
PDT 1,610,184

I bet Joe did not have even 1.5 M real votes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:34 AM (yrol0)

195 Madonna Slams Cancel Culture, Connects All the Vital Dots in the Process
__________

Madonna can, and likely has, horsefuck.

She helped build this. She can reap it.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

196 Country music is just pop music with a slide guitar.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

They don't even use a steel guitar anymore.
And if they do, it's classic country.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:35 AM (OCTRt)

197 It's hysterical that the leftist communist Democrats spent 4+ years vocally expressing their wet dreams of assassinating President Trump, complete with bloody depictions and vile threats coming from "celebrities" and other outspoken lunatics...and that was fine and dandy. But #LetsGoBrandon is causing them to melt down.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:35 AM (sVtYq)

198 @thetimes
Social media users could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes 'psychological harm' under the government's new online harms bill

Ministers are looking to include so-called Twitter "pile-ons" as a possible offence
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (zzidh)
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In one direction, I'm sure. This'll be great, and I encourage it if it is liberally enforced. A cute girl posting a selfie might be "psychologically damaging" to a homely shrew. Someone posting a picture of a dish of ice cream might be "psychologically damaging" to someone who is lactose intolerant (or anti-cow for climate theology reasons) or to a fat guy. Take this literally, and social media dies.

Of course, that won't happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:36 AM (DU+/6)

199 Mail-In Balloting Is More Outrageous Than Anyone Can Imagine
Up to a quarter of a million votes were cast in Wisconsins presidential election without any identification check at all,

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:36 AM (yrol0)

200 "Never heard of lieutenant governor candidate Winsome Sears? Could it have anything to do with her being female, Black, conservative, and a Marine Corps veteran?"

Saw Winsome Sears on Mark Levin's show last night and she was excellent.

The Left doesn't want you to know about her not only because she's Black and a conservative, but because she is articulate, logical and brings the common sense.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2021 07:36 AM (NpAcC)

201 197 It's hysterical that the leftist communist Democrats spent 4+ years vocally expressing their wet dreams of assassinating President Trump, complete with bloody depictions and vile threats coming from "celebrities" and other outspoken lunatics...and that was fine and dandy. But #LetsGoBrandon is causing them to melt down.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:35 AM (sVtYq)

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Because they can't shut it down. That's all. It's homegrown opposition that they cannot control.

Control is important to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:36 AM (LvTSG)

202 >> The reason the economy has collapsed and will remain collapsed is it suits their political purposes. This is all about degrading the free economy and replacing it with centrally controlled economy run by the Uniparty. This loopy multi trillion dollar phony infrastructure bill is the opening gambit to make this happen. Let's Go Brandon.

This.

But think bigger: this really is the Great Reset action plan. It's not a coincidence that Biden's infrastructure bill is called Build Back Better. That is the WEF slogan, and other politicians in other countries are using it as well (e.g. Boris Johnson). Even more telling, it's being used for radical green policies and climate "crisis" action.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 07:36 AM (bDqIh)

203 (are you no cuss Catherine ?)
Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 06:54 AM (arJlL)

Yep. I don't love cursing, but I acknowledge that sometimes "jerk" doesn't cover the nature of things humans do.

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at November 01, 2021 07:37 AM (XnnHY)

204 But McAwful will bring incredible disaster to VA. There's no doubt about it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 01, 2021 07:21 AM (sVtYq)

Yes he will, and Younkin might stop the bleeding a little, but this is what the GOPe counts on, and in the long run you still bleed out and die. Also, Younkin paints himself as old time GOPe (think Bush) and if he wins you know that they will say he ran a more traditional, not Trump like campaign and use that again anyone daring to run on the America first platform. In the long run I will probably vote, I will pray about it some more and decide in the morning. It's all just so depressing really.

Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (Up/Jb)

205 Fancy Like That ain't country. Sorry.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:33 AM (OCTRt)
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Coal-burin' stove, no natural gas
If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass

Posted by: David Allen Coe at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (DU+/6)

206 The proper let's go brandon dance would be a feint to the right and a hop to the left with your hand in your victim's partner's pocket....

Posted by: sven at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (Lzpvj)

207 So Kendi thinks it's horrifying when his own daughter, brain-washed by her idiot leftist school teachers, Hollywood, and the idiot leftist media, comes home from school and tells her parents she wants to be a boy.

But the idiot leftist Kendi thinks white parents who are horrified when their kids come home from school and ask their parents if they're born evil because of their skin color, like their idiot lefty schools teachers told them, should just STFU and take it.

Well f*ck Kendi. He deserves every horrifying thing that happens in his home. If the rest of America doesn't get to choose what idiot leftist brainwashing their kids are exposed to, why should Mr. Rogers (a/k/a the fake name Kendi)?

Enjoy the rot you helped inflict on this nation, Kendi, you scumbag racist grifter POS.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (k4dH2)

208 Because they can't shut it down. That's all. It's homegrown opposition that they cannot control.

Control is important to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:36 AM (LvTSG)

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It's everything and they are fricken relentless about it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (DcKNO)

209 @197

>>But #LetsGoBrandon is causing them to melt down.

The reason why the left has a zero tolerance policy toward ridicule and mockery against their side is because it works and can becomes ingrained in the culture.

People still believe Ford was a clumsy buffoon and Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house.

It sort of thing crystalizes and freezes the individual in the minds of the public.

So they seek to control that sort of thing at all costs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:39 AM (QuTE8)

210 The reason the economy has collapsed and will remain collapsed is it suits their political purposes. This is all about degrading the free economy and replacing it with centrally controlled economy run by the Uniparty.

I too have moved on and have rejected Hanlon's Razor to explain any of this. It is just pure malice fueled by hate that has us where we are.

I rejected calculated destruction because I have heard nothing but emotional appeals and explanations from this junta and its sea of myrmidons. They hated ANWR and Keystone XL so it had to be shut down. They have always hated the traditional family so it has to be marginalized, corrupted and destroyed. The list goes on. All of it is based on greed and hate.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (+LCoQ)

211 So Kendi thinks it's horrifying when his own daughter, brain-washed by her idiot leftist school teachers, Hollywood, and the idiot leftist media, comes home from school and tells her parents she wants to be a boy. ...
Enjoy the rot you helped inflict on this nation, Kendi, you scumbag racist grifter POS.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (k4dH2)
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This is usually true, but it's especially true for Kendi. This is *his* world. He wanted it. He was a big player in building it. Well now he has it.

The motherfucker can choke on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (DU+/6)

212 The left will accept divorce as long as we move out, but pay alimony, pay the mortgage, pay for repairs, pay the car payment and insurance. And do everything they tell us to.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:32 AM (b9shC)

Amazing. That was my ex-wife's opening offer in the divorce settlement mediation. She requested a monthly stipend that was higher than my take home pay and sole custody of the kids. Magical thinking.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (4I/2K)

213 175 I'm already entirely sick of the shift to "climate crises" from the "Covid crises."

Better get a grip then. This has not yet reached critical mass.

Posted by: Ziba at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (S1hrL)

214 "Watching clips of the Biden administration hacks on the Sunday talking hack shows pontificating the economy shutting down is a natural outcome of the Covid-19 pandemic and because of that there is zero that can be done to fix the epic supply chain meltdown that has resulted in shelves full of Biden and runaway inflation"

I also heard it explained this morning that oil prices rising is because of covid shut-down and the oil companies can't just flip a switch to get supplies rolling again. I hadn't heard that bald-faced lie yet and almost spewed my coffee. The regime is desperately looking for a cover story. Anything but the truth will

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (MxEKc)

215 204 Posted by: spypeach at November 01, 2021 07:38 AM (Up/Jb)

You've heard "don't let the perfect be the enemy of good?"

Let's let the barely acceptable not be the preference to the monstrous.

Posted by: sven at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (Lzpvj)

216 I only listen to classic country and bluegrass anymore. I gave up on that crap Nashville is pumping out years ago, whatever it is.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (zdpQZ)

217 Right, "build back better" is probably a kind of Rorschach. What it means to the youngins, is a kind of shorthand for "Destroy the existing system. Everything. Start Over. Make everything soft and gauzy and welcoming and nurturing for everybody, especially the vulnerable XYZ123&$@ population and peoples of colored with disabilities, and illegal aliens who need sex change operations"

They've broken the minds of millions.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 01, 2021 07:41 AM (uSkUN)

218 209 Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:39 AM (QuTE

They control the horizontal, they control the vertical...

Posted by: sven at November 01, 2021 07:41 AM (Lzpvj)

219 Country music is just pop music with a slide guitar.

2 weeks ago, NYC's only country music station flipped the switch and became a hip-hop station.

Thankfully I have unlimited data and can stream any radio station in America I want..

Posted by: McCool at November 01, 2021 07:41 AM (BqBIh)

220 214 I also heard it explained this morning that oil prices rising is because of covid shut-down and the oil companies can't just flip a switch to get supplies rolling again. I hadn't heard that bald-faced lie yet and almost spewed my coffee. The regime is desperately looking for a cover story. Anything but the truth will
Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (MxEKc)

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Well, that explanation would probably lead to the idea that the government is trying to help flip that switch back on. Is that the narrative?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

221 >> But #LetsGoBrandon is causing them to melt down.

Right?
Forst, there has always been a double standard. They can make assasination art about W, Trump, Reagan, etc. but a SABA poster or an Obama-masked rodeo clown is a legitimate threat to the republic.

Think the other part of this chant that really annoys them is that it mocks the media, too. The "Let's Go Brandon" description for the chant was their attempt to gaslight people about the real chant. Like people owning the label "deplorable," this takes ownership of their propaganda, enabling people to say FJB in public without saying FJB. LOLGF

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 07:41 AM (bDqIh)

222 F&F showing preview of Tucker's 1/6 special. Tucker is on now.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (NpAcC)

223 Justice for Tiki Torches!

Clayton Bigsby for the win!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

224 First home fuel fill up last week. Half a tank cost as much as a full tank did last year.

Posted by: Ziba at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (S1hrL)

225 I too have moved on and have rejected Hanlon's Razor to explain any of this. It is just pure malice fueled by hate that has us where we are. ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (+LCoQ)
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It's not just malice. Stupidity is a major factor, too. It would be hard - extremely hard - to screw up this much in this many ways across all segments of economy, government and society and do it all on purpose. The world is a complicated place. No conspiracy this big could actually work.

What you have is the constant malice and hatred that keeps everyone moving the same awful direction, and then abject stupidity in execution of the malicious intent, and the outcome of that malicious and stupid chimera is the world around us.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (DU+/6)

226 You can watch Tucker's special on Fox Nation by starting your 7-day free trial today and then cancelling after Friday's episode.

Posted by: EvilEi at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (7b2L9)

227 On the topic of civil war, I actually agree that there is no army ready to organize or fight for our side - we're not capable of mounting one right now, and that is a cold hard fact, no matter how angry some might think they are.

I think I agree with Victor Davis Hanson who wrote that yes, the current US will split into several successor states, and maybe even see some military fighting; but this will only happen *after* the Fed Government collapses, not before.

But that day may be a lot closer than you think. Things are building towards a great crisis, we all can feel it. And the timing is now in months, not years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (evAgx)

228 So Kendi thinks it's horrifying when his own daughter, brain-washed by her idiot leftist school teachers, Hollywood, and the idiot leftist media, comes home from school and tells her parents she wants to be a boy. ...

On the one hand, you f*cking earned it Kendi, but on the other hand this is the one way this sh*t gets fixed.

Clown world sucks for almost everyone - even the lower echelons of the leftist victim stack - just like life in the USSR in the outer party was worse for people that life in a free country.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (ESjRY)

229 And Hi, JT!

Spypeach, the best argument for voting is that they only stole the presidency and a few seats in the senate. They may go further down the ballot since VA is by itself tomorrow, but I doubt they will go full fraud for a Clinton bagman they might not control completely. Local races matter too, and while you're there, might as well fill in all the blanks,

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (XnnHY)

230 216 I only listen to classic country and bluegrass anymore. I gave up on that crap Nashville is pumping out years ago, whatever it is.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 01, 2021 07:40 AM (zdpQZ)

Murder on Music Row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNLpJuW0YQ

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (yrol0)

231 I don't want the democrats to 'tap the brakes.' I want them to keep the pedal to the floor, with the hope more and more people realize who they are. The polls seem to be showing this happening. If they tap the brakes, they'll take half of what they want, and get the rest at a later date. And the endless march to the end will continue. Let them push at high speed right into the wall.

Posted by: JerseyDevilRider at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (XEfn8)

232 The reason why the left has a zero tolerance policy toward ridicule and mockery against their side is because it works and can becomes ingrained in the culture.

I think that is true. But more because they are narcissists and feel that they are entitled to "get your mind right".

I was reading about the history of coffee and one thing came up frequently over time. Authoritarian governments who felt that they were losing the hearts and minds of those being ruled would close down coffee shops and taverns in fear that the people would congregate and communicate. As the evil rulers became more afraid, they put harsh penalties (like prison and death) on those who continued to operate the public places of meeting.

Their actions remind me of that historical tidbit for some reason.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 07:44 AM (+LCoQ)

233 I'm already entirely sick of the shift to "climate crises" from the "Covid crises."

**

The neat part is that it worked exactly, totally, 100% the same.

Nothing has changed at any point, and it's the worst crisis ever. #1 cause of death/hurricanes, even though the data is exactly the same as it's been since record keeping began or even definitively showing that it's not at all what was presented.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax is safe for kids because it's made out of kids at November 01, 2021 07:44 AM (/BX3R)

234 #PoopyPantsBiden Trends On Twitter As Far Right Sites Claim Bathroom Mishap Explains Long Meeting With Pope "Fiction" Francis

Ok. #ShartWeek made me LOL and actually spew the grapes I was eating.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:44 AM (Zz0t1)

235 "I'm already entirely sick of the shift to "climate crises" from the "Covid crises."
Posted by: Seems Legit"

Over the weekend I read the grim prediction by experts sea levels will probably rise 5 feet over the next few years. Which is about 4'10" over the official IPCC grim prediction. I wonder if Obama will be putting his Martha Vineyards mansion up for sale?

Posted by: Ripley at November 01, 2021 07:44 AM (MxEKc)

236 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at November 01, 2021 07:44 AM (xK9An)

237 I don't want the democrats to 'tap the brakes.' I want them to keep the pedal to the floor, with the hope more and more people realize who they are. The polls seem to be showing this happening. If they tap the brakes, they'll take half of what they want, and get the rest at a later date. And the endless march to the end will continue. Let them push at high speed right into the wall.
Posted by: JerseyDevilRider at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (XEfn

++++
My foot was glue, like lead to the floor
That's all there is and there ain't no more

Posted by: Commander Cody (and various others) at November 01, 2021 07:44 AM (DU+/6)

238 Saw Winsome Sears on Mark Levin's show last night and she was excellent.

The Left doesn't want you to know about her not only because she's Black and a conservative, but because she is articulate, logical and brings the common sense.
Posted by: redridinghood

YUGE Boobed ?

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (arJlL)

239 First home fuel fill up last week. Half a tank cost as much as a full tank did last year.

**

I look forward to hearing people discover that heat has no home there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax is safe for kids because it's made out of kids at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (/BX3R)

240 199 Mail-In Balloting Is More Outrageous Than Anyone Can Imagine
Up to a quarter of a million votes were cast in Wisconsins presidential election without any identification check at all,
______________

Yep, the AZ audit, as incomplete as it was, showed tens of thousands of votes by "people" who had no record of ever having existed at the Social Security administration.

Vote-by-mail is a giant scam, riddled with fraud, and that's exactly why the Dims keep insisting that it's the only system we use. F*ck them.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (k4dH2)

241 225 What you have is the constant malice and hatred that keeps everyone moving the same awful direction, and then abject stupidity in execution of the malicious intent, and the outcome of that malicious and stupid chimera is the world around us.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (DU+/6)
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Government is an inherent depressor on economic activity, and Joe Biden's ascension to the presidential throne signaled to the bureaucratic state that any and every regulation imagined would be acceptable. So, they went whole hog, with a million different fingers all suddenly pushing down at the same time without concern for unexpected impacts. It's just that the people who man the administrative state are there to do one thing: regulate American behavior, and they know Biden's administration won't stop them.

It doesn't need to be a grand conspiracy, is all I'm saying.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (LvTSG)

242 The Liberty Daily has CBD's In and Out article, from yesterday, posted on their website.

WTG, CBD! !

Posted by: four seasons at November 01, 2021 07:46 AM (tPC7s)

243
Murder on Music Row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNLpJuW0YQ
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:43 AM (yrol0)

True story for ALL music genre.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:46 AM (Zz0t1)

244 @218

>>They control the horizontal, they control the vertical...

Indeed they do and try to at every turn.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 01, 2021 07:46 AM (QuTE8)

245
Yep, the AZ audit, as incomplete as it was, showed tens of thousands of votes by "people" who had no record of ever having existed at the Social Security administration.

This continues to amaze me - IIRC the Maricopa audit showed something like 120K votes where the ballot could not be established to be from an actual voter.

The meat puppet's nominal victory in AZ was about 10K

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:47 AM (ESjRY)

246 JJ

Coward Liz links back to AoSHQ Home

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:47 AM (yrol0)

247 >>heat has no home there.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax is safe for kids because it's made out of kids at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (/BX3R)

Nicely done. (Countdown to the Biden 'malaise' speech)...

Posted by: ZOD at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (xK9An)

248 245 This continues to amaze me - IIRC the Maricopa audit showed something like 120K votes where the ballot could not be established to be from an actual voter.

The meat puppet's nominal victory in AZ was about 10K
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:47 AM (ESjRY)

=========

Trump won and he won big.

And now Democrats are fucking up the country.

I really hope voting continues to matter, because the people may decide that it doesn't and find other ways to make their will known.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (LvTSG)

249 The Current Chaos: Incompetence or By Design?

North American Man-Boy Lincoln Project Takes Responsibility For Tiki Torch Hoax at Youngkin Rally
__________

The trouble with the first article is seen in the 2nd. SOME cases of chaos may be intended, but some are counterproductive. The latter case is so Clouseau-level inept that I almost have to think we have some moles in their camp.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (7X3UV)

250 This continues to amaze me - IIRC the Maricopa audit showed something like 120K votes where the ballot could not be established to be from an actual voter.

**

Like was mentioned earlier, you can have all the lawyers you want.

The key is to have the courts.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax is safe for kids because it's made out of kids at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (/BX3R)

251 You can watch Tucker's special on Fox Nation by starting your 7-day free trial today and then cancelling after Friday's episode.
Posted by: EvilEi at November 01, 2021 07:42 AM (7b2L9)
===============

Even though I try not to watch FNC, I bought a subscription to FoxNation, for the simple reason I want to support Carlson. Mostly, I wanted to watch his hour long conversation with Mollie Hemingway on her new book (which I had just finished) and it alone was absolutely worth the money.

If Fox gets the message from viewers walking away, that's great, but we also have to be willing to spend some money to support that of which we approve (or at least, it seems so to me).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (ITJyK)

252 Hiya Zodster !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (arJlL)

253 You just know the majority of the GOP wants to embrace 'Climate Crisis' as much as the left. They see profits in their future.

Recently I told by GOP county chair to go fuck himself with a post auger.

Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (2xGy+)

254 OAN says the New York Times is reporting that the FBI is "reasonably confident" that Covid came from the Wuhan lab. Sounds like the famous Kalorama bus is coming to run over Fauci.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:49 AM (KLKSV)

255 It doesn't need to be a grand conspiracy, is all I'm saying.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (LvTSG)
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We're saying the same thing. There is a grand central plan in the sense of "I hate people not in my control" or "Everything I dictate should be the way things are" - but once you get enough of those people with hands on levers (and they have enough people) - everything goes to shit in more or less the same way even without a runbook a million pages long.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:49 AM (DU+/6)

256 >>So Kendi thinks it's horrifying when his own daughter, brain-washed by her idiot leftist school teachers, Hollywood, and the idiot leftist media, comes home from school and tells her parents she wants to be a boy.

Has he been attacked like JK Rowling?
I hope Kemdi cotinues to speak up and I hope the usual trans activists attack him hard.

Also, Kendi is a WEF Young Global Leader, so yeah, he is very much part of this -- and he's uttering badthoughts on part of their agenda, lol. Sucks for him!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 07:50 AM (bDqIh)

257 Global tax my ass tattoos for $20.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 01, 2021 07:50 AM (Mb9aP)

258 OAN says the New York Times is reporting that the FBI is "reasonably confident" that Covid came from the Wuhan lab. Sounds like the famous Kalorama bus is coming to run over Fauci.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 01, 2021 07:49 AM (KLKSV)

No one should settle for anything less that Fauci being hanged by the neck until dead for crimes against humanity.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:50 AM (Zz0t1)

259 Ok. #ShartWeek made me LOL and actually spew the grapes I was eating.
Posted by: Sponge

Ooooooh! I love Shart Week!
Wait. Wut?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:51 AM (OCTRt)

260 post spooky name field sock

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax for kids is brand new and never tested, good luck kids, see p14 at November 01, 2021 07:51 AM (/BX3R)

261 No one should settle for anything less that Fauci being hanged by the neck until dead for crimes against humanity.

I believe the current modified limited hang out of the Fauci cult is that yes Fauci approved funding on GoF research in China on bat corona viruses BUT not the ones that became COVID.

Which...makes no sense...buts its where we are.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (ESjRY)

262 In passing, note that the warning about the "Huge Solar Flare" was just a bunch of hype about nothing. No great big disaster will ever be officially predicted, they are incapable of that. That's not to say there won't be disasters; but the big, world changing ones will always be something that everyone in Officialdom says is Absolutely Impossible and Cannot Possibly Happen. Kind of like the Earth getting colder each year for the next few years instead of warmer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (evAgx)

263 >>No one should settle for anything less that Fauci being hanged by the neck until dead for crimes against humanity. Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:50 AM (Zz0t1)

Give him to us.

Posted by: The Beagles at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (xK9An)

264 me too f'd...Seminole Never Surrender!!!

Posted by: qmark at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (nGOuT)

265 What you have is the constant malice and hatred that keeps everyone moving the same awful direction, and then abject stupidity in execution of the malicious intent, and the outcome of that malicious and stupid chimera is the world around us.

Lets refine that a bit. People are familiar with the OODA cycle (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). We use it whether we know it or not. I'm interested here in the Decide, which heavily depends on Wisdom. For example, violence is an answer to a lot of problems - most of the times not a good answer. To use or not to use is Wisdom.

Dittos with how they hate how people, and hate they people are happy and hate that travel is one mode of bringing happiness, so they attack traveling, yet how they attack it is without wisdom. You say that they stupidly attack a particular or a set of parts causing system failure.

Stupidity or lack of Wisdom?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (+LCoQ)

266 Thank you JJ.
Save America, defeat a democrat.

Posted by: (jV+aN) President Orange Man Bad (Rheees Be Upon Him) at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (jV+aN)

267 "My diaper runneth over"...

Did Biden really shart himself in Rome?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (ITJyK)

268 231 Half of America is clueless. Remember that.

Posted by: Ziba at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (S1hrL)

269 So the fags at the Lincoln Project organized it, huh? Okay. Let's assume that's true. The campaign and the Party knew about it and lent personnel (the broad they sent was an official Democrat). Their condemnation of it as being in poor taste rings mighty hollow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

270 True story for ALL music genre.

Love that song.

Posted by: Jewells45#FJB at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (nxdel)

271 By establishing a 15% global minimum tax rate, the U.S. would garner at least $60 billion more in revenue per year in the U.S. alone, an official told reporters.

Not gonna happen.
The accountants and finance people in business are smart than the people that write tax code!

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (yrol0)

272 YUGE Boobed ?
Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (arJlL)
***********
Didn't notice... but there's this-

https://tinyurl.com/h3xch89x

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (NpAcC)

273 Did Biden really shart himself in Rome?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (ITJyK)

God didn't want to strike the vatican with lightning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (b9shC)

274 271 By establishing a 15% global minimum tax rate, the U.S. would garner at least $60 billion more in revenue per year in the U.S. alone, an official told reporters.

Not gonna happen.
The accountants and finance people in business are smart than the people that write tax code!
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (yrol0)

=========

"Nah..."
-Some tiny country that remarkably has some kind of carve out instantly taken advantage of by the largest of corporations

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 07:54 AM (LvTSG)

275
Love that song.
Posted by: Jewells45#FJB at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (nxdel)

Agreed. Hadn't heard it in a while, but it's spot on.

I blame Garth Brooks, the wannabe rocker.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

276 262 In passing, note that the warning about the "Huge Solar Flare" was just a bunch of hype about nothing. No great big disaster will ever be officially predicted, they are incapable of that.

Our betters missed an asteroid the size of two city buses passing within 2000 miles of Earth the other day. They waved as it passed.

Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 07:55 AM (2xGy+)

277 The accountants and finance people in business are smart than the people that write tax code!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Psssst. They're the same people.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:55 AM (OCTRt)

278 I would settle for a mesh bag full of sand fleas tied over his head.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:55 AM (b9shC)

279 >>Our betters missed an asteroid the size of two city buses passing within 2000 miles of Earth the other day. They waved as it passed.
Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 07:55 AM (2xGy+)

Not unlike Atlanta's Chavez last night, SMOD needs to find the strike zone.

Posted by: ZOD at November 01, 2021 07:56 AM (xK9An)

280 Stupidity or lack of Wisdom?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (+LCoQ)
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Either or both. These are not mutually exclusive. For the lower-level operators, I am inclined to blame stupidity. But it is also known to anyone with a modicum of intelligence and sense that everything they stand for is bad for everyone but the top echelons of the ruling class. To not know that is ignorance (lack of wisdom), to believe it to be otherwise this time because you're finally the one in charge is hubris, to know it but not care because you're planning to be in that ruling class is evil.

But they all leave destruction in their wakes, and it all looks the same whether they're stupid, ignorant, arrogant or evil.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

281 @realLizUSA

"Get out and vote for a man who will be a great governor, Glenn Youngkin!"

- President Donald J. Trump

Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (ZLI7S)

282 We're saying the same thing. There is a grand central plan in the sense of "I hate people not in my control" or "Everything I dictate should be the way things are" - but once you get enough of those people with hands on levers (and they have enough people) - everything goes to shit in more or less the same way even without a runbook a million pages long.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:49 AM (DU+/6)

I just read an absolutely idiotic piece on PJMedia (of all places, but I guess this was to be expected) opining that there was nothing really wrong with Green Energy, and that the current energy shortages sweeping the world were all due to Bad Luck. The same reason all of Lenin and Stalin's 5 year plans failed.

(really they said that)

Leftists really do believe their own farts smell sweet, and they are honestly surprised when their policies turn into total disasters that make life unlivable for everyone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (evAgx)

283 YUGE Boobed ?
Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM (arJlL)
***********
Didn't notice... but there's this-

https://tinyurl.com/h3xch89x
Posted by: redridinghood

Oh.

I thought it was gonna be something juicy.

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (arJlL)

284 By establishing a 15% global minimum tax rate, the U.S. would garner at least $60 billion more in revenue per year in the U.S. alone, an official told reporters. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 07:53 AM (yrol0)
++++
Single-variable analysis sure is awesome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (DU+/6)

285 Vote-by-mail is a giant scam, riddled with fraud, and that's exactly why the Dims keep insisting that it's the only system we use. F*ck them.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2021 07:45 AM

In order to vote by mail here in PennsyTucky I had to provide:
Voter Registration number
Drivers license number
Home address, and number of years lived there
Date of birth
Some other stuff, too but now forgotten.

Is mail in fraud still possible? I suppose so, but at least this state is gonna make it difficult to achieve in large numbers. Dominion is still a huge problem, of course. Trump lost ~15,000 votes in eight minutes time here because of shenanigans.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (dQvv7)

286 Oh.

I thought it was gonna be something juicy.
Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (arJlL)

Not a link by Joe Mannix, so......

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

287 This poll is interesting:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/482397/

Esp. since it's an NBC poll, so we know it's jiggered.
What it shows and why the Dims are starting to panic is that -
the Democrats support is collapsing back to the 25-30% of the population that consists of their hardcore supporters.

Interesting times. I say vote and force them to either yield to the voter's desires or cheat so hugely and egregiously that it becomes obvious to even the progtardiest Dim.
Either way ball's in our court now.

BONUS! Voting takes you about 10-15 minutes to complete so don't act like it's a huge burden on you.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2021 07:58 AM (5NkmN)

288 Will the Congress take up Biden's incontience and rule that he must wear a diaper at all times for the health of the nation?

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 07:58 AM (xSnmX)

289 Ask FJB why so many corporations are HQ in DE. He should probably know the answer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:59 AM (b9shC)

290 I thought it was gonna be something juicy.
Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (arJlL)
++++
I want 'em real thick and juicy
so find that juicy double
Mix-a-lot's in trouble
Beggin' for a piece of that bubble

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at November 01, 2021 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

291 continuing on...
The lack of wisdom allows them to buy into the whole Climate Change folly. Thinking that blindly reducing the consumption of hydrocarbons will have no secondary or tertiary effects is lack of wisdom.

Someone says "Sulphur in coal and bunker oil causes acid rain". A stupid person would see this as a univariant question with a binary result and thus decides that the only way to end acid rain is to ban Sulphur. Lack of wisdom allows that person to go through with those plans because they don't consider any of the fallout. Hate is the impediment to wisdom and thus the folly of blindly banning hydrocarbons can never be explained to them, because they just don't care.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:00 AM (+LCoQ)

292 Interesting times. I say vote and force them to either yield to the voter's desires or cheat so hugely and egregiously that it becomes obvious to even the progtardiest Dim.
Either way ball's in our court now
-----------------
You underestimate the hardboiled bigotry of Fairfax Wine Moms. They are the real power that annimates the Hate Club that is VA.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:00 AM (xSnmX)

293 By establishing a 15% global minimum tax rate, the U.S. would garner at least $60 billion more in revenue per year in the U.S. alone, an official told reporters.

**

Just over one hour of federal spending.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax for kids is brand new and never tested, good luck kids, see p14 at November 01, 2021 08:01 AM (/BX3R)

294 OAN says the New York Times is reporting that the FBI is "reasonably confident" that Covid came from the Wuhan lab. Sounds like the famous Kalorama bus is coming to run over Fauci.
______________

Nothing is going to happen to that corrupt asshole. He'll eventually retire with his full, cushy federal pension intact, just like Lerner and McCabe and all those other crooks have done. It doesn't matter how incompetent or corrupt they are, it doesn't matter how many crimes they've been caught red-handed committing, it doesn't matter how many Americans they've killed or how many puppies they've tortured for shits and giggles, they never face any real consequences. They just keep screwing us over, and we just keep paying them to do it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2021 08:01 AM (k4dH2)

295 But they all leave destruction in their wakes, and it all looks the same whether they're stupid, ignorant, arrogant or evil.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

One of the hallmarks of Evil is it's general stupidity. One of the many great insights of C. S. Lewis was that a good rule for gauging how Evil some person, organization, or Government was, is to focus on how much effort they put into their own self destruction. He wrote that was what made him realize that Good and Evil are not two equal, opposing forces such as Yin and Yang - because Evil loves destruction so much, it can never keep from destroying itself. (and anything it has power over)

Sadly, the worst Evil of all waits until is has taken control of an entire country before it ever shows its true face.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 08:02 AM (evAgx)

296 Happy All Saints Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2021 08:02 AM (NpAcC)

297 Just over one hour of federal spending.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax for kids is brand new and never tested, good luck kids, see p14 at November 01, 2021 08:01 AM (/BX3R)
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Right, so where is the rest of it going? Which international organizations are poised to become bigger than most governments on the back of such a tax?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

298 Philadelphia vote recorder:

Voter Registration number 1234
Drivers license number 1234
Home address, and number of years lived there 1234 Any street, 5 years
Date of birth 1/1/1970
Some other stuff, too but now forgotten. 17

Ballot accepted!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 08:03 AM (b9shC)

299 In passing, note that the warning about the "Huge Solar Flare" was just a bunch of hype about nothing. No great big disaster will ever be officially predicted, they are incapable of that. That's not to say there won't be disasters; but the big, world changing ones will always be something that everyone in Officialdom says is Absolutely Impossible and Cannot Possibly Happen. Kind of like the Earth getting colder each year for the next few years instead of warmer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 07:52 AM (evAgx)

Eh, even before the flare showed up, it was rated as a "1" which is the lowest rating on a 10 point solar flare scale.

so, at most this Solar Flare was going to tickle your balls or some such thing. Not cause an ElectroApocalypse.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2021 08:03 AM (5NkmN)

300 Happy All Saints Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Thank you.

And the same to you !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 08:03 AM (arJlL)

301 295 But they all leave destruction in their wakes, and it all looks the same whether they're stupid, ignorant, arrogant or evil.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 07:56 AM (DU+/6)
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Paraphrase of F. Scott Fiztgerald?

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:03 AM (xSnmX)

302 Fancy Like That ain't country. Sorry.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 07:33 AM
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Never heard of it, had to look it up.
Good Lord....

No, that is not what I meant.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at November 01, 2021 08:04 AM (eKhRG)

303 289 Ask FJB why so many corporations are HQ in DE. He should probably know the answer.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:59 AM (b9shC)

For many years, 80's and 90's especially, Joe Biden was known as the Senator from Mastercard. His job was to make sure legislation protected them and their financial interests.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 08:04 AM (evAgx)

304 Operation: Marriage - Don't waste another second on losers who don't value you. Life can be difficult. Once in a while it can get so tough that you won't know how to keep going. You're going to need a loyal partner in that foxhole with you. Someone pulling for you. Someone ready to jump on the grenade.

Yep, and the "once in a while" gets to be more and more frequent later in life. And the last 18 months, I've had plenty of these days. Back when I went through 2 years of unemployment, almost every day of the 2nd year was one of those days.

Ironically, my one "comfort" during that time was being single and alone. I comforted myself thinking "at least I am not putting a wife and kids through this hardship. I am the only one suffering from my failures."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 08:05 AM (Do5/p)

305 "Now, James will be up against Gov. Kathy Hochul in what is set up to be an extremely competitive primary shaped by ideology, race and region."
_________

Ideology? What does that mean, "Trotsky represents true Marxism"?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 08:06 AM (7X3UV)

306 Leftists really do believe their own farts smell sweet, and they are honestly surprised when their policies turn into total disasters that make life unlivable for everyone.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 07:57 AM (evAgx)

I attribute that to lack of theory of mind. Their understanding of the world around them is that of a child's limited in intellect so everything is viewed through the lens of emotion. Group affirmation guarantees that the dopamine flows and is thus the chemical addiction perpetuates this pathology.

When they can't/won't conceive that others might have different a/o better ideas, then they can only Project on to others the ignorance and ideology that they have been so often rewarded with.

That is why you see tiki torches and white dress shirts with brown slacks when they think they are emulating White Supremacists. It is beyond their mental and psychological abilities to ever stop and consider that others may think differently and have better information.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:06 AM (+LCoQ)

307 303 289 Ask FJB why so many corporations are HQ in DE. He should probably know the answer.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 07:59 AM (b9shC)
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Its the Loan Shark State and all use the Federal Treasury for their operating funds. Nice Self Licking Ice Cream Cone ain't it? Borrow from the taxpayer below 3% and loan it to the taxpayer at a median 21.5% interest rate. Kind of hard to fuck that up.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:06 AM (xSnmX)

308 Outlaw Country! Woooooo!

Posted by: SirHiss at November 01, 2021 08:07 AM (TO8Xm)

309 Not to many solar flare horror movies.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 01, 2021 08:07 AM (Mb9aP)

310 So Biden is slightly less full of shit than he was? So what? There's plenty more where that came from.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 01, 2021 08:07 AM (7X3UV)

311 If Fox gets the message from viewers walking away, that's great, but we also have to be willing to spend some money to support that of which we approve (or at least, it seems so to me).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (ITJyK)
~~~~~

That's true to a certain point, but it seems to me that FOX is saying, "You want conservative content? Pay for it."

Posted by: IrishEi at November 01, 2021 08:07 AM (7b2L9)

312 >>Group affirmation guarantees that the dopamine flows and is thus the chemical addiction perpetuates this pathology.

Nietzsche's 'stink of the herd' as perfume.

Posted by: ZOD at November 01, 2021 08:08 AM (xK9An)

313 ChiCom madarins >> USA federal mandarins

We're already in a war with China, but most Americans don't have a clue about it because of the lack of Media coverage.

Do you doubt that Chairman Xi would kill off half of all Americans if he thought he could get away with it? Xi has been public about how China needs to crush the US to be the World's sole hegemon, which is China's destiny in his view.

The most viewed movie in the World right now is a Chinese propaganda piece about the ChiCom's magnificent victory over the Yankee Running Dogs at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. "The Battle at Lake Changjin" (what the Chinese call it) has already earned $845 million at the box office, and will soon be the biggest grossing movie of all time despite most tickets being sold for far less than what we pay at the local cineplex.

My spidey sense says that the ChiComs will make a big move, and that forcing everyone in China to see this movie is battle space prep.

Hypersonic missiles and Taiwan flyovers are just for intimidating show. What I fear is the release of a far deadlier virus, bioengineered to decimate round eyes.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 01, 2021 08:08 AM (ZHVt1)

314
Two Bolshi Teat Suckers

Wait, this isn't the Art thread?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2021 08:09 AM (pNxlR)

315 In passing, note that the warning about the "Huge Solar Flare" was just a bunch of hype about nothing. No great big disaster will ever be officially predicted, they are incapable of that.

Maybe next time they will name the Huge Solar Flare and get the desired response of the mobs descending upon big box stores to hoard pallets of toilet paper and bottled water.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:09 AM (+LCoQ)

316 White dress shirt, khakis, and a tiki torch was required for attendance at Trump rallies.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 08:09 AM (b9shC)

317 Do you doubt that Chairman Xi would kill off half of all Americans if he thought he could get away with it?

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Who'd buy their cheap plastic crap?

Posted by: SirHiss at November 01, 2021 08:09 AM (TO8Xm)

318 Outlaw Country! Woooooo!
Posted by: SirHiss

Insomniac is gonna sing ?

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 08:10 AM (arJlL)

319 Ballot accepted!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 01, 2021 08:03 AM

I'm sure that 18 U.S.C. 1341 (mail fraud) doesn't concern a hard core commie, but it should.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 08:10 AM (dQvv7)

320 >>What I fear is the release of a far deadlier virus, bioengineered to decimate round eyes.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 01, 2021 08:08 AM (ZHVt1)

Do not order numba 42 on the delivery menu. "Hunan beef" is no bueno.

Posted by: ZOD at November 01, 2021 08:10 AM (xK9An)

321 One of the hallmarks of Evil is it's general stupidity. One of the many great insights of C. S. Lewis was that a good rule for gauging how Evil some person, organization, or Government was, is to focus on how much effort they put into their own self destruction.

Bonhoeffer notes the same thing in his letters from prison. People get real stupid, real fast when given the choice to do wrong.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 08:10 AM (yrol0)

322 Good morning everyone.

If not mentioned before, Today is All Saints Day.

On November 1st the Church celebrates all her holy ones in heaven, known and unknown, with the feast of All Saints. The solemnity originally began in the 4th century to commemorate all the Christian martyrs killed during those centuries of brutal persecution before Christianity was legalized. There were so many martyrs that a separate feast day could not be given to each one individually, yet, the Church did not want to leave any martyr without proper veneration.

And, if you please, remember in your prayers my little M., who passed this day so many years ago.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 01, 2021 08:10 AM (mD/uy)

323 ... Their understanding of the world around them is that of a child's limited in intellect so everything is viewed through the lens of emotion. ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:06 AM (+LCoQ)
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Some years ago, I had an old Lincoln Town Car with bad paint and a prodigious appetite for motor oil (with the blue exhaust to prove it). I was driving with my brother and there was a big teacher's union protest strung out along one of the main major roads. He told me he was going to roll down the window and yell at them and didn't want me to be surprised. He said it would be a hoot because they would shout back about rich fat cats hating public education. I told him there was no chance because while it was a Town Car, it had awful paint burned oil and it was obvious that it was not a fancy car.

He laughed and said, "these people are stupid and think only in symbols. We're in a Town Car, therefore we're rich fat cats." I told him he was wrong.

A few minutes later, he was hurling abuse at picketers when we were stopped a red light and the picketer shouted back, "Hypocritical coming from the guy in the Town Car!" I was astounded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

324
We're already in a war with China, but most Americans don't have a clue about it because of the lack of Media coverage.

Do you doubt that Chairman Xi would kill off half of all Americans if he thought he could get away with it? Xi has been public about how China needs to crush the US to be the World's sole hegemon, which is China's destiny in his view.

Sometimes I regret the former United States interfering with Japan's abuse of China in the early 20th century.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:11 AM (+LCoQ)

325 Yep, and the "once in a while" gets to be more and more frequent later in life. And the last 18 months, I've had plenty of these days. Back when I went through 2 years of unemployment, almost every day of the 2nd year was one of those days.

Ironically, my one "comfort" during that time was being single and alone. I comforted myself thinking "at least I am not putting a wife and kids through this hardship. I am the only one suffering from my failures."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

(Pssst.....they weren't YOUR failures !)

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2021 08:11 AM (arJlL)

326 The longer someone lives "my life, my way", the less likely they are to going to be open to changing that life. It's not just "wanting" to be married or have kiddos, it's having the flexibility to hang in there for the long haul. Bend not break and all that.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2021 07:23 AM

That is where I have been the last 5-10 years or so. I remember growing up knowing that I wanted to get married and be a father. Knew that since I was a teenager. But now at age 45, having lived alone since age 23, never married, I am set in my ways.

While I still remember that desire to get married and be a father and sometimes still have it - not to mention still desire companionship with a good woman - at this point, I don't see the benefit. Especially in the age of radical feminism where the risk/benefit of either dating or marriage is high risk, low benefit. Risk of #MeToo, risk of woman just up and changing her mind about wanting to be married to you and taking you financially for everything you've worked for in life, taking your kids away from you.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 08:12 AM (Do5/p)

327 Nic cleanser.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at November 01, 2021 08:13 AM (IJES/)

328 314 Two Bolshi Teat Suckers

Wait, this isn't the Art thread?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2021 08:09 AM (pNxlR)

I saw Two Bolshi Teat Suckers open for Four Non-Blondes at Pocono Downs in '93.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 08:13 AM (s2VJv)

329
Kind of hard to fuck that up.
Posted by: Puddin Head

There gas been a steady growth of Li'l Joes elected to the state legislature here for many years. Our greatest fuck ups lie just ahead!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2021 08:14 AM (pNxlR)

330 It has been a while since the election gaslighting. Wasn't it, "you have no standing because you haven't actually counted the votes yet", followed by "votes are in, you lost. Can't overturn this"

Posted by: Downcast at November 01, 2021 08:14 AM (JjMWb)

331 327 Nic cleanser.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at November 01, 2021 08:13 AM (IJES/)

" . . . Private Eye."

- - Firesign Theater

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

332 That Jap joker on the ttain????
Japan does have laws concerning bladed weapons
And thankfully this joker didn't have a gun
Gun shots are .uch more likely to kill than knife wounds

[This is the result after 9 months when you urinate instead of ejaculate into a woman - jjs]

Posted by: Kurt at November 01, 2021 08:14 AM (TQp/e)

333 "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the Fall.'
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatbsby

I have felt that way ever since I can remember.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:15 AM (xSnmX)

334 324
Sometimes I regret the former United States interfering with Japan's abuse of China in the early 20th century.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:11 AM (+LCoQ)

I regret us not nuking going all the way across the Yalu and nuking the Chi-Coms in 1950.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

335 What you see today; supply chain FUBAR, military in disarray, services and goods going down the tubes, lockdowns, multiple vax strategies, etc. is all due to a complete lack of vision and leadership. rezident retard is not in control of the country. Multiple factions are, and they don't communicate amongst each other.

For all of his political failings the one thing Trump was that pisses off the political establishment more than anything else was that he was a leader.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2021 08:16 AM (BFigT)

336 fun personal note - our street was kinda dark last night, and we wanted to do something to let trick or treaters know we had some candy to give them - so I put out Tiki Torches next to the street last night to let them know we were worth a stop. Only had a few, *until* some nicely costume group of about 20 showed up all together! Let me get rid of most of the junk candy I bought - all in all, a fun night.

(okay, I confess I really put out tiki torches because I must be a white supremacist, that's what McCauliffe says)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 08:16 AM (evAgx)

337 If you lived here...you would already be home.

Fireside Theatre.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 01, 2021 08:16 AM (Mb9aP)

338 I have felt that way ever since I can remember.
Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:15 AM (xSnmX)
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Me too. The new year for me always begins after Labor Day weekend.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 01, 2021 08:17 AM (7b2L9)

339 A busy bad mojo Halloween for many.

Red Sox player and broadcaster, Jerry Remy, dies aged 68 of lung cancer.

One spelunker killed in a cave collapse in Brazil. I didn't see if any injured ... and Brazilian cops shoot and kill 25 "suspected" bank robbers during an operation targeting violent gangs.

One person killed and eleven injured in central Mexico gas-line explosion caused by an illegal tap into the line.

Two passenger trains collide in England with some injuries reported.

Besides the Joker nut, a magnitude 5.2 quake hit Tokyo but no reports of any serious damage or tsunami threat.

Two killed and 12+ injured/wounded at suburban Chicago Halloween party. [Freaking media here frequently misuse 'injured' for 'wounded'.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 01, 2021 08:17 AM (UHVv4)

340 One of the hallmarks of Evil is it's general stupidity. One of the many great insights of C. S. Lewis was that a good rule for gauging how Evil some person, organization, or Government was, is to focus on how much effort they put into their own self destruction.

C.S. Lewis just simply read the second half of Romans 1. Its laid out there in pretty tight and concise format.

The general theory is that God is the source of Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Logic and Reason. The noetic effect of The Fall was to be estranged from God and thus be distanced from reflecting these attributes.

The wicked are even more so estranged, and as they are "turned over" for their escalation of sin, they become even crazier and crazier as they distance themselves from the aforementioned items.

There are four stages of reprobation, so I have borrowed the language of Cancer and describe our foes as to where they are in the road to reprobation. Many are at Stage IV Reprobation.

"For whom the gods wish to destroy they first make insane" has been an observation for many millennia.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:17 AM (+LCoQ)

341 Lindsey Graham reportedly called for officers to murder Jan. 6 protestors: "you've got guns...Use them.'

Gayway pundit

Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 08:18 AM (2xGy+)

342 >>The trouble with the first article is seen in the 2nd. SOME cases of chaos may be intended, but some are counterproductive. The latter case is so Clouseau-level inept that I almost have to think we have some moles in their camp.

I think they are so used to partnering with the MSM to pull off these stunts that they are lazy AF. This is DNC SOP false flag action.

The people pretending to be tiki-Nazis are in the leadership of the VA Young Democrats org.. People have analyzed how alleged jounalists Lauren Winsdor and another dude fanned the online rage and led the mob demanding Younkin denounce immediately or he's a total Nazi.

McAuliff isn't some random candidate, he is a longtime Clinton insider and former chairman of the DNC. Not a big plot, simply the tried and true 'wrap-up' smear tactics in action finally getting revealed.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 08:18 AM (bDqIh)

343
Also, in PennsyTucky I'll receive email confirmation of my ballot request, email confirmation that it's in the mail, and email confirmation when it is received at the proper poll.

Is there still some way to hack the system? I suppose but I'm comfortable with it. Outside of Philly this state is glow in the dark red. Our legislature, which enacted this system, glows just as red.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 08:18 AM (dQvv7)

344 @332 This word salad brought to you by Kurt's Random Thought Processes (TM).

Just like Brandon, the animatronic meat puppet, you never know what weird shit will pop out!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 08:18 AM (RRkWn)

345
I saw Two Bolshi Teat Suckers open for Four Non-Blondes at Pocono Downs in '93.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 08:13 AM (s2VJv)

And you made it through without committing suicide?

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

346 More on Marriage:
As mountains of data have long revealed, one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman is in a cohabitating (unmarried) relationship. In addition to its emotional, financial, and sexual disadvantages, cohabitating women are far more likely to suffer domestic violence than are married women. Research by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite in the late 1990s and early 2000s found that cohabitating women were more than three times more likely to suffer domestic violence than were married women.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 08:19 AM (yrol0)

347
Who'd buy their cheap plastic crap?
Posted by: SirHiss

Who would buy their Miracle Chemical (TM), MELAMINE!?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2021 08:19 AM (pNxlR)

348 313. The most viewed movie in the World right now is a Chinese propaganda piece about the ChiCom's magnificent victory over the Yankee Running Dogs at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War

In Red Storm Rising, the Soviet attack on Western Europe was preceded by the release the of remastered versions of classic Stalin era propaganda films, especially those emphasizing the Russian victory over the bestial Germans.

Posted by: , Flying Purple People Eater at November 01, 2021 08:19 AM (qyH+l)

349 Nic cleanser.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Do not use on brass or other soft metals.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 08:20 AM (OCTRt)

350 Posted by: Kurt at November 01, 2021 08:14 AM (TQp/e)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 01, 2021 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

351 348 313. The most viewed movie in the World right now is a Chinese propaganda piece about the ChiCom's magnificent victory over the Yankee Running Dogs at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War

In Red Storm Rising, the Soviet attack on Western Europe was preceded by the release the of remastered versions of classic Stalin era propaganda films, especially those emphasizing the Russian victory over the bestial Germans.
Posted by: , Flying Purple People Eater at November 01, 2021 08:19 AM (qyH+l)

=========

"These will play well in America!"
-Hollywood executive, most likely

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, OCP were the good guys at November 01, 2021 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

352 Wherever you go...There you are

- Me smoking weed in highschool

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at November 01, 2021 08:20 AM (zdpQZ)

353 Hey Kurt......

FBI Stats Show Knives Kill Far More People Than Rifles

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at November 01, 2021 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

354 Only got 20 here last night.

All were appropriately-aged kids and all said 'thank you' and/or 'Happy Halloween' [as well as about eight parents from the sidewalk or driveway].

Disappointed no one had a dog with them as I had some dog treats too.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 01, 2021 08:22 AM (UHVv4)

355 I regret us not nuking going all the way across the Yalu and nuking the Chi-Coms in 1950.
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JJ, the west was defined by its drive to reach and trade with China. It is what Columbus was all about. A shorter, more profitable transit to import Chinese Shit. Please recall that the number one general, Stilwell, was immediately dispatched to China. Access to China defines the West. It would be better if we changed gears to align with Russia.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:22 AM (xSnmX)

356
Tiki nazis come out tonight!
Tiki nazis come one, come all!
The Tiki Moon is shining bright
Nazis come to the tiki ball.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2021 08:22 AM (pNxlR)

357 Hey Kurt......

FBI Stats Show Knives Kill Far More People Than Rifles
Posted by: Sponge

Bats & fists kill more than rifles.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 08:24 AM (OCTRt)

358 Bats & fists kill more than rifles.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 08:24 AM (OCTRt)

Bat virus conjugated vaccines, even more.

Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 08:25 AM (yrol0)

359 338 I have felt that way ever since I can remember.
Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:15 AM (xSnmX)
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Me too. The new year for me always begins after Labor Day weekend.
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As a southerner fall comes a little later, but the change is profound.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 01, 2021 08:25 AM (xSnmX)

360 Gun shots are .uch more likely to kill than knife wounds

OK, I randomly shoot you in the leg or cut your femoral artery. Which one is more survivable?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:25 AM (+LCoQ)

361 356
Tiki nazis come out tonight!
Tiki nazis come one, come all!
The Tiki Moon is shining bright
Nazis come to the tiki ball.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2021 08:22 AM (pNxlR)

I forgot to add that with my Tiki Torches, I also wore an orange Hawaiian silk shirt that I love. Orange with lots of big green palm trees all over it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2021 08:26 AM (evAgx)

362 For VIA & Wyatt Earp, sorry guys. You're not #1.
St. Louis is. (And not even E. St. Louis)

Murder map: Deadliest U.S. cities

https://cbsn.ws/3BuMIRJ

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 08:26 AM (OCTRt)

363 Bat virus conjugated vaccines, even more.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 01, 2021 08:25 AM (yrol0)

mRNA injections to soon take the lead.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:26 AM (+LCoQ)

364 What I fear is the release of a far deadlier virus, bioengineered to decimate round eyes.

**

That really does seem to be the big gamble right now.

Will the next intentional release react with the shot to save you, or to kill you?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax for kids is brand new and never tested, good luck kids, see p14 at November 01, 2021 08:26 AM (/BX3R)

365 OK, I randomly shoot you in the leg or cut your femoral artery. Which one is more survivable?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:25 AM (+LCoQ)
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The random is more survivable than the deliberate and measured. Gut-shot is worse than gut-stabbed. But deadly force and deadly intent are what they are, regardless of means.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2021 08:27 AM (DU+/6)

366 Gun shots are .uch more likely to kill than knife wounds

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Tell you what, you get actors to stop murdering people with fake guns and I'll consider giving up a butterknife.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax for kids is brand new and never tested, good luck kids, see p14 at November 01, 2021 08:28 AM (/BX3R)

367 Fight or flight?

As an X American...can't we do both?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 01, 2021 08:28 AM (Mb9aP)

368 Gun shots are .uch more likely to kill than knife wounds

Not hardly. That why Chicago can have 1500 shot for the year with only 400 dead.

Those are roomie numbers.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 08:29 AM (OCTRt)

369 Haven't read Kurt's comment but I take it, it's anti-2nd and anti-firearm/long-arms. More people are beaten to death using fists and feet every year than are murdered by AR-15 rifles as well as the stabbing info in #353. [The stabbing fact is also true for using any blunt-weapon object too BTW.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 01, 2021 08:29 AM (UHVv4)

370

Art is up. We get your goat. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2021 08:29 AM (s2VJv)

371 If Fox gets the message from viewers walking away, that's great, but we also have to be willing to spend some money to support that of which we approve (or at least, it seems so to me).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 07:48 AM (ITJyK)
~~~~~ That's true to a certain point, but it seems to me that FOX is saying, "You want conservative content? Pay for it."
Posted by: IrishEi at November 01, 2021 08:07 AM (7b2L9)
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For the most part they have hired a lot of really big conservative voices that are all rising stars. Sure they have Cavuto, Wallace and even Baier. These aren't the stars anymore and for the most part as a regular viewer I would say the conservatives and content definitely way outnumber the liberals by a lot.
I know that many don't watch, but I feel there are many stories like the drone illegal alien footage, The 450,000 payment to illegals, Jan 6 and Ashli Babbitt story that they give a lot of coverage that makes it to the mainstream. I think without them these stories would be buried and only read on conservative blogs by conservatives.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 01, 2021 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

372 Horde mind on U.S. murder stats by weapon!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at November 01, 2021 08:30 AM (UHVv4)

373 FDA delays Moderna approval for kids... We're looking at Myocarditis...

The FDA review for an emergency use authorization of Moderna's Vaccine for adolescents as young as 12 years old is being delayed as the agency takes a deeper look into a possible heart risk, Moderna said on Sunday.

The review of the possible heart risk, a heart muscle inflammation called myocarditis, may push back approval until early 2022, the agency warned Moderna.
...
According to the CDC, reported cases of myocarditis have occurred usually a few days after getting the COVID vaccine and mostly after receiving the second dose.

The CDC said that the heart risk has been reported after receiving either the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine mostly among young adults and male adolescents.

okay, so only Moderna? They both are death jabs. Or because Pfizer did not submit EUA for kids?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 01, 2021 08:31 AM (uvIpl)

374 Dr. Steven Quay was interviewed by Martha McCallum (? I think) and said that the Chinese are working on a much deadlier virus with ~ 80% mortality rate. Nipah virus.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 01, 2021 08:32 AM (7b2L9)

375 I wasn't lying when I said I hoped to hear the cry of the children...

Posted by: Pope Frankie The Red at November 01, 2021 08:33 AM (KDCRD)

376 Long day ahead today.

Dad undergoes bowel resection surgery this afternoon. Then I have to drive home afterward.

I'm optimistic and will continue to pray.

Here's hoping this month goes well for all of you.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 01, 2021 08:33 AM (rYZAP)

377 Dr. Steven Quay was interviewed by Martha McCallum (? I think) and said that the Chinese are working on a much deadlier virus with ~ 80% mortality rate. Nipah virus.

How can we help?

Posted by: $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Bill at November 01, 2021 08:34 AM (KDCRD)

378
Dr. Steven Quay was interviewed by Martha McCallum (? I think) and said that the Chinese are working on a much deadlier virus with ~ 80% mortality rate. Nipah virus.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 01, 2021 08:32 AM

There's some indications that they were mixing and matching that with the corona. I read a long and involved analysis, 99% of which flew over my head. My takeaway was there was uncertainty as to whether intentional or just a sloppy lab.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 08:37 AM (dQvv7)

379 Starting today the unvaccinated won't be allowed to board planes, trains, ferries in Canada.

sick mofo's

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 01, 2021 08:40 AM (uvIpl)

380 TORONTO -- The organizer of an adult hockey league in Newmarket, Ont. is looking for answers after one of his players died and 14 others who were all fully vaccinated became infected with COVID-19 in a matter of days.

they will never connect the dots
die, or die! they say

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 01, 2021 08:41 AM (uvIpl)

381 We may be a party of thugs, but we are a party of thugs in arms.

Posted by: West at November 01, 2021 08:41 AM (QY+6a)

382 My takeaway was there was uncertainty as to whether intentional or just a sloppy lab.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021
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My guess would be: both.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 01, 2021 08:43 AM (7b2L9)

383 Good morning, all.

Had to see who wrote the "clueless essay of the day." Lee Siegal. Never heard of him. Anywho...

He said: "But civil war is a rare and exceptional moment in the life of a civilization."

Civil war happens in a nation, dummy, not civilizations. I stopped there, because I want to preserve what working synapes I have.

Posted by: Flyover at November 01, 2021 08:43 AM (Rbu5d)

384 Stasi in Kansas City: Student Denounces Christian Teacher...

And I bet his parents are SO proud...

Posted by: Flyover at November 01, 2021 08:47 AM (Rbu5d)

385 TORONTO -- The organizer of an adult hockey league in Newmarket, Ont. is looking for answers after one of his players died and 14 others who were all fully vaccinated became infected with COVID-19 in a matter of days.

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They weren't FULLY vaccinated.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vax for kids is brand new and never tested, good luck kids, see p14 at November 01, 2021 08:48 AM (hsOar)

386 >>There's some indications that they were mixing and matching that with the corona. I read a long and involved analysis, 99% of which flew over my head. My takeaway was there was uncertainty as to whether intentional or just a sloppy lab.

Was it this one?

https://t.co/mFpGVbMIzE?amp=1

Near the end they show a slide about Nipah testing preoposal that was rejected by DARPA, that Fauci then took to Daszak and Wuhan lab.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 08:52 AM (bDqIh)

387 "I wonder what the folks organizing the tiki torch parade next to Glen Youngkin's campaign bus thought they were doing?"

They thought they were being stunning. And brave. And clever. And sneaky. And stunning and brave.

Posted by: Flyover at November 01, 2021 08:56 AM (Rbu5d)

388 Going through this thread, I'm laughing at the cleverness of the nic adaptations from yesterday.

I'm sorry I missed most of them.

In an unrelated matter: Go vote! Think of it as spitting at your executioner.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 01, 2021 08:59 AM (rYZAP)

389
Was it this one?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 01, 2021 08:52 AM (bDqIh)

Yes. Scary stuff. If what he's saying is true, corona definitely came out of the Wuhan lab.

My perception from general reading is that Nipah has a more gastrointestinal effect, which was exactly my worst experience with corona. Six months later and I still have to watch what I eat and drink.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 01, 2021 09:00 AM (dQvv7)

390 I seem to remember another pants pooper who did it on TV, Congressman Jerry Nadler. Looked like he really had to go, and went will listening to Nancy.

Posted by: Colin at November 01, 2021 09:00 AM (16W4E)

391 "All for no reason whatsoever since man's industrial activity has ZERO impact on climate, but, whatever."

Heretic! HERETIC! HeReTiC!!1!

Posted by: Leftist Imbecile at November 01, 2021 09:06 AM (Rbu5d)

392 Bats & fists kill more than rifles.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 01, 2021 08:24 AM (OCTRt)

***

I saw Bats and Fists open for Motorhead in Detroit '99

Posted by: Pumpkin Spice Truck Monkey Report at November 01, 2021 09:11 AM (flINI)

393 7 We need DeSantis in 2024. Not a former Democrat.
Posted by: Capital Eff at November 01, 2021 06:35 AM (2xGy+)

First, do you really think he could get "elected"?
Second, do you really think he will have any power to do anything? (looks at Trump's presidency)
Third, our county is no more.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the anti-DOTE at November 01, 2021 09:36 AM (hlxe7)

394 OK, I randomly shoot you in the leg or cut your femoral artery. Which one is more survivable?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 01, 2021 08:25 AM

Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?

Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 01, 2021 09:37 AM (Do5/p)

395 30 Has he ever heard of the dozens of people still held in the Garland Archipelago? Has he ever heard of people purged for their political views, i.e. "cancel culture?" I imagine he has heard of Ashli Babbit

You'd be surprised JJ, how many people have closed their ears to these facts. Lots of Americans just don't want to see the fascist totalitarians, operating in plain sight; they don't want to believe it is happening here.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 01, 2021 06:46 AM (ITJyK)

Probably more so that people are afraid to protest, complain, etc for fear of ending up in the cell next to them. That is no joke.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - the anti-DOTE at November 01, 2021 09:40 AM (hlxe7)

396 J.J., you wrote,

It's the Jews of '33 who for the most part didn't see it, or refused to see it, that ultimately lead to what happened 10 years later.

That sentence misspells the second-most misspelled word in English. (The first-most is its/it's, which you spelled correctly here).

Posted by: bradc at November 01, 2021 12:48 PM (zcqRh)

397 A Fake Pope for Fake President

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 01, 2021 05:13 PM (wGqjj)

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