The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 1/6/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and one year ago today. . .

For all intents and purposes, on January 6, 2021, America, as founded, ceased to exist. Having been mortally wounded on Election Day, it was smothered with a My Pillow, its remains cremated at noon on January 20th, 2021.

That is not only the opening sentence of my book, but it is a foundational belief from which I have viewed every event since that day, and really since the moment President - in exile - Donald Trump won the GOP nomination in 2016. If you view American foreign and domestic policy going back decades earlier through that lens, your beliefs about our government and society no longer hold up. It's shattering to realize that since the end of the Second World War, we've been living a lie. There are far too many people, including some very intelligent, erudite pundits who refuse to see things as they are because the truth is too painful to bear, and so they construct this illusion of regular order and business as usual, while casting the blame for our troubles on "mean tweets." Sad and pathetic, but that's human nature. We crave stability, order and security (so does our Enemy, only not quite the same way we do) and so, despite all the evidence about who is running things, what they have done and what they continue to do, so many people prefer to duck their heads in the sand and pretend as if there's nothing out of the ordinary going on. Worse, they blame the victims -- us.

Don't get me wrong; it's not our heritage, our history and the Judeo-Christian principles that guided the Founders and Framers that I am castigating. I was brought up to live as upright and righteous a life as possible, failing and faltering many times in my lifetime but still having enough of a conscience and morality to recognize my failings and faults and try to rectify them, if not avoid them in the first place. America as founded was a miracle. It was "exceptional" in that it was the exception to the historical rule of tyranny and oppression; a free society that for the first time put the individual over government. It depended upon the citizenry respecting the rights of others to live their lives as they saw fit, all within the boundaries of a just and stable law. That was its greatest strength and as it turns out, its Achilles heel.

It's neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights that protects you. It's the collective respect of those documents as written by some 330 million of your fellow citizens that protects you. Especially those who we elect and send to Washington DC, state capitals and city halls all over the nation every two to four years. Without that, you can wipe your ass with those documents. Leave it to John Adams to say it best:

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

And those in power, who crave it more than life itself, have brought us to this place by doing the unthinkable. The Democrats sabotaged an election and then with the assistance of the GOP certified the theft to preserve, not their "sacred democracy" (vomit) but their status as our overlords in a bureaucratic, socialist State completely antithetical to the republic as founded, and becoming more and more tyrannical by the day as its intentions and even existence are exposed. At least to those with eyes to see.

In 44 BC, Roman Senators murdered Caesar, claiming they acted to protect the Republic. In fact, they simply sought power. Their coup d'etat put the final nail in the coffin of a republic that had been dead in deed, if not name, for decades. coup d'etats differ from revolutions in that they're generally orchestrated by or include people within government who seize power -- often by narrowly using or just threatening violence -- resulting in a rapid transition of power. Revolutions are often longer affairs that include much of a country's population and exponentially more bloodshed.
Most coups try to keep much of the society and government apparatus intact, merely changing who's in charge. This illusion of continuity is intended to gain the population's acquiescence by avoiding the appearance of a bloody civil war.
And that's exactly what we got. While Donald Trump does not lie in a bloody toga on the floor of the Senate, America witnessed a coup d'etat equally as vicious. Many will deny one took place because their guy won but, make no mistake, virtually every American knows one did, even if only 56% admit it.

Emphasis mine, as it goes to the nub of my comments on denial as well as those of us who are looking to avoid an actual violent civil war and seek some sort of national divorce or separation. I linked to a piece by Benjamin Braddock yesterday which drew quite a few protestations regarding the essay's premise; to wit, national divorce being a "ridiculous fantasy."

The impetus for this proposal from conservatives and liberals alike is the recognition that division in our country has gone beyond disagreement and good-natured rivalry to outright hatred. Indeed, far from being united by crisis as we were at crucial points in the past, we are now at a point of schadenfreude -- liberals reveling in suffering and disaster when it happens to conservatives, and vice versa.
The American population has always been divided. That is not a particularly new phenomenon, nor is it unique to America. But in the divisions of the past -- even the bloody ones -- we found a way to move forward together. As deep as the cultural differences between different sections of the country were, we were still running on the same basic cultural and political operating system inherited from our European-Christian founding. That is not the case now.
The American population is not just divided, these divisions form subcultures that are entirely alien to one another. Twenty years ago, when challenged by a national crisis in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Americans came together in great unity, which was promptly used by our political class to their own cynical ends. Now, once again challenged by a national crisis, the American people are setting themselves against each other and our political class is using this, too, to their own cynical ends. . . .
. . . But a word of warning is in order. The kind of national divorce conservatives have in mind is the amicable separation that Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin sought when they introduced the term "conscious uncoupling" to the cultural lexicon. A world in which two parties could break up without losing everything. It's an appealing idea. But when liberals say they're considering a national divorce, they mean they want to take your kids, half your money (plus monthly payments), have you living in a dismal studio apartment furnished solely with an air mattress and a microwave, all while continuing to nag you relentlessly and blame you for their problems. . .
. . . The moment that a conservative breakaway nation achieved independence and success there would be plans already underway for color revolutions and occupation by gender diverse commissars. They will never leave us alone. And they will never let us go. Why would they? . .
. . . The solution is not some national divorce or civil war. The solution is for the Right to stop being rank amateurs when it comes to politics and governance. Purge the grifters and incompetents. Bring back the old sharks and have them train a new generation in the art of election warfare. And once in power, actually use that power to purge or destroy the institutions responsible for brainwashing so many of our countrymen. The Right has to articulate and act on a positive vision for America and break out of this learned helplessness that we find ourselves in as we point and object while the other side steadily achieves their goals. We have to learn from the Left in order to defeat it.

Full disclosure: Benjamin Braddock wrote the wonderful foreword to my book and is a friend. That said, while I do agree with him 100% about why the Left would never accept an amicable break up, it doesn't jibe I think with his observations about the nature of the split in the first place. As for post 9/11 unity, that lasted long enough for the Left to blame Islamophobia and Israel and then for Dubya to bleat that this is not a war on Islam; i.e. about 72 hours. As for Republicans adopting the same attitude and killer instincts about elections, this presupposes that elections are going to be free and fair going forward. 2020 should be a real wake-up call about that.

In any case, the salient point is that the Left and Right, if you will, do not merely disagree on issues. The disagreement is with the very nature of America as founded in the first place. The Left hate everything about this country, its history and its citizens. I do not see how there can be any kind of reconciliation at all; the only way to reconcile a shark with chum is by the shark ripping into it and swallowing the bits. As of right now, a state of national divorce does indeed exist. The problem is our side does not have any sovereignty or control of its affairs and is at the literal mercy of an illegitimate junta that is hell bent on maintaining power forever.

If there is any sort of positive spin I can put on the situation, it is that more and more people are recognizing the insanity of Leftist Democrat policies. From decriminalizing crime, the complete insanity over Chinese COVID and vaccines, stagflation and economic dislocation, the silencing of any voices of dissent about all the preceding, the castration - figurative and literal - of our military preparedness and the mind- and body-raping of our children in the indoctrination mills, it seems as if even lifelong Democrats have had enough and are heading for the hills; that is, any red state they can get to. This time, it seems that they aren't what Mark Levin lamented as "locusts" but actually even switching party affiliation to GOP. Now all we have to do is get rid of the GOP and victory is ours.

As we Psaki-Psircle back to the top vis a vis January 6, 2021, Ace talked about it yesterday, via a quote from Yossi Gestetner. To wit, fuck Ted Cruz.

Yossi Gestetner
@YossiGestetner
The minute you call it a "violent terrorist attack on the capitol," you lose most of your standing when complaining about the DOJ, Dems and Media because they have diff views than you how to handle a "violent terrorist attack on the capitol."
Ted Cruz: "We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week. And it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol."
"It is also worth asking ... What could have prevented the breach of the Capitol? What could have prevented the riot getting as far as it did?"
Cruz, the "fighter."
He called now Jan 6th "a violent terrorist attack on the capitol."
Hahaha.
GOP - Group of Putzes.

Until I'm blue in the face, whatever violence that happened on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol was either pre-planned or egged-on by the FBI/DOJ, Capitol Police and their Antifa BLM confederates. The hapless folks who did nothing more than misdemeanor trespass are languishing as political prisoners to this very day. It was every bit a false-flag Reichstag Fire event used to demonize political opponents and delegitimize any criticism of the outcome of the 2020 election. Still is.

Yes the Democrats stabbed us in the back but it was the GOP that twisted the knife by certifying a fraudulent Electoral College vote. Schmucks like Romney and Flake are easy to spot and deal with. But I supported Ted Cruz in '16. No more. With a GOP like this, forget about them getting down and dirty with the Dems during election season. At this point, I trust Manchin and Sinema more with our fate than Cruz.

Oh, just fuck the lot of them. And as some commenter asked yesterday "why didn't Trump issue a blanket pardon to anyone arrested on January 6?" Oh, for sure, a hell like even he hadn't endured the previous four years would have rained down on him. But then again, so what? Scores of innocent people are languishing as political prisoners and he has not said a word about it. I am a diehard Trump supporter and can't thank him enough for what he did during his tenure. But his silence on this is deafening.

It only underscores what I have come to realize. We cannot put our faith in a man or woman, or a party. It's now on us. The world has changed, irrevocably and in a way too frightening to contemplate. But it's in our face. The sooner we let go of the past and what was done, the more we can maintain and focus our anger. This infamy cannot stand, if for no other reason than one day we may not be able to overcome it. How we overcome it, I cannot tell you. I wish I could. But we can't know the future. The Enemy that did this - powerful as they are - are not infallible.

Remember January 6th. May the Lord deliver His divine retribution on the evil that perpetrated this disaster on us.

Heads up: I will be a guest of Steve Noxon (who some may remember as Wiser Bud) on his "Talk of the Town" show this morning to talk about my book and the events of one year ago today at 11:30AM Eastern on WATR 97.7FM, 1320AM out of Waterbury, CT. If you're not in the area, then I believe you can listen live at WATR.com. And speaking of my book:

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"What kind of country are we living in?
When Government Uses the Private Sector as Agents of Censorship
Terry Jeffrey: "There is no doubt that [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccines have been good for America and for the world. They have saved lives. [debatable - jjs] But the president of the United States does not have the unilateral authority to order any American to undergo any medical procedure. If the Supreme Court were to grant this unjustified power to Biden now, who does not acknowledge the right to life of the most innocent and vulnerable human beings (the unborn), what would he or his successors use it for next?"
Can Joe Biden Order You to Be Sterilized?
"They've got to come around. We're not going to win this war -- we're going to be talking about [Chinese] COVID this time next year if we don't get more people to do the right thing. So we can't write them off. We can penalize them more. We can say you will have to pay more on your hospital bill. You can't get life insurance or disability insurance at affordable rates if you aren't vaccinated. Those companies should not treat us as equals in terms of what the financial burdens are that that disease imposes."
NYU Medical Ethics Prof on CNN: "Penalize" Unvaccinated Americans -- Deny Them Affordable Health Insurance
"Cuomo's narcissistic sociopathy allowed him to callously sacrifice the lives of thousands of older people for the putative greater good of getting rid of President Trump."
Angel of Death Cuomo Skates on Sex and Mass Murder

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

"Stepping away from the left's relentless narrative allows one to see with clarity the coup that allowed Democrats to place Joe Biden in the White House."
There Was No Insurrection But There Was a Coup
"Rather than focusing on improving the security of the Capitol and adopting all the recommendations from the U.S. Capitol Police, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are instead using their illegitimate partisan sham of a committee to shred Constitutional precedent and punish their political opponents."
Stefanik Torches Pelosi on Eve of January 6 Anniversary: Speaker "Bears Responsibility" for Capitol Riot
Victor Davis Hanson: "Stone-cold sober elites are systematically waging a far more dangerous and insidious revolution in the shadows than anything threatened by the American Right." (Hanson is correct except his last paragraph where he still labels our people as "rioters." - jjs)
Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
"You probably still need to turn yourself in."
Insurrection Day Revisited
"Democrats are riled up over a poll showing that most Republicans still don't believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected president."
Actually, Democrats Are Less Accepting of Presidential Election Defeats Than Republicans
Mollie Hemingway: "Pelosi understandably felt her best bet to preserve power was, with a massive assist from left-wing media, to somehow turn disgruntled Donald Trump supporters' riot at the Capitol into the next 9/11." (assuming actual Trump supporters and not DOJ glowies and Antifa confederates did the rioting - jjs)
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Owns the J6 Commission, and That's Why it Failed
". . . what will be different is that we will be paying much more attention to the information that we gather ahead of time, we will be putting together a better plan, we will be getting the help that we need, pre-planned, here on campus, before we need it, not making panicked calls later on." (reading the Reichstag Fire plan instead of winging it and killing another Babbit and Boyland, eh? - jjs)
Capitol Police Chief: "We Will Likely Be Tested Again"; Not If, But "When"
"Despite the fact that, as reported by Human Events News today, what really happened on January 6th isn't clear at this point, they're using this symbolically and treating it as though it was an attack on the American election system."
Massachusetts Secretary of State Picks Propagandized Jan 6th Rally for 'Non-Partisan' Event
"Rather than investigate the security failures at the Capitol, with all evidence pointing to the House speaker's negligence and FBI malfeasance, the show-trial committee has instead placed its focus on seeking retribution against political dissidents with punishment for any and all who possess the slightest affiliation with the former Republican president."
Jan. 6 Committee Going After Hannity Texts Exposes Probe's True Purpose
"Bruno Cua's case isn't just about him. It is about ensuring that justice in America is even-handed and dispensed with leniency and reason."
January 6 Defendant Deserves Justice Tempered with Leniency and Reason
"'Trespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism' is the standard the Biden [junta] is using to prosecute defendants. But the official Jan. 6 storyline is getting shot to pieces in federal court. "
Dems' and Media Who Portray January 6 as a Near Fatal Attack on Democracy Are Absurd

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"What we experience as Democrats grow aggressive for power might parallel what has happened in other countries."
Police State? Genocide? Could It Happen Here?
Daniel Greenfield: "Wearing a Chanel face mask, he yelled, "Black Lives Matter", and threw the burning box." (if only he yelled "allah backbar' -- oh, never mind - jjs)
Two Black Lives Matter Arsonists Face Serious Prison Time
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS
FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Kids shut out of classrooms as union clashes with district officials." (odds of Ron Klain via Biden pulling a Reagan and abolishing the AFT? - jjs)
Chicago Schools Close After Teachers' Union Votes for Remote Learning
"Go get another job!"
Democrats and Republicans Lambaste Teachers' Unions
I guess this puts them at odds with the teachers unions, nein?
Piss-Hockey Psaki: U.S. Schools Are "More Than Equipped" to Remain Open During Chinese COVID-19 Surge
"Victims of government's misguided attempts to parent us out of the [Chinese] COVID crisis."
The Kids Are Unhappy
"That rate is less than half the 6.5% of cases that needed hospitalization exactly a year ago, when the average daily case count was about 250,000, the data shows."
Chinese COVID-19 Hospitalizations Down 50% Compared to 2021 Peak, CDC Data Shows
"I couldn't even get my 4 year old vaccinated if I wanted. Everyone else with me was vaxxed and boosted."
MSLSD Host Freaks Out After Being Denied Indoor Service Because His Four-Year-Old Was Not Vaxxed

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"Our differences on [Chinese] Covid policy are ultimately about risk-benefit assessment, not politics."
Public Health and Risk
"Suggests 'suspected positive' cases should be incarcerated in holding facility." (now go back to 1981 and do AIDS! - jjs)
Scottish Newspaper Asks Readers if Chinese "COVID Internment Camps" Should be Introduced
"They do not prevent the vaccinated from contracting or transmitting the virus. The irony is that the CDC, a government agency, readily admits this, but other sectors of the government are carrying on as if this vitally important new information did not exist at all."
The Vaccine is a Dud (worse than a dud; in many cases lethal - jjs)
"The only hope is that enough Americans will have been inoculated after this bout of madness to be immune to, and deeply skeptical of, the next attempt to erode their rights."
Will We Reach Herd Immunity Against the Tyranny Variant?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Officials saw the economy had strengthened more than they had expected despite still high levels of pandemic infections and expressed the view that the labor market was nearing full recovery."
Fed Minutes Point to Earlier Hikes and Faster Balance-Sheet Rundown to Thwart Bidenflation
"Japanese automaker Toyota sold more cars in the United States than any other manufacturer, edging historical bestseller General Motors out of the top spot. This marks the first time since 1931 that GM isn't the top-selling automaker in the states. Before them, Ford was number one."
For the First Time Ever, the Best-Selling Carmaker in America Isn't an American Carmaker
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Bragg's "Office shall not seek a sentence of life without parole."
Soros-Backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Won't Seek Prison Sentences for a Bunch of Crimes
"We've seen the damage and disorder caused by brazen criminals across the country through terrifying smash-and-grab robberies, and we must continue to innovate to stay ahead of this national crime trend," Moody said in a statement.
Florida Attorney General Announces Legislative Efforts to Fight 'Smash-and-Grab' Retail Crimes
"For leaders of the Democratic Party, these developments pose a particularly frustrating problem because they pay an electoral price for policy proposals and rhetoric that are outside party control,' [Thomas B.] Edsall aptly concluded. The entire story is worth your time."
New York Times Offers Stunning Report on Left-Wing Racial Fundraising
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Welcome to the enlightenment of 'Ethnic Studies.'"
California Pushes Kids to Worship Aztec Gods
". . . they want a complete social and cultural revolution that they end up on top of."
James Lindsay: Bill Gates, George Soros Use Crackpot Disg-Race Theory Advocates as "Useful Idiots" to Co-Opt America for Their Own Purposes
"We take issue with your conversation on systemic racism, finding your words hurtful and unnecessarily divisive," wrote the Editors of Emory Law Journal to U. San Diego Law Professor Lawrence Alexander.
Emory Law Journal Refuses To Publish Scholarly Article Challenging "Systemic Racism" Finding It "Hurtful and Unnecessarily Divisive"
"From these stories you can only conclude that today's academic community is utterly bankrupt, dominated and controlled by ignorant, close-minded, and spoiled individuals unwilling to discuss any subject rationally. Instead, if someone says something they dislike, they throw tantrums, and their administration immediately gives in to them. In such a culture free and intelligent thought is impossible. No one in these schools can get a good education. Instead, students are taught that intellectual debate is nothing more than silencing and oppressing those you disagree with. For this country to survive these institutions must die, now. If it happened yesterday it would not be soon enough."
Today's Blacklisted American: A Short List of Just a Few of the Academics Fired for Having Opinions
"Louis Menand's recent New Yorker essay shows just how lost our universities are."
What Are the Great Books Good For?
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"These spikes in deaths follow changes in immigration and border security policies put in place by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden on his first day in office."
2021: Report Shows Migrants Missing, Dead Along Southwest Border Hit All-Time High
"This week, in statements to the media, Gov. Tom Wolf (D) seemingly confirmed Biden's secret migrant flights to Pennsylvania but excused them as merely a stopping point for passengers' final destination, which remains unknown."
Biden Accused of Using Coronavirus Funds to Bankroll Secret Flights of Border Crossers into U.S.
"Macabre as it seems, de Blasio's reign may have been merely the prelude to rock bottom."
Why Bill DeBolshevik Was America's Wokest, Worst Mayor
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"GOP and moderate senators should not cooperate."
Democrats Use Jan. 6 Bloodlust to Push Fake Voting Rights Bill
"The Secretary of State's office is also considering issuing to subpoenas to secure the evidence, detailed in a complaint filed by the voter integrity group True the Vote from November 30th."
Georgia Officials Launch Investigation Into Illegal Ballot Harvesting
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Out and proud anti-Semites are organized and have the backing of large and prominent corporations and nonprofits. But others are fighting back -- and winning."
Fighting Back Against the Establishment Anti-Semites
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Zach DeGregorio, the former Chief Financial Officer of Spaceport America, alleges that one of [New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan] Grisham's political appointees, Alicia Keyes, encouraged him to falsify an economic impact study. He also alleges that Keyes mishandled a bond refinancing for the purpose of defrauding the state. When DeGregorio attempted to report the wrongdoing, he claimed, he was threatened with investigations and a firing."
Former Space Company Executive Alleges Serial Lawbreaking By Democrat Governor
"Looks [like] Youngkin failed his first test in VA, with traffic stopped for 10-12 hrs on 95 in Virginia."
Liberals Pounce on Snowstorm Traffic Disaster in Virginia to Blame Glenn Youngkin - - Who Hasn't Been Sworn in Yet
"Swalwell is the latest addition to the list of hypocritical liberals who seek refuge from medical tyranny in Gov. Ron DeSantis' Florida."
Pro-Mandate Eric "Fang-Fang-Bang-Bang" Swalwell Spotted Maskless in Florida
"They got me!"
"Eggroll-in-the-Hay" Swalwell Jokingly Demands Pulitzer for Daily Mail After He's Caught Maskless in Florida
"Epstein had ties with Prince Andrew, Harvard University and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates." (and Bill Clinton! Hello?! - jjs)
After Maxwell Trial, Epstein Associates Remain Silent
$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION, DEBT CEILING/BUDGETARY INSANITY
"Manchin previously told reporters at a press gaggle Tuesday that there was 'no negotiation' going on between himself and Biden."
Democrats Expect Biden To Resume Talks With Manchin, Despite Manchin Comments
POLITICS
"Florida Republicans outnumber registered Democrats for the first time in the state's history, as Blue State [Chinese] COVID refugees tick the Big R on their voter registrations." (instead of locusts, maybe freebirds? - jjs)
"Jaw-Dropping" Gains for GOP in Florida as Chinese COVID Refugees Register RED
Oh, FFS. If anything the letter was polite. Sometimes the NY Post is just so way off base it's ridiculous.
Florida Resident Tells "Woke" New Yorkers to Head Back North in Scathing Letter
"Irrelevancy, failed ambition no excuse for assaulting the truth."
ALERT: Hillary Clinton Is Spreading Lies on Social Media
"Tlaib, who now lives in the newly-drawn 13th Congressional District, suddenly could have faced a primary challenger in her home district. The 13th still includes Detroit but also some conservative-leaning southern suburbs."
Could Retirements and Redistricting Doom Rancida Taliban in Michigan?
"I'm after a common factor which explains the loss of public support for three political leaders. Each quite different from one another."
Chinese Covid, 'Climate Change,' and the Theory of Everything
"There's a dispute as to whether the White House or the Marine Corps band wanted the song but it's so horribly awful and inappropriate that both disavow it." (first few notes are from "F-Troop!" - jjs)
Benny Hill Had His Theme Music and Now Jill Biden Does Too
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"A Reuters data scientist questioned the Black Lives Matter narrative -- so the company fired him."
The Price of Dissent
"The multi-million-dollar program is called Report for America (RFA). . . The Democrats made a play for the newsrooms in their "Build Back Better" bill by proposing tax credits and government funding to newspapers. It was a move suggested by the founders of Report for America. But are Mark Zuckerberg and the U.S. government the answer? Would their influence make local news better -- or beholden? We know the answer."
Facebook Is Taking Over Local News the Way It Took Over Local Voting Offices
Robert Spencer: " . . . Twitter yawns."
Iran's Khamenei Threatens Trump on Twitter
"How Facebook takes you from being just a product -- to being enslaved."
Video: Metaverse! Sign Your Life Away Now!
"Heroes of Liberty, launched on November 14, offers biographies of such American heroes as President Ronald Reagan and economist Thomas Sowell to young readers. On December 23, Facebook locked the account, preventing it from posting ads. When the publisher appealed the ruling, Facebook responded by claiming that because Heroes of Liberty didn't 'comply with [their] policy on Low Quality or Disruptive Content,' it was permanently disabling the account."
After Public Outcry, Facebook Reverses Decision Banning Conservative Children's Book Publisher
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"As nuclear deal negotiations advance, Biden won't account for every dollar Iran receives as a result of lifted sanctions."
GOP Slams Biden Decision To Ignore Mandate To Disclose How Iran Sanctions Relief Funds Terrorism
"Putin seems ready for a fight. But are we?" (it's a diversion; Taiwan's security is crucial, Ukraine is a sideshow - jjs)
Western Snowflakes and Russian Sabers
"Israelis intuitively understand BDS is inherently anti-Semitic. When will the Israeli leadership follow suit?"
Does Anti-Semitism Exist in Israel?
"The continuing slanders against the Jewish State."
Archbishop Tutu's Legacy -- And the Apartheid Slur Against Israel
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"More and more it seems this Russian anti-sat test was a deliberate act of sabotage by the Putin government, aimed at harming U.S. assets."
Debris From Russian Anti-Satellite Test Threatens More Than ISS
"Ma Huateng's company censors the Chinese internet and spies on users."
Controversial Chinese Tech Billionaire Gives Millions to Elite American Universities
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "Unlike their Western counterparts, many Muslims are fond of their heroes of the past -- particularly the jihadist types who for centuries thrived on terrorizing the West."
Turkish Television Series Makes Heroes of Terrorists, Slavers, and Rapists
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"The building is reportedly owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority and was divided into multiple units. It is believed 26 people lived in the building."
Philadelphia Fire: 13 Dead, Including 7 Children, In Devastating Loss
"As James Fenimore Cooper could already write in 1838, 'There is getting to be so much public right, that private right is overshadowed and lost. A danger exists that the ends of liberty will be forgotten.'"
Say, What About Property and Government?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"While the power plant would've boosted electricity supply in the New England region, opponents of the plan said it would be counterproductive to local climate goals."
Biden Junta Blocks Natural Gas Project In New England
"The green socialist left is increasingly embracing tyranny in the form of authoritarian power to act on their viewpoint on climate change."
Tyranny in the Name of Climate Change
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The state is actually near a regional fault system created when the Appalachian Mountains were formed that is long dormant -- but could be waking back up." (climate change to be blamed any minute now - jjs)
Scientists Baffled by 10 Recent Earthquakes That Have Shaken South Carolina
"The development of this capability continues China's effort to lead the world in all areas of research, led I think by the many high government officials in positions of great power after cutting their teeth as managers for China's space effort. These individuals understand how to build big technology projects at the cutting edge of science, and are likely pushing for more such research in all fields, such as the experiments in fusion energy above."
China Takes Global Lead in Fusion Research
"Capitalism in space: Starlink in India has stopped taking new preorders and is refunding all previous preorders of its internet service because it had failed to get the proper regulatory permits for selling its service."
Starlink Temporarily Backs Out of India Due to Regulatory SNAFU
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"One portion of the messaging manual admits that transgender activists are losing the debate on trans youth in sports, even among their base, though the trio of organizations has refused to publish the full unfavorable data set." (what are they hiding, besides their junk? - jjs)
Trans Activists Refuse To Publish Unfavorable Data On Trans Youth In Sports Debate
"Biden's proposed executive order on law enforcement would order men identifying as women to be transferred to female prisons."
Leaked Biden Plan Would House Violent Men In Women's Prison Cells
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The ideological schizophrenia of Curb Your Enthusiasm."
A Tale of Two Larrys
"Or better, it could ditch its finalists list and go for something their masters will really love: the Washington Oppressed. The Washington Victims. The Washington Transgenders. The Washington Proles. Finally, some names that will satisfy everyone."
Former Washington Redskins to Pick Their New, Politically Correct Name From Seven Candidates on Feb. 2
"Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce's mission is to 'foster equity, inclusion and economic prosperity for the LGBTQ community through strategic policy, professional enrichment, ally partnerships and economic development.'" (after that "noose" bullshit, NASCAR's as dead as the NFL with this, or it should be - jjs)
NASCAR, Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber Of Commerce Announce Partnership
"Confession time: I've never read the Harry Potter books or watched the movies. So I had to go to YouTube to see these creatures, and they look like a caricature of something. But it's still a leap to me to throw full-blown anti-Semitism accusations around against Rowling. But did Stewart accuse Rowling of anti-Semitism? He says no." (meh, this is just Leibowitz trying to get in good with the transexual pervert crowd - jjs)
Did Jon Stewart Call J.K. Rowling an Anti-Semite?
"As the plot unfolds for the Mossbachers during the show's six episodes, a handful of traditionally conservative themes emerge. Here's how . . ."
How HBO's The White Lotus is Sneaky Conservative
HITHER & YON
"The Canadian philosopher holds that we must escape our selfishness to understand ourselves."
Charles Taylor at 90
"The 2001 film's ambitious photo realism came wrapped in a box office dud."
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Tried, and Failed, to Change Cinema

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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:41 AM (DU+/6)

2 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:41 AM (DU+/6)

3 Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 07:41 AM (3D/fK)

4 Good morning!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 06, 2022 07:43 AM (yEBFM)

5 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 07:43 AM (Do5/p)

6 Mornin', all. Here's to avoiding the media today other than JJ and Ace.

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at January 06, 2022 07:44 AM (ZSsrh)

7 Happy Janteenth Insurrectionists

Posted by: The Great Negro at January 06, 2022 07:45 AM (hbeK4)

8 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 06, 2022 07:46 AM (u7pQw)

9 morning all. happy insurrection day. coveffe is ready...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at January 06, 2022 07:46 AM (8D42x)

10 Nancy is hiding in plain sight. She had a big role in creating 1/06 False Flag, including by running the Capitol Police. Prove me wrong.

The "insurrection" also had the effect of diverting attention from the Election Steal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 07:46 AM (ZHVt1)

11 "Or better, it could ditch its finalists list and go for something their masters will really love: the Washington Oppressed. The Washington Victims. The Washington Transgenders. The Washington Proles. Finally, some names that will satisfy everyone."

Former Washington Redskins to Pick Their New, Politically Correct Name From Seven Candidates on Feb. 2

Most of the finalist names are pretty stupid. Only two I sortof like are "Washington Armada" and "Washington RedHawks". With the Armada mascot name, they could come up with a whole bunch of military-themed stuff. RedHawks would keep with typical animal nicknames for mascots.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 07:46 AM (Do5/p)

12 Hiya Catherine !

Posted by: JT at January 06, 2022 07:46 AM (arJlL)

13 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 07:47 AM (BFigT)

14 Happy Stolen Election Day! Never forget that the Democrats stole an election and the GOP certified it.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 07:47 AM (B0mGw)

15 Realistically, the US as founded ceased to exist on January 20th 2009. That era of the SCOAMF also marked the last time a real budget was passed and on and on.

Bottom line, the US is a shuffling zombified corpse, it's chains will rattle for a time but ultimately, the chains will fall silent. And then the real struggle will begin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 07:47 AM (gakDF)

16 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2022 07:48 AM (5kI0z)

17 There are far too many people, including some very intelligent, erudite pundits who refuse to see things as they are because the truth is too painful to bear, and so they construct this illusion of regular order and business as usual, while casting the blame for our troubles on "mean tweets." ... so many people prefer to duck their heads in the sand and pretend as if there's nothing out of the ordinary going on. Worse, they blame the victims -- us.
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Worse still, they're liars. To their very core. There are damn few people who I think are not liars at the core. Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Donald Trump. That's about it. The rest of them - even the ones who pretend to be the right side of anything - are not avoiding the reality. They're advancing and encouraging what's going on. They're not hiding their heads in the sand, they're working the shovels to bury everyone else in it.

They "don't see it" because they're the ones doing it. They do see it, and they're working their asses off to make things worse and drag us further from the foundational ideal. They aren't avoiding a harsh reality, they're contributing to and designing it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:48 AM (DU+/6)

18 @14

>>Happy Stolen Election Day! Never forget that the Democrats stole an election and the GOP certified it.

Not just certified it, aided and abetted it.

As has been said, the GOP is an illegitimate politically party and are not the answer to any of the problems we face and the sooner they are relegated to the ash bin of history the better off we will be.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 07:49 AM (gakDF)

19 Vaxxed and boosted. What a joke.

Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

20 Washington Trash Pandas.

It keeps with the animal names, and is relatable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 07:50 AM (3D/fK)

21 Hi, JT.

I sure wish I could crawl under a rock and be unaware of the craziness around me. Reading about early '90s politics reminds me that I once was there, with the excuse of being a full-time college student working almost full-time. If only our rulers would stand to be ignored.

Posted by: Catherine at January 06, 2022 07:50 AM (ZSsrh)

22 If you view American foreign and domestic policy going back decades earlier through that lens, your beliefs about our government and society no longer hold up. It's shattering to realize that since the end of the Second World War, we've been living a lie.
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Right. Once the blinders come off and you see the men behind the mask, you can't unsee it. We could not have gotten to where we are without the concerted, long-term effort of just about everyone involved in the government and other major institutions. We've been *in* that "skin suit" phase for a long time, probably at least 15 or 20 years. The skin suit phase ended with the election of Trump, and we're in a relatively straightforward will-to-power stage now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:51 AM (DU+/6)

23 The note on climate mongers defeating a nat gas electricity plant in the NE made me smile. It is a fact sunny Jim that Europe will very soon approve a "green" projects electricity projects that are nuclear and natural gas fueled. It actually made the NYT recently as well. Even Europe gets it.

Posted by: 0 Days Since I Gave Up Posting Here at January 06, 2022 07:51 AM (QZ/dC)

24 Washington Holes. The Waholes.

Posted by: f'd at January 06, 2022 07:51 AM (vrz2I)

25 Ashli Babbitt Day

Posted by: ... at January 06, 2022 07:52 AM (mNCNl)

26 "Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce's mission is to 'foster equity, inclusion and economic prosperity for the LGBTQ community through strategic policy, professional enrichment, ally partnerships and economic development.'" (after that "noose" bullshit, NASCAR's as dead as the NFL with this, or it should be - jjs)

NASCAR, Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber Of Commerce Announce Partnership

Unfortunately, the NFL is doing just fine, despite years of BLM-promoting BS. And I doubt this will hurt NASCAR at all either. There is a reason people are called "fans". Fanatics will ignore the nonsense, because they are addicted to watching their sport of choice.

Same as anything else. Parents are still taking their kids to Disney theme parks, still buying Disney+ for their kids. Few parents have the desire to tell their kids they will be denied Disney going forward, because of Disney being woke SJW garbage. Long past is the time in this country where we punished things like the Dixie Chicks ripping on the USA with a boycott.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 07:52 AM (Do5/p)

27 Good morning! I plan on staying away from all media today. I cannot stand the constant lying. It's a brisk 12 degrees out. Later I have a shift at Shep's and I can love on my doggies for awhile.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 06, 2022 07:52 AM (nxdel)

28 Sorry to ruin your Insurrection Day party, dems. I will be out of pocket most of the day.

Posted by: Count Gump de Monet at January 06, 2022 07:52 AM (4I/2K)

29 Yep, masks are sure coming off - ~~discovering~~ confirming that Ted Cruz is nothing less than a Swamp Creature.

At least he has come out of the closet now as an enemy of We The People.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 07:53 AM (+LCoQ)

30 @19

>>Vaxxed and boosted. What a joke.

All numbers are garbage but using their own numbers, in January of 2021 right when the vaccines were introduced there were 235k cases of Chinese Bat Flu, fast forward to 2022 with a year of vaxxing and boosting, there are 700k cases of Chinese Lung Rot.

I know we have true believers even on our side, but in the apt words of the Meat Puppet...

COME ON MAN!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 07:53 AM (gakDF)

31 So when Chuckles schedules his filibuster vote and Cruz crosses over, and some other GOP stalwart decides to stay home - will we not be entertained?

Posted by: 0 Days Since I Gave Up Posting Here at January 06, 2022 07:53 AM (QZ/dC)

32 Today all America stands in deep mourning around the empty coffin of Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at January 06, 2022 07:54 AM (8JQem)

33 Any business operating in the US who receives money from the government in any form must ensure their employees get a monthly booster. Employee boosters shall be logged in individual MyFedVax accounts. Any business with a non compliant employee will receive no government funds for the quarter. The geolocation features of the MyFedVax app can be used by any US entity to gate users and customers who are considered noncompliant with current vaccine guidelines. This is the only way to ensure everyone is safe and prevent strangers and antivax family from killing your grandma.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 07:54 AM (sUoqW)

34 The note on climate mongers defeating a nat gas electricity plant in the NE made me smile. It is a fact sunny Jim that Europe will very soon approve a "green" projects electricity projects that are nuclear and natural gas fueled. It actually made the NYT recently as well. Even Europe gets it.
Posted by: 0 Days Since I Gave Up Posting Here at January 06, 2022 07:51 AM (QZ/dC)

Freezing and dying in the dark has a way of clarifying your muddled and misbegotten thought processes.

Posted by: Count Gump de Monet at January 06, 2022 07:55 AM (4I/2K)

35 Ann Coulter has an interesting piece on Breitbart about the Epstein cover-up. Shocking if true, and I believe it. It came up during the Ghisaine trial.

The FBI had a warrant on Epstein's NYC mansion, went in and pried open a secret safe that had pictures and videos of underage girls having sex with men, and then left without securing this evidence.

FBI says the initial warrant didn't cover this evidence. When they came back days later this evidence had mysteriously vanished.

Let's not forget that the FBI visited Pedo Island and torched the place.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 07:55 AM (ZHVt1)

36 Happy Thursday, everyone! And remember the next time someone sneers about how a bunch of rednecks can't fight the feds, remind them how terrified the feds were over a bunch of tourists on this day.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 06, 2022 07:55 AM (4olE8)

37 Most coups try to keep much of the society and government apparatus intact, merely changing who's in charge. This illusion of continuity is intended to gain the population's acquiescence by avoiding the appearance of a bloody civil war.
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There is another factor to the successful coup. There are two stages. The first stage is to take power. We're through the first stage. It worked because the coup in fact simply called upon the people who had already taken over during the silent coup that was being executed for a long time but went into overdrive during TFG's era. So that's finished.

But once you have power, you face a choice. Loot and oppress as quickly as possible so that you'll get out alive when the foundation collapses, or take the long view and undo some of the worst stuff so that your subjects tolerate or even support you. The post-coup administration is doing *neither.* They're making things worse, but enriching themselves fairly little. When it comes apart, most of them (barring the bigshots like Gates) will suffer, too. They're fucking up stage two pretty catastrophically.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

38 Oh well, off to church to celebrate Epiphany, at least there is a rock to cleft to - would be really scary if it were not so.

Posted by: 0 Days Since I Gave Up Posting Here at January 06, 2022 07:56 AM (QZ/dC)

39 There are far too many people, including some very intelligent, erudite pundits who refuse to see things as they are...

You see, you see? I see things as they are and I say, 'no!' Uh, wait, you see things as they are not and you s- ... Wait, uh, you see things, do you see things as they are? What do you say when you see things?

If I see things as they are, I would ask 'why' or 'why not?' ...

Posted by: George Costanza at January 06, 2022 07:57 AM (Do5/p)

40 My $0.02 is that once, we shoulda marched back there today....but more kinectically.

Posted by: Troy at January 06, 2022 07:57 AM (FSBb7)

41 Heh, that story about the Killingly Energy Center power plant project in CT getting nixed by the fedgov is hilarious. They say it was killed because it would be 'counterproductive to local environmental goals'.

The Town of Killingly is run by Republicans, (and not fake ones, actual conservatives). The outrage is from out-of-state, and very large progtard groups, not locals.

Posted by: squeakywheel at January 06, 2022 07:57 AM (tW7e2)

42 Unfortunately, the NFL is doing just fine, despite years of BLM-promoting BS. And I doubt this will hurt NASCAR at all either. There is a reason people are called "fans". Fanatics will ignore the nonsense, because they are addicted to watching their sport of choice.

Just because you seek a binary result, doesn't mean that the products are not repelling audiences.

NASCAR has dropped a lot of its audience. A huge part of its environment has been the tailgating and the activities within the track where people would spend real time and money travelling the circuit in their RVs.

Even NBC is dropping its televised coverage of NASCAR.

I try not to get swept up in the ideological tribalism, my problems with NASCAR have been similar with the NFL, a sport has turned into a regulatory bureaucracy. Its not fun watching what team can best work around the Byzantine Rules that are added each season.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 07:57 AM (+LCoQ)

43 Supposedly smart people can do really stupid things.

What Ted Cruz did was a huge own goal. He blew up whatever career he had and he wasn't pressed to do it

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 07:59 AM (ZHVt1)

44 I did notice that in Frozen the "Oaken"' family in the sauna is considered the first same sex couple in a disney movie. There is no obvious "mom" in the sauna. My girls got an Olaf book for Christmas which has the Sauna scene recreated with an expanded frame that shows Mom sitting off to the left side.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 07:59 AM (sUoqW)

45 Just. Can't. Deal. With. The. Stupidity. Today.

Work until quittin' time and go home to puppy! Everyone should have a puppy to go home to...

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 06, 2022 07:59 AM (yEBFM)

46 43 Supposedly smart people can do really stupid things.

What Ted Cruz did was a huge own goal. He blew up whatever career he had and he wasn't pressed to do it
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 07:59 AM (ZHVt1)

That's being charitable.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 06, 2022 08:00 AM (s2VJv)

47 It is also worth asking ... What could have prevented the breach of the Capitol?

Not stealing an election?

Not have glowies working with the capital police to let the protesters in?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:00 AM (ESjRY)

48 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:00 AM (uXonU)

49 ... The FBI had a warrant on Epstein's NYC mansion, went in and pried open a secret safe that had pictures and videos of underage girls having sex with men, and then left without securing this evidence.

FBI says the initial warrant didn't cover this evidence. When they came back days later this evidence had mysteriously vanished. ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 07:55 AM (ZHVt1)
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I have no trouble believing that, and it's such nonsense. Evidence of another crime discovered when executing a proper warrant for a different crime can be - and almost always is - be collected and charges brought as a result. This is a preposterous rationalization for walking away from it, and everyone will know that - even lo-fos who have just seen an episode or two of "Law & Order."

The reality will be obvious to most and acknowledged by many. The reality is that the FBI is essentially the Gestapo or Stasi. They're the secret police force out doing the State/Party Complex's bidding, whatever that bidding may be. There's no legality, no rules, no policies and no legitimacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

50 What is to be gained by Trump vocally supporting the jailed protesters? All that does is cement the connection between him and these people in the tiny demented minds of those who think there was an insurrection. That certainly would not help the protesters and would only give fuel to their persecutors. This is the latest stupid complaint about Trump. Much like prior complaints it relies on the fiction that Trump is some kind of Superman who can solve all our problems for us.

Posted by: AMartel at January 06, 2022 08:02 AM (o/HL4)

51 There's no legality, no rules, no policies and no legitimacy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

And no consequences.

Posted by: golfman at January 06, 2022 08:03 AM (hOMhY)

52 @49

>>I have no trouble believing that, and it's such nonsense. Evidence of another crime discovered when executing a proper warrant for a different crime can be - and almost always is - be collected and charges brought as a result.

Data Point:

When the FBI raided Rudolph Giuliani's home, he offered them the Hunter Biden Hard Drive Image, the agents present turned white as ghosts and slowly backed away and skiddadled as quickly as possible.

As has been said, everything is broken, corrupt and not on the level.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 08:04 AM (gakDF)

53 Supposedly smart people can do really stupid things.

What Ted Cruz did was a huge own goal. He blew up whatever career he had and he wasn't pressed to do it

--

Was it a stupid whoopsie on his part...or a hidden malignancy in his thinking? How can a truly conservative person or politician have said what he said? It just doesn't fly in my mind. I'm left with the conclusion that Ted Cruz is not what he's always portrayed himself to be. It's a very deep blow to me, as I was fooled. Hook, line and sinker. He's now dead to me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2022 08:04 AM (sVtYq)

54 Nascar died with Dale.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:05 AM (bKdTl)

55 . . . The moment that a conservative breakaway nation achieved independence and success there would be plans already underway for color revolutions and occupation by gender diverse commissars. They will never leave us alone. And they will never let us go. Why would they? . .

*

This is an outstanding observation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - lin-duh, sorry it took so long, look in the comments for the liquid at January 06, 2022 08:05 AM (/6kZi)

56 NYU Medical Ethics Prof on CNN: "Penalize" Unvaccinated Americans -- Deny Them Affordable Health Insurance
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Two things on this. First, I have come to the conclusion that anyone with any form of the word "ethic" in his job title is evil.

Second, okay. Now do everything else. My neighbor works on his own roof. I don't. He should pay more than me, since he is involved in high-risk activities. My neighbor is slender and I am fat. I should pay more, since I have a higher-risk lifestyle. If you want to do this, do it honestly and with an even hand.

I know. Ha ha.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

57 1/6 was a manufactured crisis. It was designed to give cover to the political class and the people who aided and abetted the election steal. Misdirection, misinformation. To push the approved narrative people died and were jailed.

I also won't get wound up watching the dog and pony shows to justify the "Big Lie." I'm not the intended audience anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 08:06 AM (BFigT)

58 The note on climate mongers defeating a nat gas electricity plant in the NE made me smile. It is a fact sunny Jim that Europe will very soon approve a "green" projects electricity projects that are nuclear and natural gas fueled. It actually made the NYT recently as well. Even Europe gets it.

Even still, the greatest increase in energy in Europe has come from coal.

So even recognition that nuclear and natural gas are preferrable in ideological terms, in practical terms - that is actually delivering reliable dispatchable power - coal is king.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 08:06 AM (+LCoQ)

59 It's not easy watching your country become a hull, a husk, a dessicated carcass of its former tremendous glory. We are living in a nightmare.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

60 ....But his silence on this is deafening....

1000! Thanks for pointng this out.

....and he wont even do a press conference. What s coward If he was a leader, he'd show up at the fed gulag and demand the Jan 6 political prisoners be released.

I dunno when Ms. Babbit was shot, but whenever it was, we should all stop what we are doing. point towards DC and flip them the double bird, and if you are a man, an additional cock lunge of contempt.

Posted by: Troy at January 06, 2022 08:07 AM (FSBb7)

61 Every year a new cohort of useless people graduate from our colleges. They need bullshit jobs to ever be gainfully employed. Federal government deficit spending has been needed to create demand to create new bullshit jobs.

Which is why Biden's failure to deliver BBB may signal the end of this gravy train.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:07 AM (ZHVt1)

62 So I'm just mumbling out loud here, so don't take it serious.

CR2032 coin batteries.

How hard would it be to glue a strip of magnetic material to the back of one...

And place an official label on the top of it, to be visible.

Reading something along the line of Federal Law Enforcement tracking device. Do not remove under penalty of law.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:08 AM (3D/fK)

63 your mouth to His ear, JJ !

and thank you, as always !

G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (/yGo0) at January 06, 2022 08:08 AM (/yGo0)

64 Good morning morons and thanks for a great essay.

If you won't put your faith in the opposition party, why put your faith in elections. There is zero ballot integrity here and in most blue strongholds.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at January 06, 2022 08:08 AM (EZebt)

65 Happy Sixthsurection

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 08:09 AM (yrol0)

66
I'd love to see a peaceful protest today around the Capitol. Hundreds of Ryder rental vans slowly circling around in one endless loop. It would be fun to watch Nancy Pelosi and her 'prayer vigil' on the Capitol steps run for shelter.

Honestly, I hope nobody 'splodes anything today. The (D)'s are on the ropes with a certain well-deserved shellacking coming in November.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:09 AM (dQvv7)

67 /NSA sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2022 08:09 AM (EZebt)

68 I admit I am a weak and pusilaminous person.
But Trump hurt my feelings and overshadows me and makes me feel worthless.

Posted by: Ted Cruz at January 06, 2022 08:10 AM (PJ5os)

69 The moment that a conservative breakaway nation achieved independence and success there would be plans already underway for color revolutions and occupation by gender diverse commissars. They will never leave us alone. And they will never let us go. Why would they?
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Anyone who supports a "national divorce" concept as an alternative to war is a fool. It doesn't, won't and can't work that way. A "national divorce" is a tool to make the war more likely to succeed. If such an event were to happen, it will provide firm battle lines, resource pools, supply lines, governance, military structure and all the rest. A national divorce would by no means avoid war. It would make war fully inevitable, and choosing the divorce strategy *is* choosing war. The upshot is that it would buy a bit of time and allow for organization and preparation before the Left States make war on the rest.

That's not a bad thing, and it's why I do support such a concept. Not because it will avoid war, but because it will make the war simpler and improve the odds of a successful outcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

70 He's now dead to me.

To me as well but what he did truly has me scratching my head and wondering wth?? Guess he let the mask slip. Good to know now rather than later.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 06, 2022 08:11 AM (nxdel)

71 Jon Stewart didn't know that today you can't do the clown nose on clown nose off, it's always off for the WOKE and nothing is funny. All day yesterday he spent the day trying to say he was "JOKING" about Harry Potter and JK Rowling be anti-Semite. What an insufferable ass he is.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 06, 2022 08:11 AM (dKiJG)

72 RE: penalizing unvaccinated Americans

I was at the town dump one day last year when the FL 'surge' was happening and being blamed on the unvaccinated.

The crusty dude running the operation had a cigarette hanging from his lips with his mask down around his unshaved throat when he bellows to me that anyone who doesn't have a vaccination should be flat-out denied medical care, because they 'are a health risk' and should be punished.

While smoking, he says this.

This thing has either broken the minds of many, or has certainly suffocated any semblance of original thought in its crib.

Posted by: squeakywheel at January 06, 2022 08:11 AM (tW7e2)

73 HAPPY FBI RATFUCKER AND CAPITOL COPS BEAT WOMEN TO DEATH DAY!

have a smore

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at January 06, 2022 08:11 AM (lCui1)

74 Regarding the worship of Aztec gods over at Frontpage Mag, I am reminded of a quote from someone who responded to the question "Why is it the Aztecs only get a few pages in a history book?"

"Because liberal professors know that if they had more than that, we'd understand why it was a good thing they were wiped out."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 06, 2022 08:12 AM (4olE8)

75 By all means, be quiet, shhh, don't say anything provocative or challenging about January 6th. We don't want to add fuel to the fire, give the Democrats and media more reason to attack us. We need to be polite, prudent and silent in the face of their narrative powers.

Because this will clearly calm and tame them and get them to leave us alone.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:12 AM (H8QX8)

76 So I'm just mumbling out loud here, so don't take it serious.

CR2032 coin batteries.

How hard would it be to glue a strip of magnetic material to the back of one...

And place an official label on the top of it, to be visible.

Reading something along the line of Federal Law Enforcement tracking device. Do not remove under penalty of law.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Wouldn't be hard at all.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:12 AM (uXonU)

77
Mike Pence vs Ted Cruz in Thunderdome. Who to cheer for?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:12 AM (dQvv7)

78 Morning, Horde...How goes it? Working from home today due to slippery roads...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2022 08:13 AM (K5n5d)

79 "Wouldn't be hard at all."

Could be fun.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:14 AM (3D/fK)

80 #69 FTW !

if only people were that open & honest ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (/yGo0) at January 06, 2022 08:14 AM (/yGo0)

81 Mike Pence vs Ted Cruz in Thunderdome. Who to cheer for?
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:12 AM (dQvv7)

Warm Flat Dome Foam.

Posted by: Count Gump de Monet at January 06, 2022 08:14 AM (4I/2K)

82 This thing has either broken the minds of many, or has certainly suffocated any semblance of original thought in its crib.
Posted by: squeakywheel at January 06, 2022 08:11 AM (tW7e2)

Embrace the healing power of "and."

Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 06, 2022 08:14 AM (Oka5v)

83 They "don't see it" because they're the ones doing it. They do see it, and they're working their asses off to make things worse and drag us further from the foundational ideal. They aren't avoiding a harsh reality, they're contributing to and designing it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:48 AM

"The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it."

The left took over the schools and how many generations now have no knowledge of what America once was. The left has taken over every institution in the nation and use their influence to remove any mention of how great America once was and only propagandize about all of America's 'sins', past and present.

America that once was is lost, because there remain too few in positions of influence to remind people of it. Prime example is Rush Limbaugh. Pundits of today are not teachers like Rush Limbaugh was. Yes he covered current events and also brought comedy into his shows. But above all else, he was a teacher of history and a wonderful spokesman for the greatness of America.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

84 Perfessor! We got a light dusting but nothing bad. Colder than a well diggers ass though.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM (nxdel)

85 "Mike Pence vs Ted Cruz in Thunderdome. Who to cheer for?"

Both...

While chanting 'No mercy!'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM (3D/fK)

86 Most of Jon Stewart's audience grew up with, and love, Harry Potter. And no one saw goblins as Jews until Jon Stewart concocted it.

He f*cked up big time, and now can't walk it back.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM (ZHVt1)

87 Good morning horde! My co-workers are insurrecting me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM (U7wke)

88 Ted really stepped in it.

The thing about Cruz -- everything he says and does feels almost painfully contrived. He's the anti-Trump in this respect.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:16 AM (H8QX8)

89 What is the unexpected condition that won't allow me to post a quote from Thomas Jefferson?

Posted by: Brett at January 06, 2022 08:16 AM (QpjKX)

90 I am tired of the Chamberlain Republicans who see appeasement with the left by adopting their language and seeking a middle ground. They hate you and want you dead. There is no middle ground to seek. If you don't understand that by now, step aside.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:16 AM (bKdTl)

91 Mike Pence vs Ted Cruz in Thunderdome. Who to cheer for?

Takes a long time for a man to die from vigorous docking.

Posted by: Obligatory at January 06, 2022 08:17 AM (ESjRY)

92 Could be fun.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice.

I so love this place.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:17 AM (uXonU)

93 "Because liberal professors know that if they had more than that, we'd understand why it was a good thing they were wiped out."

Yeah, got into a discussion once where a guy said the Aztecs were wrongly slandered as extra violent. I said yeah, because every piece of artwork they have shows them ripping the guts out of hundreds of their enemies while they're still alive!

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:17 AM (B0mGw)

94 Omicron is a serious problem for COVID policy. It spreads like wildfire and it's pretty likely that virtually everyone is going to get it. It's also a mild disease that isn't go to seriously damage or kill very many people.

COVID protocols are going to be untenable for Omicron. They already are. Everyone is getting it and they're being quarantined at home, sporting events are being canceled, businesses can't staff their departments, hospitals are being overused by the panicked. The nonsense we've done for COVID is barely manageable when relatively few people get it. If everyone gets it, none of this is workable.

They would be wise to back off now. Reassure people that Omicron is basically a cold and if you get it you should stay home until you're asymptomatic for two days and then go back to work. Stop quarantining everyone who's exposed and canceling everything. Everything is going to get a lot worse soon, because none of the responses can operate at the scale Omicron is going to cause. Japan is doubling in less than a week and will soon run out of people to infect. The same will happen elsewhere.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:18 AM (DU+/6)

95 Most of Jon Stewart's audience grew up with, and love, Harry Potter.

For most of them, those are the only books they've read voluntarily.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:18 AM (ESjRY)

96 Had an interesting chat with someone yesterday. He took his family to Florida for the holidays and came back with COVID (everyone in his family). Like Whoopie Goldberg, he did everything "right" meaning he and his family were vaxxed and they wore their masks as much as possible, including outside. But somehow they still caught COVID. Unfortunately, his mindset won't allow him to make a connection that all of his mitigation efforts were for naught.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2022 08:18 AM (K5n5d)

97 What a weird little creep you are.

Posted by: Djdhx at January 06, 2022 08:18 AM (TtptU)

98 Everybody is acting like this is the first time Ted said this.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:19 AM (bKdTl)

99 Good for Toyota. They make a quality long lasting product and that apparently is a foreign concept to the domestic makers. I drive a lot of different cars for a couple of dealerships so I get to see them all. I own a Toyota. That says it all.

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 06, 2022 08:19 AM (7ZQe3)

100 "What a weird little creep you are."

Thank you. I have worked hard to get that way.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:19 AM (B0mGw)

101 The Aztecs didn't just sacrifice adults.

One of their gods required child sacrifices. And because he was a water god he required tears. So the Aztecs would torture children to death in his name.

But remember, all cultures are equal!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:20 AM (ESjRY)

102 "Everybody is acting like this is the first time Ted said this."

I agree. He's been consistent. It's the timing that is pissing everyone off.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:20 AM (B0mGw)

103 Since got up has been a sad day, reading a couple articles the coop was from the Leftists and this day is where they put their coop on us.
Ted giving the Marxists more ammunition pissed me off

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 06, 2022 08:20 AM (zX/TP)

104 87 Most of Jon Stewart's audience grew up with, and love, Harry Potter. And no one saw goblins as Jews until Jon Stewart concocted it.

He f*cked up big time, and now can't walk it back.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM (ZHVt1)

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I've seen the charge laid before a few years ago. He's not the first, but he may have popularized it.

Also, the modern left really don't like traditional Jews all that much. I'm not sure they'll mind the idea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

105 @96

>>They would be wise to back off now.

Yes, but I unwisely thought they would back off after they installed The Meat Puppet but they didn't.

So, I'm not quite sure, at this point, what will make them stop.

They probably won't.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (gakDF)

106 RE: the schools teaching students to worship Aztec gods.

I suppose it's only a matter of time before we start seeing worshippers of the Cthulhu mythos indoctrinating students in schools...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (K5n5d)

107 Takes a long time for a man to die from vigorous docking.
Posted by: Obligatory at January 06, 2022 08:17 AM

+1

Posted by: Booga Booga at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (a3Q+t)

108 I still think Cruz is a good Senator, but... I've known for a while than when it really counts, Cruz can never resist the urge to be a total ass and say some really stupid shit. It's why he'll never make it on a national stage. It's the same root problem as Noem has; in everything they say and do, they're never thinking about what we want, or even what they believe. They're just maneuvering to try and get what they think will give them the biggest personal advantage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (evAgx)

109 Unfortunately, his mindset won't allow him to make a connection that all of his mitigation efforts were for naught.

Didn't someone link a study here that found that if you wear your mask correctly, never touch it, and wear it consistently it lowers your chances of getting COVID by....2%.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (ESjRY)

110 103 The Aztecs didn't just sacrifice adults.

One of their gods required child sacrifices. And because he was a water god he required tears. So the Aztecs would torture children to death in his name.

But remember, all cultures are equal!
Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:20 AM (ESjRY)

==========

Cortez was wrong for giving the Aztec's neighbors means to defeat them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

111 100 ; spot on !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (/yGo0) at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (/yGo0)

112 Take it easy on Cruz.

Cruz is only baiting the press. He will drill down on the perpetrator(s) of the police 'beatings' in the Senate in order to unmask the actual individual actors.

He knows what the rest of us know, namely that paid Agents Provocateurs are to blame. His strategy, and one we should adopt, is to pull them out of the crowd so they can properly held to account.

He is positioning himself to do just that.

Posted by: steveaz at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (ft6BO)

113 Hannitys Text: WE GOT TO SEE THEM
WhuFlu Origins: NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (yrol0)

114 his mindset won't allow him to make a connection that all of his mitigation efforts were for naught.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Of course he did everything right. It is those dirty unvaxxed who spread it. A d that fucking DeSantis who enables it. Time to send in the 101st to take over FL and impose martial law. Get the shot or get shot. The time for negotiating is over.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (bKdTl)

115 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

116 100 Everybody is acting like this is the first time Ted said this.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:19 AM (bKdTl)

It's the 1st time he's said this in direct support of a democratic/media op being done this week.

Usually, he's been smart enough to not directly help their false narrative at the exact time it's being pushed...

Posted by: Nova local at January 06, 2022 08:22 AM (exHjb)

117
Did Ted Cruz ever visit Epstein's island? Or get caught with his pants down by Capitol police with a youngster?

Something has compromised him.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:22 AM (dQvv7)

118 I do not want either a National Divorce or a Civil War. Both would be catastrophic to the world and likely to me and my family personally. Hell, I took an oath to the Constitution and all that.

But I don't think it is wrong to contemplate that either is possible. (my preps are based on the Civil War scenario). But the Left has made it clear - the country that we know and love - the one we think should be great, again - the one that we think should be first - they do not. They have said it out loud - America was never great, out of their mouths. They are attempting to push that on our children, to learn that America is not just flawed, but fundamentally based on flaw, on sin, on terrible hateful racism. And then it is somehow wrong to say that people who believe this are unpatriotic.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:22 AM (mbFEM)

119 Really got to wonder if those are real scientists in the earthquake story. Charleston was hit bad with one in 1886, it was felt as far away as Chicago and Boston. The the seismic maps for SC have lots and lots of closely spaced contours right around Charleston. Not as bad as New Madrid, but not that different then Southern California. East coast has lots and lots of unreinforced masonry buildings which earthquakes like the same way tornados like trailer parks. Get another shake like 1886 and the death toll will be huge.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at January 06, 2022 08:22 AM (8yjxn)

120 Good morning!

Maybe today of all days is a good time to remember that one Rachel Maddow superfan almost mass-murdered dozens of GOP Congressmen on an Alexandria baseball field in attempt to change the balance of power in Congress to Democrat majority in order to (in is crazed mind, thanks to Maddow) "save" Obamacare.

Remember this when the DNC-MSM attempt to tell you J6 was the worst attack on OUR DEMOCRACY(tm) in recent history.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (URNdm)

121 Something has compromised him.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:22 AM (dQvv7)

I think this is wrong. He's been saying this since last January. With friends like this....

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (mbFEM)

122 Everybody is acting like this is the first time Ted said this.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:19 AM (bKdTl)

I guess I didn't take much notice before. This time, on the eve of today's dog and pony show, it really stands out. Finis.

Posted by: Count Gump de Monet at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (4I/2K)

123 It's hard to express the utter disappointment in the representatives from the great state of Texas. Cruz, Crenshaw, Cornyn......Burgess.....useless tools. The lot of them.

But, I'm quite sure we can say that about most reps from all 50 states, so the disease is spreading, wildly.

We are in trouble.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Yes, but I unwisely thought they would back off after they installed The Meat Puppet but they didn't.

I think the Biden junta tried to declare victory this past summer. But the Karenwaffen wouldn't let them.

Now there are two factions and the "WE BEAT COVID ALL HAIL US" faction is sending out feelers again to declare victory because they know we are on the verge of economic collapse.

The "COVID PARTY DON'T STOP Y'ALL" faction though is having not of that. Who cares if the economy collapses if someone might get COVID?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (ESjRY)

125 Yes, but I unwisely thought they would back off after they installed The Meat Puppet but they didn't.
So, I'm not quite sure, at this point, what will make them stop.
They probably won't.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (gakDF)
++++
They tried and failed. They sent up some "COVID is over" trial balloons last summer, and then Delta happened and they went full-throttle again.

This time, they sent up the "COVID is over" trial balloons right as Omicron hit, but this time they didn't back off immediately. There's a war going on within the government and institutions. One faction is "COVID is over" and the other is "COVID forever." Neither appears to be in charge. If the "over" crowd wins the day, they're going to drag Karen kicking and screaming into the new reality. There will be strong - likely around 15%, if I had to guess - opposition to that. By the end of the summer, it will be down to 5% and that 5% will be unmovable. They will be the true COVID-broken instead of the merely COVID-damaged. Many of them will have to be written off by the Complex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

126 One has to wonder about the serendipity of events surrounding Ted Cruz; his 13 year old daughter comes out of her closet to bash her father and a day later he torpedo's his reputation and perhaps his career.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (BFigT)

127 He is positioning himself to do just that.
Posted by: steveaz

How many dimensions of chess is he playing? Much more likely, he is saying what he thinks.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (bKdTl)

128 CR2032 coin batteries.

How hard would it be to glue a strip of magnetic material to the back of one...

And place an official label on the top of it, to be visible.

Reading something along the line of Federal Law Enforcement tracking device. Do not remove under penalty of law.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
--
I happen to know of a stash of such batteries....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2022 08:24 AM (K5n5d)

129 Well Morons check your Power Ball tickets.

Two tickets, one sold in California and the other in Wisconsin, won last night's cash jackpot of $450.2 million.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2022 08:24 AM (tsgnR)

130 "Cortez was wrong for giving the Aztec's neighbors means to defeat them."

What happened to the Aztecs was exactly what is spelled out in the Bible for people who practice the way they did. I don't think it was an accident. I consider it the judgement of God.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:24 AM (B0mGw)

131 Heh, Insurrection Time. Can't wait to see Lizard Cheney hoisted on an IED. Dittos Nanzi.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:24 AM (HTCOy)

132 Take it easy on Cruz.

Cruz is only baiting the press. He will drill down on the perpetrator(s) of the police 'beatings' in the Senate in order to unmask the actual individual actors.

He knows what the rest of us know, namely that paid Agents Provocateurs are to blame. His strategy, and one we should adopt, is to pull them out of the crowd so they can properly held to account.

He is positioning himself to do just that.
Posted by: steveaz at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (ft6BO)

Pissing on the heads of your base and every Trump supporter in the country is a bold strategy, Cotton.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at January 06, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

133 Upon casual observation, Trump is taking a beating in conservative comment sections globally. Sad.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 06, 2022 08:25 AM (GYllL)

134 127 They will be the true COVID-broken instead of the merely COVID-damaged. Many of them will have to be written off by the Complex.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

===========

And it will hobble the Democratic Party. That 5% probably includes some if not most of their most dedicated supporters. The True Believers who would literally crawl over broken glass to ballot harvest for the party without pay.

That's not something to lose lightly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

135 Thomas Jefferson often comments on the issues of our day:

"Treason. This, when real, merits the highest punishment. But most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government and acts against the oppressions of the government; the latter are virtues; yet they have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former; because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny, have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries."

Posted by: Brett at January 06, 2022 08:25 AM (QpjKX)

136 Two tickets, one sold in California and the other in Wisconsin, won last night's cash jackpot of $450.2 million.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2022 08:24 AM (tsgnR)

Alas.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 08:25 AM (45fpk)

137 Best "spin" I have for Ted is that for him, personal safety is as bag a buggaboo as germs are for Trump...so anything scary that happens, he can't evaluate it fairly (and doesn't want to)...thus, why his pro law enforcement is always to the max...

He never served, and he was all-Ivy...and while having held a gun and hunted, animals never shot back...

Posted by: Nova local at January 06, 2022 08:26 AM (exHjb)

138 He knows what the rest of us know, namely that paid Agents Provocateurs are to blame. His strategy, and one we should adopt, is to pull them out of the crowd so they can properly held to account.

He is positioning himself to do just that.
Posted by: steveaz at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (ft6BO)

Oooh. 12d chess. I LOVE that game.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:26 AM (mbFEM)

139 132 "Cortez was wrong for giving the Aztec's neighbors means to defeat them."

What happened to the Aztecs was exactly what is spelled out in the Bible for people who practice the way they did. I don't think it was an accident. I consider it the judgement of God.
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Maybe the Aztecs should have practiced restraint in sacrificing their neighbors to the Aztec Gods. Same is true of Dems as well.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:26 AM (HTCOy)

140 >>Did Ted Cruz ever visit Epstein's island? Or get caught with his pants down by Capitol police with a youngster?

Something has compromised him.

Here's a wild-a$$ guess: Didn't some journo recently cyberstalk his tween daughter' social media recently and report on how her opinions differed from his? Maybe that's not all they found?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 08:26 AM (URNdm)

141 Of course he did everything right. It is those dirty unvaxxed who spread it. A d that fucking DeSantis who enables it. Time to send in the 101st to take over FL and impose martial law. Get the shot or get shot. The time for negotiating is over.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (bKdTl)
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You are sadly correct...he's pretty radical into environmentalism and would no doubt welcome fewer people spreading disease....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2022 08:26 AM (K5n5d)

142 He is positioning himself to do just that.
Posted by: steveaz at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (ft6BO)

I no longer can believe any 11th dimension chess Grand Master malarky. That is played out on me.

Posted by: Count Gump de Monet at January 06, 2022 08:26 AM (4I/2K)

143 Is the news going to have a minute by minute chyron as the tragic events unfolded that day?

Ring a bell and a moment of silence the moment Sicknick was hit with the fire extinguisher?

Another bell ring when the Viking walked through the door held open politely by the Capitol police officer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:27 AM (bKdTl)

144 Apocalypto is a GREAT view into central American culture prior to Cortez.

It is the Mayans, not the Aztecs, but you can see the shared aspects.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:27 AM (ESjRY)

145 At this point Aaron Rogers is more conservative than 90% of the GOP

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 06, 2022 08:27 AM (7ZQe3)

146 bag = big (damn typo) - big bugaboo...

Posted by: Nova local at January 06, 2022 08:27 AM (exHjb)

147 >>Upon casual observation, Trump is taking a beating in conservative comment sections globally. Sad.

Gee, think that's organic -- or are Share Blue and others being good lil' sh#t-stirrers to demoralize us?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (URNdm)

148 One of their gods required child sacrifices. And because he was a water god he required tears. So the Aztecs would torture children to death in his name.

But remember, all cultures are equal!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:20 AM

Not much different than abortion, only the torturing goes on within the womb. Or, if the baby survives the operation, it goes on in the trash can where the almost-dead baby is left to die.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (Do5/p)

149 Well, typing out the Jefferson quote got it accepted.

Citation: Enclosure II, Considerations on a convention with Spain, 22 March 1792

https://tinyurl.com/232ys3wu

Posted by: Brett at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (QpjKX)

150 impacts of incarceration, including whether it really does increase public safety, potential future barriers to convicts involving housing and employment, the financial cost of prison and the racial disparities over who gets time, Bragg instructed.

But mainly racial disparities!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

151 And it will hobble the Democratic Party. That 5% probably includes some if not most of their most dedicated supporters. The True Believers who would literally crawl over broken glass to ballot harvest for the party without pay.

That's not something to lose lightly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:25 AM (LvTSG)
++++
No, it isn't But it is what it is. The preference cascade is underway right now. If the Complex decides to cater to that 5% that the COVID response permanently broke, they'll lose far more than that across other groups. I think they're going to have to try to thread the needle by ending most or all of the COVID response while throwing some very big, juicy bones to the alienated "broken" crowd. They can't do anything with just the support of the broken.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

152 now we know why Cruz married such an ugly woman

Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (us2H3)

153 I no longer can believe any 11th dimension chess Grand Master malarky. That is played out on me.

Indeed - things are almost always exactly what they seem. Cruz is cucking out either because he really believes it, he got bought off, or he is afraid to challenge the FNM CW too much.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (ESjRY)

154 Of course he did everything right. It is those dirty unvaxxed who spread it. A d that fucking DeSantis who enables it. Time to send in the 101st to take over FL and impose martial law. Get the shot or get shot. The time for negotiating is over.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

If you're triple vaxxed boosted, gloves, mask & face shielded, and I'm not sick, how'd I pass it?

Your mask god is a puny god.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (uXonU)

155 "Gee, think that's organic -- or are Share Blue and others being good lil' sh#t-stirrers to demoralize us?"

There's that, but the GOP is more worried about getting rid of Trump than the Dems. The Dems still think they can beat him. Most of the people I've seen in forums pushing anti-Trump stuff are party guys.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:29 AM (B0mGw)

156 The new Soros-backed Manhattan DA is decriminalizing everything short of murder. (This is the Law & Order office). So armed robbery will be treated as a misdemeanor unless you pull the trigger.

Meanwhile, I expect SCOTUS will overturn NYC's ban on guns (currently only celebrities and diamond merchants need apply).

Everyone a Bernie Goetz?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:29 AM (ZHVt1)

157 At this point Aaron Rogers is more conservative than 90% of the GOP

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 06, 2022 08:27 AM (7ZQe3)

I saw a question posted on Up North News: "Should Aaron Rodgers be named MVP in spite of his vaccination lies?"

Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 08:29 AM (45fpk)

158 They can't do anything with just the support of the broken.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

YOOHOO!

Posted by: LGBTQQIIA2S!!WTFBBQ at January 06, 2022 08:29 AM (mbFEM)

159 "I happen to know of a stash of such batteries...."

*Whistles an innocent tuneless ditty, while walking away*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:29 AM (3D/fK)

160 Hey, if we lose Ted we've always got zipper boots.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (HTCOy)

161 now we know why Cruz married such an ugly woman
Posted by: REDACTED

Because she can cook?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (uXonU)

162 149 >>Upon casual observation, Trump is taking a beating in conservative comment sections globally. Sad.

Gee, think that's organic -- or are Share Blue and others being good lil' sh#t-stirrers to demoralize us?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM (URNdm)

It's a pre-planned bot effort...it's all part of the media/political/intel operation...

Posted by: Nova local at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (exHjb)

163
Well, typing out the Jefferson quote got it accepted.

Posted by: Brett at January 06, 2022 08:28 AM

It is *always* the punctuation that causes issues. Quotes, dashes, colons, etc.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (dQvv7)

164 Benny Hill Had His Theme Music and Now Jill Biden Does Too
________

It's good to know that, whatever else may fail in this wicked world, Benny Hill never lets you down.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (7X3UV)

165 YOOHOO!
Posted by: LGBTQQIIA2S!!WTFBBQ at January 06, 2022 08:29 AM (mbFEM)
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And if every straight person pulled their support for the Party, it would implode overnight. It's a different animal because the alphabet soup identity group nonsense doesn't hurt people in real-time and thus it can be managed more easily. The COVID nonsense *does* hurt people in real time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

166 NYC. Wow, that's going to be a fun place to be in a couple of years.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM (mbFEM)

167 143 Get the shot or get shot. The time for negotiating is over.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (bKdTl)

We're closer to that than we are to any reckoning with reality and moderation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (H8QX8)

168 162 Cruz is only baiting the press. He will drill down on the perpetrator(s) of the police 'beatings' in the Senate in order to unmask the actual individual actors.
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Right. The 'ol "give the Democrats what they want now in exchange for a promise to give us what we want later" strategy.

Brilliant!
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This is the Wimpy Ruse. I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (HTCOy)

169 Let's head to the Winchester and have a pint until this all blows over.

Posted by: Count Shaun de Monet at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (4I/2K)

170 Remember to raise a glass of your favorite beverage in the honor of one of the murdered on January 6th, 2020: Ashli Babbitt.

Her life was taken by the coup, unarmed, non-violent and expressing her constitutional right to peacefully protest.

This is where we are in AMERICA right now.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

171 76 By all means, be quiet, shhh, don't say anything provocative or challenging about January 6th. We don't want to add fuel to the fire, give the Democrats and media more reason to attack us. We need to be polite, prudent and silent in the face of their narrative powers.

Because this will clearly calm and tame them and get them to leave us alone.

We MUST hold onto the Moral High Ground because when our enemies see that, they will slink away in shame and finally start being nice.

How did I do?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (4olE8)

172 Right. The 'ol "give the Democrats what they want now in exchange for a promise to consider to give us what we want later" strategy.

Fixed

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (bKdTl)

173 This public endorsement of the Aztec religion fundamentally erodes equal education rights and irresponsibly glorifies anthropomorphic, male deities whose religious rituals involved gruesome human sacrifice and human dismemberment.

The playground ritualistic killings will be supervised by a union representative to ensure the sacrifices are fast and uncruel!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (yrol0)

174 He is positioning himself to do just that.
Posted by: steveaz at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (ft6BO)

Enough with the "positioning" and 11-dimension chess.

Declare war, state truths and be done with it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM (s2VJv)

175 I am seeing an uptick of "we will still arrest and prosecute Trump" BS. And not just from Liz Cheney.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:32 AM (mbFEM)

176 "I happen to know of a stash of such batteries...."

*Whistles an innocent tuneless ditty, while walking away*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I probably have 30 between 2032, 2025 & 2016.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:32 AM (uXonU)

177 I try not to get swept up in the ideological tribalism, my problems with NASCAR have been similar with the NFL, a sport has turned into a regulatory bureaucracy. Its not fun watching what team can best work around the Byzantine Rules that are added each season.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 07:57 AM (+LCoQ)

when organizations die, they don't die instantly. There's a long slow drop off until all that is left is a very small shadow of what once was. For examples, look at boxing and drag racing. Both used to have about 100 times the fan base they have now, but they've both just kind of faded away. Nascar is fading fast, but it'll take about 20 years for it to die.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 08:32 AM (evAgx)

178 170 143 Get the shot or get shot. The time for negotiating is over.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:21 AM (bKdTl)

We're closer to that than we are to any reckoning with reality and moderation.
--------------------
According to Dr. Obama wearing a Lab Coat you will merely be given the choice of a blue pill or a red pill. Dr. Obama doesn't like pistols cuz it requires effort to pull the trigger.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:32 AM (HTCOy)

179 162 Cruz is only baiting the press. He will drill down on the perpetrator(s) of the police 'beatings' in the Senate in order to unmask the actual individual actors.
***

5th-Dimensional-chess Ted. Our complex, recondite hero.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:33 AM (H8QX8)

180 "As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance."

1 Peter 1:14

Posted by: Marcus T at January 06, 2022 08:33 AM (LjX+p)

181 good morning, everyone. JJ thank you for the round of of news and links.

i think today needs to be a day free of tv. only caught one lie on the news before i could change the channel after the local weather and i'm already rage stroking at the hubris and bs. i'll be here instead.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at January 06, 2022 08:33 AM (IJES/)

182 meanwhile, for an entertaining evening of mutual crack licking

Lynn Cheney on Bret tonight

magic drink word "Trump"

better stock up now

Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2022 08:33 AM (us2H3)

183 Mornin' again, all,

I just finished applying to a part-time contract editing positon on Indeed. The site even made me submit to a proofreading test, checking my grammar, spelling, and data-spotting skills. I created a separate proton mail account for job replies. We'll see what they have to say. Anybody else do anything with Indeed?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2022 08:34 AM (txdEq)

184 Hey, why is there a tracking device on my car?

Posted by: BLM inc. at January 06, 2022 08:34 AM (3D/fK)

185

~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (K2SnJ)

186 Is Steve Bannon a religious person? I just saw one of his war room video and he has a picture of Christ behind him.

Posted by: dantesed at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (88xKn)

187 Lynn Cheney on Bret tonight

magic drink word "Trump"

better stock up now
Posted by: REDACTED

If you take a drink every time trump is mentioned today, you will black out by 10am.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (bKdTl)

188 I wish Doocy (and others) would ask Psaki, the Asst Spokesliar and every CDC official, on camera:

"President Biden has repeatedly told the American people that this a pandemic of 'the unvaccinated'.

Is he saying that only the unvaccinated spread Covid? That cannot be true because we know that the vaccinated also spread Covid. Or is he denying that the prior infected do not have immunity, without a vaccine, which is also false? Can you please explain?"

Posted by: Zek at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (8lTQz)

189 Maybe Cruz has a Bag Bugaboo and (pick a slug) knows it.

Posted by: klaftern at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (taPSh)

190 186 Is Steve Bannon a religious person? I just saw one of his war room video and he has a picture of Christ behind him.
Posted by: dantesed at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (88xKn)

Yes.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (mbFEM)

191 They arrested people for faking a clot shot card.

I presume they'd arrest you for putting information on something claiming to be a federal tracking device as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (ESjRY)

192 Get the shot or get shot. The time for negotiating is over.

You get one shot. Make it count. Because then it's my turn.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (uXonU)

193 Senator Ron Johnson on natural immunity: "Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?"

Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (45fpk)

194 Oh look, we're up to 41 degrees in the back yard.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (3D/fK)

195 Hey, got my Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights jigsaw puzzle last night. This will be an epic undertaking.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (HTCOy)

196 The ever conservative Bret Baier and Foxnews will give fraud Liz Cheney a prominent platform today to bleat her hate and sophism.

Fair and unbalanced!

Frauds.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 06, 2022 08:36 AM (LjX+p)

197 In any case, the salient point is that the Left and Right, if you will, do not merely disagree on issues. The disagreement is with the very nature of America as founded in the first place. The Left hate everything about this country, its history and its citizens.
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I have said this for a long time, in a different way. I have put it as, "you cannot have a policy disagreement unless you share core principles." If you don't share the basics, you can't argue policy.

And the basic concepts like "nation-state public government is superior to other things attempted" or "market economics are superior to planned economics" or "human rights come from the nature of our existence and are to be protected by government, not granted by government" are not shared. We share nothing with the contemporary left. There is no point to a policy disagreement with them, because we have entirely different and irreconcilable visions of how a government should operate and why.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

198 As I have said here and in other places, the thought of a national divorce has a lot of appeal to me.

But they will never let us go. They will hound us mercilessly and constantly demand that we support them as their ideas fail. The only way this works is through colonizing another planet or making very gruesome examples of them until they get the hint.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 06, 2022 08:36 AM (4olE8)

199 193 Senator Ron Johnson on natural immunity: "Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?"
-----------------------
Because God doesn't live from one quarterly earnings report to the next. NJ does. Shut up!

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:37 AM (HTCOy)

200 I mean, you have to admit, failing as a parent AND at your career carries a pretty heavy burden.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

201 193 Senator Ron Johnson on natural immunity: "Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?"
Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (45fpk)

Challenging the sacred jab AND invoking God? He's in trouble.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (H8QX8)

202 The post-coup administration is doing *neither.* They're making things worse, but enriching themselves fairly little. When it comes apart, most of them (barring the bigshots like Gates) will suffer, too. They're fucking up stage two pretty catastrophically.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 07:56 AM

Feature, not a bug. You can't usher in The Great Reset and Build Back Better until you have destroyed the original. We are currently in the phase of destroying the country from within. The Long March through the Institutions phase is over and culminated in 2020 election. Now they are using their power to destroy American culture, society and everything about the country. This destruction had been going on through schools and Hollywood and sports leagues and corporations and tech companies for decades. They started it through government with Obama, had meant to keep it going through Hillary, but had a bit of a speed bump that they eliminated in NOV 2020. Now it's full speed ahead.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (Do5/p)

203 Is he saying that only the unvaccinated spread Covid? That cannot be true because we know that the vaccinated also spread Covid. Or is he denying that the prior infected do not have immunity, without a vaccine, which is also false? Can you please explain?"
Posted by: Zek at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (8lTQz)

I think that Doocy is like Acosta-lite. He's just making this about him. He's not going to get an answer like that.

I think a more straightforward question would be: Jen, you recently had COVID. Were you vaccinated?

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (mbFEM)

204 @144

>>I no longer can believe any 11th dimension chess Grand Master malarky. That is played out on me.

This is about me isn't it?

--
John "The Milk Man" Durham

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (fubZS)

205 "Gee, think that's organic -- or are Share Blue and others being good lil' sh#t-stirrers to demoralize us?"

As noted by others, if Trump went public today it would feed the Media's insurrection frenzy.

So the Left is now spinning us with he's a coward for not being public today.

They always have a Plan B, no matter how farcical.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (ZHVt1)

206 :: headdesk ::

Heard on a conference call, after the guy used an acronym and then defined it: "sorry, I've been accused of acronyming too much."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

207 Senator Ron Johnson on natural immunity: "Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?"
Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (45fpk)

There is no god only Pfizer.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

208 I view all Covid numbers the same as Biden ballots. Fake seems to be our zeitgiest these days.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:39 AM (HTCOy)

209 Line the mall with 1000 posts, leave the corpses swinging until the vultures pick their bones clean. That is the only way the leftists will be defeated.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:39 AM (bKdTl)

210 Feature, not a bug. You can't usher in The Great Reset and Build Back Better until you have destroyed the original. We are currently in the phase of destroying the country from within. ... Now it's full speed ahead.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (Do5/p)
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To a point. To pull off their totalitarian globalist dream (which will fail quickly, but whatever), the old must be destroyed. But they're destroying indiscriminately and hurting everyone and everything. They're eating their own seed grain, too. I sincerely doubt this is all going to plan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:40 AM (DU+/6)

211
I think a more straightforward question would be: Jen, you recently had COVID. Were you vaccinated?
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (mbFEM)

They all know she wasn't and was being treated with the Trump Cocktail or Ivermectin, as they ALL are, so beating against the narrative in this case is bad.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

212 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Did we talk Chicken Fried Steak, or am I misremembering?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2022 08:40 AM (Q9lwr)

213 :: headdesk ::

Heard on a conference call, after the guy used an acronym and then defined it: "sorry, I've been accused of acronyming too much."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

Ain't the world of IT grand?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

214 Interesting article. The crazy thing is that it was on Yahoo sports-
Josh Hawley's career was supposed to be over after January 6; he's thriving instead

https://tinyurl.com/53b54r56

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

215 201Challenging the sacred jab AND invoking God? He's in trouble.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (H8QX

The Inquisition will be visiting shortly.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (4olE8)

216 Cruz never got past the SCROTUS ignore by Trump.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (GYllL)

217 201 193 Senator Ron Johnson on natural immunity: "Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?"
Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (45fpk)

I was promised NO TRICK QUESTIONS ON THE AOS

Posted by: FAUCI at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (us2H3)

218 Governor McMaster's (R, SC) take on the huge spike in Covid cases.

https://tinyurl.com/4mk8vyu7

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (3D/fK)

219
Did we talk Chicken Fried Steak, or am I misremembering?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2022 08:40 AM (Q9lwr)

I've slept and drank quite a bit since then, but I believe you are correct, sir. I do seem to recall a conversation about the delicacy.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

220 Ain't the world of IT grand?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)
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Sometimes it is. But hearing "acronym" used as a verb before 09:00 wasn't on the list of things I ever want to experience...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

221 You can't usher in The Great Reset and Build Back Better until you have destroyed the original. We are currently in the phase of destroying the country from within. The Long March through the Institutions phase is over and culminated in 2020 election. Now they are using their power to destroy American culture, society and everything about the country

And this is what Cruz either fails to understand, or understands well, and is playing his role.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (bKdTl)

222 209 Line the mall with 1000 posts, leave the corpses swinging until the vultures pick their bones clean. That is the only way the leftists will be defeated.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:39 AM (bKdTl)

All it would take is ANY sort of punishment vice reward. So far, they have been ONLY rewarded for bad actions and bad faith. So we continue to get it. I mean, yeah, if they had actually put Clinesmith's head on a pike, that would be a bigtime warning. But, hey, just put him in jail for a bit.

No, it'll be fine.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (mbFEM)

223 "Did we talk Chicken Fried Steak, or am I misremembering?"

If we didn't, I'm certainly up for it. Trying to convince myself not to go for bacon, eggs, and potatoes right now.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (B0mGw)

224 If we didn't, I'm certainly up for it. Trying to convince myself not to go for bacon, eggs, and potatoes right now.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (B0mGw)

Breakfast of champions. What's the discussion?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

225 120 I do not want either a National Divorce or a Civil War. Both would be catastrophic to the world and likely to me and my family personally. Hell, I took an oath to the Constitution and all that."

I find that I agree with an idea put forth by Victor Davis Hansen a month or two back; he believes that there will not be a national divorce, or a shooting civil war, because neither side has the nerve to actually start one. We are not made of the stuff our ancestors were made of, only a tiny handful of people today would actually fight for what they believe in. (as we saw a year ago today)

So what is likely? That in the face of some great crisis - financial collapse followed by debt default and collapse of the social security system is a good possibility - the Fed. Govm't will simply fall apart, and will be replaced by several regional successor states, of varying ideologies.
Much like the USSR broke up into 12 or 13 parts when it fell.

I rate that as quite likely sometime during the next 20 years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 08:43 AM (evAgx)

226 Mornin' again, all,

I just finished applying to a part-time contract editing positon on Indeed. The site even made me submit to a proofreading test, checking my grammar, spelling, and data-spotting skills. I created a separate proton mail account for job replies. We'll see what they have to say. Anybody else do anything with Indeed?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2022 08:34 AM

Yes, it is quite common in my field to do these types of tests when applying. Also, like other job sites you can set them up to send you possible job matches.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2022 08:43 AM (j7VPE)

227 If we didn't, I'm certainly up for it. Trying to convince myself not to go for bacon, eggs, and potatoes right now.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (B0mGw)
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I did just the bacon and eggs. Breakfast of champions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

228 ++++
Sometimes it is. But hearing "acronym" used as a verb before 09:00 wasn't on the list of things I ever want to experience...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

It is the land of make believe, so......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

229 "Trying to convince myself not to go for bacon, eggs, and potatoes right now."

It's Breakfast-oclock somewhere!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:44 AM (3D/fK)

230 Okay. But dogs CAN look up!

Posted by: Count Shaun de Monet at January 06, 2022 08:44 AM (4I/2K)

231 "Breakfast of champions. What's the discussion?"

I heard chicken fried steak and now I'm wondering where the nearest Cracker Barrel is.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:44 AM (B0mGw)

232

I view all Covid numbers the same as Biden ballots. Fake seems to be our zeitgiest these days.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:39 AM

I agree. But I also drive by the local hospital and look for empty parking spaces in what is probably a thousand car parking lot, but there are none.

I can either accept that
A) it's the not vaccinated; or
B) the vaccinated have had their immune systems compromised and they have problems with just about everything right now.

I'm leaning heavily toward B).

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (dQvv7)

233 218 Governor McMaster's (R, SC) take on the huge spike in Covid cases.

https://tinyurl.com/4mk8vyu7
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (3D/fK)

Thanks. As a SC-inian, good to hear.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (H8QX8)

234 They all know she wasn't and was being treated with the Trump Cocktail or Ivermectin, as they ALL are, so beating against the narrative in this case is bad.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

Do they know that? If so, that would be good information to know. Get her on the record and if she says she was vaccinated and got the virus, well, that tells us something real. Not spin.

But, no, let's see if we can play gotcha. Because THAT is news.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (mbFEM)

235 I have read a lot about the Soviet Union. I'm not sure if that is what they have planned for us ( a Soviet system) but it seems like much is being put in place that is similar. Having any sort of freedom like we have now was exceedingly rare in the Soviet Union, and was found only in places FAR away from the cities.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (6Je/Q)

236 You have to realize the only people focused on January 6th are Democrats and their media liege (including Foxnews). Oh, yeah and Ted Cruz. The average person doesn't care. In fact if they're in a place that experienced the BLM riots they are more concerned about that.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (LjX+p)

237 I try not to get swept up in the ideological tribalism, my problems with NASCAR have been similar with the NFL, a sport has turned into a regulatory bureaucracy. Its not fun watching what team can best work around the Byzantine Rules that are added each season.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 07:57 AM

Same here with regards to my enjoyment of watching NFL. My enjoyment of watching was diminishing over the past 10 years or so, when they made a huge push for "player safety" and started institution rules that basically turned NFL into can't-touch football. It then diminished more when I realized players were a bunch of out-of-touch assholes who complain about being millionaires. It then diminised more with the "hands up, don't shoot" BS and then Kaepernick. But I was still addicted and didn't give it up, even though that stuff pissed me off. Where I gave it up for a while was with their complete embrace of BLM and the COVID hysteria. That broke me. I still keep up with things, since I can't break my addiction entirely (been a fan since I was 9 years old, so 36 years), but I'm no longer a fan, don't care one way or another about game outcomes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (Do5/p)

238 I have got to lose weight. I'm starting to approach being as round as I am tall. But the cafeteria is open for the next fifteen minutes.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (B0mGw)

239
I heard chicken fried steak and now I'm wondering where the nearest Cracker Barrel is.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:44 AM (B0mGw)

Just don't get their maple syrup skillet. It's disgusting.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

240 205 So the Left is now spinning us with he's a coward for not being public today.

They always have a Plan B, no matter how farcical.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:38 AM (ZHVt1)

==========

It helps that I don't really care what they say.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

241 When was the last date on which the Morning Report contained anything about the 2nd Amendment? Because the last thing I remember being posted was about the ATF wanting to change their rule on braces for AR pistols, to make 3 million or so formerly alw-abiding people felons with the stroke of a pen.

Update, anyone?

Posted by: mikee at January 06, 2022 08:46 AM (KUNfN)

242 I can't handle a lot of sugar for breakfast. I want meat. And a biscuit.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:46 AM (B0mGw)

243 Trying to convince myself not to go for bacon, eggs, and potatoes right now."

It's Breakfast-oclock somewhere!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:44 AM (3D/fK)

Wrap it in a fresh tortilla and make it a breakfast burrito.

Good morning all,
We finally got power back yesterday, thank goodness, it was quite cold in the house.

Posted by: spypeach at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (UHCZh)

244 wish Doocy (and others) would ask Psaki, the Asst Spokesliar and every CDC official, on camera:

"President Biden has repeatedly told the American people that this a pandemic of 'the unvaccinated'.

Is he saying that only the unvaccinated spread Covid? That cannot be true because we know that the vaccinated also spread Covid. Or is he denying that the prior infected do not have immunity, without a vaccine, which is also false? Can you please explain?"
Posted by: Zek at January 06, 2022 08:35 AM (8lTQz)
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Peter Doocy has Covid and won't be back till Monday.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

245 "But the cafeteria is open for the next fifteen minutes."

Those folk who got stuck on I-95 for 27 hours would have loved to load up, just in case.

Just sayin'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

246 The multi-million-dollar program is called Report for America (RFA).

Pravda was already taken!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (yrol0)

247 So what is likely? That in the face of some great crisis - financial collapse followed by debt default and collapse of the social security system is a good possibility - the Fed. Govm't will simply fall apart, and will be replaced by several regional successor states, of varying ideologies.

I like VDH's writing but word people think words are action.

What is the difference between a National Divorce and the country falling apart into different regions? And no doubt that won't all be 100% peaceful. I mean, heck, in Russia they had tanks shooting at the Duma before it was all over.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (mbFEM)

248 Hey, Terrorists, has anyone seen my political career? Maybe I left it with Mike Pence.

Posted by: Ted Cruz at January 06, 2022 08:48 AM (k1/rK)

249 I heard chicken fried steak and now I'm wondering where the nearest Cracker Barrel is.
Posted by: squid_hunt

Do their pot roast instead. CB misses on the chicken fried wallpaper paste gravy. (Zero flavor, not even tasting flour)

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:48 AM (uXonU)

250 Governor McMaster's (R, SC) take on the huge spike in Covid cases.

https://tinyurl.com/4mk8vyu7
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (3D/fK)

HUGE SPIKE!!!!!!!

There's a tiktok of an old woman pouring Corona beer straight into the rapid home test and it coming back positive for covid.

Shove your huge spike up your ass.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Well Morons check your Power Ball tickets.

Two tickets, one sold in California and the other in Wisconsin, won last night's cash jackpot of $450.2 million.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I did. NUTHIN' !

Posted by: JT at January 06, 2022 08:48 AM (arJlL)

252 Looks like Cruz is eating Liz Mair's cooking again

Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2022 08:48 AM (us2H3)

253 Roast for breakfast is not what I crave. Not picky on gravy as long as it's not lumpy.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:49 AM (B0mGw)

254 Ted Cruz, Liz Cheney, Cryin Adam Kinzinger and Mike Pence walk into a bar...

Posted by: Marcus T at January 06, 2022 08:49 AM (LjX+p)

255 I have got to lose weight. I'm starting to approach being as round as I am tall. But the cafeteria is open for the next fifteen minutes.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:45 AM (B0mGw)

Manage your intake. You can eat your favorites, just in moderation.

Burn some calories.

You'll lose weight.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

256 ... There's a tiktok of an old woman pouring Corona beer straight into the rapid home test and it coming back positive for covid. ...
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)
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This is to be expected. Mexico has poor COVID response protocols and practices. This is yet another reason that we need to bring in as many Latin Americans as possible, to help protect them and give them sanctuary from unchecked COVID.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

257 Governor McMaster's (R, SC) take on the huge spike in Covid cases.

https://tinyurl.com/4mk8vyu7

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That's good. I was almost afraid to click on that!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (sVtYq)

258 Has Ted Cruz or Mx. Lindsey been ordered to appear before Pelosi's 1/6 circus? Or any other nominal Republican who offered verbal praise for Trump? Or just select individuals who were active in Trump's orbit?

Those absent are as interesting as those not. More about motivations and true beliefs than anything else. But something to take to heart.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (BFigT)

259 OWSA = One Who Studies Acronyms

Posted by: klaftern at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (taPSh)

260 249 I heard chicken fried steak and now I'm wondering where the nearest Cracker Barrel is.
Posted by: squid_hunt

it's like I don't even know you people

Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (us2H3)

261 >>254 Ted Cruz, Liz Cheney, Cryin Adam Kinzinger and Mike Pence walk into a bar...

Liz says fill all three holes.

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (GYllL)

262 Today is the eve of Christ's birth for the Eastern Orthodox. Merry Christmas and may God have mercy on us.

Posted by: The Butcher at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (JsenR)

263 Cruz. He's a Republican and can recite the dialogue from the Princess Bride. Such a good guy. If we've learned anything else since the obummer took office it's that all politicians are scum. All of them. Term limits and a cap on your wealth from being in politics are what's needed. Sure you can be wealthy when elected but a cap on what you earn as a politician. Multi term congress critters and massive wealth distance you from your constituents. You are no longer a man of the people (or woman). Scum, all of them.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (2NHgQ)

264 There's a tiktok of an old woman pouring Corona beer straight into the rapid home test and it coming back positive for covid. ...

The official answer to that is that the test is designed for human nasal secretions and anything else would have unexpected results.

But...tests should be designed to fail in such a scenario, and I believe they all have an "invalid" output.

Note: I did take one of those tests at one point with Omnicron like symptoms and it did come back negative.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:51 AM (ESjRY)

265 "Manage your intake. You can eat your favorites, just in moderation. Burn some calories. You'll lose weight."

I keep telling myself that, but I keep climbing. Of course, I may be messing up step 1.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:51 AM (B0mGw)

266 254 Ted Cruz, Liz Cheney, Cryin Adam Kinzinger and Mike Pence walk into a bar...
Posted by: Marcus T at January 06, 2022 08:49 AM (LjX+p)

dibs on the gloryhole !!

Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (us2H3)

267 If you're no lomger into the NFL, try International Rugby. Twice the action in half the time. The European championship starts in February.

It's a simple game, once you understand the offside rules.
Basically, you can be on the wrong side of the ball but can't help your team until you get back onside..

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (ZHVt1)

268 "But the cafeteria is open for the next fifteen minutes."

Those folk who got stuck on I-95 for 27 hours would have loved to load up, just in case.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in Denver who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

Posted by: Col. Andy Tanner at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

269 Heads up: I will be a guest of Steve Noxon (who some may remember as Wiser Bud)...

Hey. I remember that nic (but barely; it's been a while).

Why I Don't Buy Lottery Tickets

I really don't. First off, I know the odds, and they suck monkey ballz. You get much better odds stuffing $5 bills into the undies of exotic dancers.

Here it comes. By some strange and lucky chance, I was born in the US to two wedded US citizens. A genuine wedding night child. Nine months to the day.
I know I've already hit the jackpot. No need to hope for lightning to strike twice.

Morning, y'all. You just don't get any luckier than that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (F0YaR)

270 There's a tiktok of an old woman pouring Corona beer straight into the rapid home test and it coming back positive for covid. ...

There is no way to fake a tik tok.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (bKdTl)

271 Roast for breakfast is not what I crave. Not picky on gravy as long as it's not lumpy.
Posted by: squid_hunt

Breakfast Sampler. Sugar cured ham, three eggs over easy, grits, hash brown casserole & candied apples.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (uXonU)

272 After having driven past several Doc-in-a-Box locations here outside of Charleston, and interacting with medical folk...

The vast majority of reasons for long lines and crowded medical facilities is folk who feel fine, but are afraid that their home rapid test was accurate when it showed positive, or they were near somebody who later tested positive.

Most folk are gettin g sent home with instructions to not come back unless they begin to have some actual symptoms.
But, getting through that huge number of folk takes time, and staff.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (3D/fK)

273 now we know why Cruz married such an ugly woman
Posted by: REDACTED

So he didn't have to kiss her goodbye.

Posted by: JT at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (arJlL)

274 Dems' and Media Who Portray January 6 as a Near Fatal Attack on Democracy Are Absurd

Any time they say "democracy" they actually mean "us having unlimited power". Everything they say makes 1000% more sense when you do that substitution.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (j+u5i)

275 Cruz never got past the SCROTUS ignore by Trump.
Posted by: Capital Eff at January 06, 2022 08:41 AM (GYllL)
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Not to defend Cruz because I am pissed at him right now, but he told Trump not to appoint him to SCOTUS.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

276 "Breakfast Sampler. Sugar cured ham, three eggs over easy, grits, hash brown casserole & candied apples."

Now we're talking. Although I might skip the apples this early.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:53 AM (B0mGw)

277 VDH was interviewed last night talking about the so-called voting rights bill the Democrats are trying to shove through, which federalizes elections so the Democrats can steal them more easily.

He was brilliant. He said,

"These guys (Democrats) are stone-cold revolutionaries, they are Jacobins. The are ten times more dangerous than those clownish people who entered the Capital on January 6th. They are even more dangerous than those people who for 120 continuous days rioted and burned cities all over America last year, who burned and looted and injured 2000 people and killed thirty cops we don't talk about. These Democrats are serious people who do not believe in the Constitution or our customs and traditions."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 08:54 AM (Mtn20)

278 257 Governor McMaster's (R, SC) take on the huge spike in Covid cases.

https://tinyurl.com/4mk8vyu7

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That's good. I was almost afraid to click on that!
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (sVtYq)

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There is a free America. The media is not in the Free America. Just remember that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:54 AM (LvTSG)

279 J.J. - I have to take exception to you on this. The Republic wasn't killed, as I see it, when a Presidential Election was rigged in 2021.

It was killed when generations started viewing Government - and all its trappings and agencies including the ones often praised here - as an agency to do good rather than as a necessary evil. I don't know when that began, but it started at least as early as the "Greatest Generation" - and I use those quotes with maximum sarcasm.

That attitude, more than anything else, sewed the seeds of Socialism, and we're bringing that crop in today. By the bushel.

But I agree on this - America as a country of self-governing individuals is dead. Just not buried.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at January 06, 2022 08:54 AM (zmPFY)

280 Breakfast Sampler. Sugar cured ham, three eggs over easy, grits, hash brown casserole & candied apples.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (uXonU)
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Ham and eggs are brilliant. Grits are good. The rest is too much for breakfast. Candied anything is not my speed for breakfast. Candy is for later in the day if you have it. Protein is for breakfast.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

281 Was it a stupid whoopsie on his part...or a hidden malignancy in his thinking? How can a truly conservative person or politician have said what he said? It just doesn't fly in my mind.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2022 08:04 AM

Deep State blackmail/threats. Threats on his family if he does not do what asked. Especially in light of his daughter's exploits on social media.

How many people would stand on principles if their family was threatened. Not excusing his statements, just trying to figure out a reason why. I also think this is why Trump did not do certain things that a lot of people wondered why he did not do (pardon Jan6 protesters, pardon Assange and Snowden, etc). This is sadly the world in which we live. The Left controls every institution in the country. They have all the power. People now have to make choices of protect themselves or have their lives destroyed when taking principled stands.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:54 AM (Do5/p)

282 236 You have to realize the only people focused on January 6th are Democrats and their media liege (including Foxnews). Oh, yeah and Ted Cruz. The average person doesn't care. In fact if they're in a place that experienced the BLM riots they are more concerned about that.
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This is true. Americans could see and compare the scenes of 4 months of Mostly Peaceful Protest that accounted for 30 deaths, 2,000 + injured police and billions in looted and burned business and municiple buildings and the three hours of Middle Aged Trump supporters taking snapshots of the Capitol while staying inside the ropes and conclude which was a riot, insurrection and a protest.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:55 AM (HTCOy)

283 Breakfast Sampler. Sugar cured ham, three eggs over easy, grits, hash brown casserole & candied apples.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (uXonU)

Needs beans.

Posted by: Bob's Your Uncle at January 06, 2022 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

284 281 if Cruz is being blackmailed, shame on him for putting his irresponsible child snd parenting over the nation.

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 08:56 AM (ONvIw)

285 This bothers me a lot. There are lots of people who are spouting these exact words this week:

If we lose our democracy this year, we are unlikely to get it back during our lifetimes.

It's like: Raymond Shaw Is the Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful Human Being I've Ever Known in My Life

They say it, robotically, with these exact words.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:56 AM (mbFEM)

286 So, I started reading Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant, and I realized that I am a terrible writer...

It's like reading Joseph Conrad all over again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 08:56 AM (LvTSG)

287 Ted Cruz -- Sigh. The Harvard credential finally showed up.

Good thing Beto is aimed at Abbott this go round; he could beat Cruz after this dumbfuck maneuver.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 06, 2022 08:57 AM (F0YaR)

288 Ham and eggs are brilliant. Grits are good. The rest is too much for breakfast. Candied anything is not my speed for breakfast. Candy is for later in the day if you have it. Protein is for breakfast.
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I priced a Country Ham hock last night. $90. For some reason (likely labor) they no longer sell country ham sliced in packages. They also don't serve real country ham at Waffle Houses anymore. They just fry up sliced picnic ham. Its not the same.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 08:57 AM (HTCOy)

289 "If we lose our democracy this year, we are unlikely to get it back during our lifetimes."

Democrats are visceral creatures. They don't think in logical terms, which is why conservative arguments are so useless. They think in terms of catch phrases and mob rule.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (B0mGw)

290 And this goes for every other blackmailed pol who would put his immediate interest over the fate of the nation. If Cruz is being blackmailed, he needs to man up.

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (ONvIw)

291 But I agree on this - America as a country of self-governing individuals is dead. Just not buried.
Posted by: Mr. Obvious at January 06, 2022 08:54 AM (zmPFY)

America as founded is undead Tor Johnson ambling about in Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (4I/2K)

292 I think the dems are going to jump the shark today.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (UuD2k)

293 281 if Cruz is being blackmailed, shame on him for putting his irresponsible child snd parenting over the nation.

Don't discount that he is yet another piece of shit from Harvard Law. If you absolutely, positively need to deconstruct the law and the Constitution, by all means get a Harvard "education". You will quickly learn how to abuse the law and demean human life by the time you receive your diploma.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (+LCoQ)

294 It's not easy watching your country become a hull, a husk, a dessicated carcass of its former tremendous glory. We are living in a nightmare.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 06, 2022 08:06 AM

To steal a line from the bard, Jaskier, in The Witcher Season 1, relating to America as we knew it, "that ship sailed, wrecked and sunk to the bottom of the ocean a long time ago..."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (Do5/p)

295 The vast majority of reasons for long lines and crowded medical facilities is folk who feel fine, but are afraid that their home rapid test was accurate when it showed positive, or they were near somebody who later tested positive. Most folk are gettin g sent home with instructions to not come back unless they begin to have some actual symptoms.
But, getting through that huge number of folk takes time, and staff.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (3D/fK)

The constant Fear Porn has had a great effect. When the media spends 2 years shrieking "You're going to DIE! you're all going to DIE!!!" quite a few people believe them. Only those of us who accept that the media lies about everything 100% of the time are immune.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (evAgx)

296 If your cream gravy has no flavor, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

297 >>There's that, but the GOP is more worried about getting rid of Trump than the Dems. The Dems still think they can beat him. Most of the people I've seen in forums pushing anti-Trump stuff are party guys.

I think the GOP want to kill Trump, just as they helped kill the Tea Party, because they don't want anything threatening their failure theater shtick. Trump got stuff done, and they can;t have anyone revealing how little they get done (by design) in comparison.

The Left absolutely cannot quit Trump, as he is the perfect boogeyman, the guy who managed to slay Ms. Inevitable herself, Hillary Clinton, as well as openly named and fought all of their carefully constructed narratives/language/policies in a way that made half of the country realize they were not alone or crazy for resisting. He will live in their fevered minds for years to come -- there will never be enough said or done to him, his family, his allies to sooth them.
[insert David Plouffe tweey here about destroying Trump and his kind so they never rise again].

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (URNdm)

298 "I think the dems are going to jump the shark today."

Again. Pelosi is a tactical idiot. I don't know why they keep following her off the cliff.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (B0mGw)

299 I do not want either a National Divorce or a Civil War.

People in Hell don't want to sweat. Some things just can't be avoided.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (zmPFY)

300 287 Texas has a couple years to find a suitable replacement

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (ONvIw)

301 I think the dems are going to jump the shark today.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 08:58 AM (UuD2k)

And they'll get away with it, too, since our side has no meddling kids.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Andrew Jackson was the beginning of the end.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:00 AM (bKdTl)

303 What's that...you like pot roast, you say?

Find yourself a Culver's fast-food restaurant.
Then order the pot roast platter.

Slow cooked pot roast, open face over fresh sourdough bread with mashed potatoes.
All covered with real gravy.
Steamed broccoli, and a fresh baked roll with butter.

I think I have found my new favorite fast food meal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:00 AM (3D/fK)

304 Biden is supposed to be making comments on J6 soon, I bet they backfire. This is all about his shit polls and shifting blame now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:00 AM (UuD2k)

305 293. I understand his chief of staff is a lefty.

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 09:00 AM (ONvIw)

306 Got here late. Happy FBI Reunion Day! Who brought the cake with the file in it?

Posted by: Roy at January 06, 2022 09:00 AM (wUB6g)

307 Deep State blackmail/threats. Threats on his family if he does not do what asked. Especially in light of his daughter's exploits on social media.

But all of that will stop the instant he were to become POTUS or whatever the title in the aftermath of the former United States is.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (+LCoQ)

308 193 Senator Ron Johnson on natural immunity: "Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease?"

Why can't any Senator just come out and lay out the terms of war: The idea of forcing people to inject concoctions from major pharmaceutical companies just to participate in society is inherently anti-human and creates a cult based on obtaining permanent power on this mortal coil. We can't just pretend that this is all coming up at the same time the WEF gloated about how young people's blood should be harvested for the old and powerful to drink it.

The whole "pureblood" chant I've seen is simply childish. This is a war of the humans against the transhumans, and with God on our side, there can only be one winner.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (BCSAN)

309 "Jan 6" coverage is like an obese tranny flouncing and demanding respect.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (P88rY)

310 Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

About Chicken Fried Steak...what cut do you use?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (Q9lwr)

311 NASCAR, Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber Of Commerce Announce Partnership

I may start driving again!

Posted by: Dickless Trickle at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (yrol0)

312 Those bastards in D.C. - the entire federal establishment - both parties, don't know the meaning of an insurrection. But if they continue to push the vast majority of citizens like they are, they will find out what a real insurrection is - and then, may God have mercy on their souls, because the people will not.

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (gmo/4)

313 Russia just invaded Kazakhstan.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (B0mGw)

314 Glowie presence is going to be high today, methinks...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

315 313. Why not?

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (ONvIw)

316 And then to have since done literally nothing to defend even those who went and were innocent of any charge --while the media smears everyone there as a violent, white supremacists insurrectionists.

What the f'ing F, man?!

Posted by: Lrrr at January 06, 2022 08:08 AM

Have we ever found out where all the $$$ went from the Stop the Steal fund? How many suckers donated to that?

He should have converted that into a fund for legal representation for the Jan6 protesters illegally held in prison. At the very least, he should have given back every $ after he failed to stop the steal.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (Do5/p)

317 My personal dilemma right now is whether to fly the flag on my flagpole, or not.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (6Je/Q)

318 Morning Horde.

Posted by: Golfman at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (cDqYg)

319 313 Russia just invaded Kazakhstan.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (B0mGw)

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Is this good imperialism or bad imperialism?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (LvTSG)

320 Sorry. Looks like Russia is providing reinforcements to the government.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (B0mGw)

321 I think Cruz went into self-protection mode on J6 last year. The media had successfully demonized all things Trump. And Cruz himself was supposed to do the Insurrection - to actually propose that they delay the count and take the time to validate the disputed slates.

And "they" started blaming him. So he went into self-protection mode THEN. He's been calling it a terrorist event since then, he's been praising the Capitol Police since then.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (mbFEM)

322 What's that...you like pot roast, you say?

Find yourself a Culver's fast-food restaurant.
Then order the pot roast platter.

Sounds like something from the Boston Market chain.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:02 AM (+LCoQ)

323 311 NASCAR, Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber Of Commerce Announce Partnership

A threesome! Kinky.

Posted by: Roy at January 06, 2022 09:03 AM (wUB6g)

324 "These guys (Democrats) are stone-cold revolutionaries, they are Jacobins. The are ten times more dangerous than those clownish people who entered the Capital on January 6th. They are even more dangerous than those people who for 120 continuous days rioted and burned cities all over America last year, who burned and looted and injured 2000 people and killed thirty cops we don't talk about. These Democrats are serious people who do not believe in the Constitution or our customs and traditions."

Why can't Trump say something like this?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:03 AM (H8QX8)

325 313 it would be a good time for China to take Taiwan.

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 09:03 AM (ONvIw)

326 309 "Jan 6" coverage is like an obese tranny flouncing and demanding respect.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (P88rY)

...and a cat parent.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:03 AM (mbFEM)

327 And "they" started blaming him. So he went into self-protection mode THEN. He's been calling it a terrorist event since then, he's been praising the Capitol Police since then.

Just don't stop your applause Ted, let them get the guys who stop too soon.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:03 AM (+LCoQ)

328 313 Russia just invaded Kazakhstan.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (B0mGw)

I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA didn't have a hand in the unrest. It's their specialty, and Kazakhstan is another shit hole country with lots of opportunity for DC pols to make profits in.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:04 AM (UuD2k)

329 NASCAR, Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber Of Commerce Announce Partnership

I may start driving again!
Posted by: Dickless Trickle at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (yrol0)

~~Rubbin'~~ Frottage is Racing!

Posted by: Racer X's Alt Ego at January 06, 2022 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

330 What is the difference between a National Divorce and the country falling apart into different regions? And no doubt that won't all be 100% peaceful. I mean, heck, in Russia they had tanks shooting at the Duma before it was all over.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 08:47 AM (mbFEM)

The difference is that the second just happens, without anyone agreeing on it or even wanting it (like the breakup of the USSR) It happens because every segment of society has become too weak for anything else to happen. A National Divorce - or a Civil War - takes Will, and Leadership, and Dedication. The inhabitants of this country, except for a very few, no longer have any of those attributes. That makes a general collapse and chaos far more likely than any organized, intentional action.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:04 AM (evAgx)

331 OWSA = One Who Studies Acronyms
Posted by: klaftern at January 06, 2022 08:50 AM (taPSh)

***

IDKTWSAA = I Didn't Know There Was Such An Acronym

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 06, 2022 09:04 AM (flINI)

332 "NASCAR, Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber Of Commerce Announce Partnership"

Kill it. Skin it. Wear it as a cape.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:04 AM (B0mGw)

333 "Sounds like something from the Boston Market chain."

Nah, they are actually a burger joint.

They just happen to also have a few off menu items that are absolutely fantastic.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (3D/fK)

334 If your cream gravy has no flavor, you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Sponge

About 90% of the places I eat are doing it wrong.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (uXonU)

335 324. Because the donk revolutionaries hold every card?

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (ONvIw)

336 313 Russia just invaded Kazakhstan.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (B0mGw)

An example of how serious Russia is about its sphere of influence.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (z5Vrg)

337 That makes a general collapse and chaos far more likely than any organized, intentional action.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:04 AM (evAgx)

Tell me you haven't been divorced without telling me.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (mbFEM)

338 it would be a good time for China to take Taiwan.

It would be the equivalent of a slow release EMP burst over Western countries as China could then embargo the exportation of deeply needed silicon for practically every device, car and appliance in operation or in manufacture.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (+LCoQ)

339 The most significant thing that ever happened on January 6th in American history was in 2009 when Ron Ashton, guitarist for The Stooges, was found dead.

Posted by: MLCross at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (K8Z2z)

340 An example of how serious Russia is about its sphere of influence.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (z5Vrg)

They are the 800 lb gorilla.

In the land of Borat.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:06 AM (mbFEM)

341 317 My personal dilemma right now is whether to fly the flag on my flagpole, or not.
------------------
Fly it upside down.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:06 AM (HTCOy)

342 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:06 AM (yrol0)

343 Mea culpa, the WEF blood harvesting thing is fake news. Or they're really good about covering their tracks. I can't tell anymore.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (BCSAN)

344 it would be a good time for China to take Taiwan.
Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 09:03 AM (ONvIw)
++++
Xi will probably wait until after he is "re-elected" and they crown him as the new emperor. Then he will take Taiwan and go down in history as the greatest emperor in Chinese history. He will have reunified China, cowed the external enemies in the West, will control the Pacific and likely control the entire Asian Rim as satellite states. And he will act on the mandate of having just won hugely at home. The Xi dynasty will be the greatest on record, having achieved all of the objectives of all prior dynasties and given birth to the new empire.

That's my guess, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (DU+/6)

345 Morning Horde!

Yesterday on Insty there was a link to an article about how the Republican registration was skyrocketing in Florida. So perhaps the refugees are conservatives fleeing Blue States not liberal locusts.

I take this as a good sign. But I think it does mean, as Salty points out, that the solution to the National Divorce is that "we" are going to have to be heavily involved in local/state politics in Red States to systemically purge the liberals from power and KEEP them out. And building alternate institutions (like banks).

I still hope it is possible to band together and protect ourselves.

Posted by: Iris at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (6lKe4)

346 338 it would be a good time for China to take Taiwan.

It would be the equivalent of a slow release EMP burst over Western countries as China could then embargo the exportation of deeply needed silicon for practically every device, car and appliance in operation or in manufacture.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:05 AM (+LCoQ)

Our dependencies are probably our undoing when they decide to turn the screws. We are not self sufficient anymore.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (6Je/Q)

347 268 They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.
Posted by: Col. Andy Tanner at January 06, 2022 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

Great quote and good movie. Who cares what the haters think?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (4olE8)

348 339 The most significant thing that ever happened on January 6th in American history was in 2009 when Ron Ashton, guitarist for The Stooges, was found dead.
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Honestly, being a guitarist for the Stooges is hardly an achievement. Just sayin.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (HTCOy)

349 I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA didn't have a hand in the unrest. It's their specialty, and Kazakhstan is another shit hole country with lots of opportunity for DC pols to make profits in.

One word: Uranium]/b]

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:08 AM (+LCoQ)

350 All of our media and the govt are saying the unrest is over "fuel prices". Since these clowns never tell us the truth about anything, I doubt it's about fuel prices.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:08 AM (UuD2k)

351 The most significant thing that ever happened on January 6th in American history was in 2009 when Ron Ashton, guitarist for The Stooges, was found dead.
Posted by: MLCross

Did the police suspect Moe ?

Posted by: JT at January 06, 2022 09:08 AM (arJlL)

352 WH up now, Kamala is starting off.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (UuD2k)

353 The most significant thing that ever happened on January 6th in American history was in 2009 when Ron Ashton, guitarist for The Stooges, was found dead.

And all charges were dropped against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (45fpk)

354 "Mike Pence vs Ted Cruz in Thunderdome. Who to cheer for?"

Both...

While chanting 'No mercy!'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 08:15 AM

Sweep the leg.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (Do5/p)

355 Jon Stewart said he never accused Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling of being anti-Semitic, as many have suggested in recent days. 'I cannot stress this enough I am not accusing J.K. Rowling of being anti-Semitic,' he
said.

Fuck you Jon. Typical Hollywood bullshit make a false statement about someone then call it a joke.

PS Yes you did!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (yrol0)

356 I still hope it is possible to band together and protect ourselves.
Posted by: Iris at January 06, 2022 09:07 AM (6lKe4)

Remember, DeSantis only beat the guy later found in a hotel room naked with cocaine and male prostitutes by half a point.

It's always a near run thing.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (mbFEM)

357 looks like the dims missed "making a mountain outta of a molehill 101"

Posted by: REDACTED at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (us2H3)

358 346 But the oligarchs have more billions. So there's that

Posted by: CN at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (ONvIw)

359 "Kamala is starting off."

Hey girl....don't talk with your mouth full.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:10 AM (3D/fK)

360 If I watch their national jack off with the whore and the drooler I'ma start glowing...

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at January 06, 2022 09:10 AM (P88rY)

361 Meanwhile in Kazakhstan. Largest exporter of Uranium.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2022 09:10 AM (todmg)

362
About Chicken Fried Steak...what cut do you use?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2022 09:01 AM (Q9lwr)

The wife usually uses "cube steak" which is pre-pounded whatever cut of beef. When available, I'd always lean towards a ribeye hammered thin.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

363 Good morning.

Martin Luther King Day was observed as a federal holiday for the very first time on January 20, 1986, honoring his life & work & symbolizing the quest for equality and nondiscrimination for America.

35 years later, my how we changed from being more than ever hopeful about the future and working to be a more united people.

Note: If we're going with the big breakup, NO to being landlocked.

Posted by: Lola at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM (VQp1G)

364 REVEALED: Suspect, 25, who 'murdered cop in cold blood with her own weapon as she begged for her life' has been arrested 21 times since 2014 and had an arrest warrant for battery when 'he killed her in Comfort Inn'

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM (yrol0)

365 Hey Kamala...

Does the penis lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM (3D/fK)

366 "...as some commenter asked yesterday "why didn't Trump issue a blanket pardon to anyone arrested on January 6?" Oh, for sure, a hell like even he hadn't endured the previous four years would have rained down on him. But then again, so what? Scores of innocent people are languishing as political prisoners and he has not said a word about it. I am a diehard Trump supporter and can't thank him enough for what he did during his tenure. But his silence on this is deafening."

So let's play out that hypothetical. Trump issues a blanket pardon for those arrested on Jan 6th. As a commenter said yesterday, they hadn't been charged with anything, so what would he have pardoned them of? And further, who actually would have been able to verify the release of all who were arrested that day? Do we even have a full accounting of everyone who's still being held? Had Trump issued a blanket pardon, those folks would probably have been whisked away to somewhere else under cover of darkness.

I do agree, though - his silence is deafening.

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:12 AM (mZUr4)

367 " If I watch their national jack off with the whore and the drooler"

Don't bother. The gifs of Biden crapping himself on the national mall will be ubiquitous.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:12 AM (B0mGw)

368 It has been a downhill trajectory since Washington was inaugurated. Ever since then, Congress has been meeting and doing stuff to help.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:12 AM (bKdTl)

369 This bothers me a lot. There are lots of people who are spouting these exact words this week:

If we lose our democracy this year, we are unlikely to get it back during our lifetimes.

I'm resurrecting my favorite: "We have entered into a Thousand Years of Darkness"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (+LCoQ)

370 If you want to see mass formation psychosis in the process of being formed watch the insanity of Kamala Harris speaking live now in the Capitol.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (EZebt)

371 We natives are really overdue for a good talking to from a Canadian, Jamaican Hindu.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (HTCOy)

372 "Hey, got my Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights jigsaw puzzle last night. This will be an epic undertaking."

Beat this! Jackson Pollock. "Convergence, 1952." 1000 pieces.

Posted by: Brett at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (QpjKX)

373 350 All of our media and the govt are saying the unrest is over "fuel prices". Since these clowns never tell us the truth about anything, I doubt it's about fuel prices.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:08 AM (UuD2k)

Kazakhstan is the third largest bitcoin mining country in the world.

This is not random. When China started kicking BTC miners out, many went to Kazakhstan. And that requires energy. Big demand on energy drove prices up.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (mbFEM)

374 This is going to flop big time, it's already boring and there's no way they can pull off the gaslighting of comparing J6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (UuD2k)

375 @344 Joe Mannix-"Xi will probably wait until after he is re-elected".....for a second I thought yeah he'll wait until Biden is re-elected, because he will be, but then realized you were talking about Xi himself.

Posted by: JROD at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (0jZnq)

376 Do they empty Biden's bowels prior to his public appearances?

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:14 AM (HTCOy)

377 374 This is going to flop big time, it's already boring and there's no way they can pull off the gaslighting of comparing J6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (UuD2k)

=========

Plus...I doubt many outside of the core of the Democratic Party are giving it any attention.

The 40% decrease in reach of the traditional media isn't suddenly going to reverse today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

378 My butt's been wiped!

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (B0mGw)

379
Kamala Harris loves the Constitution today. Tomorrow she'll love HR1 which is unconstitutional.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (dQvv7)

380 Haha, worked in the voting rights bill.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (UuD2k)

381 374 This is going to flop big time, it's already boring and there's no way they can pull off the gaslighting of comparing J6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (UuD2k)

Not to be snarky but you are watching.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (mbFEM)

382 376 Do they empty Biden's bowels prior to his public appearances?
Posted by: Puddin Head

No. They just tighten the screw on his butt plug.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (bKdTl)

383 >>Meanwhile in Kazakhstan. Largest exporter of Uranium.

Apparently, also a huge bitcoin mining site.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (URNdm)

384 Kamala pushing the Voting Rights Bill.
This is such BS.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

385 Restriction of movement within the country is well within their reach now.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:16 AM (6Je/Q)

386 381 Not to be snarky but you are watching.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (mbFEM)

=========

Political news junkies gonna political news junkie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

387 When available, I'd always lean towards a ribeye hammered thin.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

I'll give that a try. Makes sense...why not maximize fattiness.

I like it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2022 09:16 AM (Q9lwr)

388 Not to be snarky but you are watching.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (mbFEM)

Yeah, but I like watching Biden talk like a retard.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:16 AM (UuD2k)

389 Speaking of killing it and wearing it as a skinsuit... The Madden tribute on TeeVee last week was interspersed with nfl ads for the lgbtq agenda. What a juxtaposition. Old school Madden and the real nfl vs the new nfl and their woke agenda. They wonder why they are hemorrhaging viewers...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 06, 2022 09:17 AM (flINI)

390 Borat was asinine but this National Anthem was great:

Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan, number one exporter of potassium
All other countries have inferior potassium
Kazakhstan, home of Tinshein swimming pool
It's length thirty meter, width six meter
Filtration system a marvel to behold
It remove 80% of human solid waste

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:17 AM (evAgx)

391 All of crypto is getting skullfucked.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2022 09:17 AM (todmg)

392 When available, I'd always lean towards a ribeye hammered thin.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

You're going to Hell.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:17 AM (+LCoQ)

393 (first few notes are from "F-Troop!" - jjs)

*******

Joe: "Hey Jill. Where the Hekawi?"

Posted by: Muldoon at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (m45I2)

394 Webb's secondary mirror deployed successfully. Very cool stuff. Primary deploys tomorrow or so. So far the damn thing appears to be actually working. Serious feat of engineering.

:: fingers crossed ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

395 Remember, DeSantis only beat the guy later found in a hotel room naked with cocaine and male prostitutes by half a point.

It's always a near run thing.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:09 AM (mbFEM)

One of the first things DeSantis did was go after the crooks in Palm Beach and Broward counties. The election was not that close. See the 2020 results.

Posted by: Tofer732 at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (GcxM3)

396 Biden up. Next week he's suppose to be in Atlanta to talk about the Voting Rights Bill.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

397 LOL Bee:

AOC Lays Wreath At Her Grave On January 6th.

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (gmo/4)

398 Meat puppet speaking. I'm going to risk a stroke and listed as long as I can.

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (MxEKc)

399 I do agree, though - his silence is deafening.
Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:12 AM (mZUr4)

He's lost his moral leadership. He's strictly a political figure now. This doesn't disqualify him from my consideration or support as a candidate, as politics is what it is and we always need to choose the least bad option, which I will.

But he stoked the fires of a movement he didn't have the moral depth or stamina to advance through the certain hell it would face. He's a great guy but ultimately not a Lech Walesa or a reformist or a revolutionary. He's a businessman, bold and tough, but still ultimately tied to the system and its respectful conservation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (H8QX8)

400 All of crypto is getting skullfucked.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2022 09:17 AM (todmg)
++++
Kazakhstan imploding is probably a factor in that...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

401 381 374 This is going to flop big time, it's already boring and there's no way they can pull off the gaslighting of comparing J6 to Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:13 AM (UuD2k)

Not to be snarky but you are watching.
Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:15 AM (mbFEM)

my prediction, and I will NOT watch any of it - it's all going to another Big Wet Fart. They're not capable of producing anything except garbage, just like the 2 ridiculous sets of impeachment hearings. No one except them is going to care, or even notice it happened.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

402 If they wanted an audience they could have had Sandy from Westchester go topless. That would attract some viewers.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (HTCOy)

403 "Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?" Biden will say in his speech, according to excerpts provided by the White House. "We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation."

Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (bKdTl)

404 One of the first things DeSantis did was go after the crooks in Palm Beach and Broward counties. The election was not that close. See the 2020 results.
Posted by: Tofer732 at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (GcxM3)

This is part of his genius. He made the crooks pay for what they did.

Posted by: blaster at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (mbFEM)

405 Andrew Zarro, a Portland, Maine City Council member, sells disturbing stickers that say "Abort Republicans" and "Defund God" at his coffee shop.

I wonder if Susan Collins shops there?

Posted by: Capital Eff at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (GYllL)

406 ... ultimately not a Lech Walesa or a reformist or a revolutionary. He's a businessman, bold and tough, but still ultimately tied to the system and its respectful conservation.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (H8QX

++++
Trump is a reformer, not a revolutionary. He was, I think, the last shot at reform. The era of reformers is over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (DU+/6)

407 Oh noes, angry Biden is up.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:20 AM (UuD2k)

408 Meanwhile in Kazakstan. Largest importer of Russian Tanks...

Posted by: klaftern at January 06, 2022 09:20 AM (taPSh)

409 Once again, is Bitcoin a CIA op?

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:20 AM (HTCOy)

410 > When available, I'd always lean towards a ribeye hammered thin.

Awesome idea. We've been using flank steaks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

411 >>One of the first things DeSantis did was go after the crooks in Palm Beach and Broward counties. The election was not that close. See the 2020 results.

And see the new party registrations since then. Republicans have taken a lead in Florida for the first time and it's not trivial and it's growing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (ZLI7S)

412 my prediction, and I will NOT watch any of it - it's all going to another Big Wet Fart. They're not capable of producing anything except garbage, just like the 2 ridiculous sets of impeachment hearings. No one except them is going to care, or even notice it happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

Yet, they can act on their plans and goals with the full cooperation of "our side". I doubt if most people in the USSR watched their regime's theatrics. They were fucked either way.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (ONvIw)

413 Shut up cracka.

Posted by: Corp Pop at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (todmg)

414 Indeed - things are almost always exactly what they seem. Cruz is cucking out either because he really believes it, he got bought off, or he is afraid to challenge the FNM CW too much.

So he sells himself as a "fighter" when in reality he is just a "tin can".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (+LCoQ)

415 But he stoked the fires of a movement he didn't have the moral depth or stamina to advance through the certain hell it would face. He's a great guy but ultimately not a Lech Walesa or a reformist or a revolutionary. He's a businessman, bold and tough, but still ultimately tied to the system and its respectful conservation.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (H8QX

repeating a refrain I've said often the last year - this is now Wartime, and we need a War leader. Not a clever businessman who loves to cut deals, no matter how well he talks on TV. I voted for Trump, but he's not the man we need to move forward; he's a good figurehead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (evAgx)

416 FJB

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (gmo/4)

417 "Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?"

Pretty sure he rode to power on the funds from a violent political movement. So I'm going to say no. I don't accept that as normal.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (B0mGw)

418 I think the Biden junta tried to declare victory this past summer. But the ~~Karenwaffen~~ WEF wouldn't let them.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 06, 2022 08:23 AM

FIFY

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (Do5/p)

419 Fuck Joe Biden

Posted by: Rex B at January 06, 2022 09:22 AM (gv0Ka)

420 Scottish newspapers promoting internment camps is another astounding fact. The world is obviously mad, and it is difficult to predict what is next, because chaos and incompetence rules. Adams rightfully points out our form of government only works for a people dedicated to American public virtues. George Soros prosecutors and Biden Junta appointees are actively against these virtues, they are anti-American. But the western world, coming full circle to Scotland (and the Aussies), are equally insane.

This is bigger than just the end of America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:22 AM (Mtn20)

421 Sundowner don't project much do he

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at January 06, 2022 09:22 AM (P88rY)

422 Once again, is Bitcoin a CIA op?
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:20 AM (HTCOy)
++++
I sincerely doubt it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

423 In today's episode of 'Resident Biden' Jo Biden will be portrayed by Rabies infected Tickle-Me Elmo.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (3D/fK)

424 Yet, they can act on their plans and goals with the full cooperation of "our side". I doubt if most people in the USSR watched their regime's theatrics. They were fucked either way.
Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:21 AM (ONvIw)

They're not going to get BBB, and they're not going to get their precious "Voting Rights" bill. McConnell's talent is not in what he does, it's in how good he is at stopping anything from happening, no matter who is in charge. For now, that's all I want out of him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (evAgx)

425 "Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?" Biden will say in his speech, according to excerpts provided by the White House. "We cannot allow ourselves to be that kind of nation."

THEN PRESECUTE ALL OF THAT FUCKING BLM TERRORISM AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THROUGH ALL OF 2020!!!

But I'm pretty sure, that is not what Biden's Handlers were thinking.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (+LCoQ)

426 The real problem is that we pay politicians way too much money. It should all be volunteer with stipends for travel and lodging. Once you simply pay a politician six figures, you get Rashida Tlaib and AOC and other ignoramuses decrying America's "evil" and recommending her dismemberment from the floor of Congress.

These people are supposed to be established, successful Americans stepping forward to responsibly shepherd their country. But now they're activists and part of the political machine. Just watch, AOC will be in Congress for 50 years and we'll long for the good old days of Nancy Pelosi.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (+S1Fy)

427 "Smothered by a My Pillow" makes it seem like Lindell killed the country. That was Garland, Barr, and pols of both sides who wanted to produce failure theater again, but will end up with a dictatorship with an iron boot.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (ONvIw)

428 Heh...the little gem buried in the middle:

"Oh, just fuck the lot of them."

Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (cTCuP)

429 Lol! Blaming Trump directly now. They are desparate.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (UuD2k)

430
I had to turn Biden* off. Such bullshit.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (dQvv7)

431 422 Once again, is Bitcoin a CIA op?
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:20 AM (HTCOy)
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I sincerely doubt it.
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I'm not so sure. What better way to control the third world?

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (HTCOy)

432 I always used chuck steak for a chicken fry, my stores butcher shop had a cubing machine they could run them through. Since I've moved my store here doesn't have a butcher counter let alone a cubing machine. Using a ribeye for chicken fry is just wrong unless your made of money I guess.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (QX4+f)

433 This is bigger than just the end of America.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:22 AM (Mtn20)
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It is, but we're part and parcel with it. Global empires - and we are a global empire - only very rarely fade away. When they go, they go hard. Think more "fall of the Western Roman Empire" and less "smooth transition from Britain to the United States" or even "fall of the Soviet Union." When the USSR failed, there was plenty of money, organization and will to deal with it. We were the backstop. There are no more backstops.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

434

You're going to Hell.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:17 AM (+LCoQ)

It is what it is. Chicken Fried Steak done well is fantastic.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

435 424 They're not going to get BBB, and they're not going to get their precious "Voting Rights" bill. McConnell's talent is not in what he does, it's in how good he is at stopping anything from happening, no matter who is in charge. For now, that's all I want out of him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (evAgx)

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I say it a lot, but it's theater for the Democratic Base. Ginning up fear that if Republicans take control the world will end. Sound familiar?

I keep saying it's theater because there is a whole lot more theater in DC than actual movement on anything. They can't just go home and let things quiet down. Fundraising would take a hit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

436 Ted Cruz will never be POTUS or on SCOTUS.

Texas has two certifiable RINOs--cowardly RINO's.

Tough to fight a war, politically, or split when most days 'your' guys are really the 'other guys'

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (FCPbW)

437 This is worse than I thought. Possibly the most despicable, nasty lies, contempt and smears I have ever heard from a president in just a few minutes. This is the what is passed off as someone that is going to bring us together? I may throw in the towel on trying to listen.

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (MxEKc)

438 What happened to the Aztecs was exactly what is spelled out in the Bible for people who practice the way they did. I don't think it was an accident. I consider it the judgement of God.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 08:24 AM

God is taking His sweet time in punishing the entire world then for abortion, which has been going on all over the world for decades. How many tens of millions have been mass murdered in the USA alone in the past 50 years. No judgement.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (Do5/p)

439 repeating a refrain I've said often the last year - this is now Wartime, and we need a War leader. Not a clever businessman who loves to cut deals, no matter how well he talks on TV. I voted for Trump, but he's not the man we need to move forward; he's a good figurehead.

100%
Now where do we find a modern day Sherman to do to Washington D.C. what happened to Atlanta?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (+LCoQ)

440 Once again, is Bitcoin a CIA op?
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:20 AM (HTCOy)

It might not be wholly CIA, but it is some kind of IC scam.

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (gmo/4)

441 >>repeating a refrain I've said often the last year - this is now Wartime, and we need a War leader. Not a clever businessman who loves to cut deals, no matter how well he talks on TV. I voted for Trump, but he's not the man we need to move forward; he's a good figurehead.

Trump is leading a movement to bring more change to the Republican party than anyone in my lifetime. He's bringing in record numbers of minorities and pushing out people like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger in favor of more America first types.

He's got his flaws but until someone actually better comes along who fights as hard as he does, not just makes deals but goes toe to toe with globalists and often beats them, he's still got my vote. We aren't going to win with hypothetical perfect candidates.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

442 I'm not so sure. What better way to control the third world?
Posted by: Puddin Head at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (HTCOy)
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Colonization and imperialism. Which is precisely what China is doing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (DU+/6)

443 "Once again, is Bitcoin a CIA op?"

I think bitcoin is beta testing for worldwide electronic currency.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (B0mGw)

444 435
I say it a lot, but it's theater for the Democratic Base. Ginning up fear that if Republicans take control the world will end. Sound familiar?

I keep saying it's theater because there is a whole lot more theater in DC than actual movement on anything. They can't just go home and let things quiet down. Fundraising would take a hit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

If they had half a brain they would know that Republicans " having control" poses no threat whatsoever to them.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (6Je/Q)

445 @366 Door-Some still don't realize what happened on Nov.3 and Jan.6. It's what I call old order thinking.I'm still going to vote even though I think its pointless, maybe they'll screw up and forget to cheat or screw up the cheat itself like they did to Hillary in 16'. We were changed forever with a coup just as JJ Sefton and some here at AoS have pointed out. The armchair QB'ing and hindsighters don't realize themselves what Trump was facing. The guy is lucky to still be alive, and I think the clock might be ticking on that. We're in a bad way, not because I'm a doomer, but because that is the reality of it. The Repubs possibly taking control will only highlight their ineffectiveness or more specifically that they're on the same side as the Dems and any new Trumpists elected will end up being just like the so called conservatives of the 90's and Tea Partiers of the 2000's and expose themselves as the usual Republican grifters we conservatives have failed to spot or weed out in the past. Some people here at AoS are unfortunately fooling themselves thinking we are going to vote our way out of this. By all means continue to fight politically but we need a plan B.

Posted by: JROD at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (0jZnq)

446 Time to start drinking

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (P88rY)

447 He's lost his moral leadership. He's strictly a political figure now. This doesn't disqualify him from my consideration or support as a candidate, as politics is what it is and we always need to choose the least bad option, which I will.

But he stoked the fires of a movement he didn't have the moral depth or stamina to advance through the certain hell it would face. He's a great guy but ultimately not a Lech Walesa or a reformist or a revolutionary. He's a businessman, bold and tough, but still ultimately tied to the system and its respectful conservation.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:18 AM (H8QX

Trump opened a lot of eyes to just how deep the Swamp is. One person alone can not drain it. His legacy is still unfolding. One of the things he has done is make it clearer that it's not Dems vs Repubs -- it's uniparty against We the People.

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (mZUr4)

448 I may throw in the towel on trying to listen.
Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (MxEKc)

I did that long ago. Nothing to be gained from it, and your life will be easier.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (H8QX8)

449 *Door; F'ing spellcheck.

Doof

Posted by: JROD at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (0jZnq)

450 441 He's got his flaws but until someone actually better comes along who fights as hard as he does, not just makes deals but goes toe to toe with globalists and often beats them, he's still got my vote. We aren't going to win with hypothetical perfect candidates.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

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At a minimum, I think Trump should be seen as the bridge to what comes next. He's not out yet because he doesn't want to be out. He's doing stuff to try and affect the future.

Either his way makes gains and we continue on the path of a broken Constitutional Republic or he fails and something else happens.

I hope for the former.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

451 >>This is bigger than just the end of America.

So true. It's the destruction of western civilization by the WEF.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (URNdm)

452 They're not going to get BBB, and they're not going to get their precious "Voting Rights" bill. McConnell's talent is not in what he does, it's in how good he is at stopping anything from happening, no matter who is in charge. For now, that's all I want out of him.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (evAgx)

McConnell is pretty helpless, they'll do what they want by fiat and nobody will stop it. They essentially have their voting rights bill due to the fact that they can steal with no penalty. McConnell is s cipher, but oddly Ted Cruz is worse. Rand stands with the "more visa worker" group and we have no side. The GOP threw the nation away to get rid of Trump. I hate them for that and will never trust them again.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (ONvIw)

453 "How many tens of millions have been mass murdered in the USA alone in the past 50 years. No judgement."

Have you looked around lately? Not all punishment is utter destruction. It's usually a lot of harsh goading first and then suddenly it's too late.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:28 AM (B0mGw)

454 423 In today's episode of 'Resident Biden' Jo Biden will be portrayed by Rabies infected Tickle-Me Elmo.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:23 AM (3D/fK)

LOL - I binge watched the first season of sci-fi's "Resident Alien" series, with Alan Tudyk (mainly because I enjoy his acting) It wasn't great, but it was quirky enough to be entertaining.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:28 AM (evAgx)

455 444 If they had half a brain they would know that Republicans " having control" poses no threat whatsoever to them.
Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:26 AM (6Je/Q)

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Politics doesn't work that way (I'm sure the far left thinks the same thing of the Democratic Party), and their base are self-professed mental patients not in a mental ward.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

456 Malig-Nancy Pelosi Owns the J6 Commission, and That's Why it Failed

It failed? They released the prisoners? Yay!

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at January 06, 2022 09:28 AM (cTCuP)

457 The real problem is that we pay politicians way too much money. It should all be volunteer with stipends for travel and lodging.

*WE* pay them?! I mean, yeah, we foot the bill, but they are their own paymasters.

Posted by: t-bird at January 06, 2022 09:29 AM (pbStR)

458 Either his way makes gains and we continue on the path of a broken Constitutional Republic or he fails and something else happens.

I hope for the former.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

He's really all we have left. Maybe DeSantis. But the donks have broken the back of the nation with the complicity of the GOP.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:29 AM (ONvIw)

459 Biden trying to convince everyone that the election wasn't rigged is not a good look.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:29 AM (UuD2k)

460 Trump is good at absorbing arrows.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:29 AM (bKdTl)

461 Question for the Horde:

If Iran demands Trump's head as a price for a nuclear deal with Biden, will America agree?

I say Biden is so desperate that he has already tacitly agreed to giving Iran a bomb, and we in fact be helping their research along. Agreeing to killing Trump, bugaboo that he is, is easy.

Yes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (Mtn20)

462 So true. It's the destruction of western civilization by the WEF.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (URNdm)
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Don;t get too caught up in that. The WEF is a force for evil and extremely powerful and their plans are monstrous, but they're ultimately probably just another consequence of the rot and losses that came before them. There's been a lot of widespread ruination and the hands of monsters since the industrial revolution took their slaves and serfs away. They've been hard at work for centuries and committed to destroying *us* with boots on the ground for around a hundred years. We may well be in the culmination now, but the culminators are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (DU+/6)

463 "Our differences on [Chinese] Covid policy are ultimately about risk-benefit assessment, not politics."
Public Health and Risk

*****

Two problems with granting moral equivalence to both zero-risk Karens and risk/benefit rationalists:

1. That presumes that the two groups share a common set of values in regard to things like self-determination and autonomy. They don't.

2. Assessment or risk suffers the perils of projecting population statistics onto individuals. Take as an example the notion of obesity and risk of COVID death: there is not a magic level of obessity at which COVID is a death sentence. "I weigh 199 lbs, I'm gonna live forever, he weighs 200 lbs, schedule the funeral hall for next Tuesday" isn't how the real world works. Risk vis-a-vis any particular biological factor (age, weight, temoerature, etc.) is an incremental continuum, not an all-or-none eventuality.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (m45I2)

464 *Door; F'ing spellcheck.

Doof
Posted by: JROD at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (0jZnq)

I knew what you meant ;-)

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (mZUr4)

465 The Washington Football Teams new name mightve gotten spoiled weeks before the teams scheduled announcement on Feb. 2.

The Scrunts

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (yrol0)

466 We will not vote our way out of this.

I never thought in a million years I would ever believe this about the country I was born in, grew up and served. I might be gone before the real shit hits the fan, but its coming and it will be hell.

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (gmo/4)

467 He's got his flaws but until someone actually better comes along who fights as hard as he does, not just makes deals but goes toe to toe with globalists and often beats them, he's still got my vote. We aren't going to win with hypothetical perfect candidates.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

He's what's left. All we have.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

468 I could live with Trump as Emperor as long as we also had a powerful Shogun who would actually run everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (evAgx)

469 Old man yells at clouds.

Posted by: Infidel at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (qpolg)

470 467
He's what's left. All we have.
Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

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In early 2015, we didn't even have him.

Someone else can come along.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

471 458 Either his way makes gains and we continue on the path of a broken Constitutional Republic or he fails and something else happens.

I hope for the former.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

He's really all we have left. Maybe DeSantis. But the donks have broken the back of the nation with the complicity of the GOP.
Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:29 AM (ONvIw)

Our way forward is pretty unclear at this time. That leader on horseback leading us into battle is unknown.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (6Je/Q)

472 Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
They're not even hiding the purpose of the overkill--to revoke the Constitutional authority of states to independently write election law and brand any Republican pushing for election integrity as an "insurrectionist."

Anyone who still thinks J6 wasn't an inside operation...

https://tinyurl.com/9y9cmmae

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

473 At this point Aaron Rogers is more conservative than 90% of the GOP

Posted by: Pete Seria at January 06, 2022 08:27 AM

I would say 100% of the GOP. Have any elected officials gone on record questioning the rationale of the Plandemic re: "vaccination" as he has done numerous times now?

Considering we know a good portion of these assholes have benefitted from HCQ and Ivermectin treatments for COVID for them and their families, yet have said jack shit about it. All of them are complicit in this Plandemic.

If we had any media left with integrity, when that info was out there, it should have been the biggest story in the country. I think the only investigative journalists we have left are Sharyll Attkisson and Project Veritas. And even they haven't investigated it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 09:32 AM (Do5/p)

474 >>Don;t get too caught up in that. The WEF is a force for evil and extremely powerful and their plans are monstrous, but they're ultimately probably just another consequence of the rot and losses that came before them.

WEF is an easy shorthand for the tech/global corporation/NGO vision of one world, as illustrated her. Look at how people are imagined as simply cells in an organism, not individuals, not sovereign citizens of distinct nations, religions, ethnicities, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfazu77

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 09:32 AM (URNdm)

475 The NFL is exploring contingencies if COVID-19 restrictions in the Los Angeles area appear they will be too onerous to hold the Super Bowl.

Good fuck em!

I hope NASCAR pulls the Cal race out from under them!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:32 AM (yrol0)

476 475 The NFL is exploring contingencies if COVID-19 restrictions in the Los Angeles area appear they will be too onerous to hold the Super Bowl.

Good fuck em!

I hope NASCAR pulls the Cal race out from under them!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:32 AM (yrol0)

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Heh. Pull the Super Bowl from LA and send it to Atlanta.

That'd be hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

477 Put the Superbowl in Tampa again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (todmg)

478 The Washington Football Teams new name mightve gotten spoiled weeks before the teams scheduled announcement on Feb. 2.

The Scrunts
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (yrol0)

***

The Landover Faygeles

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (flINI)

479 Our way forward is pretty unclear at this time. That leader on horseback leading us into battle is unknown.
Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (6Je/Q)

One can only hope for a "Black Swan" event. History can be startling and providential in that way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (H8QX8)

480 WEF is an easy shorthand for the tech/global corporation/NGO vision of one world, as illustrated her....
Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 09:32 AM (URNdm)
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Yeah, I dig it. It's the same way I use "Soros" as shorthand for the ultra-rich globalist financiers who go finance ruin the world over. And fair enough, shorthands are useful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (DU+/6)

481 Trump's new media platform can be a big help.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (ZHVt1)

482 At a minimum, I think Trump should be seen as the bridge to what comes next. He's not out yet because he doesn't want to be out. He's doing stuff to try and affect the future.

Either his way makes gains and we continue on the path of a broken Constitutional Republic or he fails and something else happens.

I hope for the former.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

Good take. He did his thing. He affected a movement. Something will be next. Those opposed to his movement have certainly shown their hand. Those who support his movement haven't shown theirs yet. It's a strategic vs tactical thing. Not something that will resolve quickly.

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (mZUr4)

483 465 The Washington Football Teams new name mightve gotten spoiled weeks before the teams scheduled announcement on Feb. 2.

The Scrunts
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (yrol0)

I'm still hoping for The Leeches.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:35 AM (evAgx)

484 >>He's what's left. All we have.

The left's primary goals after installing Biden were Build Back Better and changing voter laws to insure a Democrat majority forever.

They've lost the first already and the 2nd is on life support. They tried to leverage a 1 person majority into a mandate they never had and it blew up in their faces.

So far 25 Democrats have announced their retirement from the House. They can see what's coming next fall. That isn't winning.

There is no doubt they have won the messaging war for now. The control the media and the popular narrative but they aren't winning hearts and minds and doing moronic things like creating crime centers in blue cities and closing schools while skyrocketing inflation is not helping them.

The results on the ground are not matching their rhetoric.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)

485 One can only hope for a "Black Swan" event. History can be startling and providential in that way.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (H8QX

++++
We've been breeding black swans for the past six or eight years, and production ramped up dramatically over the past two. The black swans are circling and waiting to land now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:35 AM (DU+/6)

486 Someone else can come along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

The only person calling this totalitarianism is a donk RFK Jr. Our choice is Trump or Trump

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (ONvIw)

487 The Washington Bankers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (todmg)

488
One can only hope for a "Black Swan" event. History can be startling and providential in that way.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:34 AM (H8QX

I have said before and will say again, before 2024 an entire flock of Black Swans will take flight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (evAgx)

489 Biden just spent 10 minuet smearing and insulting people like me and now he is going to go all 'folks' and 'hope' and 'values'. FU you piece of shit. I hate this asshole more than ever and will enjoy watching go full dementia in front of the whole world.

Posted by: Ripley at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (MxEKc)

490 In early 2015, we didn't even have him.

Someone else can come along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

There's always another. Just ask Yoda

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (mZUr4)

491 472 Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
They're not even hiding the purpose of the overkill--to revoke the Constitutional authority of states to independently write election law and brand any Republican pushing for election integrity as an "insurrectionist."

No, actually it is the republicans who are trying to revoke the constitutional authority of states and the republicans who are trying to brand the opposition as insurrectionists. The voting rights bill and bbb stop this. That is why we need it now more than ever!

-Ted Cruz tomorrow

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (bKdTl)

492 Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
1h
Today is January 6th, one day after January 5th and one day before January 7th.

Have a nice day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

493 He's really all we have left. Maybe DeSantis. But the donks have broken the back of the nation with the complicity of the GOP.
Posted by: CN

DeSantis will be whatever big money's bitch that funds his campaign. Always has been, always will be.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (uXonU)

494 The Washington Ticks

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (flINI)

495 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (DU+/6)
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Chaos and uncertainty defy too-easy rhetorical conclusions. Lizzy identifies a contributing force to the present-day confusion, and maybe she's right they are an important source. I think the rot goes much deeper, to western peoples adrift without moral anchors. But I think we might well be at the beginning of a Seldon-like very long period of civilizational chaos, and no one can say what is next.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (Mtn20)

496 Those here who are watching 1/6 programming are not the intended audience.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (BFigT)

497 This is the most disgraceful speech since Hitler.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (Y5qcH)

498 The black swans are circling and waiting to land now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:35 AM (DU+/6)

Honk 'em up and tell 'em they're cleared to land.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (cTCuP)

499 486 Someone else can come along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

The only person calling this totalitarianism is a donk RFK Jr. Our choice is Trump or Trump
Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:36 AM (ONvIw)

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Not even anyone here is saying it?

Napoleon went from a nobody in 1793 to leader of the nation of France in six years.

Stuff happens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (LvTSG)

500 The site even made me submit to a proofreading test, checking my grammar, spelling, and data-spotting skills. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2022 08:34 AM
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Yes, it is quite common in my field to do these types of tests when applying. Also, like other job sites you can set them up to send you possible job matches.
Posted by: Beartooth at January 06, 2022

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I had to pay careful attention, but I consider I aced the thing. Actually it tells me they are serious about getting someone with good proofreading and grammar skills.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 06, 2022 09:38 AM (txdEq)

501 Heh. Pull the Super Bowl from LA and send it to Atlanta.

That'd be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

Yesterday all of the DFW news sites were talking about how Jerry Jones has been contacted by the NFL, discussing using Cowboy's Stadium in Arlington, TX as the backup Superbowl site.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:38 AM (evAgx)

502 I had a chance to get in on bitcoin early. I thought it was a scam and passed on it. Silly rabbit ...

Ron Paul acolytes tried to mint actual silver coins as an alternative currency. The feds crushed them. I thought that would happen with bitcoin if it ever started to go anywhere.

There's something happening here, and I don't know what it is.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 06, 2022 09:39 AM (ZHVt1)

503 Chaos and uncertainty defy too-easy rhetorical conclusions. Lizzy identifies a contributing force to the present-day confusion, and maybe she's right they are an important source. I think the rot goes much deeper, to western peoples adrift without moral anchors. But I think we might well be at the beginning of a Seldon-like very long period of civilizational chaos, and no one can say what is next.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (Mtn20)
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I agree. I think we're in the middle of the end, and not of America but of the world as we know it. Like I said at 433, I think this is going to be a very big one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:39 AM (DU+/6)

504 501 Yesterday all of the DFW news sites were talking about how Jerry Jones has been contacted by the NFL, discussing using Cowboy's Stadium in Arlington, TX as the backup Superbowl site.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:38 AM (evAgx)

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It'd be funny if he turned them down, saying that the NFL doesn't represent Texas values.

He wouldn't, but it would be funny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:40 AM (LvTSG)

505 Those here who are watching 1/6 programming are not the intended audience.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (BFigT)

Have they announced the real version of the Hunger Games yet?

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:40 AM (mZUr4)

506 499

Not even anyone here is saying it?

Napoleon went from a nobody in 1793 to leader of the nation of France in six years.

Stuff happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah, we want certainty, in uncertain times. It's very hard to accept.

Posted by: kraken at January 06, 2022 09:40 AM (6Je/Q)

507 Shorter Joe:
Help me and my Party take over elections and arrest and execute Trump and his 75 million deplorable supporters! (Forget about the virus, consumer prices, over-priced steak from Big Meat, and help me fight the real threats to Our Democracy! The only thing you need to know or worry about is Trump!)

Posted by: Gref at January 06, 2022 09:40 AM (AMIL/)

508 >>There's something happening here, and I don't know what it is.

What it is ain't exactly clear.

It was right there on a tee for you.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:40 AM (ZLI7S)

509 It'd be funny if he turned them down, saying that the NFL doesn't represent Texas values.

He wouldn't, but it would be funny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Jerry Jones has no values.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (uXonU)

510 They had everyone infected with a biological weapon.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (todmg)

511 We will not vote our way out of this.

I never thought in a million years I would ever believe this about the country I was born in, grew up and served. I might be gone before the real shit hits the fan, but its coming and it will be hell.

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (gmo/4)

This.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (VwHCD)

512 Napoleon went from a nobody in 1793 to leader of the nation of France in six years.

Stuff happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (LvTSG)

Cromwell was a backbencher nobody when it started. His skills were basically knowing how to be the Last Man Standing when it was all over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (evAgx)

513 Stages of Insanity:

Vaxxed
Boosted
Double Boosted
Over Boosted
DoublePlus Boosted

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (yrol0)

514 Today is the day before my oldest daughter's birthday.

That's all.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (fBYY+)

515 The results on the ground are not matching their rhetoric.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)

They don't mind cheating, or looting and burning for that matter. It doesn't matter who we vote for.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (ONvIw)

516 The results on the ground are not matching their rhetoric.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)
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that, or the election-related events may not much matter.

The Deep State has survived a full assault from Trump, resisted a Special Prosecutor, successfully stolen a national election, introduced mass political violence to enforce their edicts, and habituated Americans to different rights determined by interest group.

Maybe even honest elections do not affect the Junta any more.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:42 AM (Mtn20)

517 Well, that was awful. This country is f'ked. The world is laughing at us.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (Y5qcH)

518 Napoleon went from a nobody in 1793 to leader of the nation of France in six years.
Stuff happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM (LvTSG)
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Cromwell was a backbencher nobody when it started. His skills were basically knowing how to be the Last Man Standing when it was all over.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (evAgx)
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Ceausescu went from the unquestioned absolute dictator of Romania to dead in a rural schoolhouse inside of two weeks. The trigger for it was the perfectly routine, normal, oppression of a priest.

No one ever knows what the final push will be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (DU+/6)

519 Heh. Pull the Super Bowl from LA and send it to Atlanta.

That'd be hilarious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

It would be, but Dallas wants it...and Jerry has a lot of power...

Dallas and LA are both in the playoffs, so that's likely to ruffle a lot of feathers...

Posted by: Nova local at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (exHjb)

520 "Maybe even honest elections do not affect the Junta any more."
They are not acting like elections don't matter. The bureaucracy is firmly entrenched and that is where they have consolidated their power, but it is not invulnerable.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (B0mGw)

521 now we know why Cruz married such an ugly woman
Posted by: REDACTED

Because she can cook?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 06, 2022 08:30 AM

Anyone can cook. But only the fearless can be great.

Posted by: Chef Gusteau at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (Do5/p)

522 I suppose I could have just said I'm not interested in getting elected to anything again.

Posted by: Lyin' Ted at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (kfcYC)

523 521 Anyone can cook. But only the fearless can be great.
Posted by: Chef Gusteau at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (Do5/p)

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I love that movie so much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:44 AM (LvTSG)

524 Buddy tells me that Biden's speech was extremely well written and rhetorically strong and the speechwriter did a good job. He hated every word of it and says Biden's delivery was shit, but that the speech itself was very well put-together.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:44 AM (DU+/6)

525 Wow, that NYU Med Director takes the cake. I wonder if we can penalize people who are on welfare since they aren't of any use to society so why give them medical care at all. What if we said that to people who say had illness such as AIDS/HIV, or those that want to have their parts cut off because they're feeling very karenish that day. We could save a ton of money if we penalized the truly woke in society. They're useless anyway.

Posted by: jaimo at January 06, 2022 09:44 AM (DBrN4)

526 520 "Maybe even honest elections do not affect the Junta any more."
They are not acting like elections don't matter. The bureaucracy is firmly entrenched and that is where they have consolidated their power, but it is not invulnerable.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:43 AM (B0mGw)

What are they going to do, announce that they have taken over? They're going to pretend nothing has changed until they're sure they have the military. Then we're done for.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:45 AM (ONvIw)

527 #Let'sGoTeddy

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:45 AM (bKdTl)

528 ...its coming and it will be hell.

Posted by: Archer at January 06, 2022 09:30 AM (gmo/4)

I believe your are correct. I've navigated the COVID hysteria calmly for two years. In the past two weeks it has become clear that it's not going away and the left will use it any and every way they can, not just to control us but to deliberately hurt us.

I'm afraid for the first time since this thing was promoted. This will not end well.

Posted by: creeper--PUREBLOOD at January 06, 2022 09:45 AM (cTCuP)

529 Cromwell was a backbencher nobody when it started. His skills were basically knowing how to be the Last Man Standing when it was all over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:41 AM (evAgx)

He wasn't a bad general...ask the Scots.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 06, 2022 09:45 AM (Q9lwr)

530 45 Just. Can't. Deal. With. The. Stupidity. Today.

Work until quittin' time and go home to puppy! Everyone should have a puppy to go home to...
Posted by: Rosasharn

Agreed, the slow cooker was the best $20 I ever spent.

Posted by: Barack at January 06, 2022 09:45 AM (kfcYC)

531 Nood. Tattoo art

Posted by: Doof at January 06, 2022 09:45 AM (mZUr4)

532 What's the term for "more than hyperbolic"? Superbolic? Whatever it is, I'd say that it goes for both the "Jan. 6 = Pearl Harbor" stuff and the "It's the End of the Republic" stuff.

Posted by: Match Checksout at January 06, 2022 09:46 AM (dYe5S)

533 Right. The 'ol "give the Democrats what they want now in exchange for a promise to pretend to consider to give us what we want later" strategy.

Fixed

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 08:31 AM

Fixed again.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 09:46 AM (Do5/p)

534 The bureaucracy is firmly entrenched and that is where they have consolidated their power, but it is not invulnerable.

The only thing I can figure is they knew they had the support of the GOPe last time, but not this time.

Or there is something on the horizon they don't have the balls to admit - and are trying to nudge us all toward accepting. I have no idea.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at January 06, 2022 09:46 AM (zmPFY)

535 524 Buddy tells me that Biden's speech was extremely well written and rhetorically strong and the speechwriter did a good job. He hated every word of it and says Biden's delivery was shit, but that the speech itself was very well put-together.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 06, 2022 09:44 AM (DU+/6)

They had a team of writers from the NYT working on it for a year, so it sure should have been.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2022 09:46 AM (evAgx)

536 Mahalo double vax rewards plus card.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 06, 2022 09:47 AM (bKdTl)

537 >>They don't mind cheating, or looting and burning for that matter. It doesn't matter who we vote for.

Clearly. But they aren't the ginormous monster we sometimes make them out to be. They are a fraction of the country, smaller than we are. They get their power from a compliant media who influences a large part of the country who frankly doesn't even know today is happening. Politics is not that important to them.

But it also requires them to deliver. People can't live on ideas like BLM and CRT when they can't afford to put food on the table or fill their car while their neighborhoods are on fire.

The gas pumps in my small deep blue town are covered with FJB and Bye-Done! graffiti. People are not happy and the left can only blame us for so long. Tomorrow will be Jan 7th and the problems aren't going away.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:47 AM (ZLI7S)

538 Working from home today, and the better half is watching the broadcast of that drool bib wearing, pants shitting retard and his 'ho VP. Listening to those asshats is just infuriating. The language is bombastic, the rhetoric is inflammatory and it's just a bunch of bullshit and lies. It seems pretty obvious they're setting the stage for action against PDTS and his supporters.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 06, 2022 09:49 AM (fLri9)

539 Maybe they just did end voting with their declaration of war. Marc Elias has said he wants the rebels to be unable to vote, that's us. Fuck the GOP, too

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:49 AM (ONvIw)

540 I wonder if we can penalize people who are on welfare since they aren't of any use to society so why give them medical care at all.

I assume you are paraphrasing something you heard an NYU medical admin just say.

It amazes me how normal it is to hear absolutely outrageous things proposed, like this idea or Scottish internment camps or "post-birth abortions" or whatever crazy shit you hear lefties say, and people don't generally jump down the throat of a prominent person argue for such an insane idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:50 AM (Mtn20)

541 Today is another step on their path to indicting rump and several others for inciting a riot (at least). Garland's speech yesterday was the preceding step. The House Committee intends to send criminal referrals for Trump, Meadows, and several more to DoJ based on its findings.

Posted by: Gref at January 06, 2022 09:51 AM (AMIL/)

542 "What are they going to do, announce that they have taken over? They're going to pretend nothing has changed until they're sure they have the military. Then we're done for."

They are freaked out about the possibility of Trump. That is real. How could Trump be a threat if elections don't matter?

"The only thing I can figure is they knew they had the support of the GOPe last time, but not this time."

It has been my theory that Trump walked off site with a whole lot of leverage and has been letting people know what he's got in his pocket. I can't speculate on what it is and wouldn't take someone serious if they did, but things have been slowly shifting.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:52 AM (B0mGw)

543 Clearly. But they aren't the ginormous monster we sometimes make them out to be.

They don't mind slinging mud in a ditch. Conservatism still considers it uncouth to make a scene. That's the difference.

Its not that they have great numbers, or are all that tough. The problem is that you - the rhetorical you that makes up Conservatism - can't stand the notion of making a scene, let alone punching them in the mouth.

Hell - a strongly worded Fuck You ten years ago would have turned the trick.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at January 06, 2022 09:53 AM (zmPFY)

544 "The House Committee intends to send criminal referrals for Trump, Meadows, and several more to DoJ based on its findings."

Oh, yes. The walls are closing in. Any day now.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:53 AM (B0mGw)

545 The gas pumps in my small deep blue town are covered with FJB and Bye-Done! graffiti. People are not happy and the left can only blame us for so long. Tomorrow will be Jan 7th and the problems aren't going away.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:47 AM (ZLI7S

They can blame and control us as long as they can lock us down, tax us into poverty, let BLM and criminals escape punishment, and have the armed forces. Your deep blue town will take a chance on donks again.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:53 AM (ONvIw)

546 Oh, yes. The walls are closing in. Any day now.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:53 AM (B0mGw)

They will end up executing people.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:54 AM (ONvIw)

547 "They will end up executing people."

They are going to have to. The processes are failing them.

Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:55 AM (B0mGw)

548 Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:52 AM (B0mGw)

He's it, or we're sunk.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:55 AM (ONvIw)

549 wrt the national divorce properly viewed...
The elite of the two parties each collectively are our divorcing parents. We plebes are the various children, and plenty of us grown and old enough to know to stakes and see our parents with clear eyes. Some of us plebes though clear eyed about our parents, are never the less in denial, and blind to ourselves and our inner weakness.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at January 06, 2022 09:55 AM (ALA3C)

550 They are going to have to. The processes are failing them.
Posted by: squid_hunt at January 06, 2022 09:55 AM (B0mGw)

Ashli Babbitt was a test case, and they won the day.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:56 AM (ONvIw)

551 They will end up executing people.
Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 09:54 AM (ONvIw)

It will be more of a "soft totalitarianism." They have numberless ways of destroying you. They don't need to shoot you.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:58 AM (H8QX8)

552 "They will end up executing people."

They already have.

Only one person was shot and killed during the protest.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:59 AM (3D/fK)

553 It will be more of a "soft totalitarianism." They have numberless ways of destroying you. They don't need to shoot you.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 06, 2022 09:58 AM (H8QX

But Babbitt proved they will and can. They will kill Trump and imprison his family. Bet on it and Cruz will see it as helpful for his "prospects". The spineless fucker.

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 10:00 AM (ONvIw)

554 Maybe it wasn't such a surprise that Trump was symbolically murdered in the park during a performance of Julius Caesar. Democrats are attempting to "preserve" the Republic, but it has been dead for too long and their pantomime is there only to cover their move towards totalitarianism.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at January 06, 2022 10:05 AM (h81g2)

555 554. We're a republic just like the USSR was. Fuck the democrats

Posted by: CN...FJB at January 06, 2022 10:06 AM (ONvIw)

556 14

>>Happy Stolen Election Day! Never forget that the Democrats stole an election and the GOP certified it.

Not just certified it, aided and abetted it.

As has been said, the GOP is an illegitimate politically party and are not the answer to any of the problems we face and the sooner they are relegated to the ash bin of history the better off we will be.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2022 07:49 AM (gakDF)

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The phrase comes to mind
"If Republicans are the answer, it must have been a stupid question".

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 06, 2022 10:07 AM (ZpuGY)

557 10:18 Eastern Time, Cameltoe Harris is vomiting up a continuous stream of lies and prevarications of the tube.

What a despicable b!tch.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at January 06, 2022 10:19 AM (fBtlL)

558 Ah, I got it.

To understand what a reactionary left-fascist is actually doing, look at what they accuse others of doing.

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at January 06, 2022 10:20 AM (fBtlL)

559 Hey Kamala...

Does the penis lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 06, 2022 09:11 AM

Everytime I kiss you, I'm gonna taste 36 other guys.

Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8a_-zFBldA&t=130s

Posted by: Dante Hicks at January 06, 2022 10:34 AM (Do5/p)

560 But the western world, coming full circle to Scotland (and the Aussies), are equally insane. This is bigger than just the end of America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 09:22 AM

I have been saying this for months. Too many people on the right seem to think this is just "politics as usual" and that this is just an American political op. It's not. It has always been a WEF worldwide op, of which the USA is only one part. So everything the American government -- from federal to state to local to intelligence agencies, etc -- is doing has to be seen through a global WEF lens. Nothing is being done in the G8 nations and Israel and other Western nations without the direction from the WEF elites.

The United States -- or any of the G8 nations or Israel, etc -- is no longer an independent nation. All western nations are now being run by WEF elites and China. Once people realize this, the actions of these nations make more sense.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 10:53 AM (Do5/p)

561 "54. Nascar died with Dale."

I hadn't actually thought about it that way before, but I think that's absolutely true.

Posted by: Paco at January 06, 2022 10:53 AM (njExo)

562 If the House "committee" (in name only, as it violated its own rules for its formation and thus has no LEGAL authority) wants emails and texts, and phone logs of those involved in what happened January 6, 2021, they would get them for Nancy Pelosi and other left-wing members of Congress and the cognoscenti in the DOJ, FBI, and House Police; that will NEVER happen, as the goal is not to find the truth, but to Alfred Dryfus their political enemies (us) by obsfucating the truth whilst promulgating a lie. Hell, NOBODY WITH POWER who diddled and raped kids on Epstein's flights and island will ever come to justice (who knows; maybe the Judge was on the list).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 06, 2022 11:06 AM (ynpvh)

563 WEF is an easy shorthand for the tech/global corporation/NGO vision of one world, as illustrated her. Look at how people are imagined as simply cells in an organism, not individuals, not sovereign citizens of distinct nations, religions, ethnicities, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfazu77

Posted by: Lizzy at January 06, 2022 09:32 AM

So, we're living in The Matrix. Where the machines saw humans as nothing more than batteries.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 11:09 AM (Do5/p)

564 Joe Biden's America
In 2021 I called the Sheriff 5 times, I used a drawn handgun to run off people who came in my yard at or around 1200 pm, Someone tailgated my wife at night returning from her sisters until she pulled into the local church where there are Cameras then the tailgater turned around and fled in the direction she came from, the Church has cameras because they get burglarized a lot.
Con men with cheap paving who if I refuse to buy get mad and want to fight me, a drive by shooting.

So Far the Sheriff has responded Once in person.
He sent me on line to the Sheriff's page where there is a list of what victims rights are to get Sheriff protections, Basically the Sheriff will only come out for murder, rape, child molestations. Everything else is not covered. I discovered inside one square mile there are eight sex offenders. Hypodermic needles are everywhere along the roads.
The Sheriff basically told me once it gets dark don't go outside, in a rural country setting I am a prisoner in my own house?
It has never been like this ever.
All of the criminals are White.

Posted by: obsidian at January 06, 2022 11:19 AM (dYnlM)

565 Napoleon went from a nobody in 1793 to leader of the nation of France in six years.

Stuff happens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 06, 2022 09:37 AM

~18 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg was just some Jewish programmer at Harvard complaining to his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend about not being able to get into Final Clubs. Within a few years, he was a millionaire. Within 5 years, he was partnering with a radical left-wing American Presidential Administration, within 6 years he was part of WEF Young Global Leaders and within 17 years, he was helping rig and steal an American Presidential election for the Deep State and WEF.

That said, when was the last time in history a conservative world-changer came out of nowhere.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 11:27 AM (Do5/p)

566 Posted by: obsidian at January 06, 2022 11:19 AM (dYnlM)

Plan B: Ambush them and put them down one by one?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2022 11:32 AM (Mtn20)

567 Clearly. But they aren't the ginormous monster we sometimes make them out to be. They are a fraction of the country, smaller than we are. They get their power from a compliant media who influences a large part of the country who frankly doesn't even know today is happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 06, 2022 09:47 AM

It does not matter that they make up only 0.01% of the country. It matters that they make up 100% of the leadership of every institution in the country, which controls every aspect of the lives of the 99.99% of the rest of us.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 11:36 AM (Do5/p)

568
It does not matter that they make up only 0.01% of the country. It matters that they make up 100% of the leadership of every institution in the country, which controls every aspect of the lives of the 99.99% of the rest of us.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 06, 2022 11:36 AM (Do5/p)

Sounds like a place we studied in school way back when ......place had a hammer and sickle on its flag. Cant recall Exact Name of the place at the moment but sure sounds like that hammer and sickle place for sure.

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 06, 2022 12:45 PM (FCPbW)

569 Bought your book, It is sadly too true.

Posted by: Pamazon at January 06, 2022 12:55 PM (OBjG6)

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