The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 1/31/22

Good morning, kids. Last day of January (already?) and, once again we have a link-apalooza to begin the week so let's dive right in. Top of the heap for me is the situation to the north of us in Canada. The most shocking things over these past "two weeks" - now almost in its 100th week in real time - are how what we thought were the freest societies on earth, places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are rapidly transforming into dystopian police states. While things are bad enough here in the nation formerly known as the United States of America, we're not quite at the level those places are. Yet.

The other shocking thing is how so many millions of people in those nations and the rest of the so-called free world, having known nothing but life in a free society, were not only so easily duped into surrendering their freedoms on the pretext of safety and security, but how many have gone out of their minds in using this situation to claim absolute moral authority over anyone who openly stated they smell a rat (or pangolin as the case may be), and act as de-facto Stasi/Gestapo agents in silencing them. That said, the trucker convoy up in the great white north gives reason to hope that all is not lost.

It’s hard to overstate the import of the Freedom Convoy that on Saturday arrived at Canada’s capital city, Ottawa.
After six days spent crossing Canada, a convoy that began as a protest against mandatory vaccination for truckers who travel to the United States was expected to arrive in Ottawa late Saturday afternoon, with its members and supporters airing a wide array of grievances.
The loosely organized “Freedom Rally” or “Freedom Convoy” of trucks and private vehicles had set off from British Columbia, and ebbed and flowed in size on the way to the capital, where the police braced for an unpredictable weekend of protests. In recent days, the convoy was joined by other, smaller groups from south and east of Ottawa as well as the national capital region itself.
The movement has attracted people opposed to all pandemic restrictions, others who want Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down and some who simply dislike government.
On Friday, Chief Peter Sloly of the Ottawa Police Service declined to say how many protesters the force expected to converge on Parliament Hill. His department said that they were coming to the capital in eight different streams.
“The demonstrations this weekend will be unique, fluid, risky and significant,” he said at a news conference. . .
. . . Everyone who no longer wants to sacrifice individual liberties and personal choice on the altar of misguided pandemic response is a Canadian trucker now.
Except the “elites.” They are not handling the influx of regular citizens demanding their God-given rights terribly well. CBC host Nil Koksal blamed the Russians for the historic convoy while speaking with the Canadian Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino.

“I do ask that because given Canada’s support of Ukraine, in this current crisis with Russia, I don’t know if it’s far fetched to ask but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things, as this as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset.”
. . . Where is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the midst of this celebration of personal freedoms? Citing security concerns, Trudeau and his family are reported to have left Ottawa for a secret location. Of course, the rally has turned out to be peaceful.

Yeah, it's a Russian plot. Pfft. Given who Trudeau and the media are, it's actually a communist plot. The thing is, what the truckers up in Canada are doing is dangerous, yet absolutely necessary. As we all know, the only people who participate in mass protests are in the main the bought-and-paid for professional agitators and thugs of the Left. Ordinary people are too busy being engaged in trivial bullshit, like work, raising families and paying taxes. But what happens when you wreck an economy, destroy national security and turn society on its head? Suddenly, these very same people who want nothing more than to be left alone to work, raise a family and build a legacy no longer have the ability to do so thanks to the insane policies that have wrecked the economy, national security, personal safety and turned society upside down.

When you take that away, then all bets are off. You better believe that the fiends in the Klain Kalorama Komintern are shitting a brick watching what these truckers are doing in Canada. If the vast majority of Americans decide to do the Atlas shoulder shrug, oh boy. But just like the assholes down here in the lower 48, what did Trudeau do in reaction to this? Poured gasoline on the fire.

On Sunday morning, the day after the massive Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa, Canada, to protest vaccine mandates that would force unvaccinated Canadian truckers crossing into the United States to quarantine once they’ve returned home, the CBC reported that the Transport Minister for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government stated that there was “working being done” to implement interprovincial vaccine mandates for truckers.
Meanwhile, while the truckers arrived in Ottawa, Trudeau and his family reportedly fled their home and moved to an undisclosed location in the city.
Asked about claims that his vaccine mandates were causing supply chain disruptions, Trudeau stated, “I regret that the Conservative party and conservative politicians are fearmongering to Canadians about the supply chain, but the reality is that vaccination is how we’re going to get through this,” The Guardian reported. . .
. . . Jay Hill, a former Conservative member of Canada’s parliament, stated of the Freedom Convoy:
"This thing has really taken on a life of its own. The vast majority of the people that have either come on board to participate in the truck convoy or those donating to support it financially have just reached a point of frustration and exasperation with these lockdowns and continuation of restrictions that they want someone to speak up and say 'enough' to the federal government."

I don't know what the equivalent of the FBI and DOJ are in Canada, but you better believe they are already cooking up some sort of Reichstag Fire plot. A sane response right now would be for the Trudeau government to admit defeat, walk back these insane mandates and let life go back to normal. Of course, that is not going to happen. It would be a political disaster not just for Trudeau but for his entire party that could put them in the political wilderness for a generation. While Justin Trudeau may or may not be the actual bastard child of Fidel Castro, his mindset and political pedigree are a figurative genetic match for the mass murdering Minnesota Twin washout. He's part of the globalist cabal that is hell bent now on, for lack of a more delicate, not so "hairshirt" sounding way to put it, essentially enslaving the world, with the Chi-Coms at the top of the heap.

So now, having failed at a total embargo of the story, the media is now in full demonization, Putin-ification of the truckers and all who support them. I surely hope they keep the pressure on and not back down. Trudeau's move to now demand vaccination for truckers driving within the provinces is not exactly helpful. I hope this kind of sentiment spreads down here.

Perhaps it will. Dangerous times. But there's no going back now.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Millennials look for meaningful existence in false gods of social justice, unable to find it where they should, in church, in tradition, in humanitas, in country."
The Road to Vengeance
"If conservatives adopted this man's analysis of the fight against communism, we'd be halfway to solving all our problems."
The Most Impressive Communist-Crusher You've Never Heard Of
"I hate to be cynical, but considering how leftist government officials have proven themselves unwilling to give up their [Chinese] COVID-era control over people, it seems likely that 'life will find a way' for them to continue indulging their lust for power. In South Carolina, a duck killed by a hunter reportedly 'had a contagious and dangerous bird flu that has not been detected in the wild in the U.S. in five years,' according to a report from the Associated Press.
Is This the Next Pandemic That Will Keep Us Masked and Shut Down After Chinese COVID?
"Here's the headline: Governments are repurposing the technologies -- especially mobile technology -- that had so much potential to make us more free and, instead, are using them to enslave us."
Beijing Winter Olympics -- Preview of the World After Chinese COVID
"Is a postmodern embarrassment about discussing spiritual matters keeping us stupid and putting us in danger?"
Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about G-d?

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

Fuck you, you fey fraud. May G-d strike you down.
Abject Piece-of-Shit Traitor Lindsay Graham: Trump's Pardon Offer to January 6 Rioters "Inappropriate ' -- "I Hope They Go to Jail"
"If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly, and if it requires pardons we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly."
Trump Vows To Pardon Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters if Re-Elected
"The subpoenas went out to the secretaries and chairpeople of each group that met and attempted to submit alternative Electoral College certificates that weren't certified by state officials in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin."
House Jan. 6 Inquisition Issues Subpoenas Over Alternate 2020 Electors
"Our rulers stoke a civil conflict because they want to win it."
A House Aggrieved Cannot Stand
"Poland successfully, nonviolently defeated Marxism, and is a model for defeating Marxism in America today."
Defeating American Marxism
"When a court declares by fiat that half of the electorate is imagining things, it undermines the very idea of government of the people, by the people and for the people."
The Mysterious Case of the Absence of Evidence
The Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish organization that is now headed by Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official, has changed the definition of racism on its website to read, "The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people."
ADL, Founded To Combat Anti-Semitism, Goes Woke, Changes Definition Of Racism
Victor Davis Hanson: "America is battling an epidemic far worse than the Omicron plague."
Joe Biden and the Uses of Nihilism
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS
FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Data compiled by the Office of National Statistics in Great Britain shows that giving young children the [Chinese] COVID shots, especially those aged from 10 to 14, makes their mortality 10 to 52 times higher, depending on the number of shots received. The graph . . . illustrates this starkly. If a child gets one shot, the mortality goes up about ten times. If a child gets two shots, it increases the mortality another five-fold, or about fifty times greater than for children who get no shots at all."
Data: Chinese COVID Shots Are Killing Little Kids
"A U.S. National Institutes of Health study found that [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccines lengthened women's menstrual cycles."
U.S. Government Study Admits Chinese COVID Vaccine Lengthens Menstrual Cycles
However, when it comes to the question of the variant being "more dangerous," Gottlieb says that it "doesn't appear to be the case," that data out of Sweden and the U.K. seem to show that it isn't "any more severe," and it's "not causing more severe illness than what we've seen previously."
Former FDA Head: Immunity From Omicron Likely "Protective Against" New Variant; "Doesn't Appear to Be" More Virulent
"An email was sent out on Friday, Jan. 28 from Deeanne King, Chief Human Resources Director (who lists her pronouns in her email signature), announcing the new company-wide mandate for forced vaccination."
Whistleblower at T-Mobile Releases Internal Emails: Get Jabbed or Get Lost!
"Yet brainlessly the corporate stooges at United slog on. It is as if their brains shut down in March 2020 and they can no longer think rationally about anything related to [Chinese] COVID. All they can say is, 'It is the rule! You must comply!'"
Today's Blacklisted American: United Suspends Pilot and Prohibits Her From Getting Another Job for Refusing Chinese COVID Shot
Addressed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the opinion notes that while "Virginia's public institutions of higher education are public corporations" and "are afforded separate corporate status," they ultimately "remain under control of the General Assembly and may only exercise such powers as the General Assembly has expressly conferred or necessarily implied."
This Virginia AG Legal Opinion Shreds University Chinese COVID Jab Mandates
"How Bureaucrats Used Fear to Push Subversive and Deadly [Chinese] COVID Policies."
Scaring Us to Death: Review of Dr. Scott Atlas' A Plague Upon Our House
"The last two years will reveal our expert class to be anything but objective, honest, and competent."
A Public Health Reckoning Is Coming
"But what did Kennedy actually say that was so offensive?"
RFK, Jr. -- Crackpot or Cassandra?

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"Meanwhile, while the truckers arrived in Ottawa, Trudeau and his family reportedly fled their home and moved to an undisclosed location in the city."
Trudeau Gov't Plans To Hit Truckers Again, Implement Interprovincial Vaccine Mandates: Report
" . . . Except the elites, who are blaming the Freedom Convoy on the Russians. Because of course."
We Are All Canadian Truckers Now
"The anti-mandate 'Freedom Convoy,' made up of tens of thousands of Canadian truckers, entered Ottawa Saturday, prompting the officials' decision, according to Newsmax."
Justin Trudeau, Family Moved to Secret Location During Anti-Mandate Protests
"The protest has now entered its second day in Canada's capital, with many of the protesters continuing to demonstrate against vaccine mandates and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau."
Ottawa Police Devoting "Significant" Resources To Clearing Out Protesters on Second Day of "Freedom Convoy" Demonstration
"Fringe minority . . . is actually the government."
Elon Musk Mocks Trudeau After Massive Trucker Rally
". . . Canadians have grown increasingly restive. Polling indicates widespread support for strict [Chinese] Covid measures, but when you talk to actual Canadians -- not activists, but regular people, they're fed-up."
Mad as Hell, Not Gonna Take It Anymore
"After more than a year of frenzied injectioneering, Israel's numbers are worse than ever. Not only have the vaccines not conquered Covid, but they have also made the situation worse."
Israel: A Profile in Vaccine Failure and a Warning to the World
"During a meeting with a Catholic fact checking group, the Pope said that people who push corona jab disinformation are violating the human rights of others."
The Pope is Being an Idiot Again
"The media like to say that '[Chinese] COVID has struck minorities harder than other races.' There's just so much wrong with this."
The Unbearable Racism of Chinese COVID
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"We are not safe anymore, not even the members of the service. I know you were tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new DA."
Widow of Slain NYPD Officer Jason Rivera Calls Out Progressive DA Alvin Bragg in Moving Eulogy
"Progressives' paradise is paradise no more."
Chaos and Crime Are Not Homeless
"If ever there were a face of innocence to haunt us as a victim of unthinkably cruel violence, it would be the beautiful and sweet visage of Melissa Ortega."
Beautiful 8-Year-Old Girl Brought to US to Escape Cartels Shot Dead by Gangbanger on Probation for 3 Carjackings in Chicago
"Manhattan has fared worse. The data aren't as current, but as of 2021's second quarter, the borough was missing 28 percent of its retail jobs, while the city was missing 17 percent. This is a dizzying turnaround. When Rite Aid opened this location nearly 25 years ago, it correctly bet on the future of Midtown West and Hell's Kitchen. It was the anchor store of a new apartment building, replacing a parking lot in an iffy neighborhood. Until 2020, the area thrived. The company is betting now that the future will be dimmer. And no, the culprit isn't online shopping." 
Shoplifting Kills a Rite-Aid -- And Maybe Manhattan's Comeback Chances
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Gwinnett County Public School's apparent attempt to hide their left-wing agenda from public view comes after State Rep. Brad Thomas introduced a bill that would ban critical race theory in public schools."
Georgia School District Published Plans to Teach Crackpot Disg-Race Theory, Then Hid Them
"Institutions of higher learning are becoming . . . institutions. Places where crazy people are housed. Only instead of being safely tucked away under lock and key and treated, they're tenured, tartan covered cranks."
Institutional In The Ivory Tower
"These pointless changes to the SAT will let schools off the hook, and allow College Board to make money and virtue signal at the same time."
Dumbing Down the SAT Perfectly Sums Up the State of American Education
"Christopher Flanigan was fired from his position at Coney Island Prep after posting an Instagram story Saturday that appeared to encourage violence against police mourning the murder of detective Jason Rivera.
NYC Math Teacher Loses Job Over Cops "Reciprocity"
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"It's only going to get worse when the Biden [junta] repeals the Title 42 public health rule that allows us to deport at least some of the illegal aliens. When that happens, the number of border apprehensions (and releases) is only going to go higher."
Border Patrol Agents in "Heated" Exchange With Leadership While Mayorkas Watches
"No vaccine or TSA photo ID required for illegal immigrants."
Biden's Illegal Immigration Pandemic
Miranda Devine: "Normal patriotic Americans are incandescent with rage about this betrayal by the federal government and yet their Republican representatives are all talk, no action." (same as it ever was, Ms. Devine - jjs)
GOP Can't Complain About Biden's Migrants When They're Not Stepping In
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
The law was passed before the global pandemic, but McLinko said he knew it would cause problems. "As soon as they passed it, pre-[Chinese] COVID, I called the [GOP] state chairman," he recounted. "I said, 'What the hell did they do?'"
Court Finds Pennsylvania Mail-In Voting Law Unconstitutional
"The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court this week to issue a final decision on whether absentee ballot drop boxes should be used in the swing state."
Swing State Courts Strengthen Election Integrity in Major Rulings Ahead of 2022 Midterms
"The problem is not 'mass voter fraud,' but a privately funded 'shadow campaign' for Joe Biden within the formal structure of the election system." (no, it's mass voter fraud - jjs)
Why The Wall Street Journal is Wrong About the 2020 Election
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism."
Daniel Greenfield: ADL Hires Director for Jewish Outreach Who Hates Jews
"The ADL has a pattern of saying that Carlson is using 'dog whistles' when he expresses political viewpoints with which they disagree."
Jewish Rabbis Castigate ADL for Smearing Fox's Soros Film as "Dangerous Anti-Semitic Dog Whistle"
"His Department of Education is opening up Title IX investigations on them for maintaining moral standards."
Biden Hassles Religious Colleges for Not Going Woke
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"The document, obtained by Breitbart News, specifically demands information on related transactions between JPMorgan Chase Bank, which the document calls 'correspondent bank,' and the Bank of China, which the document calls the 'originating or beneficiary bank.'"
US Attorney Doc: IRS Issued Grand Jury Subpoena to JPMorgan for Hunter, James Biden Bank Records In Probe into Biden Family's China Connections
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Kim Schrier accepted $33,000 from Pelosi after saying she was 'not taking' House speaker's money."
Washington Dem Breaks Campaign Promise, Takes Cash From Pelosi
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
"I can't think of a better person."
Effeminate Crooked Praline Lindsay Graham Hints at Support of Biden's Possible Supreme Court Pick
"Too often, Republicans have lacked the spine to call the Democrats out on their racialist policies. This time, Congressman Clyburn has made the job easier."
The Democrats Make Their Own Racism Explicit
"Joe Biden is a complete embarrassment and making major steps backward for our nation in hiring people based on their race and sex."
Biden's Pledge to Nominate a Black Woman for SCOTUS is Racist and Sexist
This meesekeit fraud will vote for whoever is the nominee. Unless of course the nominee is an originalist/strict constructionist.
Maine Pain Collins Sez Biden's Handling of Nominee Has Politicized SCOTUS
"Whoever 'Madame X' is, she'll vote like a white leftist, not anyone who represents black interests such as they are."
A Black Female SCOTUS Judge Won't Do a Darn Thing to Help Blacks
POLITICS
Roger Kimball: "Joe Biden came to town bearing a double-decker ice-cream smile. He likely wilI leave like Xerxes -- confused, battered, alone."
Bad Portents for Biden
"Biden couldn't quite conceal his glee about the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh."
"As the Dust Settles": Joe Biden Comes to Pittsburgh
"Democrats have claimed for years that Republicans are the primary beneficiaries of "dark money," ever since the Supreme Court decided in the Citizens United case in 2011 that the Federal Elections Commission could not censor an anti-Hillary Clinton film before an election because people organized as corporations, no less than individuals, have free speech rights."
NYT: Democrats' "Dark Money" Outspent Republicans' by 66% in 2020
"The map comes amid a battle for control of the House, with Democrats hoping to preserve their narrow advantage while Republicans target over two-dozen Democratic seats. While New York's map helps Democrats keep their majority, it could be offset by likely Republican-advantaged maps in Texas, Florida and Georgia."
New York Democrats Unveil New Congressional Map That is "Brutal" for Republicans
"One problem for [Nazi collaborator] George Soros this time: the public is on to him."
Dr. Evil Gets Out His Checkbook
"Frontrunner Fetterman slated to skip Biden event."
Biden Emerges as Dividing Line for Dems in Pennsylvania Senate Primary
"Arkansas is a very red state and it wouldn't matter if Hutchison was for or against Trump. The former president would win the state easily."
National Governor's Association Chair Asa "-Hole" Hutchison Thinks GOP Should Move On From Trump
"Gavin Wax explains that the once-popular Texas governor is losing support, and narrows down who is to blame."
Here's Why Texas Governor Greg Abbott is Tanking
"Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures are permitted to call a convention to propose amendments to the nation's founding document without the approval of Congress. Two-thirds of states (34) are required for a convention to be called, with three-fourths of states (thirty-eight) necessary for any amendment proposed to be ratified."
Nebraska Becomes 17th State to Call for Article V Convention of States
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Democrat [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's [junta] has also pushed for social media companies to take action against Rogan as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advocated for during an MSNBC appearance last week."
Spotify Takes New Action in Response to Left-Wing Outrage Over Joe Rogan: Report
"He still gets to keep his show but he's essentially agreed to dance to the leftists' tune."
Joe Rogan Promises Spotify He'll Be a Good Boy
"Suppressing negative information about a product doesn't build trust—and much of the distrust surrounding the [Chinese] COVID vaccine can be traced directly back to pro-vaccine misinformation."
The Great Censorship Boomerang
David Harsanyi: "Alleged 'misinformation' is often perfectly reasonable inquiry or theorizing. Even if it isn't, the state is not the final adjudicator of the veracity of speech. And anyway, we're free to discuss every harebrained idea we desire. Health officials and the media have done more to corrode trust in science and government during the [Chinese] COVID era than any conspiracy theorist on social media. Americans aren't sure where to turn, so they often turn to unreliable sources. As with the media, however, the best way for Murthy to fight the spread of undependable information is to rebuild the credibility of his own institution. What we say, or don't, is none of his business."
Government Has No Business Rooting Out and Flagging "Misinformation"
"Criticism poured in on Sunday for [Marc] Elias' apparent stance against the free press in the supposed name of 'democracy.'"
Democrat Lawyer Behind Russia Hoax Attacks Press Freedom After NYT Expose; Deletes Tweets
"Why should I trust you?"
Twitter Eviscerates Jack Dorsey's Track Record After He Promotes Newsletter Service
"As a literary device, repetition is used to emphasize or persuade the reader that a word or phrase is true. Dale's piece is positively brainwash-y as it seeks to program readers to recognize any wrongthink that slips past the social media censors as a LIE!"
Biased XiNN Reporter Uses the Word "Lie" 19 Times in Propaganda Piece About 2020 Election
"Is the press too biased to investigate the clan's multi-million dollar deals with China's government?"
Why Do Media Ignore Biden Family's Corruption?
"The first congressional candidate in history to be banned from virtually all social media writes a compelling tale of modern American politics."
What Laura Loomer Knows That the GOP Establishment Doesn't
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The assertion fails to distinguish the impact such legislation would have on the populations that cause most of the gun violence and the millions of gun owners who cause no harm and inflict no economic costs upon society, but who would likely comply with an insurance mandate because they tend to obey the law."
You're Just Too Good To Be True
"Schumer's $1.5 billion gun control push comes after NYPD officer Jason Rivera was shot and killed on January 21, 2022, and NYPD officer Wilbert Mora was shot and fatally wounded in the same attack. FOX News observed that the shooting suspect in the attack was 'on probation for a 2003 felony narcotics conviction in New York City.' New York has some of the most stringent gun controls in the nation, including a gun control that bars felons from possessing firearms."
Cuck Schemer Pushes $1.5 Billion for Gun Control
BIDEN-CREATED UKRAINE CRISIS
"Asked how she could make that assertion with confidence, [Deep State globalist traitor and know-nothing Victoria] Nuland replied, 'We've had extensive consultations at every level with our German allies. I'm not going to get into the specifics here today, but we will work with Germany to ensure that the pipeline does not move forward.'"
State Dept.: "If Russia Invades Ukraine, One Way or Another, Nord Stream 2 Will Not Move Forward"
"The vital question is whether the U.S. and the West is genuinely serious about preventing or countering Russian aggression."
Countering Putin
When asked about the timing of the sanctions with this bill, [known child molester Bob] Menendez stated, "Look, there are some sanctions that really could take place upfront because of what Russia has already done. Cyberattacks on Ukraine, false flag operations, the efforts to undermine the Ukrainian government internally, those are just some examples of sanctions that could take place now."
Bipartisan Bill Would Be the "Mother of All Sanctions" Against Russia
"Weak, dithering, and gullible leaders confirmed the predator's instincts."
A Leaderless West Provokes Putin
"U.S. statecraft is driven by the arrogance of power and delusions of ideological superiority, as well as by self-serving elite concerns."
Neocons, Neolibs, and NATO Inch Us Closer to War with Russia
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Chinese mothers gave birth to 10.62 million babies last year, an 11.5 per cent drop from 2020."
China's Population Growth Drops to 61-Year Low Despite Ending One-Child Rule
"Will Joe Biden's blundering get the U.S. involved in two wars against two American adversaries at the same time? It's feasible."
China's U.S. Ambassador Warns of "Military Conflict" Over Taiwan
"Two stories dominate the headlines this week in Britain and Western Europe: Will Boris Johnson survive in Downing Street and power? And will the Russians invade Ukraine? They're very different stories, but both are interwoven with the longer and ultimately larger story of the growing energy crisis in Europe and the world. It's a larger story because economic growth, living standards, and even civilization itself depend on the availability of reliable cheap energy."
European Decline '22: Gradually, Then Suddenly
Thad McCotter: "There's a reason the [junta] is silent about Cuba's dissidents."
It's Cuba Libre!, Mr. Biden
Robert Spencer: "Emboldened by Biden's weakness, Iran targets Trump and Trump-era officials."
State Department Admits Trump's Iran Envoy Facing "Serious and Credible Threats"
"The U.S. must stand firm in nuclear talks to keep the heat on Iran's leaders."
In Vienna, an Emboldened Iranian Regime Makes More Demands
"Senior Biden White House official says U.S. in 'ballpark' of possible nuclear deal with Iran."
European Negotiators: Iran Nuclear Talks Reaching "Final Stage"
"The South Korean military said the missile, fired in a steep upward trajectory, reached an apogee of 1,240 miles, flying for 30 minutes before landing in the sea, some 500 miles from the launch site in the north of North Korea."
Launching Yet Another Missile, "Whoa, Fat!" Kim Jong Un Inches Towards Ditching His Moratorium on ICBM Tests
"A scandal-plagued organization claims to be all about protecting Turkish youths in Manhattan, but it looks more like the fox guarding the henhouse."
Don't Look Now, but Turkey's Getting into New York Real Estate
"What is the Saudi Crown Prince up to?"
Saudi Journalist On Cutting Ties to the Palestinians
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "The government case against Fluke-Ekren doesn't explain how a schoolteacher from Overbrook got the idea to join ISIS and plot the mass murder of her fellow Americans. . . American intelligence and law enforcement officials don't want to do anything to give the impression that they don't accept the dogma that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. The fact that converts to Islam such as Allison Fluke-Ekren, Damon Joseph, Corey Johnson, and so many others have somehow gotten exactly the opposite idea doesn't arouse in them any curiosity."
Kansas Schoolteacher Joins ISIS, Plots Jihad Massacres in U.S., Leads All-Female Terrorist Battalion
Daniel Greenfield: "Denying Islamic terrorism is the real delusion."
France's Macron Tries to Reclassify Muslim Terrorism as Mental Illness
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
What could possibly go wrong . . .
Homeland Security: "More Than 66,000 Afghan Evacuees Have Been Resettled in Communities Across the Country"
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Navy informs Rep. Issa just three religious exemptions out of thousands approved."
Marines Reject Chinese COVID Vaccine Exemptions, Potentially Forcing Thousands Out of Service
" . . . above all, China strongly intends to be in control wherever it lands. To ignore these facts will be very foolish, and will likely allow China to control the heavens for decades, if not centuries, to come. But then, the western nations now appear more and more foolish with each passing day, far more interested in silly things -- such as the clothing that the Disney cartoon character Minnie Mouse wears or the skin color and sex of its future Supreme Court justices -- then the certain threats of domination from world powers like China."
China's Plan to Dominate Space Revealed in a New Chinese Government White Paper
"So those kinds of arguments -- I think are ridiculous. because we are stronger military because of our diversity, and because we represent all Americans, just like we defend all Americans."
Pentagon Spox Kirby: Claims About Wokeness in the Military "Ridiculous"
"A single accident reminds how incredibly treacherous life can be for an aircraft carrier pilot -- and how expensive his equipment." (tranny washouts in preggo flight suits - jjs)
The Perils and High Cost of "Routine" Carrier Flight Operations
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Hope the Democrats are proud of their bike lanes."
Pittsburgh Bridge's 2016 Infrastructure Funding Reported Diverted to Bike Lanes and Green Energy Programs
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"On Friday, Joe Biden started yelling in anger during a speech in Pennsylvania while talking about the high price of insulin."
Biden's "Anger" Over High Insulin Prices is Fake, Here's Why
"The further Marxists succeed in destroying professional standards, the more guaranteed it becomes that the meritless will rise in those professions' ranks."
Medicine: The Latest Log on the Left's Bonfire of Meritocracy
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Scientific American's broadside against E. O. Wilson fits a fashionable, science-denying trend."
The New Lysenkoism
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"A launch pace by SpaceX of one launch per week is wholly possible. For one thing, the company needs to get a lot of Starlink satellites into orbit as quickly as possible. With its development of Starship blocked by government interference, it might have decided to up the pace of launches using Falcon 9."
SpaceX Aiming to Launch 52 Times in 2022
"It could very well be that the so-called Chinese super duper hypersonic military test flights that various anonymous and public officials in the U.S. military have claimed took place in the past few years were merely these ground tests by Space Transportation, ginned up to appear more dangerous and threatening."
A Chinese Space Plane?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Again, I ask where's Jeff Gillooly when you really need him.
U-Penn Law Groups: Trans Swimmer's Success Due to "Hard Work," Not Because He's a Man
"The debate over transgender 'inclusion' in women's sports is theoretically confused and empirically flawed."
Staying in Their Lane
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: "Where, exactly, is NOW, now that a biological male is winning swim tournaments in Pennsylvania?"
Feminist Hypocrisy on Display as Feminists Ignore Transgender Athletes
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Democrats have become a parody of themselves, just making rules to make rules because it makes you feel like you're a better person."
Bill Maher: "The Party of FDR and JFK is Turning Into the Party of LOL and WTF"
"Is poor Neil helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless . . . ?"
Boomers for Censorship
"Neil Young's censorious crusade against Joe Rogan exemplifies the Left's increasing hostility to free speech."
Heart of Scold
Christian Toto: "Why won't music's biggest names take a stand for free expression?"
Rockers' Silence on SpotifyGate Speaks Volumes
"Our entire society now suffers from an unprecedented surfeit of transparently false virtue."
Dubious Progress: Human Rights and Hypocrisy
"Whatever victories wokeism may be enjoying now, they're not going to last."
Wokeism Contains the Seeds of Its Own Destruction
"Moral disagreement isn't some perverse feature of modernity. Human societies have always wrestled with different perspectives and come to different conclusions."
Why We Can't Split the Difference on Culture
HITHER & YON
"Shortly before she jumped, Kryst wrote on Instagram: 'May this day bring you rest and peace.'"
Former Miss USA Jumps To Her Death In New York City
"The licensers in Milton's time feared the bad examples that the untrained mind might derive from bad books. But they were veritable champions of a free press compared to what we have now."
Unthinking Tools of Unreason Itself
"In many ways, the rise and decline of the space program is reflective of the less self-confident society we have become."
Last Man Out: The End of Lunar Missions
"Boooger! my fellow babies . . . " RIP.
Howard Hesseman, Who Played Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, Dies at 81

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:24 AM

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1 First?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:25 AM (2JVJo)

2 Morning

Posted by: FtWorthMike at January 31, 2022 07:25 AM (EgUvv)

3 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 31, 2022 07:26 AM (Do5/p)

4 Me and you so far mp4

Posted by: FtWorthMike at January 31, 2022 07:26 AM (EgUvv)

5 Morning!

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2022 07:26 AM (yEBFM)

6 iOS had a hard time going to the comments link. Else I would be first.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:26 AM (9otr5)

7 Top 10

Posted by: IanDeal at January 31, 2022 07:27 AM (UiCgU)

8 First, indeed. Suck it, Sponge.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:29 AM (2JVJo)

9 Missed a hat trick

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 31, 2022 07:29 AM (XPz0O)

10 iOS had a hard time going to the comments link. Else I would be first.

Yeah, go blame Big Tech.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:30 AM (lD3vL)

11 Good to see that the POS school teacher and the "film-maker" in NYC got their asses handed to them for their hatred of the NYPD.

Bad, but expected, to see Graham and Hutchinson out themselves as the traitorous nickelfuckers they've always been.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:30 AM (2JVJo)

12 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 31, 2022 07:31 AM (bJLGj)

13 "This thing has really taken on a life of its own. The vast majority of the people that have either come on board to participate in the truck convoy or those donating to support it financially have just reached a point of frustration and exasperation with these lockdowns and continuation of restrictions that they want someone to speak up and say 'enough' to the federal government."

Nice, but just a little off target.

These people are themselves saying enough to the federal government. They want the government to crawl back in its box. Just like we want ours to do.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 07:31 AM (j5ceG)

14 Spotify seems to have caved in, disclaimers on the non Covid regulations.
How does it feel to suck up to Big Pharma?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at January 31, 2022 07:31 AM (XPz0O)

15 I am glad Naomi Wolf is thinking and speaking about God. Thx for the article, JJ. I read it at the FrontPage site a few days ago and appreciated it. Interesting she quoted Ephesians. However, intellectuals-both Christians and Jews -have been speaking about God for a very long time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2022 07:32 AM (jdUof)

16 I blame Tim Cook.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:32 AM (9otr5)

17 Thank you, J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 07:32 AM (3D/fK)

18 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 07:33 AM (EjmvJ)

19 Read JJS' morning editorial. Rookie mistake, but I just couldn't wait.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 07:33 AM (j5ceG)

20 Always nice when Lindsay or one of the others reminds us there is only one party and we ain't in it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 07:33 AM (QZ/dC)

21 "Shortly before she jumped, Kryst wrote on Instagram: 'May this day bring you rest and peace.'"
Former Miss USA Jumps To Her Death In New York City

Life without God. Sad.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:34 AM (lD3vL)

22 19 Read JJS' morning editorial. Rookie mistake, but I just couldn't wait.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 07:33 AM (j5ceG)

New rule: everyone must read the editorial before commenting. No exceptions.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:38 AM (s2VJv)

23 One of the articles (I believe from the London Times) I saw quoted in a post described the scene in Ottawa as "chaotic" in a very sneering tone. It was obvious that the writer thought all protests should be orderly, regulated, and best done with maximum goosestepping.

... okay, I might be stretching a bit on that last part, but not by much.

Posted by: pookysgirl, still battling the Kung Flu at January 31, 2022 07:38 AM (XKZwp)

24 Graham has completely forgotten about the Kavanaugh thing.

Republicans should launch a smear campaign against any nominee. Make stuff up if you have to.

It's what the Democrats would do. Heck it's what Biden would do.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:39 AM (9otr5)

25 Mornin', all! Happy Monday. *yawn*. Supposedly a nice day today before snowmageddon Tuesday night. We'll see if someone's sneeze knocks the system off course.

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at January 31, 2022 07:39 AM (ZSsrh)

26 "The anti-mandate 'Freedom Convoy,' made up of tens of thousands of Canadian truckers, entered Ottawa Saturday, prompting the officials' decision, according to Newsmax."
Justin Trudeau, Family Moved to Secret Location During Anti-Mandate Protests

Why? Unlike BLM and organizations Castraeu endorses, these protestors are fighting for their jobs, freedom and normalcy - not burning down buildings, killing cops and physically destroying livelihoods.

How do we manage to find the most insane and corrupt people to tyrannize us with relative impunity?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:39 AM (lD3vL)

27 Abject Piece-of-Shit Traitor Lindsay Graham: Trump's Pardon Offer to January 6 Rioters "Inappropriate ' -- "I Hope They Go to Jail"

--

Hey, you SC rectal aperture, having no due process or Constitutional rights afforded them, they're already in jail. And you couldn't care less. You miserable POS.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 07:39 AM (sVtYq)

28
Elias, who styles himself as a defender of democracy, but he was reportedly involved in funding Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that created the fraudulent Russia "dossier" on Trump that fueled efforts to overturn the 2016 election. He is known for attempting to overturn close elections in Democrat's favor - even claiming, in 2020, that there were faulty voting machines in a congressional race, a claim that Democrats ridiculed when made by President Donald Trump about his race.

He's also responsible for the push to disqualify Republican candidates for supporting "insurrection".

Remember: anything proposed by a Democrat that sounds insane today will be standing policy tomorrow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 31, 2022 07:39 AM (/U27+)

29 Oh, the humanity!

Less Nessman says to Johnny Fever in the WKRP Thanksgiving turkey drop clip (Howard Hesseman obit). Is that where the expression was first used? Very funny man, Mr. Hesseman, but Biden The Destructor comes for us all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 07:40 AM (j5ceG)

30 Hey Durham had Elias before a grand jury so everything is going to be fixed now.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:40 AM (9otr5)

31 This will be fine:

"Things for 2022 are interesting (and scary). Input costs for things like fertilizer, liquid nitrogen and seeds are like triple and quadruple the old prices. It will not be profitable to plant this year. Let me repeat, the economics will NOT work. Our plan, is to drop about 700 acres of corn off and convert to soybeans (they use less fertilizer, and we also have chicken manure from that operation). Guess what? We are not the only ones with those plans. Already there is a shortage of soybean seeds, so we will see how that will work out. The way I see it, there will be a major grain shortage later in the year, especially with corn. I mean, we are small with that. What about these people in the midwest who have like 10,000 acres of corn? This will not be good."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:40 AM (F4b8f)

32 I was stunned to see the drug store in NYC is at 8th and 50th - they had been making it sound like it was in an outer area of Manhatten - that's practically right on top of the private equity jungle on Madison and 57th.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 07:40 AM (QZ/dC)

33 Actual Reddit post, allegedly from someone in Ottawa:

"I can't stop crying. My wife and I have been suffering extreme anxiety and sleep deprivation as there is a giant truck blowing its horn right beside our apartment. My wife says she's going to go sleep at a male friend's house."

Pretty sure it's a joke, but it's going viral anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM (tKAZa)

34 Oh the humanity was from The Hindenburg coverage and Nessman was making a callback to it.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM (9otr5)

35 21 "Shortly before she jumped, Kryst wrote on Instagram: 'May this day bring you rest and peace.'"
Former Miss USA Jumps To Her Death In New York City

Life without God. Sad.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:34 AM (lD3vL)

The phrasing of the family's statement could have been better. "We know her impact will live on." Gevalt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM (s2VJv)

36 I liked the article from American Thinker, JJ. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2022 07:42 AM (aOIXT)

37 The Pope Is Being An Idiot Again...

Pope Idiot The First.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 31, 2022 07:42 AM (/1l9x)

38 Moronin' Hourde!

No grey boxes and links are blue
What's an old moron to do
Whine or complain or try a browser new
But the one on the phone from Apple won't do

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 31, 2022 07:43 AM (u7pQw)

39
Pope Fiction.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:43 AM (s2VJv)

40
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 31, 2022 07:43 AM (DUIap)

41 Between Goober Graham and Tim Scott, why does the South Carolina GOP exist?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 07:44 AM (y7DUB)

42 Visions of Trudeau running down a hallway, hands in the air, squealing like a nine year old girl, The trucks are coming! The trucks are coming! EEEEEEEEEEE!

Well, it makes ME feel better, anyway.

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2022 07:44 AM (yEBFM)

43 The most shocking things over these past "two weeks" - now almost in its 100th week in real time - are how what we thought were the freest societies on earth, places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are rapidly transforming into dystopian police states."

It's shouldn't have been a surprise; we've just allowed ourselves to forget the ugly side of our heritage, because it was comfortable to do so. The reason Orwell's "1984" resonated so convincingly is that there has *Always* been a strong desire for Totalitarianism hiding inside British Government, and all of its political offspring. That's why our Founders broke away and resolved to create an entirely new system, one that rejected the system they'd been living in completely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 07:45 AM (evAgx)

44 Is that where the expression was first used?

No, it's a takeoff of the "Oh, the humanity!" cry of reporter Herb Morrison's live broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster of 1937:

https://tinyurl.com/22ubx5u3

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:45 AM (2JVJo)

45 The phrasing of the family's statement could have been better. "We know her impact will live on." Gevalt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Did she make a dent?

too soon?

Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2022 07:45 AM (yEBFM)

46 The analysis includes three of the five Arabella-administered nonprofits, among them one charity, the Hopewell Fund.

Nobody pays attention to Arabella.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:46 AM (F4b8f)

47 1 of 2 MSM fighting back against the Freedom Convoy.

Nazi imagery displayed at protest against vaccine mandates and C-19 measures in Ottawa.

There were a tiny handful of signs that equated forced vaccination, lockdowns etc. TO the Nazis' methods, NOT praising the Nazis. And there was one WW2 red Nazi flag that was at Ottawa's most-expensive hotel that's used by elites so hardly likely to be a genuine trucker involved in that one.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 31, 2022 07:47 AM (UHVv4)

48 "Moral disagreement isn't some perverse feature of modernity. Human societies have always wrestled with different perspectives and come to different conclusions."
Why We Can't Split the Difference on Culture

Sort of like disputes over the Ten Commandments. The document has been around longer nearly all moral lists, yet people of good faith can't seem to outline what is considered "false witness", "murder", "honoring parents", "stealing", and "coveting".

Does the commandment against "murder" prohibit capital punishment, war and self-defense? "honoring parents" include step? parents who abandon? those who are mean? And to what extent of honoring? Blind obedience? Call them every once in a while?

So if even the most simple values that have been around for most of the span of human history, and studied by literally billions of people with good faith and intentions can't agree - what about utterly corrupt and filthy liars and perverts when allowed into the exchange?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:47 AM (lD3vL)

49 42 Visions of Trudeau running down a hallway, hands in the air, squealing like a nine year old girl, The trucks are coming! The trucks are coming! EEEEEEEEEEE!

Well, it makes ME feel better, anyway.
Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2022 07:44 AM (yEBFM)
-

I prefer visioning him like in the video clip of the last minutes in the life of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at January 31, 2022 07:47 AM (KeuO5)

50 Gee maybe if corn is not profitable to grow we can stop putting it into gasoline.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 07:48 AM (QZ/dC)

51 The phrasing of the family's statement could have been better. "We know her impact will live on." Gevalt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Did she make a dent?

too soon?
Posted by: Rosasharn at January 31, 2022 07:45 AM (yEBFM)

Never too soon, she was a lawyer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:49 AM (lD3vL)

52 Yes; I think the thing about the wife being upset by the noise and going to a male friend's house is a joke. Otherwise the wouldn't have mentioned that it was a male friend.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2022 07:49 AM (pRWa3)

53 29 Oh, the humanity!

Less Nessman says to Johnny Fever in the WKRP Thanksgiving turkey drop clip (Howard Hesseman obit). Is that where the expression was first used? Very funny man, Mr. Hesseman, but Biden The Destructor comes for us all.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 07:40 AM (j5ceG)

"Oh the Humanity!" was most famously used in the live radio report of the crash of the Hindenburg, in 1937. (that's why it was so perfect for Nessman to repeat it for crashing Turkey's.)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 07:49 AM (evAgx)

54 Apparently Joe Rogan has been crowned the most influential Right Wing Podcaster and must be stopped at all costs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 07:50 AM (ah4Vt)

55 2 0f 2 Protesters in Ottawa jumped on Tomb of Unknown Soldier and defaced statue of Terry Fox.

There was one person [skinny, young guy] who stood on it for literally just five seconds [BTW, I think a guy standing next to him, maybe on the plinth, had a Quebec flag scarf] -- there weren't dozens of people on top of it as the 'report' implies and a heading of a TV video report literally calling it "dancing" is a lie when the guy only struck a Rocky-esque pose for a few seconds. He got down quickly. I suspect after being told by genuine protester to get off of it.

And the "defacement" of the near life-sized Terry Fox statue was putting a Team Canada baseball cap on its head, a Canadian flag around its neck like a scarf/cape, and putting two Canadian flags -- one on a pole and one on a hockey stick -- through one of its arm openings as if he was carrying/waving the flags. The few seconds of video CTV/CP24 showed also showed a guy with one of the F*CK TRUDEAU flags beside the statue. I understand from leftist twatter feed of Ottawa's Liberal Party mayor that the cops stopped it quickly so that too only lasted a few minutes.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 31, 2022 07:50 AM (UHVv4)

56 The Pope Is Being An Idiot Again...

Pope Idiot The First.

More coffee.

When has Pope Fiction ever had a sane and lucid moment?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (lD3vL)

57 The phrasing of the family's statement could have been better. "We know her impact will live on." Gevalt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM (s2VJv)
-

Some words just fall flat on people.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (KeuO5)

58
"I can't stop crying. My wife and I have been suffering extreme anxiety and sleep deprivation as there is a giant truck blowing its horn right beside our apartment. My wife says she's going to go sleep at a male friend's house."

Pretty sure it's a joke, but it's going viral anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM

Was it signed by Mrs. Trudeau?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (dQvv7)

59 Starship can't launch for its orbital test flight, because the FAA won't issue a flight license. The rocket is ready. SpaceX is using the delay to work on engine production problems and to launch Starlink satellites, but federal intransigence is a serious problem. The Junta really hates Musk.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (j5ceG)

60 Good morning, Hordelings. Just stopping by to say hello and thank you for the continued prayers and support. I'll probably be mostly lurking for a while. My "new normal" begins today. Whatever that is.

Much love to the Horde for the comments last week (I did see all of them), the emails, and the texts.

Posted by: Doof at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (mZUr4)

61 Apparently Joe Rogan has been crowned the most influential Right Wing Podcaster and must be stopped at all costs.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 07:50 AM (ah4Vt)

And from what I am being lead to understand, he is not really right wing at all. More of a Libertarian?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (GPwVZ)

62 So how the fcuk do we primary Miss Lindsay?

Oh.....and g'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 07:52 AM (3D/fK)

63 I don't know what the equivalent of the FBI and DOJ are in Canada, but you better believe they are already cooking up some sort of Reichstag Fire plot.

I've read that the convoy organizers have told participants to not enter government buildings, even if invited.

They've learned from Jan 6th.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 07:52 AM (EjmvJ)

64 Doof!!!!

Please let us all know if there is anything we can do.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 07:53 AM (3D/fK)

65 So how the fcuk do we primary Miss Lindsay?

Oh.....and g'morning, all.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 07:52 AM (3D/fK)

In the old days, we could accuse him of being gay, but now a days? LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 31, 2022 07:53 AM (GPwVZ)

66 Apparently Joe Rogan has been crowned the most influential Right Wing Podcaster and must be stopped at all costs.

The barrier to entry to be considered "Right Wing" seems awfully low these days.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:53 AM (lD3vL)

67 Posted by: Doof at January 31, 2022 07:51 AM (mZUr4)

Doof, you've been in my prayers.

Good to see you, if only as a lurker.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:53 AM (2JVJo)

68 The total word count of the links seems a tad longer than War & Peace. Should be done by noon.

Posted by: Caliban at January 31, 2022 07:53 AM (HgGBT)

69 Justin is holding a "virtual" presser today despite both Houses of Parliament reopening today after their six-week ~~Christmas~~ Winter Holiday. MPs saying they will be attending ;despite' the protesters.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 31, 2022 07:54 AM (UHVv4)

70 Rogan is a libertarian. That the Venn diagrams of people like Rogan and RFK Jr are lining up with "normals" on some issues is coincidence and not a reason to celebrate on the Right or fear on the Left, but bread and circuses and all that.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 07:54 AM (QZ/dC)

71 So how the fcuk do we primary Miss Lindsay?

That's not who we are.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:54 AM (2JVJo)

72 Corn for example, typically takes about 600 pounds of fertilizer per acre, plus 50 gallons of liquid nitrogen.

Both derived from petroleum, spread on a field, used to grow corn which is heated with fossil fuels and distilled into ethanol for "green" fuel. Neglecting to mention all of the fuel burning machinery used in intermediate steps.

It would be interesting to see a calculation of the oil needed to make 1 gallon of ethanol.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:55 AM (PanGo)

73 In South Carolina, a duck killed by a hunter reportedly 'had a contagious and dangerous bird flu that has not been detected in the wild in the U.S. in five years,' according to a report from the Associated Press.

I am not a hunter. Do people routinely take in kills which do not require professional processing for flu testing?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 07:55 AM (EjmvJ)

74 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

75 And from what I am being lead to understand, he is not really right wing at all. More of a Libertarian?

I dunno, didn't think he was an amoral Communist that didn't want to pay taxes. Amoral and not wanting to pay taxes I can believe.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM (lD3vL)

76 are how what we thought were the freest societies on earth, places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are rapidly transforming into dystopian police states. While things are bad enough here in the nation formerly known as the United States of America, we're not quite at the level those places are. Yet.
++++
It's just Ingsoc by another name...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

77 Rogan is a libertarian.

That libertarians lined up behind Bernie is all you need to know about libertarians.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM (PanGo)

78
I'll throw money toward anyone willing to primary Lindsay Graham. Enough of his bullshit. I want to see his financials, too.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM (dQvv7)

79 @61

>> he is not really right wing at all. More of a Libertarian?

He's mostly a potatarian who likes Elk meat and is receptive to most left wing talking points.

He has revolted against the more insane aspects of the leftist program, but by no means is he a conservative.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 07:57 AM (ah4Vt)

80 Freedom is terrifying. Liberty is hard. People who have known only those things all their lives assume the grass must be greener under patent leather jackboots, because all those stupid old people must clearly have been exaggerating things in their silly movies. Probably because they're all racist, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 07:58 AM (6FeV1)

81 77 Rogan is a libertarian.

That libertarians lined up behind Bernie is all you need to know about libertarians.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM (PanGo)

He and Bill Maher have the most in common politically...which is why those two have managed to avoid cancellation.

Posted by: Nova local at January 31, 2022 07:58 AM (exHjb)

82 Where is higher education in the fight against dumbing down the SAT? They know fucking A well that scads of high school grads are woefully unprepared for a college curriculum even in its reduced status.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 07:58 AM (y7DUB)

83 "I'll throw money toward anyone willing to primary Lindsay Graham. Enough of his bullshit. I want to see his financials, too."

The Anyone part is what gives me pause.

That's how we got Nancy Mace instead of Joe Cunningham in the General.

And I don't trust Miss Mace any further than I can throw her.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 07:59 AM (3D/fK)

84 Asked about claims that his vaccine mandates were causing supply chain disruptions, Trudeau stated, "I regret that the Conservative party and conservative politicians are fearmongering to Canadians about the supply chain, but the reality is that vaccination is how we're going to get through this," The Guardian reported.
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Yet no answer to the question. Maybe Trudeau believes that "vaccination is how we're going to get through this." He's a fool and an idiot, so that's possible. But despite that belief of his, he didn't answer the question as to whether mandates and the subsequent reduction in force in logistics are exacerbating supply chain problems. He didn't answer that at all.

Funny how politicians do that, isn't it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

85 New rule: everyone must read the editorial before commenting. No exceptions.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:38 AM

Where is J.J., and what have you done with him?

Kidnapping him on his birthday isn't cool.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 31, 2022 07:59 AM (a3Q+t)

86 Odd... Mz. Lindsey afraid of strong, independent men who demand freedom. I sort of thought he got off on that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)

87 Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about G-d?

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Haven't we talked enough about Fauci already?

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (hHVtf)

88 The nerve of those fascist truckers!. Only the govt can shut down the economy and transportation and keep you from going to work because they are compassionate, unlike the truckers who are acting on Russia's behalf. Who we should definitely invade now.

I think this is what I am supposed to believe now.

.

Posted by: Ripley at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (MxEKc)

89 Exact lead story headline on two major local tv network websites this morning is identical (and the coordinated attacks have begun)...

"Youngkin Hustles to Push Swing State Virginia to the Right"

Posted by: Nova local at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (exHjb)

90 Doof! Nice to read you!

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (y7DUB)

91 He has revolted against the more insane aspects of the leftist program, but by no means is he a conservative.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 07:57 AM (ah4Vt)

He's basically one of the last living Liberals in public life. "Do what you gotta do to make society function and then otherwise leave me the hell alone". Not a totalitarian, not a monarchist, but also not enamored with the magical efficacy of traditional social structures.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (6FeV1)

92 Lindsay gaslighted his way to reelection in 2020, he isn't going anywhere soon.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 08:01 AM (QZ/dC)

93 "This thing has really taken on a life of its own. The vast majority of the people that have either come on board to participate in the truck convoy or those donating to support it financially have just reached a point of frustration and exasperation with these lockdowns and continuation of restrictions that they want someone to speak up and say 'enough' to the federal government."
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Ya don't say. Shocking. And they were waiting for that and once it happened, the group that was willing to (the truckers) got a lot of follow-on support. Also shocking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

94 Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM (9otr5)
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Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 07:45 AM (2JVJo)
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Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 07:49 AM (evAgx)
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Thanks all. Amazing, the knowledge (sometimes) here at the horde.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:01 AM (j5ceG)

95 Republicans should launch a smear campaign against any nominee. Make stuff up if you have to.

It's what the Democrats would do. Heck it's what Biden would do.
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 07:39 AM (9otr

In all seriousness, remember how the Kavanaugh fight played out. Fighting is necessary, but fighting *stupidly* is catastrophic. Dems got their heads handed to them because of how stupidly they played the Kavanaugh hearings, and making things up that are easily disproven is a prime example of what NEVER to do.

There ARE smart ways to oppose Biden's actions; for example, Janice Rogers Brown should be brought up instantly anytime this is discussed. Biden's ham-handed prioritizing about Race over all else should always be pointed out. Unless there is something outrageous that we can get a handle on, ignore the actual nominee - focus attacks on the source of the Evil, Joe Biden.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:01 AM (evAgx)

96 That libertarians lined up behind Bernie is all you need to know about libertarians.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:56 AM

That libertarians lack a sense of smell, or are inured to unwashed body odor?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 31, 2022 08:02 AM (a3Q+t)

97 >
I am not a hunter. Do people routinely take in kills which do not require professional processing for flu testing?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 07:55 AM (EjmvJ

The answer here in WI is no. There is a disease in our deer herd called Chronic Wasting Disease. Hunters are encouraged to bring the carcass of any deer exhibiting symptoms to the DNR for testing. Also, during gun season, the dnr deploys teams to various places where hunters gather to ask people to volunteer samples.

For ducks, I don't know what behavior would trigger taking one to the dnr. They are dirty and disgusting when healthy.

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (ikXZL)

98 Je suis Canadian Truckers

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (uXonU)

99 Meanwhile, while the truckers arrived in Ottawa, Trudeau and his family reportedly fled their home and moved to an undisclosed location in the city.
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Good. Make it clear to everyone who Trudeau is. And in response, I hope the protesters shut down Ottawa for a week. If Trudeau doesn't come out of hiding by then, they should turn south and go shut down Toronto. Ottawa is the capital city but far less important than Toronto and its immediate neighbors. Shutting down Toronto would be a catastrophe that would prevent Trudeau from hiding through it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

100 In the old days, we could accuse him of being gay, but now a days? LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 31, 2022 07:53 AM (GPwVZ)

Only ways is like in The Godfather II. Dead male prostitute, bound, gagged and bloody.

And a naked Lindsay mumbling about doing this before..but he can't remember anything.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (/1l9x)

101
Who constructed the COVID narrative? (Chris Martenson and Bret Weinstein)
https://tinyurl.com/yckvtdkv

I do not know these two guys, but interesting few minutes.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:04 AM (xKKnI)

102 "He still gets to keep his show but he's essentially agreed to dance to the leftists' tune."

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I don't claim to know much about Rogan, but know the younger set love him. Even so, if the above is true, it's deeply disturbing and saddening. He was certainly poised to illustrate the importance of free speech and build a movement supporting it and bringing to light the very anti-American dark elements trying to stop it in this country. I guess it's a bridge too far. So down we'll continue to go.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:04 AM (sVtYq)

103 Canada has its own Confederate-flag glowies.

https://tinyurl.com/3mvnhc53

BTW, he was the only one on Parliament Hill wearing a disguise; and he was told to leave by the genuine protesters.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 31, 2022 08:04 AM (UHVv4)

104 Good morning all. Does it feel like the entire planet is reaching a breaking point?

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 31, 2022 08:04 AM (nxdel)

105 >98 Je suis Canadian Truckers
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (uXonU)

You have a purty mouth.

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 31, 2022 08:05 AM (ikXZL)

106
Lindsay gaslighted his way to reelection in 2020, he isn't going anywhere soon.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 08:01 AM

Ah, the John McCain playbook.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 31, 2022 08:05 AM (dQvv7)

107 He's basically one of the last living Liberals in public life. "Do what you gotta do to make society function and then otherwise leave me the hell alone". Not a totalitarian, not a monarchist, but also not enamored with the magical efficacy of traditional social structures.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:00 AM (6FeV1)
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Yeah, essentially. He's a liberal, not a leftist. He has an open mind (sometimes too open in my opinion, but c'est la vie) and he's interested. He'll sit down with the guest and talk about whatever. It's how things used to work.

And what's so funny about Rogan is that there's no way he'd be this big if the left hadn't canceled all of his competition. Rogan's cool enough and interesting enough, I suppose, but I suspect he wouldn't have an audience bigger than all of cable news combined if he still had any competition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

108 82 Where is higher education in the fight against dumbing down the SAT? They know fucking A well that scads of high school grads are woefully unprepared for a college curriculum even in its reduced status.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 07:58 AM (y7DUB)

"Higher Education" knows that the name of the game now is to get as many butts in seats as possible, so that they can all get government student loans and that sweet, sweet cash can keep flowing in. The more unprepared they are, the longer they'll be stuck and the more they'll pay. And those who drop out - what a sweet deal that is for the schools! They get a couple of years of big payments and give back absolutely nothing in return.

For the vast majority of students, "Higher Education" has become one of the greatest scams ever concieved. Young people are absolutely right to be angry about it; but they aren't smart enough yet to have figured out just who is doing the scamming.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:06 AM (evAgx)

109 Lindsey Graham is a two-faced sodomite.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 31, 2022 08:06 AM (VRLo2)

110 I bet Justin would not have high tailed it if it was a 'Save The Gay Polar Bears Convoy'.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2022 08:06 AM (vrz2I)

111 On an equivalent BTU basis it takes between a quarter to a half gallon of oil to make a gallon of ethanol. The problem is more that it takes 3.5 gallons of water. It has never made sense to use a food crop like corn for this purpose.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 08:07 AM (QZ/dC)

112 Good morning all. Does it feel like the entire planet is reaching a breaking point?
Posted by: Jewells45

Yes.

Posted by: Infidel at January 31, 2022 08:07 AM (qpolg)

113 I thought a "Gevalt" was a type of fish??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 31, 2022 08:07 AM (UHVv4)

114 Ah, the John McCain playbook.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 31, 2022 08:05 AM (dQvv7)

Remember? Ms. Lindsey was always John McCain's mini-me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:07 AM (evAgx)

115 >110 I bet Justin would not have high tailed it if it was a 'Save The Gay Polar Bears Convoy'.
Posted by: fd at January 31, 2022 08:06 AM (vrz2I)

I eat Theals.

Posted by: Lindsey the Polar Bear at January 31, 2022 08:07 AM (ikXZL)

116 I am not a hunter. Do people routinely take in kills which do not require professional processing for flu testing?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 07:55 AM (EjmvJ)

Well, if the duck was acting weird (eg it did not quack like a duck), I can see a hunter calling up his buddy at the local college. My biology prof spread his contact info far and wide so that hunters could contact him for mountain lion sightings.

Posted by: pookysgirl, living with Clan Pestilens at January 31, 2022 08:08 AM (XKZwp)

117 so Durham has found that Horowitz was and probably still is hiding important information and cell phones from him

Posted by: REDACTED at January 31, 2022 08:08 AM (us2H3)

118 Not only will he not have the decency to meet them, Trudeau will now up the ante, as evidenced by his new edict on the addition of interprovincial vax mandates. So, where is that going to leave the truckers? The only thing left, and I hope they do it, is to quit delivering goods across all borders. Let CA go Mad Max.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

119 On an equivalent BTU basis it takes between a quarter to a half gallon of oil to make a gallon of ethanol. The problem is more that it takes 3.5 gallons of water. It has never made sense to use a food crop like corn for this purpose.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 08:07 AM (QZ/dC)
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On a straight energy basis, ethanol sucks. It takes a lot of energy to make it. Depending on process you might get 1:1 energy return, but it will often be negative (more energy in than out). Any energy policy that pursues energy sources without high multiples on an EROI (energy return on investment) basis is abject idiocy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

120 "Rogan is a libertarian. That the Venn diagrams of people like Rogan and RFK Jr are lining up with "normals" on some issues is coincidence and not a reason to celebrate on the Right or fear on the Left, but bread and circuses and all that.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem "

Local libertarian on the morning radio spend most of his political discussion decrying all the tyrannical things Dems are doing but always has to throw in something like "and you Trumpers/republicans are just as bad" but gives few examples and nothing approaching the systemic power grabs of if the left. But he must to maintain his fairness and street cred, which will keep him out of the camps for a while.

Posted by: Ripley at January 31, 2022 08:09 AM (MxEKc)

121 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

So glad London Breed made it to the sportsball game yesterday. Too bad she made it back home. What a hypocrite.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:10 AM (EZebt)

122 104 Good morning all. Does it feel like the entire planet is reaching a breaking point?
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at January 31, 2022 08:04 AM (nxdel)

This is just the beginning; things will get a lot worse before they get better. What we see is that the rot in the system has gotten so pervasive that it can't be hidden anymore, no matter how hard the ruling class tries.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:10 AM (evAgx)

123 Canada has its own Confederate-flag glowies.

https://tinyurl.com/3mvnhc53

Saw that!

Legit protesters were wearing red "CANADA FIRST" hats that looked like MAGA hats. Unfortunately, if you wear one with a hoodie over it you end up like at least one picture I saw where it looks like "ANAL FIRST", Pete Buttigeg's motto.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2022 08:10 AM (bt7vt)

124 Brave Sir Justin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled
Yes, Brave Sir Justin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave Sir Justin
Petrified of being dead
Soiled his pants then brave Sir Justin
Turned away and fled.

Posted by: ShainS -- A faculty lounge, if you can keep it. at January 31, 2022 08:10 AM (hHVtf)

125 Not only will he not have the decency to meet them, Trudeau will now up the ante, as evidenced by his new edict on the addition of interprovincial vax mandates. So, where is that going to leave the truckers? The only thing left, and I hope they do it, is to quit delivering goods across all borders. Let CA go Mad Max.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)
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We go Mad Max, too, if that happens. Canada is our largest trading partner and the amount of cross-border trade traffic is mind-boggling. If this happens, shit will go pear-shaped down here as well.

Not that they shouldn't do it. I think they should. It will just also suck for us if they do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

126 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (Adlwz)

127 As I was driving into work today, I was listening to the news. They talked about the Spotify kerfluffle. The part that almost made me drive off the road from laughter was the quote of "Prominent musician Neil Young."

I'm willing to bet if the man showed up at Spotify's HQ, someone would have said "Who let the hippie in?"

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (4olE8)

128 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

This. They must not stop. Trudeau must go.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (EZebt)

129 If we are going to have a black female progressive on the SCOTUS, I want it to be a black female progressive from MY state!

-Miss Lindsay, apparently.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (F4b8f)

130 I'm in the process of dumping T-Mobile. 17 year customer.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (vrz2I)

131 the hit ler meme strikes again

FOOTAGE FROM THE TRUDEAU BUNKER...ITS CRUMBLING
https://tinyurl.com/2aea99pa

for me, there were two played in a row,
the implication of Hillary, and Gates, et al is brazen.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (xKKnI)

132 As I was driving into work today, I was listening to the news. They talked about the Spotify kerfluffle. The part that almost made me drive off the road from laughter was the quote of "Prominent musician Neil Young."

I'm willing to bet if the man showed up at Spotify's HQ, someone would have said "Who let the hippie in?"
Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (4olE

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CBS this morning reported that others are piling on to threaten Spotify to make Rogan stop spouting dangerous COVID misinformation. I didn't watch very long so I don't know who those other musicians are. I have a very low tolerance for the CBS national feed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

133 Not that they shouldn't do it. I think they should. It will just also suck for us if they do.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (DU+/6)
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As I've said before here, sometimes pain is the only incentive people will understand. You can tell someone that the stove is hot but until they feel the intense burning pain for themselves, they won't listen.

Yeah, it sucks for the rest of us who just want to be left alone. But they won't leave us alone. So kudos to the truckers who've decided to make it hurt. Keep it up!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (YIVH2)

134 As I've said before here, sometimes pain is the only incentive people will understand. You can tell someone that the stove is hot but until they feel the intense burning pain for themselves, they won't listen.

Yeah, it sucks for the rest of us who just want to be left alone. But they won't leave us alone. So kudos to the truckers who've decided to make it hurt. Keep it up!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (YIVH2)
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Yup, concur.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

135 rumor is Trudeau is hiding in the US, which makes perfect sense

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:13 AM (xKKnI)

136 On a straight energy basis, ethanol sucks. It takes a lot of energy to make it. Depending on process you might get 1:1 energy return, but it will often be negative (more energy in than out). Any energy policy that pursues energy sources without high multiples on an EROI (energy return on investment) basis is abject idiocy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

The true reason for the ethanol mandate is quite simple, even though it is never discussed - it is the Tribute that the two major political parties have been forced to pay in order to get the official support of the farm states. That's why no politician on either side will speak out against it, even though it is financially and ecologically disastrous.

If either party comes out against it, the farm state establishments (men like Chuck Grassley) say "well we'll join the other side then". And in a country balanced on a political razor's edge, that's a risk that cannot be taken.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:13 AM (evAgx)

137 As I was driving into work today, I was listening to the news. They talked about the Spotify kerfluffle. The part that almost made me drive off the road from laughter was the quote of "Prominent musician Neil Young."

I'm willing to bet if the man showed up at Spotify's HQ, someone would have said "Who let the hippie in?"
Posted by: NR Pax

Hippie? He looks more like the angry old man who yells at clouds.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:15 AM (uXonU)

138 Lindsay gaslighted his way to reelection in 2020, he isn't going anywhere soon.

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It's more than that. Graham is despised by many people here. Thousands who don't believe in his lies.
But he has 2 elements that work in his favor. His enormous war chest come election time and our open primaries, where Democrats routinely cross over and vote for him (knowing it's highly unlikely a D will win in the state...at this time). His incumbency always gives him the upper hand when in a primary with 6 or 7 unknown small potatoes candidates. It's always the same. At best, it's a run-off if he doesn't get 50% of the primary vote...wherein he always wins because it comes down to him, or a Democrat. We're boxed in and he knows it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

139 Spotify putting a trigger warning on Rogen podcasts is hilarious. Good luck with trying to satisfy the Karen Scolds, Spotify. The howling mob will only be satisfied when you throw the corpse of Rogans show out of the window.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:15 AM (j5ceG)

140 @117

>>so Durham has found that Horowitz was and probably still is hiding important information and cell phones from him.

Well, Durham allegedly has a grand jury, there are laws against obstructing an investigation.

In the immortal words of Tuco, Indict don't talk.

I'm sure Durham will blow the cover off of this whole thing by 2035.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 08:15 AM (ah4Vt)

141 the hit ler meme strikes again

FOOTAGE FROM THE TRUDEAU BUNKER...ITS CRUMBLING
https://tinyurl.com/2aea99pa ...
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (xKKnI)
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"I'm just a blackface, groping, trustfund drama teacher with great hair" is a pretty brutal line.

This reminds me that I've never actually seen "Downfall" and I probably should.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

142 128 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

This. They must not stop. Trudeau must go.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:11 AM (EZebt)

Don't get your hopes up - it's Canada, after all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:16 AM (evAgx)

143 Any energy policy that pursues energy sources without high multiples on an EROI (energy return on investment) basis is abject idiocy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

Pooky has repeatedly tried to explain to me how ethanol is being used wrong, and I still don't get it. Something about it being an efficient energy storage device, like a battery? He's technically brain-damaged and yet so much smarter than me.

Posted by: pookysgirl can almost see the ethanol plant from her house at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (XKZwp)

144 they are trying hard to infiltrate

and they brought in snipers and all sorts of intimidating squads walking in formation now

Here is an example of probably an antifa poser

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec
Well look at that
https://tinyurl.com/2p8txsse

Completely covered and runs when filmed.
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
A provocateur, hiding his face, attempted to distort the appearance freedom movement in Ottawa, Canada. He was quickly pointed out and told to leave.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (xKKnI)

145 The true reason for the ethanol mandate is quite simple, even though it is never discussed - it is the Tribute that the two major political parties have been forced to pay in order to get the official support of the farm states. That's why no politician on either side will speak out against it, even though it is financially and ecologically disastrous.

If either party comes out against it, the farm state establishments (men like Chuck Grassley) say "well we'll join the other side then". And in a country balanced on a political razor's edge, that's a risk that cannot be taken.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:13 AM (evAgx)
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It's also because of the early important of Iowa. If the first Midwestern primary or caucus was in, say, March, then I suspect ethanol policy might never have happened.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

146 Maybe a corn crisis is what we need to break the back of the RFS.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (F4b8f)

147 rumor is Trudeau is hiding in the US, which makes perfect sense
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:13 AM (xKKnI)
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He could stay at the White House. The Junta probably would love having a non-dementia patient to bounce ideas off of.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (j5ceG)

148 Canadian Truckers and Rooftop Koreans. Heroes.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 31, 2022 08:18 AM (bAk8q)

149 Actual Reddit post, allegedly from someone in Ottawa:

"I can't stop crying. My wife and I have been suffering extreme anxiety and sleep deprivation as there is a giant truck blowing its horn right beside our apartment. My wife says she's going to go sleep at a male friend's house."

Pretty sure it's a joke, but it's going viral anyway.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 31, 2022 07:41 AM (tKAZa)

That was from Trudeau.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 08:19 AM (EjmvJ)

150 CBS this morning reported that others are piling on to threaten Spotify to make Rogan stop spouting dangerous COVID misinformation. I didn't watch very long so I don't know who those other musicians are. I have a very low tolerance for the CBS national feed.

Amusingly, it was a CBS station (WTOP) that I was listening to.

I am sure that some day, they will give a concrete example of "Misinformation" but their religion does not allow heretics to speak.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 31, 2022 08:19 AM (4olE8)

151 Pooky has repeatedly tried to explain to me how ethanol is being used wrong, and I still don't get it. Something about it being an efficient energy storage device, like a battery? He's technically brain-damaged and yet so much smarter than me.
Posted by: pookysgirl can almost see the ethanol plant from her house at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (XKZwp)
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If I understand it correctly, ethanol is energy-dense in terms of things that aren't fossil fuels, but manufacturing it is also energy-intensive. If you manufacture it from non-corn things, it can be better. Sugar beets (which they use in Brazil, IIRC) have a much better overall return than corn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

152 The problem with the Kavanaugh circus was the Godfather of It's a Tax should have been overwhelmingly rejected on conservative grounds.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 08:19 AM (y7DUB)

153 I mentioned this in the overnight thread, but missed the obvious connection. The mainstream media is pushing the following as the BIGGEST story of the weekend:

A Tennessee school board has removed Art Spiegelman's comic book memoir about his father's survival of the Holocaust, Maus, from it's 8th grade curriculum.

I realized it was used to distract from and ignore the real news. I should have seen the angle, "This is what you get the students' parents get involved in deciding school policy."

Also, "Tennessee, home of the Scopes Trial!!!!! Fundamentalist Yahoos Fascists!!!!"

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 31, 2022 08:19 AM (2RBkF)

154 A provocateur, hiding his face, attempted to distort the appearance freedom movement in Ottawa, Canada. He was quickly pointed out and told to leave.
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (xKKnI)
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Fibbies have an office in Ottawa? Or is RCMP, to their shame, devolving to FBI levels?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:20 AM (j5ceG)

155 Well, if the duck was acting weird (eg it did not quack like a duck),

*

I'm a duck hunter.

You don't take them alive. Most hunters would hear an odd quack and think "Huh, that was an odd quack" and tell a buddy at some point over a beer. Maybe.

It's a flu, so I'm assuming there is no noticeable physical changes. Did the hunter catch the virus after not being breathed on because the duck was dead after being shot and shoved in a bag for hours?

The people in charge have f*cked up their credibility so much that it's safe to assume this entire thing is a setup for the mid-terms.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 31, 2022 08:20 AM (hsOar)

156 Scanvino was posting some stuff about America and Canada, and Trump

beautiful two trucks with large American and large Canadian flag driving together. Really beautiful video.
https://tinyurl.com/yyme2k66

Trump jumped into a semi and honked its horn
https://tinyurl.com/2p8vbkn6

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:21 AM (xKKnI)

157 This reminds me that I've never actually seen "Downfall" and I probably should.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

It's not a terrible movie, but that meme has utterly ruined that one scene.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:21 AM (6FeV1)

158 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

So glad London Breed made it to the sportsball game yesterday. Too bad she made it back home. What a hypocrite.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Who names their kid that? Seriously? Sounds more like a line of winter overcoats.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:21 AM (uXonU)

159
I know you were tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new DA."

wtf?

Posted by: Gooshy at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (/hiIY)

160 Pooky has repeatedly tried to explain to me how ethanol is being used wrong, and I still don't get it.

**

The other problem is that you get about 80% of the mileage that you get from a gallon of gas. So YAY IT'S CHEAPER!!! except it isn't.

It's sort of weird how the universe has a law that governs all of that stuff.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (hsOar)

161 Gee maybe if corn is not profitable to grow we can stop putting it into gasoline.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at January 31, 2022 07:48 AM (QZ/dC)

And how many more people, worldwide, will starve in the coming months...as the WEF intends?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (EjmvJ)

162 Anybody know of states or districts where kids can be unmasked in school?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (KiBMU)

163 CBS this morning reported that others are piling on to threaten Spotify to make Rogan stop spouting dangerous COVID misinformation. I didn't watch very long so I don't know who those other musicians are. I have a very low tolerance for the CBS national feed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

Rogan responded eloquently. And it was also mentioned that this could be a stunt via Young's team for the sale of his collection again.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (xKKnI)

164 162 Anybody know of states or districts where kids can be unmasked in school?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (KiBMU)

As of today - All of VA, except 7 counties - most in NoVa, but a few down south, pending the court's decision (if it's ever made). All Catholic schools in VA.

Posted by: Nova local at January 31, 2022 08:24 AM (exHjb)

165 Actual Reddit post, allegedly from someone in Ottawa:

"I can't stop crying. My wife and I have been suffering extreme anxiety and sleep deprivation as there is a giant truck blowing its horn right beside our apartment. My wife says she's going to go sleep at a male friend's house."

Pretty sure it's a joke, but it's going viral anyway.
Posted by: Ian S.

That was from Trudeau.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:25 AM (uXonU)

166 "It's not about destroying ideas, it's about destroying the careers and power of these people."

I've said something similar to this so many times over the past 20 years I get sick of hearing myself say it.

Thanks so much for these links, JJ. I knew nothing of Olavo de Carvalho. I'm trying to locate English translations of his books.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2022 08:25 AM (H8QX8)

167 Anybody know of states or districts where kids can be unmasked in school?
Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (KiBMU)
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Clearly a racist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:25 AM (EZebt)

168 There is a big right wing protest forming with broad public support. How can we discredit it?

Have a guy show up with a Nazi flag?

Brilliant! Make sure to stand in front of the cnn camera!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:26 AM (F4b8f)

169 Anybody know of states or districts where kids can be unmasked in school?

**

Lots of areas in the south leave it up to local control. The school boards are still scared to not have the totems in a lot of places, but the options are there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 31, 2022 08:26 AM (hsOar)

170
still some tremors about food shortages

Farming Insider Warns The Coming Food Shortages Are Going To Be Far Worse Than We're Being Told
https://tinyurl.com/52y58ryc

I have no idea what is going to happen. Between the truckers (bless them) and this...

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:26 AM (xKKnI)

171 My kids district is mask free At school, although the bus company requires them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:26 AM (F4b8f)

172 "Poland successfully, nonviolently defeated Marxism, and is a model for defeating Marxism in America today."

I don't know if that will work for us. The Polish communist were one of the less tyrannical at the time and often oppressed their people at the behest of Soviets, who wanted them to crack down on Solidarity, the church, Walesa and other dissenters even harder. They didn't seem to have the ruthless blood lust for power of other communists. Lots of stories of the Soviets threatening the Polish behind closed doors with invasion if they didn't clean house. I think our current Americans leftist are much more power hungry and ruthless. Nobody is pushing them on except their own lust for power and hatred of Americans.

Posted by: Ripley at January 31, 2022 08:27 AM (MxEKc)

173 Moral disagreement isn't some perverse feature of modernity. Human societies have always wrestled with different perspectives and come to different conclusions."
Why We Can't Split the Difference on Culture

Sort of like disputes over the Ten Commandments. The document has been around longer nearly all moral lists, yet people of good faith can't seem to outline what is considered "false witness", "murder", "honoring parents", "stealing", and "coveting".

Does the commandment against "murder" prohibit capital punishment, war and self-defense? "honoring parents" include step? parents who abandon? those who are mean? And to what extent of honoring? Blind obedience? Call them every once in a while?

So if even the most simple values that have been around for most of the span of human history, and studied by literally billions of people with good faith and intentions can't agree - what about utterly corrupt and filthy liars and perverts when allowed into the exchange?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 07:47 AM (lD3vL)

I was raised to believe that the 10 commandments were equal In importance. So not committing adulterous was equal to not killing and not stealing

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 31, 2022 08:27 AM (ZpuGY)

174 Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish. It's a prime example of how he sticks his foot in his mouth and continues to give the opposition ammunition. There are people from January 6th who deserve to be in jail for vandalizing the Capital and initiating attacks on police officers. Fuck them. Rot in jail, once the legal process is done.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2022 08:27 AM (eQM2w)

175 Is funny... how would sane people do something similar to discredit a blm or antifa march? "Hey, let's sneak in and throw up a big picture of Stalin! ... well crap, looks like someone else already did!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:27 AM (6FeV1)

176
Freedom Convoy 2022
$9,121,720 raised of $10,000,000 goal

they say they could stay in Ottawa for 2-4 years
yeah, they won't let that happen, but God Speed

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:28 AM (xKKnI)

177 As of today - All of VA, except 7 counties - most in NoVa, but a few down south, pending the court's decision (if it's ever made). All Catholic schools in VA.
Posted by: Nova local at January 31, 2022 08:24 AM (exHjb)

My home county of Prince William is, of course, among those 7. Thank goodness Governor Klansman and his ilk got replaced, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 31, 2022 08:29 AM (hOUT3)

178 The other problem is that you get about 80% of the mileage that you get from a gallon of gas. So YAY IT'S CHEAPER!!! except it isn't.

Ethanol is also hydrophilic, which is real bad, particularly in high humidity environments like marine or pretty much any of the Gulf of Mexico states.

Ethanol also destroys older fuel systems as it eats away at the hoses and gaskets that were designed for gasoline.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:29 AM (lD3vL)

179 So...how about those Bungles. Are they due this year?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 31, 2022 08:29 AM (dfRN6)

180 If I understand it correctly, ethanol is energy-dense in terms of things that aren't fossil fuels, but manufacturing it is also energy-intensive. If you manufacture it from non-corn things, it can be better. Sugar beets (which they use in Brazil, IIRC) have a much better overall return than corn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

So it's conceivable that Iowa ethanol plants could switch over to sugar beets, since we can grow them here (I think). Thanks for the explanation!

Posted by: pookysgirl can almost see the ethanol plant from her house at January 31, 2022 08:29 AM (XKZwp)

181 Ethanol is also hydrophilic, which is real bad, particularly in high humidity environments like marine or pretty much any of the Gulf of Mexico states.

Ethanol also destroys older fuel systems as it eats away at the hoses and gaskets that were designed for gasoline.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:29 AM (lD3vL)
++++
Yeah, ethanol in boats and planes is bad news. It's why marine and aviation gas doesn't have ethanol in it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

182 If my kids were still school age Im pretty sure Id be in jail right now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:30 AM (EZebt)

183 Good. Make it clear to everyone who Trudeau is. And in response, I hope the protesters shut down Ottawa for a week. If Trudeau doesn't come out of hiding by then, they should turn south and go shut down Toronto. Ottawa is the capital city but far less important than Toronto and its immediate neighbors. Shutting down Toronto would be a catastrophe that would prevent Trudeau from hiding through it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

Supposedly, they have enough funding to keep it going for at least two years. It's also being reported that many stores are refusing payment from the truckers...except for fuel - which is deeply discounted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 08:30 AM (EjmvJ)

184 " Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish."

I need to read his complete statement, but I don't believe it was worded as a blanket pardon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 08:31 AM (3D/fK)

185 Biden has done a great job empowering Putin in the Ukraine Conflict.

Makes me wonder whose side he is on.

When he tells the world about the threat of Russia, while Russia itself makes no threats, Putin gains an advantage at negotiations.

Biden is creating bargaining chips for Putin as Putin just sits there and smiles. Putin makes no threats. He doesn't need to. Biden is making them for him.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 08:31 AM (LQjWA)

186 they say they could stay in Ottawa for 2-4 years
yeah, they won't let that happen, but God Speed

Where do long term protestors (who aren't the BLM / Antifa filth) go for nature's call?

There is a ceiling in how long one can hang out without the proper supporting services.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:31 AM (lD3vL)

187 first time I have seen the actual numbers

Viva Frei @thevivafrei
Quebec will present legislation to authorize a "health tax" of $100 to $800 on the unvaccinated, depending on their revenue. So nor only has Supreme Leader
@francoislegault desecrated our Constitution, he has also effectively put an end to universal healthcare in Quebec.

Will they pay those that got covid but stayed home to care for themselves? The days and weeks they took care of themselves and not relying on the hospitals?

This is all about a very failed and fragile health care system in Quebec - they are already begging foreigners to come replace the nurses and hospital staff that quit. Same as in the US, replacing those that disagree with foreigners. They have bigger hurdles in Quebec due to the language crap. I saw a chart showing the number of beds per people in Quebec has been reduced to almost nothing due to the expensive health care system. This is all about not being able to handle a crisis, or even a flu season.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (xKKnI)

188 Supposedly, they have enough funding to keep it going for at least two years. It's also being reported that many stores are refusing payment from the truckers...except for fuel - which is deeply discounted.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 08:30 AM (EjmvJ)
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If that second part is true, the government is probably sweating. If people running shops and the like are willing - even eager - to subsidize the protesters, that is an indication of level of support that is probably not very happy-making for them...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (DU+/6)

189 >>Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish. It's a prime example of how he sticks his foot in his mouth and continues to give the opposition ammunition.

Did you hear his entire statement?

Because it wasn't a blanket. And I think he has time on his side for that assertion. He'll say much dumber things between now and the 24 election.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (3QFF6)

190 "Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 08:31 AM (3D/fK)"

I watched the rally. Unless my memory is completely gone, it was way too broad. He didn't parse the pardon statement.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (eQM2w)

191 In one way, the sun makes corn grow and form sugars, those sugars can be fermented into alcohol. So, one way to look at ethanol is stored sunlight.
You can look at oil in the same way. Plants/ animals grow and make organic compounds. If conditions are right, piles of decaying plants a d animals form oil deposits.
But when your choice is using corn to make fuel, when a better alternative exists, or using corn to make food, when only substandard alternatives exist, which do you choose? Our government will choose fuel, and billions of subsidies to farmers to keep the shitty scheme running.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (F4b8f)

192 Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish. It's a prime example of how he sticks his foot in his mouth and continues to give the opposition ammunition. There are people from January 6th who deserve to be in jail for vandalizing the Capital and initiating attacks on police officers. Fuck them. Rot in jail, once the legal process is done.
Posted by: Marcus T

The ones that did that are glowing and no where near a jail cell.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:33 AM (uXonU)

193 @184

>>I need to read his complete statement, but I don't believe it was worded as a blanket pardon.

He said he would pursue justice for those held in indefinite detention with no trial, and pardon people if necessary.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 08:33 AM (ah4Vt)

194 Canadian Truckers = Gilets Jaunes with Trucks.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 08:33 AM (LQjWA)

195 174 Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2022 08:27 AM (eQM2w)

I don't believe that is what he said. As I heard it, he said they would all be "treated fairly," and if some required pardons, they would be pardoned.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2022 08:33 AM (H8QX8)

196 @thevivafrei
Quebec will present legislation to authorize a "health tax" of $100 to $800 on the unvaccinated, depending on their revenue. So nor only has Supreme Leader @francoislegault desecrated our Constitution, he has also effectively put an end to universal healthcare in Quebec. ...
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (xKKnI)
++++
Not just a vaccine tax, but a progressive vaccine tax. Someone needs to tell Quebec's marketing department that they're doing it wrong. Mixing up vaccination status, income, residency, etc. in an amalgamated punitive response is bonkers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

197 Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (3QFF6)

Your concern is:

[ _ ] Noted
[ _ ] Not noted
[ X ] Please pass the sweet and sour shrimp

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (s2VJv)

198 When he tells the world about the threat of Russia, while Russia itself makes no threats, Putin gains an advantage at negotiations.

The Anti-Americans have always done that. Within the CIA and State Department, the legions of traitors and saboteurs in their ranks always over-estimated the economic and war making potential of the former US's adversaries.

The Biden junta is doing the same thing. It is an absolute guarantee that Puddinghead's advisors are all pro-communist, pro-totalitarian, pure miseoAmerican and are just waiting for Amazon to deliver the white flags/

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (lD3vL)

199 Angry citizens surround Pfizer headquarters in Paris..

perfect.

Hundreds Gather Outside The Pfizer HQ In Paris, France, To Protest Vaccine Mandates
https://tinyurl.com/mwzvvjrf

I saw some calling for also surrounding the canadian media who are simply condemning the liberty loving peaceful protestors. Looking everywhere for dirt, albeit fake at times.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (xKKnI)

200 Rot in jail, once the legal process is done.

Uhhh. . . they are rotting jail. Without the benefit of the legal process.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (LQjWA)

201 rumor is Trudeau is hiding in the US, which makes perfect sense
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:13 AM (xKKnI)
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He could stay at the White House. The Junta probably would love having a non-dementia patient to bounce ideas off of.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:17 AM (j5ceG)

hanging in the basement together

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:35 AM (xKKnI)

202 199 Angry citizens surround Pfizer headquarters in Paris..
perfect.
Hundreds Gather Outside The Pfizer HQ In Paris, France, To Protest Vaccine Mandates
https://tinyurl.com/mwzvvjrf
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (xKKnI)

==========

This is not perfect.

Perfect is finding executive homes and protesting there. For weeks.

Loudly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:35 AM (LvTSG)

203 "He said he would pursue justice for those held in indefinite detention with no trial, and pardon people if necessary. "

A fair and speedy trial.

That does seem to go along with what I remember from my High School teachings of our justice system.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 08:35 AM (3D/fK)

204 My kids district is mask free At school, although the bus company requires them.
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Does either the school or the bus company require seat belts on the bus?

Posted by: mustbequantum at January 31, 2022 08:36 AM (MIKMs)

205 @192

>>The ones that did that are glowing and no where near a jail cell.

There were people video taped smashing the windows at the back of the Capital to gain entry, their faces clear as day, and as far as I can figure, none of them have been arrested, prosecuted or paraded before the cameras as a warning of happens to insurrectionists.

You would would think the Junta would make a big show of that but suspiciously hasn't.

It was all and Op, this is clear as day.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 08:36 AM (ah4Vt)

206 There are people from January 6th who deserve to be in jail for vandalizing the Capital and initiating attacks on police officers.

Name one. One.

Who isn't a leftist POS or bought-and-paid for glowie.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 08:36 AM (2JVJo)

207 Good to hear John James is running for Congress in Michigan's 10th district.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

208 >>Your concern is:

[ _ ] Noted
[ _ ] Not noted
[ X ] Please pass the sweet and sour shrimp

He is Trump. He will say cringey shit. No suprise at all.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (3QFF6)

209 There are people from January 6th who deserve to be in jail for vandalizing the Capital and initiating attacks on police officers. Fuck them. Rot in jail, once the legal process is done.
Posted by: Marcus T

Now tell us how you feel about the cop that murdered Ashli Babbitt in cold blood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (uXonU)

210 Pooky has repeatedly tried to explain to me how ethanol is being used wrong, and I still don't get it.
The other problem is that you get about 80% of the mileage that you get from a gallon of gas. So YAY IT'S CHEAPER!!! except it isn't.
It's sort of weird how the universe has a law that governs all of that stuff.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - N95 masks are respirators and are single use at January 31, 2022 08:22 AM (hsOar)

Yup. Think of it this way.
When you convert a molecule of ethanol to CO2 and H2O, ie. burn it,
you get much less energy(heat) than if you convert one of the molecules in gasoline.

Kinda simplified but that basically it.

BONUS! It takes more energy and money to grow and harvest and transport and convert ethanol to be usable in a car per unit "heat" released, than it does for gasoline. It's a stupid waste all along the process unless you have nothing better to use for cars, and we do.
However, it does generate a lot of graft for Our Betters. So, that's good, right?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (5NkmN)

211 207 Good to hear John James is running for Congress in Michigan's 10th district.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

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Will he win an election...ever?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (LvTSG)

212 Now. Lindsay Graham...there is someone deserving of our ire this AM.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (3QFF6)

213 hanging in the basement together
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:35 AM (xKKnI)

They have lampposts in the basement? Lah dee dah.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (6FeV1)

214 He said he would pursue justice for those held in indefinite detention with no trial, and pardon people if necessary.

So the Jan 6 political prisoners have to endure at minimum three more years of beatings and torture?

I remember when Ross Perot organized a mercenary team to go in rescue the Iranian hostages. He didn't wait until he would be president.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (lD3vL)

215 I am all about cringey shit. Moar, please!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (EZebt)

216 He is Trump. He will say cringey shit. No suprise at all.
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (3QFF6)

That "cringey shit" got him elected, twice, massively.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (H8QX8)

217 This is all about not being able to handle a crisis, or even a flu season.
Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:32 AM (xKKnI)
--
The whole idea of "the hospitals will be overwhelmed" has carried with it the stench of the failure of socialized medicine. Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.

Posted by: Revenant at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (PHukT)

218 Good to hear John James is running for Congress in Michigan's 10th district.
Posted by: redridinghood

The black racist/ white supremacist/ uncle tom/ whatever other epithet the left wants to tack on?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (F4b8f)

219 215 I am all about cringey shit. Moar, please!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (EZebt)

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You asked for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsl3IBAsEH4

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

220 There are people from January 6th who deserve to be in jail for vandalizing the Capital and initiating attacks on police officers. Fuck them. Rot in jail, once the legal process is done.
Posted by: Marcus T

I don't think they've been arrested though, since they're Feds

Posted by: TFG at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (lCui1)

221 This reminds me that I've never actually seen "Downfall" and I probably should.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

It's not a terrible movie, but that meme has utterly ruined that one scene.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:21 AM (6FeV1)

You could simply read James O'Donnell's The Bunker, which covers the same timeline.

Bruno Ganz gave a masterful performance, but yes, it's hard to get through the "Steiner" scene without laughing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (2JVJo)

222 The man has a great rally. He was otherwise completely on his game. He finally put the election fraud in context with specific examples and gets away from the "stolen election" throwaway line. He pounded on Republicans indirectly on the border and said the millions that Brandon let in would be removed. McCarthy and McConnell probably choked on their steaks. Assholes.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (eQM2w)

223 A Convoy for Freedom has gone through the Netherlands, too.

Posted by: Lola at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (xjz83)

224 Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish. It's a prime example of how he sticks his foot in his mouth and continues to give the opposition ammunition. There are people from January 6th who deserve to be in jail for vandalizing the Capital and initiating attacks on police officers. Fuck them. Rot in jail, once the legal process is done.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2022 08:27 AM (eQM2w)

Of course that is not what he said

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (GPwVZ)

225 >>>Trump's blanket pardon statement was stupid and foolish. It's a prime example of how he sticks his foot in his mouth and continues to give the opposition ammunition.
===============
Lucky for you it wasn't a blanket pardon promise, no matter what propagandists say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (j5ceG)

226 BONUS! It takes more energy and money to grow and harvest and transport and convert ethanol to be usable in a car per unit "heat" released, than it does for gasoline. It's a stupid waste all along the process unless you have nothing better to use for cars, and we do.
However, it does generate a lot of graft for Our Betters. So, that's good, right?

Severance taxes from pulling oil from the ground seems to be a better grift, and the good part is that God already did the hard work of putting Ready-To-Go energy safely below the surface.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (lD3vL)

227 221 This reminds me that I've never actually seen "Downfall" and I probably should.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

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It's one of the great WWII movies.

Told from the German perspective, I see it mostly a eulogy for a generation lost to a death cult.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

228 The whole idea of "the hospitals will be overwhelmed" has carried with it the stench of the failure of socialized medicine. Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.
Posted by: Revenant at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (PHukT)

Hospitals weren't overrun. Hospital staff was overrun. Because half of the staff either quit or were fired because of the sheer incompetence of administration.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (6FeV1)

229 @214

>>So the Jan 6 political prisoners have to endure at minimum three more years of beatings and torture?

Yes, unfortunately, they do not have the support of a political party or a political support infrastructure as say, Antifa and BLM has.

Trump is essentially a party of One.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (ah4Vt)

230 208 He is Trump. He will say cringey shit. No suprise at all.
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (3QFF6)

And in your mind, Lindsay Graham is a paragon of virtue and eloquence.

Thanks. And remember to hit the tip jars.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (s2VJv)

231 JJS' photoshop is great today! Extra primo good, sir.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (j5ceG)

232 Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.
Posted by: Revenant

It was getting pretty sporty in Dec. A big part of that is nursing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (F4b8f)

233 Freedom Convoy 2022
$9,121,720 raised of $10,000,000 goal

Sniffs the air... smells sweet, sweet grift.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (BFigT)

234 Where do long term protestors (who aren't the BLM / Antifa filth) go for nature's call?

There is a ceiling in how long one can hang out without the proper supporting services.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:31 AM (lD3vL)

I do know that those with the large semi compartments are livable. As far as the smaller trucks and farmers, not sure. They refuse to put out port a potties or w/e they are called. They are doing everything in their power to make them suffer, but if this were one of their causes they would have heaters blowing.

These people are braving the most horrible temperatures.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (xKKnI)

235 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
�
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A la Trump, Morning Joe calls the Canadian truckers a "cult":

"Where were the protests when people were required to get five vaccines to start schools? They were in the doctor's office getting vaccines ... They've become what they hated ... what they mocked ... It is a cult"

https://tinyurl.com/bdxx46hv

Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

236 Hospitals weren't overrun. Hospital staff was overrun. Because half of the staff either quit or were fired because of the sheer incompetence of administration.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (6FeV1)

===
Or forced to stay home 10 days, get paid, and I have to find someone else and pay them to do that 10 days of work.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:42 AM (EZebt)

237 Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.
Posted by: Revenant

It was getting pretty sporty in Dec. A big part of that is nursing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Pro tip: Don't fire your nursing staff during a pandemic.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:42 AM (uXonU)

238 So another false god is shown to have feet of clay and a head of shit. Big deal. Rogan was never anything but honest. He didn't sign off on what his guests said, he was simply honest that he was surprised to hear stuff he'd never heard before.

Hey, Kneel Young, instead of trying to cancel Rogan, why not appear on his podcast and spell out, specifically and not vaguely exactly what you consider to be "misinformation"? Fascist sell out.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 31, 2022 08:42 AM (rz+/y)

239 "Is a postmodern embarrassment about discussing spiritual matters keeping us stupid and putting us in danger?"

yes, next question

Posted by: Shoey77 at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (fcWVN)

240 The ones that did that are glowing and no where near a jail cell.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:33 AM (uXonU)
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Seriously. Look for many of those types at the Hoover building.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (j5ceG)

241 pay them to do that 10 days of work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 31, 2022 08:42 AM (EZebt)

... which required 12 days of training.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (6FeV1)

242 That's a great p'shop, JJ.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (sVtYq)

243 235 "Where were the protests when people were required to get five vaccines to start schools? They were in the doctor's office getting vaccines ... They've become what they hated ... what they mocked ... It is a cult"

https://tinyurl.com/bdxx46hv
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

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There's always been an uncomfortable boundary between vaccination requirements and individual liberty. I say it's only uncomfortable because most of us considered the infringement worth it to eliminate dangers from diseases like tuberculosis and such. They were always an infringement at its most basic terms.

This vaccination mandate doesn't seem to have the conviction of previous vaccination mandates for a reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (LvTSG)

244 >>And in your mind, Lindsay Graham is a paragon of virtue and eloquence.

>Thanks. And remember to hit the tip jars.

Did you take some retard pills this morning?

Graham is a fucking snake. That lying ass faggot is already out there pushing Biden's nominee and we only know her race at this point.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (3QFF6)

245 Bruno Ganz gave a masterful performance, but yes, it's hard to get through the "Steiner" scene without laughing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 08:39 AM (2JVJo)

I'm glad I saw the movie first because I thought he was fantastic. After so many parodies, I'm not sure if I could sit through it again without larfing.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 31, 2022 08:43 AM (dfRN6)

246 OK, I've wasted enough time. Got to get back to writing.

See you all when one of the pondering primates shows up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (2JVJo)

247 Where do long term protestors (who aren't the BLM / Antifa filth) go for nature's call?
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Right in front of the doors of Canadian Parliament would be a good place to start...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (YIVH2)

248 Does either the school or the bus company require seat belts on the bus?

Seat belts on high mass vehicles doesn't make sense. But I see your point that if the System requires one worthless avatar of safety, then why stop there and apply another worthless token of safety?

The main difference is that seat-belts come out of the school budget and there is less money for the usual grift and corruption (adding seatbelts means bringing in more grifters to claim part of the loot). Masks, OTOH, are a burden placed on others, so they can have their vanity and sadism without any extra costs.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (lD3vL)

249 Corn for example, typically takes about 600 pounds of fertilizer per acre, plus 50 gallons of liquid nitrogen.

Both derived from petroleum, spread on a field, used to grow corn which is heated with fossil fuels and distilled into ethanol for "green" fuel. Neglecting to mention all of the fuel burning machinery used in intermediate steps.

It would be interesting to see a calculation of the oil needed to make 1 gallon of ethanol.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 07:55 AM (PanGo)

this was covered in that zerohedge piece, the anonymous farmer explained some of the numbers, and said he is going to try to switch from corn to soybeans but the soybean seeds are being gobbled up

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (xKKnI)

250 Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.
---------------------------
Nor here [ICUs sometimes excepted] -- it's a Big Lie. Tent hospitals and the like erected were never used.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (UHVv4)

251 Right in front of the doors of Canadian Parliament would be a good place to start...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (YIVH2)

Yup. Turn your problem into a solution.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (6FeV1)

252 Read a terrifying article about a mortician who claims he's seeing a ton of "clients" who have inexplicable gunky blood clots that are causing heart attacks and strokes.

Was about fifty percent, but is now about 80% and climbing.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 31, 2022 08:46 AM (rz+/y)

253 The tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots.... and fertilized by the something else of patriots, apparently.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:46 AM (6FeV1)

254 @tomselliott
A la Trump, Morning Joe calls the Canadian truckers a "cult":
"Where were the protests when people were required to get five vaccines to start schools? They were in the doctor's office getting vaccines ... They've become what they hated ... what they mocked ... It is a cult"

https://tinyurl.com/bdxx46hv
Posted by: redridinghood at January 31, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)
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Ah, the Press. X is Y is Z and A is B is C.

"Those opposed to mandatory COVID vaccination are also therefore general-case antivaxxers. Their antivax position is counter in this case to my pro-authority position and their different position is therefore mental illness because no right-thinking person could take a position that is opposed to authority. They are therefore a cult."

To understand the existence of a world defined by absolute ideological commitment and utter absence of nuance or context, a world of pure obedience and constant conflation, a world of nearly perfect doublethink, you need only to consume American news products.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:46 AM (DU+/6)

255 South Carolina hospitals are chugging long at about 83% occupancy.

Have been for months, with occasional dips down into the high 70%'s.

https://tinyurl.com/3eny3wr5

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

256 Sniffs the air... smells sweet, sweet grift.

related: You gotta love the chutzpah of BLM
60 million in donations from corporations
nobody can say where the money is or who is in charge.

Posted by: McCool at January 31, 2022 08:48 AM (BqBIh)

257 "The whole idea of "the hospitals will be overwhelmed" has carried with it the stench of the failure of socialized medicine. Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.

Posted by: Revenant"

There a few handful of cases of hospitals that had to send patients to other hospitals. But those were played up by the media to generate more fear and panic . Nobody was denied treatment. I'd like to see some numbers on percentage ICU patients that were admitted for covid (not with covid) the past two years.

I hear there is some new variant making it's appearance. Just in time to replace the omicron. Amazing, just like clockwork.

Posted by: Ripley at January 31, 2022 08:48 AM (MxEKc)

258 Right in front of the doors of Canadian Parliament would be a good place to start...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2022 08:44 AM (YIVH2)

70% occupancy for a hospital is cause for an emergency board meeting

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:48 AM (6FeV1)

259 252 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at January 31, 2022 08:46 AM (rz+/y)

I saw Inexplicable Gunky Blood Clots open for Blood, Sweat and Tears at the Spectrum in '70.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 08:48 AM (s2VJv)

260 I applaud the Canadian truckers. Hopefully it will open people's eyes to the wanton idiocy of Trudeau and his ilk. However the truckers do not make the laws or enforce the mandates. Canada had a chance to vote Justin Castro Trudeau out and they didn't. The changes they need start with who they elect. Mr Dreamy needs to be voted out of power for change to happen.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 31, 2022 08:48 AM (2NHgQ)

261 I say it's only uncomfortable because most of us considered the infringement worth it to eliminate dangers from diseases like tuberculosis and such. They were always an infringement at its most basic terms.

Which, once again, shows that our Overlords never did have one instant of concern for the health of the Unwashed as exemplified in the over two million carriers of disease and crime that is pouring over the border just this last year alone.

They didn't care when these illegal aliens were dropping their anchor-spawn off in the government school system and sharing DM-68 to their classmates. Then the System lied about why so many kids were getting sick and in too many cases paralyzed.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:48 AM (lD3vL)

262 I know people do not like to link to twitter, but for those that will look, this is a list, so far of the hashtags of all of the trucker convoy starts across the globe as a result of Canada stepping up

Francesco Mosca @FmMosca
IMPORTANTE Hashtag
https://tinyurl.com/2p8thwcm

The list is divided by EUR/NORTH, EUR/CENTRAL, EUR/EAST

I know the US has started via FB, and I pray this all takes off.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:49 AM (xKKnI)

263 OT, but I have an appointment with his vet for Chekov. When I called, all they had was a walk-in ($90!), or a drop-off, both of which have logistical problems for me. Just now, though, they called with a cancellation, a slot at 10:30. I'll do some at-home work, then head out about 9:45.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 31, 2022 08:49 AM (c6xtn)

264 Now tell us how you feel about the cop that murdered Ashli Babbitt in cold blood.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:37 AM (uXonU)

Any GOP congress critter who hasn't spoken out about this should be primaried into oblivion.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 08:49 AM (y7DUB)

265 Don't worry, i wasn't making some unfathomably oblique snark. Just a copypasta fail.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:49 AM (6FeV1)

266

TIM HORTONS REFUSING TRUCKERS
https://tinyurl.com/49cnc8k5

bitchute

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:49 AM (xKKnI)

267 Ironically, we have a Gunky Blood Clot for a "president."

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:49 AM (sVtYq)

268 Actually aren't they explicable gunky blood clots?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2022 08:50 AM (H8QX8)

269 Graham is trying to tip the scales to the devil he knows, implying he would be a yes on the SC judge, but fight any of the others.

We all know, graham is a yes to anyone FJB nominates. It could be X Kendi or Farakkhan, and Graham would say "We need to give latitude to the presidents wished, elections have consequences, it is what the people want!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:50 AM (F4b8f)

270 I hear there is some new variant making it's appearance. Just in time to replace the omicron. Amazing, just like clockwork.
Posted by: Ripley

It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:50 AM (uXonU)

271 Remember that South Park where they had the cloud of Smug that was overwhelming places?

We have a cloud of Grift.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 08:51 AM (9otr5)

272 I'm surprised there isn't a nitter extension for most browsers that automatically replaces the Twitter url.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:51 AM (6FeV1)

273 Text looks too large, comments aren't separated with their normal formatting...

Something broken with the site formatting this morning?

Firefox 96.0.2, even restarted it completely using safe mode to turn off all add-ons in case those were interfering. No joy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 31, 2022 08:51 AM (nRMeC)

274 255 South Carolina hospitals are chugging long at about 83% occupancy.
Have been for months, with occasional dips down into the high 70%'s.
https://tinyurl.com/3eny3wr5
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 08:47 AM (3D/fK)

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I was hanging outside the classroom where Junior has his Sunday school yesterday (they're prepping for their first communion/confessions), and I was on my phone while a small group of four parents who sort of know each other were talking a few feet from me. Led by the two major Karens of the class' parents, it was just nonstop covid talk. Non-stop.

They were talking about how one of them got covid but not very sick (thank the vaccine!), how it's a massive inconvenience that they have to keep kids at home because daycares are shutting down with single positive tests, even if the kids themselves test negative. It was a fucking mania.

And I'm just standing about ten feet away, sans-mask, and not dead, while Junior is inside, sans-mask, and not dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

275

Libs of Tik Tok @libsoftiktok

The anti-freedom people who are triggered by the trucks are getting really desperate. They are putting nails on the ground in the path of the convoy
https://tinyurl.com/mr448x6y

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 08:51 AM (xKKnI)

276 Gotta say I'm really disappointed with Rogan. He caved bigly and quickly.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 08:52 AM (SvxNv)

277 A la Trump, Morning Joe calls the Canadian truckers a "cult":

"Where were the protests when people were required to get five vaccines to start schools? They were in the doctor's office getting vaccines ... They've become what they hated ... what they mocked ... It is a cult"

**

Yes. Spread this around.

Let people know that the reason the vaccine is available as a commercial product - with lots of praise and spiking of footballs, remember - but still being injected under the EUA is because they need to get it on little kids' routine vaccination schedules so that the commercial product is protected from lawsuits and damage payouts.

Because that's what's happening.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 08:52 AM (SMktP)

278 Graham is trying to tip the scales to the devil he knows, implying he would be a yes on the SC judge, but fight any of the others.

What evidence is there that this is the case? He voted for Ketanji for the DC court.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 08:52 AM (9otr5)

279 I hear there is some new variant making it's appearance. Just in time to replace the omicron. Amazing, just like clockwork.

At any given time there are literally thousands of varieties of viruses and bacteria floating around that, if taken in sufficient numbers to overcome the immune system, would be making us all sick.

There has been no year without a cold and flu season. Respiratory viruses mutate all the time and in a window of time that is long enough to get traction yet short enough that frustrates any sort of targeted vaccine development and distribution.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:52 AM (lD3vL)

280 The whole idea of "the hospitals will be overwhelmed" has carried with it the stench of the failure of socialized medicine. Hospitals were never overwhelmed in the USA.
Posted by: Revenant at January 31, 2022 08:38 AM (PHukT)
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More important, it carries with it the stench of bad assumptions. If we go back in time to February/March of 2020, the entire rationale behind "two weeks to flatten the curve" was two-fold:
1. Spread won't be stopped, but it can be slowed.
2. We need to slow the spread to avoid overwhelming hospitals, because this looks pretty damn serious and will cause a lot of hospitalization.

Almost immediately, it became clear that point #2 was not justified. It took longer for the data to put paid to assumption #1, but the real reason for everything - avoiding hospital availability problems - was clearly not a reasonable concern and this was made clear very early. The moment it became obvious that we weren't going to have a hospital capacity problem, the extreme COVID response lost all justification. This was unavoidably clear by Easter of 2020. So they moved the goalposts and made it about controlling viral spread and kept the con going.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (DU+/6)

281 279 There has been no year without a cold and flu season. Respiratory viruses mutate all the time and in a window of time that is long enough to get traction yet short enough that frustrates any sort of targeted vaccine development and distribution.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:52 AM (lD3vL)

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"For the children, we are pursuing a zero-respiratory illness goal."
-Sane people

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (LvTSG)

282 Did I hear someone crying out for blood over those turrible and obviously super-ultra-guilty hurricane-of-violent-revolutionary-anti-democracy gun-waving parliament-burning minister-hanging Jan. 6 insurrectionists?

Posted by: THE WAAAAAHMBULANCE at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (Gy6zs)

283 The issues with the blog, could they be from a Microsoft update? Both hubby NEC and I had our downloads changed from Word, Excel, pdf, etc to being labeled with our browser icons. I have a home screen rife with Vivaldi icons.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (2NHgQ)

284 Good morning. How is everyone today?

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (sg+GG)

285 It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

--

Like the 50s scifi horror movies, here comes "Son of Omicron." How about "Omicron II - Deadlier! Scarier! You Won't Believe Your Eyes! Run for Your Lives!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (sVtYq)

286 Let's Go Brandeau!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (njfCw)

287 Trump is essentially a party of One.

So, there's that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 31, 2022 08:40 AM (ah4Vt)

The GOP is embarrassed by the base. That doesn't seem to be a winning strategy.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 08:54 AM (y7DUB)

288 It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.
Posted by: rickb223

**

hahaha

I'm old enough to remember when we called those people hypochondriacs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 08:54 AM (SMktP)

289 It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:50 AM (uXonU)
++++
Double-Secret Omicron has limitless potential, since to a large degree it appears to be an article of faith.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

290 Nil Koksal is a Turkish born woman

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

291 The anti-freedom people who are triggered by the trucks are getting really desperate. They are putting nails on the ground in the path of the convoy
https://tinyurl.com/mr448x6y

Because disabling trucks on the roadway is a sure fire way to clear up congestion.

Do these mental midgets think trucks run on thin bicycle tires?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (lD3vL)

292 New rule: everyone must read the editorial before commenting. No exceptions.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

And , NO maple syrup, right ?

Posted by: JT at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (arJlL)

293 "For the children, we are pursuing a zero-respiratory illness goal."

I hate to keep beating this drum but the boomer/silent cohort is HUGE and they WILL continue to lock everyone else down as much as possible each winter to minimize their own chances of getting pneumonia from a cold.

this will continue until we make it stop, or the 15-20 years it will take for them to finally go into senescence. (hint: it won't take that long b/c society will go boom way before that)

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (j9HX3)

294 289 Double-Secret Omicron has limitless potential, since to a large degree it appears to be an article of faith.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

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No, there are limits.

Like, the number of adherents to the Covid religion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

295 >> It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

This has me laughing uncontollably.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (3QFF6)

296 295 >> It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

This has me laughing uncontollably.
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (3QFF6)

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You're typing really well for such a state. My hat is off to you, good sir.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:56 AM (LvTSG)

297 Fauxmicron

Coined it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 08:56 AM (njfCw)

298 Ukraine telling Creepy Joe to "tone down the rhetoric" is sort of amazing. "It has been the same situation for months" is another tell. The Junta, hoping to provoke war in Europe to gain some positive polling here at home, is looking dumber and dumber every day. Sadly, according to appearances, the Praetorian Guard is still on their side. When the CIA and FBI start leaking against Biden, that's when the real trouble starts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:56 AM (j5ceG)

299 Yesterday I was at a bar that was elbow to elbow. I was there for a birfday thing and apparently the sportsball games were on too. So packed.

No masks whatsoever. The general population is over Covid. The idiots still wearing masks and afraid to leave their house are Japanese soldiers on remote islands in 1947 still fighting WW2.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 08:56 AM (SvxNv)

300 285 It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

--

Like the 50s scifi horror movies, here comes "Son of Omicron." How about "Omicron II - Deadlier! Scarier! You Won't Believe Your Eyes! Run for Your Lives!"
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (sVtYq)

So, how do they know anyone has it? Just too convenient for propagating the hysteria, in my opinion.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (sg+GG)

301 Did I hear someone crying out for blood over those turrible and obviously super-ultra-guilty hurricane-of-violent-revolutionary-anti-democracy gun-waving parliament-burning minister-hanging Jan. 6 insurrectionists?
Posted by: THE WAAAAAHMBULANCE

Yet no blood for trigger happy cops.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (uXonU)

302 295 >> It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

This has me laughing uncontollably.
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (3QFF6)

You know what, I think I have Stealth Omicron! Luckily for me, there are no symptoms.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (evAgx)

303 > It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.

How do they know they have 3 cases?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (BFigT)

304 Between the dangers of Stealth Omicron and cyclone bombs, I'm just going to stay home. For life. Govt still paying to do that?

Posted by: Ripley at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (MxEKc)

305 285 It's called "Stealth Omicron". Seriously. Not shitting you. They can't find it. Can't test for it. And you don't know you have it. Three cases in Dallas so far.
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Like the 50s scifi horror movies...
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (sVtYq)

Exactly. It was always about imprisoning our lives in a sci-fi dystopia. Now it's out in the open (for those who choose to see).

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (H8QX8)

306 US Attorney Doc: IRS Issued Grand Jury Subpoena to JPMorgan for Hunter, James Biden Bank Records In Probe into Biden Family's China Connections

..probably got this by Merrick Garland when he was distraught over not getting the next SCOTUS position

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

307 298 Ukraine telling Creepy Joe to "tone down the rhetoric" is sort of amazing. "It has been the same situation for months" is another tell. The Junta, hoping to provoke war in Europe to gain some positive polling here at home, is looking dumber and dumber every day. Sadly, according to appearances, the Praetorian Guard is still on their side. When the CIA and FBI start leaking against Biden, that's when the real trouble starts.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:56 AM (j5ceG)

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So you mean the MSM lied again when it said we were about to hit WW3? Weird.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (SvxNv)

308 What evidence is there that this is the case? He voted for Ketanji for the DC court.
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 08:52 AM (9otr5)

It is a 50/50 senate. They need at least 1 gope to cross over. Lindsey has just said he is a yes to his boo. No fight. No fuss. Easy win.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (F4b8f)

309 54 Apparently Joe Rogan has been crowned the most influential Right Wing Podcaster and must be stopped at all costs.

Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders. "Right wing podcaster."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (njfCw)

310 >>So, how do they know anyone has it

That's what makes it so scary!

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (3QFF6)

311 How do they know they have 3 cases?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (BFigT)

Lab coat magic must not be questioned or rise or won't work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (6FeV1)

312 *else

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (6FeV1)

313 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

314 >>It is a 50/50 senate. They need at least 1 gope to cross over. Lindsey has just said he is a yes to his boo. No fight. No fuss. Easy win.

Susan Collins showed more balls this weekend.

Susan fucking Collins.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (3QFF6)

315 307 So you mean the MSM lied again when it said we were about to hit WW3? Weird.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (SvxNv)

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They may not be lying. It just won't be either Ukraine or Russia that makes it happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

316 The "media" has successfully convinced half the populace that we must reach a 0% level of living with all manner of viruses that affect humans. And that it's achievable...if you do as your told, wear your masks, social distance, don't breathe in air around anyone else, microwave your mail, get repeated and non-ending shots, listen to your stations for the latest survival tips...

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (sVtYq)

317 "It is a 50/50 senate. They need at least 1 gope to cross over"

Why? KumHala will break the tie.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (SvxNv)

318 Stealth fart. You can smell it, but there is no way to know who dealt it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (F4b8f)

319 It would be interesting to see a calculation of the oil needed to make 1 gallon of ethanol.

*

-I need a gallon of fuel.
-Okay, I can give you three gallons of oil-based gasoline or one gallon of corn-based gasoline that will mess up the plastic in your engine and cost just two dollars more per gallon.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (SMktP)

320 Waters: "Disrespectful, Dishonorable" to Claim Black Female SCOTUS Pick Is Affirmative Action

.. this is all the reason in the world to end Affirmative Action, end the shame

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

321 I ordered JJ's book directly from the publisher 2 weeks ago so he would get maximum $$$ per his guidance, yet it hasn't even shipped yet.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

322 I hate to keep beating this drum but the boomer/silent cohort is HUGE and they WILL continue to lock everyone else down as much as possible each winter to minimize their own chances of getting pneumonia from a cold.

this will continue until we make it stop, or the 15-20 years it will take for them to finally go into senescence. (hint: it won't take that long b/c society will go boom way before that)
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 08:55 AM (j9HX3)

I thought it was impossible to hate my generation more and then this happened.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (y7DUB)

323 Bigger the revolt, the larger wag of dog.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (acmtK)

324 Miss Lindsay has conveniently forgotten the Boofy the Budweiser Slayer confirmation hearings.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (njfCw)

325 317 "It is a 50/50 senate. They need at least 1 gope to cross over"

Why? KumHala will break the tie.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (SvxNv)

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Something about how she can't do it? I haven't read the analysis. I don't know if the Senate Parliamentarian has read it either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

326 Rogan is an entertainer/celebrity, fundamentally. There are plenty of these, on both left and right. Their primary purpose is to make money.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM (sg+GG)

327 Stealth fart. You can smell it, but there is no way to know who dealt it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (F4b8f)

Cropdusting FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

328 Lol! That ABC/Ipsos poll that says that 76% disagree with choosing SCOTUS based on race and gender.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM (Y5qcH)

329 The anti-freedom people who are triggered by the trucks are getting really desperate. They are putting nails on the ground in the path of the convoy
https://tinyurl.com/mr448x6y

Because disabling trucks on the roadway is a sure fire way to clear up congestion.

Do these mental midgets think trucks run on thin bicycle tires?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Nothing says, "I have the moral high ground", like having to sabotage the opposition.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM (uXonU)

330 Stealth Omicron > Double Secret Probation

Posted by: Dean Wormer at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM (Nv3bW)

331 They may not be lying. It just won't be either Ukraine or Russia that makes it happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

Imagine an alternate history in which Lloyd George was actually the one who shot the Archduke.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM (6FeV1)

332 How do they know they have 3 cases?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (BFigT)

They are The Science.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 09:01 AM (njfCw)

333 They were talking about how one of them got covid but not very sick (thank the vaccine!),
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

My sister and I were listing out the people we know that got covid (including myself) who survived at home, no problem. And friends, some getting high temperatures, etc, but stayed at home and took care of themselves, and all survived. We are blessed no one has died. But none were very old.

But then we listed all of those we know who had serious or fatal responses after taking the vaccine.
- 1 heart attack, but lived
- 1 Creutzfeldt-Jacob death
- 1 very young healthy relative who formed massive cysts all over her reproductive system (forced to get jabs due to work - as a NURSE)
1 - work associate took first jab, went blind (could only see light), doctor said, "it's not the jab" and told him to get the second. Like a fool he did, now dead.
1 - close relative got both jabs and then the booster, within one week of the booster, in hospital for something they cannot define. Respirator, out for a month. Just was taken off of tubes and resp and in rehab. He lived. Not covid positive.

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 09:01 AM (xKKnI)

334 Graham is going to vote for whoever Biden nominates, avoiding the specter of Kamala breaking a tie, and allowing MooKow to vote against the nominee.

Graham's a piece of shit, but he wouldn't be this public about this unless it was a deliberate strategy. Clyburn rolls out a potential SC nominee, Graham hops on board. Other GOPe get cover. Graham's on Judiciary, helps pass nominee to the floor.

Posted by: Revenant at January 31, 2022 09:01 AM (PHukT)

335 Why? KumHala will break the tie.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

She technically can't in this case. But that has never stopped a leftist before. Do it and make them sue to stop it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:01 AM (F4b8f)

336 Dean Wormer at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM

Eat me.

Posted by: Delta House at January 31, 2022 09:01 AM (Nv3bW)

337 It is a 50/50 senate. They need at least 1 gope to cross over. Lindsey has just said he is a yes to his boo. No fight. No fuss. Easy win.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 08:57 AM (F4b8f)

Not your part - I agree with you. Graham will vote for anyone that his good friend Joe Biden puts up.

I am asking what is the evidence that he is trying to steer things toward the judge from SC? He's already confirmed Ketanji for the DC court.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 09:02 AM (9otr5)

338

hi ho hi ho , it's back to work I go.
Have a good one, all.

keep looking for the positives
don't let others destroy your lives and your spirit

Posted by: artisanal ette at January 31, 2022 09:02 AM (xKKnI)

339 More important, it carries with it the stench of bad assumptions. If we go back in time to February/March of 2020, the entire rationale behind "two weeks to flatten the curve" was two-fold:

There was also the art of conflation, equivocation, innumeracy and Day Zero historical reference.

The idea that the hospitals would be overwhelmed comes from worst-case scenarios in the most congested hospitals within a Universal Care country.

Just-In-Time inventory was not unique to manufacturing and retail but MBAs apply that to hospital beds too. Keep your expensive staffing just at the level to maintain a high level of occupied beds and very few available. Available means empty with staff just standing around.

The idea is to ramp up staffing to keep up with dynamic changes in hospital usage. The demand curve in a "bad" flu season often overwhelms the supply curve of care and even in well run hospitals you get patients in the hallways receiving treatment and less experienced staff freaking out over the situation. In 2018, we had overwhelmed hospitals due to that heavy flu season.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:02 AM (lD3vL)

340 Miss Lindsay has conveniently forgotten the Boofy the Budweiser Slayer confirmation hearings.

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"I hope to G*d you people never get back in power" has now changed to "I'll support whomever Joe Biden nominates, as is his prerogative as president."

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (sVtYq)

341 so this past weekend we finally got a little bit o snooooo

which was great! we went up north and Saturday was AMAZING because not that many people "ventured out" (derp it was a few inches of snow!) and it even snowed a bit that day. Sunday was cold but bright - unfortunately already getting "east coast icy" but still great.

wtf is going on with people around here tho?!?! we should be used to snow. this year we really haven't gotten any. all the news reports and crap about "watch out! it will snooooo!" made me livid. I mean it worked out b/c the slopes were quiet but PEOPLE WTF

it's JUST FREAKING SNOW

(I excuse those of you who live in the South or whatever, but I mean here we get snow. a lot of us have ATVs. the news media panic makes NO SENSE)

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (j9HX3)

342 Leftists claimed Pence couldn't break a tie for Trump's scotus nominees. They were lying of course. Kumhala as sitting VP can break ties in the senate. Period.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (SvxNv)

343 341 it's JUST FREAKING SNOW

(I excuse those of you who live in the South or whatever, but I mean here we get snow. a lot of us have ATVs. the news media panic makes NO SENSE)
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (j9HX3)

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FEAR.

OBEY.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (LvTSG)

344 Biden's nominee will be a woman. Murkowski and Collins are going to vote yes. Graham will too, to show that he believes in Senatorial collegial comity or some other utter bullshit.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 09:04 AM (9otr5)

345 Dean Wormer at January 31, 2022 09:00 AM

Eat me.
Posted by: Delta House at January 31, 2022 09:01 AM (Nv3bW)

You can get your thumb out of my ass any time now, Carmine.

Posted by: Mrs. Dean Wormer at January 31, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

346 ===========

FEAR.

OBEY.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (LvTSG)

I seem to be out of bubble gum.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

347 Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders. "Right wing podcaster."
Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 08:58 AM (njfCw)
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Between Matt Taibi, Glenn Greenwald, Joe Rogan and (stretching here) Bill Maher, it is remarkable that ordinarily leftist voices are the ones speaking up in favor of free speech and the Bill of Rights and getting out in front of Republican politicians in this battle.

Those used-up Republican sheeples are desperate only to calibrate where maximum grift can be found, because that is their true-north. Meanwhile, actual political change is happening.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (j5ceG)

348 Seriously, at this point who even listens to anyone pitching a fit about COVID anymore? Besides the mask covidians. They're insane by the way. Don't listen to them.

It's well past the "theater of the absurd" now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (BFigT)

349 The "elites" really don't get it. Trudeau could've struck a conciliatory tone with at least a sampling of empathy. Instead? Disdain.

They deserve everything that happens to them.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (KbCG3)

350 The Dems have pix of Lindsay Graham naked with an underaged Lithuanian boy dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl carrying a Bernie sign.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (Nv3bW)

351 349 The "elites" really don't get it. Trudeau could've struck a conciliatory tone with at least a sampling of empathy. Instead? Disdain.

They deserve everything that happens to them.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (KbCG3)

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Being a modern elite today means having few accomplishments, few ideas, and few clues, counterbalanced by a healthy dose of heavy disdain for everyone not in their class.

Why else be one?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

352 Has the great snowfall of 2022 ended in NYC yet?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:06 AM (SvxNv)

353 Miss Lindsay doesn't strike me as the p3do type so much as the small kitchen appliance type.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (6FeV1)

354 "now that the Israeli people have been mass injected with the mRNA vaccines, their cases have gone up by more than 1000 percent.

Neither has the heavy vaccine coverage reduced the incidence of serious Covid. Last week, Israel's weekly Covid hospital admissions reached a record that exceeded the country's pre-vaccine high by nearly two hundred percent."
____________

How insane is it that we have all these studies showing how ineffective and dangerous the vaccines are, and yet the governments of the world continue to force people to get them?

The vaccines are literally killing kids, and they are killing adults, and they are increasing all kinds of diseases. There is a military study linked at Insty's that shows how much the incidence of certain conditions have increased since the vaccines started, compared to an ordinary 5-year period. It shows every one of them up by huge numbers, myocarditis, pericarditis, multiple sclerosis, etc. -- all increased by hundreds of percent.

The insanity of continuing to pursue this course can no longer be denied. What's it going to take to wake people up?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (k4dH2)

355 Does Canada ACTUALLY have elites outside of professional hockey?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (Nv3bW)

356
Those used-up Republican sheeples are desperate only to calibrate where maximum grift can be found, because that is their true-north. Meanwhile, actual political change is happening.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:05 AM (j5ceG)

Meanwhile, Sooper- "Christian" hack David French has put a piece titled "Why Christians bond with Corrupt Politicians". Too idiotic to even comment on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

357 >>How insane is it that we have all these studies showing how ineffective and dangerous the vaccines are, and yet the governments of the world continue to force people to get them?

When all you have is a hammer...

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (3QFF6)

358 it's JUST FREAKING SNOW

(I excuse those of you who live in the South or whatever, but I mean here we get snow. a lot of us have ATVs. the news media panic makes NO SENSE)
Posted by: Black Orchid

Snow covered pasture. Atv. Rope. Something to sit on and be pulled.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (uXonU)

359 Is there some sort of shame attached to Affirmative Action ?
Perhaps, the SCOTUS should end it to 'save face'.

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (RHGPo)

360 Why Christians bond with Corrupt Politicians". Too idiotic to even comment on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

Autobiography?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (6FeV1)

361 Easiest money on PredictIt this year will whether Biden's nominee is confirmed.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (SvxNv)

362 355 Does Canada ACTUALLY have elites outside of professional hockey?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (Nv3bW)

========

Trudeau may be a pet of the elite, but he still gets inside the clubs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

363 the news media panic makes NO SENSE)
Posted by: Black Orchid

Panic drives ratings. Also, you are not the audience. The audience is people in LA who can be assured that this is a disaster caused by climate change. Your fellow blue state leftists are suffering because of the wingers refusal to get on board with draconian government control of energy!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (F4b8f)

364 Miss Lindsay doesn't strike me as the p3do type so much as the small kitchen appliance type.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (6FeV1)

He strikes me as the bath house catcher.

I'm betting he's had a few run-ins with Fauci back in the AIDS days and that's why he hasn't said anything negative about him in this whole mess.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

365 Well this is interesting. I refreshed and the whole format/layout changed. Weird.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (sg+GG)

366 353 Miss Lindsay doesn't strike me as the p3do type so much as the small kitchen appliance type.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (6FeV1)

I think Ms. Lindsey has always been a catcher, not a pitcher.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (evAgx)

367 Leftists claimed Pence couldn't break a tie for Trump's scotus nominees. They were lying of course. Kumhala as sitting VP can break ties in the senate. Period.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:03 AM (SvxNv)
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This is a political fight, and not a fact-fight. Lawrence Tribe (and everyone else who signed onto his views) are the authorities they used and its perfectly fair to push those words right back down their throats. In the end, though, it's all going to be on McConnell and the GOP, who can prevent this nomination from ever getting out of Committee and getting to the floor of the Senate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (j5ceG)

368 Does Canada ACTUALLY have elites outside of professional hockey?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (Nv3bW)

Ummmmmm...No.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (a5d7/)

369 >>. Is there some sort of shame attached to Affirmative Action ?

His name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (3QFF6)

370 Aaannd, now it's back to normal. Strange days, indeed.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (sg+GG)

371 Report: Federal Infrastructure Funds Were Not Allocated for Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge

Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

372 The insanity of continuing to pursue this course can no longer be denied. What's it going to take to wake people up?

That all of that! BUT ALSO - the hospital protocol?!?! how is THAT still being used?

I finally know someone who died of COVID. unfortunately he was my age which is disturbing.

fully vaxxed, had some kind of bad heart issue coincidentally after booster - during hospital stay for that tests positive?!?! - put on vent before you can say whoa nelly. hung on for a few weeks and just passed away.

THIS TREATMENT ISN'T WORKING GUYS

how many have to die?

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (j9HX3)

373
I'm of the boomer generation and I think everything should be open. If people of this age bracket are scared they can get the vaccine and shave some years off their life, or stay home, social distance, wear a mask, get home deliveries, and all the other worthless crap.

But the most obnoxious Karen's I've seen in videos are NOT boomers, but most likely the spoiled spawn of the boomers. The blame belongs where it deserves to be placed.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (dQvv7)

374 367 This is a political fight, and not a fact-fight. Lawrence Tribe (and everyone else who signed onto his views) are the authorities they used and its perfectly fair to push those words right back down their throats. In the end, though, it's all going to be on McConnell and the GOP, who can prevent this nomination from ever getting out of Committee and getting to the floor of the Senate.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (j5ceG)

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Graham's comments show that either McConnell has signaled that he's going to allow it without much of a fight, or that the drama of "will they, won't they" has only begun.

I'm still betting on a show that lasts for months. There's a lot of money to fundraise off of the base out there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

375 Autobiography?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (6FeV1)

LOL!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (njfCw)

376 >>He strikes me as the bath house catcher.

Well. You are the expert, I guess?

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (3QFF6)

377 (I excuse those of you who live in the South or whatever, but I mean here we get snow. a lot of us have ATVs. the news media panic makes NO SENSE)
Posted by: Black Orchid

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Around here, the last 2 weeks of Christmas it seemed like it never stopped snowing. Even now there is still snow on the ground, even though January was pretty much bone dry.

And yet amazingly, life went on, there was no national media coverage, schools weren't closed.

It's funny how NYC proclaims itself to be this tough town, and yet a few flurries shuts the city down.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (SvxNv)

378 371 Report: Federal Infrastructure Funds Were Not Allocated for Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

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The only solution is more federal infrastructure funds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

379 139 Spotify putting a trigger warning on Rogen podcasts is hilarious. Good luck with trying to satisfy the Karen Scolds, Spotify. The howling mob will only be satisfied when you throw the corpse of Rogans show out of the window.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 08:15 AM (j5ceG)

The Streisand Effect. Back when Tipper Gore's PMRC was sticking Parental Advisory labels on rap albums, they were increasing their sales - they got automatic street cred. Same thing here.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (aIR0b)

380 *Last two weeks of December, and especially around Christmas.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:11 AM (SvxNv)

381 The vaccines are literally killing kids, and they are killing adults, and they are increasing all kinds of diseases.

Yeah, but those pediatricians did a silly TikTok dance!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:11 AM (F4b8f)

382
Well. You are the expert, I guess?
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (3QFF6)

Says the croc sucker.....

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

383 321 I ordered JJ's book directly from the publisher 2 weeks ago so he would get maximum $$$ per his guidance, yet it hasn't even shipped yet.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

I will bitch at them forthwith. Apologies sir.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (s2VJv)

384 378 371 Report: Federal Infrastructure Funds Were Not Allocated for Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

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The only solution is more federal infrastructure funds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

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Narrator: The infrastructure bill is not really about infrastructure.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (SvxNv)

385 361 Easiest money on PredictIt this year will whether Biden's nominee is confirmed.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:08 AM (SvxNv)

Of course whoever it is will be confirmed, so we should manage our expectations. The goal should not be to stop it (impossible) but to use regular order and force the confirmation to take up a lot of Senate time, thus stopping them from getting back to trying to get some part of BBB through. All that needs to be done is to make it last til the end of summer, after that it will be too close to the election for anything to pass.

If Schumer and the Senate dems are allowed to have a lot of free time on their hands, there's no telling what devilry they will pursue.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (evAgx)

386 384 The only solution is more federal infrastructure funds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

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Narrator: The infrastructure bill is not really about infrastructure.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (SvxNv)

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You know what the solution to that is?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

387 Report: Federal Infrastructure Funds Were Not Allocated for Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge
Posted by: SMOD

Trump obviously knew about this bridge and told the DOT not to fund it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (F4b8f)

388 Looks like our tri-county area will somehow survive.

https://tinyurl.com/5fv5fjvc

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (3D/fK)

389 You know what the solution to that is?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

Moar Infrastructure!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

390 >>Narrator: The infrastructure bill is not really about infrastructure.

Next you will tell me that Shovel Ready Jobs don't actually exist.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (3QFF6)

391 You know what the solution to that is?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

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More govt spending and less personal freedom?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (SvxNv)

392 "
New rule: everyone must read the editorial before commenting. No exceptions.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:38 AM (s2VJv) "

Seconded !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (9CuDT) at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (9CuDT)

393
I will bitch at them forthwith. Apologies sir.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (s2VJv)

Appreciated. Sorry for you having to do that........

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

394 Getting a laugh out of aging Joni Mitchell and her ilk in the Spotify fight. The celebrity have beens crawling out of the woodwork. Who cares.

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (S1hrL)

395 that bridge in Pittsburgh should have been covered by PA or local funds tho

we have the second highest gas tax here it's supposedly for bridges and shit like that

from what I see it's definitely not fixing potholes!

seemingly all the state infrastructure funds go to new, inane traffic circle installation. they just put one on the west side of South Philly by the stadiums, and just announced another one to the east side by 95. THAT is gonna be some fun driving!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (j9HX3)

396 391 You know what the solution to that is?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

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More govt spending and less personal freedom?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:13 AM (SvxNv)

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"I'm chaffing so hard right now...I can only masturbate so much!"
-Jonah Goldberg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

397 I'm still betting on a show that lasts for months. There's a lot of money to fundraise off of the base out there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

I just don't see it. There are going to be at least 3 Republican votes for whoever Just Joe puts up there.

The only play here is an extended reputation destruction operation as with Kavanaugh. But the Republicans do not have the stomach for that because the Dems know they have them on "optics."

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 09:14 AM (9otr5)

398 The blame belongs where it deserves to be placed.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus

On the boomers for raising spoiled kids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:14 AM (F4b8f)

399 Reddit. And thoroughly depressed.

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:15 AM (S1hrL)

400 A Trump era appointment is being targeted both from within and without?

Meanwhile, Iran appears to think appointments by the current administration aren't worth the bother.

Of course, those current appointments aren't smart enough to realize Iran just insulted them, to their faces.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 31, 2022 09:15 AM (5pTK/)

401 The "infrastructure" bill will build NYC a brand new subway line and make all sorts of "green" company CEOs extremely wealthy. But it will not fix a single pothole or build a new lane of freeway.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:15 AM (SvxNv)

402 This is not perfect.

Perfect is finding executive homes and protesting there. For weeks.

Loudly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 08:35 AM (LvTSG)

I want to see "Last Helicopter Out of Saigon" style photos from pharma executives and politicians houses surrounded by completely peaceful - but noisy - protesters.

Let them all flee to NZ and seal the country from outsiders while they take the airwaves to tell us how we are moments from death.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at January 31, 2022 09:15 AM (EjmvJ)

403 On the boomers for raising spoiled kids.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:14 AM (F4b8f)

It's the Greatest Generation who raised the spoiled kids. Then they had spoiled kids of their own.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:16 AM (6FeV1)

404 Pennsylvania got shit tons of infrastructure money from the Obama years and instead of fixing that bridge which had been identified as troubled, they built bike paths and light rail. Which, to their credit, have not actually collapsed, so there's that.

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 09:16 AM (9otr5)

405 397 The only play here is an extended reputation destruction operation as with Kavanaugh. But the Republicans do not have the stomach for that because the Dems know they have them on "optics."
Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2022 09:14 AM (9otr5)

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They don't need to do that because they don't need to pull any votes. I seriously doubt Manchin votes for the nominee after becoming the hero of WV for opposing Biden. With no need to gain support from the other side, the opposition becomes much simpler, "Her judicial philosophy isn't right," is enough.

Mitch is effectively majority leader now with Manchin being a Republican in all but name. He has tight control of his caucus and always has. If the nominee sails through, it's not because of Democrats, it's because of Mitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

406 Miss Lindsay has conveniently forgotten the Boofy the Budweiser Slayer confirmation hearings.

I hope nobody here believed that McCain level bullshit.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 09:16 AM (y7DUB)

407 The Generation Wars. They are perennial, as always.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (sg+GG)

408 Next you will tell me that Shovel Ready Jobs don't actually exist.

Those "Shovels" may have been shoveling dirt, it was just night soil.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (lD3vL)

409 I'd be happy if they built some traffic circles around here. At least that would be SOMETHING.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (SvxNv)

410 Note the people the Left are coming for are further and further Left. Big difference between Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, no?

Posted by: ... at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (dscaa)

411 The Generation Wars. They are perennial, as always.
Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (sg+GG)

Kids twenty years from now suck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (6FeV1)

412 Lindsay Graham is a bigger idiot than I thought.

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (S1hrL)

413 The "infrastructure" bill will build NYC a brand new subway line and make all sorts of "green" company CEOs extremely wealthy. But it will not fix a single pothole or build a new lane of freeway.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:15 AM (SvxNv)

Just like the Owebama era "American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" went to resurface highways in blue states and nothing else.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

414 I seriously doubt Manchin votes for the nominee after becoming the hero of W

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Manchin, as well as the other new Democrat hero of the right, Synemma, have voted for every single Biden nominee.

So don't hold your breath.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (SvxNv)

415 Whoever Brandon nominates will get 70-90 votes.

Posted by: MJ at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (zwDuR)

416 Next you will tell me that Shovel Ready Jobs don't actually exist.

Those "Shovels" may have been shoveling dirt, it was just night soil.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (lD3vL)
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Hey, why is everyone looking at me for the lack of shovel ready jobs?

Posted by: EPA at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (5pTK/)

417 Stealth Omicron is defined as "Healthy."

We'll obviously need a vaxx now for this healthy, normal state of humans.

Posted by: Boswell at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (5iUNf)

418 "now that the Israeli people have been mass injected with the mRNA vaccines, their cases have gone up by more than 1000 percent.
Neither has the heavy vaccine coverage reduced the incidence of serious Covid. Last week, Israel's weekly Covid hospital admissions reached a record that exceeded the country's pre-vaccine high by nearly two hundred percent."
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How insane is it that we have all these studies showing how ineffective and dangerous the vaccines are, and yet the governments of the world continue to force people to get them?

**

And crickets from the Smart People and media.

Seems like this would be something we'd maybe need to talk about, doesn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (SMktP)

419 Note the people the Left are coming for are further and further Left. Big difference between Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, no?
Posted by: ... at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (dscaa)

Our ideological divide stopped being Left and Right years ago. It's In versus Out now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (6FeV1)

420 411 The Generation Wars. They are perennial, as always.
Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (sg+GG)

Kids twenty years from now suck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (6FeV1)

And parents are big poopie heads. Nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (sg+GG)

421 NJ Democrats might be waking up, which is sad. I'm told by a Democrat friend big in the state party that Tom Malinowski, a commie Congressman the papers like to describe as "a moderate Democrat" (telling you how far left everyone else is) is in serious electoral trouble for November.

Of course, I just laughed (since nine months is a very long ways away), but the party actually seems to think he might lose. Mikie Sherrill too, another "moderate" Maoist, seems to worry them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (j5ceG)

422 411 The Generation Wars. They are perennial, as always.
Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (sg+GG)

Kids twenty years from now suck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (6FeV1)

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And SNL hasn't been funny since the year I was 17.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (SvxNv)

423 Pittsburg infrastructure:

More front-end alignment shops per capita of just about anywhere.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (Cfk8j)

424 Here's the thing about mandated COVID vaccines: It's not so much the current vaccine that you should be worried about. It's the next MANDATED injection that the government wants to give you as a result of our current acceptance of mandated government injections.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (Nv3bW)

425 New rule: everyone must read the editorial before commenting. No exceptions.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 07:38 AM (s2VJv)
+++++
Look at Mr. Optimistic, expecting freaking *literacy* here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (DU+/6)

426 If we, and not sure we do, have the courage and conviction of Canadian Truckers we can not only whip Soft Serve but also his entire illegitimate regime and Party.
We need an act(s) of civil disobedience so large and so costly to the the elites that they lose and we win.
A USA truck convoy and strike will be the start....

Posted by: Voter theater. at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (FCPbW)

427 I'd be happy if they built some traffic circles around here. At least that would be SOMETHING.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:17 AM (SvxNv)

And they just fuck things up because no one knows how to use them.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

428 You're not nearly as stupid as you look, Joe.

Posted by: Iran at January 31, 2022 09:20 AM (UHVv4)

429 The Streisand Effect.

*

Yep. For me it was "Oh, I guess I should find out what a Spotify is if it's that easy to listen to Rogan on one."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:20 AM (SMktP)

430 The only play here is an extended reputation destruction operation as with Kavanaugh. But the Republicans do not have the stomach for that because the Dems know they have them on "optics."

You are missing the elephant in the room - and its not the GOP.

The Enemedia played this on all of the channels, all of the time, without any filtering or attempts to fact-check any claim made by the accusers.

Second, unlike the Jan 6 interlopers, the anti-Kav crowd was allowed to riot in the senate chambers, in the senate building, in the elevators and in individual senator offices.

If one single non-fed protestor shows up within viewing distance of the Capitol, the goons will be out to add a new wing to the Garland Archipelago.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:20 AM (lD3vL)

431 401

A new subway line in NYC is a joke. It will take them 20 years to do that and by then who knows anything?

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

432 And they just fuck things up because no one knows how to use them.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

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We have a bunch already and it's not rocket science, dude. If you can't figure out a traffic circle, you got problems.

I love those things, they cut down a ton of time waiting at lights and reduce backups at 4 way stops.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (SvxNv)

433 414 Manchin, as well as the other new Democrat hero of the right, Synemma, have voted for every single Biden nominee.

So don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (SvxNv)

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SCOTUS picks are much more public than lower courts. This will have the attention of BBB.

He has an image to maintain. He could maintain it putting radicals on lower courts. He'd be hard pressed to do the same with SCOTUS. Otherwise, his big show of punching Biden's agenda in the nose evaporates completely and rather instantly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

434 431 401

A new subway line in NYC is a joke. It will take them 20 years to do that and by then who knows anything?
Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

20? 40. And it will be a fraction of the length and 10 times the cost.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 09:22 AM (s2VJv)

435 Yep. For me it was "Oh, I guess I should find out what a Spotify is if it's that easy to listen to Rogan on one."

Dittos. They were whining about Jordan Peterson being a guest, so naturally, I watched all four hours of that interview too.

Up until this time, I didn't know who Joe Rogan was.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:22 AM (lD3vL)

436 A new subway line in NYC is a joke. It will take them 20 years to do that and by then who knows anything?
Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

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20 years and $7B of cost overruns which will go to Dem donors.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:22 AM (SvxNv)

437 now that the Israeli people have been mass injected with the mRNA vaccines, their cases have gone up by more than 1000 percent.

More effective at putting Israelis into the hospital than the PLO.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:22 AM (Nv3bW)

438 Describing Asa Hutchinson as a Republican is fake news. He represents the Walton family and like billionaires the world over, and especially those depending on China s much as Walmart does, they only care about secure Chinese supply lines.

Hutchinson is paid to be against Trump, pure and simple.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:22 AM (j5ceG)

439 Meanwhile, Sooper- "Christian" hack David French has put a piece titled "Why Christians bond with Corrupt Politicians". Too idiotic to even comment on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:07 AM (evAgx)

Okay, I'll accept that challenge.

I suspect that a better description of the situation is "Why Corrupt Politicians Target Christians for Political Exploitation."

Posted by: Emmie at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (6RgRK)

440 424

...and the vaccination of infants FFS.

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (S1hrL)

441 They are putting nails on the ground in the path of the convoy
https://tinyurl.com/mr448x6y

It's not clear from the wording or the video, but *these* are the good people picking up the nails.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (DMQdU)

442
We have a bunch already and it's not rocket science, dude. If you can't figure out a traffic circle, you got problems.

I love those things, they cut down a ton of time waiting at lights and reduce backups at 4 way stops.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (SvxNv)

Yeah, I know how they work. Average American doesn't. We have them going in all over the place and people don't know how they work and there are accidents or near misses every day.

They're fine in low traffic areas, but until they start teaching them in driver's ed, they're stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

443

~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (K2SnJ)

444 A new subway line in NYC is a joke. It will take them 20 years to do that and by then who knows anything?
Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (S1hrL)
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In my former state, CA, projects could be continuously delayed, through the expiration of Environmental Impact Reports. Yeah, the legislature thoughtfully put an expiration date on them.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (5pTK/)

445 Here's the thing about mandated COVID vaccines: It's not so much the current vaccine that you should be worried about. It's the next MANDATED injection that the government wants to give you as a result of our current acceptance of mandated government injections.

They are going to have to act quick, the current batch of lab rats are getting sick and dying at a startling high rate.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (lD3vL)

446 437 now that the Israeli people have been mass injected with the mRNA vaccines, their cases have gone up by more than 1000 percent.

More effective at putting Israelis into the hospital than the PLO.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 31, 2022 09:22 AM (Nv3bW)

We told them and told them that the vaccine sucked. But, they are a stiff- necked people. A stiff neck might be a side effect.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:24 AM (sg+GG)

447 Meanwhile, Sooper- "Christian" hack David French has put a piece titled "Why Christians bond with Corrupt Politicians". Too idiotic to even comment on.

So he is outing himself as a non-Christian?

Next you will tell me that the sun rises in the east.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:25 AM (lD3vL)

448 A new subway line in NYC is a joke. It will take them 20 years to do that and by then who knows anything?

Yes, but look at the new working space for our members! More subways = more panhandlers, turnstile jumpers, pushing Asians onto the tracks and collection points for our bodily fluids!

Posted by: The Scabby, Filthy, Addicted Homeless Guild at January 31, 2022 09:25 AM (Nv3bW)

449 Great job, as usual, J.J. Your output continues to amaze me.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 31, 2022 09:25 AM (5pTK/)

450 Millions upon millions of Americans figured out the ultra complex traffic circle long ago. The "Americans are too dumb to know how to use one" is about the worst argument you can make against them.

Do they even have Driver's Ed anymore? My school didn't even have it. I learned to drive with my dad.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:26 AM (SvxNv)

451 Traffic circles work really well when they are unnecessary. That is, when there's nobody else around.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2022 09:26 AM (AytXr)

452 Manchin, as well as the other new Democrat hero of the right, Synemma, have voted for every single Biden nominee.

So don't hold your breath.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:18 AM (SvxNv)

THIS. Folks, these two Senators are Democrats. Democrats. If there was a time for them to become Republicans, that time has come and gone. They will never leave the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 31, 2022 09:26 AM (aIR0b)

453 450

Do they even have Driver's Ed anymore? My school didn't even have it. I learned to drive with my dad.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:26 AM (SvxNv)

They still do where I live.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (sg+GG)

454 What happened to those free N95 masks? Nary a one in my neck of the woods. Yay.

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (S1hrL)

455 The Big Dig in Boston was something like 400% over budget and 5 years over schedule. And everyone just kinda shrugged.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (SvxNv)

456
All the trails they put in are just to create more government jobs. The ratio of people using the trails to the ratio of workers who have to patrol them, look for trash to pick up (hint: there isn't any), is about 10 to 1. Then a flood comes along and washes the loose gravel around, and that's another expense.

But the politicians all claim that voters want them. I live next to one. On a perfect day I might see ten people and five dogs walking. Most days one or two.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (dQvv7)

457 A stiff neck might be a side effect.

When you swallow a Viagra pill and it gets stuck in your throat.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (Nv3bW)

458 198 When he tells the world about the threat of Russia, while Russia itself makes no threats, Putin gains an advantage at negotiations.

The Anti-Americans have always done that. Within the CIA and State Department, the legions of traitors and saboteurs in their ranks always over-estimated the economic and war making potential of the former US's adversaries.

The Biden junta is doing the same thing. It is an absolute guarantee that Puddinghead's advisors are all pro-communist, pro-totalitarian, pure miseoAmerican and are just waiting for Amazon to deliver the white flags/

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 08:34 AM (lD3vL)

It's looking more and more like the Junta and the Deep State have been, are, and will continue to use the Putin boogeyman as an all-purpose tool to take down domestic enemies, and to divert attention from both China and bad domestic news for Democrats. No wonder Biden is screeching about an imminent invasion of Ukraine while the Ukrainians and most other Europeans are not as concerned.

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (AMIL/)

459 SCOTUS picks are much more public than lower courts. This will have the attention of BBB.

He has an image to maintain. He could maintain it putting radicals on lower courts. He'd be hard pressed to do the same with SCOTUS. Otherwise, his big show of punching Biden's agenda in the nose evaporates completely and rather instantly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)
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Manchin voted for Trumps nominees. He'll vote for Biden's as well.

Besides, why would he further alienate the Left by voting no when everyone knows there will be at least two or three R's voted for the nominee and will be eventually be approved.

Posted by: WisRich at January 31, 2022 09:28 AM (G0vdT)

460 The "Americans are too dumb to know how to use one" is about the worst argument you can make against them.

Do they even have Driver's Ed anymore? My school didn't even have it. I learned to drive with my dad.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:26 AM (SvxNv)

Yeah, it's a valid argument when you see it every day. Fuckers that have never seen them don't know how to use them and the learning curve is long.

Yes....Drivers Ed is still a thing. It comes in all forms and 'self-taught' is also an option.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

461 And everyone just kinda shrugged.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:27 AM (SvxNv)

Americans are good at shrugging. That needs to change.

Posted by: Ziba at January 31, 2022 09:28 AM (S1hrL)

462 Asa Hutchinson is a huge disappointment. If my facts are not confused, he is a graduate of John Brown University, one of the most conservative Christian schools in the country. In other words, he was not educated to be a spineless wimp.

On the other hand, the Walton family is the main benefactor of JBU, at least the right wing of the family is. I sometimes wonder if Walton money is corrupting the university. Another disappointment of mine was that the school required their students wear masks on campus and out in the community. I really expect Christians to refuse to help promote lies and fear.

Posted by: Emmie at January 31, 2022 09:28 AM (6RgRK)

463 I suspect that a better description of the situation is "Why Corrupt Politicians Target Christians for Political Exploitation."
Posted by: Emmie at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (6RgRK)

most honest title of all would be "Why David French bonded with Joe Biden".

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:28 AM (evAgx)

464 I suspect that a better description of the situation is "Why Corrupt Politicians Target Christians for Political Exploitation."
Posted by: Emmie at January 31, 2022 09:23 AM (6RgRK)

A better alternative title for French would be "Why I target Christians for Political Exploitation."

Posted by: Boswell at January 31, 2022 09:29 AM (5iUNf)

465 Driver Ed is asshoe.

Posted by: Asian Driver at January 31, 2022 09:29 AM (Nv3bW)

466 Heart attacks = up by 269%
Pericarditis = up by 175%
Myocarditis = up by 285%
Pulmonary embolisms = up by 467%
Multiple sclerosis = up by 487%
Miscarriage = up by 306%

This is from the military's epidemiology database, comparing post-vaccine numbers to an average pre-vaccine 5-year period.

https://tinyurl.com/bdck3p4k

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 31, 2022 09:29 AM (k4dH2)

467 450 Millions upon millions of Americans figured out the ultra complex traffic circle long ago. The "Americans are too dumb to know how to use one" is about the worst argument you can make against them.

how about Colombians and Mexicans and Nigerians? who just came over here and are all over the roads in Philly?

yeah trust me they don't know how to yield. apparently in their countries the yellow triangle means "close your eyes and hit it"

ALSO the circles take up a LOT of space in cities or towns. it's just incredibly dumb the new ones they've put in here. Lititz PA (cute small town) now has one on either side of town. They had to take down historic buildings for it?!?! why?!?! the traffic there is light and the normal intersection worked just fine.

we have one here on 252 by Episcopal Academy OMG. you want to see people who shouldn't use circles! it's Rich Mrs Karen Prep School Mom. holy hell good luck even getting into that circle around drop off time

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:29 AM (j9HX3)

468 Americans treat traffic circles like 4 way stops, but with a big circle in the middle.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:30 AM (F4b8f)

469 Heart attacks = up by 269%
Pericarditis = up by 175%
Myocarditis = up by 285%
Pulmonary embolisms = up by 467%
Multiple sclerosis = up by 487%
Miscarriage = up by 306%

You're welcome.

Posted by: PLA of China at January 31, 2022 09:30 AM (Nv3bW)

470 What happened to those free N95 masks? Nary a one in my neck of the woods. Yay.

Yeah, I have some drywall work to do and could use a free N95 for that.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:30 AM (lD3vL)

471 466 Heart attacks = up by 269%
Pericarditis = up by 175%
Myocarditis = up by 285%
Pulmonary embolisms = up by 467%
Multiple sclerosis = up by 487%
Miscarriage = up by 306%

This is from the military's epidemiology database, comparing post-vaccine numbers to an average pre-vaccine 5-year period.

https://tinyurl.com/bdck3p4k
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at January 31, 2022 09:29 AM (k4dH2)

Oh, I'm sure it is merely coincidental. Right? Right?

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:31 AM (sg+GG)

472 459 Manchin voted for Trumps nominees. He'll vote for Biden's as well.

Besides, why would he further alienate the Left by voting no when everyone knows there will be at least two or three R's voted for the nominee and will be eventually be approved.
Posted by: WisRich at January 31, 2022 09:28 AM (G0vdT)

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He doesn't need the left to win re-election in WV. His approval in WV increased by 9 points when he killed the leftist agenda of the Congress.

And the show elements are kind of the point. Remember the conclave between Manchin, Murkowski, Graham, and Collins about who was going to vote for and against Kavanaugh? It was a foregone conclusion, they just set up their votes in a way that benefited each one individually.

It really is all up to Mitch, but IF Mitch wants to torpedo this for fundraising/midterm reasons, he can. Manchin has proven he wants the WV electorate to think of him as an effective Republican. He's no conservative, but he's created the image that the rubes in WV are swallowing whole. Joining up to pass the SCOTUS nominee with a united GOP against just proves that he's a Biden puppet anyway. It really all depends on Mitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Searching with John Ford at January 31, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

473 So they moved the goalposts and made it about controlling viral spread and kept the con going.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 31, 2022 08:53 AM (DU+/6)

The sheer magnitude of "this" con made it imperative that it be sustained forever!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at January 31, 2022 09:31 AM (hOUT3)

474 We have multiple traffic circles down here.

Oddly enough, when we lived in B'More there was one near us. A pool designed and sized one.

Even us mouth breathing redneck sister humpers down here can make the damn things work quite well.

B'More?

Nope.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 09:31 AM (3D/fK)

475 468 Americans treat traffic circles like 4 way stops, but with a big circle in the middle.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 31, 2022 09:30 AM (F4b8f)

I treat them as a challenge to get my car through them as fast as possible. If the tires aren't screaming, you're not pushing them hard enough.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 31, 2022 09:32 AM (Y5qcH)

476 how about Colombians and Mexicans and Nigerians? who just came over here and are all over the roads in Philly?

yeah trust me they don't know how to yield. apparently in their countries the yellow triangle means "close your eyes and hit it"

I've been in the back seat of A Mexican Taxi, and that is no lie - that's exactly how they drive. I had to keep my eyes closed for most of the (mercifully short) trip.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 31, 2022 09:32 AM (evAgx)

477 Yeah, I know how they work. Average American doesn't. We have them going in all over the place and people don't know how they work and there are accidents or near misses every day.
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Traffic circles making intersections worse is one of my favorite things.

Traffic works like a zipper. The vast majority of drivers either don't understand this or actively hate the idea of it. I routinely see people floor it headed into traffic circles so that another driver won't "cut them off"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:32 AM (SMktP)

478 ALSO the circles take up a LOT of space in cities or towns. it's just incredibly dumb the new ones they've put in here. Lititz PA (cute small town) now has one on either side of town. They had to take down historic buildings for it?!?! why?!?! the traffic there is light and the normal intersection worked just fine.

Its just the groundwork necessary to clear up the spaces where the next project is to erect statues of the politicians who put in place the traffic circles.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:32 AM (lD3vL)

479 Nearly got T-boned buy a guy in a pickup truck towing a little trailer in a traffic circle. Yield signs were more of a suggestion for him I guess.

Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:33 AM (sg+GG)

480 I treat them as a challenge to get my car through them as fast as possible. If the tires aren't screaming, you're not pushing them hard enough.

So you are the one who has perfected "drifting" the traffic circles.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at January 31, 2022 09:33 AM (lD3vL)

481 This is from the military's epidemiology database, comparing post-vaccine numbers to an average pre-vaccine 5-year period.

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Yikes. Are these active service members or anyone covered by the Department of Defense? Any idea?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:34 AM (SMktP)

482 Traffic circles are racist and rooted in white supremacy. They resemble a noose.

We will replace them with traffic squares.

Posted by: BLM at January 31, 2022 09:34 AM (Nv3bW)

483 Traffic circles making intersections worse is one of my favorite things.

Traffic works like a zipper. The vast majority of drivers either don't understand this or actively hate the idea of it. I routinely see people floor it headed into traffic circles so that another driver won't "cut them off"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:32 AM (SMktP)

Because the selfishness of the average human as increased 1000%. The zipper method is obvious and highly successful when implemented, but look at every freeway with a lane closure. No one lets anyone in because they don't want to give up their spot in line.

It's tardive.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at January 31, 2022 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

484 A black woman invented traffic circles in South Africa during the 12th century.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:35 AM (SMktP)

485 She invented the good traffic circles, though. The ones in white areas where they work. Or something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - read closely, it's impossible to get a negative result from the free COVID tests at January 31, 2022 09:36 AM (SMktP)

486 Nearly got T-boned buy a guy in a pickup truck towing a little trailer in a traffic circle. Yield signs were more of a suggestion for him I guess.
Posted by: kraken at January 31, 2022 09:33 AM (sg+GG)
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Sort of like Stop signs in CA.

yeah, a lot of people don't realize the person in the circle has the right of way.

Outside of town, on a heavily used secondary road, from where I used to live, a 4 way stop was replaced by a large traffic circle. It worked really well to keep traffic moving

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 31, 2022 09:37 AM (5pTK/)

487 for the locals here - the funnest part of the new South Philly (massive) traffic circles is that BOTH feature an adjacent Wawa Superstore.

this adds to the danger/excitement immensely.

for some reason going to a Wawa turns people evil in the parking lot and feeder roads, but super-polite in the store part. It's a really bizarre thing you will find all over the state. The same person who holds the door for you going in to the store, will t-bone you when you try to drive in to the lot.

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:37 AM (j9HX3)

488 for some reason going to a Wawa turns people evil in the parking lot and feeder roads, but super-polite in the store part. It's a really bizarre thing you will find all over the state. The same person who holds the door for you going in to the store, will t-bone you when you try to drive in to the lot.
Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2022 09:37 AM (j9HX3)
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do not get me started on people driving diagonally across a parking lot at 35 mph, because they can't be bothered to drive down the lanes like normal people.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 31, 2022 09:39 AM (5pTK/)

489 Eh in my burg the circles work great and have reduced wait times tremendously. The biggest benefit is safety. Worst you can have in one is a fender bender, which eliminates all the T-bone crashes in traditional intersections with people running red lights and shit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at January 31, 2022 09:40 AM (SvxNv)

490 Nood. Art.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at January 31, 2022 09:40 AM (5pTK/)

491 There's a traffic circle by John Carroll University. Somehow drivers have a hard time processing that if they're in the far right lane they have to turn right and not cut in front of cars to the left.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 09:40 AM (y7DUB)

492 It seems that a correctly sized and designed traffic circle, in a proper location works far better than a stop sign or traffic light.

A traffic circle is intended for an educated and moral society.

It will work for no other.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at January 31, 2022 09:45 AM (3D/fK)

493 There's a traffic circle by John Carroll University. Somehow drivers have a hard time processing that if they're in the far right lane they have to turn right and not cut in front of cars to the left.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at January 31, 2022 09:40 AM (y7DUB)
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That circle is so large I can't imagine why drivers have an issue with it. But they do.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at January 31, 2022 09:47 AM (Yvg/D)

494 371 Report: Federal Infrastructure Funds Were Not Allocated for Collapsed Pittsburgh Bridge
Posted by: SMOD at January 31, 2022 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

More importantly:
1. Bridge rated in poor condition by PA DOT
2. PA did not schedule it for repair
3. PA legislature diverted $4.6 billion to State Highway Patrol 2012 to 2018. Money that had been collected via gasoline taxes for the purpose of repairs. State gasoline tax is 57 cents/gal.

It's not a federal infrastructure issue.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 31, 2022 10:00 AM (8C7+r)

495 "Minnesota Twin washout" wow, a deep cut! Actually he tried out for the Washington Senators before they moved to Minny, but props nonetheless

Posted by: Bill Hedrick at January 31, 2022 10:10 AM (WHmC/)

496 what we thought were the freest societies on earth, places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada are rapidly transforming into dystopian police states.
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Who thought that? I suppose if you don't travel or know anyone in these places, you just bop along believing what you're told by the Legacy Media.

I used to travel extensively for work. Not just around the US, but Canada, Mexico, Australia, China, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Germany, and Italy.

When it comes to Canada and Australia, I watched it happen. Right after they gave up their guns in Australia, things became rapidly worse. Fines and jail time for speech came right on the heels of gun confiscation.

Guns are the only thing keeping Americans free right now. The threat of a violent revolution is the ONLY thing keeping us free.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 31, 2022 10:12 AM (BIRWB)

497 Heart of Scold

Nice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 31, 2022 10:14 AM (yQpMk)

498 It's not a federal infrastructure issue.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at January 31, 2022 10:00 AM (8C7+r)
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"Infrastructure" is ALWAYS code for "government spending". And it's rarely spent on what the average mouthbreather considers infrastructure.

The ignorance of the average American when it comes to History, Economics, and Civics is really astounding. I get that most weren't taught anything relevant or useful in school, but don't any of them make the smallest attempt at educating themselves?

Government spending never "helps the economy". It always makes it worse. Government doesn't "run the economy". You ARE the economy. Everyone around you is. That's why there are no "non-essential workers".

Government cannot solve social and economic problems. It can only exacerbate them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at January 31, 2022 10:16 AM (BIRWB)

499 They very much want to sell the mRNA combo flu/COVID shot, to all once per annum. I'm sure they will gin something up.

I don't take flu shots (have a natural resistance to type A flu via an HLA gene) and I'm never taking a COVID shot based on cooption of whole-body cell machinery to produce spike protein.

Posted by: SarahW at January 31, 2022 10:40 AM (g1vnC)

500 Nebraska Becomes 17th State to Call for Article V Convention of States

This scares the shit out of me. It'd be too easy for those in power to weigh the scales in favor of leftist "rights". The problem is not the Constitution, but those who swore to uphold and defend it, with no intention of keeping their oaths.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 31, 2022 11:07 AM (ynpvh)

501 500 The problem is not the Constitution, but those who swore to uphold and defend it, with no intention of keeping their oaths.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 31, 2022 11:07 AM (ynpvh)

Agreed. Even if an Article V implemented all of Mark Levin's proposals, our so-called leaders lack the morality and ethics to follow any of it. Plus, the Bureaucracy is not going to willingly agree to being abolished.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 31, 2022 11:24 AM (s2VJv)

502 They reelected that A-hole in Canada, so I have no pity for their suffering. They gave him the right to do as he sees fit, and that's what he is doing.

Posted by: SteveF at January 31, 2022 12:37 PM (JAruK)

503 His "secret" location is now known to be Tofino, B.C where Trudeau and his family have spent time before, when he wants to hide.

Posted by: Pooklord at January 31, 2022 03:28 PM (WYLQs)

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