The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 1/20/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and during yesterday's Potemkin village "press conference," the shambling, shuffling, stuttering, alternately-shrieking-and-whispering, heavily-doctored demento whose name tag "Doctor" Jill had sewn on his Depends reads "Joe Biden" actually managed to deliver one stunning, crystal clear absolute emmes truth. Probably, the first true thing he uttered in 50 years in politics if not his entire damnable existence in this world.

"I didn't overpromise, but I probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen."

Absolutely 100% fuckin' A, bubba. Between the eye-bleeds, the incoherent shrieking, the perpetual fog and all the other in your face signs of a decrepit geezer who's two spoonfuls of paste down the windpipe from being laid out on the slab in the center of the Capitol Rotunda (just as soon as they remove McCain), I thought for sure that he'd be gone inside of six months. Yet one absolutely disastrous year later, there he blows. When queried why the American people have doubts about his cognitive ability (surprised that that one got through the censors), he stated "I have no idea." No idea about why the American people think he has the medulla oblongata of a sponge or no idea what the reporter is asking him? Either way, this country - what's left of it - is proper fucked.

Despite a media that is a propaganda arm (if not the actual makers of policy as some suggest) that is desperate to spin and shield the American people from this disaster they foisted on us, they see right through it. Mostly because they are getting "the most successful economic recovery in history" good and hard at the gas pump, supermarket and everywhere else. That is, where there are actual products on the shelves to sell at stagflationary prices and not stuck on a container ship off the coast or looted from a UP boxcar in LA.

Not only do we see it, but you bet your ass the rest of the world sees it.

The situation along the Ukraine-Russia border is so serious that one hesitates to make a quip, but here goes: If you ever get a chance to play poker with Joe Biden, take it. As you're playing, Biden will talk a lot and maybe reveal his cards. And yet whether he's revealing the truth about his intentions or not, there'll be plenty of tells as to the cards he's playing, such that if you're watching him closely, you'll win most of the pots.
Of course, the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] isn't playing card games these days, and yet the commander-in-chief is playing for some very high stakes in the geopolitical arena -- and against some sharp players, notably Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Unfortunately for the U.S., Biden has never had much self-discipline, and even more unfortunately, he's gotten, well, old.
So it's no wonder that Biden's White House handlers have been keeping him on a short leash. His solo press conference today was his first in ten months. The fear, of course, was that Biden would say something stupid -- and that's exactly what he did.
Asked about Putin's plans toward Ukraine, Biden answered, "My guess is he will move in, he has to do something. . . "
. . .To be sure, Biden indicated that he was against Russia attacking Ukraine, and yet at the same time, over the course of a two-hour session with the press -- he obviously enjoys being off the leash -- the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] telegraphed to Putin that he was willing to split hairs, that he might not call a spade a spade: "It's one thing if it's a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do," he told reporters. In other words, maybe an incursion is okay, but not an invasion. Got that?
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) summed it up: "Joe Biden's impotence emboldened Vladimir Putin and now he just green-lighted Putin to invade Ukraine . . ."
. . . Back in January 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson outlined the U.S. defense perimeter in East Asia and excluded South Korea. Six months later, North Korea attacked South Korea. The U.S. intervened after all, and over the next three years of fighting, American armed forces suffered 33,686 deaths. It's widely believed that had the U.S. been more clear about what it would do, about its willingness to defend South Korea, the North Koreans would never have attacked.
In other words, the whole Korean War was based on a misunderstanding. So we can see: Clarity can be a good deterrent and can save a lot of lives.
Sadly, in our time, it wasn't a secretary of state, but rather, a much more important figure -- the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] himself -- who was clear as mud. And so we don't know what Putin will do, just as we don't know what Biden will do.
This is how nations stumble into wars.

To Biden, a minor incursion is when he shares a bathtub with his daughter. On a purely personal level, owing to my family's history, I could give a rat's ass about Ukraine and Russia for that matter. But the fact is, we made commitments to defend Ukraine and the infamous promise to protect their independence if they gave up their nukes was as worthless as Chamberlain's Munich agreement. Whether it was right or wrong to make that pledge, we did and by reneging on it, it led to Putin taking Crimea as well as our word being seen as worthless to friend and foe alike.

The problem here is that with Biden absolutely failing and flailing politically as well as policy-wise everywhere you turn, there's no better time for the tail to wag the dog. Given the fact that he and his handlers at the Kalorama Klown Komintern got utterly and deservedly raked over the coals over the Afghanistan bug-out disaster, going to war to re-establish his alleged tough guy machismo image, such as he/they try to project, is just the ticket to get the junta back on track.

Ho. Lee. Fook, if that is their calculus. If they even have freaking calculus as opposed to just flinging utter horseshit in all directions and praying something sticks. And forgetting our national security and foreign policy, what will Biden do vis a vis Ukraine because of his and his bastard son's "O'Rourke Enterprises" dealings with the corrupt government there? In any case, let's not forget that we're not talking about shooting off a few cruise missiles into an empty tent or a disused aspirin factory in the fictional Mission: Impossible third world country of San Cristobal or the East European People's Republic located somewhere on Gower between Sunset and Melrose.

This is potentially a shooting war between Russia. Russia that has nuclear weapons. THAT Russia. The Chi-Coms have got to be having projectile orgasms over the potential to waltz into Taiwan while the 101st Airborne Junk-Tucker Division parachutes in Klinger's heels into the Pripyat Marshes. I can't even . . .

What a complete, unmitigated clusterfuck. But while our enemies are laughing their asses off at their good fortune, the American people, or at least those of us in the nation formerly known as the United States who identify as American (or American-American for those into identity politics), Biden threw down the gauntlet. Funny how he always manages to be clear-headed when he's hurling threats, insults and lies.

"Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn't passed, do you still believe the upcoming election will be fairly conducted and the results will be legitimate?" Allison Harris of NewsNation asked [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden.
"Well, it all depends on whether or not we're able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try to alter the outcome of the election."
So, elections were secure, fair, and legitimate when Trump was president, but won't be secure, fair, or legitimate unless the Democrats' voting legislation is passed.
In other words, elections are only secure, fair, and legitimate when Democrats win.

Now that Manchin and Sinema held firm to preserve the filibuster and at least in theory kill the Democrats attempt to codify in law a federalizing of our elections that in effect would allow them to rig every national election forever, if indeed the midterms, as predicted, deliver a wipeout to the Democrats, you better believe that BLM/Antifa and every other Democrat-sanctioned terrorist is going to take to the streets to engage in a real insurrection. Certainly not the fake FBI-planned and led "riot" of 1/6/21 that was the worst threat to "our precious democracy" (vomit) since the Civil War, Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined.

As a complete aside, but something I do not want to get lost in the sauce, I submit this nugget of madness:

Arrest Warrants Count as ID For Illegal Migrants at Airport Security, TSA Says

So, the left thinks voter ID is racist and repressive but in DC itself, you cannot walk the streets without showing your ausweiss.

Gevalt.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Christopher F. Rufo: "Progressives are re-segregating American institutions under the guise of 'racial equity.'"
The Ghost of Jim Crow
Jim Dillon, M.D.: "An investigation by Michigan's Office of the Auditor General concluded that the Whitmer administration had undercounted the death toll for [Chinese] COVID-19 in long-term care facilities by about 30%."
A Referral You Cannot Refuse: Death in Michigan's Nursing Homes
"The more that comes out about the Seth Rich case, the more plausible the 'leak' theory becomes, and the more sinister the Clinton campaign and James Comey appear to have been."
How the Left Is Proving the DNC Was Not Hacked by Russia
Wayne Allyn Root: "Today, his son can no longer walk the streets of Washington without 'papers.'"
My Father Almost Died for His Country Fighting at Okinawa

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

Victor Davis Hanson: "As the 2022 midterm elections approach, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division -- and self-inflicted madness?"
Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?
"The Court has now given the power of rejecting executive privilege to a president who unconditionally loathes his predecessor. Only one justice dissented. (Clarence Thomas. Every other one is a fraud - jjs)
Only One SCOTUS Justice Protected Trump's Executive Privilege
"For those who love liberty, the present battlefield is thus not favorable to victory. That does not mean however that the cause of liberty should be abandoned. Instead, it means that its soldiers must coldly recognize the shape of that battlefield so that they can move forward in battle effectively. Know your enemy. They are out to destroy us, without mercy. We can't negotiate with them any longer." Freedom is Under Siege and the Besiegers Have Now Told Us They Have No Mercy
". . . Although it could backfire."
Dems Plot to Prosecute Trump Over January 6 to Prevent Him Running in 2024
"Did the federal government have some involvement in January 6? We don't know the answer to that question -- and that's a problem for a constitutional republic." (yes, it did and that's a much bigger problem - jjs)
The January 6 Narrative is Starting to Unravel
"Cullors says she quit the group after the criticism of her spending habits and retreated to her manse, broken and in mental anguish." (be a real shame if she got stabbed in the face by a homeless, deranged Angeleno; a real shame - jjs)
BLM Founder Now Wants to "Heal" in Peace in Her Multi-Million-Dollar Home -- After Setting the Country on Fire
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS
FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Importantly, infection-derived protection was higher after the Delta variant became predominant, a time when vaccine-induced immunity for many persons declined because of immune evasion" the study found.
CDC Study Shows Prior Chinese COVID-19 Infection, Vaccines Protected Against Delta
Shocked. Thought for sure this company would be an enforcer. Good news and hopefully a harbinger for other companies.
Starbucks Throws Out Vaccine Mandate for Its Workers in Wake of SCOTUS Ruling
Really an unnecessary, stupid and dangerous move. But, Biden.
Biden Junta To Drain Strategic Stockpile, Hand Out 400 Million Free N95 Masks
"Please tell me there was SOMEONE among the collective currently running our country who could have put two brain cells together and foreseen this issue. Someone? Anyone?"
Incompetent Biden Junta's Chinese COVID Test Website Faceplants on First Day
"Policy makes minority patients automatically eligible for scarce [Chinese] COVID drugs."
Legal Group Sues New York State Over Race-Based Chinese COVID Treatment
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's plan for dealing with [Chinese] COVID has been worse than useless."
It's Official: Biden Now Leads Trump in the Chinese COVID Death Count
"What two years of [Chinese] COVID should have taught people by now is that bureaucracies can never be trusted to police themselves for our protection."
After Chinese COVID, Never Again

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"'The government will no longer mandate the wearing of face masks anywhere,' Prime Minister Boris Johnson said."
England To Scrap Most Chinese COVID Restrictions, Boris Johnson Announces
"Morrison's government granted Djokovic a visa to attend the Australian Open, a tournament the Serb has won more than any other player in history, but abruptly detained him in Melbourne's international airport claiming his documentation for a medical exemption to Australia's vaccine requirement for foreigners was invalid."
Australian Government Support Crashes amid Djokovic Fiasco
"Narrow opinions leave the security of life, liberty, and property uncertain."
Unprincipled Justices Add Regime Uncertainty
"Throughout the pandemic, medical and scientific institutions have disseminated dubious advice, flawed studies, and even outright falsehoods."
Public Health's Truth Problem
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"A sobering look at the Pakistani connection."
Did the Texas Synagogue Jihadi Act Alone?
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden revoked an executive order from his predecessor that implemented a more rigorous vetting process for visa applicants. That executive order conducted for the first time ever a review of all countries' data and info-sharing systems. The order, advocates say, resulted in visa cooperation between the United States and other nations that was overdue."
Immigration Experts, Republicans Raise Alarm Over Synagogue Terrorist's Visa
"The ADL isn't the establishment media, but it's aligned with it."
In Wake of Texas Synagogue Hostage-Taking, Anti-Defamation League Warns Against "Islamophobia"

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Raymond Ibrahim: "Islam manipulates the figures of Judaism and Christianity for its own agenda and precisely against Jews and Christians."
Jesus Christ as Palestinian Terrorist
"Participants in the Oppression Olympics tend to be governed by the dark triad of personality, which is composed of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism."
When It Comes to Hate Crime Hoaxes, Muslims Are Not Exempt
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
What is it about "Thou Shalt Not Covet" that you do not understand, you unwashed Commie slag?
Pramila "Tarantino-face" Jayapal: "The Rich Want to Be Taxed"
". . . 'for months now, Joe Biden has claimed to have the best economic record of any president in recent history and credited his economic policies'; however, both the government's own data and good old common sense say otherwise."
Misery Index: Biden's Economic Policies Are Clearly Failing Average and Poor Americans
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"According to Los Angeles County records, Smith had a criminal record and was free on a $1,000 bail from an October 2020 misdemeanor arrest." (just as he was turning his life around by only boosting Union Pacific boxcars - jjs)
Brianna Kupfer's [Mostly White Except for His DNA and Melanin] Alleged Killer Arrested in Pasadena
"The tone is a shift from earlier in the week when Adams stated that the subway system is primarily not dangerous after a woman was killed when a person pushed her in front of a subway train this past weekend."
NYC Mayor Says He Doesn't Feel Safe on Subway System
"Too often, proposals for reform come from people with little practical experience in the field -- especially elite law school professors."
Criminal Justice Know-Nothings
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"In private messages, teachers say 'no mask, no entry''" (time for Youngkin to say, "pull that shit and no job, no pension" - jjs)
Virginia Teachers Threaten To Bully Maskless Children
"These are people who did what we want them to do as Americans. They tried." (welched on their commitments... just like Democrats always do - jjs)
Lie-awatha Warren Thinks Biden Can Save His So-Called Quote-Unquote "Presidency" With Executive Order Canceling Student Loan Debt
John Stossel: "How consultants spread Critical Race Theory."
Money for Indoctrination
"Ought schools teach 'essential knowledge' or 'critical thinking?'"
To Be Capable of Freedom
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Large migrant groups crossing through the Del Rio Sector, particularly in Eagle Pass, are now the norm."
Biden's Broken Border: West Texas Border Sector Now Epicenter of Migrant Crisis
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The change, had it been adopted, would have established a 'talking filibuster,' allowing any senator to speak for or against the bill for as long as they wanted but lowering the 60-vote threshold for passage to a simple majority. 'I don't know what happened to the good old days,' said West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, 'but I can't tell you they aren't here now.'"
Senate Rejects Filibuster Change, Defeats Democrat Election Thievery Bills in History-Making Day
"[Laphonza] Butler repeated the false Democrat narrative that the legislation's purpose is to promote voting rights and that Republicans are attempting to suppress the right to vote." (Laphonza is evidently a real name - jjs)
Abortion Industry Threatens to Cut Off Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for Refusal to Support Change in Filibuster Rule
"Today, Democrats are engaged in a full-court press to pass legislation that would brush state election safeguards aside and codify the shenanigans of 2020 into federal law."
It Doesn't Matter That Voters Hate Joe Biden If Democrats Can Rig Elections
Terry Jeffrey: ". . . But not to the Democrats."
Voter ID Requirements Make Sense
"Dems push to eliminate filibuster at behest of ultra-wealthy donors."
HEROES: Manchin, Sinema Stand Athwart Big Tech Billionaires, Yelling Stop
"So, elections were secure, fair, and legitimate when Trump was president, but won't be secure, fair, or legitimate unless the Democrats' voting legislation is passed. In other words, elections are only secure, fair, and legitimate when Democrats win." Will the 2022 Midterms Be Legitimate? Joe Biden Says "It All Depends"
Margot Cleveland: "In one week alone, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden eclipsed everything Donald Trump and his supporters said about the validity of the 2020 election."
Biden's Attack On Voting Rights Far Surpasses Trump's [Accurate] Election Claims
"As a matter of law, no one may go to jail for stealing the election. But as a matter of reality, the people will lose faith in the democratic process."
Will Democracy Survive a New Year and New Elections?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The whole story, it seems, was concocted to stir up hatred against Christians and stoke outrage. It succeeded."
Not One Corpse Has Been Found in the "Mass Grave" of Indigenous Children In Canada
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"White House announces $1.1 billion investment into Everglades following ask from wealthy donor."
Biden Uses Infrastructure Bill to Fulfill Ask from Hedge Fund Billionaire Donor's Foundation
"The American people deserve answers regarding why the Obama Administration -- whether at then-Vice President Biden's behest or not -- watched in silence as an American company transferred control of this precious asset to a Chinese conglomerate and why Hunter Biden was -- yet again -- involved in international matters on which he has no expertise,"Comer wrote.
Rep. James Comer Wants Info on Hunter Biden's Ties to Chinese Cobalt Mine Sale
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Since May 2020, [Caroline] Burns has worked in the office of New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who has frequently criticized Republicans for allegedly attacking LGBT people."
"Hate This Fag": Cuck Schemer's Media Director Has a History of Gay-Bashing Tweets
"Avril Haines's office also spent $3,000 on new art for office, documents show."
Biden's Director of National Intelligence Dropped $12,000 on Custom "Executive" Chairs
BIDEN POTEMKIN "PRESS CONFERENCE"
Miranda Devine: "Rosen ploughed on: 'if you'd let me finish . . . why do you suppose such large segments of the American electorate have come to harbor such profound concerns about your cognitive fitness?' 'I have no idea,' was Biden's response. It was the truest thing he said in two hours."
So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden is a Fool Who's Fooling Himself
Saying he outperformed expectations is probably the only solid truth he has spoken, perhaps in his entire accursed lifetime.
Biden: "I Didn't Overpromise, But I Have Probably Outperformed What Anybody Thought Would Happen"
"Even though he spent most of it clearly calling on reporters from a list of 'safe' questioners provided by his staff, he stumbled and bumbled and all too often made no sense at all. Plus, he repeated his bizarre 'whisper shout' gimmick to emphasize certain points -- when what it actually emphasizes is his age."
Biden's Press Conference Was an Utter Disaster
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] bragged of 'record job creation' and 'record economic growth' during his [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"], but left out one little detail about his claim. There was a pandemic that was used as an excuse to shut down the economy, forcing many people into unemployment." Seconds Into Press Conference, Biden Ignores Impact of Economic Shut Down
"If there was any doubt that Joe Biden is unfit for the office of President of the United States, yesterday's marathon press conference put such qualms to rest."
When Joe Biden Speaks, Sane People Are Horrified
"He cracked a joke in response to a question about Americans potentially left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal deadline and was seen apparently checking his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base. But he has nothing to apologize for?"
Joe Biden "Makes No Apologies For" Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
"Biden's attempt to communicate how he plans to address [Chinese] COVID, crime, rising prices, and empty shelves was nothing less of a disaster."
10 Lies Biden Told During His First Press Conference In Months
POLITICS
Destroying our economy, national security, society and the last vestiges of comity are all raging successes, as far as the Marxists are concerned.
Poll: 60% Deem Joe Biden's First Year in Office "Unsuccessful"
"And we're inspired: Hugo Chavez, (catching himself) Cesar Chavez; we're inspired by all of these leaders."
Top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries Slammed After Dropping Socialist Dictator's Name During Press Conference
"Democrats hope to defend their razor-thin majority in the House in the midterms, amid a rough political climate."
Ominous: 28 House Democrats Not Running For Reelection in 2022
"You might think it would just be a Biden thing or at least a Biden-Harris thing."
Democrats Are Wearing Joe Biden's Unpopularity
"Save the 25th Amendment or an unlikely resignation, Joe Biden will fumble his way through to 2024, his cognitive decline further exacerbated by age and pharmaceutical side effects."
Biden Crosses the Rubicon
"You are meant to enjoy and respond to the staged rivalry between Donald Trump and Florida's Ron DeSantis."
Trump, DeSantis, and Kayfabe
"Who's up for round two?"
Keep an Eye on Hillary
"Senate candidate Cheri Beasley quietly abandons 'Squad' members."
North Carolina Dem Ditches Far-Left Fundraising Group After Receiving Establishment Support
"Where the money is coming from has yet to be disclosed."
Beto "Mickey Irish" O'Rourke Raises $7.2 Million in First 6 Weeks of Texas Gubernatorial Campaign
"Maybe we should be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory."
When Government Fails, Roll the Dice
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
". . . But keep his failing bad ideas."
The Dems' Media Turn on Biden
Nina Totenberg is a particularly despicable, filthy slag. If NPR had any principles, she'd have been fired ages ago. And certainly for this propaganda.
Gorsuch, Sotomayor Push Back on NPR Story Claiming He Refused to Wear a Mask Despite Request
Even Austin Goolsbee said "Just stop. Seriously."
CNN Reporter Suggests Price Controls With the Worst Analysis Ever
"Now they think they can predict the future."
A New Level of Fake News From the Left
"Makes people distrust authorities event more."
Major New Report Finds Online Censorship is Self-Defeating
ABORTION
"The move by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals effectively prolongs the litigation over the unusual anti-abortion statute, leaving in place a law that has led to a dramatic reduction in the number of abortions performed in the state since the measure took effect in September."
Federal Court Delivers Another Blow to Abortion Providers Challenging Texas Heartbeat Bill
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The situation along the Ukraine-Russia border is so serious that one hesitates to make a quip, but here goes: "If you ever get a chance to play poker with Joe Biden, take it."
If Loose Lips Sink Ships, Biden's Loose Tongue Could Get Us into a War
"When asked later to clarify what he meant by 'minor incursion,' Biden said he drew the line at 'Russian forces crossing the border, killing Ukrainian fighters,' CNN reported. Biden's comments were widely interpreted as giving a green light to Putin." (minor incursion is what happens when Biden shares a bathtub with his daughter - jjs)
White House Has To Issue Statement Cleaning Up Biden's Disastrous Remarks On Russia, Ukraine
"It refuses to provide arms to Ukraine while other NATO members step up to do so."
Germany Shows Lack of Resolve Against Russian Threats
"In the current, exceptional conditions when unilateral actions by the West, including the United States, are being confronted, we can create synergy in our cooperation."
Iran's President to Putin: Moscow and Tehran Should Join Forces Against Western Sanctions
Terry Jeffrey: ". . . when millions of people around the world turn their eyes toward Beijing to watch these great athletes compete, they should not forget those evils. And so long as China is governed by this regime, it should never be allowed to host another international event."
China Wins the Gold for Tyranny
"As the French election heats up, all eyes are shifting to the new Reconquete party."
Defection! Right-Wing Stalwart Jerome Riviere Shifts Support from Le Pen to Zemmour
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
". . . the trains were built as part of former President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to develop a highly-accessible high-speed rail system across the U.S., Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) reported. The Obama administration awarded Wisconsin, led by former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, $810 million for the project in 2009."
Failed Obama Rail Project Collapses, Nigeria Purchases Unused Trains
"All the death and destruction in the City of Angels finally caused someone who can do something about it to take action. But is it enough?"
Can Los Angeles Be Saved?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Shambles ahead, from Sydney to New York. Indelicately speaking, I foresee the Bishop of Bath and Wells, poker in hand, ready to collect a debt."
Lord Percy and the Green Climateers
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"It should be noted that, according to these numbers, the overall threat seems quite manageable. Nonetheless, the Russian anti-sat test was entirely irresponsible, especially because it targeted a defunct satellite in an orbit slightly higher than ISS, which means its debris will over time move into ISS's orbit. The test also violated the Outer Space Treaty, which Russia has signed, which requires all signatories to control what they do in space so that it does not threaten either the persons or property of anyone else."
NASA: Russian Anti-Satellite Test in November Doubled the Threat to ISS
"Since the accords are designed to encourage private enterprise and private property rights in space, both Russia and China oppose them. The lack of both France and Germany to sign at this point suggests the politicians presently in charge of those capitalist countries are reconsidering their commitment to free enterprise."
Israel Approves Artemis Accords
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"I think she let her win to prove the point that, 'Oh see, a female-to-male beat me.'"
U Penn Swimmer: Lia Thomas Colluded With Female Swimmer to Lose Race
"Reduced to babbling nonsense."
Social Media Erupts After Matt Walsh Schools LGBT Activists on Dr. Phil
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Submitted for your consideration: American Express. It was revealed earlier that the company, long considered the hallmark of a favorable credit score, has allocated around $1 billion for social justice. But for some reason, AmEx doesn't want to tell anyone what they plan to do. The Free Enterprise Project has filed a shareholder request to see exactly what the company had in mind, specifically in terms of its race-based employee training and to give shareholders a look at the same."
Your CRT Agenda? Don't Leave Home Without It.
Year Zero strikes again.
Rough Ride: Theodore Roosevelt Statue Removed From American Museum of Natural History
"Social justice with a French accent."
Where Wokeism is a Oui Bit Different
HITHER & YON
"Kevin A. Hassett's new book The Drift is part White House memoir, part defense of supply-side theory, and part apologia for free markets."
Socialism, Tax Cuts, and the Meaning of Trump
Christian Toto: "Conservative site's film slate features a triple shot of strong, capable heroines."
Daily Wire Goes Hollywood with a Shocking Feminist Twist
"Kruger appeared in a string of English-language adventure and war movies, including A Bridge Too Far (1977) and The Wild Geese (197." (RIP - jjs)
Hardy Kruger, a Fixture on the Big Screen, Passes Away at 93

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:43 AM

Comments

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1 We made it throught the first year of the Biden residency. Yay!

Posted by: Marooned at January 20, 2022 07:44 AM (w6hJ9)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (EjmvJ)

3 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (DU+/6)

5 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 20, 2022 07:45 AM (mD/uy)

6 Willowed, but this can't be left to die like a social worker responding to a violent crime scene:
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Looks like we had another mass shooting in B'More

https://tinyurl.com/29ybmfw3
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Hahaha

One of the victims was a "safe streets worker" (you know how we joked about them sending social workers to get killed? That)

From the article :
"The city's Safe Streets program aims to reduce gun violence and homicides using" violence interrupters." Members are trained in conflict mediation, counseling and mentorship."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden allows minor incursions at January 20, 2022 07:46 AM (wklve)

7 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (yrol0)

8 Mornin' again, folk,

Willowed: I have a heat pump in my townhouse. The renters call me ALL THE TIME complaining about being cold. I think I am gonna sell the damn thing.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022

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Yesterday I was looking over house listings on Zillow for Virginia. I checked the box "must have A/C," but most of the listings said "heat pump." Does that work in hot, humid conditions? If not, and it also doesn't work below 40 F., why would you have it (aside from, I guess, it's cheaper to run)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (txdEq)

9 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (BFigT)

10 Good morning!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (yEBFM)

11 Good morning. I can't shake off the sadness in my heart.

Posted by: grammie winger at January 20, 2022 07:48 AM (45fpk)

12 Yet there he blows. When queried why the American people have doubts about his cognitive ability (surprised that that one got through the censors), he stated "I have no idea."
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Honestly, I think that was his best answer of the night. The purpose of the question was probably not to hear an answer, but to ask it and get it out there in public as a point of wider discussion among real people. How could 'ole Oatmeal Brain answer that? There's no good answer to that question. He would go into an angry dementia spiral about how it ain't true and all his detractors are sinister goons, or he could answer that sometimes he feels his age, or he could just dismiss it.

He dismissed it and he did so without an emotional outburst. It was probably his best work in yesterday's performance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:48 AM (DU+/6)

13 Thank you, J.J.

AAA

HB-Day!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 07:48 AM (3D/fK)

14 So, Biden gave the green light for Russia to invade Ukraine and Trump is at fault. Have I got that right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 07:50 AM (E89Mr)

15 I missed the two hours of lies because I just don't need the frustration.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:50 AM (vrz2I)

16 Tranny's swimming, She-males grinning, He-she's winning..

It's a madhouse, a madhouse!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2022 07:51 AM (a5d7/)

17 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL)

18 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (txdEq)

***

Heat pumps generally work great for air conditioning.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (flINI)

19 My favorite blatant contradiction in yesterday's presser is this pair of gems.
First: ... everybody talks about how Russia has control over the energy supply that Europe absorbs. Well, guess what? That - that money that they earn from that makes about 45 percent of the economy. I don't see that as a one-way street.

Later: ... and I think there's ways in which we can be of some value added in terms of the price of gas - natural gas and the like - to take the burden off of European countries that are now totally dependent on Russia.

What a toolbox.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (DU+/6)

20 Didn't the first gulf War start because HW said something in a press conference that hussein interpreted as permission to invade Kuwait?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (6FeV1)

21 Good morning one and all. Is it too early to dislike people?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (4olE8)

22 Left you a reply on the Tech Thread Wolfus.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (vrz2I)

23 Good morning one and all. Is it too early to dislike people?
Posted by: NR Pax at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (4olE

It's a time that ends in "o'clock". You're good.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:54 AM (6FeV1)

24 Hardy Kruger passed away? Weird, I just watched 'Hatari' the other day.

Posted by: dantesed at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (88xKn)

25 How ridiculous is America? Teddy Roosevelt statue gets removed from the museum he championed most of his life and his great-grandson, who is on the board there iirc, says only word salad in response:

"fitting that the statue is being relocated to a place where its composition can be re-contextualized to facilitate difficult, complex and inclusive discussions."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (E89Mr)

26 to take the burden off of European countries that are now totally dependent on Russia.

What a toolbox.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:52 AM (DU+/6)

Why? Why the high holy fuck is the price of energy in Europe something we have to fix?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (6FeV1)

27 Good morning horde
Lots this morning on Sundowner's mumbo jumbo

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (wXHCE)

28 16 Tranny's swimming, She-males grinning, He-she's winning..

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2022 07:51 AM (a5d7/)

Sound of 10 Years After writing follow up to "I'd Love to Change the World"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (s2VJv)

29 Hardy Kruger passed away? Weird, I just watched 'Hatari' the other day.

Posted by: dantesed

So, you kilt him !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (arJlL)

30 Hardy is a favorite actor of mine

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (wXHCE)

31 8 Yesterday I was looking over house listings on Zillow for Virginia. I checked the box "must have A/C," but most of the listings said "heat pump." Does that work in hot, humid conditions? If not, and it also doesn't work below 40 F., why would you have it (aside from, I guess, it's cheaper to run)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 07:47 AM (txdEq)

Heat pumps work well in hot and cold weather however they do not work very well when the outside temp gets down to 32F. When it is that cold here I supplement the heat pump with an indoor electric heater.

Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (mpXpK)

32 In fact, the only firearms present in the Capitol on that day were those in the possession of the Capitol Police -- one of which was used to kill an unarmed protester.

WRONG

At least 3 Pantifa were taken back to their cars and told to leave. All 3 were armed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (yrol0)

33 Biden's collapse yesterday was really a thing to behold. Subjectively, that presser was, for most of its duration, one of his best performances in at least a year. He was well-rested, well-prepared (knowing the questions in advance sure does help on that front ...), and his drug cocktail was seriously on point. He was clear-spoken as compared to his normal performance, he wasn't bobbing and weaving all over the place, he wasn't slurring constantly. He looked and sounded like a human.

For a while. He first starting mentioning the time at about 5:20. He said the conference would last another 20 minutes. By 5:30 or so, he was starting to return to form. He got angry, he started slurring, etc. By the stop time of 5:40, he kept going and his collapse accelerated. By the time they wrapped up at 5:55, he had been stumbling and slurring and bobbing and weaving and rambling and hugging his laptop and wandering around for several minutes.

My guess? He was supposed to mention the time at 5:15 and end it by 5:30, with a push to 5:40 if absolutely necessary and a drop-dead time of 5:45. He went 10 minutes longer than that, and he decayed in real time. His post-5:30 performance was awful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (DU+/6)

34
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (K2SnJ)

35 fitting that the statue is being relocated to a place where its composition can be re-contextualized to facilitate difficult, complex and inclusive discussions."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (E89Mr)

Was that computer generated?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (eGTCV)

36 Joe just confirmed people's beliefs yesterday

if you're a homer, he was fab

if you are a con, he's really gone upstairs

and the people in the middle don't give a shit

they are locked down, paying more for everyhting and in fear for themselves and their family

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (us2H3)

37 Only One SCOTUS Justice Protected Trump's Executive Privilege

Thomas. We need cloning technology, stat. However...

Once Rs have control of the House and WH they can open all the archives of all the Dem preezies; the example has been set. No executive privilege.

*hey, it's a nice dream ain't it?*

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 07:58 AM (F0YaR)

38 Hardy is a favorite actor of mine
Posted by: Skip's Phone

What about Laurel ?

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:58 AM (arJlL)

39 you wanna talk about overperforming, 'rons & 'ettes, I give you The Honorable J. J. Sefton,, the Horde's Maven of News !

Thanks !

& g'mornin' Horde !

6 below zero out there, gaahhhk !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 20, 2022 07:59 AM (9CuDT)

40 Patrisse Cullors revealed she was at her lowest in April 2021m when news outlets reported that Cullors had been on a personal million-dollar real estate buying binge.

Ima cut the bitch be saying bad things bout me!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 07:59 AM (yrol0)

41 29 Hardy Kruger passed away? Weird, I just watched 'Hatari' the other day.

Posted by: dantesed

now, will you take the bounty ?

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 07:59 AM (us2H3)

42 Why? Why the high holy fuck is the price of energy in Europe something we have to fix?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (6FeV1)
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Because with Europe entirely dependent on Russian energy, it gives Russia hegemony if they want it and that is counter to traditional American interests - even though it doesn't matter because Russia would never cut off European energy because that would me they choose to "bite off their nose to spite their face" (no shit, he actually said "bite off their nose").

I think. That pair of answers was astonishing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

43 ~sob-sob~

*hic*
Posted by: Hillary Clinton

Shart....BRRRRRAPPPPP!

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022 07:59 AM (arJlL)

44 Australian Government Support Crashes amid Djokovic Fiasco

I was a big Nadal fan. No longer. In fact, I'm not going to be as much of a tennis fan as I was before. Tennis did so much to resist China regarding Peng Shuai when no other sport would say anything, and they threw all that goodwill away with the Djokovic incident.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:00 AM (1nooD)

45 BLM Founder Now Wants to "Heal" in Peace in Her Multi-Million-Dollar Home -- After Setting the Country on Fire

Actually iirc she has her choice of 4 manses, all bought with BLM loot. Even the proles thought that was a tad excessive.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:00 AM (F0YaR)

46 How come the blm founder gets pushback and "reverand" Sharpton gets an MSLSD gig?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 20, 2022 08:02 AM (flINI)

47 45 BLM Founder Now Wants to "Heal" in Peace in Her Multi-Million-Dollar Home -- After Setting the Country on Fire

Actually iirc she has her choice of 4 manses, all bought with BLM loot. Even the proles thought that was a tad excessive.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:00 AM (F0YaR)

"I know, right?!"

- - Bernardo Sandersnista

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:02 AM (s2VJv)

48 My guess? He was supposed to mention the time at 5:15 and end it by 5:30, with a push to 5:40 if absolutely necessary and a drop-dead time of 5:45. He went 10 minutes longer than that, and he decayed in real time. His post-5:30 performance was awful.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (DU+/6)

100% concur with your assessment of yesterday's presser. The thing that gets me is that he clearly had those press questions in advance, and neither Fox nor Newsmax has said anything about that in press conference coverage.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:02 AM (1nooD)

49 Actually iirc she has her choice of 4 manses, all bought with BLM loot. Even the proles thought that was a tad excessive.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:00 AM (F0YaR)

If she were smart, she'd have bought them "in trust" for some horse shit "justice league" or whatever the fuck they're calling their racist grift these days.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:03 AM (6FeV1)

50 April Glaspie

I'd think maybe Saddam was setup. No diplomat is that stupid, I'd expect?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 08:03 AM (psL96)

51 Another thing about Biden's first Big Boy Presser (the kind Trump gave a few times a week) was the sheer volume of Republican campaign ads he made. This one comes immediately to mind:

I think the report card is going to look pretty good, if that's where we're at. ... But the fact is that I think that the - I'm happy to debate and have a referendum on how I handle the economy, whether or not I've made progress ...

His words. The election this year is a referendum on him and his performance and he stands on that, especially the economy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

52 Kruger was perfectly cast in Flight of the Phoenix

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 20, 2022 08:03 AM (HaPdD)

53 How could anybody vote for this moron?

Posted by: IanDeal at January 20, 2022 08:04 AM (MGjjz)

54 50 April Glaspie

I'd think maybe Saddam was setup. No diplomat is that stupid, I'd expect?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 20, 2022 08:03 AM (psL96)

"Yeah, what a dope!"

- - Caroline Kennedy

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:04 AM (s2VJv)

55 Rainy Qualley is a great name for Andie MacDowell's daughter, and I wish success for her movie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 08:04 AM (E89Mr)

56 J.J.

We often talk about what can be done t the local level concerning righting the direction of the nation.

Insty linked to this non-minor firestorm brewing with the Montgomery County, Md County Council, and I posted it earlier this morning.

"Interesting political news out of Montgomery County, Maryland.

https://tinyurl.com/373muyt6

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 08:04 AM (3D/fK)

57 Sound of 10 Years After writing follow up to "I'd Love to Change the World"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 07:56 AM (s2VJv)

I'm spinning in my grave over here!

Posted by: Zombie Alvin Lee at January 20, 2022 08:05 AM (a5d7/)

58 Bloomberg says that at 1h52m, Biden's press conference was longer than anything Obama or Trump did. I'm going to disagree with that right off the bat. During those *daily* C-19 briefings, Trump would regularly answer questions for that length of time.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:05 AM (1nooD)

59 Once Rs have control of the House and WH they can open all the archives of all the Dem preezies; the example has been set. No executive privilege.

That is not who we are!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:06 AM (ycxHG)

60 Extremists Respond to Colleyville Hostage Crisis with Antisemitism, Islamophobia

Islamophobia stupid word.
I do not fear Islamist.
I do hate them though.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:06 AM (yrol0)

61
Gorsuch, Sotomayor Push Back on NPR Story Claiming He Refused to Wear a Mask Despite Request

But now that the fake story is out, it will grab a permanent hold on the intellectual-but-idiot class (e.g. academics) and run-of-the-mill pseuds (e.g. artistes). The kind of people who think they're too smart ever to reexamine their beliefs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (/U27+)

62 Was that computer generated?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (eGTCV)
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Good point. It sounds like it was from the Woke AI comment generator tool.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (E89Mr)

63 Biden wasn't really any different yesterday than he was during the "campaign". He babbled incoherently, lied constantly and never got called on any of it.

But sure, he got 81 million votes.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (ZLI7S)

64 If she were smart, she'd have bought them "in trust" for some horse shit "justice league" or whatever the fuck they're calling their racist grift these days.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:03 AM (6FeV1)

The problems with trusts, is, er, you have to 'trust' someone else. Good luck on that with the crew she runs with.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (F0YaR)

65 I do hate them though.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:06 AM (yrol0)

"Phobos" can mean fear or intense aversion, so in that case....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (6FeV1)

66 Didn't we promise via some international treaty(ies) that we would defend Ukraine?

I guess our word as a nation is already shot to hell, so I shouldn't bother considering that part.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (8548M)

67 ... the American people, or at least those of us in the nation formerly known as the United States who identify as American (or American-American for those into identity politics)...

JJ, you have inspired me this morning. Not into the customary rage that the Morning Report provides, but a tiny way to cross the divide with our lunatic countrymen.

The Hyphenated American is pretty well an accepted cultural icon of identity, where the root indicates some sort of ethnic taxonomy and the latter representing current dwelling (not necessarily participating or making it an identity). African-American, the root is African and is the identity, the trailing word doesn't necessarily have to coincide with one's residency, but indicates that the person is probably not a strict African living in Africa. An example of this was when a presenter for the Olympics described a Jamaican athlete as "African-American".

I say all of that to introduce how I will present my defining hyphenation and that is Christian-American, that is part of the church militant (not yet triumphant)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:08 AM (AFDLS)

68 "I think she let her win to prove the point that, 'Oh see, a female-to-male beat me.'"
U Penn Swimmer: Lia Thomas Colluded With Female Swimmer to Lose Race

Surprising absolutely nobody in the Horde. We called that one almost immediately.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:08 AM (1nooD)

69 Bloomberg says that at 1h52m, Biden's press conference was longer than anything Obama or Trump did. I'm going to disagree with that right off the bat. During those *daily* C-19 briefings, Trump would regularly answer questions for that length of time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:05 AM (1nooD)
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I'd have to go compare durations and find out, but I can't be bothered. This reeks like one of those technical dodges they love so much. This is probably technically true in terms of "a scheduled White House press conference in terms of total duration" or something like that. If you're being honest and include things like "open Q&A following prepared remarks" and "duration of ad-hoc interviews on the White House Lawn" and "questions following special-purpose addresses" then I am sure the math changes pretty significantly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:08 AM (DU+/6)

70 "How could anybody vote for this moron?"

A friend on Facebook posted before the election that she was voting for Biden because he was such a good person and he REALLY CARED about the people. Yeah, she's an idiot.

We don't talk politics.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 08:08 AM (yEBFM)

71 Should not NATO be front and center in this mess with Ukraine?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:09 AM (6FeV1)

72 Joe Biden's junta backers think this all politics, forgetting that their ongoing destruction of the Republic, our economy and entire political system, might have some real-world, actual effects.

It really is astounding how superficial and ideological these people are. Either that or they are just pure evil and future generations will wonder why no one "did anything" when they look back.

Take your pick.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (E89Mr)

73 RepJayapal
Working people want to tax the rich and it turns out that the rich want to be taxed too.

Well write a mutha fucking check!

Funny how taxing the rich land right in the lap of people making $100k!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

74 "Where the money is coming from has yet to be disclosed."
Beto "Mickey Irish" O'Rourke Raises $7.2 Million in First 6 Weeks of Texas Gubernatorial Campaign

I'm more curious about where the money is going than where it's coming from. It's obviously a grift on Robert's part.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (1nooD)

75 Just found out Covid is kinda going around in the company though maybe not by inter contact.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (wXHCE)

76 I wish to drop AT&T. Any suggestions for an alternative?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (H8QX8)

77 His post-5:30 performance was awful.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 07:57 AM (DU+/6)
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Doesn't that basically confirm the suspicion that his drug cocktail has limited effectiveness? Say 30 minutes or so (need to let it kick in a few minutes before showtimes)?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2)

78 "Reduced to babbling nonsense."
Social Media Erupts After Matt Walsh Schools LGBT Activists on Dr. Phil

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I saw this clip, but with the sound off. O.M.G. what utter freaks! That insane guy with the long hair, beard, makeup and long fingernails? And that...thing that was his partner? Simply ridiculous madness that, yet again, I have no words for. What a stupid, stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

79 66 Didn't we promise via some international treaty(ies) that we would defend Ukraine?

I guess our word as a nation is already shot to hell, so I shouldn't bother considering that part.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at January 20, 2022 08:07 AM (8548M)

If they gave up their nukes. Putin rolled into Ukraine and Obama did nothing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:11 AM (s2VJv)

80 I do hate them though.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:06 AM (yrol0)

"Phobos" can mean fear or intense aversion, so in that case....

We do have the prefix "mis-" or "miso-" such where "misotheist " literally means "Hater of God".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:11 AM (AFDLS)

81 In yesterday's press conference, there was one thing that really stood out as a tiny little glimmer of good news and possibly - though unlikely - a reason to be a very tiny less bit cynical. It was on the topic of some of his landmark bills that are failing, and about Republicans in particular.

did you ever think that one man out of office could intimidate an entire party where they're unwilling to take any vote contrary to what he thinks should be taken for fear of being defeated in a primary?
I've had five Republican senators talk to me ... who've told me that they agree with whatever I'm talking about for them to do. "But, Joe, if I do it, I'm going to get defeated in a primary."

If you're looking for anything good yesterday, that's it. The shitheads in the GOP are apparently terrified of losing their sinecures if they do the normal thing of being duplicitous weasels who always comply with Uniparty objectives. They have to fake it for the time being, and they hate it more than anything else.

I hope it's true. I hope the GOP bastards are afraid. I hope they're fucking terrified.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

82 Should not NATO be front and center in this mess with Ukraine?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:09 AM (6FeV1)

Ukraine is not a member of NATO; in fact, threats of letting them join NATO is one of major beefs Putin is fighting against.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (F0YaR)

83 misotheist " literally means "Hater of God".
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:11 AM (AFDLS)

That, or you worship salty fermented soybean paste.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (6FeV1)

84 >>Should not NATO be front and center in this mess with Ukraine?

Putin's single biggest demand is that NATO not be expanded to include any former Soviet countries and Ukraine is case number 1. It is his casus belli.

Probably best for NATO to keep a low profile at the moment.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (ZLI7S)

85 How anyone could think Joe Biden is a good person is incomprehensible. I've known he's a shit for at least 40 years. That goes for Pelosi and Schumer too. They are evil scumbag demorats of the worst type.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (vrz2I)

86 73 RepJayapal
Working people want to tax the rich and it turns out that the rich want to be taxed too.

Well write a mutha fucking check!

Funny how taxing the rich land right in the lap of people making $100k!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

==========

Good. Write a bill that the federal government is to be only funded by taxes from the rich. No more borrowing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

87 Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

What a fucking cunt!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

88 Doesn't that basically confirm the suspicion that his drug cocktail has limited effectiveness? Say 30 minutes or so (need to let it kick in a few minutes before showtimes)?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2)
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That's my thought. I think whatever they used on him yesterday got him 90 minutes of solid-for-Joe-Biden performance. After that, he was on borrowed time - and he ran out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

89 A friend on Facebook posted before the election that she was voting for Biden because he was such a good person and he REALLY CARED about the people. Yeah, she's an idiot.

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All "good persons" take 10% for the Big Guy (corruption) and shower with their daughters (sexual deviancy) and steal other people's writings (plagiarism). It's easy to see how she came to her conclusion!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (sVtYq)

90 87 Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

What a fucking cunt!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

Illiterate dolt should be shit-canned with prejudice.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

91 Whatever one thinks of Tim Pool, his narrative yesterday was worth watching in a few respects. One was how shaken up he was and his consequent realization of those "who want me dead." The other was the obvious tenacity, variety and sophistication of the attacks against him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (H8QX8)

92 Should not NATO be front and center in this mess with Ukraine?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:09 AM (6FeV1)

99.9% Of NATO = American Boys, Girls and Trannys with some identifying as non-binary 57 genders.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (a5d7/)

93 Good. Write a bill that the federal government is to be only funded by taxes from the rich. No more borrowing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

We shall only tax the RICH!

PS Your are rich!

Posted by: Big Govt at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)

94 81 If you're looking for anything good yesterday, that's it. The shitheads in the GOP are apparently terrified of losing their sinecures if they do the normal thing of being duplicitous weasels who always comply with Uniparty objectives. They have to fake it for the time being, and they hate it more than anything else.

I hope it's true. I hope the GOP bastards are afraid. I hope they're fucking terrified.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

==========

Trump's fundraising might be interesting...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

95 " I wish to drop AT&T. Any suggestions for an alternative?"

Consumer Cellular uses ATT and TMobile networks and costs less.

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 08:15 AM (vrz2I)

96 Bloomberg says that at 1h52m, Biden's press conference was longer than anything Obama or Trump did.

Yep. That characterizes quite well the complete lack of seriousness that has overtaken society. We have some decrepit, wicked reprobate encouraging war across the globe by saying that the US Military is taking its enforcement cues from Soros DAs and letting pretty much anything slide - and Bloomberg, like everyone else is excited by a stopwatch.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:15 AM (AFDLS)

97 It is hilarious that the Democrats are so stupid as to think that announcing their intention to "pRoSeCuTe tRuMp" is somehow valuable as a substitute for, you know, DOING IT. The FBI already concluded there was ZERO coordination of anything related to any effort to commit "iNsUrReCtiOn" on 1/6, so there is absolutely zero evidence they can use to claim Trump's 1st amendment protected speech on 1/6 is somehow criminal.

But I say, fucking go for it you retards.

Posted by: deadrody at January 20, 2022 08:16 AM (/jrmI)

98
Funny how taxing the rich land right in the lap of people making $100k!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

Higher taxes are always falling on the rich and landing on the middle class.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:16 AM (/U27+)

99 God help us if Brandon starts reminiscing about his showering with his children days at the next presser. You know he wants to.

Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:16 AM (YdnVw)

100 "Ukraine is not a member of NATO; in fact, threats of letting them join NATO is one of major beefs Putin is fighting against."

Can't Ukraine donate a couple hundred bucks, and get a 'Friend of NATO' tee-shirt?

Sort of a compromise though.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 08:16 AM (3D/fK)

101 If you can't say what needs to be said in 2 hours, just shut up and figure your shit out before you come out to bother us.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)

102 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

103
Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

Well, all that coal dust...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (/U27+)

104 I'm sure all the European countries who count on Russian natural gas will step up to protect Ukraine right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (HaPdD)

105 Should not NATO be front and center in this mess with Ukraine?

Is Ukraine a member of NATO?

What is the point of collecting dues from members if non-members can receive full NATO benefits and more?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (AFDLS)

106 44 Australian Government Support Crashes amid Djokovic Fiasco

I was a big Nadal fan. No longer. In fact, I'm not going to be as much of a tennis fan as I was before. Tennis did so much to resist China regarding Peng Shuai when no other sport would say anything, and they threw all that goodwill away with the Djokovic incident.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 20, 2022 08:00 AM (1nooD)

Women's tennis supported Peng - the men really didn't do more than lip service. If you want to support tennis, just watch the women's side from now on. It's more surprising anyway, since there's a top tier, but no real top 1-2...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (exHjb)

107
If you can't say what needs to be said in 2 hours, just shut up and figure your shit out before you come out to bother us.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)

Hey, that's ME you're talking about!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:18 AM (/U27+)

108 90 87 Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

What a fucking cunt!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

Illiterate dolt should be shit-canned with prejudice.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

Time to call the National Guard to ensure that these students who are being discriminated against can enter the classroom.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 20, 2022 08:19 AM (DTX3h)

109
Can't Ukraine donate a couple hundred bucks, and get a 'Friend of NATO' tee-shirt?

"Send us $50 a month so we can continue to fight against Putin's aggressive policies!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:19 AM (/U27+)

110 Bloomberg watchers cracks me up. Bunch of fucking greedy sheep being lead to the slaughter, thinking they're intellectually, nay, *morally* superior to all the wild mountain goats watching them file through the chutes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:19 AM (6FeV1)

111 Anybody want to hazard a guess how long it will be until the next Biden sighting?

Yesterday had to have taken a toll on his body.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 08:20 AM (3D/fK)

112 >>I'm sure all the European countries who count on Russian natural gas will step up to protect Ukraine right?

Trump was roundly mocked by the smart set for asking why are we contributing to NATO, an organization founded to protect Europe from Russia, when Europe is buying their energy from Russia?

We have far too many experts.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)

113 Putin just seeing what he can get from Joe

Joe wont be able to withstand another FP shitshow

Putin will probably get the ranch and then move into Ukraine anyway

and everyone knows the Ukraine is weak

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:20 AM (us2H3)

114 Threatening to arrest the duly elected leader, a leader who retains broad political support even out of office, was a bad idea in Rome and it'll be a bad idea in America.

Posted by: Julius Caesar at January 20, 2022 08:20 AM (E89Mr)

115 Morning all. It's 5 degrees outside. I wish I could just stay in today but at least it will be worth it to see my old pups. Haven't seen them in 2 weeks.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 08:21 AM (nxdel)

116 Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

--

Then sue the bitch.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

117 94 81 If you're looking for anything good yesterday, that's it. The shitheads in the GOP are apparently terrified of losing their sinecures if they do the normal thing of being duplicitous weasels who always comply with Uniparty objectives. They have to fake it for the time being, and they hate it more than anything else.

I hope it's true. I hope the GOP bastards are afraid. I hope they're fucking terrified.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

And that's how we force the party our way - force the weasels to always toe the line and primary out traitors to our cause as examples every 2 years so they know we're serious, all the time...

Posted by: Nova local at January 20, 2022 08:21 AM (exHjb)

118 Looks like Bill Gates is pushing for aggressive carbon taxes now.

I say lets tax carbon all they want only that the tax be expressed as a percentage of a persons wealth. Lets go with that one Billy boy, wadaya say?

Posted by: Haywood at January 20, 2022 08:21 AM (vOwHc)

119 Whatever one thinks of Tim Pool, his narrative yesterday was worth watching in a few respects. One was how shaken up he was and his consequent realization of those "who want me dead." The other was the obvious tenacity, variety and sophistication of the attacks against him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (H8QX

I assume, being Tim Pool, this was immediately followed by some pronouncement that he's still really liberal and both sides are problematic.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 20, 2022 08:21 AM (EjmvJ)

120 No idea about why the American people think he has the medulla oblongata of a sponge or no idea what the reporter is asking him? Either way, this country - what's left of it - is proper fucked.

Hey now. Leave me out of this.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

121 Post Constitutional America doesn't have any guard rails.

Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:22 AM (YdnVw)

122 The Ukraine isn't part of NATO. There's no "legal" requirement for the US or Europe to lift a finger if Putin invades. However it's been widely reported that arms have been flowing into the region from the US and various European countries but no NATO Soldiers are on the ground in the Ukraine that I'm aware of.

That being said, a couple days ago a C-32A (US Government registered Boeing 757) that's typically used to shuttle VIP's around was observed over Poland. I personally haven't seen any news about an envoy or a military attach� traveling to the region to calm things down.

More than likely the plane was dispatched to collect "The Big Guy's" 10%

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 08:23 AM (BFigT)

123 "Time to call the National Guard to ensure that these students who are being discriminated against can enter the classroom."

More than a kernel of truth in this.

Go back to the days of desegregation.

This teacher is preventing access to education for thee children.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 08:23 AM (3D/fK)

124 Not only will the Rooskies take Joe's green light.
But after what they've seen they'll be sure to coordinate the moves with Sundown time.

Posted by: Zek at January 20, 2022 08:23 AM (8lTQz)

125 Ugh. Today's top pic. Oy, JJ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

126 Ugh. Today's top pic. Oy, JJ.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

The dude can meme.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:24 AM (6FeV1)

127 I just got an alert from the Weather Channel about getting my free N95 mask and Covid test.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

128 108
Time to call the National Guard to ensure that these students who are being discriminated against can enter the classroom.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 20, 2022 08:19 AM (DTX3h)

Recall the picture of Orville Faubus (IIRC) being carried out, seated in his chair with arms folded, by national guardsmen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

129 So President Biden, as you say, "Just the tip" is that right for Ukraine?

Ok then, just like your Ashley in the shower...just the tip!

Posted by: Vlad Putin at January 20, 2022 08:25 AM (ESjRY)

130 I still can't get over how he sat there, reading a script, not just ad libbing, telling Putin that it's OK if it's just the tip.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)

131 @119

>>I assume, being Tim Pool, this was immediately followed by some pronouncement that he's still really liberal and both sides are problematic.

No, he seems to have moved well away from leftism.

The more amazing thing is his guests hosts who were big Occupy Wall Street Leftists are now sounding like the second coming of Milton Friedman and Barry Goldwater.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 08:26 AM (xSE8q)

132 131 No, he seems to have moved well away from leftism.

The more amazing thing is his guests hosts who were big Occupy Wall Street Leftists are now sounding like the second coming of Milton Friedman and Barry Goldwater.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 08:26 AM (xSE8q)

==========

"The elite are against us."
-A unifying message

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

133 @82

>>Ukraine is not a member of NATO; in fact, threats of letting them join NATO is one of major beefs Putin is fighting against.

So Europe smothers it's own domestic energy production, cedes it's energy needs to the country that NATO was expressly created to counter and proceeds to agitate the country that holds them by the short hairs.

And then you have a doddering old meat puppet sending dangerous mixed messages that will most certainly generate a real world conflict.

If it wasn't so dangerous it would be quite funny.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 08:27 AM (Bn+kZ)

134 Good morning horde and thank you for the MR JJ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:27 AM (lCui1)

135 Old and Busted: If we vote for Trump he's going to start a bunch of wars!

New Hotness: If Putin sticks in more then the tip we're going to nuke his ass!

Posted by: The FNM at January 20, 2022 08:28 AM (ESjRY)

136 127 I just got an alert from the Weather Channel about getting my free N95 mask and Covid test.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

It's like in any video game when you first start out, and the tutorial guide npc hands you the worst gun in the game and five bullets, and you're like, "thanks. You dick."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:28 AM (6FeV1)

137 "I have probably over-performed what everybody thought would happen"

I warned you, America. Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up, and now he is "over-performing" even that estimate.

Posted by: President For Life, Barack I at January 20, 2022 08:28 AM (E89Mr)

138 I still can't get over how he sat there, reading a script, not just ad libbing, telling Putin that it's OK if it's just the tip.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 20, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)
++++
Rumor yesterday is that it wasn't on the script and that his generals were discussing whether they should allow a "minor incursion" to pass by, and Biden flapped his lips about it in a press conference.

No idea if it's true or not. I could see it going either way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

139 Take a picture of Europe without the borders on it in.

Point to where Ukraine is and ask Americans what country that is.

99% will say "Russia"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:29 AM (ESjRY)

140 The world should focus on Europe.

-China

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 08:29 AM (3D/fK)

141 We need some shills to primary DEMOCRATS too. Fake Democrats to run against safe seat Democrats.
Where is the Republican money men? Why do they let the Democrats rob them without a fight?

One surprise so far, Democrats did not immediately attack the early Trump tax cuts. I suspect there is a sunset provision in them and they time out soon.

Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:29 AM (YdnVw)

142 Consumer Cellular uses ATT and TMobile networks and costs less.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 08:15 AM (vrz2I)

Thanks very much. They look good.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 08:30 AM (H8QX8)

143 Kids vill not be allowed in mein class without a mask.

Fifh

Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022 08:30 AM (vrz2I)

144 China intentionally sends a virus to the US that supposedly killed 800K people and forced us to destroy the economy.

Ho hum...things happen.

Russia might invade Ukraine which used to be part of their country before and in which we have NO strategic interests.

WAR HUH WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:31 AM (ESjRY)

145 If anyone wants to join me - I'm going to pray the rosary today for the repose of OM's soul, and for the healing and solace of Mrs Muse, and their family.

I feel like a dumbass for not praying it for him while he was alive

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:31 AM (lCui1)

146 Has anyone considered that installing Harris as VP was a shrewd strategic move by the Biden junta as a firewall against No idea Joe being 25th'd? Just a thought.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * be ungovernable at January 20, 2022 08:32 AM (3fiB0)

147 Hardy Kruger passed away? Weird, I just watched 'Hatari' the other day.

Posted by: dantesed
*
So, you kilt him !
Posted by: JT at January 20, 2022

***
"She is not a toy, Mr. Townes. She is an aeroplane!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 08:32 AM (txdEq)

148 If I get a 'free' n95 mask it gets shipped right to the White House.

If I get two, the second goes to Nanxi.

Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:33 AM (YdnVw)

149 BLM Founder Now Wants to "Heal" in Peace in Her Multi-Million-Dollar Home -- After Setting the Country on Fire

Actually iirc she has her choice of 4 manses, all bought with BLM loot. Even the proles thought that was a tad excessive.
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 20, 2022 08:00 AM (F0YaR)
******
And because of people turning against her she has PTSD and had to go through therapy...Oh and you can buy her book and contribute to keeping her grift alive. She's a VICTIM!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

150 >>Has anyone considered that installing Harris as VP was a shrewd strategic move by the Biden junta as a firewall against No idea Joe being 25th'd? Just a thought.

Ironically enough, a lot of people thought Obama picked Biden for similar reasons.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:33 AM (ZLI7S)

151 I think we can allow ourselves a bit of Rejoicing over the Shipwreck of All Their Hopes, which happened in the Senate last night. It was hilarious to watch, and now get ready for Biden's poll numbers to drop even lower as the hard left fully turns on him.

Why will that happen? Because they never really liked Biden, no one did. He was sold to them as someone who can Make Things Happen! Especially in the Senate, where he so Popular! Don't vote for Bernie, he can't get anything done, but Biden will!!! Well now Schumer just staged a grand public spectacle showing the left that all of that was a Lie. Now that Biden has failed on the BBB and their precious voting bill, they face the bitter truth that he is going to fail on *everything* they wanted done. They were sold a bill of goods, and after last night no one can deny it.

They're all going to be pissed, and Biden will be the focus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:33 AM (evAgx)

152 Hey Horde,

So sorry to hear about Oregon Muse when I woke up this morning in HK. Been thinking about him all day. Finally able to get a chance to pour a few fingers of fine scotch into a glass and toast him after a long day at work. I know we never met, but I felt I knew him and I will miss his thoughts and his wit and his excellent prose. Requiescat in pace, my friend.

Deepest condolences to family and friends of the immortal OM.

Pax ex.

Posted by: Publius Redux at January 20, 2022 08:34 AM (U/yqY)

153 Left you a reply on the Tech Thread Wolfus.
Posted by: f'd at January 20, 2022

***
Thank you, sir. I'm considering small-town VA as a retirement bolthole now that the leadership appears to be a bit more sane. I don't want to move, buy a property, and find I'm uncomfortable for 2-3 months a year, hot or cold, and that the house's equipment can't handle the extremes and has to be replaced.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 08:34 AM (txdEq)

154 Has anyone considered that installing Harris as VP was a shrewd strategic move by the Biden junta

I'm pretty sure that if you replaced Joe Biden as president with a coin flipping app it would make a better president so Harris does have a rather low bar to meet to be "better"

Also, she doesn't bang kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:34 AM (ESjRY)

155 It's about time to get the FUCK off my military (looking at you, Mr. Sefton) with the abusive allegations.

Got skin in the game and will tell you the troops KNOW what is going on, and the NCO's are holding things together.

I endured the shit during and after Vietnam, not having another go-round now.

If anyone is offended, well, deal.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2022 08:35 AM (KATBx)

156 fitting that the statue is being relocated to a place where its composition can be re-contextualized to facilitate difficult, complex and inclusive discussions."
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I somehow think TR would be less than proud of his descendant. What a pussy.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2022 08:35 AM (rz+/y)

157
You'd think someone who was in the Senate for a billion years would know how to get something through the Senate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:36 AM (/U27+)

158 One surprise so far, Democrats did not immediately attack the early Trump tax cuts. I suspect there is a sunset provision in them and they time out soon.
Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:29 AM (YdnVw)

no, there wasn't. Mitch and company got that part right.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:37 AM (evAgx)

159 Marxists never sleep unless they're morte

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:37 AM (4fSQf)

160 Hardy Kruger passed away? Weird, I just watched 'Hatari' the other day.

Posted by: dantesed at January 20, 2022 07:55 AM (88xKn)

I used to love playing Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Missile Command on my Hatari

https://youtu.be/XMFy-Iw4CcA

Posted by: Doof at January 20, 2022 08:37 AM (mZUr4)

161 I just got an alert from the Weather Channel about getting my free N95 mask and Covid test.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022

***
Since I ditched cable I do miss watching Stephanie Abrams and Jen Carfagno in the mornings. Not enough, though, to put up with that sort of thing, or the constant drumbeat about globull worming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 08:37 AM (txdEq)

162 They're all going to be pissed, and Biden will be the focus.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:33 AM (evAgx)
++++
The press this morning was trying like the devil to make it about Manchin and Sinema, not Biden. I don't think they'll be able to pull that off. Time will tell.

I do love the language in use, though. This isn't new, it's just always so obvious. When some Republicans help the Democrats pass a bill, it's "bipartisanship" - even if it's just Romney or McCain. When some Democrats help the Republicans block a bill, it's a "disunifying breaking of ranks."

No. No more double language. The election law bill and the repeal of the filibuster didn't exhibit turncoat disunion in the Democrats, they had bipartisan opposition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

163 You'd think someone who was in the Senate for a billion years would know how to get something through the Senate.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2022 08:36 AM (/U27+)

Well it involves simple math, which is what ruined everything.
"hmm, if we only have 50 seats, everybody has got to be with us, because, umm, is 50 minus 1 still a majority?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:38 AM (evAgx)

164 Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2022 08:35 AM (KATBx)
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What are you talking about?

Posted by: President For Life, Barack I at January 20, 2022 08:39 AM (E89Mr)

165 IK this is gonna come as a real shocker

but NBC News has Joe's JA at 44, the highest of all polls

CHuck Todd knows this is BS

he would not criticize a 44 Joe

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:39 AM (us2H3)

166 Got skin in the game and will tell you the troops KNOW what is going on, and the NCO's are holding things together.

I endured the shit during and after Vietnam, not having another go-round now.

If anyone is offended, well, deal.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 20, 2022 08:35 AM (KATBx

I suspected as much. The non coms always hold shit together while the brass fucks everything up. My concern is that the people of whom you speak will be purged eventually and what is left will be unified.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:39 AM (4fSQf)

167 31 8 Yesterday I was looking over house listings on Zillow for Virginia. I checked the box "must have A/C," but most of the listings said "heat pump." Does that work in hot, humid conditions? If not, and it also doesn't work below 40 F., why would you have it (aside from, I guess, it's cheaper to run)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Wolfus, heat pumps are more efficient at cooling but struggle a bit when low temperatures are outside. Usual course of action is emergency heat with heat strips inside the air handler unit of various sizes which are normally installed with the air pump units.

Heat strips suck energy as auxiliary heat for low temps but some sort of auxiliary heating is necessary with all but the newest generation of hi tech heat pumps. Some of the new hi tech heat pumps can function decently down to about 0 to 10 degrees farenheit. Then, there is geothermal heat pump systems which are ultra efficient.

Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 08:39 AM (dCGWj)

168 I've had five Republican senators talk to me ... who've told me that they agree with whatever I'm talking about for them to do. "But, Joe, if I do it, I'm going to get defeated in a primary."
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Imagine an actual conservative press that asks these Republican senators-- and we know who they are-- if they told Joe secretly they would vote for his bill.

Posted by: Well at January 20, 2022 08:40 AM (fn0LI)

169 So I've sort of half paid attention to this supposed "rift" between DeSantis and Trump. This was a lie started by the media and promoted by the media.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 08:40 AM (nxdel)

170 No idea about why the American people think he has the medulla oblongata of a sponge

Are you going to sit there and take that, Sponge?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 20, 2022 08:40 AM (RkC6l)

171 That is kind of you to pray the rosary for the repose of OM's soul and for the comfort of his family, Vmom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 08:40 AM (WRmvO)

172 162 No. No more double language. The election law bill and the repeal of the filibuster didn't exhibit turncoat disunion in the Democrats, they had bipartisan opposition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

=======

And not even Mitt Romney turned coat.

Not even Mitt Romney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

173 masks will soon replace cig buts as the most popular curbside adornment

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:41 AM (us2H3)

174 And not even Mitt Romney turned coat.

Not even Mitt Romney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)
++++
Like Obamacare. I suspect the GOP has capacity for one unified action per decade or so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

175 If I have to listen to Turnip Brain say, "Look . . ." one more time, I'm gonna throw something at the radio. Like a "free" mask.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (txdEq)

176 masks will soon replace cig buts as the most popular curbside adornment
Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:41 AM (us2H3)
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Soon? That's in the rearview mirror now in a lot of places. Airports are especially bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

177 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 08:40 AM (WRmvO

I will benefit from doing it

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (lCui1)

178 And not even Mitt Romney turned coat.

Not even Mitt Romney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

that must have been hard on the Mutt

you know he wanted to

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (us2H3)

179 The press this morning was trying like the devil to make it about Manchin and Sinema, not Biden. I don't think they'll be able to pull that off. Time will tell.

Manchin's home state poll numbers have gone way UP since he's made these moves. So he won't care, and the more they attack him the more he is going to delight in showing them just who does run Bartertown.

On Sinema, James Madison and I have had a discussion. The left in Az is certainly wanting to primary her, but I think she has a huge opening to run in 2024 as an Independent, like Angus King. With her name recognition and brand established, I believe she has a good opportunity to actually increase her support that way. A lot will depend on whether Mark Kelly fails this fall. He might, now that Schumer forced him to come out and show what a true little leftist he is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (evAgx)

180 So I've sort of half paid attention to this supposed "rift" between DeSantis and Trump. This was a lie started by the media and promoted by the media.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 08:40 AM (nxdel)

Yeah, Mrs Doof keeps asking me about this because she sees stuff on Daily Mail. I know nothing about it. Is there any substance to this supposed rift/feud??

Posted by: Doof at January 20, 2022 08:43 AM (mZUr4)

181 158 One surprise so far, Democrats did not immediately attack the early Trump tax cuts. I suspect there is a sunset provision in them and they time out soon.
Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:29 AM (YdnVw)

Mitch made sure that the corporate tax cut was permanent, the personal income tax cuts go to about 2026 tax year due to the ten year limit on reconciliation. That is, unless the Dems alter them via other bills, such as the infrastructure bill has some tax components to it in order to 'pay' for it.

Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 08:43 AM (dCGWj)

182 Not even Mitt Romney.

Perhaps the smarter members of the Uniparty know how close they are getting to provoking a response?

They had a pretty damn sweet gig before COVID, and they've used it to push way to fast to be comfortable that the normies aren't going to wake up.

Normies apparently don't care much about election thefts and wars of choice, but they do care about empty store shelves...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:43 AM (ESjRY)

183 @169

>>So I've sort of half paid attention to this supposed "rift" between DeSantis and Trump. This was a lie started by the media and promoted by the media.

The story is pure NeverTrumper/Leftist stray voltage assholery.

Ignore it, and get ready a steady stream of it between now and '24.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (Bn+kZ)

184 179 A lot will depend on whether Mark Kelly fails this fall. He might, now that Schumer forced him to come out and show what a true little leftist he is.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (evAgx)

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So did Warnock, Masto, and Hassan.

Schumer is bad at this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

185
And not even Mitt Romney turned coat.

Not even Mitt Romney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:41 AM

Damning with faint praise this early in the morning? I'm not so sure it's over. Mitt still would like to see 30 million freshly minted citizens.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (dQvv7)

186 Soon? That's in the rearview mirror now in a lot of places. Airports are especially bad.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

no airports for me

next time I take a flight it will my urn going to my sis' house

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (us2H3)

187 I think we can allow ourselves a bit of Rejoicing over the Shipwreck of All Their Hopes, which happened in the Senate last night.

Hasn't the House announced that they're going to stick the federal vote cheat provisions into every bill they send to the Senate in order to "trick" them into voting for it?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (EjmvJ)

188 I think we can allow ourselves a bit of Rejoicing over the Shipwreck of All Their Hopes, which happened in the Senate last night. It was hilarious to watch, and now get ready for Biden's poll numbers to drop even lower as the hard left fully turns on him.

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I saw over at Insty that Rombley was quoted as saying he and a few other senators are getting together Friday to talk about a "bipartisan" bill. Don't think for one second this is going away. Leftists never sleep. Evil never rests. And if Pierre Delecto isn't successful with whatever he's cooking up, traitor that he is, then one day in the future, the Demotrash will have more than a razor thin majority and they will ram through their election wet dreams.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (sVtYq)

189 Hasn't the House announced that they're going to stick the federal vote cheat provisions into every bill they send to the Senate in order to "trick" them into voting for it?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (EjmvJ)
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So they are going to "poison pill" every bill they send to the Senate. That should work out splendidly...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2022 08:45 AM (YIVH2)

190 Everybody knows Anschluss was the start of WW2. Not a shot was fired in Austria. Next up: There was a patriot Company in Czechoslovakia who did kill a few Nazis on their way in to their country.

With hindsight it was step by step headed to war. The United States had zero interest in the countries affected by the slow digestion of Germany's neighbors.

Now you may not now as then be interested in war in Europe and Westasia but I can assure you that war is interested in you.

Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 08:45 AM (YdnVw)

191 Normal people expect you to make a seasoned argument in favor of something. Thankfully, that's one thing marxists are horrible at.

They simply cannot argue anything on merits. Everything is about race, identity, classism, etc.

I think people are pretty damned sick of hearing nothing but 'those people over there are horrible Hitler Racists who want black people to die, three times at least, so please support our infrastructure bill!'

It's childish shit and it wore thin during The DogEater Years.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:45 AM (4fSQf)

192 Mr Gorbachev, tear down this mask!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:45 AM (F4b8f)

193 >>And not even Mitt Romney turned coat.

>>Not even Mitt Romney.

Republicans didn't vote for us yesterday, they voted for their own self-interest.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:45 AM (ZLI7S)

194 wait wut!!

On January 8, University of Pennsylvania womens swim team member Lia Thomas, a biological male who has engendered outrage by competing against and crushing women swimmers in competitions, swam a race in which Thomas time was suspiciously slower than previous times, permitting Iszac Henig, a Yale swimmer who is biologically female but identifies as male, to win.

Posted by: Big Govt at January 20, 2022 08:46 AM (yrol0)

195 First I have heard of our loss. Damn it.

Lord our friend is with you now. We celebrate that. Please bestow the grace of your comfort and strength upon his family and loved ones.

This hurts.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * be ungovernable at January 20, 2022 08:46 AM (3fiB0)

196 182 They had a pretty damn sweet gig before COVID, and they've used it to push way to fast to be comfortable that the normies aren't going to wake up.

Normies apparently don't care much about election thefts and wars of choice, but they do care about empty store shelves...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:43 AM (ESjRY)

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I'm convinced that the GOPe's effort to purge the party of Trump in January of last year blew up into a massive, massive drop off in donations as well as threats of never voting Republican again from a large number of voters. That's why it took just a couple of weeks for Mitch to turn around and say, "Oh, nevermind. Trump has a future in the party if he wants." They went from dancing on his grave to reserving him the best seat at the table, and it's not because they found the goodness in their hearts.

I think the GOPe is terrified of losing their phoney baloney jobs through voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

197 Yeah, Mrs Doof keeps asking me about this because she sees stuff on Daily Mail. I know nothing about it. Is there any substance to this supposed rift/feud??

Posted by: Doof

He said, he said stories, plus some actual shadow boxing between the two camps. DeSantis wants to keep his options open; Trump appears ready to run again and does not want to be outflanked. Best to ignore the stories until mid 2023 or so.

Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (dCGWj)

198 I remember watching Regan make that speech. It brings a tear to my eye. We have not had a president with that resolve since. Trump was close.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (F4b8f)

199 I think it was Posobiec (sp?) that tweeted:

We just saw the President sundown in real time.

War Room is gonna be fun today.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (rz+/y)

200 Mollie Hemingway has a take on the Trump/DeSantis kerfuffle:

https://tinyurl.com/6xd44ksa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (WRmvO)

201 Let translate:

Dude with vajaja was allowed to win over chick with dick!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (yrol0)

202
that must have been hard on the Mutt

you know he wanted to
Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:42 AM (us2H3)

Last note, I noted that although we love to pour the hate on McConnell, *He* knows how to keep his caucus together, unlike Schumer. When McConnell wants something, he gets 100% of his caucus behind him. For all the talk about Biden and Schumer knowing how to run the Senate, nope - it's McConnell who knows how.

Romney might backstab us - but he would NEVER dare cross Mitch. and just for the record, the previous trillion dollar "infrastructure" bill passed easily because Mitch *wanted* it to pass - it funded a bunch of pet projects for him.

I'm not saying Mitch is on our side, he isn't - but he's not on Biden's side either. He's on his own side, but we do get lucky when his interests coincide with ours.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (evAgx)

203 Doof, that's where I've seen most of the stories. Trump has flat out denied there any sort of rift.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (nxdel)

204 U Penn Swimmer: Lia Thomas Colluded With Female Swimmer To Lose Race
"I think she let her win to prove the point that, 'Oh see, a female-to-male beat me.'"

Of course they did.Swimmers see these 2 swim all the time. They know when they're holding back.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

205
Now you may not now as then be interested in war in Europe and Westasia but I can assure you that war is interested in you.

That's exactly right. We have to send your kids to fight them there now, so I don't have to fight my creditors over my bank account here!

Posted by: Liz Cheney at January 20, 2022 08:48 AM (ESjRY)

206 BPR Rombley is negotiating the talking filibuster with a gang of 12. He has not yet begun to stab us in the back.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:48 AM (F4b8f)

207 193 >>And not even Mitt Romney turned coat.

>>Not even Mitt Romney.

Republicans didn't vote for us yesterday, they voted for their own self-interest.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:45 AM (ZLI7S)

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I want their self-interest to mean voting the way we want to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

208 "Marxists never sleep unless they're morte"

After that, the American ones continue to vote 'Democrat'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 08:48 AM (3D/fK)

209 They went from dancing on his grave to reserving him the best seat at the table, and it's not because they found the goodness in their hearts.

I think the GOPe is terrified of losing their phoney baloney jobs through voting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)

We're back to Milton Friedman's dictum, "The best system is one that incentivizes Bad People to do Good Things."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:49 AM (evAgx)

210 I thought there were fundraising emails from Team Trump that shit on DeSantis. Like actual evidence.

One said he wouldn't commit to supporting trump in 2024.

If those fundraising emails exist, that's kinda shitty.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:49 AM (4fSQf)

211 I'm not saying Mitch is on our side, he isn't - but he's not on Biden's side either. He's on his own side, but we do get lucky when his interests coincide with ours.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (evAgx)

as crazy as it seems, Mutt still thinks he's got at prezzy

Posted by: REDACTED at January 20, 2022 08:50 AM (us2H3)

212 189 Hasn't the House announced that they're going to stick the federal vote cheat provisions into every bill they send to the Senate in order to "trick" them into voting for it?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member

It would be more likely the other way; House bills must be germane to the subject addressed but Senate bills do not.

What the House can do is what was done here--take an unrelated bill that passed the Senate such as the NASA bill--strip the language and then substitute their voting bill as an amendment to the bill. Vote for the amendment and send it back to the Senate for confirmation.

Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 08:50 AM (dCGWj)

213 90 87 Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

What a fucking cunt!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

Illiterate dolt should be shit-canned with prejudice.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

Judges would have also accepted

Beaten with a pole axe handle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:50 AM (yrol0)

214 209 We're back to Milton Friedman's dictum, "The best system is one that incentivizes Bad People to do Good Things."
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:49 AM (evAgx)

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Politicians are not good people. They're all liars.

Gotta keep their feet to the fire at all times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

215 I'm convinced that the GOPe's effort to purge the party of Trump in January of last year blew up into a massive, massive drop off in donations as well as threats of never voting Republican again from a large number of voters. That's why it took just a couple of weeks for Mitch to turn around and say, "Oh, nevermind. Trump has a future in the party if he wants." ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:46 AM (LvTSG)
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I think this is also the motivator behind Youngkin hitting the ground running in VA with a whole lot of stuff on day 1. Some of it was largely symbolic, some if it may have legs (we'll see), but it was a strong open that is unlike how Republicans tend to operate. I strongly suspect they are all terrified and few if any of them like having to deliver on what the base wants, but they want to keep their positions and will do so, however reluctantly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:50 AM (DU+/6)

216 Lest we forget, Trump scorched the earth during the last primary. So it's not unheard of from his team. They go balls out to win.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:51 AM (4fSQf)

217 "We made it throught the first year of the Biden residency. Yay!
Posted by: Marooned"

I never thought Biden would make it this far. It is a miracle of modern medicine and media sycophancy that he is still around. And VP Harris.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 08:51 AM (MxEKc)

218 Fenelon, that's a good article. Wouldn't surprise me if turtle face was behind it.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (nxdel)

219 The left's *best* choice for President in 2020 was...Mitt Romney.

He's the "right" part of the uniparty, but for all intents and purposes that doesn't matter. And he *is* a competent technocrat unlike, apparently, every single Democrat leader.

The problem is the left ran around calling him a dog abusing, gay hating, NAZI when he ran for president against Oblala

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

220 What a fucking cunt!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

it's wut we do

Posted by: CUNTS at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (us2H3)

221 Politicians are not good people. They're all liars.

Gotta keep their feet to the fire at all times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Do true
And most of them are sociopaths

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (lCui1)

222 11-month-old girl in critical condition after being hit by a stray bullet in the Bronx.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (UHVv4)

223 216 Lest we forget, Trump scorched the earth during the last primary. So it's not unheard of from his team. They go balls out to win.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:51 AM (4fSQf)

His kick in the nuts on McCain is priceless!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (yrol0)

224 "The people that know what he [Biden] was trying to say get it." - This, is CNN.

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (DB16e)

225 >>I want their self-interest to mean voting the way we want to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

The voting bill and the filibuster are both areas where their interests align with ours. If that voting bill passed then some of them would've lost their jobs. Maybe many of them.

Plus there is no upside to giving the left any victories now. The left has done a fine job of making themselves toxic just months before the midterms.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (ZLI7S)

226 If those fundraising emails exist, that's kinda shitty.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 08:49 AM (4fSQf)

I'm not buying it. Both Trump and DeSantis are too smart for that high school nonsense.

The media is deeply invested in dividing them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (H8QX8)

227 Trump fighting with DeSantis. DeSantis fighting with trump. We need to get past the fighting and find someone electable. Like Jeb.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (F4b8f)

228 The problem is the left ran around calling him a dog abusing, gay hating, NAZI when he ran for president against Oblala
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

you forgot non tax paying cheater

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (yrol0)

229 221 Do true
And most of them are sociopaths
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (lCui1)

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"I want to vote for this man because he has a nice family and he goes to church. He'll be moral in government."

---12 months later---

"I can't believe he didn't vote the way I expected!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (LvTSG)

230 227 Trump fighting with DeSantis. DeSantis fighting with trump. We need to get past the fighting and find someone electable. Like Jeb.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (F4b8f)

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*fixes hair*
-Nikki Haley

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:54 AM (LvTSG)

231
Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook.

Come on, people, it's a typo. Public schools have become such a circus that she misspelled 'mime class.'

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 08:54 AM (dQvv7)

232 I saw over at Insty that Rombley was quoted as saying he and a few other senators are getting together Friday to talk about a "bipartisan" bill. Don't think for one second this is going away. Leftists never sleep. Evil never rests. And if Pierre Delecto isn't successful with whatever he's cooking up, traitor that he is, then one day in the future, the Demotrash will have more than a razor thin majority and they will ram through their election wet dreams.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (sVtYq)

The "bipartisan bill" they're talking about is one that would rewrite the ambiguity in the Electoral Count Act of 1887, which was passed as a reaction to the RutherFraud election of 1876. It is unclear in parts and overly complicated, and has been mostly ignored. From a purely technical POV, it could stand a rewrite. BUT I don't think this can happen now, because the Progs are furious. *They* wanted a grab bag bill with a whole bunch of "Racial Justice" thrown into it and Federal Control of all elections; they never wanted to just reform some arcane 1887 law so that they could say they "did something".

So, I think the progs will kill this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 08:54 AM (evAgx)

233 Trump fighting with DeSantis. DeSantis fighting with trump. We need to get past the fighting and find someone electable. Like Jeb.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Please clap.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 20, 2022 08:54 AM (yEBFM)

234 The voting bill and the filibuster are both areas where their interests align with ours. If that voting bill passed then some of them would've lost their jobs. Maybe many of them.

Plus there is no upside to giving the left any victories now. The left has done a fine job of making themselves toxic just months before the midterms.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:52 AM (ZLI7S)
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This is true, but the difference may be - and I don't know that it is, and I sort of doubt it because I am a walking container of hate and cynicism - in staying power. The GOP is in the dog house and they know it. The base increasingly hates them as a party and a lot of these peoples' own constituents hate them personally. If they are going to keep their lucrative positions - and they do desperately want to do that - they need to straighten up and pretend.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

235 Oh my, JJ, today's graphic, er, nails it!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 08:55 AM (URNdm)

236 On January 8, University of Pennsylvania womens swim team member Lia Thomas, a biological male who has engendered outrage by competing against and crushing women swimmers in competitions, swam a race in which Thomas time was suspiciously slower than previous times, permitting Iszac Henig, a Yale swimmer who is biologically female but identifies as male, to win.

Other athletes conclusion: testosterone (natural or injected) wins races.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 08:55 AM (E89Mr)

237 The Western Journals Michael Austin quoted a key portion of Walshs argument: What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.

Its blackface!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:55 AM (yrol0)

238 227 Trump fighting with DeSantis. DeSantis fighting with trump. We need to get past the fighting and find someone electable. Like Jeb.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

They're not fighting
Its all media BS
Trump in fact says he thinks it's Bitch McTurtle behind the rumors

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:56 AM (lCui1)

239 Leftists never sleep. Evil never rests.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 20, 2022 08:44 AM (sVtYq)

Remember how many times they resuscitated Obamacare.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 08:56 AM (H8QX8)

240 "Kids will not be allowed in mine [sic] class without a mask. No mask, no entry," Prince William County English teacher Heather Lynn Reilly Osial said on Facebook. "

Well then, how will you get them to read all the garbage woke books on your list and discuss them through a CRT lens? I guarantee not one work of great traditional American/Western literature gets into her class.

Posted by: Ripley at January 20, 2022 08:56 AM (MxEKc)

241 Despite a media that is a propaganda arm (if not the actual makers of policy as some suggest) ...

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You know, I remember the great, prophetic El Rushbo (PBUH) first proposing this (at least to my ears) a few years back and thought "Nah, that's a Chappaquiddick bridge and dead intern too far."

But now? Not so much ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (6Xyqy)

242 The Western Journals Michael Austin quoted a key portion of Walshs argument: What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.

Its blackface!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 08:55 AM (yrol0)
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It's pinkface.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (DU+/6)

243 Hello, my name is Lizzy and I don;t care about Ukraine.

Can anyone please explain to me why the US should care about Ukraine?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (URNdm)

244 I've had five Republican senators talk to me ... who've told me that they agree with whatever I'm talking about for them to do. "But, Joe, if I do it, I'm going to get defeated in a primary."

I may be out of line here, but isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work in a Constitutional Republic?

Shouldn't representatives represent their constituents, and when their representatives go rogue and wage war against We The People, that WtP have a duty to remove the transgressor from office?

(And since the 17th amendment, Senators no longer represent the State government's interest, but that of the international donor class)

I find it interesting that the politicians are admitting that the real "People's Voice" voting takes place in the Primaries, not in the General, that is where the Donor class takes over the ballot box.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (AFDLS)

245 Both of those swimmers should be kicked off the team and out of school now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - wondering about using horse paste or my preferred 1% liquid, read the comments at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (/6kZi)

246 BARNSWOGGLE!

Posted by: Monochrome Monitor Castle Wolfenstein Guard at January 20, 2022 08:58 AM (N+plL)

247 Lot of things I do not like about Mitch M., but he kept the GOP Senate together yesterday to shoot down the Fiibuster vote. And he has to deal with Romney, Murk, and Collins. Along with the Supreme court Judges, we have to give him some credit

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2022 08:58 AM (WY8d2)

248 Can anyone please explain to me why the US should care about Ukraine?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (URNdm)

Because Ukraine has paid a buttload of money to Hunter?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 08:58 AM (lCui1)

249 You know, I remember the great, prophetic El Rushbo (PBUH) first proposing this (at least to my ears) a few years back and thought "Nah, that's a Chappaquiddick bridge and dead intern too far."

But now? Not so much ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (6Xyqy)
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I think it's a false binary. One side doesn't lead the other in all cases. I often refer to the power system as the "State/Party/Media Complex" or just "The Complex." I think this is true. They all have their roles and internal power structures and hold different upper hands at different times in various areas. It's factional war all the way down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:58 AM (DU+/6)

250 Beat me, Joe! Beat me!

Posted by: Big Meat at January 20, 2022 08:58 AM (BOJAx)

251 244 Shouldn't representatives represent their constituents, and when their representatives go rogue and wage war against We The People, that WtP have a duty to remove the transgressor from office?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (AFDLS)

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No, we live in a democracy. The representatives must vote in the way that the weighted, suspicious polls say the majority wants.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

252 >>If they are going to keep their lucrative positions - and they do desperately want to do that - they need to straighten up and pretend.

This is where Uncle Milton's words come into play.

Make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2022 08:59 AM (ZLI7S)

253 Hello, my name is Lizzy and I don;t care about Ukraine.

Can anyone please explain to me why the US should care about Ukraine?

Those who cashed the checks from Ukrainian interests want you to back-stop the quid pro quo.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:59 AM (AFDLS)

254 I may be out of line here, but isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work in a Constitutional Republic?

Shouldn't representatives represent their constituents, and when their representatives go rogue and wage war against We The People, that WtP have a duty to remove the transgressor from office? ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (AFDLS)
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Yes, this is precisely correct. Joe Biden hates representation and accountable government, and he said it in plain language yesterday.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

255 >>The Western Journals Michael Austin quoted a key portion of Walshs argument: What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.

Yeah, that clip from the Dr. Phil show where bearded "woman" explains it is an "umbrella term" to cover a variety of things -- no, no it isn't, freakshow. There's a carnival who's missing its bearded lady, so skedaddle on back to it.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 09:00 AM (URNdm)

256 It's not about Ukraine. It's the message that doing nothing sends to everyone else.

Taiwan has to be shitting bricks too.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:00 AM (4fSQf)

257 note to JJ on your article selection today - anyone who can bring up the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and actually use him to make a good point, gets a big cheer from me!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:00 AM (evAgx)

258 That is, where there are actual products on the shelves to sell at stagflationary prices and not stuck on a container ship off the coast or looted from a UP boxcar in LA.

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"We gotta fevah, and the only cure for looting transported goods is self-driving trucks!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 09:01 AM (6Xyqy)

259 Everyone talks as if Ukraine has no military. I am not so na�ve to think that Ukraine can easily defeat the Russians, but the Ukrainians know the Russian military very well because they served in the Soviet army together.

This is like the fox and the rabbit. The rabbit outran the fox because he ran for his life while the fox was simply running for a meal.

Ukraine will be fighting for its life. Russia will be fighting for a meal.

The costs to the Russians will be high (see the 1920 war between Poland and the Soviet Union).

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 20, 2022 09:01 AM (2graF)

260 Ukraine has a lot more toys this go round. There will be plenty of casualties on both sides.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:02 AM (4fSQf)

261 Trump fighting with DeSantis. DeSantis fighting with trump. We need to get past the fighting and find someone electable. Like Jeb.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 08:53 AM (F4b8f)

Pale, In-bred and ready!

Please clap!

Posted by: Jeb!, An Inbred Tool at January 20, 2022 09:02 AM (a5d7/)

262 I have no room to critique anyone on typos, but I think the parents who know that masks are ridiculous should just send their kids in anyway.
I'm guessing she's either scared witless-in which case she needs prayers-or she just doesn't want to teach-which is also a strong possibility in which case she needs a comeuppance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 09:02 AM (FVAVw)

263 Remember when Bill Clinton convinced the Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a guarantee of protection?

Good times, Democrat Party. Good times.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 20, 2022 09:03 AM (2graF)

264 Neocons just the Ukraine situation. Pentagon and defense contactors are having orgasms on munition sales

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2022 09:03 AM (WY8d2)

265 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Carly Fiorina at January 20, 2022 09:03 AM (a3Q+t)

266 Old joe guaranteed invasion of the Ukrainian. No. We won't do shit to stop them. I'm sure he's guilty of treason against the United States of America. He's guaranteed we will have to go to war eventually all with a weakened military. Joe wants to destroy America and kill Americans.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (0OmEj)

267 Julienne Hough has beef with Christina Aguilera. Tune in to the 10:00 news for the full story!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (F4b8f)

268 247 Lot of things I do not like about Mitch M., but he kept the GOP Senate together yesterday to shoot down the Fiibuster vote. And he has to deal with Romney, Murk, and Collins. Along with the Supreme court Judges, we have to give him some credit

Posted by: Jonah

I don't particularly. The filibuster removal directly threatens the power of every senator including some of the Dems. One of the reasons that it has persisted is that it gives powers to individual senators in the minority which will be yielded up to party leaders in the Senate if there is no filibuster. In the House, the opposition has literally very little to do and no power to do much of anything. In the Senate, each senator, under the rules, still has individual powers such as amendments, etc. and most of the Senate depends on unanimous consent to function so as to have three day work weeks and lengthy recesses.

Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (dCGWj)

269 It's pinkface.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (DU+/6)

ha

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (yrol0)

270 263 Remember when Bill Clinton convinced the Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a guarantee of protection?

Good times, Democrat Party. Good times.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 20, 2022 09:03 AM (2graF)

That was yesterday!

Posted by: Foreigner at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (4fSQf)

271 alternately-shrieking-and-whispering, heavily-doctored demento
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Should be doctored demented

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (9BID/)

272 >> On January 8, University of Pennsylvania womens swim team member Lia Thomas, a biological male who has engendered outrage by competing against and crushing women swimmers in competitions, swam a race in which Thomas time was suspiciously slower than previous times, permitting Iszac Henig, a Yale swimmer who is biologically female but identifies as male, to win.

Yeah, just call him Bobby Riggs 2.0.
He took a dive because he was getting too much attention. Had to (fake) demonstrate that his biology wasn't an advantage.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (URNdm)

273 "Shouldn't representatives represent their constituents, and when their representatives go rogue and wage war against We The People, that WtP have a duty to remove the transgressor from office? ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (AFDLS) "

This is why I believe that Insty link to the Montgomery County Council is so spot on.

Residents have basically declared war on their County Council.
Just what J.J. has been saying needs to take place.

https://tinyurl.com/373muyt6

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM (3D/fK)

274 Russia has beef with Ukraine!

Trump has beef with DeSantis!

Grocery store has no beef.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM (F4b8f)

275 I miss Rush. Have not really listened to Talk Radio since

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM (WY8d2)

276 267 Julienne Hough has beef with Christina Aguilera. Tune in to the 10:00 news for the full story!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (F4b8f)

They should wrestle to settle the beef.

*nods towards jello pit*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM (4fSQf)

277 271 alternately-shrieking-and-whispering, heavily-doctored demento
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Should be doctored demented
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (9BID/)

That was a Dr. Demento reference. You have to be of a certain age to get it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM (s2VJv)

278 It is amazing to see Bethany Mandel show such a spine while Seth is hiding in his cuckshed.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (ESjRY)

279 For someone who goes to an Ivy, Butchy Thomas is stupid.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (F4b8f)

280 Taiwan has to be shitting bricks too.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:00 AM (4fSQf)
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I'm sure they are, but the probably have a year to do whatever they need to do to prepare for it. Here's how I see it happening:
Xi will be reconfirmed during the party congress next year. After his coronation as emperor, he will move on Taiwan. He wants to be the greatest emperor in Chinese history and he's going for the brass ring. He will take Taiwan and in so doing reunify China for the first time since the Han Dynasty, cow the West and lay bare their impotence, ascend to become the absolute hegemon of East Asia and be the actor of supreme importance globally and restore China to its rightful place as the power center of all things.

I think that's the ambition, and that's the gamble. But Taiwan has a year or so to try to counter it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

281 243 Hello, my name is Lizzy and I don;t care about Ukraine.

Can anyone please explain to me why the US should care about Ukraine?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (URNdm)

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Hi Lizzy,

I know nothing about Ukraine (sans a little about the Holodomor) but my understanding is that we entered a treaty to protect them from the Russian Bear (1994 under Clinton?) in exchange for destroying all of there nuclear weapons.

And then Putin crossed DogEater's pink line into the Crimea and we did nothing ... so I guess, like everything else now, our word is meaningless (especially to friends, but no so much to foes) and the feral government has no obligation to keep it anymore?

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (6Xyqy)

282 Can anyone please explain to me why the US should care about Ukraine?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 08:57 AM (URNdm)
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Neocons and Democrats interests converge on Ukraine, and they are arguing for Wag The Dog by citing two reasons: 1) GHWB promised (no treaty) to protect Ukraine borders from Russia in return for them giving up nukes, post Soviet collapse, so we should honor the Bush commitment, and 2) Putin is a warlord seeking to recreate a Russian empire and we should battle that now, while he is relatively weak.

Of course, this whole argument is theater. Biden has no military power to stop Putin. Biden now argues American will apply economic sanctions, but Germany will not support sanctions (because they need Russian energy) so that is (also) a completely empty threat.

Silly stuff.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (E89Mr)

283 268 I don't particularly. The filibuster removal directly threatens the power of every senator including some of the Dems. One of the reasons that it has persisted is that it gives powers to individual senators in the minority which will be yielded up to party leaders in the Senate if there is no filibuster. In the House, the opposition has literally very little to do and no power to do much of anything. In the Senate, each senator, under the rules, still has individual powers such as amendments, etc. and most of the Senate depends on unanimous consent to function so as to have three day work weeks and lengthy recesses.
Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (dCGWj)

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This is why I felt like Schumer never had a chance to pass anything major past the infrastructure bill. That gave the center-right its graft. Nothing else was necessary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

284 The three amigos!

China, Russia, and Iran to hold joint naval exercises in the north Indian Ocean tomorrow.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 09:07 AM (UHVv4)

285 Dem Van Jones worries about Biden's 'foggy and meandering' presser; 'like Reagan at the end'

https://tinyurl.com/4jzxv3ms

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

286
I miss Rush. Have not really listened to Talk Radio since

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM

Same here, although during the summer I was polishing the car and "My City Was Gone" came on the radio and I did wax poetically.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (dQvv7)

287 DJT would stand on the WH lawn and take every question until there wasn't another one

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (etvVb)

288 Good morning again dear morons and thank you JJ

Offering comfort to those among us in mourning

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (EZebt)

289 285 Dem Van Jones worries about Biden's 'foggy and meandering' presser; 'like Reagan at the end'

https://tinyurl.com/4jzxv3ms
Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

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I cannot wait for Biden to announce his run for re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

290 Would the tranny swimmer even make a final at a power 5 college swim meet? Ivy league isn't really top notch is it?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM (HaPdD)

291 The Western Journals Michael Austin quoted a key portion of Walshs argument: What you want to do is appropriate womanhood and turn it into a costume that can be worn.

Yeah, that clip from the Dr. Phil show where bearded "woman" explains it is an "umbrella term" to cover a variety of things -- no, no it isn't, freakshow. There's a carnival who's missing its bearded lady, so skedaddle on back to it.

I really resent this putting on the flayed skin of womanhood with none of the side effects.

You don't get to pick the cool parts, ie clothes and makeup and hair while not having to suck up the bad parts like cramps, lousy upper body strength, contractions, etc etc.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM (ySQBZ)

292 The Ukraine problem goes back to them giving up their nukes. The USA told the Ukrainians that they wouldn't need them anymore, because if something happened, we would come to their assistance.

They f*cked up. They listened to us.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM (jTmQV)

293 Bethany does Seth with a strap on.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM (F4b8f)

294 268. Good points. The day after we lost the Ga runoffs, I remember the gloom by th Establishment GOP media.

1. Puerto rico and DC to become states
2. Pack the Supreme Court
3. Tax Fee per trade in Stocks and Futures etc..

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM (WY8d2)

295 I cannot wait for Biden to announce his run for re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM

They'll just tell him he can't run again because he's already served two terms. He won't know.

Posted by: Bert G at January 20, 2022 09:10 AM (5e/k8)

296 I think that's the ambition, and that's the gamble. But Taiwan has a year or so to try to counter it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

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Good analysis as always, Mannix. I'm honestly surprised they take Taiwan back in the 90's after having bought the Clintons yuan, stock, and barrel -- I mean, who was (and is) going to stop them?

That's why I don't think it's much of a gamble at all, especially now. Perhaps all they were waiting for a virus called Xi ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 09:10 AM (6Xyqy)

297 Putin is a warlord seeking to recreate a Russian empire and we should battle that now, while he is relatively weak.

Lets say that is true. So the very governments that are threatening, if not already throwing their innocent ~~citizens~~ subjects into concentration camps for not submitting their mind, soul and body to Phizer to be a lab rat are going to oppose Putin?

This is an epic Pot/Kettle scenario.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 09:10 AM (AFDLS)

298 The three amigos!
China, Russia, and Iran to hold joint naval exercises in the north Indian Ocean tomorrow.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 09:07 AM (UHVv4)

Mother Russia has been saving up all her used tires from last year just to get us under way!

Posted by: Admiral Kuznetsov at January 20, 2022 09:10 AM (a5d7/)

299 I seriously doubt McConnell has any intentions of warming up to Trump. There is bad blood between those two and Trump's got a huge score to settle with the turtle. McConnell will say what he believes the rank and file want to hear. Whether McConnell believes it is another story.

The GOP has consistently demonstrated it doesn't have the ability to adapt to the changing demands of its base. It might be "Trump's GOP" but nobody in the GOP believes that.

Lastly, there's a strong push by the J6 committee to gin up something that will stick to Trump and disqualify him from running in '24. You have to believe McConnell approves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 09:10 AM (BFigT)

300 on days like today, I wander by Daily Kos just to see the handwringing and shrieking, it makes me smile. BUT I was a bit surprised when I just looked, and I suspect that what I saw is an insight into the mindset of the Left in general right now. There were a couple articles calling Manchin and Sinema traitors, but almost everything else was simple denial of everything that is happening right now, combined with completely batshit "stories" about things that never happened. We like to say they're insane, but they look like they've made the jump into a complete fantasy world that has no rational link to the world we live in anymore.

reminds me of the old greek saying, those whom the gods would destroy, they first make insane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (evAgx)

301 Can anyone please explain to me why the US should care about Ukraine?
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Many great Americans have 'pension' funds there!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (UHVv4)

302 Im planning a minor incursion into a pizza pie for lunch later.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (EZebt)

303 Good morning, Horde.

Probably already mentioned, but I see where Sarah Hoyt paid tribute to poor Oregon Muse over at Insty. Very nice.

Think she lurks here at all?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (dfRN6)

304 283. Agreed, and the reason Sanders and AOC were so pissed. They knew once infrastructure was passed, the marxist dream was over.

Dems are very lucky Manchin and Synema have not switched

Posted by: Jonah at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (WY8d2)

305 They'll just tell him he can't run again because he's already served two terms. He won't know.

DOCTOR™ Jill sure as hell knows, and she isn't wanting to give up that 1600 Pennsylvania address and the AF1 taxi service.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (AFDLS)

306 Our brave leaders stopped a Democrat Socialist power grab last night! Send money!!

Posted by: National Republican Committee at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (E89Mr)

307 Joe Biden is a bigger threat to America and Americans then Vlad Putin is.

There is no argument for sending Americans to go fight Vlad to make Biden stronger.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (ESjRY)

308 Sundowner takes pre hand picked questions and it's a record?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (IUZVg)

309 Ukraine. Then proxy wars in Latvia, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, etc etc.

Before you know it, USSR is back, baby!

Rehang that iron curtain!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (4fSQf)

310
You don't get to pick the cool parts, ie clothes and makeup and hair while not having to suck up the bad parts like cramps, lousy upper body strength, contractions, etc etc.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM

Even as a male, ever since second grade I've had a problem with contractions. I did'nt think I would ever learn them correctly.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (dQvv7)

311 We should care about Ukraine because the U.S. promised to protect Ukraine from Russia.

Is that not enough?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (EZebt)

312 Mollie Hemingway has a take on the Trump/DeSantis kerfuffle:

https://tinyurl.com/6xd44ksa
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 20, 2022 08:47 AM (WRmvO)

Thanks, Fen -- good read

Posted by: Doof at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (mZUr4)

313 Yes. They don't have a plan.

Hassan in NH. Kelly in AZ. Walked the plank on the filibuster.

For what? Polling suggests 60%+ support some form of ID. Even many Ds.

The illegitimate talk by Biden is the signal to BLM/Antifa obviously. Given the political BS re: Jan-6, Nancy can no longer say "people will do what people will do."

Rs should run on 1)energy independence 2) school choice 3) no individual stock trading.

Alas, ours are often just as, if not more, stupid.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (/S6j/)

314 AP Norc. poll out today
Would you like to see Biden run for president in 2024?
70%- No
28%- Yes

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

315 Probably already mentioned, but I see where Sarah Hoyt paid tribute to poor Oregon Muse over at Insty. Very nice.
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Can you link, please? I'd like to read it.

Posted by: National Republican Committee at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (E89Mr)

316 CA governor Newsom bragging his nursing home deaths weren't as bad as other states.

He didn't say anything about sending Covid infected inmates throughout the prison system. You may like that but it infected staff, their families, and the communities.

Newsom is gruesome.

Posted by: torabora at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (YdnVw)

317 I'm convinced that the GOPe's effort to purge the party of Trump in January of last year blew up into a massive, massive drop off in donations as well as threats of never voting Republican again from a large number of voters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford

That's when I official registered as an Independent and completely stopped donating the RNC. Now 10X Match!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (rz+/y)

318 278 It is amazing to see Bethany Mandel show such a spine while Seth is hiding in his cuckshed.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 20, 2022 09:06 AM (ESjRY)

well now we know who wears the strap-on in that family!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (evAgx)

319 reminds me of the old greek saying, those whom the gods would destroy, they first make insane.

Second half of chapter one of the Epistle to the Romans outlines the process.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 09:13 AM (AFDLS)

320 We should care about Ukraine because the U.S. promised to protect Ukraine from Russia.

Is that how it works?

Posted by: Some Dead Afghans that worked with the US against the Taliban at January 20, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

321 Posted by: whig at January 20, 2022 09:04 AM (dCGWj)

While he certainly would not gain my respect, McConnell would lessen my abject hatred of him if, after garnering a majority should such happen, he announced he would like to hear Democrats' opinions about the filibuster now.

Of course, the Democrats have laid the groundwork not to honor the election results in the event they cannot steal this one.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 20, 2022 09:14 AM (nMx88)

322 311 We should care about Ukraine because the U.S. promised to protect Ukraine from Russia.

Is that not enough?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (EZebt)

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Is it not enough that the promise was made by another administration without the voice of approval from the people's house?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

323 I wouldn't undercut the strategic importance of Ukraine. Step away from the politics, personal biases and our past history of participating in "endless wars". I can make a better case for Ukraine, then I could Iraq of even the type/length of war we fought in AFG. Russia cares about Ukraine for a reason- and it's not just the potential NATO encroachment on their border. Nobody is threatening Russia and the geopolitical realities have changed in Europe for reasons too long to articulate here. Russia has been the expansionist power as proven by Crimea, and letting them get away with that has brought about the current situation. Putin is not a good person nor are his designs on Europe good. They still cause a lot of trouble around the world for the U.S. whenever they can. They are an adversary and Democrat use if Russia as a political tool has made that worse. We do need to draw a line in Ukraine on those activities. Not for Ukraine per se, but for our own protection.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:14 AM (VpIIl)

324 309 Ukraine. Then proxy wars in Latvia, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, etc etc. Before you know it, USSR is back, baby! Rehang that iron curtain!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:12 AM (4fSQf)

I would think - read: hope - all those countries in the former East Bloc and the Baltics will band together in a mutual alliance. Fuck NATO; it's worthless and I think those newer members see that.

If that does happen, a Poland, Czech/Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Baltics alliance would be a serious obstacle to the Russkies. Not a pushover.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:15 AM (s2VJv)

325 In that Dr Phil the professor (ha) with the neck tatts looks real fucking stupid.

If I walked into a class and the prof had prison neck tatts I would walk out and change sections.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 20, 2022 09:16 AM (yrol0)

326 Sarah's mention of OM's passing

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/498560/

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 09:16 AM (3D/fK)

327 Biden as a war leader? No thank you very much. The thought is ridiculous.

Posted by: kraken at January 20, 2022 09:16 AM (6Je/Q)

328 We will know the time in near when Putin takes off his shirt for a horse ride.

Biden will follow suit and remove his pants to ride the spaceship outside the supermarket.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:16 AM (4fSQf)

329 Amazon planning to open its first clothing store in a So Cal mall later this year.

They'd better price everything over $1,000 [or is it $2,000??]!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 09:16 AM (UHVv4)

330 287 DJT would stand on the WH lawn and take every question until there wasn't another one
Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 20, 2022 09:08 AM (etvVb)

Trump's spontaneity, cogency, openness and sincerity was unlike anything seen before. That the media cannot see the difference between him and the splenetic retard Biden just proves their own retardation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 09:17 AM (H8QX8)

331 Of course, the Democrats have laid the groundwork not to honor the election results in the event they cannot steal this one.

That is leaving We The People with only one sure fire way to vote - and that is from the rooftops.

But that has always been their goal - a bloodbath to appease their god of Death.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 09:17 AM (AFDLS)

332
I would think - read: hope - all those countries in the former East Bloc and the Baltics will band together in a mutual alliance. Fuck NATO; it's worthless and I think those newer members see that.

If that does happen, a Poland, Czech/Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Baltics alliance would be a serious obstacle to the Russkies. Not a pushover.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:15 AM (s2VJv

Agreed and it would be wholly necessary because NATO is a paper tiger akin to blue helmets.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:17 AM (4fSQf)

333 The only person is worse political trouble than Biden is Jonah Goldberg. Whenever he opens his fat yap these days, a bitter diatribe comes out and then he is roundly mocked by everyone who notices.

Next up, I suspect we will hear his partnership with Hayes is kaput and their website is closing down.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 09:18 AM (E89Mr)

334 Think she lurks here at all?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

Sarah Hoyt has commented several times on the Book Thread
She's an ette and a damn good writer
Now Im gonna go read her post

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 09:18 AM (lCui1)

335 That the media cannot see the difference between him and the splenetic retard Biden just proves their own retardation.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 20, 2022 09:17 AM (H8QX

The difference that they see is that Trump is Hitler and Biden is a saint.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (9otr5)

336 It's not often I say this, but JJ's "minor incursion" picture is worthy of a British tabloid, never mind an American one. Most preem thing all week and the day's barely started.

Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (LhnyI)

337 I am really curious as to what the FBI is looking for on Dem Congressman Henry Cuellar's laptop.

I know he's been critical of the administration for the handling of the southern border and they don't return his calls, but still.

Should be interesting.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

338 If there's a massive red wave in November (50+ seats in the House, 4+ seats in the Senate), I wonder how the internal divisions of the Democratic Party will play out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

339 So Biden is going to be in charge of a war, with *this* crew of brass?
Over promises that HRC-Obama made?
If I was a grunt, I'd get out now.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (jTmQV)

340 Sarah Hoyt has commented several times on the Book Thread
She's an ette and a damn good writer
Now Im gonna go read her post
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 09:18 AM (lCui1)

Her post just links back here.

It's nice to be noticed though.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (9otr5)

341
If I walked into a class and the prof had prison neck tatts I would walk out and change sections.

And to think that there are a lot of people who will take on life-long debt to suffer under such a fool for a semester.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (AFDLS)

342 If that does happen, a Poland, Czech/Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Baltics alliance would be a serious obstacle to the Russkies. Not a pushover.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:15 AM (s2VJv

Agreed and it would be wholly necessary because NATO is a paper tiger akin to blue helmets.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 20, 2022 09:17 AM (4fSQf)

Remember that Stalin, with all of his military might in 1945, was still only able to take those places over because the Nazi's had spent the previous 4 or 5 years executing everyone who was willing to fight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (evAgx)

343 Julienne Hough has beef with Christina Aguilera. Tune in to the 10:00 news for the full story!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 20, 2022

***
Could we have them settle it with a bikini boxing match?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (txdEq)

344 The time to start impeachment proceedings is now.
Otherwise it's just a lot of whining going on.

Posted by: Ziba at January 20, 2022 09:20 AM (S1hrL)

345

That was a Dr. Demento reference. You have to be of a certain age to get it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:05 AM (s2VJv)

I understood that reference.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

346 "the Democrats have laid the groundwork not to honor the election results in the event they cannot steal this one."

And in doing so are making a crucial mistake. They not only undermine their fiction about the last election, but they will be forced to provide material proof of fraud. There are now lawsuits and changes as a result thereof from the last election. There is material proof in many of the states of illegal votes, harvesting and other illegalities. We can stack that up against Democrats hyperbole, and have that discussion.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (VpIIl)

347 Having that piece of shit Schumer being revealed as nothing more than a mouthy ineffective blowhard makes him a perfect majority leader for the Sundown administration.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (y7DUB)

348 I am really curious as to what the FBI is looking ~~for~~ at on Dem Congressman Henry Cuellar's laptop.

Go 'way. Batin'!

Posted by: FBI at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (BvZkh)

349 337 I am really curious as to what the FBI is looking for on Dem Congressman Henry Cuellar's laptop.

Probably whatever they put on there.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 09:22 AM (9otr5)

350 346
And in doing so are making a crucial mistake. They not only undermine their fiction about the last election, but they will be forced to provide material proof of fraud. There are now lawsuits and changes as a result thereof from the last election. There is material proof in many of the states of illegal votes, harvesting and other illegalities. We can stack that up against Democrats hyperbole, and have that discussion.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (VpIIl)

==========

Any lawsuits will get dropped or thrown out quickly, but they'll have their narrative. Voting in America is unfair and the only way to fix it is to give ~~Congress~~ unelected bureaucrats appointed by Democrats complete control over voting across the whole nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

351 ***
Could we have them settle it with a bikini boxing match?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (txdEq)

Mud Wrestling.

- Ox

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

352 Good stuff on Matt Walsh transgender link.

Posted by: Chuck Martel (adjectives are "handsome" and "brilliant" at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (fs1hN)

353 I still don't understand why schumer called a vote when he knew it was not going to go his way. It makes no sense.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (bVYXr)

354 > I would think - read: hope - all those countries in the former East Bloc and the Baltics will band together in a mutual alliance.

I think they sort of do... unofficially. May not include all of 'em, but I do believe there are "mutual defense agreements" amongst some.

The UK currently has an intelligence gathering aircraft on a mission over the Black Sea so I'd wager they're sharing that with not only the Ukraine but others in the region.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (BFigT)

355 We can stack that up against Democrats hyperbole, and have that discussion.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (VpIIl)

Well you would think. We have all that stuff now and no one will say boo about it.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (9otr5)

356 347 Having that piece of shit Schumer being revealed as nothing more than a mouthy ineffective blowhard makes him a perfect majority leader for the Sundown administration.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (y7DUB)

A year ago, I thought for sure that every Commie wet dream would sail through and that would be that - especially when the stole the Georgia runoffs.

Amazing how at least for the time being, we're still hanging on by a red cvnt hair. The destruction and disaster being visited upon us so far, notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (s2VJv)

357 Christina Aguilera has nice tits.

Posted by: Hillary! at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

358 353 I still don't understand why schumer called a vote when he knew it was not going to go his way. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (bVYXr)

=========

He's bad at his job. He's also trying to appease the left flank by "doing SOMETHING!".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

359 That's why I don't think it's much of a gamble at all, especially now. ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Beware the Branch Covidians at January 20, 2022 09:10 AM (6Xyqy)
++++
It's a gamble, and a damn big one. China has an aging population and decades of the one-child policy has led to a shortage of young people (industrialization has continued the trend). People are much more willing to throw away their children on wars of conquest when they have a lot of them. When you have just one, and you need him to care for you in your old age, you're a lot less tolerant. There are serious social problems in Red China that war will exacerbate unless it goes well.

Then there's Taiwan itself. It isn't helpless. It depends on how much Red China has subverted the government in Taipei, but Taiwan *can* fight back and make it extremely expensive. If things get desperate, they are close enough to China to hit the homeland - bombing Shanghai, hitting the Three Gorges Dam, etc. - and cause even more problems. And then there's the wildcards like Japan and Korea. What if they throw in with Taiwan?

It's an "all the marbles" play. I just think Xi will try it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

360 I still don't understand why schumer called a vote when he knew it was not going to go his way. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (bVYXr)

To show he's FIGHTING for YOU!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Oregon Muse at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

361 I am really curious as to what the FBI is looking ~~for~~ at on Dem Congressman Henry Cuellar's laptop.
****
Go 'way. Batin'!
Posted by: FBI at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (BvZkh)

He has all the cheat codes for Redneck Rampage w/ Cusspack.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2022 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

362 What's this 'we shit' Kemosabe? Neither me or mine are going to do jackshit for the Junta. Send our Domestic Army (BLM and ANTIFA) to battle the Russians. They could call themselves the Barry Obama Brigade.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 20, 2022 09:25 AM (4vi12)

363 Amazing how at least for the time being, we're still hanging on by a red cvnt hair. The destruction and disaster being visited upon us so far, notwithstanding.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (s2VJv)

Pretty sure only Sinema's colorist knows for sure.

Posted by: blaster at January 20, 2022 09:25 AM (9otr5)

364 Zombie. She also left condolences on CBD's OM thread. Those condolences are still coming in. Also for those that frequent the ONT their was a poster that mentioned that red14c had also passed. Need to research that last one a bit more. Not sure I read it correctly.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 20, 2022 09:25 AM (2NHgQ)

365 That top pic is really creepy JJ.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 09:26 AM (dNqv+)

366 When one thinks of Biden and his Kalorama Kommand Kontrollers one can almost see Mussolini ......at The End.

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 20, 2022 09:26 AM (FCPbW)

367 348 I am really curious as to what the FBI is looking for at on Dem Congressman Henry Cuellar's laptop.

Go 'way. Batin'!
Posted by: FBI at January 20, 2022 09:21 AM (BvZkh)

Criticism of open borders and a possible openness to changing parties, most likely. While it probably is far too late for electoral politics to matter, the Democrats made a fatal, unforced error in throwing the borders wide open and infuriating Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley. Cuellar has tried to have it both ways, criticizing open borders and remaining a member of the party dedicated to them, and the Democrats' secret political police are harassing him to send a message to other Hispanic Texas Democrat officeholders.

Message to Karl Rove: you lied on behalf of your corporate donors about Hispanic support of mass migration and amnesty.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 20, 2022 09:26 AM (nMx88)

368 336 It's not often I say this, but JJ's "minor incursion" picture is worthy of a British tabloid, never mind an American one. Most preem thing all week and the day's barely started.
Posted by: trev006 at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (LhnyI)

Cheers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:26 AM (s2VJv)

369 >>DJT would stand on the WH lawn and take every question until there wasn't another one

Trump is a communicator.
You can dislike his style, but the man loves interacting with people, to share ideas, to spar, to needle, to have a good laugh -- all of it energizes him.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (URNdm)

370 338 If there's a massive red wave in November (50+ seats in the House, 4+ seats in the Senate), I wonder how the internal divisions of the Democratic Party will play out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

I saw a good analysis (might have been at RCP) that broker races down and held that, because of successful redistricting by some dem states, "safe seats", and the GOP having done pretty well in Congressional races in 2020, the best outcome they can hope for is a plus 35. Still, that would give them almost a 250 - 185 majority in the next Congress.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (evAgx)

371 353 I still don't understand why schumer called a vote when he knew it was not going to go his way. It makes no sense.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at January 20, 2022 09:23 AM (bVYXr)

Donations. The dems are whipping their base into a frenzy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (UuD2k)

372 That top pic is really creepy JJ.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

But it sure is perfect.

Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (1vynn)

373 It's happening all over... Dispute over C-19 testing fees for truckers leads to a fuel crisis in Uganda.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (UHVv4)

374 Sarah's mention of OM's passing

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/498560/
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 20, 2022 09:16 AM (3D/fK)

That OM was so well regarded across the blogosphere is a rare bit of unqualified praise for the otherwise digital wasteland. Likewise the lurker reaction as was noted yesterday.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (y7DUB)

375 The very thought of this administration engaging militarily with the USSR after the total humiliation in the Afghanistan withdrawal borders on parody.
Except it's not.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (jTmQV)

376 But it sure is perfect.
Posted by: t-bird at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (1vynn)
++++
Yup. I agree with trev006 on this one. It's brutally on-point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (DU+/6)

377 Oh my.
CNN: Fact check: A look at Biden's first year in false claims
https://tinyurl.com/9wap7u52

Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

378

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG) "

Putting aside for a moment there will always be people who believe, without proof, what Democrats say, I believe the activities occurring since the last election changes things. Democrats went all in on electoral fraud and illegalities. Their officials illegally changed voting rules, usurping legislative power. That game has been settled by the courts and won't be possible again. That's led to a slew of changes in the way elections are conducted (drop boxes, harvesting., etc.). Voters roles are being cleaned up due to lawsuits. So they are watching people who vote in two states, etc. Voter ID is going to cut down on a lit of the fraud, which is why they are freaking out and doing things like trying to sue candidates.

That said, there is a lot more awareness and substantive change. I don't know how many people will buy the narrative

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:29 AM (VpIIl)

379 The very thought of this administration engaging militarily with the USSR after the total humiliation in the Afghanistan withdrawal borders on parody.
Except it's not.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (jTmQV)

It'll be like the first battle in Starship Troopers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 20, 2022 09:29 AM (4I/2K)

380 >>Also for those that frequent the ONT their was a poster that mentioned that red14c had also passed. Need to research that last one a bit more. Not sure I read it correctly.

This is too much. Tami, OM, possibly red14c.. .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 09:29 AM (URNdm)

381 "Trump says he has a very good relationship with DeathSantis" amid feud rumors. - Juliegrace Brufke

Posted by: Fool Otto at January 20, 2022 09:29 AM (DB16e)

382 A year ago, I thought for sure that every Commie wet dream would sail through and that would be that - especially when the stole the Georgia runoffs.

Amazing how at least for the time being, we're still hanging on by a red cvnt hair. The destruction and disaster being visited upon us so far, notwithstanding.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 09:24 AM (s2VJv)

as some talented writer said sometime, "There is a tide in the affairs of men...."

the tide comes in, the tide goes out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:30 AM (evAgx)

383 The next time Europe desports with total war, we should leave them to it, as we should have the first time, in 1917.

Posted by: Brett at January 20, 2022 09:30 AM (n7ykD)

384 todays meme is brilliant stuff

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 09:30 AM (E89Mr)

385 Noodus ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 20, 2022 09:31 AM (txdEq)

386 In any case, let's not forget that we're not talking about shooting off a few cruise missiles into an empty tent or a disused aspirin factory in the fictional Mission: Impossible third world country of San Cristobal or the East European People's Republic located somewhere on Gower between Sunset and Melrose.

That is all he will do, along with some bombers dropping GPS-guided bombs from outside Russian AA range. Actually, he and Blinken will do everything possible to avoid US aircraft, ships, and subs from shooting. They will work hard to get anyone in Europe except us to fire munitions on Russian forces.

Posted by: Gref at January 20, 2022 09:31 AM (AMIL/)

387 375 The very thought of this administration engaging militarily with the USSR after the total humiliation in the Afghanistan withdrawal borders on parody.
Except it's not.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (jTmQV)

Even a competent administration going to war with Russia would be batshit crazy. From a purely selfish standpoint, my biggest concern is the Banana Empire does some half-ass bullshit, gets utterly humiliated again (and this will happen), and the dollar loses reserve currency status and we become the Third World economically, too.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 20, 2022 09:31 AM (nMx88)

388 364 Zombie. She also left condolences on CBD's OM thread. Those condolences are still coming in. Also for those that frequent the ONT their was a poster that mentioned that red14c had also passed. Need to research that last one a bit more. Not sure I read it correctly.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 20, 2022 09:25 AM (2NHgQ)

Cannot find any reference except Mlii mentioning she had read it in the memorial thread, but I cannot find Redc1c4 mentioned there. Still looking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2022 09:31 AM (dNqv+)

389 When you have just one, and you need him to care for you in your old age, you're a lot less tolerant. There are serious social problems in Red China that war will exacerbate unless it goes well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

That also cuts another way: there are 30 - 40 million more men than women in China due to the one child policy. What is the quickest way to get rid of a lot of single men, particularly angry single men in dead end jobs who can't find a wife? Not saying the parents wouldn't be angry, but it's not like the ChiComs care if a lot of useless elderly people who can no longer work starve to death.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 20, 2022 09:31 AM (GZ/yK)

390 300 on days like today, I wander by Daily Kos just to see the handwringing and shrieking, it makes me smile. BUT I was a bit surprised when I just looked, and I suspect that what I saw is an insight into the mindset of the Left in general right now. There were a couple articles calling Manchin and Sinema traitors, but almost everything else was simple denial of everything that is happening right now, combined with completely batshit "stories" about things that never happened. We like to say they're insane, but they look like they've made the jump into a complete fantasy world that has no rational link to the world we live in anymore.

reminds me of the old greek saying, those whom the gods would destroy, they first make insane.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:11 AM (evAgx)
Their Potemkin Village is YUGE. And getting yuger. Long term ,WTP can be thankful for that.

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 20, 2022 09:32 AM (FCPbW)

391 This is too much. Tami, OM, possibly red14c.. .
Posted by: Lizzy

I hope that is an error

I am also officially worried about Clyde Shelton
I think he hasn't posted since that night from the ER when he said he had Bell's Palsy and they were keeping him overnight for observation

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 09:32 AM (lCui1)

392 383 The next time Europe desports with total war, we should leave them to it, as we should have the first time, in 1917.
----------------
This. If we had stayed out of it there would never have been a WWII. Fuck Woody Wilson.

Posted by: Puddin Head at January 20, 2022 09:32 AM (4vi12)

393 290 Would the tranny swimmer even make a final at a power 5 college swim meet? Ivy league isn't really top notch is it?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 20, 2022 09:09 AM (HaPdD)

As a dude, no. As a dude in a one-piece, sure.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 20, 2022 09:33 AM (Spr0s)

394 We have weak leadership in the Republican Party and that is a big part of the problem. Brandon is right about McCarthy. He doesn't stand for anything. His four bullet agenda he released on Twitter is laughable. He's spent more time hiding in Frank Luntz's basement, then leading. McConnell is even worse. He's not only a Swamp Creature, he has done zero legislatively and supports every single RINO in the senate.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:33 AM (VpIIl)

395 One other possibility with Schumer's vote calling... the bitter divide between the "squad" faction and the olde guard. This was his way of shutting the upstarts down for a while.

It only hurts *biden because the media really wanted it to pass as bad as the squad did. So they pile on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 20, 2022 09:34 AM (BFigT)

396 The lap dog press corps: Russia Russia Russia!

Posted by: Ziba at January 20, 2022 09:34 AM (S1hrL)

397 That OM was so well regarded across the blogosphere is a rare bit of unqualified praise for the otherwise digital wasteland. Likewise the lurker reaction as was noted yesterday.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (y7DUB)
=====================
I really hope that it is true OM's fine posts are well-regarded around the righty blogosphere. I enjoyed his topics and I always looked forward to learning something from him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 09:34 AM (E89Mr)

398 Remember that Stalin, with all of his military might in 1945, was still only able to take those places over because the Nazi's had spent the previous 4 or 5 years executing everyone who was willing to fight.

Excellent point, Tom Servo.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 20, 2022 09:34 AM (2graF)

399 Oh dear, vmom!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 20, 2022 09:34 AM (URNdm)

400 Is it not enough that the promise was made by another administration without the voice of approval from the people's house?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)
===

This is a good point, but not relevant to the geopolitics. That proverbial ship has sailed my friend.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 09:35 AM (EZebt)

401 Posted by: redridinghood at January 20, 2022 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

Wow, Biden is so bad at his job (forseen) that the corporate media feels compelled to point it out (unforseen). Maybe they feel this is an opportunity to show they are 'unbiased' by throwing a few kicks into the body of the dead horse after it's already thoroughly beaten.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 20, 2022 09:35 AM (fs1hN)

402 I am also officially worried about Clyde Shelton
I think he hasn't posted since that night from the ER when he said he had Bell's Palsy and they were keeping him overnight for observation
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 09:32 AM (lCui1)

I saw a follow up post where he was back home and said he was doing much better. talked about how he was in a room with an elderly stroke victim, and resolved to do much more to make sure that wasn't him some day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:35 AM (evAgx)

403 That also cuts another way: there are 30 - 40 million more men than women in China due to the one child policy. What is the quickest way to get rid of a lot of single men, particularly angry single men in dead end jobs who can't find a wife? Not saying the parents wouldn't be angry, but it's not like the ChiComs care if a lot of useless elderly people who can no longer work starve to death.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 20, 2022 09:31 AM (GZ/yK)
++++
It does, and war is the usual answer. That would make more sense in the 90s than now. China still has a baby bust following the end of the one-child policy, but the sex ratio has been recovering since well before it ended formally in 2016. A lot of those surplus men are in their 30s and 40s now, and men that old don't usually make wonderful soldiers for frontline battle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 20, 2022 09:35 AM (DU+/6)

404 Arty construction up

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 09:35 AM (E89Mr)

405 400 Is it not enough that the promise was made by another administration without the voice of approval from the people's house?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)
===

This is a good point, but not relevant to the geopolitics. That proverbial ship has sailed my friend.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 20, 2022 09:35 AM (EZebt)

=========

Treaties (approved by the Senate, not the people's house) > administrative promises

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 20, 2022 09:37 AM (LvTSG)

406 Ha, ha. AP or CP chyron about last night's Dem loss... "Push to advance voting bill collapses as 2 Democrats side with Republicans against changing Senate rules."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 20, 2022 09:37 AM (UHVv4)

407 I won't vouch for Brandon. I will vouch for our military. A ground war in Europe is what our military trained for years to execute. Our armored divisions and tactics have been refined for years. Russia has a decided advantage on the ground if they can actually field all their armor. But we have a lot more means of defeating that armor now.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 20, 2022 09:37 AM (VpIIl)

408 Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2022 09:28 AM (jTmQV)
I'm not in favor of shedding one ounce of American blood for the Ukraine. They worked with that drool bib wearing, pants shitting retard to subvert the US and enrich themselves. They can stew in their own sauce.

And Preznit Retard flat out stated that Russia is militarily superior in the region and our strategy is really severe sanctions. And that our reaction would depend on the amount of incursion (the just the tip strategy).

We're not gonna fight.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 20, 2022 09:38 AM (O8FsO)

409 Sobering VDH piece in AmGreatness link above.

Posted by: Ziba at January 20, 2022 09:38 AM (S1hrL)

410 I saw a good analysis (might have been at RCP) that broker races down and held that, because of successful redistricting by some dem states, "safe seats", and the GOP having done pretty well in Congressional races in 2020, the best outcome they can hope for is a plus 35. Still, that would give them almost a 250 - 185 majority in the next Congress.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (evAgx)
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My gut says that 35 is too low for a real red "wave". I doubt that Bannon's overly optimistic +100 seats is truly possible, but the thing with gerrymanders is that they work on the margins, but not really in a wave election. Deep blue districts will stay blue, but even D+7 seats could flip in a wave.

We're going to have another year of high inflation and economic damage. Biden can't change that without gutting all of his policies, and he's not going to do that. A wave of very angry voters to the polls is possible, with many motivated simply to vote out the party in power. I could see a 50+ seat pickup by the GOP in such a scenario.

Posted by: Revenant at January 20, 2022 09:41 AM (NJXJJ)

411 We should tend to our own border before taking care of Ukraine's garden.

Posted by: Ziba at January 20, 2022 09:43 AM (S1hrL)

412 I saw a follow up post where he was back home and said he was doing much better. talked about how he was in a room with an elderly stroke victim, and resolved to do much more to make sure that wasn't him some day.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Thank you Tom!
I am much relieved.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2022 09:49 AM (lCui1)

413 Just read the Zimmerman link:
Damn Robert! You been asleep for the last 20 years?

Fuck me, but you are naive.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 20, 2022 09:59 AM (eJn7u)

414 I saw a good analysis (might have been at RCP) that broker races down and held that, because of successful redistricting by some dem states, "safe seats", and the GOP having done pretty well in Congressional races in 2020, the best outcome they can hope for is a plus 35. Still, that would give them almost a 250 - 185 majority in the next Congress.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2022 09:27 AM (evAgx)
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You might be referring to Sean Trende's article from a few days ago. He is always worth reading, btw.

https://tinyurl.com/22vpn4j7

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 20, 2022 10:01 AM (E89Mr)

415 but the sex ratio has been recovering since well before it ended formally in 2016.
Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I did not know that - that's why I love this place, I learn things all the time!! Well, fingers crossed for poor Taiwan. America has become a terrible friend and a toothless enemy.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at January 20, 2022 10:14 AM (GZ/yK)

416 "28 Dims not running for reelection..."

Rats leaving a sinking ship.

This may be a plan...get Republicans back into leadership to take blame for the impending collapse.

Then liberals will sadly wag their heads, cluck their forked tongues and wipe imaginary tears off their facelifts.

"Seeeee...we *told* you this would happen..."(sob).

Posted by: Ju at January 20, 2022 10:15 AM (aTmM/)

417 Does anyone know if American Thinker has a comment section or how to get into it?

Posted by: pj at January 20, 2022 10:36 AM (G1dq6)

418 Minor Incursion = "Just the Tip" ??

Posted by: deadrody at January 20, 2022 10:38 AM (/jrmI)

419 'Minor incursion'?

The senator's niece tells her girlfriend that, yes, Biden assaulted her on stage, but the Entire Official Washington Swamp is deeply invested in pretending otherwise. It's 'The Emperor's New Speedo'. They've been protecting Joe--and many others--for so damn long, they've forgotten that its even wrong.

This only proves the point.

A man who can't restrain himself from groping a child on stage at a public event has ZERO chance of resisting professional honeypot scenarios set up by our adversaries.

When Biden says he's kidding, believe him.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 20, 2022 11:15 AM (Ndje9)

420
Every time Biden opens his mouth, it's an international incident.

When the administration is sending out Kamala to try to fix what Biden did yesterday, you know their desperate. Watching her try to justify Biden's '22 election illegitimacy this morning was like a verbal interpretation of a person falling down the stairs.

Posted by: portlandon at January 20, 2022 11:26 AM (+oR7L)

421 Ukraine.
1. Russia invades and Joe will do something about those racist White Supremacist's, Homophobic, Islamophobes Trump supporters.
2. Russia invades and a news blackout and a lid will be called.

Posted by: obsidian at January 20, 2022 11:57 AM (fIMO7)

422 May I say, that although it takes me a while to read through 'The Morning Report', it is the best news aggregate ever. Thank you J.J. Sefton.

Posted by: Tim from Nashua at January 20, 2022 01:27 PM (fUm2i)

423 re Biden's Ukraine statement;

Does anyone else remember the Democrats blaming Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Ambassador April Glaspie's tacit approval to Sadaam's invasion?

Posted by: timactual at January 20, 2022 01:42 PM (+oSfl)

424 422 May I say, that although it takes me a while to read through 'The Morning Report', it is the best news aggregate ever. Thank you J.J. Sefton.
Posted by: Tim from Nashua at January 20, 2022 01:27 PM (fUm2i)

Cheers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 20, 2022 02:27 PM (s2VJv)

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